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NOW you see it, now you don’t. It’s the cool, green canopy of trees that extends along Macquarie Street and Vernon Terrace but vanishes at Skyring Terrace.

Suddenly it’s tar and cement, a few emaciated saplings trying and failing to lend some arboreal relief to an urban desert.

This, however, will change if a proposal by a group of developers and professionals as detailed on page 5, is approved by council.

It is difficult to see how the council could fail to do this. Those behind the proposal can see what is obvious to anyone driving along the river bank, which is that the stretch of streetscape between Ann Street and Vernon Terrace is barren and featureless.

The council, in its infinite wisdom, has been content to

allow this to continue. If a group of concerned private parties are happy to conceive, design and fund a project which would convert Skyring Terrace into what it envisages as a sub-tropical boulevard, then surely that must be a good thing.

A number of different council departments will be involved in realizing this vision and no one is suggesting that due process should not be followed.

Political will, however, has been known to lubricate the bureaucratic wheels and it is to be hoped that the benefits that would accrue to both locals and visitors from this proposal will ensure that it garners the support in council that it deserves.

The lack of parking in Longland Street is another issue that has been addressed by the proposal. More than 40 on-street spaces were lost when the Gasworks Plaza opened.

Restoring some of these for short term parking would be a boon to local businesses as underground parking in the plaza, a victim of its own success, comes under ever increasing pressure.

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Nick Gallen saying goodbye to Nicholas, Anakin, Elle, Jessica, Taylah and Felix at Hope Spirit School.

School to send off popular principal in style POPULAR Holy Spirit School Principal Nick Gallen will leave the school at the end of this term after seven years to take up a new role at St Bernardine’s, Regents Park.

Chair of the Holy Spirit School (HSS) Board, David Leach, said while the new role was an exciting opportunity for Mr Gallen, the school community was sorry to see him leave.

“Nick has been an amazingly stable influence for the school community during his tenure, and is well respected by all,” said Mr Leach.

“His achievements during his Principalship at HSS can be ultimately measured by the improved environment for your children and their raised educational standards. Nick has led the HSS with clear direction, integrity, inclusiveness and authenticity.”

Mr Leach said Mr Gallen had successfully spearheaded the refurbishment of the school hall and building of the multipurpose court, as well as moving the school to a two stream facility.

More building works are scheduled for 2016 to complete the building of required class room facilities.

“Nick has always been a very present and approachable leader. The P&F had a great farewell for Nick in November where he was presented with a David Hinchcliffe original of the school façade,” Mr Leach said.

“The student body are gearing up for their chance to farewell Nick at their final assembly!”

“The parent and student group thank Nick for the legacy he leaves with us, and we wish him every success in this new venture. Nick will be replaced in 2016 by Kim Davis.”

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JEMMA May Christiansen of New Farm, was tragically killed in a car crash at Jondaryan in July this year. Adored only child of Chris & Hal (dec’d) Christiansen and loving fiancé to Sam Hooper (who was also critically injured in the crash), Jemma’s sudden death at the tender age of 30 has left her loved ones reeling.

Jemma’s formative years were spent at the prestigious Toowoomba Prep School (now known as TACAPS). She thrived as a ‘Preppie’ & in grade 7 was awarded the Minnel Medal for Excellence – an honour bestowed upon the girl who had served her school best. Posthumous the school has proposed the Jemma Christiansen Award for Citizenship in Year 7. The Award will recognize the student who upholds the ethos of the school, reveals qualities such as empathy, initiative and considerations towards others, strives to set exemplary behavior, demonstrates a willingness to help, and displays good manners for the entirety of the school year.

The Christiansen family moved to Brisbane in 1998 and Jemma spent two years at St Margaret’s Anglican Girl’s School before moving again to Melbourne, where she spend her senior years at Melbourne Girl’s Grammar. Jemma was a gifted school girl and high achieving continued. She rowed, played the clarinet &

trumpet and was on the ski, tennis and athletics teams. She then went on to obtain two university degrees – one from Bond (Bachelor of Commerce- Finance) and one from Sydney University (Bachelor of Science- Advanced Mathematics).

Jemma packed a lot of life into her short years. After the loss of her beloved father, Hal seven years ago, she relocated back to Brisbane to be closer to Chris and embark on her next chapter. The mother daughter duo were often spotted at their favourite coffee shops in New Farm Village, the weekend Powerhouse markets, shopping on James St & enjoying each other’s company over a crisp glass of wine at Cru Bar. With such a strong presence in the community, many locals have been devastated by

Jemma’s untimely death. Her closest friends concur that the

last 18 months were the happiest for Jemma. She was engaged to Sam, enjoying her day job at Sunwater, progressing through her CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and making good use of her sharp statistical brain building a betting program. She had found her groove in Brisbane and was an active participant on the social scene. BitterSuite, Sixes&Sevens, Watt Bar, Becoffino & Harvey’s were the home to many lazy Sunday afternoons sessions for Jemma and her friends.

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IT was standing room only at New Farm Neighbourhood Centre last month as constituents, past and present staff, volunteers, dignitaries from all sides of politics and past and present board members farewelled Fiona Hunt, Centre Co-ordinator for the past six years. Many speeches, including a poem written by one of the constituents, made it clear that Fiona’s passion and commitment had earned her the respect of her peers and the love and gratitude of the many people who passed through the centre doors.

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DEVELOPERS and landscape and urban designers have combined forces to create a plan which aims to transform Skyring Terrace into one of the city’s great sub-tropical boulevards.

The scheme envisages an extensive tree planting program with uplighting, fairy lights, a watering system, short term car parking and an improvement in pedestrian access, crossings and intersections throughout the precinct.

It also extends to Longland Street with proposals for tree planting and changes to regulations to allow some short term street parking.

These developers are hopeful of recovering something of the original but diminishing master plan benefits that were loudly proclaimed when the Newstead Riverpark precinct was first announced.

The Newstead Riverpark area which has been progressively remediated and developed since 2001, largely includes the Gasworks Shopping Centre, Mirvac’s residential precinct Waterfront and the associated parklands connecting through to the Brisbane riverfront.

However the area of most concern is the area with most activity – bounded by Skyring Terrace, Wyandra St, and Longland St, and centered around the

successful Gasworks Shopping Centre.

The plan is currently being considered by the Brisbane City Council.

Damian Thompson, a director with design studio Lat27, has been closely involved with the scheme and sees it as a huge plus for the precinct.

An urban designer and landscape architect, Mr Thompson says the area along Skyring Terrace between Ann Street and Macquarie Street is a missing link from an urban design perspective.

“What we’re after is to make good on the original master plan for the city going back many years,” he said.

“The aim is to create one of the great memorable, walkable precincts on the river in the city.

“The big picture is about having connected neighbourhoods where residents can wander through and leave their car at home,” he says.

“We want to create one of the city’s great sub-tropical boulevards but these things take time.”

Mr Thompson says another aim of the plan is to make the streets

as safe as possible. “There’ll be so many people living there in the future, wandering around, going to new places for lunch or coffee and some of the intersections are a little hairy so prioritising pedestrian and cyclist movement at the key intersections is also part of it,” he says.

John Carfi, Mirvac’s Head of Residential, said the company had a long-standing involvement through the development of the Waterfront, Newstead, masterplan and was “here to drive the continued beautification and improvements to the Newstead Riverpark Precinct wherever we can.”

“We are extremely committed to ensuring the best outcomes are

achieved not only in the short-term, but for the longevity of the area, and the Friends of Newstead Riverpark are here to achieve that,” Mr Carfi said.

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37-year-old Alsar had been inspired by Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition which involved navigating 8000km in a hand-built raft from South America to French Polynesia.

La Balsa, measuring 10.7 x 2.5 metres, consisted of nine carefully selected female balsa tree trunks, a metre in diameter, lashed together by hemp ropes. On this was attached a thatched hut containing folding stretchers and eating utensils.

The raft’s design reflected drawings and accounts of similar craft seen by Spanish sailors far away from the coasts of South America during the 16th century.

Asked why he’d embarked on

the voyage, the skipper said, “To prove how the people of Equador came 2000 years ago to the Pacific Islands; that it was possible to make this navigation.”

Meals on board consisted almost entirely of fish that the crew speared. The craft even struck an artistic note, since its square sail, supported by two hardwood masts, carried a design painted by Salvador Dali, who was a friend of the captain’s.

In 2008, one of La Balsa’s crewmen Gabriel Salas revisited Australia, and offered further detail about the craft’s design, including that it had no rudder.

“The rudder wasn’t known in pre-Columbian South America,” he said.

“We used ‘guaras’, or moving keel-boards, also made out of hardwood, and inserted in between the balsa wood logs. These guaras – still used in Ecuador – significantly helped us to improve La Balsa’s capability of sailing across the wind, and thus choose her path between favourable winds and currents.”

After a tumultuous welcome at Mooloolaba, La Balsa was towed to Brisbane and tied up at Newstead Wharf. Here it was finally lifted out of the water by Brambles Transport before being taken by long-loader

to the yet-to-be-opened Garden City shopping centre where it was to go on display.

The Stanley family, living on the corner of Evelyn and Gordon Streets, a hundred metres from Newstead Wharf, was on hand to witness the historic event.

“My brother John had been contacted by Brambles to take photos when the raft was being transported from the Newstead end,” said Yvonne Mills-Stanley, a local artist.

“Our father, Les Stanley, took more pictures from the front landing of our house in Evelyn Street, and I snapped some colour shots out at Garden City.”

La Balsa was also displayed in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, and hundreds of thousands of people saw her.

One of the original crewmen,

Gabriel Salas, signed on for a second voyage in 1973. Called Las Balsas, this time three rafts covered more than 14,000kms, completing the world’s longest known raft journey.

As the trio approached Ballina NSW, one raft was lost but the other two made landfall. One of them, Aztlán, survived and is on display at the Ballina Naval and Maritime Museum. A replica of the original La Balsa is an exhibit at the Cantabrian Maritime Museum in Santander, Spain.

Pet-lovers will be intrigued to learn that La Balsa had its own sea cat, Minette. When La Balsa landed at Mooloolaba, under health regulations, Minette would have had to be destroyed, but special arrangements made in Canberra meant that the well-travelled feline was “deported” on a freighter, bound for South America.

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La Balsa crossing the Story Bridge in 1970 enroute to Garden City. (Photos courtesy Yvonne Stanley-Mills and John Stanley)

Spanish balsa raft epic ocean adventure has Newstead finale BLOWN away by the huge line-up of

international acts, folk fans will trek an hour north of Brisbane for the annual Woodford Folk Festival at the end of the month. It’s often these overseas performers which draw the crowds at music festivals, and fans will organize their schedule solely around these big names.

Consequently, the local performers are undervalued, and rely on their existing fans to make up the numbers. This year, Woodford will play host to a brilliant Australian group by the name of Madre Monte, who are very deserving of a headline sized crowd. I had the privilege of attending one of their shows in Melbourne, at the beginning of Madre Monte’s residency at the Ding Dong Lounge.

Describing the group’s sound is nearly impossible given their many musical influences, as even their website struggles to classify them. For what it’s worth, Madre Monte is a nine piece South American Roots band, with heavy funk and reggae

influences. The majority of their music centres on both Colombian and Australian folk tales, with the lyrics varying between English and Spanish dialects.

The group have been recording in a rural studio to maintain a relaxed sound, which is evident in their latest single Lo Que Hay. After listening to their catalogue I was pumped for the live performance, and was not disappointed when Madre Monte took the stage. As I sat waiting for the gig to start, the atmosphere was light and extremely casual. So casual in fact, that the preamble involved the drummer aimlessly hitting his toms, which caused several couples to leave immediately after arrival; possibly feeling deceived by the “tight rhythm section” promised in the band’s description. However, this offhand introduction was fitting, and lead to a relaxed and personal performance.

The instant the group began, the audience was bombarded with a diverse range of sounds. A crisp and driving rhythm section laid the foundations for Madre Monte’s fantastic brass players to carry the melody. Between them were several guitars working traditional chord progressions from the Colombian South-West.

This well polished sound cuddled

up to funk with a dirty slap bass, after giving reggae a fleeting peck on the cheek with light percussion sections. Thankfully, the group had selected their sounds well, with each instrument easily distinguishable from the others. As the set continued, the rhythm section maintained their warped Colombian progressions, with the brass adding a distinct hook to each song.

This consistent beat (along with a charismatic bongo player) managed to pull everyone from their seats and on to the floor; a miraculous feat for a Wednesday night. Madre Monte maintained their swift pace

throughout the set, and left the stage to rapturous applause.

As I left the Lounge, the funk-fuelled chord progressions lingered in my mind, and refused to leave for many hours. Madre Monte create a sound unlike any I’ve heard.

It’s big, fun and profoundly original. Madre Monte perform on various days throughout the Woodford Folk Festival, and are definitely worth seeing. The festival begins on 27 December and wraps up on 1 January, 2016.

For more dates, times and locations see woodfordfolkfestival.com.

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I HAVE many golden rules in life that I will pass onto my children, and one of them is ‘always be grateful to the waitress’. I add to that list ‘always say hello to the shop assistant’. Take it one step further. ‘Never marry or date a person who is rude’.

Most social commentators agree that rudeness and intolerance in society is increasing. We’re not shocked anymore when people lose self-control because we see men and women behaving badly and disrespectfully all too frequently; trolley rage, road rage, phone rage, taxi rage, domestic violence. It can be zero to one hundred degrees in six seconds.

There is a disconnection by the perpetrator that the person targeted has the physical sensation of feelings, that the person is human and that it matters to conduct oneself in a civil manner.

Retail, sales, airline travel and hospitality to name a few industries, are somehow viewed as prime hunting grounds for rude people to vent their anger upon. Too often interactions are

devoid of common courtesy, grace or appreciation but full of judgement.

Bullies, people with superiority complexes or people who are just plain rude often take out their dissatisfaction, insecurities and the stresses of their lives on others. Usually they’re unaware that their real inner anger and annoyance has originated because of the way they are managing their own lives.

Some point towards modern day stress and the sheer pace of life as major contributing factors to the epidemic, not to mention our technologically driven societies’ where face to face interaction is becoming less practiced. There is also the notion that in hard economic times the benchmark for customer expectation is raised significantly giving way to a sense of entitlement.

With Christmas, the most stressful time of year, around the corner I hope there’ll be some who will slow down at the checkout. Ask how the attendant’s day has been. Look in the eye of the bank teller. Share a joke with the car salesman.

When the truth is revealed, it doesn’t matter how cool we think we are, how wealthy, educated, gorgeous, busy or important. How we treat others is a reflection on ourselves.

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villagevoice LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Time right for noisy jet skis to find new aquatic runwayI WRITE further to Mike O’Conner’s provocative and astute article, ‘the comment’ (Village News, November) where he advocated that Energex towers between Teneriffe and Bulimba be replaced with under-river power cabling; bravo! As one who frequently cycles the river boardwalks, and in keeping with the general low-key ambiance of all things riverside, may I add to the wish list and advocate for the exclusion of noisy jet skis which single-handedly may overturn a pleasant idyll with engine roar.

I say this simply on the grounds of “fair’s fair” if in the interest of a substantial majority. I also live riverside (Moray St), as do some thousands of other residents. It would be intolerable for motorcycles to blare along Moray St for recreation, surely, then, the boys who enjoy the thrill of jet skiing would understand that the centre of Brisbane has outgrown tolerance for their racing antics; let’s be clear, it’s called a ‘jet’ ski.Dr Michael John,Fortitude Valley

Engine Room’s future still driving doubts in communityI too share Ken Hoy’s cynicism (Village News, October). Cr Vicki Howard’s turnaround on the use of

the Engine Room is breathtaking given the extraordinary lengths taken by Brisbane City Council to have its use as a licensed restaurant approved through the Planning and Environment Court.

I don’t claim to be a town planner, but it is my understanding that the approval granted by the Court is for the Engine Room to be used specifically as a licensed restaurant, not as commercial office space.

Presumably Council would need to submit a new development application to obtain any ability to use the Engine Room for the purposes of a commercial office. This would result in further expense to the ratepayer.

In any event, as I understand it, the recent invitation extended by Cr Howard to business and community groups to use the Engine Room, comes with a catch that was not well publicised.

As I understand it, the rent for this prime riverfront location is to be at commercial rates that community organisations are not likely to afford.

In such circumstances, I question whether the offer to use the Engine Room will realistically result in any benefit to our local community groups. Carmen Mitchell

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By Ebony Graveur

IT ISN’T unusual for a university student to hold a part-time or casual job while studying at university.

But unlike most 25-year-olds, Natalie Glossat completed her degree at QUT while working as a police officer.

“I actually applied for the police when I was about halfway through my uni degree,” said Natalie. “So, I actually got in and put my degree on hold.”

It wasn’t until last year that Natalie finished her degree in science.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the date on which women were first sworn into the Queensland Police Force.

Eight women were sworn into the force in 1965, experiencing, for the first time, the same power and rank as male officers had always enjoyed.

Constable Natalie Glossat, from the Fortitude Valley precinct, joined the police in 2012.

“I can never really predict what a day will be like,” said Natalie.

“It’s hard to pinpoint what happens in one day. Some days

I’m going to be working in a car crew and other days I’m going to be working down at the Police Beat.”

Natalie says she prefers to work in a car crew.

“I like to work as first-response in a car crew. At lot of our jobs are generated from calls outs to people’s houses, traffic crashes, hospitals, public and private housing sectors. I enjoy assisting the general community. The Police Beat is busiest on a Friday and Saturday night where we are dealing with a large number of intoxicated people and multiple altercations.”

In high school, Natalie studied biology, chemistry and physics. “I have always been interested to get into the scientific or the scenes-of-crime field,” she said. “When I was at uni, I decided that I would like to work in that particular field in the police force.

“I come from a bit of a sporting background so I like swimming, surfing, hanging out with my friends and my partner,’ Natalie said. “Occasionally going out, but not very often anymore.”

Off duty, she occasionally encounters incidents that need

a response. “I do pay particular attention,” she said. “Obviously, if I see somebody playing up, I’m not really going to sit there and just watch it all unfold.”

Being a police officer can mean never really feeling off-duty, but Natalie said the most difficult part was the “more gruesome” side of the job.

“As you could probably imagine, when we attend sudden deaths we have to see the deceased,” she said.

‘I have to deal with the family in relation to those jobs. Nobody wants to come home at the end of the day to realise that their loved one has been lost.”

She says the positives far outweigh the negatives.

‘I’ve been working with my team now for the last two and a half years in the Valley. And you find that, over the years, you form a bond with these people and it’s not only a work relationship. You can actually hang out with these people outside of work.”

“The younger guys in my team, when we’re together we like to, depending on who it is, sing or

jam out to songs in the car,” said Natalie.

“I guess you have to keep yourself sane. You have your good days and your bad days and it does help a lot when you work with positive people.”

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SUMMER, Advent, the festive season including Christmas and New Year, family holidays at the beach, over indulgence, these and more are all part of the magical month

of December. New Farm Branch is in recess after Christmas lunch on Wednesday 2 December, but Head Office continues working in the interests of members apart from the usual public holidays.

This column in the past year has focussed on the contributions we seniors make to our communities, here in New Farm and further afield. Unfortunately we remain categorised as burdens on society and no matter how we try to set the record straight, the label sticks. The cut-off date for eligibility for National Disability Insurance remains at 65; residential aged care facilities are chronically understaffed, yet the government mandates staffing levels for child care.

The financial burden continues to grow and nowhere is the effect more evident than the independent retiree, people who saved for their retirement yet have to meet these ever increasing costs from a fixed income. Changes to superannuation impact disproportionately;

energy, water and rents rise; private health insurance premiums increase at double the rate of inflation; uncertainty surrounds the future of tax and the GST , and so the litany goes on. Meanwhile record low interest rates ensure that income from investments, no matter how shrewd, shrinks.

So who is listening? National Seniors. We are the largest single advocacy group in

Australia for the over 50s, but our voice only carries the weight of a quarter of a million, and many of these are more interested in the other benefits such a large organisation commands than in actively working for change. National Seniors has developed good personal relationships with those in the corridors of power and punches well above its weight, while our Branch is active in the New Farm community and, courtesy of the Village News, this column is read by others. If we are to overturn existing myths and prejudices we need a groundswell of support from local communities as well as more numbers to get the message across and gain that sympathetic ear where and when it matters most.

Need more information? Read more about our Branch and other local and community happenings in our Newsletter published on the website www.nsanewfarmbranch.com, or call Tony Townsend on 3315 2523 and do have a Happy Christmas.

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CONCERNED locals packed a meeting called by the Spring Hill Community Group last month to talk through the draft Spring Hill Neighbourhood Plan.

Spokesperson Kirsten Lovejoy said around 70 people had heard panel discussion and voiced their concerns about what was happening in the area.

“More and more information is coming out that Brisbane has an oversupply of apartments and, with more on the way, the question has to be asked ‘why’,” she said.

Ms Lovejoy said key messages from the meeting were:• Local and State Governments are ignoring what local

communities want and need;• Developer donations to political parties are

influencing outcomes, leaving people feeling disenfranchised;

• Residential and commercial vacancy is high and impacting negatively on local business and sense of community;

• High rise should not be built on the ridge-line and heights must be capped at five storeys adjacent to two storey character homes;

• Changing work and commuting patterns are not being reflected in long term planning decisions – with less percentage of people coming into the city centre;

• Heritage is important and needs to be respected; and

• Parklands should be protected and green space expanded to support the increasing population.

The group’s website hosts a petition that will be sent to the council and State Government. www.springhillcommunity.org.

Myriad concerns aired at Spring Hill draft plan community meeting

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WHEN established New Farm co-working office space Salt House was put up for sale, long term tenant Tom Cameron and his wife Anne decided the best way to continue to enjoy working there was to buy the business.

“I moved my IT business into Salt Space in September 2013 when I was looking for more flexible accommodation for my team of five,” Tom said.

“I was not looking for co-working specifically, but the flexible lease arrangements, the opportunity to connect with other businesses, and the vibrant atmosphere of the building and New Farm all attracted me to the place.

“We feel very much at home here and enjoy what Lisa and James Wickham had created so when they announced that they had to move and very reluctantly sell the business, I was immediately concerned about who would take over and what would happen to the place.”

Tom and Anne are keen to preserve the environment created by Lisa and James.

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IN JUST over 12 months The Triffid, the coolest venue in Newstead, has taken on the glow of one of Brisbane’s hippest venues.

A great place to see a band, the room, which is a converted factory, has hosted a series of gigs that will become the stuff of legend.

A few spring to mind such as You Am I’s recent engagement, The Church’s mighty two night stand and The Grant McLennan Fellowship which literally went ahead “rain, hail or shine” in one of the worst hailstorms Brisbane has seen in recent history.

The venue is the brainchild of former Powderfinger bassist John “JC” Collins who dreamt up the concept with his business partner Brett McCall and an ally in builder Scott Hutchinson.

The team transformed the ex- World War II hangar in Stratton Street into a state-of-the-art room for live performance.

To celebrate its first birthday the venue hit Australian Music Month in November hard. A 14-day party saw everyone from The Vaccines to The Brian Jonestown Massacre tread the boards.

There was lots of room for local artists with Robert Forster and the John Steel Singers standing out.

JC even joined in as one of “four/fifths” of his old band Powderfinger as they rattled through the Neil Young song of the same name at Darren Middleton’s album launch.

Picking favourites isn’t easy for JC. “There have been so many highlights

over the past year,” he says.“The Sunnyboys and The Church,

both of which I have loved since I was a kid and Bernard (Fanning) of course, The Delta Riggs, Conner Oberst, The Splendour Pre Party and the Bigsound Closing Party.

“There really are too many highlights to mention. It’s been a ripper first year”

The sentiments are echoed by local industry stalwart Graham “Asho” Ashton who books the venue.

“Over 20 years ago I was lucky enough to work closely with Powderfinger in the early days of their career,” says Ashton.

“We remained mates through the

years and I was stoked 18 months ago when JC told me that he was opening a new venue name checking one of his favourite bands and calling it The Triffid.

“I put my hand up to take care of the bookings and the marketing and we have been working very closely since that day.

“I have worked in most areas of the music industry over the last 25 years but this is the first venue that I have been closely associated with. I

have been fortunate enough to attend hundreds of incredible music venues all over the world and without bias, The Triffid is one of the very best.

“I am stoked to have booked the first show at the Triffid and hope to be part of the team for many years to come. It feels like we are making a tangible contribution to the music community and my part in the Triffid team fills me with pride.” >>View food review on page 20

Year of the Triffid at blooming live music venue

PROFESSIONAL artist Dave Groom will this month hold his first exhibition in Brisbane in six years, focusing on the landscape that surrounds him at his studio on the edge of Lamington National Park, in south east Queensland.

The theme for the exhibition, at the Graydon Gallery in Merthyr Road from 9 to 20 December, is Lamington National Park, which this year celebrates its 100th anniversary.

“Lamington National Park has been my backyard most of my life. Working from memory, I create drawings of the landscape that sometimes have a slightly surreal quality to them,” Dave said.

“I focus on a subject, mood, time of day, or time of year, taking in the colours and textures of the open forest and rainforest of the local landscape. These drawings often become study works for larger oil paintings which have the scale that allows for a great sense of space and atmosphere.

“Most of my vivid memories of Lamington are from my younger years. Roaming around the bush tracks my dad created in our backyard, or walking deep into the forest, stopping for homemade fruitcake and billy tea on a clifftop, staring across to deep valleys and gorges.

“As a teenager I was fortunate enough to take several rites of passage, as I

see them now, into an area known as The Lost World. It involved at least three days of lugging enormous packs full of food and abseiling gear through some of the most dramatic and beautiful landscapes I’ve ever witnessed.”

Dave’s experience of Lamington is now more sedate and closer to home, as his studio is on the edge of the park.

“I have the good fortune of witnessing its changing moods on a constant basis. This is becoming more important to me and I have developed a simple routine of observing nature and attempting to capture its essence,” he said.

“Some of the work can be seen as direct observations of the landscape, while other pieces have a more surreal quality.

Places of Lamington, Graydon Gallery 29 Merthyr Road, 9 to 20 December. For more information, visit www.davegroom.com

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AT LAST count, on Anzac Day this year when I had rung him, Alfred James (Jim) Campbell, then 93, was the youngest of a handful of Australian survivors of the original 14,000 soldiers in the “Rats of Tobruk”

campaign of World War II. Having known him all my life I determined last month to ask him if he would recount his story to me, a story which is so far removed from the life of younger Australians today.

Upon arrival up Jim Campbell’s driveway to his Queenslander home, he was outside, in his white singlet, shorts, barefoot, and now white-haired, hanging the laundry on the clothes-line. I was proud of him, my Uncle Jim. This smiling gentle man with his wife Nell had parented nine children and they are 73 years married. We climbed the long back stairs together to meet Aunt Nell and youngest daughter Glenda. We sat at

the long family table, and reminisced.These were no ordinary

reminiscences. Sure, we went back to when I was a kid holidaying at their Brisbane suburban home, down from the sleepy village of Gunalda, north of Gympie, where Jim had first arrived with his family at age five. I will soon relate more about the later life experiences of Jim Campbell, but relate firstly of how some kids of the Great Depression Years grew up.

Jim was the youngest of seven, and his Mum, my Grandma, Amelia Bignell, or Topsy as everyone called her, arrived in Gunalda at the start of the Depression to operate the local pub, which then as now, was the community centre of Gunalda, when the dance hall wasn’t open.

Their Dad, Topsy’s husband, and my maternal grandfather, Bill Campbell, was a champion axeman, a timber-cutter and dairy farmer from the Upper Coomera. Their seven kids, including the eldest girl, Jean, were all born in Southport Hospital, and all worked on the farm. Bill doubled as a scrub clearer and tree cutter up in the hinterland mountains between milking times. Topsy was the personality of the family, and always felt she’d make a great hotel host. The lease of the

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planes strafing by night, we even began to wish one more of our mates would be injured, even die to get an extra swig of water! That’s the stuff I still have guilt and nightmares about. I turned 18 in Tobruk. Some of us had put our age up to 20 to avoid parental consent to volunteer for ‘the great adventure’.

“One Aussie officer at Gallipoli, Captain Leslie Morshead, re-enlisted for WWII and became Lieutenant General overseeing the Tobruk campaign. He and other WWII Gallipoli veterans were stunned at the helpless conditions the Rats had to fight under, and some were in agreement that ‘this is bloody worse than Gallipoli’! One day, our trench was leaderless when our NCO was killed and we took nine prisoners. We didn’t know how to contact Command to advise them, so we had to share some food and water, which was scarce, but the German prisoners were gentlemen captives.”

The campaign was declared a ‘landmark in Australian war history noted for the singular determination of the Australians.’ According to the Australian War Memorial, 559 Australians lost their lives, 2450 were injured and 941 were taken prisoners by the Germans. When Tobruk was won, Jim had leave back in Brisbane/Gunalda, (his only injury was shrapnel to his under-chin, just missing his windpipe), and he fondly recalls the City Botanic Gardens open-air Dance Nights called ‘Empire

City’: “It cost sixpence to enter and that’s where I met Nell Appleton. Nell originally hailed from Curra, just a few kilometres from Gunalda coincidentally, and we married.

“The War wasn’t over though. We fought in Europe, then were sent to New Guinea. I was not on the Kokoda Track, but the jungles around Wau were challenging. I led the first army truck convoy over the Owen Stanley Ranges; the Japs had taken Wau, and our forces came up behind them. Then our company were sent to country near Cairns for further training. We were there a long time, which we didn’t mind, but it seemed we had been forgotten. The War was over in 1945 and our battalion had seen more heavy action than anybody.

“Civilian life was hard to adapt to after so much action at my age. When our third child James was born, I went west for six months fencing, needing extra money, then returned to Brisbane as a tramways conductor for a year. I drove a truck delivering produce from the Roma Street Markets before finding a job at Castlemaine Perkins filling wooden kegs. Six months of that, then a spell in the beer cellars before promotion as a shift brewer. I stayed there for 29 years. There were three shifts, day, afternoon and night, and I was the night brewer. I was in charge when the Brains of the Company went home.”

Jim and Nell had nine kids, Judith and Helen who passed on,

James, David, Robert, Heather, Mark, Malcolm and Glenda. There are 19 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Two of them, James and David, were captains of Tallebudgera Surf Club; David is now a Life Member and Malcolm and Robert also were members. Jim enjoyed Tallebudgera and played golf locally with his family, and bowls.

Jim said, “I’ll probably have nightmares tonight after recalling all of this. After the War, I determined to shelve all the horrors and bad experiences to the back of my mind. Hard work and building a big, happy family has helped me try to forget. I went to the first Anzac Day March in 1946 in the city, but came home and cried. It was meeting up with old soldiers again and talking privately

about Tobruk. I have never been able to face the March again. I have watched the telecast every Anzac Day. I can’t leave home on those days. The positives of my family, my job saw me through the worst of it.

“The experience had a deep effect. I had only about 10 good mates through the War. I didn’t want to expand too much on that close-knit lot because you’d become good friends, then they’d be killed right next to you. I believe I am the youngest Rat remaining, and want to be around a little while longer yet.”

The way my Uncle Jim Campbell looks, he should become a centenarian in a few years. His family hopes so, too. And oh, the writer’s Mum, Jim’s big sister Jean, christened me Gary Campbell Balkin.

Alfred James (Jim) Campbell.

Gunalda pub, then five hours away by road from Upper Coomera, came on the market.

Topsy did make a great host and the tills were pumping at the Gunalda pub until the Depression hit like a sledgehammer. Suddenly jobs were scarce and cash was short. Bill, the Showtime Woodchops champ, had to travel north to the Atherton Tableland to get timber-cutting work, so for a while things were paying off for the Campbell clan of Gunalda. Then a tragic blow, Bill had a huge rolling log fall on him, and he was in a very bad way. He recovered somewhat, but for a decade he struggled with the painful effects. At just 51, he succumbed.

Topsy did not renew her lease of the pub, still during the tough Depression years, and Uncle Jim told me, “ Your mother, Jean, was more a mother to me than Topsy, who had her hands full first at the pub, then nursing Dad. When we left the pub, I had to leave school. I was 10, just in Grade 4, and I was sent for a year or so to Johnny Jacobsen’s farm to live, and work in the dairy. I learnt to shoot with a 22 rifle in the bush there, chasing wallabies and roos.”

I guess in those days, the early 1930s, Grandfather wasn’t entitled to Workers Comp and injury insurance was unheard of. During his last decade, the five girls were married, led by Jean to a fellow teenager Jim Balkin, 19, and eldest of 11 children at Gunalda. Young Jim Campbell later followed Jim and Jean to Brisbane where the couple ran the little grocery store at the ‘country village’ of Kenmore.

Young Jim soon found work on a nearby dairy farm. At 16, Jim went to Sydney for a year. His older brother Bill was about to join the army. But what inspired Jim to volunteer was one evening in Hyde Park where the WW1 Anzac War Memorial stands. He was playing around with some pals and suddenly he was motivated to seek adventure in the War. At just 17, he rode the train back to Brisbane to

volunteer. He and Bill became army truck drivers, and they had a send-off in the Gunalda Hall. On Christmas Day they departed for overseas from Redbank heading for North Africa, first in Egypt.

Bill was left behind when many of the 2/9th Battalion departed Benghazi, Libya, for the Tobruk area to take the key Mediterranean port, haven and lynchpin, and defend it against the might of the more numerous, more heavily armed Germans led by the famous general, Erwin Rommel, ‘The Desert Fox’.

Rommel was a brilliant leader but his Afrika Korps could not penetrate the semi-fortress of the entrenched Aussie Diggers. His propagandist tried to slur the Diggers, calling them ‘cornered Rats’, a term they embraced to stamp themselves as ‘The Rats of Tobruk’ – a badge of pride. “Slit trenches were hand-dug to five feet high,” said Jim, “just below our heads, in the sand and granite by us, and we camouflaged the trenches with timbers from the many shipwrecks in the harbour, and we hard-packed sandbags and ammo boxes into the trench walls.

“It was very tough. We were stuck there for 242 days, or eight months, ensconced in our slit trenches, caves and dugouts all that time. It rained only once. Severely rationed, like a couple of mouthfuls of water a day, eating a diet of canned pilchards, bully beef and hard biscuits (they were still termed ‘dog biscuits’ when the writer did Nasho at Wacol). At the end of the siege, which we won when the Germans finally retreated, our average body weight was 44kg each. There were only nine or 10 of us in a slit trench. Until some mates were hurt or killed in our trench, we were so desperate with thirst -- under the searing sun by day, the constant dust storms, dodging shrapnel and bullets, scorpions by night (we had to check our boots), inability to sleep by light because of constant shell bombardment by artillery, gunfire, tanks, armoured cars, Messerschmitt

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Christmas wine selectionsBK Wines is a single vineyard in the Adelaide Hills with a penchant for fabulous art. Winemaker Brendon Keys established his brand in 1997 after learning from masters in NZ, Argentina and California. With an emphasis on artistic expression and a pursuit of high quality grapes, BK Wines has produced a Spring release wine to be very proud of. The Pétillant Naturel is also known in France as méthode ancestrale and is good drinking at any time of the day or night. A rustic, farmhouse, sparkling wine, this delicious drop mimics a sweet pear Danish with a hint of tart green apples. Underlying the light and bright aperitif flavours conceals the tone of a true blanc de blanc champagne. The Pétillant Naturel comprises 98% Chardonnay, 2% Savagnin, 100% Basket Range fruit, wild yeasts, and 100% concrete-egg fermentation.

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Christmas Panforte Owner and head chef of The Golden Pig Cooking School, Katrina Ryan, has spent many years mastering her Christmas creations and this year is no exception. Katrina shares her favourite recipe for Panforte with her students at her Christmas cooking classes.

RecipeGrease and line small round baking tins (10-12 cm diameter) with baking paper. Gently heat 125g sugar with 150g honey until it dissolves, and then boil mixture until it reaches soft ball stage – 120C. Test by dropping a little in a glass of cold water- it should form a soft ball. Stir in 125g blanched almonds chopped, 100g hazelnuts, toasted, skinned and chopped, 100g mixed peel, 125g chopped dates, 1/2 tsp ground mace, 1/2 tsp ground coriander, 1/2 tsp allspice, 1/4 cup cocoa powder and 1/4 cup plain flour. Press into the tins and bake in a 140C oven for 50mins. Cool, remove from the tins and then sprinkle with icing sugar. May be stored for up to 1 month.The Golden Pig Cooking School & Café. 38 Ross Street, Newstead www.goldenpig.com.au p 3666 0884

KIN + CoWHAT used to be Mr Rush at the base of the Woolstore building ‘at 24 Macquarie St is now a brand new stylish spot for locals called KIN + Co. It boasts specialty coffees and an all-day breakfast menu. On it you will find the usual dawn delights such as eggs on thickly cut toasted sourdough, or fruit and nut loaf. However for those wanting a little more depth, there is an avo on toast version with sprinkled fennel, radish, mustard seeds and fresh herbs. And then there’s a variety of gourmet jaffles and breakfast burgers with candied maple bacon and egg, with Gruyere cheese on a brioche bun. A Portobello mushroom bagel will no doubt tempt the vegetarians. Sound mouth-watering? Make mine the summer granola with a plethora of roasted nuts and seeds, fresh fruit, honey and bee pollen served with coconut yoghurt. Open from 5.30am weekdays and 6am weekends until 2pm.KIN + Co. 24 Macquarie St Teneriffe www.kinplusco.squarespace.com

Exclusive bean for MerloMERLO Coffee has secured an exclusive supply of a multi award-winning Cup of Excellence bean for their December ‘Bean of the Month’. In this year’s awards, the Colombian Lucitania beans beat hundreds of others from around the globe to achieve the required level of excellence. The bean is well-rounded with aromas of malt, brown sugar, butterscotch, waffle and spice. Lively bright citric and tartaric in acidity, the Lucitania bean leaves a sweet crisp finish. Merlo will be the only roaster in the world to offer these beans from a Columbian farmer who has spent the past 20 years perfecting his beans. Merlo is offering this selection as the Bean of the Month at all of its 15 stores from 1 December until sold out, so make sure you get in and try this one before it brews its way off the shelf!Merlo Torrefazione, 10 Thompson Street, Bowen Hills & 104 McLachlan St, Fortitude Valley www.merlo.com.au

Enchanté Miss Claude!

IF you’ve had the pleasure of savouring a crepe at the Eat Street Markets from Miss Claude’s, you will definitely want to visit their new café in New Farm Village. I had the most amazing crepes for breakfast at this new authentic French café, which replicates the precise atmosphere channeled through Miss Claude herself. Her granddaughter Naima and partner Justin have built this gorgeous chic café which takes you straight to the heart of Paris. While you wait, you can see how the crepes are made and constructed, all to Miss Claude’s exacting standards. Delicious and different, you must go to this gorgeous new French creperie. Homely and divinely tasty. Miss Claude’s Crepes & French Café 876 Brunswick St, New Farm www.missclaudes.com.au p 3254 4305

Celebrating The Triffid’s 1st BirthdayTHE Triffid launched its new menu last month and owner JC (aka John Collins, former Powderfinger band member) is absolutely thrilled with the new menu which arrived to coincide with The Triffid’s first birthday. JC says his combination of good food, good bands and a casual dining space is unique on the Brisbane scene.

The hero of the menu is The Triffid Burger on which Chef Ben O’Donoghue collaborated. Minced in-house and cooked medium-rare, the burger is definitely going to be a hit with the discerning foodie. Other new items added to the menu include a healthy range of fresh salads including Thai Prawn, Grilled Haloumi and Cauliflower, and a trio of sliders and chicken karaage with chilli mayo. Open Wednesday to Sunday noon until late, The Triffid beer garden is open to everyone and you don’t need a concert ticket to have lunch, dinner or a drink.The Triffid, 7-9 Stratton St, Newstead www.thetriffid.com.au p 3171 3001

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ST ANDREW’S War Memorial Hospital’s night of nights will have an Oscars theme when more than 500 staff, doctors and hospital partners take to the red carpet at the Sofitel Hotel.

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Shand Taylor Lawyers ‘Open House’

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AFTER moving from the City to the Mosaic Offices at Ann St, Fortitude Valley, Shand Taylor Lawyers hosted local businesses at their ‘Open House’ celebrations on 12 November.

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E l l i e N e i l s e n8 – 22 December

The Bees Knees & Christmas Trees

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Special opening event: Friday 11th Dec from 6 – 8 pm.

This December, Ellie, in conjunction with Bosz Gallery will be donating a percentage of sales to The Angel Orphanage in Africa. Local resident and guest speaker is Carol Box.

Can’t make it Friday evening? Then come along Sat 12th Dec for another special preview 2 - 4 pm. Carol Box will be in attendance to give you further information on the orphanage. + Bosz Gallery will gift wrap your special purchase which you may take away on the day.

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Celebrating 100 years of Judith WrightREMINISCENCE – A Festival of Judith Wright comes to the Judith Wright Centre at Fortitude Valley on Saturday, 5 December, starting at 1pm.

Reminiscence is a one day festival of ideas celebrating the centenary of Wright’s birth, and launches a month-long exhibition of the same name.

Presented by Flying Arts Alliance, the festival showcases visual art, performance and discussion in a series of free events at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts.

The day kicks off with a performance of Hearts Ablaze, a play inspired by Wright’s time living at her home ‘Calanthe’ in Mt Tamborine. Award-winning Brisbane based actor and director Jennifer Flowers will perform alongside a small cast.

The play is followed by a panel discussion moderated by Dr Janet McDonald, the expert panel speakers include art historian and academic Dr Sally Butler, writer and academic Dr Bronwyn Lea, environmental campaigner Gemma Plesman, and artist Judy Watson.

The exhibition unveils a significant new body of work created by artists Fiona Rafferty and Frances Smith, inspired by Judith Wright’s life.

The exhibition will run until 15 January.

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To discuss the current market, your requirements or list yourproperty for sale or lease, please contact your local area specialist.

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WiShing you a merry ChriStmaS anD haPPy neW year

Lovigia Tillotson, Terrie Budd & Cathy ScanlonDavid Pinkerton & Alice Mckavanagh

Underground Opera

Carmen & Mike Walden

Keren Edwards & Susan Beale

THE VIP launch for Opera in the Reservoir which was held in the historic Spring Hill Reservoir on Wickham Terrace.

Anita Vinagre & Amanda Wood

James Bond

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NEW Farm Cinema held a screening of the new James Bond movie which hosted by local architect Noel Robinson.

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Rare Spacious Riverfront Apartment with Panoramic ViewsNew Farm 13/102 Oxlade DriveWith show stopping views of the water and city, this sub-penthouse equivalent is sure to impress. One only needs to step inside this spacious three bedroom apartment to appreciate how divine the views are. Apartments with views of this magnitude, size and locality in this price bracket rarely hit the market, so it’s no wonder why this building is so tightly held. The owners have given clear instructions and are highly motivated to sell, so please inspect without delay!

• Potential to add your own renovations and finishing touches

• Low body corp fees, separate laundry, large car space & huge exclusive storage bay

• Cleverly designed to maximise on both space and functionality

• Generous living space flows to the dining area, kitchen & to the enclosed balcony

3 2 1 For Sale by Negotiation

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Designed with a Focus on Relaxed LivingNew Farm 701/29 Robertson StWith everything you could possibly require for entertaining in style you can´t go past this 226m2 penthouse on the cusp of Brunswick Street and James Street precincts. The expansive living, dining and kitchen areas enjoy the high ceilings and natural light from floor to ceiling glass sliding doors making the view a prominent and constant feature of the home. The outdoor 72m2 entertaining terrace provides the key focal point for this residence, integrating effortlessly with interior spaces and providing a spectacular backdrop of city lights.• Glamorous kitchen with oversized stone bench top & Miele appliances• Spacious living areas• Master retreat with a walk in wardrobe and a lavish oversized ensuite• Outdoor entertaining terrace, with panoramic views of surrounding areas

3 2 2 Auction

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MARKET SHARE OF NEW LISTINGS

MARKET SHARE OF SOLD LISTINGS

HOUSES UNITS

RWNF57.1%

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RWSH60%

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PROPERTIES SOLD

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VALUE OFPROPERTIES SOLD

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AVERAGE DAYSON MARKET

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from Ray White New Farm & Ray White Spring Hill!Thank you for your support throughout 2015. It’s been a

fantastic year - our best to date! We look forward to working with you again in 2016.

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103/24 Macquarie St, Teneriffe 302/64 Macquarie St, Teneriffe 307/88 Macquarie St, Teneriffe

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SIMON’S YEAR 2015Over the past 12 months Simon’s business has

excelled with listing and selling property in Teneriffe and surrounding suburbs. With Simons passion on

the Woolstores his knowledge of each individual building inside and out is second to none!

With over $33million worth of property sold this year, Simon would like to say a big thank you to

each vendor, buyer, client, for their support and business.

“To me you are not just another property owner. From listing date to settlement and all the hard work in between, I am wholly committed to achieving the best possible outcome,

ensuring the process is as stress-free and smooth as possible – the way it should be.” Simon Petrie.

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TOM LYNE FOR RAY WHITE NEW FARM

TOM LYNE Licensed Real Estate Agent ǀ Available 7 days on: 0423 696 862 ǀ tom.lyne@raywhite.com

If you have considered selling in 2016, it is crucial to start considering your options now. Who you work with in today’s market really matters and the agent you choose is not a decision to be taken lightly.

I extend to you the opportunity to have a confidential and private conversation with me to discuss the options and opportunities available to you and your family.

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15 JORDAN TERRACESOLD $1,890,000

87 LITTLE CHESTER STREETSOLD $1,850,000

40 GAVAN STREETSOLD $1,725,000

4 BEESTON STREETSOLD $2,150,000

5/37 DUNCAN STREET SOLD $1,950,000

9/218 BOWEN TERRACE SOLD $1,040,000

6/166 OXLADE DRIVESOLD $2,000,000

22/45 MORAY STREETSOLD $560,000

632/1 NEWSTEAD TERRACESOLD $3,225,000

47/53 COMMERCIAL ROADSOLD $682,000

What a year 2015 has been!

I take a lot of pride in having helped over 70 local owner’s move

home this year.

What is your plan for 2016?

RECENT SALES

8/27 CUNNINGHAM STREETSOLD $1,150,000

15/25 JAMES STREETSOLD $900,000

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How to get Xmas cheer all yearHeading toward Christmas there’s a bit of interest in shopping. That certainly applies to the property market currently. I’m seeing buyers at auctions and getting calls from people all keen to get advice about what to do to lock a home away before Santa arrives, prawns get peeled and stubbies get cracked on the 25th December.I spoke to a young couple this week who were keen for some general advice ‘Should we buy a new property on a small block or an old property on a bigger plot?’ The answer to some may seem obvious, but there’s a few things to consider in this equation. The two key ingredients in every real estate deal are at odds in many Queensland marketplaces currently. That is Land & Competition. Land is king when it comes to real estate capital growth. Land historically goes up in value, while bricks go down in price. That’s easily explained when you accept the value in the property today is that it looks new, fresh and lovely. In 10 years it will look like my 2005 trucker hat; out of date and unexplainable. In 2025 the land will have appreciated in value, but its working against the cost of a property that is now in need of improvement. So you’d think the bigger the block the safer the investment. Which is usually true. However as any old wise property person will tell you ‘You make your money when you buy’. Which brings me to ‘competition’. The stronger the competition, the higher the price.With all the interest in the DIY shows there is a new wave of weekend warriors keen to get their ‘Block on’ and spruce up their dream home. Competition for the renovator is rife. It also goes beyond that, buyers seem currently more comfortable at the low-mid range price point of the market, even if that means paying a premium price for their ‘rough diamond’. This means the top end of most markets is actually representing good value. If you look at what renovators are selling for, add the cost of building and then look at the price of the new homes in that area you’ll probably see some pretty good value.So after confusing this young couple with the property lesson. I explained leave the new property for the empty nester keen to avoid the weekend work and prepared to update along the way. Buy the bigger block that required the work, but don’t get caught paying a price that rendered the exercise unprofitable. Finally I said to them to give consideration to looking at the top end of the market even if that means going further out from town. To fish in the uncrowded pond. If you ever see a property that is for sale at less than the replacement cost, it generally means capital growth is on the horizon and when that happens it’s Christmas stubbies all year round.

(07) 3606 830068/241 Arthur Street, Teneriffe

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DOESN’T GET BETTERTeneriffe 10 Hastings Street

If you’re looking for the perfect family home in Brisbane’s most sought after innercity suburb, then your search ends here. This charming home, elevated in a quietpocket of Teneriffe Hill is the best decision someone is yet to make. Move intomorrow and enjoy the lifestyle knowing you can add value in the years to come.

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Liz Strubur, Dylan Vis & Farleigh PooleCarl & Sue Campbell

The stars were out

Christine Bacon & Nick Shanahan

Phil &Katie Tighe

RAY WHITE New Farm and Ray White Spring Hill held their Auction Under The Stars with auctioneer Haesley Cush having a successful night. Food and drinks supplied by Gerard’s Bistro.

Dimitri Roussetos, Martine Roussetos & Nella Contarino

Standing room only for Auction Under The Stars.

Tom Lyne & Susan Ball

Paul Hansford with Colin & Helen Woodhouse

Steph Halliday & Sophie McLaren

Jeanne Lucchesi & Renae Hayek

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newfarm.ljhooker.com.auNew Farm

Welcome home! Let’s meet in your fabulous chef’s kitchen, ceasarstone benches, top of the line appliances… Take a seat at the breakfast bar whilst I pour you a glass... you look around admiring your recent purchase, thinking to yourself what a great idea it was to buy this place.. You congratulate yourself on making such a great decision and we walk through the combined lounge dining and onto the large deck – perfect for entertaining. We enjoy a cheese platter and the expansive river views begin to work their magic, we relax... the feeling of space here is amazing, a light breeze caresses your face and you smile… this is living…

CONTEMPORARY DESIGN MEETS STUNNING WATER VIEWS20712/8 HERCULES STREET, HAMILTON

Michelle Rasmussen 0410 391 811 mrasmussen.newfarm@ljh.com.au

FOR SALE View: Thursday 5:30pm - 6:30pm Saturday 11:30am - 12:30pm

We’re working this Christmas Holidays

Have you been telling yourself that 2016 is the year to fulfil your property dreams, making a change, downsizing, upsizing or simply lowering your mortgage repayments?

Whatever your real estate dreams, we’ll be here ready to help you make them come true.

While the office is closed between 24th December and will reopen on Monday 4th January our agents will still be busy working for you.

So if you’re buying or selling this Christmas then call one of our very friendly and helpful agents.

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By Ebony Graveur

LEE Paul, the principal of Raine and Horne, has smiled from posters on the sides of bus stops in and around New Farm for many years. In August, she sold her business after 30 years in the industry.

Ivo Kornel bought the business from Lee, after working as a sales agent in New Farm for the past 10 years. The business is now Belle Property New Farm.

“I wanted to step back a little bit so I could have a little bit more time,” Lee told Village News.

‘I bought a small Raine and Horne office, in August 1986,” Lee said. “I wasn’t in real estate at the time. I was actually doing commercial design.”

Lee had just completed her real estate license, an interest she had pursued in the evenings, when the opportunity came up to buy the office. As her daughter Jacqui would come to dabble in the industry, Lee became the second in what is now a line of three generations in the real estate business.

“I suppose deep down I always had a hankering to get into real estate. I grew up with it, and the opportunity

came up,” she said.“My father was in real estate, with

a very old company called Curry and Mooney, which was based down on the Southside.

“It was very much a man’s world 30 years ago, so you’d have to work a bit harder and so forth. “There were very few female principals, and certainly none in New Farm or Teneriffe.”

Lee has lived in and around New Farm for the past 30 years. “I’m

in Moray Street at the moment,” she said. “But I’ve also lived in Hazlewood Street and Teneriffe over the years.”

Lee said Teneriffe was very different to New Farm.

“It’s a much younger vibe, to a degree, with the infrastructure. New Farm buyers love New Farm.

Teneriffe buyers love Teneriffe.“When I first came to New Farm,

I was selling houses for about $80,000. Those houses today would be worth well in excess of $2 to $2.5 million.

“The sort of houses I was selling in between 1986 to 1988 would be classed as very expensive property now.”

She said the change in demographic matched the change in property prices.

“We’ve now have many young families live in New Farm, a lot of young professionals, and a large legal fraternity, a lot of lawyers, judges, and so forth.

Lee and recently-retired husband Dennis have been enjoying spending

time at their property up the coast with their sons Christian and David and their families, and beloved 14-year-old Jack Russell, Sparky.

Lee said despite selling her business, she was far from retired.

“I’ve been there nearly every day again,” she said.

“I didn’t sell to retire. I’ve got grandchildren now and really it’s just instead of that 24-seven, six days a week, I’ve just stepped back a little bit but I’m certainly still selling, I’m certainly still in the office with the same staff, same phone number, same office location, but with the new branding.

“I think we can offer more with the new branding. In terms of big changes? Business as usual.”

Business almost as usual for pioneering real estate agent

Lee Paul with Sparky.

“It’s a much younger vibe, to a degree, with the

infrastructure. New Farm buyers love New Farm.

Teneriffe buyers love Teneriffe.

Ultimately we measure our success on our

clients’ satisfaction, which is based on the

prices we achieve, the quality of our service

and the accuracy of our advice. In real

estate, reputation is everything so we are

immensely proud of the repeat and referral

business we enjoy from our loyal clients.

If you are considering a move and even if

you're not quite ready yet, then please call

me on 0412 462 592.

Mark Lowrey | 0412 462 592

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• Designer kitchens with European appliances & luxury finishes

• Premium ground floor retail from the creators of James Street Precinct

• Panoramic north-east river, park or city views

• Opulent 3, 4 & 5 bedroom penthouses selling from $1.495M

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Aaron Woolard and his team would like to thank their

clients for another record breaking year and wish everyone

a safe and happy Christmas period. If you need assistance

with any real estate matters during this time, call or SMS

0421 145 386 or email aaronwoolard@eplace.com.au

“Aaron has restored our trust in the real estate industry - more agents should take a leaf out of his book. He was our

agent as a seller and a buyer. From both sides of the fence he was honest and upfront and got us a record price for

the sale of our unit. He demonstrates a high work ethic, and his honesty follows him all the way through the process.

He doesn’t over promise and under deliver. Aaron has impeccable manners and communication skills and I have no

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66 LAMINGTONNew Farm, Sold $770,000

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166 SYDNEYNew Farm, Sold $717,000

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Judy Goodger and the Place New Farm team would

like to extend our sincerest thanks to all of our

valued clients. 2015 has been one of our most

successful years with over $315 million in sales.

If you’re thinking about selling your place this holiday

season, give our place a call. 3107 5111

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