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OUR STORY My Weekly Preview is a high quality magazine delivering more of what matters to the Sunshine Coast. It features news, business, regular columnists, interesting facts ts and figures for that hot topic at the dinner table, motoring, socials, travel, health, lifestyles and more, as well as the most up-to-date information on local real estate.

The magazine is 100% locally owned, which means we don’t just talk about being local, we are local, we live it every day. Delivered fresh every Friday.

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How will the upcoming changes to Superannuation affect you?

’ve always had a particular interest in the Australian of the Year Awards. Even as a teenager, I would await the annual announcement and couldn’t help but wonder about the winner and their backstory. I love figuring out what makes people tick.

What is it that shapes these inspiring people? Who are they? Who is the person behind that public persona?

Earlier this year, Professor Alan MackaySim was handed the prestigious 2017 title.

The leader in stem cell research is without a doubt, a worthy recipient. And yet until the announcement, many people were not aware this incredible man lived among us here on the Sunshine Coast.

Leigh Robshaw was lucky enough to secure a sit-down interview with Professor Mackay-Sim. He and his wife Lisa openly welcomed her into their home to share their story. I’m sure you will enjoy reading more about the man behind the accolade.

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QUICK CHAT

FOR ART’S SAKE Art and design professor Lisa Chandler founded the art gallery at the University of the Sunshine Coast and has contributed much to our local art scene.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE PLACE ON THE SUNSHINE COAST?

WHERE DO YOU LIVE? I live with my partner at Mount Coolum surrounded by trees and with lovely sea breezes.

I love Noosa National Park and the stunning coastal walk from Sunshine Beach to Noosa. It is a great place for spotting whales, dolphins, turtles and the occasional koala. I also enjoy the Coolum boardwalk and coastal track through the bush and around the bays to Point Arkwright.

FIRST JOB? Working in a suburban milk bar. Besides serving customers, I had to clean out the big metal tins that held the milk for milkshakes. The owner threatened that if this was not done thoroughly the entire vat of milk could go sour so I was always rather fearful that one day this would happen. Fortunately it never did.

BEST DAY IN YOUR LIFE? I have always dreamed of going to the Antarctic and last year I finally made it. The whole experience of being there was beyond words. It was an extraordinary place. Some years ago I also walked to Machu Picchu in South America. This was another lifelong dream and arriving after an arduous three-day trek (no porters at that time) was an unforgettable experience.

WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY WORKING ON? For some time I’ve been working on the exhibition East Coast Encounter as co-curator with John Waldron. The exhibition re-imagines James Cook’s 1770 voyage from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives. It’s been touring for three years along the Australian east coast and will be at the University of the Sunshine Coast Gallery until March 25. The original concept came from Maleny artist Peter Hudson. It has been a fantastic experience working with such an impressive group of artists, musicians and historians to produce this important event. It will have a lasting legacy because all the works have been acquired by the Australian National Maritime Museum.

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YOUR GREATEST REGRET?

FIRST CAR? My first car was a blue Volkswagen Beetle. I loved exploring the Sunshine Coast and elsewhere in it. I took it along dirt tracks, over sand dunes and across creek beds without any problems.

FAVOURITE BOOK? I have always loved reading but this question is impossible to answer as I can’t single out one particular book. Some Australian authors I enjoy include Alex Miller, Richard Flanagan and Tim Winton.

WHAT ARE YOU READING NOW? I am just finishing the final book of Elena Ferrante’s four Neapolitan novels. Ferrante is a marvellous writer and the books are so complex and full of ideas that I couldn’t put them down. They centre on the complicated friendship between two women over their lifetime and how they address constraints of poverty, gender and class.

BEST ADVICE YOU’VE BEEN GIVEN? My father had an expression that I find myself using often: ‘Get the facts’. I have interpreted this to mean that if there is a problem or issue, don’t jump to conclusions but find out all the information, listen to all sides and then make a decision.

I don’t have regrets. I accept and take responsibility for decisions I have made. Even if things have not turned out as I had expected I find they are important opportunities to learn and grow.

PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENT? As an educator, just that process of teaching for so many years.

I hope that I have connected students with new ideas and knowledge and contributed in some way to them realising their goals and dreams. More specifically, I am proud to have started the USC Gallery during the university’s earliest years and I’m glad that it remains a valuable contributor to the region’s cultural life.

YOU ARE HAPPIEST WHEN? I am in nature. Better still if I am experiencing it with family and friends.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED HERE?

TEA OR COFFEE?

I have seen many changes on the Coast, both positive and negative, since I moved here from Sydney in 1980.

Both, but if I had to choose, then tea. Once when I was teaching at a university in Korea some of the students took me for a traditional tea ceremony – a fascinating experience.

WHY DO YOU LIVE HERE? This region has such wonderful natural beauty from the beaches to the hinterland. Residents are relaxed and friendly and there are many creative and interesting people who have also chosen to live here. It’s also not too far from major cities.

NRL OR AFL? NRL although I have recently been introduced to AFL and it is growing on me. I am a Rabbitohs fan from way back, but I also follow the Broncos and Cowboys.

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COVER STORY

ALAN’S KEY OPENS THE DOOR TO MEDICAL MARVELS My Weekly Preview met with 2017 Australian of the Year, Emeritus Professor Alan Mackay-Sim at his lakeside home in Currimundi to find out more about the man who has given hope to sufferers of spinal cord injuries and rare brain diseases. WORDS: Leigh Robshaw.

“Lots of people are coming to me…saying they’re very happy about a scientist being in this position” Alan Mackay-Sim with his wife Lisa Peine relaxing at home in Currimundi Image: Greg Gardner Photography

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t’s a warm Friday morning in late summer and Alan Mackay-Sim has just returned home from a ride with his wife Lisa Peine and two cycling friends. He’s relaxing on his verandah overlooking Currimundi Lake and as the last of the morning walkers disappears, life feels quiet.

Two weeks earlier it was anything but.

The softly spoken biomedical scientist with the wicked mo found himself thrust into the national spotlight when he became the 2017 Australian of the Year.

Standing on stage in the Great Hall of Parliament House beside Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, his face was a mixture of disbelief and relief. He was proud but also “shocked and horrified” to receive the accolade, he told the nation.

“You think about all the scenarios of what you would do and say if you won, you write a speech and you know what you’re going to say, but all the time you’re thinking, that person is really great, I’d give it to them,” he says of his startled reaction on the night. “You push away the idea that it could be you.”

Today, the hefty glass award glimmers in the hues of Australia’s red desert and blue ocean on a side table in his living room, beneath an abstract artwork – a splash of magnified brain cells printed in purple and green on a large canvas. It’s a contemporary home full of light, which the couple built and

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moved to permanently at the end of 2015. Not the waterfront mansion of a millionaire, but the modest home of a quietly driven man whose work is enabling some of the greatest medical advances of our time.

It’s easy to forget this is the Australian of the Year sitting barefoot on the couch as we chat about his favourite authors and books – he loves Ian McEwan and Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series and he’s really getting into Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Fascinated by history and politics, he describes himself as not merely a history buff or a politics junkie, but an all-round “knowledge buff”.

He has the kind of mind that gobbles up information and the kind of nature that likes to share it freely, making him ideally suited to his chosen profession: science.

Mackay-Sim is internationally renowned for his trailblazing work in treating spinal cord injuries using nasal stem cells, a precursor to the restoration of mobility in a Polish quadriplegic man, Darek Fidyka.

And yet, just days after his award presentation, Mackay-Sim found himself under attack. National media reports alleged he’d taken credit for the successful outcome of the surgery performed by Polish professor, Dr Pawel Tabakow, who said he’d had “zero involvement” in the procedure.

“I’ve always said we did a phase one trial

to say this procedure was safe,” he shrugs.

“I don’t know what they said to Dr Tabakow. If they said, this guy is trying to steal your thunder, anyone would be upset. The ethics of science is to make sure everyone gets credit and particularly if they were the first to do things. We swapped a couple of emails, he and I, and he appreciates that the ethics have not been compromised.”

The reports could not have been further from the truth – Mackay-Sim doesn’t have an arrogant bone in his body. From day one he has been driven by a desire to help people, even after his own diagnosis of multiple myeloma, a rare form of incurable cancer.

Two years ago, he almost died of kidney failure and a stem cell transplant bought him

extra time. He has good days and bad days but today, he simply says, “I’m well”.

Born and raised in Sydney, he wasn’t the science geek you might imagine.

“I was very athletic, I was always running around climbing trees and breaking stuff,” he says. “But I was good at school, I loved to play football in the city, and I did school musicals and cadets. I did every sport and I was good at anything academic. I remember I had a really good English and maths teacher and a good geography teacher.”

The only science teacher he remembers is a physics teacher at North Sydney High who threw a box of chalk at him: “I was a smart arse,” he laughs. “I got caned all the time.”

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HOW HE’LL USE HIS ROLE AS AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR Griffith University’s Emeritus Professor Alan Mackay-Sim hopes to use his position to influence the government, scientific establishment and community. “Long-term science funding and policy is very important to Australia’s future. The only thing I can add to this science policy debate is my public profile and through that, talk to the public to get people behind it, talk to their politicians to say yes, science in Australia is important,” he says.

“Everyone agrees that defence funding is strategically important, health funding is strategically important. Science seems to be one of those things on the margin. The science workforce is very casualised. So much of it is run from grants. An academic scientist gets a desk and a job to teach, but all of their research they have to get grant funding for.

“If you look at all the people working in science and put them in one place in one town, like a manufacturing town in Victoria, for example, there would be a lot of political clout. But scientists are casualised and not political because they’re so bound up in what they do.”

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Lisa & Alan cycling in North Queensland, 1983 regularly after they bought a holiday house at Currimundi with friends in 1990.

“It has been a different life than if he had been in business versus academia,” Peine says. “But it has been lovely. He has a great deal of integrity and honesty. You can have disagreements about little things but I just know that all the basic values, they’re just all so solid. I never need to question his motives

about things. I just know they’re always thought out and for the good.”

When asked what he likes most about the Sunshine Coast, Mackay-Sim cites the friendliness of the people and the bike paths.

“It’s really good they’re putting in bike paths that can be used for commuting, not just Sunday rides,” he says. “I like going anywhere within a bicycle ride of here.”

He’s currently training for his fourth Mooloolaba Triathlon, the cyclist in a four-man team called Thunderbolt. Almost as passionate about cycling as he is about science, sometimes the two loves merge.

“I’m always thinking about my research,” he says. “You’re just tossing these things around. Ideas come to you. You might be out on a ride, enjoying the day, and your mind wanders onto your research issues and you start thinking about those.”

While he retired in 2015, he still collaborates with Griffith, Queensland and Sydney universities, as well as universities in Ireland and Oxford. But most of his time is spent in his peaceful Currimundi enclave, where he’s somewhat of a local celebrity – people regularly stop him in the street or at the local hardware store to shake his hand.

“We have an elderly man who lives out the back of our house,” Peine says. “He told us when the announcement was made he could hear cheering in the surrounding houses.”

Both down-to-earth and approachable, the couple has many local friends and when the spotlight dims and life returns to normal, they hope to get involved in the community.

“This is one of the most ideal places on the Coast,” Peine says, looking down across the lake and its well-used footpath. “This path serves as a town centre. People walk it, people ride it, people stop to chat. It’s been the artery through which we’ve met a lot of people.”

Mackay-Sim says after visiting the Sunshine Coast for 25 years and now living here permanently, he finally feels like a local.

“People have been stopping me to say congratulations when we’re out walking, and lots of people are coming to me in the street saying they’re very happy about a scientist being in this position and saying it’s nice to know it’s me.”

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school holidays he spent on his uncle’s farm.

“That was just fantastic and I still think it was the best part of my childhood. We’d be riding horses, fixing fences, driving tractors, helping with harvesting the wheat, rounding up sheep and cattle, playing around the shearing shed. We had complete freedom and were also given responsibility.”

Mackay-Sim received his PhD from Macquarie University in 1980, then studied at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wyoming in the US. It was while studying in Wyoming that he met Peine, a vibrant primary school teacher who shared his love of cycling.

“I thought he was funny and cute, but too short,” she laughs. “He was a real joker. I had planned to come to Australia and in the course of a few months, we rode together.”

They married in 1984 and had their daughter Matilda in 1988 and son Callum in 1991. They settled first in Adelaide then spent 25 years in Brisbane, visiting the Coast

Scientists have long thought it impossible to regenerate the spinal cord. That’s all changed thanks in part to the pioneering work of Sunshine Coast molecular biologist and Australian of the Year, Emeritus Professor Alan Mackay-Sim. Mackay-Sim was the director of the National Adult Stem Cell Research Centre at Griffith University until 2015. He has spent more than 30 years studying olfactory ensheathing cells – cells in the human nose that interact with the nervous system to cause the sense of smell – and the adult stem cells that give rise to them.

Olfactory ensheathing cells die and are reborn every day. Early in his career, Mackay-Sim saw them as a window into the brain and began studying them, with a view to repairing the nervous system.

In 2002, he took what has been universally described as a brave step, becoming the first scientist in the world to take these cells from the nose, purify them and put them back into the spinal cord of the person they’d been harvested from, with the aim of repairing an injury. He and his team were able to prove the therapy was safe and didn’t cause tumours to grow.

“People said we were brave because we had early studies from animals but at that time [the therapy] was not very well favoured in spinal cord injury units around Australia. Mostly neuroscientists

are very conservative. You might spend years and years to be absolutely sure it will work in animals and then you start your safety and efficacy trials [in humans]. We thought, let’s accelerate it and see if the cells in the nose have the same ability to repair themselves as the cells in the brain.”

In 2012, Mackay-Sim’s research led to a team of European doctors performing a monumental operation. They placed 100 micro-injections of olfactory ensheathing cells into 40-year-old Polish man Darek Fidyka’ spine. He had developed quadriplegia after repeated stab wounds to his back almost entirely severed his spine.

After three years of therapy, he can walk with a frame, ride a modified bike and has experienced the return of sexual sensation.

One of the doctors involved in the surgery, British professor Geoffrey Raisman, said the surgery was the scientific equivalent of man walking on the moon.

Mackay-Sim is now focused on studying nasal stem cells in order to understand a number of brain diseases.

“To me that’s the most exciting thing,” he says. “We get cells from people with brain diseases like Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and hereditary spastic paraplegia and study those in a dish.

“We’ve been able to go from looking at the biology of cells in healthy patients, understanding the biological process that happens with a genetic mutation, and finding a drug that fixes the disease in a dish. We’re now taking it to clinical trial.

“I’m working with a neurologist and a geneticist at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. We’re hoping we’ll get it started this year. The trial itself will be at least a year long. The aim is if the drug works in people as it’s working in cells in the lab, we’re hoping it will reduce the symptoms of these diseases. Hence by fixing their cells, it will either stop the progression of their disease or ideally, it would reverse it.”

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WISHLIST GRAND CELEBRATION, SUNSHINE COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Wishlist hosted 600 people for a gala celebration on March 4 to celebrate the opening of our new hospital. Guests enjoyed gourmet food, cocktails and top entertainment. Ray Martin hosted the event and speakers included Australian of the Year, Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, Lisa Rowe and Kevin Hegarty.

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GEAR UP FOR THE MOOLOOLABA TRIATHLON FESTIVAL The Mooloolaba Triathlon Festival will hit the Coast from March 10 to 12 to mark the 25th anniversary of the iconic event. Competitors and spectators alike will be treated to three days of fun. There is something for the whole family including the Mooloolaba Twilight five-kilometre run, one-kilometre ocean swim, Superkidz Triathlon and the Special Tri. The event also features the Mooloolaba ITU Triathlon World Cup, where you can see some of the biggest names in triathlon competing on the Coast.

NEW COMPETITION FOR SENIOR RUGBY New teams and up to six Colts Under 18/Under 19 teams are being lined up in the Sunshine Coast Rugby Union Competition for the 2017 season. Maleny will field a senior team. Sunshine Coast Rugby Union chairman Ian Brown says growth in Maleny, Gympie and Fraser Coast will be offset with Nambour fielding just one senior team this season. The new Sunshine Coast Seniors Rugby Competition, which is set to kick off on March 25, will also see the re-emergence of a Colts Under 18/Under 19 competition with teams in Noosa, University, Maroochydore, Brothers and Caloundra. For more information, visit scru.com.au.

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HONG KONG BOUND Woombye bowlers Peter Harris and Dennis Nevin fly to Hong Kong later this month to play lawn bowls in the Tiger Bowls World Invitation 2017. The duo was invited to the prestigious competition after a win at the Australian RSL Fours Championships in Adelaide in February. The Tiger World Bowls event is played in Hong Kong and Zhenshen and Zhuhai in mainland China, over eight days with representatives from Argentina, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, China, Dubai, England, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, South Africa, Pakistan, USA and Zimbabwe.

Artists from all genres have cast their minds to reimagine the encounter of Lieutenant James Cook and his crew with Aboriginal people in 1770.

The result is the East Coast Encounter. The exhibition of paintings, photographs, videos and three dimensional works imaginatively explores moments of contact between two world views during these encounters. It is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum collection and can be seen at the University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery from Monday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm until March 25.

QUEEN’S BATON RELAY COMES TO CALOUNDRA Caloundra is set to take part in the Queen’s Baton Relay in the lead-up to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Mayor Mark Jamieson says it is an honour to have one of the Sunshine Coast’s favourite locations selected as an official celebration community.

A community nomination program, which is now open, will offer Coast people an opportunity to nominate as baton bearers. Nominations can be made at gc2018.com/qbr.

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NEW POUND HAS TAILS WAGGING Lost pets and livestock on the Sunshine Coast are now being cared for at a new facility with the Sunshine Coast Council’s new Sippy Creek Animal Pound in Sippy Creek Road, Tanawha, now open. The state-of-the-art facility features a cattery building with 32 individual cat enclosures, a kennel building with 32 individual kennel modules, an assessment facility, a large animal enclosure, a poultry enclosure and central administration and reception building. The new pound has extended trading hours from Monday to Friday 8.15am to 6pm and Saturday 9am to noon.

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BROTHERS LEAVE OTHERS IN THEIR WAKE Caloundra teenagers Josh and Lachy Swift continue to make their mark in the world of wakeboarding, with the brothers taking out first and second place respectively at the State Wakeboarding Titles in the Junior Men’s Category. This comes off the back of Josh’s second place at the World Wakeboard titles in America in the Junior Men’s category. The brothers put countless hours into their sport and have secured sponsorships, Josh with Ripcurl and Lachy with Loosekid Industries.

The new Maroochydore CBD is attracting interest from far and wide and the Sunshine Coast Council has confirmed it plans to occupy a major office building in the first stage of the new city centre. Apart from new offices, the council has also revealed it is considering building a new library in the CBD and is analysing the commercial elements of a convention and exhibition centre in a future precinct of the city centre. Fostering economic growth on the Sunshine Coast is a key aim of the Maroochydore CBD project and by 2040, the city centre will have generated 30,000 jobs.

COOLUM MOTHER WINS $55K WISHLIST GRANT Coolum Beach mother of four Gillian Puckeridge (pictured) has been announced as the winner of the Wishlist Research Higher Degree worth $55,900 to undertake her PhD. The Orthopaedic Clinical Nurse Consultant, based at Nambour Hospital says she has been finding it difficult to juggle full-time work, part-time study and family life.

Puckeridge, who was widowed in 2010, says the Wishlist grant will allow her to study in work time. Through her research, the 40-year-old hopes to develop new evidence-based protocol for anaemia detection in elderly patients.

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MAJOR SHOPPING CENTRE UPGRADES UNDERWAY

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hopping options for Sunshine Coast residents are in the process of becoming much more exciting with major developments underway at Sunshine Plaza and Kawana Shoppingworld.

Sunshine Plaza is set to grow from 73,000 metres squared to over 107,000 metres squared, with a new David Jones, a new Big W and more than 100 speciality stores being added as part of the redevelopment.

With new traffic identification signage and red and green occupancy lighting installed at the multi-level car park near Coles during the Christmas holidays, work is now underway on the six-level Kmart car park, which is expected to be completed in August, and construction has begun on the Myer multi-level car park.

Sunshine Plaza centre manager Michael Manwaring says it is all systems go to expand the parking capacity of the centre to add more than 1400 car parks, to take the total number of spaces to nearly 5000 as part of the $400-million redevelopment.

Lendlease, which manages the complex, estimates the redevelopment will generate up to 2900 jobs during construction and around

Artist’s impressions of the new Kawana Shoppingworld car park and right, the upgraded Sunshine Plaza 2300 additional retail positions once the project is complete.

Manwaring says stage one of the new retail offerings will be unveiled in July 2018 and the grand opening of the fully refurbished centre is scheduled for November 2018.

“Our priority now is to get the car parks built first, so we can maintain the level of parking for customers before we head west for construction of the retail components,” he says.

Sunshine Plaza’s new car parking management system offers customers three hours of free parking and a ticketless system

based on licence plate recognition to enter and exit the car park.

Meanwhile, Kawana Shoppingworld has begun a major car park upgrade. The work will see the introduction of around 170 new car parking spaces and a new three-storey all-weather car park, providing 251 covered car spaces across two floors.

The works, which will take approximately five months to complete, are the next stage in a longer-term development plan put forward

by Kawana Shoppingworld.

The proposal includes plans to expand the centre’s current retail and dining

offerings and introduce a 6000 metressquared multi-screen cinema complex to be located off Point Cartwright Drive at the northern end of the centre.

Planning and Development Portfolio holder Councillor Christian Dickson says the development will “certainly create a buzz around Kawana”.

“This is an exciting time for everyone associated with Kawana Shoppingworld and I’m sure the locals especially will appreciate the extra entertainment, shopping and service options that will be coming to their area,” Dickson says.

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lympic K2 kayaker Alyce Burnett has a strong message for people of all ages – don’t judge a book by its cover.

It is one of the most important points Burnett plans to make when she features on a panel-style lunch alongside Australian hockey captain Mark Knowles, K4 Kayaker Jordan Wood and a host of Australian champions to raise awareness and funds for STEPS Charity.

Burnett says anyone, especially those living with a disability, should disregard what others think of them.

“Coming into the Olympic trials last year, my K2 partner and I were the total underdogs and on paper probably shouldn’t have qualified for the team. But that didn’t matter to us,” she told My Weekly Preview.

“After proving a lot of people wrong, we booked our spots but went into the Olympic Games facing the same problem. No one thought we could make the final, so we proved them wrong.”

With a family member living with a disability, Burnett says she knows first-hand how hard it can be and wants to show her support for the work STEPS has done to establish the STEPS Pathways College, which will open in April.

“Since teaming up with STEPS my eyes have been opened to the amazing things a community can achieve together and I couldn’t be more proud to be an ambassador for such an amazing cause,” she says.

“The way they have broken down the barriers for people living with a disability is

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Burnett says she is humbled by the opportunity to be considered a ‘legend’ for the luncheon: “I would be lying if I said I wasn’t excited to sit next to and meet a few of the other Coast Olympians.”

Coast residents can also get up close and personal with these legends by buying tickets to the Living Legends Lunch, which is on at The Lakehouse, March 17 from 12pm to 3.30pm. Tickets are $150 per person and includes two-course meal, cheese platter and a drinks package.

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TRICKS TO GET KIDS EATING BETTER James Colquhoun from Food Matters shares his tips on encouraging children to eat healthy food.

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1. Undercover vegies: This method is hands-down the easiest way to encourage your kids to eat healthy food.

Creating snacks that look and taste delicious but also contain hidden healthy bits is not only effective, it’s also pretty fun. Try chocolate beetroot cake made with cacao, zucchini fritters and berry smoothies that contain hidden leafy greens.

2. Don’t be the food police: Pushing kids to consume foods they hate is a great formula for rebellion, resentment, and disappointment. Instead, try to selectively stock your pantry and fridge with a variety of tasty, whole food options and remove any traces of junk food.

3. Power to the little people: With little people, as with bigger people, education is often the most powerful tools in empowering wise decisions and achieving positive outcomes. Try to find ways to engage your kids in making the right food

choices by demonstrating to them how each type of food can have either a positive or negative effect on their mood, energy, and overall health. For example, if they eat something nutritious, try asking them how they feel afterwards and attribute a description to that feeling. Through this process, your child’s brain will begin to create neural pathways that link healthy foods with positive affirmations.

4. Sow, grow, pick, eat: One of the most powerful ways to connect kids with their food is to simply involve them in the process from start to finish. If you have room in your yard for a vegie patch (or even just a few pot plants) be sure to involve your children in the gardening process.

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LOWER AUSSIE DOLLAR STILL THE BASE CASE Anthony Ward is from Ord Minnett in Buderim.

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very man and his dog knows where the Aussie dollar (AUD) is generally trading. It’s on the news every night whether you watch Alan Kohler or Rob Brough. I guess it’s an easy benchmark to see how we’re travelling against the Yanks. More importantly, it effects how much you’re going to pay for your next overseas holiday. Big questions like, how much is this Bintang really costing me?

The AUD has been relatively strong this year, reaching a high of a touch over 77 cents verse the USD. Though our research is confident that this will be a short-term level. Our end of year target for the currency is US$0.68.

Our economists and research team have highlighted several factors that support our bearish forecast on the AUD. 1) Boost in trade balance has lower multipliers to the real economy today – As the mining boom moves from investment to production, profits are being repatriated offshore rather than re-invested.

2) Commodity price gains runs out of puff – While our commodity analysts have lifted their price forecasts for iron ore, they still envisage prices trending down this year, as high prices incentivise additional supply. On this basis, the AUD looks five per cent overvalued.

3) Interest rate differentials to narrow – Should the US raise rates twice this year and Australia cut rates, the prospect of US cash rates moving towards parity with Australia’s will be hard to ignore. The last time this occurred was around 1999–2000, and during this period, the AUD/USD averaged approximately 60 cents.

4) Fiscal risks – Despite higher commodity prices, the hurdle to keeping our AAA rating remains high in the absence of any significant fiscal reform.

“Our economists have highlighted several factors that support our bearish forescast on the AUD”

5) Political and trade tensions – These could build this year following a shift in political rhetoric towards greater protectionism. This leaves a small open economy such as Australia, exposed to a slowdown in global trade or growth risks in China.

All these risks put selling pressure on the AUD and hence a lower rate. Based on this scenario, we are drawn to stock investments that will benefit from a potentially weaker AUD, mainly due to their business interests being based offshore plus their continued delivery of underlying growth. Stocks in this camp include: Goodman Group (GMG), Magellan Financial (MFG), Orora (ORA), Treasury Wine (TWE), Westfield (WFD) and selected exchange-traded funds.

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LIFEFLIGHT GIVES A FOND FAREWELL TO DON MOFFATT The new RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter has been named after Don Moffatt in recognition of his many years of service. WORDS: Leigh Robshaw.

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t’s not every day you have a helicopter worth $18 million named after you, but for Don Moffatt, the honour is well warranted. He’s been involved in the Sunshine Coast’s helicopter rescue service in one form or another for more than 23 years. On February 17, LifeFlight farewelled the former board member and announced the new Augusta Westland AW139 would bear Moffatt’s name on the side of the aircraft. “I was chuffed,� he says. “It’s a lovely thing to have happen and the last thing I expected. I was absolutely stoked.�

Moffatt’s passion for flying and devotion to helping the community came together as a board member and chairman of the Sunshine Coast Helicopter Rescue Service (SCHRS) for 15 years. When SCHRS and CareFlight (now LifeFlight) merged in July 2013, Moffatt was nominated deputy chairman and a foundation board member.

At the age of 71, Moffatt says it’s time to get some younger blood in: “I don’t think you should be on these things for too long,� he says.

A former Australian Army helicopter pilot, the Kingaroy boy developed a love of aviation at an early age. “My uncle was a crop duster based in Kingaroy,� he says. “He took me flying when I was about eight or nine and I was pretty much convinced I’d like to take a crack at that one day. I just remember being so excited.

After serving his country, Moffatt entered business in 1972 and has been a successful property developer based on the Sunshine Coast ever since. His venture partners have included Kerry Packer and rugby league legend Norm Provan.

Don also served as chairman of Tourism Sunshine Coast for

seven years and board member, and then deputy chairman of the Sunshine Coast Turf Club for 16 years.

Moffatt says just keeping the helicopter rescue service going has been fraught with difficulty due to high costs. “We’ve been accident free during my time with the service,� he says. “I feel very good about that. We’ve upgraded the fleet from single engine turbine helicopters to twin engine turbine helicopters. That’s a major step and a lot of money. We’ve kitted out the helicopters with night vision goggles. That has

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improved safety for not only the crew, but doctors, paramedics and people we may be transporting. We also built a new hangar at Maroochydore and that’s a fantastic facility. “I have no idea what would happen to rural and regional Queensland without the service of a rescue helicopter. It’s probably not so important for places like here, which is not far from Brisbane by road, but, if you were out west of Toowoomba, the noise of a helicopter coming to an accident scene is an absolutely fabulous noise to hear because you think help is arriving – and excellent quality help.�

As a long-time supporter of the Sunshine Coast’s medical industry, Moffatt says he’s thrilled with the new Sunshine Coast University Hospital. “I think it’s fantastic, it’s an enormous asset for our community that through good management we’ve able to achieve.�

Moffatt lives at Buderim and is still in business, with 91 townhouses under construction near North Lakes. When asked what the most important issue is regarding the current development of the Sunshine Coast, he has a simple answer: “I personally think – and I’m very serious about this – I think the singular thing that is important to the Sunshine Coast is the upgrading of the Bruce Highway. It doesn’t matter how fancy an airport you have, how good a light rail you’ve got, if the highway isn’t of sufficient standard to handle the number of cars it needs to handle, that will be the greatest hold back for the Coast we could ever have. It’s a dangerous highway. If I was running the place, I would have that as my number one priority and I wouldn’t sleep until I had it right.�

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Sami Muirhead delves into the fashion phenomenon that is Camilla and asks, is the kaftan obsession creepy or cool?

Darrell Edwards says the Sunshine Coast has been slow to connect to the NBN but the time it takes to make the change will pay off in the end.

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he Apocalypse came early to our great country and it wore sparkling crystals embellished on a kaftan.

Camilla is a brand of kaftan that Australian designer, Camilla Franks, is behind. And last week there was the first outlet sale since 2014 and the story just about broke the internet, with thousands of women lining up in the rain for seven hours just to get into the sale. Then of course there were tears and tantrums and physical fights, as crazed women were pitted against each other, gladiator style, trying to secure that ultimate discount.

One woman was carried out by police and placed in a paddy wagon with allegations she stole 14 garments, claiming she was a security guard in charge of protecting the pricey threads.

I love Camillas. Yes. The ‘C’ word is a noun. Heck, Camilla is pretty much a cult. A beautiful cult. But a crazy couture cult that seems to make many of us kooky. There are several Facebook groups solely dedicated to swapping or buying Camillas second hand.

I belong to them all. Having to feed my children or drive to work gets in the way of me just scrolling through page after page of beautiful kaftans. There are numerous fan appreciation social media groups with hundreds of thousands of followers.

Including me. And there is even a Camilla

Cruise you can go on where the women all wear a Camilla gown every day and pretty much just drink cocktails and get selfies with dozens of other fans who are all swooning about trying not to crush their Camillas.

Creepy or cool? Bring me my credit card!

The 41-year-old Queen of Kaftan’s famous devotees include Oprah, Alessandra Ambrosio, Beyoncé, Elle Macpherson and Miranda Kerr. Young ladies want these dresses to wear to school formals. Grandmas want them to rock their world. The multimilliondollar profits have trebled in the past 12 months alone.

My husband is not a fan of the billowing dresses. I love him to death but he probably thinks ‘sexy’ is more biker chick than boho luxe. He is sick of me spending all my time drooling over the dresses and reckons I would look better in a tent from a camping shop.

Each Camilla range is part of a limited edition. Women are predictable when it comes to supply and demand. Not being able to have something makes us crazy with desire. I once heard a story about Chanel burning their excess handbags every year so as to keep the supply and demand equation in favour of tight supply. Surely that cannot be true? Burning a Chanel bag? It makes me break out in hives. The devil doesn’t wear Prada. It burns perfectly good Chanel bags.

The ‘C’ word is a noun. Heck, Camilla is pretty much a cult. A beautiful cult

Sami Muirhead is a radio announcer, blogger and commentator.

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ast cars don’t make my heart rate climb. But the one thing I like to be super quick is the internet. Nothing frustrates me more than sitting around waiting for something to download.

So I’d been looking forward to the introduction of the NBN, which promised a greatly enhanced communications experience, with much faster internet connection and downloads.

I could have been connected three weeks ago, but I hesitated – not knowing which was the best deal and with whom to connect. Perhaps that’s the reason so many Sunshine Coast subscribers are tardy about embracing NBN. More than 60,000 premises on the Sunshine Coast are eligible to be connected with the NBN, yet only about 16,000 have so far taken the step.

With existing networks due to be taken offline within 18 months, it is curious that more people haven’t already connected.

The answer, I’m sure, is the uncertainty subscribers have about which provider to go with in terms of pricing, speed, reliability and changeover costs.

I tried a website that compared plans from various providers. It didn’t help because I was mainly concerned with faster speed, not capacity. To my mind it really doesn’t matter what the capacity is if you can’t access it quickly.

In the end I rang my existing provider.

An hour later, after receiving contradictory

information about changeover fees and plan costs, I hung up in complete frustration.

I tried again the next day, and what a difference 24 hours makes. Or perhaps it was just the attitude of the person on the other end of the line. I ended up being switched over to the same plan – at no extra cost.

The package would allow internet speeds five times faster than my existing speeds and provide five times my existing usage. And it would be connected in three days. What more could you ask for?

What’s the catch, I hear you ask? Well once connected, my download speed was

“I could have been connected three weeks ago…” only 3.99mbps, lower than before. But after another conversation with the provider, it increased to 21.24 mps download and 4.7 mps upload.

The moral of the story is that no one is going to do this for you.

We all have to accept that the changeover process takes a little time, and requires a little patience.

So, investigate your options, compare plans, take action – and ensure you are getting the most out of your connection. I wish I had made the change sooner.

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OUR 50TH YEAR

LONG HAUL TO THE TOP OF BUDERIM In the days when Mountain Creek was a clear little stream running through bushland at Tanawha, a bullock trail was carved out of the bush uphill to Buderim and that, writes DOT WHITTINGTON, would become Crosby Hill Road.

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY

When Butts was the No.1 shopping centre.

Bush was cleared for banana plantations; a bullock team halls logs to the Buderim sawmill owned by Mr Nonmus.

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obert Sly and his son Allan, lived in a slab hut at Sandy Gully, and needed to get their valuable logs from one of the finest stands of red stringybark on the north coast, to the Buderim sawmill.

Sly bought a 100-hectare property from the Buderim pioneer Bert Guy, in June 1919, and subdivided it into eight-hectare and 10-hectare blocks.

He then began clearing the bush and planting bananas. When one block was bearing fruit, he would start on the next.

The Queensland sleeper-cutting industry for railway lines had been growing rapidly since the turn of the century and the Tanawha hardwood he cleared had a ready market.

He sold his allotments mainly to soldiers returning from World War I who found the idea of farm life appealing. Bananas were fetching a lucrative £1 pound a case in Melbourne, which was big money in 1919.

Blocks were sold for £400- to £500, which included a two-room weatherboard cottage with a stove and a 4000-litre tank.

Purchasers had only to make a £100 deposit.

The trouble was that many of these soldiers had little bush or farm experience and after taking the first crop of bananas, they walked off the land, signing it back to Sly who then cleaned it up and sold it again.

Some of the land was sold four times, although it never made him rich. He earned more from his bananas and timber than his land sales.

The timber was being hauled to a mill at Mooloolah by bullock team as the road to Buderim went only as far as Crosby’s farm.

(William Crosby and his wife Mary Ann had arrived in Australia in 1910 with their five children and moved to Buderim in 1918.

He became the president of the Buderim Fruit Growers and Local Producers Association in 1923).

Mr Nonmus, the Buderim sawmiller, was anxious to get at the Sly timber and helped them complete the link to Tanawha.

Even when they had finished, it was ambitious to call it a road, but it did allow the teams to haul the timber out.

The council of the day honoured its promise to build the two bridges needed over Mountain Creek and the roadbuilders sold the timber they cleared.

At times, five bullockies were needed to pull the timber out of Sandy Gully and up the hill.

The Sly family remained living in their slab hut with a shingle roof until their first cottage was built in the 1920s.

It was called Leahy’s Hut after a landowner in the area and had only one nail.

Luckily Mountain Creek was clear forest water, as they drank it and washed in it.

The sawmilling business was hit hard by the Great Depression, workers were laid off and mills closed.

It was Sly Senior who later moved to have the name of Sandy Gully changed to the commonly misspelt, Tanawha, the name of a legendary New Zealand monster.

Although he didn’t live to see the name change, he did play a part in Tanawha’s early development.

The Sands Shopping Centre at Maroochydore became the Sunshine Plaza in March 1994, when the southern precinct opened as the first stage of the redevelopment. It would be another year before the northern precinct with Myer and the river precinct was completed.

DID YOU KNOW? • Seal Park, a zoo, opened at the intersection of Crosby Hill Road and what was then the main Bruce Highway at Tanawha, in 1962. It had a giraffe, rhinoceros, hippopotamus and chimpanzees relocated from Ashton’s Circus, as well as koalas, kangaroos and snakes. It was renamed Buderim Zoo and Koala Park around 1973, and finally closed in 1990.

• Windmill Park at Chancellor Park takes its name from the Southern Cross windmill which served Sippy Downs, a cattle grazing area until the 1980s.

The 50th Anniversary of the Naming of the Sunshine Coast will be celebrated on August 1, 2017. In the lead-up to the occasion, My Weekly Preview will each week take a look into our region’s past. If you have any historical photos or stories email: editorial@myweeklypreview.com.au.

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an, women can be so confusing. Don’t get me wrong, I like women so much so that I married one and we have four beautiful kids together. But that doesn’t mean I understand what’s going on.

My wife Michelle, she’s very confusing.

One minute she says how much she loves hummus. Can’t get enough hummus. The next minute she’s yelling at me saying it’s a terrible birthday present. Then she says, “I need some big girl clothes”, and I was like, “Babe you haven’t put on that much weight,

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embrace your body”. She said, “I mean for work”. I’ve moved out and onto the couch.

Michelle did come to me trying to make good. She told me she wanted to fulfil my deepest desire. So I gave her my mum’s recipe for shepherd’s pie with a tip that the crust is the most important bit. First Family Court appearance is next week.

On the lighter side, I picked up a new pun for the collection this week. After I spent 45 minutes at the gym pashing on with a young woman I turned to her and said, you know, this isn’t working out.

So my daughter has turned eight and is asking more questions now than ever. “Daddy what’s the opposite of J? Can you tell me if birds have teeth? Daddy what’s the difference between turtles and tortoises?” Well, the main difference between the turtle and the tortoise is that the tortoise decided to race the hare and the turtle became a ninja. The end.

I tried playing dead the other day just to see what she would do in that situation. Turns out if I die she’ll poke me, then head outside to eat chips and play schools.

It’s fair to say home is where the heart is but I believe home is where the beer is and that’s why I’m moving into my local pub, just

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JAZZ TRIO WILL CAPTIVATE Jazz singer Sue Bond (pictured) and Dutch pianist Marnix Van Bruggen will join forces to present an afternoon of songs from the Great American Songbook.

From Cole Porter and Rogers and Hart to Ira and George Gershwin, Bond will capture the essence of them all with the rich voice and eclectic approach that has made her one of the most individual of today’s jazz singers.

Van Bruggen has performed extensively throughout Holland and Belgium and played at numerous jazz festivals, including the North Sea Jazz Festival.

Peter Walters, who is regarded as one of Brisbane’s premium bass players and tutors at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, will be on double bass.

Sue Bond is at the Guru Life Restaurant and Garden Bar on Petrie Creek Road in Rosemount on March 11 from 3pm.

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Now, the talented all-rounder will bring her latest show, Go Your Own Way, to the Sunshine Coast.

Alcorn says she has always been attracted to strong front women in bands and she was listening to Fleetwood Mac on a plane flight when deliberating who would be the focus of her next show when she zeroed in on Christine McVie. Commissioned by Kate Ceberano for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Go Your Own Way is the story of the tempestuous life of one of rock’s most famous songwriters, who started out as a school teacher, picked up a bass guitar and began to sing the blues before joining Fleetwood Mac and making rock history.

“Her story really interested me because I had grown up with these songs and it had become the wallpaper of my life,” Alcorn tells My Weekly Preview.

“But you rarely understand who or what the songs were written about, so I began to delve back into the music to find out.

“There was huge turmoil within the band during the recording of Rumours, when Chrissy and husband John were divorcing and that relationship was literally deteriorating while they were writing and recording this album.

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Then John had to come into the studio and record the bassline of the song with his ex, listening to the lyrics she had written about her new lover. The mayhem made the songs.”

Alcorn says the show is far from a typical tribute show. Instead, Alcorn embodies McVie and tells her story through the songs that made her a rock legend.

“Everyone knows the music, but because Chrissy was such a private person, not

everybody knows exactly what went on,” Alcorn says.

“I had to do a lot of reading and watching her video interviews on You Tube and from that, I was able to gauge how wry she was, she has a very dry sense of humour and always willing to give just so much away.”

By the band’s own admission, McVie was the greatest songwriter of the group. Alcorn says McVie is an intriguing figure, whose contrary attitude to global fame, ridiculous wealth, love and loss, personal privacy, song writing and music is at the heart of her very interesting story.

Having played to a packed house at Coolum when she brought The Divine Miss Bette to the Coast, Alcorn says she is looking forward to sharing her latest offering, which won her the 2014 Glug Award for Best Cabaret Performer.

Go Your Own Way is at the Lake Kawana Community Centre on March 11 at 7.30pm. Tickets are available at scvenuesandevents.com.au.

AWARD-WINNERS SHOWCASE THEIR BLEND OF THE BLUES Combining the legendary soul of the Stax and Motown era with the burning heat and power of Chicago and Memphis Blues, Brisbane’s Blues Arcadia deliver an uninhibited old-fashioned soul stomp revival.

Since their previous award-winning project The Bella Reunion, the songwriting partnership between vocalist Alan Boyle and guitarist Chris Harvey has gone from strength to strength, receiving three nominations in the 2017 Australian Blues Music Awards for their recently released debut EP, of which the lead single Corner Girls, premiered on Triple J’s Roots n’ All program.

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READER’S CORNER The Fifth Letter Author: Nicola Moriarty Publisher: HarperCollins RRP: $29.99 Reviewer: Roxanne McCarty-O’Kane How do you know if your friends actually like you?

Friends since the first day of high school, Joni, Deb, Eden and Trina are now in their 30s and finding it increasingly hard to catch up for their annual girls trip now that husbands and children have been thrown into the mix.

A few too many vinos into one of their first nights in seclusion and they decide to each write an anonymous letter in an attempt to reclaim the closeness they once shared.

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Its contents are scary and show one of the women is in serious danger. But who wrote it?

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COOK UP A STORM FOR A GOOD CAUSE If you have ever fancied sharing kitchen space with celebrity chef Matt Golinski and learning from one of the best in the industry, there is a rare opportunity to do just that.

Golinski has paired up with Patersons Cooking School in Kawana to run a cooking demonstration class in support of the Cancer Council Queensland’s Sunshine Coast Relay For Life.

Participants will get the opportunity to meet Matt and assist him in creating three dishes, which they can then enjoy together in an intimate, relaxed setting.

Sunshine Coast Relay for Life chairperson Dave Ross says numbers are limited, so people need to get in quick.

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spokesperson Katie Clift says more than 3200 people are diagnosed with cancer in the Sunshine Coast region each year and Relay For Life provides funds to support them.

“All funds raised are invested into lifesaving cancer research, prevention programs, and local support services for those affected,” Clift says.

Relay For Life is an 18-hour event involving teams of up to 15 people keeping a baton moving in a relay style walk or run overnight, in support of all Queenslanders, all cancers.

The 2017 Sunshine Coast Relay For Life will be held on May 20 to 21 at University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs. For more information, visit relayforlife.org.au or phone the fundraising hotline on 1300 656 585.

The Matt Golinski Cooking Demo Class will be held at Patersons Cooking School, 134 Grand Parade Kawana on March 11 from 9am to 1pm. Tickets are $140 per person and can be purchased by calling Dave Ross on 0402 300 328 or email dlrmatrix@hotmail.com.

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We will see light and mid-tone hues, as well as greige dominating trends.

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SPLASH OF COLOUR BLENDING THE BEIGE If you haven’t heard of greige, you have most definitely seen it. Just as it sounds, greige is the perfect mix of grey and beige and has fast become the favourite neutral colour of decorators because it goes with everything.

When you next decide to update your home decor, you won’t be locked into a colour scheme and greige looks great with a majority of colours.

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CHANGE OF SEASON GARDEN OPTIONS Autumn really is a second spring. In our climate, as our days become shorter once more and the worst of the heat and humidity begins to ease, gardening becomes much more enjoyable.

Marjorie Van Roy is a horticulturalist and the director of Manawee Garden Centre.

She is passionate about providing advice to customers ranging from the home gardener to the developer.

The aim is to gain pleasure and enjoyment from a garden or a complex.

Having lived both in the southern states and in Queensland, Van Roy has extensive knowledge of both tropical and cool climate plants and their requirements.

Van Roy has a personal interest and love of the French country style, using extensive hedging and pleached trees from magnolias to fruit trees.

The pleasures gained from a well-maintained garden cannot be understated and become an asset to any home.

PLANT OF THE MONTH Some plants thrive no matter the time of year, and Evolvulous Blue My Mind must be one of them.

Combined with its stunning electric blue flowers, this tough, perennial groundcover is a must-have.

Flowering all year, Blue My Mind is heat and drought tolerant once established and will thrive in rockeries, gardens or containers.

As an improved form of the classic Evolvulous, Blue My Mind has larger blooms, re-flowers faster and has a dense, mounding habit.

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This season has been incredibly dry and continues to be across the coast. While the usual rainfall is not occurring it is important to do what we can to sustain our gardens through and after this difficult time.

Many gardeners are familiar with water crystals, and utilise these well, but often these crystals rely on significant amounts of moisture in order to function well.

Searles Penetraide is a re-wetting granule. Designed specifically to allow water to reach deeper down in soils, where the plants roots need it most.

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FASTER AND MORE FURIOUS Nissan has effectively created an Armani suit for their latest GT-R. WORDS: Peter Atkinson, AAP.

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Three words used to describe the Nissan GT-R. By nobody. Ever.

Yet this is how Nissan has chosen to define the latest version of its cultish super car.

Unveiling the recently-updated GT-R – the most hard-edged performance machine ever to emerge from Japan – Nissan executives have painted an altogether more civilised picture of the car affectionately known as Godzilla.

Keep in mind that this car has, for more

than two decades, been on a singular, almost obsessional development path – to be as fast and furious as possible.

Nissan’s benchmark for each successive GT-R iteration is how quickly it can navigate the infamous Nurburgring in Germany – the world’s most famous and treacherous racetrack. So changing its personality, even just a little bit, is a significant step.

Yet it seems to have worked. Meet Godzilla in a nice Armani suit.

Yes, they’ve made this latest GT-R even faster, of course, with an additional 15

kilowatts emitting from the glorious, sonorous 3.8-litre, twin-turbocharged V6.

And they’ve loaded in even more sophisticated electronics and engineering to enhance this new model’s ability to defy the laws of physics with its staggering, pulverising acceleration and rails-like cornering. But perhaps most stunningly of all, they’ve made it nice to ride in. Sort of.

The transmission, sophisticated differentials and all-wheel-drive system still grind and growl at slow speeds. It still has an appalling turning circle.

But there’s no doubt this new GT-R, the most substantial revision since the current model was launched in Australia in 2009, is an unquestionably friendlier thing to drive.

It is also is quieter (inside), more luxurious, better equipped and generally easier to live with than any model to previously wear the badge.

It’s a nod, perhaps, to the changing demographic among GT-R buyers.

This latest GT-R remains one of the most astoundingly focused, formidable, fierce performance machines on the planet, with even more power – 419kW and 632Nm than ever.

The six-speed, dual-clutch transmission is surprisingly smooth when driven as a ‘normal’ car in standard comfort mode.

It’s totally happy chugging around the city in its most benign auto mode – fitting

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The transmission quickly grabs the highest-possible gear to keep that marvellous power plant as calm as possible.

With its massive well of torque it can remain in sixth gear at speeds as low as 50 or 60 kmh, rumbling its way up hills.

The ride, brutally harsh and focused when the ‘R’ mode is selected on the suspension settings, is noticeably softer and more compliant than before.

NISSAN GT-R HOW FAST? You have to ask? Well, there are no official performance statistics for this latest model. But it’s accepted that the previous GT-R could reach 100kmh in a blinding 2.7 seconds – and this one’s quicker. There are only a handful of production cars that can do that – and most of them cost north of $500,000.

HOW BIG? It’s a substantial machine (1700kg) and has tremendous road presence with its impossibly low-slung stance, its big flared guards and massive rear spoiler. Yet inside, it’s snug without being cramped.

HOW THIRSTY? Well, you don’t build a super car to conserve fuel.

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HOW MUCH? $189,000 plus on road costs.

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Experience speaks for itself Kate Jewry has the knowledge, values and experience to deliver you the very best from the market.

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BLI BLI – A COAST PROPERTY HOTSPOT With an enviable location close to the Sunshine Coast’s biggest shopping, health and tourism precincts, it’s no wonder more and more people are checking out what the Bli Bli lifestyle has to offer.

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hen leading property investment publication Money Magazine recently announced Bli Bli as Queensland’s leading property hotspot, it reaffirmed the long-term $500-million commitment made by private developers and the public sector towards major infrastructure within the riverside community.

This major infrastructure investment in residential, commercial, retail and community projects at Bli Bli over the space of a few short years transformed the town from a disconnected sleepy village into one of the most popular residential communities on the Sunshine Coast.

Residential projects such as Parklakes 2, Halcyon Lakeside and Cutters Ridge have emerged from greenfield sites to selling within record time at stunning sales rates.

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redevelopment of the White’s Supa IGA and 13 specialty stores at the River Markets along with the commencement of construction of the Bli Bli Village Centre and the opening of the Maroochy River Golf Course, have all placed Bli Bli firmly on the map.

Bli Bli is also blessed by its location, being less than ten minutes to two of the region’s major multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects in the Sunshine Coast airport and the new Maroochydore CBD SunCentral, while the soon to open 450-bed Sunshine Coast Public University Hospital is just 15 minutes’ drive away.

Parklakes 2 director Robert Flipp says his project has been very successful and

recorded more than 360 sales since it launched in May 2015.

The Halcyon Lakeside over 50s lifestyle community has also achieved record sales results after its release in early 2016.

“We are really proud of the way Parklakes 2 has evolved over the past 18 months, the Halcyon Lakeside Over 50s resort is an integral part of the community as it encourages multigenerational living with families living at Parklakes 2 and grandparents close by at Halcyon Lakeside,” Flipp says.

“The neighbourhood’s waterways are looking fantastic and the new one-hectare central park, which features walking tracks and play equipment, will have an official

“Bli Bli is a community which has delivered on its promises, it is evolving”

opening on Sunday, March 26 and we are organising a fun event to celebrate.

“It’s going to be great to see our residents taking advantage of this amenity and it will go to a new level when the park’s cafe and tapas bar opens mid-year.”

According to local business identities Michael and Roz White, the investment from both the private and public sectors was a driving factor in their decision to push forward with the $20-million Bli Bli Village Centre.

“The Village Centre will include a hotel/tavern, which will be owned and operated by successful local publican Scott Armstrong, whose current portfolio includes the successful Brightwater, Bellvista and Parklands Taverns,” Michael White says.

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locals and just as importantly we’ll have money reinvested into the local economy as residents won’t need to travel outside the town for essential items.

“Bli Bli is a community which has delivered on its promises, it is evolving and I believe there is no reason why it will not continue to be one of the most in demand communities on the Sunshine Coast.”

Division 9 Councillor Steve Robinson says Sunshine Coast Council has also invested heavily in Bli Bli by upgrading and improving community infrastructure such as local walkways, wetlands and a new playground at Muller Park along with new rowing sheds for the Maroochy River Rowing Club.

“We also have funding locked away to improve the Wetlands boardwalk and Interpretative Centre along with $1 million planned upgrades to streetscapes including improving walking and cycle paths throughout Bli Bli,” Robinson says.

“I am confident that Bli Bli will continue to evolve and it is really exciting times for current and future residents as they will enjoy a high-quality lifestyle in a boutique riverfront community.”

The new Prep to Year 12 Catholic school at Parklakes 2 is also set to open in January 2019 and it is expected to cater for up to 1500 students and 100 teachers.

Bli Bli’s evolution will continue over the next few months, so stay tuned for more exciting developments.

Bli Bli’s waterways are pristine and provide a beautiful backdrop for homeowners

BLI BLI’S HALCYON IS GROWING

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facts • The name Bli Bli means ‘many swamp oak trees’.

The Halcyon Lakeside community in Bli Bli is framed by a vista of natural bushland on a unique 13-hectare site overlooking two lakes with 450 metres of lake frontage and access to six kilometres of walking tracks and local shopping. Construction has also begun on the community’s multimillion-dollar Lifestyle and Recreational Precinct, with a resort pool, bowling green, tennis court, pickleball courts and health and wellness centre.

• For many years, Bli Bli was the home of the Sunshine Coast sugar cane industry.

• Bli Bli Provisional School opened in April 1901, becoming a state school in 1909.

• In the 2011 census the population of Bli Bli was 6,283 and is comprised of approximately 50.6 per cent females and 49.4 per cent males.

• The median/average age of the people in Bli Bli is 39 years of age.

• The median mortgage repayment in Bli Bli is $1846 per month.

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For more information: To find out more about the Parklakes 2 community development, contact 5448 6442 or visit parklakes2.com.au.

To find out more about the Halcyon Lakeside community, contact 1800 050 555 or visit lifebeginsathalcyon.com.au.

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PROPERTY

UPCOMING AUCTIONS

MARKET TRACKER

Here’s a preview of hot auctions taking place on the Sunshine Coast in the next seven days:

A list of what’s recently sold on the Coast: 586 BLI BLI RD, BLI BLI $275,000 / Vacant Land

16 KENTISH ROAD, KIELS MOUNTAIN Auction on site Saturday March 11 @ 11am Next Property Group 1300 400 777 Megan Murray 0414 734 929 Craig Porter 0411 554 880

RE/MAX Realty Excellence, Barbara Banks 13 UNDARA AVENUE, BUDDINA $652,500 / 2 bed, 1 bath, 1 car Team Godwin Real Estate, Minka Jenkins

12 Quinine Crescent, Mountain Creek 6/6 COTTMAN STREET, BUDERIM 12 QUININE CRESCENT, MOUNTAIN CREEK

$330,000 / 2 bed, 1 bath, 1 car

SOLD PRIOR TO AUCTION FOR $500,000

Harcourts Buderim, Justin Boyanton

4 bed, 2 bath, 2 car

18-20 MILLSTREAM COURT, BUDERIM

Platinum Properties 5437 8806 Steve Kealey 0437 935 369

16 Kentish Road, Kiels Mountain

The easiest way to check out the latest auction results. Email auctions@myweeklypreview.com.au 8 WAKE COURT, BIRTINYA SOLD UNDER THE HAMMER FOR $600,000 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car Platinum Properties 5437 8806 Steve Kealey 0437 935 369

20 RIFLE RANGE RD, NAMBOUR

$607,500 / 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car

$900,000 / Vacant Land

Harcourts Buderim, Jarrad McCarthy

RE/MAX Realty Excellence, Andrew Kirby

63-65 SAWREYS ROAD, FOREST GLEN

LOT 8, 34 BERNHARDT PL, NINDERRY

1 COWIEBANK PLACE, PELICAN WATERS

$1,025,000 / 4 bed, 3 bath, 5 car

Passed in, in post auction negotiations

Harcourts Buderim, Richard Tucker

$300,000 / Vacant Land RE/MAX Realty Excellence, Barbara Banks

4+ bed, 3 bath, 3 car

AUCTION RESULTS

18-20 Millstream Court, Buderim

Next Property Group 1300 400 777

8-16 SEYMOUR CL, ROSEMOUNT

Kerri Johnston 0412 580 184

$740,000 / 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car

Anne Wallace 0418 769 466

RE/MAX Realty Excellence Conj New Homes,

16 KEPPELGROVE DRIVE, SIPPY DOWNS

Barbara Banks

UNDER CONTRACT POST AUCTION

167 OCEANIC DRIVE, WARANA

3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car

$1,155,000 / 4 bed, 2 bath, 2 car

Platinum Properties 5437 8806

Team Godwin Real Estate, Minka Jenkins

Steve Kealey 0437 935 369

ALEXANDRA HEADLAND UNIT 7 ‘SEA CREST COURT’ 37 EDWARD STREET

1 Cowiebank Place, Pelican Waters

*As supplied by contributing real estate agencies

AUCTION

LIVING IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE Located just one street back from the famous Alexandra Headland surfing beach, you will find this sunny north facing townhouse within a small block of only eight.

This 3 bedroom beauty offers a spacious, open plan layout on the ground floor with lounge, dining and kitchen, and 3 large bedrooms plus an ensuite and full bathroom on the upper level.

Walk out the front of the living area to your private courtyard – perfect for outdoor living. There is a swimming pool at the rear. Easy stroll to the patrolled Alex Beach.

Bonus: low body corp fees.

AUCTION Saturday April 1st at 3:00pm, onsite INSPECT Saturday 2:30 - 3:00pm MOOLOOLABA 5444 0800 JEAN HAMER 0419 034 500 WEB www.fnmooloolaba.com.au Beerwah - 5494 6444 Caloundra - 5438 2166

Maroochydore - 5443 3377 Mooloolaba - 5444 0800

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EASY CARE FAMILY LIVING Positioned on a 366m2 corner block in a private area of the Brightwater Estate, this well-maintained home offers a low maintenance lifestyle. With three large bedrooms, there is plenty of space for a family with additional living options in the form of an additional multi-purpose room. The owners recently created a decked alfresco dining area to maximise outdoor living. There is also a 3kw solar system, tinted windows, 2.6 metre ceilings, gas hot water system and split-cycle air conditioning. Concrete pathways surround the house ensuring minimal yard maintenance and great water drainage.

54 FROGMOUTH CIRCUIT, MOUNTAIN CREEK 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car Offers over $510,000 Harcourts Buderim 5445 2777 Michael Chapman 0422 010 000

Nambour - 5441 1344 Sippy Downs - 5450 1515

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PROPERTY

PRIVATE LUXURY LIVING IN TANAWHA

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uxury living doesn’t get much better than this. This Tanawha home includes a 20-metre pool, spa and professional playground for the kids and inside, a games room with wet bar and adjoining barbecue area, plus a kitchen and separate butler’s pantry make entertaining for the big kids a breeze. Set on a 4002m2 block, this home boasts a private library with in-built custom shelving, loads of storage space and a Sonos music system and Bticino integrated system throughout the property. All of this with a location close to shops, schools and the university.

33–37 TURNBULL PLACE, TANAWHA 6 bed, 7 bath, 14 car Auction on site Saturday March 18 @ 11am Next Property Group 1300 400 777 Craig Porter 0411 554 880

LARGE FAMILY LOTS

STAGE 4 NOW SELLING - LOTS AVAILABLE FROM 708m2 - 1,127m2 LEVEL BLOCKS FR

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$250,000 Stage 3

708m 2

Stage 4

Pathways offers a unique rural setting and is the perfect location to build your dream home or buy one of our affordable house and land packages.

• Conveniently located to schools, shopping, supermarkets and railway station • Just 20 minutes to Maroochydore, Caloundra and Maleny • Country style living with city convenience

Sales office open Wednesday to Saturday 11am to 3pm | Sunday 9am to 1pm | Lower Mount Mellum Road, Landsborough

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AUCTION STUNNING CONTEMPORARY MASTERPIECE...IT’S AS GOOD AS IT GETS 33-37 Turnbull Place, Tanawha Backdropped by native rainforest at the end of Turnbull Place is an impressive private residence unlike any other on the coast. Set on an immense 4,002m2 lot this property redefines modern luxury living. With first rate finishes throughout there’s no mistaking that this is an address where the finer things in life are meant to be enjoyed. If you’ve been searching for the one property that ticks all the boxes, then here it is. From the full media room, to the generous sized office with separate entry, the exquisite master bedroom, to the private guest suite, the ‘shed’ that will house 12 cars, the stunning 20 metre heated in ground pool and jumbo outdoor spa... the list goes on and on. There is really only one way to appreciate this contemporary beauty, and that’s by inspecting in person. Call Craig Porter now.

• 4,002m2 (one acre) of all useable land • Room to house 14 cars • Stunning 20m inground, heated pool • Sonis music system and Bticino integrated system throughout • Full sized media room • Separate over-sized office with own entry • Stunning contemporary masterpiece10/10 • An opportunity not to be missed

1300 400 777 nextpropertygroup.com.au THE NEXT GENERATION IN REAL ESTATE

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6 Bed | 7 Bath | 14 Car

d Auction: On Site, Saturday March 18th at 11am, If Not Sold Prior Inspect: Saturday 1.15pm-2.15pm Craig Porter 0411 554 880

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AUCTION MASSIVE POTENTIAL – INCOME PRODUCING - MUST BE SOLD 16 Kentish Road, Kiels Mountain Located just 10 minutes drive to Maroochydore, Buderim or Nambour sits this centrally positioned 11 acre property which is loaded with potential. Already boasting an annual rental income of approximately $40K with plenty of scope to increase if you wish. A covered breezeway connects the main home to a 2 bedroom cottage with another studio and liveable shed located in their own separate part of the property, giving all, the sense of privacy and isolation You may even want to investigate further development or eco-style resort facilities.

8 Bed | 5 Bath | 8 Car • 11 acres • Private and peaceful • Massive further potential • 10 minutes to CBD • Potential income • Great for entertaining • An opportunity not to be missed

Auction: On Site, This Saturday March 11th at 11am Inspect: Saturday From 10.30am Megan Murray 0414 734 929 Craig Porter 0411 554 880

1300 400 777 nextpropertygroup.com.au THE NEXT GENERATION IN REAL ESTATE

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WORLD CLASS OPULENT PENTHOUSE - MOTIVATED VENDORS 1001/8 Duporth Avenue, Maroochydore The Aurora Penthouse - boasting spectacular panoramic 360° river, ocean and hinterland views. This is your opportunity to buy well below replacement cost. Finished to world class standards and occupying the top two floors of the coveted Aurora building, this is a unique linear penthouse of undeniable refinement. Offering over 700m2 of pure luxury living with an endless choice of entertaining zones inside and out. Including media room, games room, alfresco dining/lounging and 6 person jacuzzi set amongst the clouds. This remarkable penthouse presents an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to secure yourself a trophy sky home of extraordinary space, prestige and luxury. The owners have provided strict instructions - SELL IT NOW!

4 Bed | 5+ Bath | 4 Car • River, ocean, hinterland • 360° awe inspiring views • Commanding the top two floors • World class finishes • Beautiful entertaining balconies • Secure 4 car garaging with storage • Private sauna room

Price: Contact Agent Inspect: By Prior Registration Only Saturday 4-4.45pm, Wednesday 5-5.45pm Karen Jones 0405 122 526

1300 400 777 nextpropertygroup.com.au THE NEXT GENERATION IN REAL ESTATE

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THE BEST 30 ACRE PROPERTY ON THE SUNSHINE COAST - OWNER SAYS “SELL THIS WEEKEND!” 223 Dales Road, Chevallum Everything you could ever want in a dream lifestyle acreage property is on offer here. A contemporary home with all the mod cons you would expect and deserve, combined with 30 of the most beautiful acres you’re likely to find and all just 16 minutes to Mooloolaba or Maroochydore CBD. Previously this stunning property was successfully operating as the very well respected Chevallum Turf Farm and can be again if you desire. A complete prospectus of the business opportunity is available on request. The property could also be easily transformed to become a horse haven or maybe just to run some beef or any other myriad of uses.

4 Bed | 2 Bath | 7 Car • 30 stunning acres • 2 extra-large and deep dams • Business opportunity • 4 bed plus large functional office • Machinery sheds • 6 minutes to Sunshine Coast Grammer • 8 minutes to Sunshine Coast University

Price: Buyers From Mid To High $1 Million Range Inspect: Saturday 9-9.45am Craig Porter 0411 554 880

1300 400 777 nextpropertygroup.com.au THE NEXT GENERATION IN REAL ESTATE

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BOUTIQUE ACREAGE LIVING - 10 MINUTES TO MAROOCHYDORE CBD 126 Glenfinnan Court, Forest Glen This immaculately kept and much loved home has been designed to maximise the natural cooling breezes and the stunning outlook. The thought and attention to detail will become extremely obvious upon your inspection. Boasting four large bedrooms, including a grand master suite, as well as dual living options on the lower level. An oversized office and a sewing room combine with an industrial sized laundry. There is even a refrigerated wine cellar! The fully ducted air conditioning ensures all year round comfort, whilst the high ceiling height throughout adds to the overall feel of space and light in this master-built beauty.

4 Bed | 3 Bath | 4 Car • Dual living option • 4 bed, office, 3 bath, 4 car • Refrigerated wine cellar • Two meticulously landscaped acres • Elevated to capture breeze • First time offered for sale

Price: Suit Buyers From The Mid $1 Million Inspect: Saturday 12.15-12.45pm Craig Porter 0411 554 880

1300 400 777 nextpropertygroup.com.au THE NEXT GENERATION IN REAL ESTATE

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PROPERTY

NORTH FACING AT ITS BEST

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his prestige residence faces the highly sought after north aspect on the water and embodies the Sunshine Coast lifestyle. Built for entertaining with a gourmet kitchen and games room, this architecturally-designed home has five bedrooms and a 20-metre waterfront pontoon with separate boat parking. All of this, on top of a location that places it close to schools, shops, the university and the new health precinct. Light, airy and open plan, this home will suit executives with room for all the family.

104 SUNBIRD CHASE, PARREARRA 5 bed, 3 bath, 3 car Contact Agent Platinum Properties 5437 8806 Steve Turner 0412 679 488

RESORT STYLE LIVING IN THE PRESTIGIOUS ST KITTS 57/7 Grand Parade, Kawana Island Resort style living at its best - this exceptional penthouse in the prestigious St Kitts apartment complex offers tranquillity, privacy and lifestyle. Secure your piece of paradise in this perfectly positioned north facing penthouse with panoramic water views, mooring and multiple private entertaining areas. Award winning restaurants, the billion-dollar health precinct, kilometres of waterfront walk/bikeways and a limitless choice of beautiful pristine beaches are only moments away. Inspect today to appreciate the beauty of one of Kawana Islands most enviable and sought after waterfront locations.

3 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Car • Stunning water views • North facing aspect • Resort style spa facilities • Enviable waterfront lifestyle • Mooring facilities • Stroll to restaurants and shopping • Private entertaining areas

Price: $865,000 Inspect: Saturday 1.15-1.45pm Karen Jones 0405 122 526

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BEACHSIDE BEAUTY Located just one street back from the famous Alexandra Headland surfing beach, you will find this sunny north facing townhouse within a small block of only eight units. This three-bedroom property offers a spacious, open plan layout on the ground floor with lounge, dining and kitchen. The upper level features three large bedrooms plus an ensuite and full bathroom on the upper level. Outside the living area is your own private courtyard to enjoy with friends and family. There is also a swimming pool at the rear of the complex. This property is also an ideal investment opportunity with low body corporate fees.

UNIT 7 ‘SEA CREST COURT’ 37 EDWARD STREET, ALEXANDRA HEADLAND 3 bed, 2 bath, 1 car Auction on site Saturday April 1 @ 3pm First National Mooloolaba 5444 0800 Jean Hamer 0419 034 500

ENTERTAINER’S DELIGHT IN WOOMBYE

86 PLANTATION RISE DRIVE, WOOMBYE 4 bed, 2 bath, 2 car Low–mid $600,000s Riddell Real Estate 5444 1222 Kirk Patrick 0439 395 599 Gary De Paoli 0408 731 412

This immaculate immaculat late e fa fami family mily ly h home ome is set o om on n 842m an 8 42m2 b 42 block. lock lo ck Ou Outd Outdoor tdoo oorr living livin ing iiss a breeze with an entertaining area and inground pool providing the perfect backdrop. Featuring four bedrooms and two bathrooms, there is plenty of room for the whole family. The kitchen features a separate butler’s pantry and caesar stone benches. The property has rainwater tanks plus solar power to keep utilities costs down. The home is located in a convenient position with easy access to schools, transport, shops and services.

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83 Ballinger Road Buderim • • • • •

4 B 2 C 2 E 764 J

Family home with room to expand Brush Box timber floors throughout Colonial charm; Established gardens Spacious kitchen & bedrooms Large under cover deck capturing beautiful breezes

NOBODY IN THE WORLD SELLS MORE REAL ESTATE THAN RE/MAX.*

BUDERIM, 1/10 Lakeshore Avenue

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Secure Comfortable And Convenient Duplex Vendor committed to selling!

• Walk to shops and daycare centre • 50 metres to the bus stop • 50 metres to the park and playground • Well maintained with timber floors • Air conditioned with private courtyard • Seller prepared to meet the market

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Auction: Saturday 18th March 5.00pm, on site Inspect: Saturday 12-12:45pm www.realtyexcellence.com.au ID: 17526125 Darren Rix 0416 188 259 RE/MAX Realty Excellence

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PROPERTY

EMBODIMENT OF NATURAL BEAUTY

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ositioned high on a hill with northerly coastal views encompassing Mount Coolum, this elegant lowset home will delight.

Set on a private 9925m2 easy care bush block, featuring a stunning outdoor terrace, this home is designed to embrace easy living.

Featuring three large bedrooms, the home is immaculately presented and full of natural light with features including hand-crafted stained glass insets, high ceilings, air conditioning, ceiling fans in all rooms and a ceiling rose in the master bedroom. There are two bathrooms and spacious open living and dining.

131–135 CHEVALLUM SCHOOL ROAD, CHEVALLUM 3 bed, 2 bath, 4 car Priced to sell Zeb Realty 5499 9994 Margaret Deighton 0411 399 514

PRIVACY PLUS IN HILLSIDE HOME

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his colonial styled north-east facing home maximises the natural breezes that blow on Buderim. The home offers privacy among a leafy green outlook created by the established gardens. With kiln dried brush box timber floors the kitchen, living and dining all provide views to the tree tops. The large kitchen has ample storage and bench space and the four bedrooms all have built-in robes. The master bedroom includes a private ensuite.

This home is located close to schools, university, hospitals, and a multitude of shopping precincts.

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83 BALLINGER ROAD, BUDERIM 4 bed, 2 bath, 2 car Auction on site Saturday March 18 @ 3pm Belle Property Buderim 5445 6722 Bevan Horsnell 0412 512 257

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PROPERTY

CLASSIFIEDS HOUSES FOR SALE Real Estate

WANTED

2/18 Blackall St, WOOMBYE

5442 1888

OPEN FOR INSPECTIONS & BEST BUYS COES CREEK: 44 Kerrs Lane Sat 11-11.40 Prime Position - well designed family home with northerly aspect. Large open plan living, dining + family room. 4 brms, 2 bath, 2 car + 2 carport. Wine cellar + many extra features WILL NOT LAST! $495,000 throughout.

MODERNISED FAMILY UNIT This unit offers easy living and has been updated with quality fittings and timber floors. The kitchen is modern with plenty of bench space and all windows and doors are fitted with security mesh. The unit has air conditioning and a private courtyard along with secure parking for one vehicle. Centrally located within walking distance of shops this semi-detached duplex is located 50 metres from a park with a playground and has a day care centre across the road. This makes it ideal for a family or alternatively, could be a sound investment opportunity.

1/10 LAKESHORE AVENUE, BUDERIM 3 bed, 2 bath, 1car Auction on site Saturday March 18 @ 5pm RE/MAX Realty Excellence 5476 7654 Darren Rix 0416 188 259

WOOMBYE: 86 Plantation Rise Dr Sat 12-12.40 Many impressive features throughout this immaculate family home. Set on an 842m2 block, with outdoor living and entertaining and pool. The home features 4 bdrm, 2 bath, 4 living areas (internally & externally), Butlers Pantry, Caesar stone benches, rainwater tanks, solar + many more features. A very modern, sophisticated home situated in a very convenient positions, easy access to schools, transport, shops & services.

Motivated Sellers: $635,000 WOOMBYE: 26 McCarthy St Sat 12-12.40 Home with mountain views and located within walking distance to Woombye. Set on a 1042m2 block, 3 brms, 2 bath. Lounge + family room + office with sep. entrance and room for trailer or boat.

Buyers Mid-High $400,000s PALMWOODS: 21 Rainbird Crt Sat 1-1.40 Very impressive home in quiet cul-de-sac. 4 brms, 2 bath, 2 living areas. Well designed home with private backyard (746m2 block).

Lockable workshop. Solar, tank and many more features.

Interest Low $500,000s PALMWOODS: VACANT LAND... Ready to build on.

2 901m block in boutique estate. Walk to Palmwoods. Close to all school, shops and sporting fields. Vacant land in popular Palmwoods is rare. Enquire now. $279,000 DIDDILLIBAH: Buyers High $500,000s Dual Living Opportunity .. Home Business ..

Super Sized Home. 2 separate homes joined by covered walkway. Ideal for dual living, work from home situation, teenagers retreat. In total the home offers – 5 brms, 3 bath, 3 car, verandas with northerly aspect overlooking established gardens. Set on a 1 & 1/4 acre block at the end of a dress circle cul-de-sac.

Two homes for the price of one! Rarely does dual occupancy become available.

Ready to make your move?

Properties are in Demand and are in short supply Wanting to know what your property is worth?

Call today to arrange your free appraisal Riddell Real Estate services all areas of the Hinterland Selling .. Buying and Property Management Properties for your lifestyle Locally owned Local knowledge.... Your local agent Gary De Paoli 0408 731 412 John Pyne 0418 710 209 Kirk Patrick 0439 395 599 Virginia Brown 0400 763 837

Horse property WANTED Do you know someone who has a property to suit our buyers?

They need 5 plus acres to suit their animals.

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TV GUIDE

ABC (CH2)

SEVEN (CH6)

NINE (CH5)

WIN (CH8)

SBS (CH3)

FRIDAY

6pm Pointless.

7.00 News.

7.30 The Link.

8.00 QI. (PG) 8.30 Broadchurch. (M) Ellie and Hardy start to investigate Trish’s life.

9.20 Miniseries: Black Work. (M) 10.05 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M)

6pm Seven Local News.

6.30 Seven News.

7.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

8.30 MOVIE The Theory Of Everything. (2014) (PG) Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior. A look at the life of Stephen Hawking.

11.10 To Be Advised.

6pm Nine News.

7.00 Rugby League. NRL. Round 2.

Brisbane Broncos v North Queensland Cowboys.

9.30 MOVIE Cradle 2 The Grave.

(2003) (MA15+) Jet Li, DMX, Anthony Anderson.

11.30 MOVIE Cheech And Chong: Still Smokin’. (1983) (M)

6pm WIN News.

6.30 The Project.

7.30 The Living Room. Jamie Durie creates a healing sanctuary.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show.

(M) Guests include Matthew McConaughey.

9.30 To Be Advised.

11.10 The Project.

6pm Food Safari.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Great British Railway Journeys: Dover To Lewes. Presented by Michael Portillo.

8.40 MOVIE Michael Clayton. (2007) (MA15+) George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton. A lawyer is called in to deal with a colleague.

SATURDAY

6pm Compass.

6.30 Gardening Australia.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 Death In Paradise. (PG) 8.30 Call The Midwife. (M) A spate of attacks on women rocks Poplar.

9.30 New Tricks. (PG) A cricket prodigy’s death is investigated.

10.30 Newton’s Law. (M)

6pm Seven News.

7.00 MOVIE Iron Man. (2008) (PG) Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges.

9.30 MOVIE The Fast And The Furious. (2001) (M) Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez.

A cop infiltrates an illegal streetracing gang.

6pm Nine News.

7.00 MOVIE Zookeeper. (2011) (PG) Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb.

9.00 MOVIE Fun With Dick And Jane. (2005) (M) Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin.

11.00 MOVIE Be Cool. (2005) (M) John Travolta, Uma Thurman.

6pm Bondi Rescue. (PG) 6.30 MOVIE Ice Age: Continental Drift. (2012) (PG) 8.30 MOVIE X-Men: First Class.

(2011) (M) James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender. A group of mutants matches wits with a former Nazi.

11.10 To Be Advised.

11.50 48 Hours. (M)

6.30pm SBS World News.

7.35 The Wonders Of Britain: Our Coastal Story. (PG) Part 1 of 5.

8.30 Miniseries: When We Rise.

Part 1 of 4.

10.00 Soccer. EPL. Manchester City v Stoke City. From Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England.

SUNDAY

6pm Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery: Susan Carland.

6.30 My Year 12 Life. (PG) 7.00 ABC News.

7.40 Grand Designs. Hosted by Kevin McCloud.

8.30 Vera. (M) Part 2 of 4.

10.00 Winter At Westbeth. (PG) 11.20 The Tunnel. (M)

6pm Seven News.

7.00 My Kitchen Rules. (PG) Hosted by Pete Evans and Manu Feildel.

8.30 Sunday Night. Current affairs program, hosted by Melissa Doyle.

9.30 The Blacklist. (MA15+) The task force chases an elusive assassin.

11.30 Training Day. (M)

6pm Nine News.

7.00 Married At First Sight.

Narrated by Georgie Gardner.

8.30 60 Minutes. Current affairs program.

9.30 Lethal Weapon. (M) A member of the fashion industry is murdered.

10.30 Outback Wrangler. (PG) 11.30 Murder In The First. (M)

6pm Family Feud: Sunday.

6.30 Bondi Rescue. (PG) 7.00 I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! (PG) 8.40 Bull. (M) Dr Bull formulates a new defence strategy.

9.40 24: Legacy. (M) 10.40 Homeland. (M) 11.30 48 Hours. (M)

6.30pm SBS World News.

7.30 Roman Britain From The Air. A look at life in Roman Britain.

8.25 The Boy Who Tried To Kill Trump. A look at the story of Michael Sandford.

9.20 Lost Tribe Of The Amazon. A look at a tribe called the Txapanawa.

10.15 Little White Lie. (M)

MONDAY

6pm Pointless.

7.00 News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Australian Story.

8.30 Four Corners. Hosted by Sarah Ferguson.

9.20 Media Watch. (PG) Hosted by Paul Barry.

9.35 Q&A.

6pm Seven Local News.

6.30 Seven News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 My Kitchen Rules. (PG) Hosted

by Pete Evans and Manu Feildel.

9.00 Bride And Prejudice: The Forbidden Weddings. (M) Follow five couples getting married.

10.10 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell. (M)

6pm Nine News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Married At First Sight.

Narrated by Georgie Gardner.

9.00 House Husbands. (PG) Gemma’s new career is threatened.

10.00 Botched. (M) 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M)

6pm WIN News. 6.30 The Project.

7.30 I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! (PG) 9.00 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Australia. (M) 9.40 Life In Pieces. (PG) 10.40 The Odd Couple. (PG) 11.10 To Be Advised.

11.40 WIN News.

6pm Food Safari.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Michael Mosley: Trust Me, I’m A Doctor.

8.30 Simon Reeve’s Big Life Fix. Part 1 of 3.

9.35 Bear Grylls: Britain’s Biggest Adventures: Yorkshire, Dales.

10.30 The Feed.

TUESDAY

6pm Pointless.

7.00 News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe: The End. 8.30 Bullied: Kelsey. (M) Part 1 of 2.

9.30 Foreign Correspondent.

10.00 Creatives. (M) 10.30 Lateline.

6pm Seven Local News.

6.30 Seven News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 My Kitchen Rules. (PG) Hosted

by Pete Evans and Manu Feildel.

9.00 800 Words. (PG) George fears that Weld is losing its innocence.

10.00 Bones. (M) An old flame pays Brennan a visit.

6pm Nine News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Married At First Sight.

9.00 Travel Guides. (PG) Six groups of ordinary Aussies take on the job of travel critics when they head to Australia’s Top End. 10.00 Schwarzenegger The Celebrity Apprentice. (PG)

6pm WIN News.

6.30 The Project.

7.30 The Biggest Loser: Transformed.

8.30 NCIS. (M) A petty officer escapes from her kidnapper.

9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles.

10.30 To Be Advised.

11.30 WIN News.

6pm Food Safari.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys.

8.30 Insight. Presented by Jenny Brockie.

9.30 Dateline.

10.00 Inside North Korea.

10.30 The Feed.

WEDNESDAY

7.30pm 7.30.

8.00 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery. (M) 8.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M) 9.00 Walliams And Friend. (M) 9.30 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 10.15 Catastrophe.

10.40 Lateline

6pm Seven Local News.

6.30 Seven News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 My Kitchen Rules. (PG) Hosted

by Pete Evans and Manu Feildel.

9.00 Million Dollar Cold Cases. (M) Police reinvestigate unsolved murders.

10.10 Women Who Kill. (M)

6pm Nine News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Planet Earth II: Desert. (PG) 8.40 Murder Calls: Gabe Meyer. A look at the murder of Gabriel Meyer.

9.40 Mafia Women With Trevor McDonald. (M) Part 2 of 2.

10.50 Chicago Med. (M) 11.50 Proof. (M)

6pm WIN News.

6.30 The Project.

7.30 The Biggest Loser: Transformed.

8.30 This Is Us. (M) Kate interviews for a new job.

9.30 Madam Secretary.

10.30 Hawaii Five-0. (M) 11.30 WIN News.

6pm Food Safari.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Tony Robinson’s Coast To Coast. Tony Robinson explores Northern England.

8.30 The Eighties: The Reagan Revolution. (PG) An exploration of the 1980s continues.

10.20 The Feed.

THURSDAY

YOUR PRIME TIME TV GUIDE

6pm Pointless.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Dream Gardens.

8.30 Newton’s Law. (PG) Josephine’s case is complicated by Callum.

9.25 No Offence. (M) Dinah has to solve a chaotic puzzle.

10.15 Lateline.

6pm Seven Local News.

6.30 Seven News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 8.30 When Magic Goes Horribly Wrong. (PG) Stories of when magic performances go wrong.

9.30 Dynamo: Live. (PG) A performance by the magician Dynamo.

6pm Nine News.

7.00 Rugby League. NRL. Round 3.

Melbourne Storm v Brisbane Broncos. From AAMI Park, Melbourne.

8.50 The NRL Footy Show. (M) A look at the latest NRL news.

10.30 Lethal Weapon. (M) 11.30 The AFL Footy Show. (M)

6pm WIN News.

6.30 The Project.

7.30 The Biggest Loser: Transformed.

8.30 Gogglebox.

9.30 Law & Order: SVU. (M) 10.30 Blue Bloods. (M) 11.30 WIN News.

6pm Food Safari.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Great British Railway Journeys.

8.00 Luke Nguyen’s Greater Mekong.

8.35 Sugar Free Farm. Part 2 of 3.

9.30 The Eighties: Greed Is Good. (PG)

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9GEM (CH52)

ONE (CH81)

11 (CH82)

6.30pm Seven Local News. 7.00 News.

7.30 Wild Planet: North America. (PG) 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Property Ladder. (PG) 10.30 Building Dream Homes.

6pm Big Bang. (PG) 7.00 Pawn Stars Australia. (PG) 7.30 Aussie Pickers. (PG) 8.30 MOVIE Inception.

(2010) (M) 11.30 Hardcore Pawn. 12am Ink Master.

6pm MOVIE Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. (2009) (G) 7.50 MOVIE Kung Fu Panda 2. (2011) (PG) 9.35 MOVIE Austin Powers: Goldmember.

(2002) (M) 11.30 Mike & Molly. (PG)

6.30pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 2.

Brisbane Broncos v North Queensland Cowboys. 7.00 As Time Goes By. 7.30 Monarch Of The Glen.

8.40 MOVIE Good Will Hunting. (1997) (M)

6pm Family Feud.

6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG) 7.30 MacGyver. (PG) 8.30 Walker, Texas Ranger. (M) A prisoner escapes jail. 10.30 Highlander. (M) 11.30 Nash Bridges.

(M)

6pm Family Feud.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.05 Malcolm In The Middle. 7.30 How I Met Your Mother. 8.00 The Simpsons. (C) 8.30 MOVIE Playing It Cool.

(2014) (M) 10.30 Sex And The City.

SATURDAY

7pm Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 8.10 Would I Lie To You? 8.45 Live At The Apollo. 9.30 Comedy Next Gen. 10.25 Black Books. 10.50 Catherine Tate’s Nan.

6pm Animal Airport.

6.30 Air Crash Investigation. 7.30 Mighty Cruise Ships.

(PG) 8.30 MOVIE The Bone Collector. (1999) (M) 11.00 Citizen Khan. 11.30 No Reservations.

6pm Football. AFL Women’s. Round 6.

Adelaide v Melbourne.

8.15 Deadly Seas. (PG) 9.15 MOVIE The Amazing Spider-Man. (2012) (M) Andrew Garfield. 12am Hardcore Pawn.

6pm To Be Advised.

7.45 MOVIE Shrek Forever After. (2010) (PG) Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy. 9.35 MOVIE The Green Hornet.

(2011) (M) Seth Rogen, Jay Chou.

7.45pm Netball. Super Netball. Round 4.

Sunshine Coast Lightning v Giants.

9.30 MOVIE An Officer And A Gentleman.

(1982) (M) Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett Jr.

6pm Freddie Flintoff: Lord Of The Fries. 7.00 David Attenborough’s Africa. 8.00 Car Crash Global: Caught On Camera. 9.00 Countdown To Murder.

(MA15+) 10.00 VF Confidential.

7.30pm Malcolm In The Middle. 8.00 Speechless. 8.30 Fresh Off The Boat. 9.00 The Great Indoors. 9.30 How I Met Your Mother. 10.00 Sex And The City.

SUNDAY

7pm Spicks And Specks. 7.30 River Monsters. 8.30 A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures.

10.00 Louis Theroux’s LA Stories. 11.00 My Transgender Kid.

6.30pm Dog Patrol.

(PG) 7.00 Border Security: International.

(PG) 8.00 Border Security USA. (PG) 8.30 Escape To The Country. 11.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features.

6pm Seinfeld. (PG) 6.30 MOVIE The Karate Kid Part II. (1986) (PG) 9.00 MOVIE Collateral Damage. (2002) (M) 11.20 Jail: Las Vegas Jailhouse. 11.50 Ink Master.

6pm The Pig Who Cried Werewolf. 6.10 Book Of Dragons.

6.30 MOVIE Land Of The Lost. (2009) (PG) 8.30 MOVIE Anchorman. (2004) (M) 10.30 Charlie Sheen Roast.

6pm Antiques Roadshow. 7.00 Agatha Christie’s Marple. (PG) 9.00 Major Crimes. (M) 10.00 Rizzoli & Isles.

(M) 11.00 The Closer.

(M)

6pm Family Feud: Sunday. 6.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 Numb3rs. 8.30 Attenborough’s Battle To Save The Tiger. (PG) 9.30 MOVIE The Samaritan. (2012) (MA15+)

6pm Family Feud.

6.30 MOVIE The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

(2004) (G) 8.25 The Graham Norton Show.

(M) 9.25 How I Met Your Mother. 10.25 Sex And The City.

MONDAY

7pm Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Dirty Jobs. 8.30 Louis Theroux: By Reason Of Insanity. 9.30 Extreme South Africa. 10.30 Gruen Planet. 11.05 A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures.

6.30pm Seven Local News. 7.00 Seven News. 7.30 Rosemary & Thyme. (PG) 8.30 Foyle’s War. (M) 10.30 Saved.

(M) 11.30 Bargain Hunt.

6pm American Pickers.

(PG) 7.00 Pawn Stars.

(PG) 7.30 World’s Most Amazing Videos. (M) 8.30 Prospectors. (PG) 9.30 Klondike Gold Fever. (PG) 11.30 Jail: Las Vegas Jailhouse.

12am Heroes Reborn.

6pm Regular Show.

6.30 Adv Time. 7.00 The Middle. 7.30 Science Of Stupid.

8.00 Top Gear. 9.10 MOVIE The Usual Suspects. (1995) (MA15+) 11.20 Two And A Half Men.

6pm Friends. (PG) 7.00 As Time Goes By. 7.40 Trek: Spy On The Wildebeest. (PG) 8.50 To Be Advised. 10.00 Stephen Fry In America. (M) 11.20 Little Britain Abroad.

(M)

6pm Family Feud.

6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG) 7.30 Undercover Boss.

8.30 MOVIE The One. (2001) Jet Li. 10.15 The Crazy Ones. (M) 10.45 Super Rugby Extra Time. 11.45 World Sport.

6pm Family Feud.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.05 Malcolm In The Middle. 7.30 How I Met Your Mother. 8.00 The Simpsons. 8.30 The Simpsons. 9.00 The Simpsons. 9.30 Supernatural.

TUESDAY

7pm Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Dirty Jobs. 8.30 Captive For 18 Years: The Jaycee Lee Story. (M) 9.20 Mountjoy Prison. (M) 10.05 Gruen Sweat.

10.50 Extreme South Africa. 11.45 Hunted.

6.30pm Seven Local News. 7.00 Seven News. 7.30 Kingdom.

(PG) 8.30 Judge John Deed. (M) 10.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive.

(M) 11.30 Bargain Hunt.

6pm American Pickers.

7.00 Pawn Stars.

7.30 Highway Patrol.

(PG) 8.00 Motorway Patrol. (PG) 8.30 Ice Road Truckers. (M) 9.30 Counting Cars.

(PG) 10.30 Car Chasers.

6pm Regular Show.

(PG) 6.30 Adv Time.

(PG) 7.00 The Middle.

(PG) 7.30 RBT. (PG) 8.30 Big Bang. (PG) 9.00 MOVIE Black Hawk Down. (2001) (MA15+) Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor.

6pm Friends. (PG) 7.00 As Time Goes By. 7.30 New Tricks. (M) 8.40 Midsomer Murders. (PG) An arts centre is linked to a murder. 10.50 Cold Case. (PG) 11.50 Scott & Bailey. (MA15+)

6pm Family Feud.

6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG) 7.30 48 Hours. (M) 8.30 Countdown To Murder. (M) 9.30 VF Confidential. (M) 10.30 The Americans. (M) 11.30 Gang Related.

(MA15+)

6pm Family Feud.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.05 Malcolm In The Middle. 7.30 How I Met Your Mother. 8.00 The Simpsons. 8.30 MOVIE Daredevil.

(2003) (M) 10.35 How I Met Your Mother.

7pm Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Dirty Jobs. (PG) 8.30 Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks And Tattoos. (M) 9.30 Cyberhate With Tara Moss. (MA15+) 10.30 The Cyberbully.

11.30 Gruen Sweat.

6.30pm Seven Local News. 7.00 Seven News. 7.30 Jonathan Creek. (M) 8.30 Inspector Morse. (M) 10.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive. (M) 11.30 Bargain Hunt.

6pm American Pickers.

7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. (PG) 8.00 Motorway Patrol.

(PG) 8.30 MOVIE Dumb And Dumber To. (2014) (M) Jim Carrey. 10.45 American Pickers.

6pm Regular Show.

(PG) 6.30 Adv Time.

(PG) 7.00 The Middle.

(PG) 7.30 BattleBots.

(PG) 8.30 MOVIE The Matrix. (1999) (M) Keanu Reeves.

11.10 Airplane Repo.

(PG)

6pm Friends. (PG) 7.00 As Time Goes By. 7.30 Death In Paradise. (M) 8.40 Agatha Christie’s Poirot. (PG) 9.50 Silent Witness. (MA15+) 11.00 House Of Cards.

(M)

6pm Family Feud.

6.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 Bondi Rescue. 8.00 To Be Advised. 8.30 David Attenborough’s Africa. 9.30 Todd Sampson’s Body Hack.

(M) 10.30 VF Confidential.

6.30pm Neighbours.

7.05 Malcolm In The Middle. 7.30 How I Met Your Mother. 8.00 The Simpsons. 8.30 The Simpsons. 9.00 Futurama. 9.30 Son Of Zorn. 10.00 Bob’s Burgers.

7pm Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Dirty Jobs. 8.30 The Weekly.

9.00 The Inbetweeners. 9.25 Catherine Tate’s Nan. 9.55 Broad City. 10.30 Gruen Sweat. 11.10 Comedy Next Gen.

6.30pm Seven Local News. 7.00 News.

7.30 The Vicar Of Dibley. (PG) 8.30 MOVIE The Shawshank Redemption. (1994) (M) Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman. 11.30 Bargain Hunt.

6pm American Pickers.

(PG) 7.00 Beverly Hills Pawn. (PG) 7.30 American Dad! (M) 8.30 Family Guy. (M) 9.30 The Big Bang Theory. (PG) 11.30 Hardcore Pawn. (M) 12am Ink Master. (M)

6pm Regular Show.

6.30 Adv Time. 7.00 Middle. 7.30 Survivor: Game Changers. 8.30 MOVIE Something Borrowed. (2011) (M) 10.45 MOVIE My Best Friend’s Girl. (2008) (MA15+)

6pm Friends. 6.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 3. Melbourne Storm v Brisbane Broncos. From AAMI Park. 7.00 As Time Goes By. 7.40 RPA. 8.40 Embarrassing Bodies.

6pm Family Feud.

6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG) 7.30 Car Crash Global: Caught On Camera.

(M) 8.30 Cops: Adults Only. (PG) 9.00 MOVIE Firewalker. (1986) Chuck Norris. 11.10 Graceland.

6pm Family Feud.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.05 Malcolm In The Middle. 7.30 How I Met Your Mother.

8.00 The Simpsons.

8.30 Bondi Ink Tattoo Crew. 9.30 Dating Naked.

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19°C MIN

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Possible shower Possible shower Saturday 11/03/17

19°C MIN

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Sunday 12/03/17

21°C MIN

Monday 13/03/17

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SURF REPORT

with MWP’s man in the water

Julian Wilson is certainly primed for the Quiksilver Pro, starting next week… cannot wait. Would be great to see him fighting for a world title come December. But this year is going to be a hard road, as everyone seems to be surfing out of their skin. It would be great to see the best man win. Beating John John will be a huge task.

Waves this weekend are on, especially Saturday so get your rocks off. I think everyone has been starved so don’t be greedy, unless of course you are surfing on your own bank – then you need to feast like viking! And rest when ya dead.

Is it true big sharks like Mal riders and boogie boarders? Umm…interesting.

FISHING REPORT with Wayne Nilsson from Maroochydore Fishing World

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7pm Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Dirty Jobs. 8.30 Catfish: The TV Show. 9.15 My Transgender Kid. 10.05 Gruen Planet.

10.45 Penn & Teller: Fool Us.

FRIDAY

ABC2 (CH22)

WEDNESDAY

4-DAY FORECAST

THURSDAY

DIGITAL CHOICE

ESTUARY: Quality whiting taking yabbies along the Twin Waters, northern bank of the Maroochy River on the night high tides. Bream and flathead taking whitebait at the southern end of Goat and Channel Islands.Trevally and chopper tailor at the motorway bridge on lures.

SURF: Dart and sand whiting on pippies at the Maroochy Bar. Tailor and flathead along Maroochy north shore and between the sand bag walls on the southern side beach at Maroochy. Shovel nosed rays and sharks at Alexandra Headland on mullet fillet.

OFFSHORE: When conditions allow. The close in reefs for maori cod, moses perch, squire and sweetlip with snapper, pearl perch and trevally on the Barwon Banks. Spanner crabs east of Coolum. Mackeral caught this week off Coolum.

FRESHWATER: Somerset Dam working well for bass, golden perch and jew with live shrimps and deep diving lures the best. A great weekend away from the coast can be had at Bjelke Petersen Dam with good catches of bass and golden perch with red claw thrown in as well. Locally, Lake McDonald and Borumba have both been returning saratoga, bass and Mary River cod on flies and lures.

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20)

TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21)

GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21)

With Mercury moving into your sign, it’s a wonderful week to rethink your approach to a personal problem. Talking things over with a trusted friend will also help you view the situation from a totally fresh perspective.

Procrastination is out and being proactive is in, as Mars charges through your sign. So get motivated; initiate ideas; take action! Of course, with Venus in retrograde motion, there will be plenty of problems and frustrations along the way.

Saturn pushes you to fulfil your relationship responsibilities, both at work and at home. Are you leaving all the serious decision-making up to your partner? Singles – look for lasting love with someone who is dependable and emotionally mature.

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Mistaken impression (8) Stretched tight (4) Morally weak (5) An English cheese (7) Vivacious (4-8) Requiring speedy action (6) Move up and down (6) Cheerful (5-7) Grandly (2,5) Laud (5) Incandescence (4) Sympathies (8)

DOWN

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Dexterous (4) Inclination (7) Russian author, once exiled (12) Sit in (6) Inspection of accounts (5) Refuse to consider (4,4) Author of Animal Farm (6,6) Remote (8) To sugar (7) Go back (6) Zest (5) With the addition of (4)

SCATTERWORD

JUNIOR X-WORD

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CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 23)

LEO (JUL 24-AUG 23)

VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23)

This week will run more smoothly if you roll up your sleeves and be a disciplined and conscientious crab as you re-organise your daily routine, plus prioritise and streamline tasks.

And resist the temptation to be a cream-bun-eating couch potato!

Lions love to live it up, as you constantly press the ‘let’s overdo everything’ button. But this week Saturn puts the brakes on, and reminds you of all your current responsibilities and the long list of jobs you haven’t yet completed.

You don’t usually shirk your responsibilities but this week you’ll be so busy (and stressed) that you may inadvertently overlook an important matter. If you don’t pull your weight (for whatever reason) then expect a major reality check.

LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23)

SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22)

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21)

You’re keen to catch up socially with friends and workmates. Creativity is also highlighted but (with your ruler Venus in retrograde mode) don’t be deterred by ongoing challenges. Hard work and calm consultation will take you far!

This week, strive to be firm yet flexible with a stressed family member and avoid getting drawn into frustrating arguments (which will get you nowhere fast). A parent or close friend has some sensible advice that you may not want to hear.

Are you viewing a project, a domestic situation or a family member through ridiculously rose-coloured glasses?

This week Saturn urges you to be more realistic about what’s going on.

Smart Sagittarians will slow down and do the research that’s required.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20)

AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19)

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20)

This week’s sun/Saturn square boosts your ambitious side, your perfectionist streak, and your incredibly close attention to detail.

But do your best to get the balance right between being conscientious and being creative.

Are your dreams achievable? Or are you being unrealistic about a project that’s due? Perhaps you need to get others on board and delegate more?

If you think creatively, work hard and capitalise on your group connections, then you’ll eventually taste success.

Creativity is high and your imagination and intuition are firing.

But the lines between fact and fantasy could become blurred so it’s not a good time to make important decisions (especially involving work or money).

Solve all the clues and reveal the eight-letter word spelled down the middle of the grid.

SUDOKU

LEVEL: HARD

A small piece of cheese or bread Large Asian country A light meal Book of maps TV host, – DeGeneres Someone who flies a plane To pass something Connects your leg to your foot

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

GOOD 17 BETTER 21 BEST 23 1003

SCATTERWORD: UNFAILING, inguinal, failing, gainful, ailing, nilgai, lingua, annuli, filing, fining, ingulf, lignin, lining, final, algin, align, fling, fungi, fail, fila, fain, gain, ilia, lain, nail, ling.

JUNIOR X-WORD: Crumb, China, Snack, Atlas, Ellen, Pilot, Throw, Ankle (CASSETTE)

CROSSWORD: ACROSS: 1 Delusion 5 Taut 9 Frail 10 Cheddar 11 High-spirited 13 Urgent 14 Seesaw 17 Light-hearted 20 In style 21 Extol 22 Glow 23 Feelings DOWN: 1 Deft 2 Leaning 3 Solzhenitsyn 4 Occupy 6 Audit 7 Turn down 8 George Orwell 12 Outlying 15 Sweeten 16 Recede 18 Gusto 19 Plus

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SWEAR WARS Richard O’Leary says we have no one to blame but ourselves when our kids swear.

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an I have a farking water please?” my four-year-old son asks us at the dinner table.

“Sorry, what do you want?” asks

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“A farking water, please” my son replies with his butter-would-not-melt-in-his-mouth face.

My wife and I exchange glances, half accusatory, half guilty, until I intervene.

“At least he said please.”

After our son points to what he wants on the table we share a light bulb moment, and relief. He wants the sparkling water.

That was a few years ago now and my son no longer struggles to pronounce the ‘sp’ sound or get his tongue around an ‘l’ following a ‘k’, so any swearing is learnt behaviour rather than linguistic error.

There are few worse sounds than a child cursing, but we have no-one to blame but ourselves – if they don’t hear it, they don’t say it.

Children mirror us, and my family has learnt a few truths from our kids’ occasional varied vocabulary: 1. My wife swears more than I do (at least in front of the children – although the words she uses are terribly tame).

2. Interestingly, so does my mum (although her cursing is very 1950s – “bloody” is the peak of her profanity.

3. I’m more of a substitutor – to the point where my kids think “far out” is a naughty expression.

Although I am prone to the odd blaspheme, which may explain why my youngest in particular has a fondness for shouting a certain messiah’s name when frustrated.

That’s not to say I don’t swear when I’m not around the boys, after all I was brought up on building sites, started my career in newsrooms and have spent a large portion of my adult lighter in

political offices.

I drop the ‘f’ bomb on a fairly regular basis, although I’m not a fan of the ‘c’ word, adopting the same approach as Elmore Leonard takes with exclamation marks: keep them under control, you are only allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

Most of the time I swear through laziness (inserting a curse in place of an ‘um’, or for emphasis (I call it rhetorical underlining).

But occasionally I also bring out the full kit and caboodle if I hurt myself, and here science is on my side. Studies show swearing increases electrical conductance across the skin, which in turn makes the heart pump faster, and lessens pain.

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