Hinterland Times December-January 2012

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Keeping the doors open...

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HERE IS NOTHING more concerning to residents and visitors alike than seeing empty shops in the main street of their town. Cries of “the town is dying” are heard - cries we’ve heard in Maleny and Montville at different times.

Maleny is recognised as the service town for the Blackall Range, providing everything from freshly baked bread to coils of barbed wire. Strange then that right now Maleny has up to 11 empty shops in its retail line-up.

Montville, the tourist town, has vacant shops too but there’s a recent surge in tourism so its main street looks vibrant most of the time.

The complaint that has prompted the editorial this month is that the landlords are to blame. If they would just lower their rents then all would be well, goes the refrain. Naturally, main street property owners are reluctant to discuss their rents and overheads because they are in a highly competitive business. However, with anonymity guaranteed several of them spoke openly to HT about the apparent economic downturn.

There are a few properties in both towns that have remained empty for several years and the general consensus is that those landlords are simply greedy.

They might not need the income, but they still have overheads. Council rates, UnityWater, electricity, gas, insurance, security, maintenance, accountant’s fees, and in some cases land tax all have to be paid whether or

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not your property is occupied. Most landlords I spoke to agreed that even cutting the rent in half made more sense than having an empty shop. So is this greed or naivete?

One landlord who has a number of commercial properties on and off the Range said that in his long experience of retail tenants, some of them should never open a business. They are totally inexperienced and have a rose-coloured view of financial success that will never match the reality. Like several landlords I spoke to, he has not put up rents since 2009.

While the general view is that rents in Maleny and Montville main streets are reasonable, inexperienced business owners don’t analyse the percentage of their rent against their annual turnover. This may be a difficult sum if you are a start-up business, but it’s important to ensure that what you’re being charged per square metre at least matches rents around you.

Whether you are a new business or an inexperienced tenant, one challenge that has yet to fully play out is fierce competition from Internet sales. Tenants report to landlords that so often shoppers pick over merchandise in their shop, then go away and buy it on-line. Figures are elusive but landlords agree that the Internet is helping to drain local economies. Retailers gave me numerous examples of on-line products that outsold them by at least 100 per cent, even including overseas postage.

One serious outcome of empty shops may be the loss of an entire service group. For example, Maleny had three bakeries at the beginning of 2012. It now risks having none. To a small town that’s like environmental species loss.

Another steadily growing problem is the lack of parking, particularly in Maleny. Landlords see Council time and money spent on long-term projects like an aquatic centre and the Community Precinct, while seeming to forget that town parking goes to the heart of its economic viability.

One, well-travelled landlord also laid blame on a populous unwilling to park and walk. In the UK for example, parking stations are often well away from main streets or town squares, but travellers are used to paying for parking and either walking or getting on a council park and ride bus.

One solution offered for filling empty shops is for landlords to install short-term, “pop-up” businesses. Very low rents would encourage artists, clothing merchandisers and giftwares to fill those empty shops.

Some landlords thought “pop-ups were more trouble than they are worth. Others had good experiences of such short-term tenancies.

There was one positive conclusion to be drawn from all this. It came from the landlord who works carefully at balancing a reasonable return on his property investment with having an empathy with his tenants.

A sound approach and not as rare in landlord circles as you might think.

Finally, Faith and I would like to wish all our loyal advertisers and readers a safe and restful festive season.

We look forward to bringing you more stories about the Sunshine Coast Hinterland in 2013.

Michael Berry

The views expressed in the Hinterland Times are those of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of the magazine’s publishers.

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MAKING NEWS

Montville Chamber promotes shop local

Locals plant 2000 trees along the Obi Obi

HE AIM of Montville’s Chamber of Commerce to bring more joy to Christmas shopping paid off handsomely when almost 400 people turned up to see the presentation of the first three mega hampers.

A single, $25 purchase locally across the Range gets you into the draw, the final of which is on December 19. The fantastic hamper contents, valued at $1500 each, include accommodation and pamper packs.

The Chamber campaign to support local businesses in Montville, Flaxton and Mapleton was backed up by local TV advertising.

Chamber President, Shiralee Cooper said the next three hampers are drawn at the Christmas Carols on December 19. Shiralee, seen here with the hampers, said more than seven different communty groups worked together to present a very successful outcome. And the children didn’t miss out, added Shiralee. More than 200 received free gingerbread stars.

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About 120 locals and visitors arrived at the Maleny Community Precinct mid-November, to plant 2000 trees along the riparian zones of the Obi Obi Creek. This was a combined Maleny Green Hills Fund project with Sunshine Coast Council and Barung Landcare to help green up the Precinct and provide future protection for the Obi Obi Creek.

Congratulations to the first three hamper winners: Debbie Chiswell, Marita Sweeny and Gail Davies.

Maleny says goodbye to Peter Oliver ORE THAN 200 family members, friends, work colleagues and local residents gathered for a fond farewell to Maleny local Dr Peter Oliver’ who died in November of lung cancer.

The ceremony at the Solothurn chapel, took place on a beautiful tranquil day when those attending flowed out onto the surrounding grounds.

Peter’s children provided a visual display of the Olivers’ warm family life and friends from his teaching days shared the memories and celebration of Peter’s full and active life.

As a scientist with the International Water Centre in recent years, Peter Oliver was a passionate advocate for a number of environmental issues. His passion for causes extended to his fight for increased funding for lung cancer research, particularly as he had never been a smoker.

Peter Oliver’s wonderful sense of humour lasted to the end when he thought it appropriate he be buried in a coffin made of a weed - camphor laurel.

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Towards the end of 2013 they will begin pumping the waste water from the upgraded sewage treatment plant into this area. The water, which will be treated to "A" grade, will be sprayed onto the trees from where it will filter down into the wetlands.

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A long nightmare ends ... and a dream begins Maleny’s Ari Easton survives a life-threatening illness to complete his long-standing ambition to play professional soccer in Europe.

OURTEEN YEAR-OLD ARI EASTON can already see his future before him, and it is a future where he plays soccer at the highest international level. This is not a fanciful dream because Ari recently signed a contract with the Spanish First Division soccer club, Real Valladolid.

But this exciting future, offering soccer’s glittering prizes, almost didn’t happen. In fact, three years ago Ari Easton almost passed away quietly in a Brisbane hospital bed.

When Ari was three years old he would tear up and down the sidelines with a huge soccer ball, whilst his six year old brother Andreas was playing. Ari started playing soccer as a six year old in 2004 for the Maleny Rangers Soccer Club. The Under 7 Boys team was coached by Darryl Campbell, then Maleny’s senior constable.

Darryl quickly recognised Ari’s special talent and told his parents that he should be taken under the wing of a professional football coach.

In 2007 that special professional football coach arrived by chance in Maleny in the shape of Rui Spinola, director of the Australian Technical Football Academy (ATFA). He arrived in Maleny and offered to coach the Rangers football players.

Since then Ari has been training with Rui in his Academy as well as playing for Maleny Rangers Football Club, and for the Coolum Football Club in 2010.

It was in that year that Ari took off with Rui and ATFA to Borneo for the Borneo Cup. Here he met the Cup’s organiser, Scott Ollerenshaw – once a famous Socceroo and called “the red Maradona” because of his red hair. Scott Ollerenshaw has since followed Ari’s football career with great interest and been a key motivator for him.

While 2010 had started out a good year for Ari, it suddenly turned decidedly nasty. Back home, and after a swim in the

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ABOVE: Ari was on life support for several days before his body fought back and began to recover.

RIGHT: Ari playing soccer on the Sunsine Coast.

Obi Obi Creek Ari fell ill with vomiting and diarrhoea. Two days later and a visit to Nambour Hospital, Ari had only got worse, with a red rash over his entire body. No-one could put a label on this weird illness. His local doctor was by now seriously alarmed and, as his blood pressure became critically low, he had Ari admitted to the Royal Brisbane Hospital.

After various antibiotics and exploratory surgery, Ari was in such a critical condition that he went on life support. Doctors were mystified as to the cause of his condition and what created most anguish to his parents was that the medical profession did not know how to save him. As his mother, Tove Easton told the Hinterland Times, “Whatever had first attacked him, had now developed into multiple organ failure and septic shock, and they told us that one in two die from that condition. His organs were failing one after the other – the kidneys, the liver, the lungs collapsed, and his heart started to swell. It was a very very scary time!”

Then fate took a hand in Ari’s life, or perhaps it was the power of Ari’s unwaivering dream to play professional soccer.

Because all of a sudden he seemed to turn a corner and started to recover rapidly. When he woke up ten days later he

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Piece of Me had lost one fifth of his body weight and he could hardly walk. His mother was shocked by his appearance, “He looked like someone who was 100 years old! He had bloodshot eyes that were frightening to look at and had to wear sunglasses due to light sensitivity.”

Doctors told the Eastons that Ari would need to spend at least three months in hospital, but he was out of bed four days later and, believe it or not, he started soccer training, albeit in 10 minute sessions, two weeks later.

Since then Ari has played for the Sunshine Coast representative soccer team as the right winger and centre forward and been their top goal scorer in 2011 and second top goal scorer in 2012.

Knowing how passionate Ari is to play international soccer he recently went to Spain and Portugal with his coach Rui Spinola and players from ATFA. They trained at FC Barcelona, RCD Espaynol and FC Benfica (Portugal) and then had a week at Real Valladolid where their academy assessed Ari’s potential.

This one week trial resulted in Real Valladolid offering Ari a six month contract starting at the beginning of January. He will live in-house at the football academy next to the stadium, train soccer and play matches and be taught Spanish.

Spain is considered the world’s number one football/soccer nation having won the last World Cup. Their technique is emulated and copied the world over and is signified with a fast paced game with lots of passing and lack of ‘long balls’.

Ari’s dad Kim will also be living in Valladolid in his own apartment so that he can help Ari do his Year 10 distance education through the Brisbane School of Distance Education.

Tove has witnessed, and admired her son’s long journey towards his life’s ambition, “With kids it is common for enthusiasm to wax and wane but with Ari his passion for soccer has just grown over the years. It is a wonderful thing to see that passion turn into such an a amazing and special opportunity to get another step further to becoming a professional player.”

For Ari of course, that passion has been so strong that his life-threatening illness has faded into memory and it is the dream that has won through.

“I have wanted to play soccer ever since i was three and this has been a dream ever since i was seven. Now I am finally at the beginning of my dream!”

It is no surprise to anyone that part of Ari’s dream is to one day play for the Socceroos in the World Cup, when he fully intends to score at least one goal for Australia.

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The Maleny Community Gym is more than a place to work out or a way of losing weight. The various qualified trainers have a range of specialised skills that can tailor weight and exercise programs for young people, retirees, people with specific physical needs and sports groups requiring specialised training.

NE PARTICULAR young woman has benefited from a program devised for her by trainers, Annie Hewitt, Ray Louden and April Adsett .

Erin’s trainers say she utilises a wide range of equipment and exercises to ensure both a strength and cardio’ workout is achieved. Her enthusiasm and consistent attendance is impressive and her cheerful approach to her exercise routines infectious.

Erin Cameron has faced many special challenges since birth. Now 23 she has a bright personality and is physically active. She enjoys “Muesday Tuesday”, a drama and music class once a week with the talented musician Kath Williams, and for three days she is at Compass, a post-school disability service provider in Palmwoods. They teach self-care skills, and offer pre-employment training and fitness programs.

Erin’s grandmother, Moyra Jones is a great support by bringing Erin to the gym twice a week and overseeing her program to improve balance and cardiovascular fitness. “ Erin has faced challenges in learning to walk and talk,” says Moyra, “and she has had much family stimulation as well as a lot of physio, speech therapy and occupational therapy over the years. She has been able to go through the school main stream and she completed an alternative year 12 program at Maleny High School. She has what I would call several ‘splinter’ skills, things like chess and the computer. She loves writing stories on the computer, and is an avid reader.

Technologies such as e-books and the iPad have been fantastic for continuing to stimulate and extend her interests. She has also been supported by her keen bushwalking parents, and has walked the Milford Track and Abel Tasman tracks in NZ, the Hinchinbrook Trail, Fraser Island Great Walk, the Wilson’s Prom Walk, and in 2011 completed the final 250km of the Camino de Santiago in Spain with her mother Hilary. “ Moyra is very appreciative of the Maleny Community Gym which she says is very caring and takes a personal

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The Jinibara people once roamed over much of southeast Queensland, over land they regarded as home. Now, after many years of negotiation, the Jinibara have regained native title to substantial parcels of that land, particularly on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland.

Jinibara People gain Native Title "I never thought I'd live to see this day, There were plenty of times we thought it would never happen.

"We've all worked together to get this far, so let's keep working together for this to benefit all of the community."

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HE JINIBARA PEOPLE have spent 14 years pursuing their native title claim and in November the Federal Court recognised their claim to about 703 square kilometres of land from the southern end of the Blackall Range to Lake Manchester in the south.

The legal decision formally acknowledges the rights of the Jinibara People to camp, hunt, fish and gather in the area, maintain areas of significance and conduct ceremonies in accordance with their traditional laws and customs. The determination does not affect water rights or public access to national parks.

It also gives them exclusive rights to 1.38 square kilometres of land to possess, occupy, use and enjoy the area to the exclusion of all others. Native title is extinguished (found to not exist) on land that is owned under freehold title, so it will not affect non-Indigenous landowners on the Sunshine Coast and Hinterland.

The world of the Jinibara is rich in Dreaming places

and ceremonial grounds including Bora rings, stone arrangements, camping places, food resource areas and story places. The Court heard that the Jinibara Peoples have many stories that connect them with country and ancestors.

The determination includes land in and around Maleny and over the Glasshouse Mountains National Park and Mapleton National Park.

The Jinibara people are also the registered Native Title Claimants for the Woodford area and are comprised of the descendents of Fanny Mason known as Jowalmel who was born in the 1840’s at Woodford and Johnny McKenzie known as Wangiramu born in 1826 near Kilcoy.

Custodians today of the Jinibara People are Uncle Noel Blair and Uncle Kenny Murphy who were elected by the elders of the Jinibara to act as their spokespeople and representatives throughout negotiations for Indigenous Land Use Agreements.

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When Captain Cook first set eyes on Moreton Bay ... d On 17 May 1770 Captain Cook saile nal for north, past Moreton Bay and his jour eral “sev rved obse he that day records that ly the like is It nd. smokes” as he looked inla from e cam smoke Captain Cook observed bara fires lit by the forebears of today’s Jini people. The first Europeans in the area for were squatters who seized Jinibara land ing. sheep and cattle graz e Initially local indigenous people wer ed mov r late retained as station workers and al rigin out of the area to designated Abo settlements.

Remarkably, despite the enormous pressures they have experienced, the r social Jinibara People have maintained thei the ugh and cultural integrity down thro m for years resulting in their successful clai land rights.

ABOVE: Jinibara native title claim applicants Kenny Murphy and Noel Blair with QSNTS chairperson, Colleen Wall

Uncle Noel Blair, said he didn't celebrate until the court had made the decision official.

"I never thought I'd live to see this day, There were plenty of times we thought it would never happen. Our lawyer told us a few months ago we were set to get native title and I welled up a bit, but I didn't want to get too excited."

Mr Blair said he hoped the determination could be used to benefit the community at large, particularly in creating an appreciation for indigenous culture.

"We've all worked together to get this far, so let's keep working together for this to benefit all of the community," Contemporary Jinibara People continue to camp and fish using spears they were taught to make. They gather

the resources of their lands and waters including honey, echidna, carpet snake, possum, mujuun (berries), Tillybottle, various varieties of fish including sooty grunter, mountain perch, eels, catfish and yellow belly, goanna and long-necked turtle.

Jinibara People follow the practices and beliefs taught by their forebears, who were themselves taught by their elders, including belief in the Rainbow Serpent and other elemental spirits dwelling in the country and mourning practices, knowledge of the landscape and the pathways through their country. Particular types of behaviour are prohibited at particular locations; other locations are sites related to species increase ceremonies. These practices, customs, beliefs and the sanctions in cases

of non-adherence continue to be taught by contemporary Jinibara People to their children.

As the Jinibara claim covers parcels of land within the Sunshine Coast, Moreton, Brisbane and Somerset the relevant local government were respondents to the claim.

Sunshine Coast Mayor Mark Jamieson congratulated the Jinibara People on the formal recognition of their native title rights following a Federal Court determination.

Council was a respondent to the claim and consented to the determination of native title.

Mr Jamieson said the result is reward for the tenacity of the native title claim group over more than a decade.

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THE EXTINCTION PROBLEM ...

The last Christmas Island pipistrelle on earth...

In late August 2009 a tiny, solitary bat fluttered about in the rainforest near Australia’s infamous Christmas Island detention camp.

We don’t know precisely what happened to it.

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ERHAPS IT LANDED ON A LEAF at dawn after a night feeding on moths and mosquitoes, and was torn to pieces by invasive fire ants; perhaps it succumbed to a mounting toxic burden placed on its tiny body by insecticide spraying. Or maybe it was simply worn out with age and ceaseless activity, and died quietly in its tree-hollow. But there is one important thing we do know: it was the very last Christmas Island pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) on earth. With its passing, an entire species winked out of existence.

Two decades earlier the island’s population of pipistrelles had been healthy. A few scientists had watched the species’ decline with concern, until, after the million or more years that it had played a part in keeping the ecological balance of the island, they could see that without action its demise was imminent. They had done their best to warn the federal government about the looming catastrophe, but they might as well have been talking to a brick wall. The bureaucrats and politicians prevaricated for three years, until it was too late. While Australians argued about the fate of the asylum seekers who shared the pipistrelle’s home, nothing effective was done to help the bats. Indeed, except for those few watching scientists, neither Australia’s press nor public seemed to give a thought to the passing of the species, nor what it might mean for Christmas Island or our relationship with our country.

The pipistrelle’s extinction was almost unbearably painful for me. In an attempt to avert it I had met with Peter Garrett, then the environment minister, and warned him of the impending loss. I had also brought offers of assistance and expertise from the Australian Mammal Society to his attention. The society was confident that the species could be saved – at a cost of perhaps only a few hundred thousand dollars. But Garrett was convinced by the orthodoxy that ecosystems rather than species

Tim Flannery should be the focus of the national conservation effort, and I got the message loud and clear that nothing would be done. Saving the bat wasn’t an impossible mission: it’s just that the government and the people of Australia – one of the richest countries on earth – decided it wasn’t worth doing.

What really shook me about the episode was that it was the first extinction of a mammal to occur in Australia for sixty years – and therefore the first to occur in my lifetime.

My original professional expertise lies in mammalogy and palaeontology, and before the pipistrelle’s demise I had believed the worst of Australia’s extinction crisis was behind us – that somehow my generation was wiser and more caring than earlier ones, and would not tolerate any more losses of Australia’s unique mammals. It’s now clear that those sixty years were just a lull in the storm, and that the pipistelle’s demise marked the beginning of a new extinction wave.

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Australia’s first extinction wave started to gather pace almost as soon as the First Fleeters stepped ashore, and by the 1940s it had carried away 10 per cent of the continent’s mammal species. No other class of organisms has suffered so grievously, and as a result mammals have become something of a yardstick by which we measure our long-term environmental impact. In 1791 a convict wrote about the white-footed rabbit rat, saying that it was a pest in the colony’s food stores. The soft-furred, grey and white kitten-sized creature was arguably the most beautiful of Australia’s seventy-odd native rodent species, yet it was destined to be one of the earliest victims of European settlement. Two hundred years ago it could be found in woodlands from near Brisbane to Adelaide, but the last record of it dates to the 1850s. Because foxes and rabbits had not begun to spread by this time, it is thought that a major factor contributing to its extinction was the end of Aboriginal fire management.

The thylacine and the toolache wallaby were the largest creatures to succumb in the first extinction wave. Both had small populations and restricted distributions (Tasmania and the southeast of South Australia respectively), and are unique in being the only species that were hunted to extinction by Europeans.

The thylacine was Australia’s largest marsupial carnivore and, being wolf-like in appearance, it was persecuted by sheep farmers, the bounty on its head outlasting the creature itself. The beautiful toolache (pronounced “toolaitch”) wallaby had the misfortune of being the fleetest member of the kangaroo family, and so was hunted for sport. These extinctions were, however, atypical: indeed, one of the most astonishing aspects of the first extinction wave was that its victims included what had been the most abundant and seemingly secure mam-mals in Australia.

Among the victims that once abounded were a dozen kitten- to hare-sized marsupials, mostly wallabies,

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rat-kangaroos and bandicoots, as well as nine species of native rodent. All of these species vanished between the 1840s and the 1930s, and all inhabited southern and central Australia.

Strangely, many remained common until the moment of their vanishing. For example, according to the pioneering zoologist Frederic Wood Jones, in the early years of the twentieth century in Adelaide the rabbit-sized marsupials known locally as “tungoos” (brush-tailed bettongs and their relatives) were sold at nine pence per dozen for greyhounds to chase and kill. Yet just a few years later they were only a memory, with not so much as a single skin remaining in the state’s museum.

The causes of these extraordinary extinctions are thought to have been varied. The cessation of Aboriginal burning doubtless had its effect, and until the 1930s bounties were paid by many state governments for the scalps of now-extinct creatures. But the depredations of foxes (which were spreading quickly by the early twentieth century) and feral cats, and the wholesale destruction of native vegetation by livestock and rabbits, must also have been important causes.

While the causes are disputed, the effect of the first extinction wave is clear: it gutted the biodiversity of the drier parts of the continent, and very few native mammals larger than a rat and smaller than a kangaroo can be found on Australia’s inland plains today. It’s the absence of such species – the so-called critical-weight-range mammals (which weigh between 500 grams and 5 kilograms), which were once among the most abundant of creatures – that has led me to characterise the national parks of Australia’s southern inland as “marsupial ghost towns.”

This is an extract from Quarterly Essay 48, After the Future: Australia’s New Extinction Crisis, by Tim Flannery, published by Black Inc. RRP $19.95, also available as an ebook. www.quarterlyessay.com

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Farm Forestry is a viable commercial alternative for landholders who are sick of mowing and are losing the battle against lantana and camphor laurel.

Small-scale native hardwood plantations are a productive form of natural resource management. They create forest cover over the landscape; providing soil stability, wildlife corridors and, if managed properly can provide real financial returns at the end of the day.

The Sunshine Coast, Cooloola and Mary Valley regions contain over 450 hectares of small-scale hardwood eucalypt plantations. These plantations are owned by private landholders who are learning to establish and manage native trees for a broad range of outcomes.

The main commercial plantation species in these regions are Gympie messmate and spotted gum; timbers that are used in heavy construction, power poles and flooring. Most landholders design their commercial farm forestry to fit in with other non-commercial, environmental plantings. Farm Forestry systems are a practical, cost-effective and successful method of reforesting degraded land.

A native hardwood plantation is more than just a potential future income; it is a productive management system for land that is going to waste. Growing forests on private land provides a renewable and sustainable timber resource, a wealth of environmental benefits and new jobs for our rural areas.

Re-forest.net is a partnership between The Australian Government and Private Forestry Service Queensland to support landholders in south-east Queensland to establish and manage successful native hardwood plantations. The Re-forest.net project is providing free adult training, education and demonstration to over 500 landholders across the project region, with the aim of increasing landholder capacity to establish and manage a planted timber resource.

If you have an empty or weed-infested paddock and would like to learn how to successfully grow a forest visit the website www.re-forest.net, email pfsq@bigpond.com or call the office on 5483 6535.

PICTURED TOP: Re-forest.net Program Manager, Gary Clarke (left) and landholders, Gerard Salmon and Peta Shera with their 6 month old plantation of Grey Gum that they established and managed with the help of Re-forest.net.

PICTURED LEFT: Participants at a farm forestry establishment field day enjoy the climatic benefits of native forest cover (Moy Pocket, Mary Valley).

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Council hours over the holidays Council ofďŹ ces will close at 2pm on Monday 24 December, and will remain closed on all public holidays. This includes Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 December 2012 and Tuesday 1 January 2013.

Council ofďŹ ces and libraries will be open for business on Thursday 27, Friday 28 and Monday 31 December 2012.

All waste collection services will continue as usual but council waste disposal facilities will be closed on Christmas Day. Free holiday buses will run across the Sunshine Coast – please refer to our website.

Council wishes everyone a safe and happy Christmas and New Year.

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David and Lynne Linton now have galleries to the glory of wood in both Maleny and Montville.

David Linton’s signature is seen on chopping boards throughout Australia ...

YNNE LINTON is delighted that the new retail outlet she has set up in Montville’s main street – Montville Woods - is already making its mark. Lynne is the wife of master furniture-maker David Linton and is his greatest supporter in this successful local partnership. “The Linton Gallery in Maleny has been there for 9 years,� says Lynne. We have separated the two shops and Montville Woods is my little baby. “ I have really enjoyed it,� says Lynne with a wide grin. “I run it, keep it stocked, source the artists and suppliers, and do the books. So I have got it up and running and it’s been heaps of fun.�

It’s early days but it’s already busy. I think the only real difference with the Maleny gallery is that we only sell small things here. it is a smaller venue of course, so we don’t sell the furniture items that we do in Maleny. So here we have a greater turnover of the smaller stuff and we get more of the tourist market .

At a time when there is a downturn in economic activity, particularly retail, the Lintons have actually expanded. That’s partly because David Linton’s name is

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widely known and admired and they are selling a constantly popular product – wood. Lynne also keeps a canny eye on the market and knows what sells most often. “Having been in Maleny for 9 years we knew what products were selling really well. That was an advantage in coming over here. We were actually offered the shop, and the timing was good leading up to Christmas. “There is a very different crowd comes through Montville than Maleny,� says Lynne. “Many more people come through here and they are tourists. And with the way the market is at the moment, money is being spent much more on small items. We want to keep David’s name associated with both shops but our idea at Montville Woods is to have stock that is very gift orientated. There is not a huge difference, but the Maleny gallery is geared for the homes of locals and some visitors“.

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BELOW: David Linton Gallery at Maleny features David’s designs in fine timber furniture.

Not surprisingly, David Linton’s big camphor chopping blocks are the most popular item sold in both Maleny and Montville. Other popular items include spurtals (the Scottish porridge stick), rolling pins and hand-carved spoons. “We sell at least one chopping block a day,� says Lynne. “He can’t keep up actually.�

David Linton has built a huge reputation for his strong and original designs in tables and chairs. While there is enormous pressure to simply produce wood products for both retail outlets, it is furniture design, says Lynne, that David turns to when he has the time. “He doesn’t spend nearly as much time as he would like to in new designs, and his constant goal, because he is such a brilliant creative artist, is to create his own pieces.

But time is always a factor.�

Time is a factor for Lynne too, but her mind is still ticking over improvements and changes to Montville Woods, like the huge undercover forecourt which is currently underutilised. “I think a large outdoor dining setting would work here. What do you think?� she asks with another wide grin. There’s no denying Lynne Linton enjoys what she does...

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Maleny’s 19th Festival of Australian Film

The Pavilion – Maleny Showgrounds

Presented by the Maleny Film Society

25 & 26 JANUARY 2013 FRIDAY 25 JANUARY - 7.15pm doors open at 6pm for dinner and bar

THE SAPPHIRES

comedy/musical/drama - 103 mins - PG Director: Wayne Blair Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman

It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.

SATURDAY 26 JANUARY - 3.00pm doors open at 2:30pm

PAUL KELLY – stories of me

Musical /drama120mins - MA15+ Directed by Ian Darling

… charts the many lives, loves and losses of Paul Kelly, one of Australia’s most gifted singersongwriters. Kelly has been marking out the Australian landscape and its people through words and music for almost 40 years.

SATURDAY 26 JANUARY - 7.15pm 6pm - doors re-open for dinner and bar…

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VER THE AUSTRALIA DAY weekend in January, the Maleny Film Society will be presenting their 19th annual Maleny Festival of Australian Film and, as in past years, the MFS have selected an impressive line-up of top quality recent Australian productions.

Audiences will be treated to three very different films telling stories about contemporary Australian characters.

The Festival will be held on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 January at the Pavilion in the Maleny Showgrounds.

Dinner will be available from 6pm on Friday and

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Saturday nights and there is a bar and tea/coffee stand.

Festival passes giving patrons priority on admission to all three screenings ( at a discounted price ) can be purchased from the Maleny Information Centre in Maple Street – the cost is $35 ($20 for MFS members). Other single session tickets will be available at the door at each screening. No bookings are possible – and prior ticket purchase and early attendance is recommended at all sessions.

Phone Ken Munsie on 5494 2882 for further information.

THE SAPPHIRES In 1968, four Aboriginal girls from a remote mission, Cynthia, Gail, Julie and Kay are discovered by Dave a talent scout with a kind heart, poor lifestyle and bad habits - but a great knowledge of soul music. He convinces them to drop country & western in favour of a soul driven repertoire and gets them an audition with the American entertainment agency. Dave sees them as Australia's answer to 'The Supremes', and the girls get their first true gig, in the middle of the war zone in Vietnam to sing for the American troops.

Based on a true story.

103 mins PG Friday 2 January – 7.15pm Starring: Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman Director: Wayne Blair

PAUL KELLY stories of me Paul Kelly - stories of me charts the remarkable life of one of Australia’s most gifted and beloved singersongwriters. For almost 40 years, in over 350 songs, Paul Kelly has been mapping out the Australian landscape and its people.

For the first time in a feature length film, the man behind the music is revealed, as Kelly speaks candidly about the people who have helped shape his life and music.

Featuring rare archival footage, never-before-seen live performances, interviews with Kelly’s family members, former and current band members, music contemporaries and many more.

120 mins MA15+ Saturday 26 January – 3pm Director: Ian Darling

BATHING FRANKY comedy/romance – 101mins – MA15+ Director: Owen Elliott Stars: Henri Szeps, Maria Venuti, Jancinta Day

A young man dealing with his troubled past, is captivated by the fanciful and surreal world of a wildly, irrepressible older man and his decrepit yet compelling mother.

Festival Passes available for purchase at MFS screenings and Maleny Information Centre Members $20 - Temporary Members $35 …

Holders of Festival passes will be given preferential entry

The Hinterland Times is a proud sponsor of the Maleny Festival of Australian Film

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A young man, Steve, dealing with his troubled past meets Rodney, a wildly irrepressible older man.

Rodney is the full time carer for his invalid mother Franky who, when not confined to a wheelchair, gets about on her modified ride-on lawn mower.

Rodney is a “backyard magician” who loves to fly kites, tap dance, tell stories, juggle and speak French and Italian! And he brings the same vaudevillian exuberance to the way he "cares" for his mother, Franky.

Rodney is torn between the love and the loyalty that he feels for his ailing and dependent mother on the one hand, and the desire to lead his own life.

Steve is captivated by the older pair’s extravagant world of make-believe and a close friendship develops between them.

101 mins MA15+ Saturday 26 January – 7.15pm Starring: Henri Szeps, Maria Venuti, Bree Desborough, Shaun Goss Director: Owen Elliot

The Promise of Pantomime Mayhem OCAL COMIC wordsmith, David Crewe and composer Paul Coppens are getting into their cooperative stride with a third hilarious pantomime this month on the Blackall Range.

Having entertained Hinterlanders for the past two seasons with Aladdin and Cinderella, they have now turned their attention to Robin Hood, aka the Earl of Loxley, and the aristocratic Maid Marian in the traditional setting of Sherwood Forest.

There will, of course, be a villain, the Sheriff of Nottingham, backed up by a platoon of bumbling soldiers, who try and thwart the passage of true love. Robin's band of Merry Men are accompanied by their even Merrier Maidens and a pair of very unusual Babes in the Wood, and their nanny, Dame Droopy Drawers.

Along the way, a whole host of quirky characters pass in and out of Sherwood Forest, including fugitives from other pantos, a pair of would-be assassins looking for a career change, Fanny Firkin, the local hotelier, and Lord Grabitall, the Tax Collector.

There’s no doubt David Crewe and Paul Coppens have fine-tuned the panto formula to maximise the entertainment value for all family members of any age.

The show has something for everyone - catchy tunes, colourful costumes, athletic dancers from the bDifferent Dance Academy, jokes old and new, mandatory audience participation, and even some special effects that will leave you gobsmacked.

The pantomime season opens on Thursday December 20 at 7.30 pm in the Activities Centre of the Maleny High School. The show continues on Saturday December 22 at 2.30pm.and 7.30pm,. and finally on Sunday December 23 at 2.30pm.

Tickets are available from the Maleny Visitor Information Kiosk. $20 Adults, $10 Students.

Under five years are free but tickets are still needed.

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Guitarist composer Anthony Garcia returns to the Hinterland USTRALIAN GUITARIST composer Anthony Garcia returns to one of his favourite places to perform a stunning classical guitar repertoire. On Sunday 16th December at 4pm at The Witta Old School, Anthony will give a recital of classical guitar masterpieces and a selection of his original compositions.

Anthony Garcia is a rare bread of composer performers, heralded as one of Australia’s finest classical guitarists. Slava Grigoryan has said, “In my mind Anthony is one of the finest musicians living in Australia”.

All tickets: $20.Children under 13 free. Available from Rosetta Books or at the door. Info: 0417 177 965.

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Hardey the Clown Performer UNNY MAN, Hardey McMurrick has been in WA for nine years and has returned to Maleny to present his clown circus show, A Visit from the Harmonica Man, facilitate a clown workshop for kids, and a two day residential Clowning for Kids workshop for adults.

The Harmonica Man is part rambling music man, part silent vaudeville clown and part who knows what, and as the name suggests he plays, amongst other things, the harmonica.

When the Harmonica Man visits he brings with him a proverbial and literal suitcase of tricks; circus, magic, mime, music and mirth to amuse, astound and engage his audience with whilst playing in the moment.

The Clowning for Kids workshop is a fun and engaging workshop designed to teach kids the fundamentals of clowning. They will learn through hands on exercises comic physicalisation, the three archetypal clowns and clown routines to perform to the rest of the group.

The workshop location is the Maleny Community Centre Verandah Room on January 7 - 9am-12pm and at the Montville Hall from 1pm-4pm. The cost is $20 per child and adults are free. (FOR 2 FREE TICKETS email Hardey below) Hardey believes that clowning is great creative development for performers and non performers alike.

His two day residential workshop for adults is guaranteed to open up creativity and physical expression and is personally challenging and fun.

Accommodation is at the Crystal Waters Eco Caravan Park (dormitory style) also with caravan and camp sites.

Workshop (without meals) - $100.00 Workshop with meals - $150.00. Accommodation: from $10 for unpowered camping - $72a night for a couple in the cabin.

Bookings Contact Hardey McMurrick groundcontrol@flyingheart.com.au or 0438 161 072.

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Gourmet Night at Poets Cafe to aid RSPCA animals OR THE SEVENTH YEAR running, Ron and Helen Geyl have generously donated their venue, The Poets Cafe, and all food and drinks for a special Montville Gourmet Food and Wine Night to support the RSPCA. All proceeds from this event will go directly to helping RSPCA Queensland care for the 42,000 animals that pass through its shelters and foster homes each year.

“We’re delighted to do it,” said Mr Geyl. “We believe the RSPCA does an incredible job in very difficult circumstances.

The staff and volunteers they have are simply amazing!”

The 2013 event has been launched with a new name “Animal A-fare” to better reflect why the night is important.

The event will be held on Friday February 15 and the proceeds from this night will be directed to emergency veterinary care for unwanted animals or cruelty cases.

For a night of culinary delights, drinks and great company, with entertainment provided (and a likely splattering of celebrity) it promises to be an enjoyable way to help the animals.

Tickets which include food and beverages are $75 and enquiries can be made by calling the RSPCA on 3426 9943.

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Rex Backhaus-Smith is painting LIFE WONDERFUL EXHIBITION is being held at the University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery at Sippy Downs until December 20. 2012.

Rex Backhaus-Smith: Painting Life highlights the originality and capacity of this remarkable Queensland artist and hinterland resident. It features works held in the University collection and in the artist’s own private collection, alongside recent paintings from the Lake Mungo series. What they all clearly demonstrate is Rex’s unique perspective on the Australian outback and his passion for this land, as well as his ability with both water colours and acrylics.

The exhibition is particularly poignant given that when it was planned, Rex started painting a few new pieces to be included. However, a dreadful accident has since seen the artist spend months in hospital. His tremendous progress has been hard won and it is truly a celebration to now see this exhibition take place. A diptych of still-tobe-finished canvases will be on display giving a rare opportunity for seeing a work in progress. It is also worth noting that the exhibition title was pre-determined.

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Rex has indeed been painting nearly all of his life and has developed his distinguished style through a balance of considered thought and creative outpouring. Curator of the University gallery, Dawn Oelrich, says “He has a wonderfully colourful way to bring stories to life sometimes symbolically, sometimes realistically.” His enviable knowledge about the bush extends beyond the visible landscape into its history and spirituality, all of which he willingly shares in his art.

His paintings are deep and thought-provoking, but there are touches of humour too, much like the character of the outback itself. He conveys the unexpectedly moving beauty within the ruggedly harsh nature of the land, because his relationship with it is genuinely powerful.

Rex Backhaus-Smith: Painting Lifecan be enjoyed at the USC Gallery,located at the University campus, Sippy Downs Drive, Sippy Downs.

It is open free to the public from 10am to 4pm Monday to Saturday, but is closed Sundays and public holidays.

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Paul & Genevieve’s new take on an old favourite

N ENTERING Paul and Genevieve Loxley’s manufacturing space I am met by a sea of black and white and pink. These three colours are everywhere: on the walls; on Paul and Genevieve’s uniform; on the checkprinted picnic baskets stacked in one corner; on the myriad tubs of floss stacked neatly on every horizontal surface.

All the tubs are identical at first glance and the fairy floss inside gives no hint of the flavour locked within – it’s a uniformly white and fluffy substance that looks as light as air.

However, when I take a sample from a random tasting tub I am hit with a taste explosion! Sweet coconut flavour floods my tongue and lingers long after the floss has dissolved. I turn to Genevieve in astonishment.

“That’s called the ‘pop’,” she explains, her bright eyes twinkling in amusement at my reaction. “We love watching our customers’ faces when they try the floss – sometimes we tell them the flavour beforehand and sometimes we don’t – and when they put it in their mouth and the flavour hits, their eyes pop.”

Spun Fairy Floss is a small Sunshine Coast business that, like its product, is going places.

Although commercial production started only six months ago, the business roots go back many years.

Paul, Genevieve and their young son moved here from Sydney about 16 years ago to run an art gallery in Mooloolaba. Like many small business entrepreneurs, they’ve had their share of ups and downs: the failed gallery was followed by a successful hair accessory business, and now the fledgling Spun Fairy Floss enterprise, with many yet-to-be-explored ideas in between. The key to their endurance is that Paul’s business brain is matched by Genevieve’s passion for finding new opportunities.

“I’m a Google-maniac!” exclaims Genevieve. “I always seem to be ahead of the wave – I just know what’s going to be the next new craze.”

Not scared of grand ideas, they decided to change the way confectionery is made, starting with fairy floss.

According to Paul and Genevieve, normal fairy floss uses toxic colouring – “don’t get it on you, it takes weeks to get it off your skin” – and contains a list of ‘E’-numbered artificial colours and flavours as long as your arm.

“We wanted to produce a fairy floss with no E-numbers, no colours, no artificial flavours, no preservatives – just sugar and natural flavour,” says Paul, animatedly. “We like the purity of the white floss.”

With the aim of producing a gourmet product, they spent three years working on how to produce the flavours and improving the quality of the floss. This involved trialling different sugars and a number of machines to achieve the desired attributes, explains Genevieve.

“A beautiful floss should have no sugar crystals in it,” she says. “It should be fluffy and dissolve on your tongue and disappear. Commercial machines spit it out so fast that it

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According to Paul, not all sugar is vegan as some sugar refining processes use animal bones as a filtration method.

They use Bundaberg sugar, which is certified kosher and vegan.

“We don’t use organic sugar, which comes from Brazil, because it has an additive that affects our machines,” he says. “Anyway, we want to use Australian sugar and to produce an Australian product.”

The flavours, which are made by food scientists using only natural ingredients, are also certified kosher and organic. They started with the basic flavours first: strawberry and watermelon.

“Everyone equates fairy floss with strawberry,” Paul explains. “So to keep our customers happy, we started selling with half normal, half unusual flavours.

“Now we have flavours like coconut, pomegranate, liquorice, horseradish, pear, sesame, white chocolate, and ginger (it’s beautiful!).

“Chris from Pomodoras on Obi came and picked up all our ginger fairy floss the other week.”

Genevieve continues: “We also combine flavours: we’ve combined pineapple and coconut to make a pina colada flavoured floss. We’ve got champagne and strawberries, and even rum and coke.

“There are so many we haven’t spun yet because we’re so busy!”

Paul takes me into the manufacturing room and demonstrates how he makes the floss. It’s a fascinating process, with the machine conjuring up the spider web-like substance seemingly out of nowhere. At some appropriate moment, Paul collects the floss out of the machine and bundles it into a large plastic bag, from which it will be packed into the tamper-proof tubs.

Apart from straight eating, Spun Fairy Floss has a variety of uses, including cake decorating and for bonbonniere (or ‘bomboniere’, is an Italian word for "favours" or gifts given by hosts to their guests on special occasions such as weddings).

Paul and Genevieve have also supplied floss for use in cocktails at events. For example, the strawberry-flavoured floss can be put in a champagne flute, with or without strawberries in the bottom, and the champagne poured over the top so that it bubbles up. “It’s very dramatic – it definitely has a wow factor!” laughs Genevieve.

In another left-of-centre use, Paul recently used their figflavoured floss on a cheese platter for the Real Food Festival Thank You Party – I can testify that a cracker with a piece of local chevre and topped with a pinch of fig fairy floss is a delightful combination.

It seems the possibilities for this intriguing product are endless!

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Zehnder Gluten Free ... ...rising to the occasion After five years operating out of a small manufacturing facility in Maleny’s Lawyer Street, Zehnder Gluten Free recently expanded into a new $5.3 million premises in the Big Pineapple complex.

Julie Shelton caught up with Josef and Naomi to find out how they are settling in.

by Julie Shelton

AVING STARTED with an oven, a stainless steel bench and 24 tins, Zehnder Gluten Free has come a long way. Their new factory, with over 20 full-time staff, presents a very different picture from the days of baking in a small shed and selling just five lines of bread from a stall at the Noosa and Rocklea Farmers Markets.

With five children aged between five and 14 years old, Naomi knows all too well about outgrowing space. For a number of years the family lived in a shed on their 100 acres on the eastern side of Maleny. It was only 12 months ago that they moved into their house, amidst sighs of relief.

The move to new business premises signals a big shift in the nature of their business. While Zehnder’s main line is bread – offering 10 varieties including a new high protein, low carb health bread – they are also moving into supplying food service lines.

“Up to now we have really been an artisan bakery and so the move to the new premises means we are transitioning to become a manufacturer,” Josef explains.

Josef and his team have had to change certain processes to make them more efficient. The key to these changes is the new technologies being employed.

“The way we make bread, from the moment we mix the dough to when it’s finished, packaged and ready to go in the box, now takes only about an hour. That in itself is quite revolutionary, as most major manufacturers can’t achieve that.”

“There’s nothing like this anywhere else in the southern hemisphere.”

The semi-automatic process, which starts at roughly 1,000 millibars (average sea level pressure), bakes the product

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at 10 millibars. This is equivalent to going from sea level to an altitude around 30,000 metres above sea level – it’s as though they mix the dough and take it to Mount Everest. At this level, the boiling point of water lowers and just 180 seconds later the product is ‘cooked’ and they take it back down to sea level pressure. By the time it is taken out of the chamber, it’s already cool.

The advantages are numerous, the principal ones being the shortening of the baking cycle and the extension of the end product’s shelf life.

“The key to keeping a product is how quickly the product is taken from a baking environment (normally around 200 degrees in the oven for a period of time) down to 15-20 degrees, when it is packaged,” Josef explains. “However long it is in transition is a major determinant of the shelf life, as this is the time when bacteria are activated.”

The Zehnder process virtually eliminates that transition and therefore the bacterial activation. Additionally, by cooling the end product from the core of the product out, rather than using cool air to work its way in, the cooling process is shortened and the nutrient value is improved, as is the flavour.

Josef is excited by the potential for new products made possible by this technology. With more products and new markets to explore, is Zehnder’s looking to further expansion in the near future?

“We believe the general Australian manufacturing economy will be very tough for the next 12-18 months so we are going to be consolidating what we are doing – making sure that it works 100% and bringing it to the highest efficiency. That is my main aim,” he states.

Josef and Naomi agree that moving into providing products for the food service sector, in particular dinner rolls and baguettes, is a major step forward.

“There is a lot of growth in gluten-free. When we started, there was a retail market that was looking for a loaf of bread each week. We satisfied that market and needed to evolve.”

Empire Organics Now at two Nambour locations

We’re taking Christmas orders for gluten-free puddings and mince pies

LEFT: “In essence, we are taking glutenfree and making it mainstream.”

TOP & RIGHT: Joseph and Naomi Zehnder inside their new factory at Woombye’s Big Pineapple: “bringing it to the highest efficiency.

That is my main aim.”

“However, first we needed to find a way to make our dinner rolls and baguettes comparable to a standard product, not just in quality but also in price.

This new technology allows that to happen.”

“In essence, we are taking gluten-free and making it mainstream.”

This hasn’t happened easily. As Naomi explains, Zehnder Gluten Free has had to jump over a lot of hurdles that non-gluten-free products don’t have to worry about.

“Our core business principle means that we want to distribute a product that is free from contamination, not only here at the factory but at the end consumer point,” she says.

“Cross-contamination is a big problem in the food service sector. The coeliac consumer, whether they be on a plane, or in a hospital, needs to be assured that what they are about to eat is truly gluten free, regardless of where along that food supply chain contamination might occur.”

Consequently, Zehnder Gluten Free is now producing a number of items in individually

•Ginger bread houses •Traditional boiled half kilo puddings •Traditional fruit cake garnished with candied fruit •Almond chocolate Christmas trees •French chocolate hat box with chocolate truffles •Fruit mince pies half dozen lots •Chocolate Christmas truffles half dozen

packaged portions, which has the added advantage of the middle people (caterers, waiters, retailers) not having to worry about contamination.

In a further guarantee of quality, Zehnder Gluten Free complies with rigorous compliance and self-imposed gluten testing regimes that are over and above the other required food safety regimes. The paperwork is onerous, to say the least.

“Once the consumer realises the extent we have gone to, not just with gluten allergens but other allergens as well, we envisage that our products will be greatly sought after,” says Josef confidently.

With award-winning management combined with a clear vision and state-of-the-art technology, Zehnder Gluten Free is a business on the rise.

For more information on Zehnder Gluten Free, visit www.zehnder.com.au

With over 30 years experience in the Organic Food Industry, we specialise in Vegetarian, Gluten free and Dairy free products. With a large range of savory and sweet.

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Tree Changers...

...about people who change their lives to settle on the Range and why they choose to stay. This month ...

Rick & Rita Thurgood Rick and Rita Thurgood took a long and considered treechange when they moved from Brisbane to Maleny earlier this year. Twenty years in the making, their new home and spacious B&B is a luxuriant oasis on the Blackall Range, and far from their former intense business life in Brisbane.

Why did you come here?

Rick: Well, for many years we had looked all over the place. We initially loved Brisbane and once we had arrived there we then found this beautiful place not far from Brisbane.

Rita: We used to come up to Maleny like most people do for Sunday afternoons and then we decided to buy some land here on Stanley River Road. But with Rick’s collection of vehicles getting larger and larger we needed more space for garages.

Rick: We have owned the land on Mountain View Road for many years. We think our one acre is the orchard part of the original McCarthy’s Farm.

Rita: We had an all consuming business in Brisbane so we couldn’t move to Maleny permanently. So, we built our house to lock up and for the past few years we would come up to the Hinterland at weekends to work towards gradually finishing the house. We always had in mind to open a small bed and breakfast business in our “ new life “ in the high country. During this period of completing the house we obtained all the necessary council approvals including the mandatory food preparation courses that are required. Both Rick and I are very happy that we are now able to follow our new path in life.

Rick: With the house construction we said to the builder, we didn’t have any building plans, but we would like to build our new home as close as possible to the beautiful heritage listed home that we lived in at in Herston, opposite Ballymore Rugby Park . He measured up our old house which sat on the hill overlooking Ballymore. It was built in 1882 when Ballymore was the police horse paddock. It was sad to leave the old house but Rita and I feel we have somehow managed to recreate the ambiance of days gone by.

Rita: Coming here then was a partial treechange because we brought something of our past to an area that we wanted to live in, once we were out of the rat race of our business .

Rick: When I first saw Maleny I just loved it – the green hills – it was just beautiful. It is very much like Wales where I was brought up, but with far better weather. We do get the Welsh mist but it is at least warm not cold mist.

What did you have to change in coming here?

Rick: We sold the business to our German supplier in March 2010 , thinking we would at last be able to move to Maleny permanently. We were then

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asked if we could both stay on for a short time to bed in the new subsidiary. A short time turned out to be two years. Rita and I were finally able to move to the hills at the end of March 2012.

Our old business is now run as a subsidiary of the German company and continues to grow and prosper. Our business was quite technical and intense, we imported heavy vehicle test equipment from Germany for vehicle safety and diesel emissions monitoring. I had trained as an apprentice in the UK and was one of the first engineers to carry out the newly introduced MOT vehicle tests in the early 60s.

So when I came to Australia I had experience of this type of testing technology and was able to introduce the equipment to various government testing authorities.

Queensland first installed two machines that dramatically reduced accidents on the Toowoomba range and Cunninghams Gap. The equipment proved very successful and is now used in most major towns and cities in New South Wales, Northern Territory and Queensland.

Rita: Things I have had to change by living in Maleny permanently - are girls Thursday night out at Carindale, walks along the river at Southbank , the vibrancy and energy of the city. But Maleny and the green hills is a great alternative and not that far from Brisbane, so now it’s a pleasurable outing to visit our old haunts in Brunswick Street, Bulimba or West End or a walk along the riverbank.

Rick: We didn’t want to simply retire because we are both fit and active and we both felt we still needed a challenge in our new life style. So the B&B has offered us the opportunity to run a small business from the home we love.

It certainly wasn’t a sudden change and we knew that we wanted to run a B&B, having stayed at a lot of them particularly in Europe. Also, we didn’t want to set up a hostel or small hotel but rather something that was a traditional bed and breakfast.

Rita: We both love gardening and we wanted this one acre to be a place to relax in and have the privacy if we want it. Also, Rick wanted the opportunity to show his collection of classic cars and motorbikes... his boys toys!

What would keep you here?

Rita: I think the cooler weather and the beauty of the place. We spent some years preparing to retire here eventually, so we have created a place that appeals to us, and we hope it will appeal to others.

Rick: Interestingly, although we have only been here a few months, several of our old clients want to come and stay and see what we have created.

We have already met people here and we can see ourselves getting more involved in community activities. This really is a beautiful place and quite special in the whole of Australia. I wonder how many people realise just how special it is.

Hemp

... taking the high ground as a building material

HE RESURGENCE OF HEMP as an industrial product for use in high fashion clothing to building materials makes a lot of sense. Hemp is essentially a ancient, highly productive plant that needs no agrichemical inputs and is easy to farm. Now, an Australian company is promoting Hempcrete and is looking to Maleny to create interest through a new showroom.

Johan Tijssen is the director of Hempcrete Australia who has just spent several days in Maleny running classroom instruction to builders and owner-builders, as well as conducting practical training using Hempcrete and training them up to become accredited installers of the BCA certified products and installation method.

Hempcrete is made by mixing industrial hemp core, lime and water to form a strong building material that is used as an insulative wall infill around framed constructions and in floor and roof cavities. And it has plenty of ‘green’ ticks along the way.

The hemp used in Hempcrete is the unused woody core of the plant. It is chopped up into tiny chips and mixed with a lime mix that has special binding qualities for hemp. “Europe has been building with hemp for 20 years at least,� says Johan with enthusiasm. “Because of its simplicity and fantastic thermal properties, it will eventually find its momentum here too. It is fireproof, termite proof, and mould resistant.�

Johan adds that one of the qualities that makes Hempcrete particularly attractive to Australia is its ability to allow the transfer of moisture through walls which avoids condensation build-up. This means that the

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There is no denying the broad interest in Hempcrete.

For Johan’s classes, builders, and owner builders, came from as far away as Tasmania and New Zealand to learn from Johan at the Hinterland Business Centre. Then, in a practical demonstration Johan set up the construction of a carport wall using Hempcrete.

The hemp was cast round the timber frame using specially-made recyclable formwork. When mixed with lime and water, the hempcrete has the texture of sticky wet wood chips. The mix was lightly tamped down between the formwork creating a compacted smooth “biscuit� like appearance. The non-load-bearing Hempcrete sets in one hour allowing the formwork to be removed.

Once thoroughly dry a number of natural render options can be applied to the Hempcrete.

On behalf of his company, Johan is keen to train licenced builders, carpenters, bricklayers and ownerbuilders so that they become fully familiar with the product, and know what they are doing with it.

Johan believes the Range not only has the energy and enthusiasm to promote Hempcrete, but also the commitment. “I think there is a great future for this product,� he adds. “Maleny is regarded as an alternative community and willing to develop new ideas. And these days hemp is enjoying a huge rejuvenation with its 25,000 applications and the many industrial products that can be made from hemp plants.� Info: Johan Tijssen info@hempcrete.com.au

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TOP LEFT and RIGHT: An ordinary timber stud wall is encased in special formwork between which the Hempcrete is packed TOP CENTRE: A special mixer combines the Hempcrete, lime and water to produce a fairly ‘dry’ mix which will set in one hour ABOVE: Johan Tijssen (dark shirt) supervises the installation of the Hempcrete inside the framework RIGHT: A partly completed Hempcrete wall shows a set section and a section with the formwork just removed.

A family night - just relaxing on the Village Green.

Come to sing together - bring the children, bring a picnic - the program will last about 90 minutes If the weather is wet, the program will be conducted in the Montville Village Hall.

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OUR DISPLAYS are overflowing with unique gift ideas.

From miniature to extra large boxes of chocolates and truffles. Collectors tins of toffees, jellies, chocolates and English tea, including the high quality Pralibel chocolate selections in their elegant brown tins.

Fresh Fudge gift boxes are great for teachers, staff, colleagues, neighbours, secret Santa etc, from $12.50.

Our friendly staff can help you find the perfect gift.

We also offer free gift wrapping.

Happy festive season from Sweets on Maple and thank you for your support throughout the year.

HE GENEROSITY of people has stunned organisers of last month’s second Chicks in the Sticks annual high tea, in aid of cancer research.

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A staggering $5700 was raised on the day. The spokesperson for the organisers, Kelli Hoyes said the people who donated items and services for the day and the 130 people who purchased tickets to the event should take a bow.

"We have been left almost speechless by the support we have received for our event," Kelli said.

"We could not have achieved that donation to the Cancer Council without our sponsors," Kelli said.

"They are without doubt some of the most special people in the world and we are truly grateful and humbled by their backing of our high tea and cancer research.

Winners on the day included: 2012 Chick in the Sticks, Janine; Best Decorated Table, Donna Lyden and Party; Best Hat, Susan Hennessy; Best Accessories, Macala Watson; Best Frock, Ann Rommerman; Best Judges briber, Tina Potter and Judge's Pet, Paula Winch."

While not all the sponsors can be thanked through this publication the organisers mentioned: Australia Zoo, Cadenza, Lily Pily Boutique, Luala Holdings Flower Growers, Nambour Party Hire, Noye Partners, Wotif Group plus numerous people from Kenilworth and Maleny.

MC for the high tea Toni Gilsham (centre) chats with fashion show hosts Heather Stecca and Michele Brown from Lily Pily Boutique, Cooroy.

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Tis the Season to go Gluten-free ... and Grain-free says Tania Hubbard LUTEN FREE grain free guru and author, Tania Hubbard said sticking to a gluten and grain free lifestyle during the Christmas period doesn’t mean you have to miss out.

Thanks to a new partnership with Sunshine Coast spice Queen, Vicki Taylor, these two award-winning business women have developed a way for Coeliac sufferers and those with gluten and grain intolerance to have their Christmas cake and eat it too.

“We are very excited about the release of our limited edition gluten and grain free Christmas Cake – cinnamon, spice & all things nice mix,” Tania said.

“It tastes absolutely amazing and is filled with lovely aromatic sweet spices, edible flowers and just the right amount of hand milled dates,” Tania said.

Vicki Taylor, owner of ‘spice hot spot’ Red Hot Chilli Pepper in Caloundra, said developing the Christmas spice mix was great fun and it was a joy to be able to work and collaborate with another successful business.

The Christmas Cake mix will be added to Tania’s very popular bake@home range of gluten and grain free goodies for a limited time and is available in store at Red Hot Chilli Pepper, Jeffer’s Markets (Yandina & Maroochydore) and Maleny Supa IGA or online www.glutenfreegrainfree.com.au in the lead up to Christmas.

“All you need for a freshly baked Christmas cake is our mix, some eggs, olive oil and water” Tania said.

ITH ITS HISTORY traceable to the 18th Century, this wonderful blue cheese takes its name from a Cambridgeshire village.

Stilton is known and loved worldwide and an EU Protected Food Name and a Certified Trade Mark ensure that any cheese carrying the title of “Stilton” has been produced in one of the three English counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire or Leicestershire. It must also be made from locally produced pasteurised milk, in a cylindrical shape, and allowed to form its own coat or crust. It must never be pressed in a cheese press and it must have the magical blue veins radiating from the centre of the cheese.

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It makes lovely cupcakes – and here are some ideas for how to decorate it: Soak 1 cup of dates in aromatic tea (brewed and hot) – like lady grey or chai tea for about 20 minutes (make sure they are just covered) a. Pop everything into a food processor or hand held blender and wiz away until you have a lovely thick paste

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b. I suggest people keep the labna pretty plain – the cake has lots of flavour c. The labna – blobbed over the top is a lovely colour contrast and helps to balance the cake d. Of course – fresh labna or any soft cheese is just lovely with this cake and topped with a wee bit of cinnamon and perhaps some extra dates just makes it!

b. Add more water (or tea) until it blends down if need be

There are just six dairies in the world licensed to make Blue Stilton cheese. Over 1 million Stilton cheeses are made each year with 78 litres of milk going into every 8kg cylinder of cheese. At about nine weeks of age the cheese is graded. Any cheese that does not measure up to the high standard expected of Stilton is sold simply as “blue cheese”. Young Stilton is quite crumbly and has a slightly acidic taste. With aging it starts to develop a smoother, almost buttery texture with a more rounded mellow flavour.

Stilton is great as a table cheese, stuff some mushrooms with it, add to dips, grate over puff pastry twists before popping them in the oven. A wedge of Stilton is a great gift for Christmas for the special person in your life who has everything or perfect to take as a gift when you visit your friends.

Colin James Fine Foods 37 Maple Street Maleny Phone 5494 2860

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Where to maleny Cappricios Pizzas Traditional Italian food. Licensed Restaurant.

Open Tue - Fri 4pm-10pm. Sat & Sun 11.30am-10pm Riverside Centre – 5499 9444

Colin James Fine Foods Try our famous freshly made sorbet, gelati and ice cream cakes. Light snacks and lunches including a wide selection of gluten free options. Great coffee.

37 Maple Street – 5494 2860

Eat Pomodoras on Obi Obi Obi creek & treetop views. “Slowfood” philosophy.

Restaurant, Cabins, Functions. Montville organic coffee.

Tues–Thurs 10:00–9:00pm Fri 10:00–10:00pm Sat 9:00–10:00pm; Sun 9:00–3:00pm 18 Lawyer Street, Maleny – 5429 6543

African & Mediterranean cuisine. Licensed restaurant, weddings, functions. Great views, verandah lunches.

Fri Night 3 course Buffet $35pp inc. $15 for kids.

Live music Sunday lunch.

Wed – Sun Lunch & dinner.

Cairncross Cnr, Mountain View Rd – 5429 6537

King Ludwig’s German Restaurant & Klaushouse Mountain Bar Authentic home style cuisine. 25 German beers.

Lunch 10.00am Wed- Sun, Dinner 6.00pm Fri & Sat Bookings recommended. Great mountain views.

Private functions & special events.

401 Mountain View Road – 5499 9377

A la carte lunches and dinners. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week from 11.30am.

840 Landsborough-Maleny Road – 5435 2288

Innovative Thai & Asian Cuisine. Dinner Tues - Sun Lunch Fri - Sun. Reservations essential.

88 Obi Lane South (above Gardners Falls) – 1300 311 429

The Terrace Award-winning Seafood Restaurant. Open for lunch and dinner 6 days a week. Closed Wednesday.

Cnr. Maleny-Landsborough Road and Mountain View Road – 5494 3700

The Upfront Club Licensed restaurant. Daily blackboard specials & takeaway. Live music. Preview performers www.upfrontclub.org. Breakfast & lunch 7 days.

Open dinner from 5.30pm Mon, Thurs, Fri & Sat. 31 Maple Street – 5494 2592

Real food. Real Service. Venue available for functions.

Fabulous meals in a cafe setting in the heart of town.

3 Maple Street – 5499 9177

Maudy’s Extensive breakfast, lunch and dinner menu with finest steaks on the Hinterland. Vegetarians catered for.

Dinner Wed - Sat. Lunch Fri - Sun. Breakfast w/ends.

466 Maleny Kenilworth Road – 5494 4411

Licensed restaurant, take away & bar. Great views.

Pizza, pasta, a la carte, gelato, coffee, dine-in or takeaway.

Open 5 days 2.00 - 9.00pm Wed - Sun. Lunch Sat & Sun from 12 noon.

Shop 8, 1 Post Office Road – 5445 7722

montville Ametharius Coffees and Craft Hinterlands Best Coffee. Come in for a cuppa, or something to eat, browse our gift shop, paint some ceramics or just relax in our quiet courtyard.

All day brekkie served daily. Open 7 days 9am-5pm.

Shop 2/144 Main Street 5478 5120 – 0421 214 211 (behind Almari Leather) ametharius@hotmail.com

Camphor Cottage Garden setting in the heart of Montville.

Seasonal menu. Changing specials. Sensational housemade gourmet cakes. Great Coffee.

Breakfast and lunch Wed-Mon. 9.00am - 3.00pm.

190 Main Street – 5442 9300

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Flaxton Gardens Tranquil elegance in an area of natural beauty.

Restaurant, Bar, Events. Sunday and Wednesday 9.00am-4.00pm. Thursday - Saturday 9.00am - 9.00pm 313 Flaxton Drive – 5445 7450

Le Relais Bressan Sensational French Cuisine. Great 3 Course set menu $27.50 except Fri & Sat night. Open lunch and dinner.

Closed Tuesday & Wednesday.

344 Flaxton Drive – 5445 7157

The Edge

Fabulous teahouse, interiors and gift store overlooking the Kondalilla falls. Open Wed - Mon 8am - 4.00ish.

Delish breakfast. Light lunches. Home baked goodies.

Limited seating. Small functions welcome.

Bridal and Baby Showers a must.

38 Kondalilla Falls Road – 5478 6212

Flame Hill Vineyard & Restaurant Visit this 100 acre property for wine tasting, wine sales, a la carte lunch & magnificent views. The perfect function venue. Thurs – Mon 10.30 – 5.30pm. Gourmet Sun Brunch 9.30 -11.30am Book ahead. Closed Tues & Wed. 249 Western Avenue – 5478 5920

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344 Flaxton Drive, Flaxton Ph 5445 7157

Restaurants • Cafés • Take-aways this month: Poet’s Cafe, Montville The legendary Poets Cafe of Montville evokes the great tradition of European cafe life. This iconic conservatory style cafe is situated right in the heart of Montville.

Enjoy classic cuisine at affordable prices. Chef’s popular daily specials include: curry and house-made quiche & salad.

Experience the taste of coffee, made from fresh spring water bubbling up from a natural spring on the premises, as well as chilled water from our water station. Great service, combined with uninterrupted views of the beautiful Sunshine Coast make Poets Cafe a memorable experience.

Open daily for breakfast, coffee-cake and lunch.

Special 3 course set menu $29.90 for dinner Friday & Saturday nights. Licensed and BYO.

Poets Cafe 167 Main Street, Montville – 5478 5479

nambour Secrets on the Lake Cafe & Gallery Enjoy Devonshire Teas, homemade cakes, light lunches on our deck overlooking the lake then browse through the gallery. Open 9am-4pm. Group bookings welcome.

Sunday breakfast 8.30am-11.30am. Licensed. bookings essential. www.secretsonthelake.com.au 207 Narrows Road – 5478 5888

Montville Gourmet Pizza & Cafe Gourmet Pizza, Pasta & Salads. Open for lunch and dinner, 7 days noon till 8.00pm 202 Main Street (next to bottle shop) – 5442 9505

Poets Cafe Superb food in a rainforest setting. Open for breakfast & lunch. Dinner Friday & Saturday nights.

167 Main Street – 5478 5479

French provincial-inspired food specialising in gluten-free and vegetarian products using a large range of gf flours.

We use Black Sheep coffee and Eden Hope organic milk to get the best flavours. Catering available.Open 7 days 7am to 4.30 pm. Parking at rear.

Shop 6, 2-4 Mitchell Street – 5441 5554 also now at 94 Blackall Tce Nambour

The Edge Restaurant Savour our delicious modern cuisine on the deck overlooking stunning views. The perfect location to enjoy a champagne breakfast, leisurely lunch, or coffee & cake. Open daily 8.30am -4.00 pm. Licensed Mayfield Centre 127-133 Main Street – 5442 9344

Husk and Honey Grain free and gluten free. Monday to Friday 8am – 3.30pm. All day breakfast & seasonal lunch menu.

Sat mornings – live music, seasonal lunch platters, all day breakfast – 8am – 2pm.

16 Queen Street – 5441 3510

The Long Apron’ Restaurant Winner Best Prestige Restaurant in Qld 2011.

Our modern European menu offers a ‘Table d Hote’ & 5 or 10 course degustation.

Open daily for breakfast 8-10.a.m. Lunch Fri-Sun. Dinner Wed-Mon Spicers Clovelly Estate 68 Balmoral Rd – 1300 272 897

Montville Cafe Bar Grill Great food at pub prices. Fully licenced. Blend of modern Aust. cuisine & home-style cooking.

Courtesy Bus 7 days from 5.30pm. Live music Fri night, Sat & Sun 12-4pm. Club 90 jackpot $1000 Fri night.

10.00am-10.00pm daily.

126 Main Street – 5478 5535

142 Main Street – 5478 5560

Empire Organics & Cafe - now at two locations

palmwoods Palmwoods Hotel Best steaks on the coast. Fresh local seafood.

Bistro menu to suit everyone. Open 7 days.

28-34 Main Street – 1300 PALMWOODS

The Montville Coffee Pot Relaxed dining friendly service. Home style cooking using fresh ingredients. Hearty breakfasts, gourmet sandwiches & burgers, fresh salads, open grills, vegetarian treats, yummy cakes, Poffertjes. Locally roasted coffee prepared by qualified baristas.Wi-Fi Hotspot 8.15am - 5.00pm - 7 days Village Square, 168 Main Street – 5478 5522

Wild Rocket @ Misty’s Delicious seasonal, local, organic, homemade cuisine.

Warm friendly service, professional baristas. Unique historic venue. Cosy dining. Intimate functions.

Lunch & dinner. Closed Mons exc public holidays.

Bookings appreciated.

beerwah Beerwah Hotel A taste of the Country. Fabulous steaks & other dishes to please everyone. Eat inside in our new Bistro or outside in our new Bistro Garden.

Open lunch and dinner 7 days a week.

Cnr Mawhinney Street & Beerwah Parade 1300 BEERWAH

WE ARE PROUD OF ALL OUR AWARDS, BUT YOU JUDGE FOR YOURSELF Licensed cafe open 7 days. Enjoy a delicious lunch on our verandah.

Wine and cheese tastings Watch our cheese and yoghurt being made.

Buy your supplies of cheese and yoghurt to take home.

Open 9am- 5pm - 7 days a week 1 Clifford Street, Maleny :

Phone 5494 2207

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Mungo MacCallum

The Asian century ... Geography rules!

“Gillard has prospered and moved on - into Asia and into history.”

OR A PRIME MINISTER who once admitted that she felt more at home in the classroom than on the international stage, Julia Gillard has come a long way in a short time.

Her commitment to the Asian century is a watershed in Australian foreign policy, ranking with Black Jack McEwen’s post war trade pact with Japan, or even with John Curtin’s 1942 declaration that tied Australia’s future to the United States.

John Howard famously insisted that Australia did not have to make a choice between our history and our geography; but Gillard has made that choice and made it in spades: geography rules. She has taken us into Asia far more unequivocally than any of her predecessors. On the 40th anniversary of Australia’s recognition of China, Gillard has made the last, decisive leap.

Bob Hawke, for all his interest in Asia, remained an unashamed devotee of the USA, firmly in the Western camp. Paul Keating made considerable progress from the early days when he described Asia as somewhere you flew over on the way to Europe, but his vision of Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation always included America as a cornerstone. Even Kevin Rudd, for all his

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“ Gillard’s vision for the future is clearly and unashamedly to our north.” passion for Asia in general and China in particular, saw Australia’s predominant role with the west rather than the east.

But now Gillard has not only accepted the geographic and economic reality, but embraced it. Asia already accounts for nearly half all our imports – far more than America and Europe combined – and a staggering 71 percent of exports, compared to eight percent to Europe and a mere six percent to America. And in global terms, China and India will both eclipse the United States economic power in the near future, with South Korea and Indonesia set to become major players – Japan, of course, is already there.

This undeniable and irreversible trend has been obvious for some time, but it has taken Ken Henry and his fellow authors in the White Paper to document it as an urgent call to arms, and Gillard to take the political plunge. And she has taken it in the starkest terms: her (launch) statement made only a passing, ritual reference to the stabilising presence of our great American ally, reducing the United States almost to an irrelevancy.

There will no doubt be an effort to redress the balance in the Defence White paper due out next year, but Gillard’s vision for the future is clearly and unashamedly to our north.

It is a vision that demands a generational change, so the starting point, appropriately, is to be in the nation’s classrooms. Gillard has nominated Mandarin, Hindi, Japanese and Indonesian as priority languages for the curriculum, and schools which do not include at least one of them will risk missing out on their share of the funding to be made available when the government announces its detailed response to the Gonski report.

This is something that can be done immediately; some other government initiatives will have to wait for more money to become available.

This shortfall has allowed the usual critics to raise their usual complaints about it being all spin and no substance: the aspirations are all very fine, but where’s the money coming from? These are the same people who insist that the government should concentrate on getting the budget back to surplus at any cost and generally oppose any spending which is not aimed at satisfying their own short term interests. The idea of

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looking twelve years ahead is simply not on their agenda; many of them seem to have trouble managing twelve hours.

And the Australian talent for parochialism can never be over-estimated: Julie Bishop, our alternative Foreign Minister, greeted Gillard’s announcement with the knee jerk reaction that the government should be devoting all its resources to stopping the boats. Fortunately later comments from her and other opposition front benchers have been more measured, and Tony Abbott has even tried to claim ownership of the idea for teaching Asian languages in schools and increasing student exchanges at the tertiary level.

The business organisations’ initial response was similarly predictable: Gillard’s ideas were worthwhile, but could only be realised thorough reforms to the Fair Work Act and the tax system, demands which, coming from a sector which cannot even agree to give up a few of its current perks in exchange for a reduction in the business tax rate, could be dismissed as rhetoric. But the more considered response was more positive and those who have already started dipping their toes into the vast, if still unsettled, commercial seas of Asia were quite enthusiastic.

And this is the good news: much of the ground has already been broken, and many of the tools to get on with the job, such as the National Broadband Network, are well into the development stage. Gillard is right in calling the realignment a massive challenge, but it by no means an unrealisable one, given time, commitment and belief.

It is this last which may be the hardest to mobilise.

When the date was set for the White paper’s release, there were cynics who opined that the timing was purely to distract attention from Maxine McKew’s book and its revelations about Gillard’s 2010 coup. In fact, there was nothing really new in McKew’s story; it was a useful first-hand account that dotted a few Is and crossed a few Ts, but the key accusation – that Gillard was involved in the preparations for the coup from an early stage – has been made and denied many times before. And given the length of time that has elapsed since the events described and the steady resurgence in the polls of both Gillard and the ALP, perhaps it is McKew’s timing that is astray. She might perhaps ponder Sir John Harrington’s famous epigram: Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?

For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

In laid back, democratic Australia McKew can call it what she likes. But Gillard has prospered and moved on – into Asia and into history.

Maleny Montville Real Estate • 5478 5478 Homes & apartments for holiday letting www.montvillerealestate.com.au Montville Country Cabins • 5442 9484 396 Western Ave, Montville Perfect for a relaxed & romantic escape. www.montvillecabins.com.au

Maleny Tropical Retreat B&B • 5435 2113 540 Maleny-Montville Road www.malenytropicalretreat.com Spa Views Guest Suites • 5494 4222 Spa Views B&B and Penthouse 475 Maleny-Kenilworth Tourist Drive Witta, Maleny www.spaviews.com.au

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Sunshine Coast Destination Ltd

Travel Notes Chinese media exposure for the Hinterland The Sunshine Coast recently hosted a Chinese TV crew from World Traveller -â&#x20AC;&#x201C;a media organisation dedicated to producing television shows, magazines, guidebooks and websites relating to international travel destinations. The crew filmed in the Hinterland, at Eumundi Markets, the Ginger Factory and around Noosa.

China has a population of 1.3 billion, and SCDL believes media exposure is one of the most cost effective and best ways to entice Chinese tourists to our shores.

A little closer to home, in August SCDL arranged for travel journalist Alison Cotes to meet with members of the Open Studios Program. Cathy Lawley seized the opportunity and invited Alison to her Fried Mudd Studio in Maleny which resulted in a great story in the Courier Mail in mid-November.

Community groups step in to give new paint job for Nambour Museum AMBOUR MUSEUM will receive a long-overdue coat of paint thanks to the cooperation and generosity of three community organisations.

Rotary Club of Woombye-Palmwoods, Rotary Club of Nambour 76 and Lions Club of Palmwoods/Woombye donated cheques of $1000 each to the museum on Saturday.

Museum safety officer Peter Staite said while volunteers were able to do some outside painting of the weatherboard building, the remainder and majority of the work was long overdue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the $3000 the museum will employ a painter to complete the job,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Secretary Barbara Want said the museum was very grateful to the service clubs for their generosity.

Rotary Club of Woombye-Palmwoods Tony Holmes, President â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was marvellous to receive the money and it is extremely Rotary Club of Nambour 76 Bill Turner, President Lions Club difficult to have volunteers work on such a challenging job,â&#x20AC;? of Palmwoods/Woombye Dawn Hebblewhite and Nambour she said.

Museum safety officer Peter Staite. (Peter has blue stripe The service clubs agreed they enjoyed helping other shirt, Bill has pale blue shirt) organisations in the community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to assist groups in the community where our help will be to their advantage,â&#x20AC;? President Lions Club of Palmwoods/Woombye Dawn Hebblewhite said.

Coordinating the cheque donations was the result of the efforts of Rotary Club of Woombye-Palmwoods member Jan Lawnton.

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A place Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve loved to live Applause for Hinterland Award winners Sunshine Coast Destination Ltd (SCDL) warmly congratulate all Hinterland tourism operators who were part of the 2012 Queensland Tourism Awards. Australia Zoo took the top gong for Major Tourist Attraction and Narrows Escape Rainforest Retreat were winners in the Hosted Accommodation Category. The Long Apron Restaurant - Spicers Clovelly Estate; Spa Anise - Spicers Tamarind Retreat; Spicers Clovelly Estate, and Spicers Tamarind Retreat were finalists in these prestigious awards.

Despite difficult times over the past couple of years, it is very heartening to see tourism businesses coming up with innovative ways of operating, and generating some extraordinary results.

The common traits these tourism operators have is that they actively seek opportunities, plan and activate marketing strategies, network to create strong connections, build healthy relationships in the community and the industry, embrace technology, place a high priority on customer service and create a welcoming and friendly environment for staff and customers.

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Bookings results in an automatic entry to win the value up to $2000 back with a monthly draw on the 15th where a random winner is chosen.

Eco-Tourism laws to change The State Government announced it will amend the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nature conservation laws in an effort to grow ecotourism. Leases of up to 30 years + 30 will be available subject to meeting strict performance criteria.

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Community News Community News Community News Turnbull talks to Woodford

MALCOLM TURNBULL, the Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband will make an appearance at the Woodford Folk Festival. Festival Director, Bill Hauritz says Mr Turnbull will be an engaging speaker who he’s sure will be well received at the festival. This is the first time Mr Turnbull has accepted an invitation to Woodford.

“Malcolm has some very interesting stories to share and we’re all looking forward to hearing him speak at the Festival,” added Mr Hauritz.

Woodford Folk Festival is an annual six day and night event running from Thursday December 27 through to late on January 1. This year 438 acts will perform across 35 venues to an aggregate audience of 100,000 people.

The full program is available online at www.woodfordfolkfestival.com/program or call the QFF: 5496 1066.

Cats Claw Basket Weaving DECEMBER 15 is the very popular Cats Claw Basket Weaving Day at the Dagun Growers Market.

Come and learn how to put this nasty weed to good use. It is a very simple technique to master the creation of unique shapes and a functional basket. Not to mention the satisfaction of knowing you have put an environmental weed to good use. Donations for materials will be accepted if you are unable to source some of this pest yourself.

Pictured is Sean with his clever bike basket made from cats claw.

Information about the basket workshop and last Dagun Station Growers Market for the year see: www.dagungrowersmarket.com

Sally thinks globally

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SALLEY FISHER is an artist thinking globally and acting locally. Sally Fisher, who works as a teacher has decided to combine all her life passions, and become a professional artist so that she can travel and give help and support to less fortunate communities abroad. Sally travelled to Africa earlier this year where she and her Zimbabwean husband spent two months in Zambia teaching local children how to build and play 'humarimbas' a variation on the marimba devised by local musician Linsey Pollak. “ “Next year my husband and I are taking three of my children to Vietnam where we can immerse ourselves in a community there and see where we can help". Sally is having her own exhibition of African portraits in oils and charcoal at Maple 3 Cafe in Maple street Maleny until the end of December.

MEMBERS OF THE ZONTA CLUB of the Blackall Range have launched their 2013 Mapleton, Flaxton & Montville Business Directory.

The directory hosts a list of shops, businesses, trades & services that are available on the Blackall Range. So look for this handy booklet at various local outlets on the Range, including real estate agents, the general stores in Mapleton, Montville & Flaxton, medical centres, post offices, Mapleton & Montville IGA’s & newsagencies & Mapleton Library. All the Range High & Primary schools & Maleny Green Printery While the directory is ever changing but acts as a handy information tool for the residents on the Range & surrounding districts.

Each year the proceeds from the Directory go towards funding many of Zonta’s charitable projects both locally & internationally.

HOME ON THE RANGE WITH ROGER LOUGHNAN REAL ESTATE

Phone: (07) 5478 5288

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“ACACIA COTTAGE” WITH VIEWS

• Located along a quaint country lane with coastal views • Lovely elevated position to capture the cool breezes • Fresh 2 bedroom cottage with handy 2nd living area • Circa 1952 - moved from Acacia Ridge some years ago • Timber floors under coverings & high ceilings throughout • Freshly painted inside & outside with further potential • Entertaining deck set just off the kitchen and dining area • Car parking underneath plus plenty of room for storage • Ideal weekender to wind down from the hustle & bustle • Convenience of rail & bus network just 6 minutes away

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Beautifully built north facing contemporary residence Spacious master suite has WIR, deluxe ensuite & deck Granite kitchen with top of the range stainless appliances Seamless glassed living areas to enhance the rural views Expansive entertaining decks flowing out from the living Luxurious self-contained guest suite operating as a B&B Sparkling pool, paved courtyard and covered gazebo 3.8kw grid connect solar power almost neutralises the bill Located amongst the rolling hills of the Dulong plateau Perm creek meanders the property providing stock water

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For more information and to organise a personal viewing of any of these properties please telephone Roger Loughnan Real Estate on (07) 5478 5288 or visit our office at 136 Main Street, Montville. Open 7 days Email: sales@rlre.com.au www.rogerloughnanrealestate.com.au www.facebook.com/rogerloughnanrealestate HINTERLAND TIMES - DECEMBER 2012 -JANUARY 2013

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Are Goods of an Acceptable Quality?

S WE GO INTO the Christmas season I thought it useful to raise the issue of the quality of gifts that you purchase for your loved ones and what happens when the goods you have just purchased do not meet your expectations. The Competition and Consumer Act (2010) (Cth) (the Act), and incorporating in its Schedule 2 the Australian Consumer Law, provides uniform legislative protections for all Australians, based on the premise that goods must be of an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;acceptable qualityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Prior to the Actâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s introduction, rather than considering whether goods were of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;acceptable qualityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; you would consider the goodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;merchantable qualityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; . This generally meant that goods bought only had to be â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;reasonableâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in description and price rather than â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;acceptableâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in description and price. In other words, the new requirement of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;acceptable qualityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; demands a great level of quality than merely that of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;merchantable qualityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

How then does one establish whether goods are of an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;acceptable qualityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;?

The Supplier guarantees that the goods must be: â&#x20AC;˘ fit for the purposes for which goods of that kind are commonly supplied â&#x20AC;˘ acceptable in appearance and finish â&#x20AC;˘ free from defects â&#x20AC;˘ safe and durable.

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Therefore, goods that are of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;merchantable qualityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; might not be â&#x20AC;&#x2122;acceptableâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to a consumer if, for instance , there is minor blemish in the appearance. Note, however, that, if the blemish was brought to your attention at the time of purchase it may be regarded as a product of â&#x20AC;&#x153;acceptable qualityâ&#x20AC;? as you were made aware of the defect, and elected to continue with the transaction.

A supplier may have breached this guarantee of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;acceptable qualityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; if: â&#x20AC;˘ the product would not be acquired by a reasonable consumer fully acquainted with the nature and extent of the failure; or â&#x20AC;˘ the product did not match a description or a demonstration model; or â&#x20AC;˘ the product did not meet the standard that is expected of goods of that nature, or â&#x20AC;˘ the supplier did not disclose that the goods are unfit, or â&#x20AC;˘ the goods are unsafe.

Depending on the type of guarantee and nature of the breach, there are numerous remedies that a consumer may seek, although most consumers will seek a refund or the replacement of the goods. Suppliers are required to remedy any defects in a reasonable time, and if they fail to do so, legal action can be initiated.

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COMMON NAME: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cape Chestnutâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; This spectacular flowering tree from South Africa is grown for it's fragrant spikes of sugar pink flowers covering the tree from November to February.

A broad domed shaped tree reaching a height of 10m x 9m, it is more suitable to larger gardens.

The foliage is deep glossy green, making a beautiful contrast to the pink flowers. Flowers can vary from white to dark pink depending on the cultivar.

Some cultivars being more floriferous. Beautiful as a specimen plant, but a truly dazzling sight when

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planted en masse as an avenue or wind break.

Cape chestnut will grow in most areas but prefers a warmer climate. It is frost tender when young but is generally a hardy tree. A slightly acidic, well drained soil is ideal. It is also relatively resistant to coastal exposure.

Phone: 5445 7615

In the Wild with Spencer Shaw

Mobile: 0412 680 801

Ph 0428 130 769 spencer.shaw@brushturkey.com.au

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Our Amazing Backyard ...

HE BLACKALL RANGE is a spectacular place to live.

The diversity of the rainforests, the fertility of the land, the abundance of water, the beautiful weather, the spectacular vistas and the wonderful community are a unique commodity on this planet. If we slow down enough to take it all in, the land can shape us and open our minds and hearts to a wealth of possibilities for our lives and those we share our lives with.

Sorry for the fluffy intro, must have gotten carried away enjoying the wonders of spring arriving! Summer is here and the flowers and lush new foliage remind me of what a great place we call home. Our scattered rainforest fragments contain a great diversity of native plants, some of (if not the most) diverse subtropical rainforest ecosystems on the planet. Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rainforests in spite of their fragmented and limited size (less than 0.5% of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s land mass) are amongst the oldest and most diverse rainforest ecosystems on the planet.

So if you are lucky enough to have remnant rainforest in your â&#x20AC;&#x153;backyardâ&#x20AC;? enjoy and nurture this precious and rare forest jewel - either just for the sake of it or for the positive real estate values that the rainforest delivers you!

Once upon a time long, long ago (actually just over a decade or so) â&#x20AC;&#x153; scrubâ&#x20AC;? degraded the value of your block, but these days what attracts people to the range are the

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views and â&#x20AC;&#x153;owningâ&#x20AC;? your own little patch of rainforest. This is a great turn of events as we now have some financial incentive for the potentially costly revegetation of the Blackall Range. Thankfully we also have lots of support for landholders from our local councils, which is money well spent, as we all benefit from the healthier landscape. Check out your local council website for landholder grant funding information.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel left out if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any remnant rainforest. Plant local rainforest plants because they grow well, create habitat and look great. Even in the smallest backyards there is a local native rainforest plant (or dozen) for you, that look great and help restore the rainforest diversity of our Blackall Range. Check out your local rainforest nurseries for local rainforest plants such as Barung Landcare and Go-Green Rainforest Nursery.

If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any land to re-rainforest yourself join in with one of the many community based restoration projects such as the awesome revegetation projects being co-ordinated by Maleny Green hills on the Maleny Precinct.

Sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to forget with the apparent speed of our lives what an awesome place we live in and what an awesome community we are part of, plant more rainforest and make it even better!

Celebrate Festive Season

Kelly Air Pty Ltd A huge thank you to all my customers for your continued support.

I hope you all enjoy a happy and safe Christmas, and have a great new year.

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The ultimate gift for nature lovers...

Once in a lifetime walk with a tiger WHAT'S IN THE SPOTLIGHT Plan to have your say Have you looked at the Draft Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme yet? Don’t be daunted, start at your property to see if the draft planning scheme will change the way you can develop your land (see the step-by-step guide on council’s website). Be sure to have your say by 4.30pm on Friday 14 December.

Australia Day nominations closing soon Nominations for the 2013 Sunshine Coast Australia Day Awards close on December 28. Don’t miss the chance to recognise and celebrate inspiring individuals, organisations and groups. Nominees don’t have to be famous because these Awards are for the unsung heroes who make a difference to life on the Sunshine Coast. Find out more from council’s website today!

Celebrate New Years Eve at Mooloolaba Local families and visitors are invited to welcome in the New Year and enjoy the family-friendly entertainment at New Year’s Eve Mooloolaba from 4pm to midnight on Monday 31 December. To ring in the New Year, two spectacular fireworks displays will take place at 8.30pm and midnight. Visit council’s website for full details.

Free holiday buses are back Council and TransLink are providing free travel on all public buses including Sunbus, Hinterland Connect, the Maleny-Landsborough-Beerwah service, Flexilink and Council Cabs from Wednesday 26 December until Sunday 6 January. Visit council’s website for more information or call TransLink on 13 12 30.

Council hours over the festive season Council wishes you and yours a happy and safe festive season. Council offices will close at 2.00pm on Monday 24 December, and remain closed on all public holidays. This includes Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 December, 2012 and Tuesday 1 January, 2013. Council offices will be open on 27, 28 and 31 December 2012. Council galleries and libraries will close at 2.00pm on Christmas Eve, be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day and resume their usual hours on all other days.

Win up to $1000 off your rates Sign up to receive your rates by email before January 4 and go in the draw to win. Enjoy the convenience of receiving your rates notice by email and help save the environment by signing up today. To sign up or find out more visit council’s website.

Help council gauge the rain What's your rain gauge been telling you lately? If you keep a record of rainfall on your property, measured on a daily basis at approximately the same time, council invites you to share the information with them.

Mail your digitised data to hydrology@ sunshinecoast. qld.gov.au or contact council to find out more.

COUNCIL MEETINGS Ordinary Meeting 9.00am, Thursday 13 December, Tewantin.

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ere’s a family gift idea that breaks the mould. If you have ever fantasised about getting up close and personal with a big cat, then this is the experience for you.

Australia Zoo are offering Sunshine Coast locals the chance to take a walk on the wild side with one of these stunning creatures.

The zoo is offering a special holiday discount where four people can cuddle a tiger for $400 (safety in numbers perhaps...) but you have to book your incredible Australia Zoo Tiger Walk experience via AmexConnect.com.au A maximum of four people can take part in this once in a lifetime experience in the tranquil surroundings of Australia Zoo at Beerwah before it opens to the public each day.

A professional photographer will be on hand to capture incredible images of guests walking with and touching the beautiful big cat.

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A Living Christmas ...

HAT BETTER GIFT than a living tree, or even a group of pretty garden plants. They will still be with your friends or family long after the edible gifts have been consumed or other things have been put away. Small children often love to have their own garden, growing either edible or flowering plants, or both. Adults will recall Christmas 2012 as their gift grows, but do make sure it will fit into their particular garden and suit its style.

There’s more freedom of choice for larger properties. Call in to the Barung nursery in Maleny or visit the Barung stall at the Montville or Witta Markets during December if you need some help.

The rain during November was very welcome. The high winds and hail which accompanied it in some areas did cause a lot of damage and residents mostly south of the Blackall Range will be re-thinking tree choices. Small to medium deep rooted trees with many leaves to filter the wind plus a network of small branches are usually the safest and do avoid large trees near the house. This sounds obvious but some research into the anticipated

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and potentially actual size is well worth while. If possible, check out a mature specimen in your area and on your soil type. Nearby parks and other gardens are good starting points.

Despite the rain, it’s not necessarily a good time of the year to undertake large scale planting projects. More hot weather is to come and young plants with a relatively small root system will become stressed despite a good layer of mulch. Added to that, the resident bandicoots love soft, moist soil in which to dig. Hopefully the turkeys have already built their nesting mounds!

Another useful gift would be Barung membership, especially if your intended recipient is a newcomer to the Range and needs some help with tackling future projects. The most recent newsletter, available on the Barung website, contains information about workshops, detailed plant and fungi descriptions, gardening information and much more.

Happy reading, happy planning for the next planting, and above all have a safe and enjoyable Christmas.

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Maleny Film Society January 2013 screenings

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Lust, seduction and good, old-fashioned romance HE THIRD NOVEL in the Steve Conway trilogy, The Last Tuk Tuk to Bang Na, takes the all-Australian hero back to Thailand. From the moment he arrives at Bangkok airport he is embroiled in explosive action which would make James Bond reel.

Once again John Pullinger blends Conway’s signature lifestyle of beautiful women, lust, seduction and good old fashioned romance with the violence and brutality of the dark underbelly of Bangkok’s drug trade. Conway becomes enmeshed in the world of undercover agents, assassination plots and political

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French comedy - M - 120min A group of French septuagenarian retirees, radicals, and lovers, decide to live together as one happy squabbling family rather than be shipped off separately to “old folks’ homes”. They are joined by Dirk, a young German anthropology student, researching France's aging population. He also becomes their fix-it man, for all manner of things.

This being a French film, there are deeper currents than just the ever-flowing wine. The cast includes Geraldine Chaplin & Jane Fonda, and several wellknown French comic actors.

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There will be no screenings during December.

The Pavilion, Maleny Showgrounds All welcome !

6.00pm for tickets + bar + dinner Screening commences 7.15pm

Catering by Pomodoras on Obi

Enquiries – 5494 2882

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HIS IS AN astonishing book, partly because it is a ruthlessly honest account of a senior army officer’s experiences of wars in Iraq, and Afghanistan. But it is his equally honest and soul-bearing account of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome that is both chilling yet uplifting.

Here, Major General John Cantwell (incidentally, now a resident of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland), reveals in amazing detail the horrors of modern industrialised warfare particularly in the two Iraqi wars in which he was a serving officer. One of his enduring horrors is the sight of an Iraqi soldier’s arm reaching out from the desert

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styles of the writers - June Godkin tends towards mystery and magic. Nana Ollerenshaw’s poems are short and powerful pen sketches, like Becoming My Mother (“I feel her take my place in talk and laughter in my aging face.”) Ian Pollock’s writes inciteful reflections on family life and human interaction. Lenore Tonks tackles an historical theme, in A Right Royal Bastard and one of my favourites is the longer and intriguing, The Camping Trip by Marni Foote.

The Wordweavers clearly get a lot of pleasure meeting as they do each month at the Maleny Library. Try and get a copy of the book by contacting June Godkin, email: dunnart2@bigpond.com

John Cantwell’s wounding story of modern warfare

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The Last Tuk Tuk is available from Rosetta’s Book Shop Maple Street Maleny or via www.xlidris.com and www.amazon .com

ROM TIME TO TIME over several years the Hinterland Times has published short stories from the Maleny Writing Group. This ten year old group call themselves Wordweavers which is an accurate description of their rich mixture of short stories and poetry. Their first collection has just been published privately and you should grab a copy if you can. The stories are a mixed bag from the hilarious man who literally bites a dog, the dramatic war story of a mother protecting her baby from Russian soldiers, an exotic sorcera’s daughter, to the intriguing story of how dreams of a lottery win cause family uproar.

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intrigue in a gripping page turner leaving the reader in suspense until the stunning surprise ending.

The author has lived and worked throughout Southeast Asia for well over twenty years. His in-depth knowledge of the customs and language of the region provide an air of authenticity as it transports the reader to the mysterious East.

Weaving words of drama, intrigue and magic

Saturday January 19 Evening - 7.15pm

Bachir Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag) is an Algerian migrant who comes to teach at a school in Montreal.

The class he is allocated has just lost its teacher and the pupils are struggling to cope with the tragedy.

Lazhar has experienced tragedy first-hand (the events which caused him to leave Algeria) and he tries to show his students that it’s how we respond to adversity that matters. But he runs into trouble when he finds that some of the values he brings with him from Algeria are at odds with contemporary Canadian teaching methods and practice.

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sand after he and others were buried alive by bulldozer blades attached to US tanks.

His sensitivity to suffering of his own men contributes to Cantwell’s harrowing sleepless nights and traumatic nightmares.

Importantly, at the end of the book John Cantwell asks himself the question: “is what we achieved in Afghanistan worth the lives lost and damaged?” His answer made national news headlines: “It’s no. It’s not worth it. I cannot justify any one of the Australian lives lost in Afghanistan.”

John Cantwell’s personal journey is an indictment of Australia’s middle eastern wars and of war itself.

We should all read this book.

Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution

The Cleaner of Chartres

by Peter FitzSimons In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. In his inimitable style, Peter FitzSimons gets into the hearts and minds of those on the battlefield and off, bringing life to the Australian legends on both sides.

Told with wit and charm, this is a beguiling tale of a young, homeless woman who is taken in by the Abbot to become the Catherdral’s cleaner.

Little by little, she has a magical effect on the town, bringing healing to its lost souls, and finding her own redemption.

by Sally Vickers

Mouse Mansion

by Karina Schaapman Sam and Julia are best friends and live in a wonderful place called Mouse Mansion, where they have all sorts of adventures!

The spectacular artwork for this picture book was made from cardboard, papier-mâché, waste material and vintage fabrics, and the Mansion has over one hundred rooms, corridors and outdoor spaces. A wonderful story for children.

Ah! ... the joys of stomping grapes In an age driven by technology and schedules there is something raw and appealing about getting back to the primitive essentials of life for one day and feeling the squish of wine grapes underfoot, oozing between your toes - the age old tradition of making wine by grape stomping.

LAME HILL hosts the Grape Stomp event each year to celebrate the conclusion of another successful harvest and vintage. This event gives the vineyard visitor the opportunity to experience a real harvest on a real working farm.

While the highlight which is the Stomp, is open to all comers, the day is also a wonderful experience for wine aficionados, food lovers, and those seeking quality live entertainment.

As well as estate grown wine, Flame Hill Farm provides grass fed angus beef, farm grown produce, poultry, eggs and game birds used exclusively in the restaurant, and featuring in the fare on the Terrace at the Stomp.

Entertainment is supplied by the Charlie Simms Jazz Quartet, Raymando the wine stud/ Dawn- President of the SEQ Single Young Lady Bowlers Association aka comedian Neil Bidner, and the Tribal Grape Nymphs who start the

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Stomp ceremony by dancing to the drums of Human Rhythm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tickets to the Grape Stomp are restricted, and regularly sell out a month before the event. Local accommodation is already very limited, â&#x20AC;&#x153; says Flame Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Maddie Tolhurst.

The epicurean options on the day include FH Gourmet Angus Beef Burgers, Prawns on the Lawn, and regional cheese plates on the Terrace.

The Restaurant offers three delicious courses designed and prepared from both off farm and local produce by the hand of the talented Amanda Kennedy. â&#x20AC;&#x153; At Flame Hill we like to know where our food and wine comes from,â&#x20AC;? says Amanda .

Restaurant bookings are limited, but essential with a $15 deposit which is included in the $65. Access to the event will not be possible on the day without an entry ticket So migrate to Flame Hill Vineyard to indulge, relax, escape and celebrate mother natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gift to her children. Here is a great harvest and the great marriage of wine, food and entertainment all here in the vineyard and on the farm.

Where: Flame Hill Vineyard 249 Western Ave, Montville Ph: 5478 5920 When: Saturday 9 Feb 2013 11.00am Cost: Stomp entry Ticket $25 www.flamehillvineyard.com.au

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SUZY FISH & IAN SMITH (Brisbane 'HOLFDWH Ă&#x20AC;QJHU SLFNLQJ RULJLQDOV sweet voices ALL STRINGS ATTACHED (S.Coast) Trad & Contemporary Celtic Gypsy Rock.

Closing 2.30pm Closed 25, 26, 27 BERNARD Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SCANAILL (Maleny/Ireland) folk blues jazz piano & guitar TOM COONEY (Brisbane/Dublin) Indie folk, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;songs of cycles, distance love and indifferenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Closing 2.30pm

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Art Gallery Trail - Sunshine Coast Hinterland 2 Gallery Frit, Ceramic Fine Art

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Stay longer at any one of the region’s welcoming guest houses.

Lasting Impressions Gallery 6 Elizabeth Street, Kenilworth Ph: 5446 0422 lastingimpressions7@bigpond.com www.lastingimpressionsgallery.net

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Secrets on the Lake Art Gallery

Obi Valley Woodworks

207 Narrows Road, Montville Ph: 5478 5888 Gallery open seven days: 9am - 5pm www.secretsonthelake.com.au

430 Hunsley Road Coolabine Ph: 5472 3996 www.cedarcreations.com.au Artist: Jack Wilms Sculpture, furniture, doors Open: weekends & most public holidays 10am-4pm Closed for October

Artist: Cathy Lawley

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Tree Frog Gallery

Maleny Jewellers

926 Montville Road, Maleny Enquiries Ph: 5435 2303 www.treefroggallery.com Gallery Hours: Thursday- Monday 10am-4pm Works by local artists & art classes.

Shop 4, Riverside Centre, Maleny Ph: 5494 3477 - 9ct rose and white gold set with a rhodilite garnet Designer: Jim Goulton

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Art On Cairncross Cairncross Corner, Maleny Ph: 5429 6404 www.artoncairncross.com.au Artist: James Peterson “Jacanas” (ceramic & steel sculptures)

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Holden’s Gallery 38b Coral St, Maleny (cnr Coral & Myrtle Sts) Gallery & Picture Framing Ph: 5494 2100 www.holdensgallery.com.au “Sandy Cape, Fraser Island” Artist: John Morrison

ART ON CAIRNCROSS

It must be time to buy yourself an art work ...

HE END OF THE YEAR provides a lot of reasons to take stock and often to relax. Art on Cairncross is presenting even more enticing reasons to take time for a visit. Throughout December there is a new twist to the always- anticipated, pre-Christmas feature exhibition, which this year becomes â&#x20AC;&#x153;Precious Little Pricesâ&#x20AC;?. This is a great opportunity to take stock! Many of the artists are offering specific works at special pricesâ&#x20AC;Śbut this is a limited opportunity. This may be the year to buy yourself a gift too?

The start of a whole new year brings new possibilities and this applies also to the array of artwork, which will be displayed at â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Art on Cairncrossâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The consistent calibre of

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original art there will certainly feed any soul and start 2013 with inspiration. Art enriches life and true creativity can enhance every day. The quality of ceramics, sculpture, glass and a terrific range of paintings, drawings and etchings are worth taking time over - to explore and enjoy, especially during the leisure time of holidays. Start this new year with something uplifting and explore the beauty to be found in artworks, nature and everyday life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art on Cairncrossâ&#x20AC;? at Cairncross Corner is open throughout the holiday season as usual, Tuesday through Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm. Visit in person or via the website at www.artoncairncross.com.au

Feature Artist

Montville Art Gallery DECEMBER 2012

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The wild brown land for meâ&#x20AC;?

Louis Da Lozzo

TOP RIGHT: Speedster (pencil, crayon and watercolour by Rececca Berrett ABOVE: Tom McAulay oil painting, James Peterson bird sculpture and Rowley Drysdale pot.

ABOVE RIGHT: The Pink Curtain (mixed media by Nathalie Bastier) RIGHT: Wild Camels (sepia and watercolour by John Morrison)

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TALIAN BORN, Gold Coast resident, Louis Da Lozzo is renowned for his unique, self-taught style which accurately depicts the vastness and moods of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rugged outback.

The early part of his life was spent in the densely populated cities of Western Europe. As a young, married man he settled in Noumea in New Caledonia where he and his wife, Lucette also an artist, spent several years painting volcanic landscapes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The travelling spirit had a grasp on us both and it was not until we reached â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Great Southern Landâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that we knew we had found exactly what we had been searching for.â&#x20AC;? Louis said.

Lucette and I and our two small children spent much of the 1970s making bohemian treks around Australia. We were overwhelmed by the intense colours, defined contours and unique atmospheres of the outback. The sheer expanse of the deserts, canyons, gorges and rainforests just blew me away and I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my days living and painting in Australia.â&#x20AC;?

More than three decades later, Louis still enjoys painting the â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wild Brown Landâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I continue to explore new ways of capturing the stunning beauty and starkness of the outback on canvas.

I was stoked when a critic said to me recently that I had a refreshingly new approach to material widely used by so many Australian artists.

Open daily from 10 to 5, the Montville Art Gallery is located at 138 Main Street, Montville opposite the Village Green.

From December 1, Louisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; paintings will be featured under â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Exhibitionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website www.montvilleartgallery.com.au

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Kendall Feature artist for January Januaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feature artist is one of the Sunshine Coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best loved artists, Kendall. Her paintings will be featured on our website from January 1st. However, we are expecting the paintings to be on display by mid December.

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C R E AT I V E C U T S Songs of the Haight Ashbury

The Songs of the Haight Ashbury stage show is an exciting Northern Rivers production which transports you back to 1967's San Francisco to celebrate some of the best music the 20th century ever produced. This is a world class production with a world class cast on a mission to bring it home to the country halls.

The Songs of the Haight Ashbury Stage Show celebrates the musical legacy of the artists who transformed the social fabric of America in a spontaneous cultural explosion that became known as '1967's "Summer of Love". I t was in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco that this extraordinary event took place, a rundown area where the artists of the 1950's "Beat Generation" congregated and a subculture began your host is stand up comedian and social commentator, S Sorrensen. He guides the audience on a hilarious ride through this impressive musical history.

Songs of the Haight Ashbury. Pomona Majestic Theatre.

8pm Friday December 7 - $35 Tickets available online at www.redchair.com.au or by phone 07 5473 9498 Enquiries call The Majestic Theatre on 07 5485 2330

Street carnival for Rod Christensen Multi-instrumentalist and singer Rod Christensen will be one of the many artists performing on the main stage at this year’s Maleny Street Carnival. Rod easily captivates an audience with his vast musical skills as he effortlessly performs smooth vocals with creative instrumentals on saxophone (alto, tenor & soprano), flute, trumpet and piano.

Rod will perform with guitarist singer Mark Finter and his super talents on the fretboard and unique vocal style. The band’s repertoire draws from popular Jazz eras blended with complimentary Latin, Blues and Groove selections.

Other musicians will include Keryn Christensen on bass guitar, John Gould on percussion, and some of Rod’s upcoming students from his established music school at Buderim.

The Maleny Street Christmas Carnival is on Friday evening 14th December and is an annual event not to miss with an array of activities, stalls and live entertainment.

Rod’s website: www.rodchristensen.com.au

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Seleen McAlister at Beerwah Beerwah’s Got Country welcomes Maton Talent Search Winner for 2011, Seleen McAlister.

Seleen’s ability to give her audience a fantastic show has ensured she’s being personally invited to appear on the main stage at festivals around Australia this year, with bookings in place for 2013 already.

With her dynamic and energetic stage presence, Seleen puts her all in to each performance and has gained acclaim from booking agents and hoteliers across the east coast of Australia.

In the 12 months since winning the Maton Talent Search, Seleen has released her EP “Worth the Wait”, and the single, “Guilt-Free” continues to climb the CMC charts. She has toured with the legendary Bill Chambers and has travelled to America to perform in various venues.

Join “Seleen McAlister” on Saturday December 8 for “Beerwah’s Got Country” Come early and enjoy a meal before the show.

Rob Black has been described by country great, Lee Kernaghan as "One of the hottest singer/guitarists to rock Australian country since Keith Urban".

This acknowledgement has been justified with Rob performing to rave reviews as country festivals such as The Gympie Muster, Mud Bulls and Music and the QUT Urban Country Music Festival.

He has also toured with some of Australia's biggest names in country music including playing along side Dancing With The Stars winner, Adam Brand.

Attracting high profile attention, Rob paired up with Lee Kernaghan in a QLD Government event celebrating Queensland's 150 years of independance which was broadcast across the state.

Rob's very first single and title track to the debut album Regular Guy not only stayed in the Country Music Channel's top 30 chart for more than 10 weeks, but also set the tone for the rest of the album.

The Mason Rack Band is at Beerwah on New Year’s Eve. This comment says it all, '' Saw these guys last night and they were Friggin' Amazing!

One of the most amazing Live experiences I have ever had. These guys drag the Blues Kicking and Screaming into the 21 Century... They have to be Seen to be Believed!

Don’t miss Mason Rack’s lapslide guitar, and Joel Purkess on percussion. The antics on stage are something not to be missed.

Local artists are In Your Face

Here’s an art exhibition with a difference! The Nowhere Artgroup is a collective of Sunshine Coast artists who’ve persuaded 36 local artists to paint each other.

Exhibition Curator, John Waldron describes the exhibition as an opportunity for people to connect, be positive and have some fun, through art. The exhibition is not about prizes, fees, and funding, but more about bringing artists together and providing an opportunity to experiment and showcase their work.

The exhibition will include portraits in a range of art forms, including photography, film, new media, stencil art, digital art, drawing and painting.

The exhibition opens on Friday 14 December at 6pm at the Ground Zero Gallery, The Old Ambulance Station, Howard St. Nambour, and will feature local musicians. The exhibition will remain on show until 12 January 2013. for more information: www.nowhere-art.blogspot.com

Rockabilly with Miss Teresa Rockabilly dancers, bands, and retro car enthusiasts will be converging on Maleny from all over South East Queensland in December.

On Saturday night the 15th, the No Brainer Rockabilly Ball will be held at the Show Pavilion featuring a charity auction with music by Miss Teresa (left) and her Rhythmaires.

Tasty finger food will be served for four hours, and Rockabilly outfits and lots of dancing to great music will be the order of the night.

The night before (Friday the 14th of December), a huge rollup is expected at the showgrounds for a drive-in movie spectacular. “Grease” will be screened as well as cartoons. There will be plenty of food stalls providing lots of traditional drive-in movie fare including hot dogs, ice creams, soft drinks etc. So re-live your youth while watching the big screen from the comfort of your car.

On Saturday between 10 am and 2 pm, a Show and Shine for Retro cars will be held at the show grounds for car enthusiasts of this bygone era.

This is the second No Brainer Ball supporting local identity Richard Ridge who has a terminal brain tumour.

More than $20,000 was raised last year for the Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital research. Meanwhile, Richard defies the odds.

Drive-in Movie tickets can be purchased at the showground gate from 2pm on Friday the 14th of December. Tickets for the Rock-a-billy Ball can be purchased using paypal by going to www.nobrainermaleny.org.au or with cash from Indigo Road 15 Maple Street, Maleny. For more information phone 5499 9399 or Kay on 04383 70369

visual ar ts enter tainment per formance Warsaw Village Band to Woombye

The Warsaw Village Band was founded in Poland in 1997 as a response against the narrow-mindedness of the music scene which they believed was leading to the destruction of human dignity. That is why they turned to their roots in search for musical inspiration by “exploring the folklore and archaic sounds of their ancestors and instincts”.

Their lineup is primarily acoustic - hand drums, hammered dulcimer, violins, cello - their sensibilities are modern. They hear dance -club drive and trancey echoes in the songs and they use recording studio techniques to heighten the central drones and eerie percussive sounds in their songs.

Their most current album, NORD, is charting at number two in the European World Music charts and the band have embarked on their first ever trip to Australia.

The Warsaw Village Band is at the Woombye Pub on Thursday January 3. Doors open 7.30. The show is at 8pm. $22.50 pre sale or $25 at the door if not sold out.

The following night, the one-man-soul-band poet Rory McLeod is at Woombye. They call him a musical gypsy.

“When he sings his songs he takes you on a journey with him.”

Big Visions in Small Spaces

BIG VISIONS IN SMALL SPACES - is the theme for Rosebed St Gallery’s last show for 2012. It is a treasure trove of small art pieces, with an eclectic mix of mediums from a strong contingent of well loved artists. The show has attracted artists from all over the Sunshine Coast and beyond, as far north as Gympie and as far south as Victoria.

Everything is on a small scale including the prices, with no price tag over $300, and ‘takeaway art’ means the works can be wrapped up and taken home straight away.

The show features sculptural works by Kim Schoenberger, ceramics by Palmwoods duo, Stephen Roberts & Kari, Calligraphy by Woombye’s Helen Irving, some funky tea cosies by Eudlo textile designer Mariangela Vecchi. There’s also a stunning range of mixed media pieces by Kym Barrett, Veronica Cay, Jo Murray and Lindsay Hamilton. Too many artists and mediums to mention... all the info is available on the gallery’s website, www.rosebedstgallery.com The exhibition runs until December 23.

Sarah Calderwood at Upfront

Mojo Webb at Palmwoods

Celtic and world singer Sarah Calderwood says she likes to sing old and new songs about love, heartbreak, life, death and drinking. “I also worship coffee at its caffeinated altar.”

Sarah Calderwood is a singer and storyteller, uniting classic and contemporary folk. The charismatic front woman of Queensland's premier Celtic group Sunas, Sarah has been performing for over a decade, touring nationally and internationally to critical acclaim.

In November 2011, Sarah released her debut solo album ‘As Night Falls’, which peaked at No. 15 on the ARIA Classical chart. Her voice is organically pure with a distinct Celtic timbre and her music journeys between modern electro symphonic and classic folk with strong world influences.

Sarah likes discovering new music, discovering long-forgotten lyrics in old books, jamming with anyone, eating really good food, optimistically attempting to make really good food, and laughing with great people.

Sarah will be performing at the Upfront Club on January 4 with Paul Brandon.

Since forming in 1998, The Mojo Webb Band has forged a unique path in the Australian music scene. Performing an original brand of blues and roots music, the trio of Mojo Webb, Coojee Timms and JB Lewis have toured the nation, performing at major music festivals including Womadelaide, The Byron Bay Blues & Roots Festival, The Woodford Folk Festival, and the Australian Blues Music Festival.

The band were recently semi-finalists at the prestigious 2012 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee.

The show at The Palmwoods Hotel on Saturday December 15 will feature material from the group’s new alloriginal album, “The Cat”, which will be available on the night.(8pm start.

Free entry).

Jamie “Jimmy Lips” Symons’ powerful harmonica playing drives the sound of this band which is at Palmwoods on January 9.

A repertoire ranging from classic songs by Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix and Willie Dixon to the hits of modern blues stars such as John Poppers (Blues Traveller), Eric Clapton and Johnny Lang, guarantee’s your night’s entertainment.

Presenting Palmwoods Pastellists Local established and emerging pastel artists will be exhibiting their considerable artistic talents in Palmwoods from December 7-10.

The artists all attend classes at the Palmwoods Girl Guides Hut every Thursday, and this will be the venue for the exhibition and sale.

Highly regarded pastel artist and tutor Carolyn Sheather said the art on display would have a wide appeal and be very affordable, with subjects including still life, animals, landscapes and people.

Carolyn has been tutoring at Palmwoods for three years, and said the standard of work coming out of the classes was “something to behold”.

One student, Tanawha’s Rayma Everson,(pictured) exhibited in the Immanuel Arts Fest this year and recently held her first solo exhibition, entitled Damsels In Delight.

The Palmwoods exhibition opens on Friday December 7 from 6-9pm in the Palmwoods Girl Guides Hut, Lingara Avenue. Opening night will include free wine and finger food and will feature an auction of selected artworks. The exhibition and sale then continues on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, from 9am till 4pm.

For more details about Carolyn’s pastel workshops email carolyn@sheatherart.com or call 5478 9378.

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ROAMING THE WEB ...

Wedding Connections Hinterland Seniors won’t be left behind Your guide to local wedding services on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland.

OCAL SENIORS FROM THE HINTERLAND and beyond are set to benefit from the major revamp to the Broadband for Seniors website by NEC Australia, with the newlydesigned platform helping widen their knowledge of the web, cloud computing and collaboration technologies.

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Celebrants & Ceremonies Find out about Chrissie Ray A marriage celebrant who lives in Mapleton and is available for you anywhere you choose. www.chrissieray.com.au Ask me about my low fees.

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O YOU FEEL LIKE you are on an emotional rollercoaster? Do your energy levels change like the Wendy Rosenfeldt weather?

We are constantly trying to maintain a balance between the inner and outer forces on our physiology and while we may strive for consistency, our state of wellbeing is subject to a myriad of influences.

We are under the influence of the planets, the climate and the changing seasons. Our emotions, diet and daily activity also creates an effect on us. The people in our lives contribute their energies while the buildings we live and work in create an effect of which we are often unconscious.

Ayurveda gives the knowledge about how to balance the inner and outer influences on our physiologies and the understanding of all the interactions in our lives. Simplified into the theory of doshas we can understand the world in terms of airy, changeable Vata, fiery, passionate Pitta and damp, earthy Kapha.

Balance is created by bringing in the opposite quality to what is predominantly out of balance. Not restricted to food, medicinal effects can be found in everything around us. Light, cold Vata is aggravated by lack of sleep; dry, raw food, irregular daily routine, travel and cold, windy weather. While we may crave sweet, heavy food, taking more rest and eating regular meals can also have a grounding effect. A big hug from our

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Wendy Rosenfeldt is a Maharishi Ayurveda practioner and Transcendental Meditation teacher.

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Kapha natured friend can be very soothing to spaced out Vata where as a long conversation late into the night will only stir up the already excitable Vata type.

The dynamic, warmth of Pitta can flare into frustration, impatience and skin rashes due to hot weather, spicy food, over work and too much alcohol. A dip in the ocean; sweet juicy fruit and time off can cool down the intensity of Pitta’s fire. Reacting to an angry outburst with aggression will only flare the fire while sweet words and calmness is like adding water to the flames.

Kapha is naturally emotionally stable and less changeable than the other doshas being a combination of water and earth. However due to cold, damp weather; a sedentary lifestyle and too much heavy, sweet food Kapha can become congested and lethargic. Kapha types often appreciate the enthusiasm of Vata or the drive of Pitta to get them going, as long as they don’t expect change too quickly. Early rising, a morning walk and a diet of wholegrains will also offset the sluggishness of Kapha.

Our physiologies are always changing so it is good not to get to rigid about our diet and activities. While routine provides a stabilising influence, we need to be flexible to adjust to our changing needs.

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volunteers, the Broadband for Seniors program has launched in 2008, has provided training to over 250,000 been helping teach seniors the basics when it comes to seniors to help them confidently and securely use using computers and getting online. Now, thanks to the software to engage with the world wide web. development of new resources and launch of an allNEC Australia implemented the program by installing new online platform, participants are moving beyond over 2,000 kiosks at seniors organisations such as this to embrace a whole new world of possibilities – for community centres across the nation, providing them example, learning how to use Dropbox and Flickr, and with the tools to engage with web-based services, even setting up their own blog! ranging from social media, smartphones Kathy, a local volunteer, said the and tablets, and photo-sharing services program is having a real impact on the such as Flickr.

ROAMING local community, helping bridge the The education also offers seniors THE ‘digital divide’. important strategies to manage security, “One of our students, a delightful lady identity and information-sharing risks, WEB ... by the name of Barbara who is 86-yearsincluding threats posed by malware, which old, is now a daily user of Facebook, sells do not discriminate between young and old things on Gum Tree and shops online. She has major computer users. mobility problems so Facebook has become very The website revamp is part of the Australian important to her, especially for staying in touch with Government’s $25.4 million commitment to the her grandchildren in the UK,” she said.

Broadband for Seniors program.

Thanks to the commitment of the volunteers helping The Broadband for Seniors program was initially run the program, Blackall Range Care Group is helping designed to assist over-50s, with minimal experience many other seniors like Barbara experience a whole with personal computers, the web, desktop software new world of communication. and web applications, by introducing them to Gmail, Broadband for Seniors, a highly successful program Internet Explorer and document processors.

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A Problem Shared ... with Marisa Our world needs peace... each of us needs peace EEP PEACE THAT TRANSFORMS us and our lives, and moves like a wave out into the world, is the result of a genuine connection between our soul wisdom, our mind and our ability to reassess and transform our value system so that we care more about peace, integrity and lasting positive outcomes and less about our judgements, opinions and beliefs.

This is such a powerful time, most people can feel an extraordinary momentum moving through so many areas of life. A restlessness that hints of something powerful is unfolding, and is nudging at the corners of much that we previously took for granted. I speak to people every day who are either waking up or being woken up by events that are occurring in their lives. Some struggle with change in their lives and some recognise that they are being given a chance to touch deep into their hearts, awaken lost dreams and begin living a freer more loving conscious life.

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taught, we fashioned ourselves on ridiculous ideas promoted by those who rely on us for their financial wealth, we gave our power to others to rule and guide us because we simply felt disinterested or disempowered to make a real difference.

Finding ourselves stuck on the treadmill of daily life, our frustration often found unconscious expression. There was always something or someone who annoyed us and so provided an outlet for the unconscious mind to express our carefully controlled pain and confusion.

As individuals we are more powerful than we realise, as an evolving species we are unstoppable. Now as we are learning to trust our hearts, to stop looking for the enemy or condition outside ourselves and learn to listen to and honour our hearts urging and the gift of life that we have been given, we will feel a new quality of love and compassion for ourselves and all others. We will begin to experience and demonstrate a deeper peace and integrity which will inspire those we interact with.

Marisa Kliese is a Clinical Member Aust. Counselling Assoc.

Fellow Holistic Life Coach. Reiki Master. Fellow Aust.

Natural Therapists Assoc. Marisa can be contacted on 5494 2627.

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In Fitness ...and in Health GET HEALTHY AND BURN FAT ...

EIGHT GAIN and a feeling of unwellness often go hand in hand so it makes sense to improve your health in order to maximise any weight loss goals you may have. In other words, as you get healthier and more energised, your body will become more effective at burning fat and also avoiding the rebound weight gain that many people who ‘diet’ experience.

The following are indications that your body is not functioning as well as it could. Ask yourself, are you experiencing some or all of the following: • Bloating and gas –these are indicative of faulty digestion. This may involve candida, gut parasites etc. You probably aren’t absorbing your nutrients well at all, • General mental and physical fatigue – you just don’t feel energised and in fact your metabolism is quite sluggish. It’s virtually impossible to lose weight and keep it off when you’re dragging yourself around day after day.

• Feeling shaky, depressed, moody, agitated – this is a direct indication of blood sugar handling problems and excess insulin production. This will block any weight loss program. You fix your sugar, you’ll fix your fat problem • Cravings for sugar, carbohydrates or caffeine. The quick ‘pick me ups’ will never get you through the long run. What you need to learn is how to utilise the fatty acid reserves in your body.

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ANY PARENTS find themselves dreading the holidays for two reasons: one is worry about how to keep children occupied and happy when they are out of school, and the other is how to make the holidays really special and memorable. Both of these dreads can be attributed to the same thing: expectations. We tend to expect that children will be bored being at home and it is our job to invent "things to do". In reality, most children are brilliant at finding things to do and ways to entertain themselves. Or maybe the holidays will be "down time" for them, where they might have less activity but also less stress or pressure to "perform". Similarly, when we build up our own expectations of how special Christmas "should" be it just makes us feel

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enormous stress. If we can relax our own expectations we can move towards just experiencing the holidays however they are. Then we can focus on the simple joy of just being with our children and having more opportunities to watch them, play with them and cuddle them than we might during the "normal" school year. If we look at the holidays as simply a time to celebrate being with the people we love it makes things much easier, much less stressful and way more joyful! And at the end of the day, isn't that what most of us would say is the "spirit of the season" anyway?

Happy Holidays from The Parenting Centre!

Start to work on your health and you’ll be amazed with your new found ability to burn fat and lose weight. Give me a call.

I’d love to be of help.

John Pirie

info@siaholistichealth.com.au Dr John Pirie Chiropractor & Applied Kinesiologist 19 Coral Street, Maleny Phone: 5435 2155

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07 5496 5054

Community HU Chant Spiritual Discussion.

Refreshments & Fellowship.

Maleny Library Cnr Maple & Coral Sts:

3rd Tuesday of the month:6pm -7.30 pm Admission free.

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HIS YEAR’S final month of spring weather was unusual in many respects. Our month’s total rainfall was well below average and the fourth ‘dry’ month in succession.

On three separate occasions a threeday rain potential from troughs in a northwest cloudband missed the Ranges.

Northwest cloudbands are a feature of the synoptic scale weather chart over the Australian region. They often stretch from the Timor Sea through northern Australia down to the east coast, a distance of 5000km. Normally the system produces three days of some good falls of continuous rain over the Sunshine Coast. However, on some occasions the system will drift farther south into NSW and we miss out altogether as experienced this month Unsettled weather was the pattern for 44

mid-month. A weak ridge of high pressure off Queensland's east coast combined with a surface trough stretching from the northwest down to our region bringing atmospheric instability. Conditions were right for thunder cells to develop anywhere at anytime and without much warning.

The BOM radar was the best guide to evaluate the vulnerability of one’s own locality.

Maleny received the tail-end of three thunderstorms on 17th and 18th precipitating 28mm into the rain gauges. Many states have reported November heat-wave record breaking temperatures well above their averages. This highlights the advantage of living on the Range where the highest maximum official temperature ever recorded was in 2009 with 39.8°C. Maleny’s maximum for this month was on 16th November with 31.2°C.

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November Climate Summary 2008-2012

The weather report for the Hinterland Times is compiled by Patrick Stacey, Maleny Weather Station.

Log on to www.malenyweather.com for daily data and weather news.

Childhood aches and pains..?

Maleny Medical Centre offers a caring, friendly environment for you and your family Experienced, Caring Male and Female GP’s

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New patients welcome

Surgery Hours Mon - Fri 8am - 5pm Sat from 9am (1st & 3rd)

Physiotherapists are trained to help diagnose and distinguish between ‘growing pains’ and specific musculo-skeletal pains in children and adolescents.

ROWING PAINS are often vague down the muscles in the legs of children aged 3-11. This pain frequently occurs at night, is often hereditary and will generally go away in time. Children will ‘grow out’ of this problem.

Other ‘musculo-skeletal pains’ are very common among children and adolescents aged 11- 20yrs of age. It is quite area specific, usually after a period of rapid growth, or a ‘growth spurt’. It may be worsened by - exercise/sport, running on hard surfaces, poor posture and poor biomechanics (eg flat feet).

At Maleny Physiotherapy we commonly treat Sever’s disease (heel pain) and Osgood-Schlatter’s disease (knee pain). Children with musculo-skeletal pain often complain of sore feet, heels, Achilles tendons, knees, shins, shoulder, even hips and back.

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Physiotherapy intervention is extremely effective in reducing pain and improving function with this group of patients. Intervention usually allows children to continue playing their sport without. Interventions include: • Specific exercises • Muscle stretches • Taping/ orthotics, • Ice • Massage /hands-on therapy • Reassurance for body-conscious teenagers • Advice about training and return to sport If you are concerned about your child’s ‘growing pains’, please call Maleny Physiotherapy for a consultation.

Maleny Physiotherapy Shop1/70 Maple St Maleny Ph: 5494 3911

Phone 5494 2131 Behind the Amcal Chemist at 25 Maple St, Maleny

Also available for your convenience:

Tim and Mary Bagshaw

• Podiatry • Massage Therapy • Audio Clinic • Womens Health • Physiotherapy

Shop 1/70 Maple St Maleny

Ph: 5494 3911

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Why consult a Psychologist?

Everyday problems such as relationship breakdown or personal trauma can dramatically affect our health, wellbeing and positive relationships.

As an experienced Psychologist I: • Actively listen to gain an understanding of your needs • Prepare you with necessary coping skills to manage stress, anger, emotional problems • Assist in improving your self-esteem & interpersonal skills For a confidential appointment, call Rob on 0488 129 302

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Naturopath, kinesiologist, Live blood analyist • Balancing the multifaceted layers of you • Blending macroscopic, micro scopic and psycho-spiritual domains to suit your individual preference renewing, vitalising, & instilling a healthful awareness • Specialising in analytics and remediation of chronic health concerns • Naturopathy, Education, Kinesiology & Dark Field Blood Microscopy resolving the causes that generate ill-health.

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Consultations for more in-depth diagnostic testing are also available from our practitioners.

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Hinterland Health and Beauty ACUPUNCTURE Anthony Brown Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine.

26 Coral Street, Maleny. Ph: 5435 2555

Mapleton Natural Therapies Clinic Jackie Hansel: Bach H.S (Acu), Adv. Dip H.S (Hom), Dip Bowen Therapy Acupuncture.

Holistic & Intergrated health care with Acupuncture, Bowen Therapy, Homeopathy, Lymphatic Drainage, Remedial & Relaxation Massage. Ph: 5445 7749 Dolina Somerville: BHSc (Acupuncture) China Trained: Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine. Qualified & Experienced in Chinese Remedial Massage & Cosmetic Acupuncture.

38a Coral St Maleny (HBC). H F Rebates.

Mob: 0408 693 029 www.ntpages.com.au/dolinasomervilleacupuncture Japanese Acupuncture, Shiatsu Japanese Therapies: Shiatsu, MeridianTherapy, Moxibustion, Reiki.Craniosacral, Oneness. Enhance wellbeing. Address chronic conditions, stress.Skillful touchneedle techniques engage healing process & remove blocks. Jayanti 0418 888 366 www.sunshinehealing.net Damien Moses BHSc Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine.

Three years training in Kyoto, Japan.

Concessions & rebates available.

Ph: 0422 546 077 http://damienmoses.wix.com/t-a-c

AROMATHERAPY CLINIC AROMA by Nida presents Clinical Holistic Aromatherapy to therapeutically support your health conditions and simply providing quality of life. By Appt. At Clinic/Mobile service for Ladies (Montville/Flaxton/Mapleton Only) HF available. Mob:0434423305 www.clinicaroma.com.au

ASTROLOGY Stargazer Astrology - Chirone Witsen Relationships, career, family issues, spiritual purpose, life crisis, transitions, your year ahead. Counselling astrologer. Also astrology courses and workshops Ph: 0421 814459 E: info@chironewitsen.com www.chironewitsen.com

BEAUTY THERAPISTS & HAIRDRESSERS Velvet on Montville Affordable luxury, Expert cutting & colour, Personalised service, Modern techniques & trends. Enjoy our Rejuvenation Room Aromatherapy oils & Intense conditioning treatments. Ph: 5478 5588 Michelle Jarden - Beauty Therapist.

Electrolysis, facials, massage, make-up, nails, sauna, tanning, tinting, waxing, earpiercing, Body Shop Consultant.

66 Curramore Rd, Witta.

Ph: 5494 4012 or Mob: 0402 531 500

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CHIROPRACTORS

COUNSELLING & LIFE COACHING continued

Hinterland Chiropractic Dr Josephine Sexton. Using gentle, safe and effective techniques to maintain spinal health and wellbeing. Concession rates, Family discounts and HICAPS available.

21 Bunya Street, Maleny Ph 5435 2987

Dare to Shine Counselling ♥ Clinical Supervision: Esther Pockrandt MCouns.

Confidential, supportive processes to help you in your relationships, parenting, life transitions, losses, existential crises.

Medibank Private Rebates.Ph:0409 065 062

John Pirie Chiropractor & Applied Kinesiologist Gentle hands-on chiropractic using applied kinesiology. Individual programs available.

19 Coral Street Maleny. Ph: 5435 2155

Margarete Koenning Counselling BA Social Work, Gelstalt Therapist, Psychotherapist working with individuals, couples and, families. Training professionals in family constellation 20 years practicing in Maleny, Clinal member of Pacfa. Ph:54942778, 0408416041

BOWEN THERAPISTS BOWEN THERAPY Bronwyn Huckle Specialising in Bowtech, the original Bowen Therapy technique. Treating health issues in babies, childen & adults. Montville therapy rooms. Monday to Friday by appointment.

Ph: 5442 9371

Maleny Chiropractic Clinic The Allied Health Centre, The Boxsell's Building, 15 Maple St, Maleny.

Wed 2pm- 6pm Frid. 2pm-6pm Fiona Perl BSc MSc DC Appointments Ph: 0447 250 191

Mapleton Natural Therapies Clinic Jackie Hansel. Bach H.S. (Acu), Adv. Dip. H.S (Hom), Dip. Bowen. Holistic and integrated health care with Bowen Therapy, Classical Homeopathy, Acupuncture and Massage Therapy. Ph: 5445 7749

Maple Chiropractic- Dr Stephen Lowe Dr Samuel Lowe 40 years exp. Effective low-force techniques for all ages. Helping to restore, balance & maintain spine & nervous system function.

Relaxed & friendly atmosphere. HICAPS available. 45 Maple St, Maleny. Ph: 5494 3322

BOWEN THERAPISTS

Dr. Ralph Stockmann- Dr of Chiropractic USA, Palmer Graduate Medicare & DVA Provider Special interest in difficult & chronic conditions of lower back,neck,knee, shoulder,, ankle, elbow, wrist & headaches 13 Thynne Ct. Maleny Ph: 0410 793 513

Kathy Blackburn - Diploma Bowen Therapy (Bowtech). Gentle effective treatment of Back Pain; Migraine; RSI ; Tennis Elbow; Knee, Ankle & Foot Conditions; Menstrual/Hormonal irregularities; Chronic Fatigue; Respiratory Conditions and MORE. Health fund rebates.

Ph: 54296180

COUNSELLING & LIFE COACHING

COSMETIC TATTOOING Qualified Cosmetic Tattoo Practitioner – Rebecca Rea Dip. Beauty Therapy Professional Make-up Artist. Procedures include: Eyebrows, top & bottom eyeliner, lips & beauty spots. Mon – Fri 9am – 3pm Shop 9/43 Maple St, Maleny. Ph: 5494 3355

Kris Hines - Counselling Therapy & Voice Dialogue Dip.Couns.,M.A. Ed. Practical & compassionate approach for individuals & couples. Anxiety, internal & relationship conflict, separation and loss, self esteem, Jungian dreamwork. M.A.C.A. Ph: 5442 3676/0408 226 353 www.krishines.com

ENERGY & TRANSFERENCE HEALING Transference Healing™ - A profound, multi-dimensional modality.

Encompassing all aspects of your physical, emotional, mental, spiritual wellbeing. Full healings, Beyond Doorways, Child Of Light and Animal Magic Healings available.

Mapleton. Sally: 0405 121 127

Ruth Donnelly - Holistic Counsellor Heart-centred approach to healing trauma, building emotional wellbeing.

Integrating body psychotherapy, mindfulness, artistic therapies, Reiki, Acutonics, Bush Flower Essences, Dru yoga 0409 564 276, ruth@ruthdonnelly.com.au, www.heartmindconnections.org Counselling - Margaret Davoren B.Nurs.,Mas. Counselling. Think change, think balance & live a rich, full, life. Learn strategies to manage stress, depression, anxiety & relationships. Maleny Physiotherapy, 1/70 Maple St Maleny Ph: 0403 571 572 www.icpaustralia.com Chirone Witsen – Relationships & Sexuality Professional counsellor specialising in relationships, sexuality, grief and loss.

Discover deeper and more satisfying levels of relating and intimacy. Ph: 0421 814 459 Em: chironeshakti@gmail.com Cigarettes, Quit Counselling, Hypnotherapy and Soft Laser therapy are utilised in assisting even the most committed smoker. Butt Out For Good in Maleny. Gift vouchers available for Christmas and New Year’s resolutions W3 www.ciggybusters .com, Ph. 0410 000 880

Josie Coco – Certified BodyTalk Practitioner www.bodytalk.josiecoco.com BodyTalk uses start-of-the-art energy medicine to help the body respond more efficiently to injury & illness. Completely safe, non-invasive & easily integrated into other health-care regimes.

Ph: 0498 065 306

FENG SHUI FENG SHUI & Astrology. Richard Giles, qualified Feng Shui practitioner.

Feng Shui Home/business assessments.

EM Radiation & 'dirty electricity' checks.

Trained astrologer of 22 years. Shed The Light, Maple Street, Maleny (5499 9003) Thurs or 5435 0158. E: ricgiles@powerup.com.au

HOMEOPATHY Pauline Ashford - B. H. Sc, Complementary Med & Homeopathy Classical homeopathy; Lymphatic drainage; Dorn spinal, joint and headache therapy; EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques; Reiki 130 Ansell Rd Witta Ph: 5494 4101e: paulineashford@dodo.com.au

Hinterland Health and Beauty HYPNOTHERAPY Judith Richards Hypnotherapist Sensitive, effective hypnotherapy: lose weight, move past trauma, anxiety & depression, cure phobias, stop smoking, become self confident, sports and study enhancement, public speaking and much more. Maleny.

Ph: 0488 782827

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PSYCHOLOGY/PSYCHOTHERAPY

Sallyann Stewart - Children's health, stress management. Naturopathic assessment & Live Blood Analysis. Utilising nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy, remedial massage, lymphatic drainage. 19 Coral Street,Maleny.

Ph: 5435 2599 / 0421 410 558

Rob McMurray Experienced psychologist. Active listening, learn coping skills for stress management.

Improve self esteem. Assist with relationship breakdown and personal trauma. For a confidential appointment ph 0488 129 302

MASSAGE THERAPISTS Hawaiian Healing Massage Rebecca Hopkins Remedial Massage *Hot Stone *Therapeutic *Pregnancy *Chiron Healing *Aromatherapy: Raindrop, Emotional Clearing & Vitaflex Tech Gift Certificates & H F Rebates. Maleny Holistic Health Centre. App Ph: 0415 518 415 bec@hawaiianhealingmassage.com.au Remedial Massage - Keith Smith Remedial Massage together with Emmett, trigger point, bowen therapies, hot towel and stretching. For all of your aches, pains and strains. Massaging in the Maleny area since 1989. Health Fund rebates. Ph: 5499 9260 The Stillpoint - Katie White Now offering Emmett Technique – simple, effective help for neck, shoulder, back pain and imbalance. Special Emmett Offer: $30 for 30 minutes Dec / Jan. Appts Mon-Sat. HF Rebates. Ph 0400 722 786 www.thestillpoint.com.au/ emmett-technique Kathy Blackburn, Adv Dip Applied Science (Remedial Massage). Remedial/Sports Massage; Traditional Chinese Massage; Lymphatic Drainage; Emtech; Trigger Point & Myofacial Release.

“Integrated Bodywork” tailored to your special needs. H F rebates. Ph: 5429 6180

MASSAGE THERAPISTS & RAINDROP TECHNIQUE CLINIC AROMA by Nida Massage Therapist MAA; Therapeutic DT, TP Tech.; Relaxation, Pregnancy with organic oil blends. By Appt. Clinic or mobile service for ladies (Montville, Flaxton, Mapleton only). HF available.Ph: 0434 423 305 www.clinicaroma.com.au Massage - Peaceful setting near Mapleton Intuitive, Tailored, Experienced, Diploma I value the Nurturing and Therapeutic - $70 hour. Pension discount $10. READINGS Intuitive, Psychic, Clairvoyant since young.

Ph: BRENDA 54469225 0438358189

Experienced Therapist Raindrop Technique deeply relaxing & rejuvenating on many levels www.raindrop.com.au. Qual, exp therapist combining massage & energy bodywork; Clinical Aromatherapy sessions. H F Rebates.

Clinic/Mobile. Amanda - 0423 008 587 Massage and natural therapies Montville Relaxation, hot stone, Ayurvedic and lymphatic masssage; delicious spa body treatments; Reiki and other natural therapies. Ocean's Balm Healing Catherine MacGregor Ph: 0448 512 684.

Gary Broadhurst : Sanctuary Shiatsu Zen Shiatsu , Acupressure , Balancing Futon mat or seated chair at Holistic Health Centre , room 5/19 Coral St, Maleny Monday & Tuesday – Appts: 0438 972 880

Marisa...Naturally Marisa T Kliese offers a complete Natural Therapy Clinic. Services include, Naturopathy, Herbal Medicine, Professional Counselling, Life Coaching, Spiritual Healing.

Ph: 5494 2627 Laurel Hefferon - Naturopath & Colon Hydrotherapist. Sick & tired of feeling sick & tired? Wellness starts with optimal digestion & elimination of toxins & wastes. Winter Special: 3 Colonic Treatments for $240.

Ph: 5494 2101 www.awakeningcentre.com.au Email: laurel@awakeningcentre.com.au

OPTOMETRIST Rachel Leigh Optometrist comprehensive eye care, quality spectacles, contact lenses and retinal photography. Bulk Billing, HF rebates.

Locally and Independently owned.

Riverside Centre Maleny Ph: 5494 2666

PHYSIOTHERAPY/OSTEOPATHY Maleny Physiotherapist Tim & Mary Bagshaw. For all of your Physiotherapy requirements.

1/70 Maple Street, Maleny. Ph: 5494 3911 www.malenyphysiotherapy.com.au

Thomas Whitton D.O., Grad.Dip.Ost.Paed Gentle manipulative therapy for body dysfunction and pain in all age groups. Registered Osteopaths Services covered by private health funds; Veterans Affairs; Workcover, Medicare EPC 74 Blackall Terrace, Nambour.

Ph: 5441 4166 www.ntpages.com.au/therapist/18935 Range of Motion Physiotherapy MAPLETON - MONTVILLE - MALENY - IMBIL Russell McDonald & Rae Duffield-Jones.

Providing the highest quality care to restore & maintain optimal physical function & mobility.

Ph: 5478 6600 www.rangeofmotion.com.au Physiotherapy-Rehabilitation-Excercise Tundi Udvary Palmwoods Physiotherapy Sports and Injury Centre. Dynamic multidisciplinary centre committed to making a positive change to your total health and wellbeing. 5/12 Margaret Street, Palmwoods Ph: 5478 8500 Maleny Active Physio – caring professionals offering physiotherapy, exercise physiology, massage and Medicare-funded Type 2 Diabetes Education Programs. Covered by health funds & referrals from DVA & Medicare (bulk-billed). 5/15 Maple Street, Maleny Ph: 5494 0060

PERSONAL TRAINER, FITNESS, DANCE NATUROPATHS Shaun Watson & Rochelle McKay-Masterton Hormonal & digestive conditions. Live blood & cellular health analyses, healthy ageing, weight management, natural fertility management, chronic & advanced disease states naturopathic tests kinesiology. 19 Coral St Maleny. Ph: 5499 9476

Jon Presswell Personal Trainer Weight Loss, Tailored Fitness Programs, Strength & Muscle Growth.

Older Adults - Balance, Strength & Mobility. Registered trainer with broad experience. Mob: 0439 673 768 Email: jonandtess@ozemail.com.au

PSYCHIC READINGS / TAROT Psychic Readings/Tarot- Kerry Laizans.

Guidance for everyday life and for the spiritual path. Maleny Markets Sun 8am-2pm, Actual Abundance in Montville 5478 5220. Also available: phone readings/sound healing/ massage. Ph: 0411 488 291 or 5429 6065.

READINGS Life Purpose Readings Discover your higher calling and uncover your karmic lessons to enable you to live a happier and more fulfilling life.

Contact Jule 0425 242 698

SCENAR THERAPY Pain Relief Specialist Scenar is a non-invasive therapy using electrical impulses to stimulate your nervous system, reducing pain, inflammation and restoring normal function. Ph: Sonia 0488 922 441 or Kerri 0431 938 393 www.malenypainrelief.com

YOGA AND MEDITATION Radiant Light Yoga with Melissa Fri 9.30 -11.15 Maleny RSL -All levels welcome

Mindfulness Meditation class Fri 12.15 - 1.15 Anjali Yoga Space Maleny.

Suitable all levels. Classes resume Fri 11th Jan 2013. Have a blessed & peaceful festive season. Namaste.

Ph: Melissa 0417 200 192

Traditional Yoga with Lottie Mon 10.30am,Tues 5.30pm and Thurs 9.30 am. No bookings required. Classes suit all levels of experience. Maleny Showgrounds Pavilion Christmas holiday till 24 January 2013 “Not too gentle ... not too strong” Phone: Lottie 5313 7756

Hatha Yoga Classes with Linda Jenkin

Mon: (General) 6.00-7.30am Palmwoods CWA; (Gentle) 9.30-11.00am Montville (General) 6.00-7.30pm Montville Wed: (General) 6.00-7.30pm Palmwoods CWA. Fri:(Gentle) 9.30-11.00am Montville 0410 296 831 - lindajenkinyoga@hotmail.com

The Way of Meditation Weekly guided meditations (by donation). Mapleton Thurs 6.30pm & Currimundi Mon 6.30 pm Ph: Chad 0404 136 077 www.thewayofmeditation.com.au

Radiant Light Yoga with Rukmini Wed 6.30-8pm Peachester Hall Thurs 9.30-11am Landsborough Hall Private Classes and Yoga Therapy PH. 0437 914 029 www.shantipathyogaspace.com.au HINTERLAND TIMES - DECEMBER JANUARY 2013

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Trades

Professional Services ACCOUNTANTS /BOOKKEEPING

GOVERNMENT SERVICES

Front Line Tax Frederick A Forbes. Specialising in individual & small business tax returns.

15 Maple St, Maleny. Ph: 5494 2622

QGAP Maleny - Maleny Police Station, 49 Maple St Maleny Manager -Judy Phipps Mon, Tue, Fri:9am–2pm Ph 5429 6293 New Vehicle Registrations & Housing close 1pm. Dept of Transport & Main Roads, Business Registrations, CTP Insurance, Seniors/Carers Cards, Birth, Death & Marriage Certificates & more. EFTPOS & credit cards.

Local and Reliable Bookkeeping Registered BAS Agent. Full bookkeeping services: Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly.

BAS/IAS, Payroll & Super. MYOB/Excel (PC & MAC). On/Off-site services.

Nicky Dierens Ph: 54296931 Email: nicky@dierens.com.au

ARCHITECT Brad Drew - Architect New and existing residential design projects. 30 years experience.

Ph: 5478 6843

JEWELLERS Bexon Jewellers Specialising In: Jewellery Design & Manufacture, Repairs, Remakes, Remodels, Engagement & Wedding Rings. Work carried out on premises. www.bexonjewellers.com 8 Main St, Palmwoods, QLD. 07 5445 0892

LEGAL SERVICES COMPUTER / WEB SERVICES Concept IT Systems - reliability & service New computers & repairs. Internet setup & websites. Printers, scanners ,Ink refills, cameras.

Authorised Apple reseller. Onsite service.

Drop in to discuss you computer needs.

Shop 6 Riverside Centre Maleny 5429 6750 or sales@conceptsystems.com.au

Ecocyber - Computer Services Repairs, troubleshoot computer problems, tuition, web design & hosting services.

On site or at Maleny workshop.

Contact Hans. Ph: 5499 9599 Email: hans@ecocyber.com.au

FINANCE MCU Sustainable Banking 28 Maple St, Maleny www.mcusb.com.au See Loans Manager Scott Howie for savings a/c, online cash management, E Saver, term deposits, Visa card, Green Loans: appliance /solar/car/ home, standard personal, home & business loans P: 5499 8988 Email: info@mcusb.com.au

Jacques Fayolle – Local ANZ Mobile Lender My motto is “Customer for Life”. I will visit you, wherever, to secure the home loan best suited to you, and develop an on-going banker/customer relationship to care for your future needs.

Ph:0408 734 152 or 5437 7311 Email fayollej@anzmortgagesolutions.com

Easton Lawyers Tove Easton Principal Lawyer 62 Maple St, Maleny Ph: 5494 3511 Email: tove@eastonlawyers.com.au

al Profession Services

• TV & DVD Tuning • Telephone Data • Digital Specialists • Home Theatre Specialists • Five Year Warranties • Satellite Systems

There’s a Jim’s Technician on the Range.

CALL FOR A FREE QUOTE TODAY

131 546 48

www.jimsantennas.com.au

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Kelly Air Pty Ltd Supply, installation & maintenance of domestic & commercial airconditioning. Call Greg (BSA 1113295) Ph: 5478 5255 or 0400 123 231 Email: info@kellyair.com.au Range Airconditioning Lic. No L016305 Supply and installation of high quality, energy efficient, ducted and wall mounted reverse cycle, split air conditioning systems for cooling, heating and de-humidification.

Ph Yelma on 5494 3459 or 0421 488 048 Em: rangeaircon@gmail.com

ANTENNAS Jim's Antennas Digital & problem reception specialists.

Locally owned, servicing the hinterland.

Call Craig Titheradge today for a free quote.

Ph: 131 546 www.jimsantennas.com.au

APPLIANCE SERVICE Luke Wilkinson Appliance Service Washing machines, dryers, fridges, etc.

Lic. No 68598

Ph: 0419 684 324 or 5429 6565

PHOTOGRAPHY Penny Riddoch Photography & Design AIPP Weddings, portraits - families, children, business, pets. Commercial - product photography, properties, advertising. Graphic Design - web site images, DVDs digital albums, brochures, posters, business cards.

Ph: 5494 2808 - www.digitalphotodesigns.com

Shutterstorm Photography Locally owned and operated photography business specialising in portraiture, corporate and event photography covering the entire Sunshine Coast. Currently offering massive 50% discounts. Ph: Farley 0410 229 600 or visit www.shutterstorm.com.au

PICTURE FRAMING Holden’s Gallery Custom framing by professionals. Items including art, needlecraft, memorabilia, etc.

Monday – Saturday10am to 4pm Cnr. Coral & Myrtle St. Maleny Ph: 5494 2100 www.holdensgallery.com.au

WATCHES & CLOCKS

Get your business noticed for only $30 per month ($25 for ongoing advertising)

AIR CONDITIONING

Ron Hoddinott - Watch and clockmaker 50 years experience. Specialist on-site repairs & restorations. Battery replacement and pressure testing. By appointment.

Phone: 0413 278 403

AUTO SERVICES D & K Motors - Auto mechanics Mechanical repairs, RWC inspections.

Wheel alignments & tyres.

All mechanical requirements.

4 Lawyer Street, Maleny. Ph: 5499 9169 TRANCE4MATION DETAILING All aspects of car detailing, 20 years exp. Full details, wash and vac, shampooing and dog hair removal. Seniors and trade discount available Call now for opening specials.

Caroline: 0458 520 489.

CABINETMAKER Paul Randall Cabinetmaker of Maleny New & renovated kitchens & vanities benchtops a speciality - stone, timber & laminated finishes. Home Offices, Wall Units, Wardrobes. Ph: 0432 953 186 Lic QBSA 1162819. Member Master Builders.

CARPET & UPHOLSTERY Range Carpet Care Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning & Protection Ph: 5445 7611 or 0418 776 578

CHAINSAW & TREE WORK All Trees to Chip Tree felling, pruning, lopping, mulching, stump grinding, landscaping & retaining walls, fences etc. Two chippers - 6 inch & 12 inch. Qualified and insured.

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DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL CLEANING External Cleaning - tile & Colorbond roofs, house washing ,mould removal & all surfaces. Obligation FREE quotes – fully insured. For a high quality professional service Call Jay 0404 707693 www.waterwisepressurecleaning.com.au

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Reliable prompt domestic electrician.

Extensions, renovations, maintenance, new homes, safety switches, switchboard upgrades, test & tag, smoke alarms. Solar Grid Connect.

Ph: Steven Pilcher for an obligation free quote 0421 162 007 E: stevenpilcher@bigpond.com

RV Electrical - Energy Solutions Installations, extensions, renovations, points, security lighting, CCTV, safety switches, switchboards, sound systems, 20 years experience. Em: vision@optus.ap.blackberry.net Mob: 0415 528 116 Lic. No. 72787 ...................................... Cut out this ad for a 10% discount ............................

FENCING & AUTOMATIC GATES Plan-it Fencing servicing locals in the supply of Automatic Gates. Glass & aluminium pool fencing, balustrade & aluminium privacy screens. Prompt reliable service. Ph: Paul for a free quote 0412 698 595 or www.planitfencing.com.au

FURNITURE MAKING Randy DeGraw - designer & maker of fine functional furniture & woodwork to suit your decor.

Ph: 5494 4222 for an appointment. www.viewwoodwork.com.au

HANDYMAN & HOME MAINTENANCE A Very Handy Man Fix anything in & around the home: Paint * Plaster * Tiles * Carpentry * Odd Jobs * Flatpack * Move Furniture * Pressure Wash * Gutters/Windows Garden Makeover * Chainsaw/Cleanup. Ph: John: 0439 942 077 Montville Handy Man 20 years building experience.

All concreting, carpentry, home maintenance and repairs. Prompt and reliable service. Competitive rates.

Ph: Wayne 0434 724 030 Hatch's Home Maintenance Qualified Cabinet Maker, 35 years experience. Update* Renew *Repair*Plastering*Cabinets*Tiling* Call John today Ph 0404 056 147 hatchshomemaintenance@hotmail.com QBA Lic. No 1242008

LANDSCAPING & DESIGN Loors Landscaping (est: 1987) From concept to creation all aspects of structural and soft landscaping.

Ph: 5445 7615 Mob: 0412 680 801

305 Landscapes Garden design, construction and cleanups. All landscape aspects. Dingo Hire. View works on gallery page at www.gardenartistry305.com.

Operating out of Montville for over 10 years and servicing all areas. Ph: Jamie 0408 722 025.

Gavins Plumbing Service All maintenance plumbing, draining, gasfitting, roof & guttering, domestic pump repairs & replacements.

Complete wet area renovations. BSA Licence 48654 Ph: 5445 7230 - Mobile: 0402 791 058 All Hinterland areas - 35 years experience

AWS Advanced Wastewater Solutions All plumbing & drainage work. Supply & installation of advanced wastewater treatment systems. Septic conversions. 1 ton excavator for hire. Ph: 0412 858 020 www.advancedwastewatersolutions.com.au

Step n Stone Landscapes All aspects of stonework and landscaping design and construction. Outdoor pizza ovens, fire-pits & fireplaces. Sculpture commissions. No job too big or too small.

Ph. John: 5478 6754 or Mob: 0411 426 099 www.stepnstonelandscapes.com.au

Sky Plumbing & Gas Fitting

Farm Design and Landscapes Beautiful Farms design and construct acreages and farms to ensure an attractively landscaped, well thought out and manageable property. Mark: 0438 644 476, e: mark@beautifulfarms.com.au or check out: www.beautifulfarms.com.au

Anderson Plumbing & Roofing Plumbing, drainage & roofing. New work, renos, maintenance specialists. Septic systems, blocked drains, high pressure ‘sewer jett’ drain cleaner, drain camera, cable locations, tank installations, roof & guttering.

Ph: 5494 3340 or 0409 541 475 QBSA1066328

Direct from the grower to you The perfect environmentally-friendly garden mulch and soil conditioner. Full ute tipper load. $80 delivered. $50 half ute load. Phone Gerard: 0407 588 824 E: gerard.rutten@bigpond.com

Wyhoon Garden Services

Graeme Lyon Lawn Mowing Ride-on, push mower, whipper snipping, guerney, hedge trimming, rubbish removal, chain saw & pruning. Servicing all of the Range incl. Conondale.

Ph: Graeme 5494 2720 or 0404 471 859

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GARDEN MAINTENANCE & MOWING Edge to edge mowing. Servicing all your garden needs incl. ride-on,push mowing, whipper snipping, garden clean ups, hedging, fencing, rubbish removal & general property maintenance. Ph. Casey: 0459 444 310

Amber Leaf Landscaping Looking for a landscaper who can deliver?

Tohm Hajncl heads the team that offers you guaranteed quality. Choose from landscaping consultations, designs, construction and planting, pre-sale makeovers and specialised maintenance services. Ph: 5445 9801 www.amberleaf.com.au

Guttering, Water Tanks, Filters and Pump Installation. Septic Trenches, Holding Tanks, Blocked Drains. Heat Pumps & Gas Installation.

Landlord water reports. Water Hammer solutions Ph: 042 11 66 882 BSA 1078655

DVP Plumbing Services BSA 1172423 Plumbing. drainage, roofing and gasfitting.

Camera and drain cleaning equipment, maintenance, new work and renovations.

24/7 Service, No call out fees, 10% pensioner discounts. Phone Damian 0410 855 778 or 0434 582 570 BRUCE MORRIS PLUMBING QBSA lic 456322 24hr emergency service, all plumbing, building,maintenance installation domestic and commercial. Gas installations, septic/ drainage ,hot water, solar, bathroom renovations, leaking roofs. Ph 0410 457 606

PAINTING City to Surf Painting & Decorating Re-paints & new work, industrial coatings, decorative finishes, Anti mould coatings.

Quality & value for money guaranteed.

Servicing the Range & beyond. Ph: Richard Daveson 0418 708 620 BSA 1117847 Maleny Paint Place 6/ 14 Lawyer Street, Maleny. For Wattyl and Taubmans Paints and all paint accessories. Taubmans Trade Paint Centre "We can quote & do it for you" www.hinterlandgrapevine.com Ph: 5494 2002

PEST CONTROL Top of the Range Pest Management Termite specialists House treatment for general pests.

Termite inspections and treatments.

Phone: 1300 663 808 or 0411 105 005

TANK CLEANING Pristine Water Systems Full water tanks cleaned, water testing and correction, filtration - Free appraisals Ph: Trevor 0404 302 723

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PICTURE FRAMING Holden’s Gallery Custom framing by professionals. Items including art, needlecraft, memorabilia, etc Cnr. Coral & Myrtle St. Maleny. Ph: 5494 2100 Mon – Sat 10am to 4pm www.holdensgallery.com.au

All mechanical repairs & services, tyres, wheel alignment & Roadworthy Certificates Tammy and Mike

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PLANT NURSERIES Brush Turkey Enterprises Wholesale native nursery qlty tubestock. Rainforest, wetland, grasses, sclerophyll, coastal & understorey species. Min. order 100 plants. Open to public by appt. Ph: 5494 3642 or email: nursery@brushturkey.com.au

PLASTERER Castle Plaster No job too small. Fibrous plaster & plasterboard, framing, fixing, setting, cornice, suspension, patching. Licensed & insured. Established 1980.

Call John Ph: 0417 275 241 or 5442 1723

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Monday December 3 - Friday February 1 Sunshine Coast Council have partnered with TransLink and Sunbus to launch a double-decker bus service at Alexandra Headland. The double-decker will run until 1 February 2013, operating every day on various Sunbus service routes from Caloundra to Noosa. For more information on the doubledecker bus visit council’s website or for services and travel times go to the Sunbus website.

Sunday December 9 Eudlo village Hall Market 7am-12noon. Held only four times a year to raise funds for hall maintenance, the market has 40 plus stalls inside and out. A wide range of local produce, craft, vintage and up-cycled items, treasure, funky bags, jewellery, whole foods, cake and muffin mixes, custom furniture, timber planter and bird boxes, dolls and kids clothes, cards and stationery

Sunday December 9,16,23, 30 Maleny Market held at RSL Hall, opposite Maleny Hotel.

Open rain hail or shine. Over 35 interesting stalls, including antiques and collectables; Art & craft; fruit & veg & famous local sausages. Little Fair Trade Café. Enq: 0448 423 919.

Sunday December 9 Society for Growing Australian Plants – Sunshine Coast & Hinterland Branch - 9am - 2pm plant swap and end of year break-up at the home of Lesley Eagles, 31 Vista Park Dr, Buderim.

Saturday December 8 ROCK ‘n’ ROLL CHRISTMAS PARTY Come join us for a night of fun and festivities from 6pm at the Sanctuary Venue, 77 Tanawha Tourist Drive, Forest Glen.

Live entertainment by Kelly-Anne. Also comedic compere, Mike Berry. Price $15 per person. Burgers on sale from 6pm.

Bar open until late. Bookings essential: 0400 153 141

Sunday December 9 Apsara Music Festival, at Maleny Botanic Gardens.

10am till sunset. A great day out for all ages. Art exhibits, music workshops and market stalls. Kids activities. Food by the The Terrace and Upfront Club.

Tickets $15 - prebooked Call Chris: 0435 850 443 $20 at the gate for adults. $35 for families.

All proceeds in aid of Cambodian Kids Foundation

Saturday December 8 Montville Growers & Makers Markets. Local produce & coffee. Plants & flowers. Recycled clothing, homewares & soft toys. Pancake breakfasts. Children's craft activity: Christmas reindeer decorations.

No stall holder fees - local producers welcome.

Montville Village Hall 7:30-12pm Ph: 5499 9114 Saturday December 8,15,22 St Margaret’s Anglican Church Op Shop, Blackall St Woombye, is open Wednesday and Friday 9am-4pm and Saturday 9am-12 noon. This is a Centrelink approved activity. A sausage sizzle and craft market is held on the third Friday of each month. Contact: Sue Beiers: 5476 1073 Thursday December 6, 13, 20,27 New Nambour Town Square Village Markets run from 9am-2pm in Lowe Street. Organised by ‘Marketpreneur’ Helen Langlois.

For further information contact Helen: 0416 217 093.

Saturday December 8 - Monday January 9 Phil Willy sculptor and ceramicist has put together an exhibition of his sculpture spanning the last 24 years, and is showing it at the Pomona Art Gallery, 10 Station St. Pomona.

His style is predominantly figurative and human like, but with some mystery and quirkiness thrown in the mix.

Gallery hours are Mon to Fri, 10 -4pm, Sat 10 – 2pm, and closed Sunday, 5485 2950.

Monday December 10 JP Services are available to the public at Maleny library.

Mondays. 9.00 am to 1.00 pm. Fridays. 1.00 pm to 4.00 pm.

The service is free to all. Photo ID (driving licence etc) must be shown.

Friday December 14 Eumundi ‘s return of SUMMER NIGHTS from 5–9pm on five Friday nights, commencing 14 December 2012.

“It’s a great night out for tourists and locals alike, with a wide range of market food stalls, art and craft stalls, massage therapists and fabulous entertainment including live music and free family-friendly outdoor movies.

Follow Eumundi Markets on facebook www.facebook.com/originaleumundimarkets - for further information or visit www.eumundimarkets.com.au Saturday December 15 Blackall Range Growers market, Old Witta School, Witta Road. 7.30am -12.30pm. Great quality organic and nonorganic produce. Come for breakfast and good coffee.

Get there early for the pick of the best.

Sunday December 16 TS Centaur staff and cadets are having their anual presentation parade at 13.45 for 1400 at the Maleny Showgrounds, Stanley River Road, Maleny.

Sunday December 16 16th HU Chant and Spiritual discussion. Buderim Craft Cottage, Cnr Main and Church St. 9:30 – 11:30am. This will be the last meeting for the year of Eckankar events and will resume on Sunday Feb 17th. New venue: Arts and Ecology Centre, Maroochy Botanical Gardens, 9:30am – 11:30am.

Tuesday Dec 18 - HU Chant and Spiritual discussion. Maleny Library Meeting Room, Cnr Maple & Coral St. 6- 7.30 pm.

Monday December 17 - Thursday December 20 Children can stimulate their creative flair this festive season by joining a Sunshine Coast Council Green Art Workshop to make beautiful environmentally friendly ‘green’ decorations and gifts. Children aged five to 15 can learn how to use natural and discarded materials to make funky festive gift wrap and sculptural decorations for families and friends.

For further details: www.community.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/events Tuesday December 18, Thursday December 20 Mary Cairncross Holiday Program for Children 5-14 years (children must bring an adult. Recycled jigsaw puzzle decorations with Christine Elcoate (5-8yr olds). Sugar Gliders or Mary Cairncross Park with Cathy Lawley. Limited bookings. $5 fee for each workshop. Pay online at www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/events or at any Council Customer Service Centre.

For information or bookings phone 5475 7272 during b/hrs.

Thursday December 27 - Tuesday January 1 Woodford Folk Festival again offers the broadest cultural mix of music, food, entertainment, and talk to be found in one plae anywhere in Australia. Camp at Woodfordia and soak up the vibes. Get the 128 page program for $10 online www.woodfordfolkfestival.com Friday December 28 For the first time ever four of the world’s greatest monster trucks will line up for high speed side by side racing, sky wheelie comps and a winner takes all metal mangling monster truck Freestyle. Kawana Stockland Park. Tickets are selling fast at www.monstertruckpromotionsaustralia.com or phone 0447 MONSTA (666 782) or cash at Autobarn Gympie, Nambour and Kawana.

Friday December 28 Closing date for nominations for the 2013 Sunshine Coast Australia Day Awards. This is your chance to recognise and celebrate inspiring individuals, organisations and groups.

Entry forms are available on council’s website, or may be picked up from customer service centres, libraries, visitor information centres, Sunshine Coast University and TAFE. Nominations close 28 Dec 2012.

Visit council’s website www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

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Sonja Georgeson’s Studio WEEK OF WORKSHOPS An Introduction to Encaustic with Nancy Stockmann -Jan 5-6 Learn all the techniques in the ancient art of painting with wax and pure pigment. Materials supplied and optional third day.

Ph: Sonja – 0407 238 026 or sonja@rebix.com Sonja Georgeson’s Studio - rear of 37 Coral Street, Maleny

Sonja Georgeson’s Studio Obi Obi Creek – The River Beneath the River with Sonja Georgeson – Jan 11 & 12 Trust the Process - working with mixed media to discover a sense of place and a method for translating any environment. Ph: Sonja 0407 238 026 or sonja@rebix.com

Sonja Georgeson’s Studio Life Drawing for Beginners with Lynn Cran – Jan 8 & 9 Personalised support and a step-bystep approach to draw the human form accurately, working with professional models and the skeleton.

Contact Sonja 0407 238 026 or sonja@rebix.com

Sonja Georgeson’s Studio Printmaking with Acrylics with Sonja Georgeson – Jan 10 & 13 Learn to make unique artworks using gelatine plates, digital prints and transfers created with acrylic paints.

Contact Sonja 0407 238 026 or sonja@rebix.com

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Art Classes at Tree Frog Gallery Mindful Art Workshops for Adults/Mindful Art Program for Schools & Special Interest Groups/Acrylic, Oil, Watercolour,Pastel holiday workshops/term classes, From Jan. 28, 2013. Enquiries re classes, workshops and tutors Ph: 54352303, 0417784520 or info@treefroggallery.com www.treefroggallery.com Fermentation Gatherings Learn to produce fabulous, cultured foods, full of natural probiotics and enhanced vitamins. Kefir, gluten-free sourdough, beet kvass, sauerkraut etc. Join our gatherings the first Thurs of each month.

Ph: Anni 0417 798 314 or Ros 5499 9914.

E: rosanni@fabulousfoodferments.com.au Richard Knight furniture workshop One-day workshops making funky functional furniture. Identify suitable materials & create your own unique piece using simple wood-working tools.

Materials & lunch included $150.

18 km from Maleny.

Ph: Richard: 5422 9291. Gift vouchers. www.richardknightwoodworks.com.au

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For current owners like us, the decision to by an EV was a conviction decision ... that is our commitment to zero emissions. It certainly wasn’t based on cost.

That seems to have been the conclusion of a recent market research in the US by J.D. Power & Associates.

There, of current owners 44 per cent said the top benefit of buying EV was lower emissions and these owners were willing to pay a premium for that decision.

The Power study was based on online responses from more than 7,600 consumers who either own an electric vehicle, are considering buying one or who shopped for one but decided not to buy.

Those people who shopped for an electric vehicle and ultimately decided not to buy one said their primary reason was the price.

Clearly, the only way to address the price is by improving the battery technology, but the battery manufacturers have a huge task to achieve that, concludes the report. ” But once they do, electric vehicles will go mass market.”

Following price as a reason for not buying an E.V. is vehicle size and good looks. Most consumers who are considering electric vehicles are looking for midsize sedans and, currently at least, most of the vehicles are smaller. Those two reasons together make a pretty solid argument for not going electric right now.

For example, the i-MiEV costs almost $50,000 in Australia. It may be small and cute but it is not auto eye candy. Not surprisingly, if you go into say a Honda showroom and you sit inside a sleek, spacious, leather seated Honda Accord V6 Luxury at the same price … well you get my point.

One of the greatest drawbacks to EV motoring is Range Anxiety and in recognising that, the car makers have swung their production efforts towards hybrids.

For one thing, there’s no more Range Anxiety. The emphasis on this new breed of hybrids is that the electric motor drives the car and the petrol engine is the back-up. So what is now being produced by Ford, Toyota, GM and Mitsubishi is the plug-in extended range electric car with a petrol-fuelled generator.

Electric vehicles account for less than one per cent of new vehicle sales in the US. In hard cash terms the figures don’t add up. The Power study found that consumers paid on average $10,000 more to buy allelectric models and $16,000 more on average for plug-in hybrids.

Based on the annual fuel savings, it would take an average of 6.5 years for an all-electric vehicle owner to break even and 11 years for a plug-in hybrid owner to break even.

That premium does not take into account the current federal income tax credit in the US of up to $7,500.

As the Power study concludes, all owners in the study got a rebate, (not available in Australia) and if it wasn’t for those rebates the EV market would be a lot worse.

Michael Berry - Email: editor@hinterlandtimes.com.au HINTERLAND TIMES - DECEMBER 2012 -JANUARY 2013

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