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Nippers of Peregian Peregian Nippers experienced their first mini-carnival for the year last Sunday as the fledgling surf club continues to build up its members.

As the youngsters learn the skills they need to be safe in the surf and eventually learn to keep others safe, adult are signing up to become lifesavers and volunteers at the Peregian Beach Surf Club.

For more on the nippers carnival see page 41

Quarry quandary

By Margaret Maccoll More than 20 hinterland residents are acting as secret agents as they gather evidence for Noosa Council to back up its legal case against operators of the Kin Kin Quarry.The quarry operates under a legal license but residents say increased truck movements to more than 200 a day to and from the quarry is threatening their lifestyle, businesses, mental health and safety on the road.

As the evidence is mounting Council is putting pressure on the quarry in the form of fines

for breaches of its Quarry Management Plan (QMP).

At a roundtable meeting last Friday Council announced quarry operators Cordwell Resources had been issued a further $27,000 in fines, bringing the total over the past four months to $80,000, none of which has been paid.

To assist in preparing Council’s legal case, residents have volunteered to complete a 30-question survey. It asks them to detail the current environment, the nature of the impact of more than 200 truck movements daily,

dust problems in the area, plus it seeks their thoughts on the best way to address community concerns.

Mayor Clare Stewart said residents were best placed to describe the environment, noise impacts and other amenity issues which relate directly to the quarry’s truck movements.Kin Kin Community Group president Jan Bonsall said depression and anger were rife in the community because of the impact of the trucks.

“It’s ruined paradise,” she said. The majority of us went to live in Kin Kin to get out of

suburbia. We didn’t go there to have it inflicted upon us. If you think of 200 trucks a day, that’s fairly disruptive. It’s not consistent with the idyllic life you want to take up.”

Ms Bonsall recalled a recent incident where a mother taking her young children to school over the range was forced to swerve over to the edge of the road when she met a truck on a corner. “She’s terrified,” she said.

Ms Bonsall said the community was appreciative of the effort being put in by council and Ms Bolton.

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Locals combine efforts to rescue a beached whale shark at Noosa National Park.

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Locals save shark

By Abbey Cannan Beach-goers joined forces in a remarkable event in Noosa on Wednesday as they helped rescue a juvenile whale shark struggling in shallow water.

Noosa resident Carley Jane Pan saw the animal becoming stuck between rocks off Noosa National Park before jumping in with a group of locals to set it free.

Carly said it was a very unexpected yet amazing experience.

“My husband had just been for a surf and we were walking down the hill towards the National carpark and we saw there was a whale shark floundering around really close to the edge,“ she said.

“I thought it was really strange, I’ve lived here for 20 years and never known whale sharks to be in the area even, let alone close to the rocks.

“It became clear it was really trying hard to beach itself on the rocks and so about 10 people jumped in the water to help rescue it.

“It flipped over at one stage and a couple of guys managed to turn it over. One of its fins was edged under the rocks so we just had to wait until the water washed up and then we managed to pull it off.

“It kept circling and trying to come back but everyone sort of stood in its way and tried to steer it back out to sea and eventually it ended up in deeper water at Little Cove.“ Carly said the whale shark felt like sandpaper.

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What a week it was when a whale shark came to Noosa for a swim around the national park.

People travel far and wide to swim with whale sharks but a few lucky people were in the right place at the right time to rescue the magnificent animal when it floundered on the rocks and grab a rare opportunity to have a close encounter.

Now the holidays are over and Noosa has slowed down a little is everyone happy to take it easy or are you all missing the festivals and events we have all come to know?

There are a number of events on the near horizon this month including a VW show, Noosa Eat and Drink High Tea Soiree and Summer Swim.

But after a year without crowd gathering events are you left yearning for them, enjoying the quiet time or just plain bored.

According to a UK psychologist Sandi Mann, the author of The Upside of Downtime: Why Boredom Is Good, boredom can be a good thing for your mind, imagination and productivity.

Boredom can spark creativity and be good for your mental health.

At its core, boredom is “a search for neural stimulation that isn’t satisfied,” Mann said. “If we can’t find that, our mind will create it.”

Boredom can enable creativity and problem-solving by allowing the mind to wander and daydream. “There’s no other way of getting that stimulation, so you have to go into your head,” Mann said. You may be surprised by what you come up with when you do.

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“We’ve got grazes on our legs and hands where we got scratched, which you wouldn’t think it would feel like that.“ The Australia Zoo Rescue Team, veterinarians and veterinary nurses responded to reports of the stranded whale shark.

“Upon arrival, the team met with The Department of Environment and assessed the animal’s health,“ an Australia Zoo spokeswoman said.

Dr Jaimee from the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital believes the young shark may have entered shallow waters to avoid predators, where it became disoriented and stressed.

“Thankfully, when the shark made its way into deeper water, it was much more relaxed and swimming very well,“ Dr Jaimee said.

“The team spent most of the day ensuring the whale shark was okay.“ Life savers and rangers will continue to monitor the animal.

In 2019, Wildlife Warriors partnered with Ecocean to further research these secretive endangered animals.

“Since partnering, we have responded to calls of other whale sharks in unusual places,“ the spokeswoman said.

“In 2019, we monitored a whale shark that swam into the Wenlock River in Queensland’s Cape York.“ To support Australia Zoo’s whale shark research and rescue work, visit wildlifewarriors. org.

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Playground flood risk

By Margaret Maccoll Noosa Council was both applicant and assessor when a Special Meeting was held last week where councillors gave the nod for the Cooroy Adventure Playground at Maple Street to proceed along with an associated 56 extra car park spaces.

That the threat of flooding dominated the discussion was not surprising given Council’s consulting hydraulic engineer was of the view that “the proposed use as a playground was incompatible with the nature of the sites flood constraints, as the proposal will actively encourage people (including children) to congregate in an area with known flood risks. To put it simply, if a child or an elderly person remains on site during even a minor (with a 50% chance of occurring in any given year) flood event, in the majority of locations on the site they will be at risk of serious injury or death,“ the engineer’s report said.

“It is therefore incumbent on Council as both the proponent and assessment manager to be confident that there is no reasonably foreseeable likelihood that the public will remain on the site during a flood event.“ To address the risk to people, Council submitted a revised Flood Risk Assessment and Emergency Management Plan (FRAEMP).

The plan included an audible and visual flood warning system, design changes to prevent increased flooding or visitor isolation and fencing designed to lie down during a flood event so as not to impede flood waters or cause a blockage.

Mayor Clare Stewart said she was satisfied flooding risks raised by the hydraulic engineer could be mitigated to provide a good and safe outcome.

Also raised in discussion was the existence of dioxins and furans in the soil across a 30 cubic metre area at levels exceeding available guidelines and thought to be left over from

Artists impression of the proposed playground at Cooroy. the land’s prior use for wood treatment and oil storage. Councillors voted on the submission of a Remedial Action Plan which includes the removal and disposal of soil within the 30cubic metre area prior to the playground opening.

The extra 56 car parking spaces proposed in the application include 22 car spaces within Lower Mill Road area, 12 new parking spaces on the western side of Maple Street (as well as a new zebra crossing on Maple Street) and 22 new parking spaces on the southern side of Mary River Road west of the existing ten-

nis courts.The proposed playground includes a number of different play areas including a frog pond, water play, climbing and event precincts. An amenities building is proposed along the Marara Street frontage with picnic shelters located around the site. These structures include pitched roof forms, green roofs and timber screening.

Other features include timber towers, slides, and walkways within a landscaped setting with pathway links into the existing pathways to the north and south.

The playground concept was first mooted in 2003. In 2018 Form Architects were engaged to design the Cooroy Hinterland Playground and in 2019 Council received State Government funding of almost $2.8 million (60 per cent of the playground cost) to construct it.

Last week councillors voted unanimously in favour of the project.

Cr Joe Jurisevic described the project as a significant opportunity for Cooroy with the benefits far outweighing the negatives.

Satanism request, ‘nothing but a stunt’: minister

By Margaret Maccoll Satanic religious instruction to be provided

by The Noosa Temple of Satan has been requested from the families of at least two school children but Education Minister Grace Grace is not entertaining the prospect of it being allowed in Queensland state schools.

The Noosa Temple of Satan spiritual leader Brother Samael Demo-Gorgon said two Brisbane families had written to principals at Wilston State School and Centenary State High to request The Noosa Temple of Satan be allowed to enter classrooms and provide classes in the same way as other genuine religions.

He said under departmental guidelines the religious group is required to submit a curriculum and principals need to allocate a slot in their timetable.

Education Minister Grace Grace de-

Brother Samael Demo-Gorgon at Noosa Council last year. scribed the request for Satanism to be taught in the schools as “nothing but a stunt“.

“Satanism has never been taught in Queensland schools and it won’t be on my watch,“ she said.

However Brother Samael said to refuse permission would mean the government was acting against its own Queensland Human Rights Commission Anti-Discrimination Act and he would be making a formal complaint.

Noosa MP Sandy Bolton said her office had never been contacted by parents in the electorate regarding Satanist religious instruction.

“However we have been asked in the past that time given for religious instruction be either relegated to religious education where all beliefs form part of curriculum, or for wellness studies that encompasses strategies for dealing with stress, improving selfesteem and heathy relationships,“ she said.

“This I have brought up with the Minister previously and during estimates, as excellent programs such as Healthy Harold could be incorporated into every school’s curriculum to better assist in decreasing the increasing

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statistics of DV, addictions and self-harm.“ Ms Bolton said parents should direct any concerns over curriculum content to their principal or the department and copy her office in. Regarding discrimination, the appropriate channels for any determinations are via either the Queensland Human Rights Commission or the Australian Human Rights Commission, she said.

While Brother Samael pushes for satanic instruction in schools he was successful in having the religion’s spiritual symbol, the pentagram, added to the symbols of recognised faiths displayed at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital’s multi-faith centre.

Brother Samael said while visiting the hospital’s multi-faith centre recently his request for the pentagram to be displayed was granted.

“I asked to be a chaplain as well. I’m waiting to hear from them,“ he said.

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Dead body washes up

By Abbey Cannan A dead body washed up on Rainbow Beach during the early hours of Monday morning.

A Queensland Police Service spokesman said police were on scene just before 5.30am.

“We are investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery of a man’s body on the beach this morning,” the QPS spokesman said.

“We are currently being assisted by the Lifeflight helicopter, however the investigation is only in its infancy”

Police investigating the scene where a dead body was found at Rainbow Beach.

The dead body of a man has been found on Rainbow Beach.

New camping rules at Teewah Beach

By Abbey Cannan New camping rules have been put in place at Teewah Beach to reduce the risk of falling rocks injuring campers.

Due to the popularity of camping at Teewah Beach, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service are implementing the changes to improve visitor safety and provide park visitors with “better camping experiences“.

In recent weeks, lazy campers have left broken tents and rubbish on the pristine beach, and Noosa MP Sandy Bolton is hoping these new rules will help put an end to that.

“The changes are a start, however much still needs to be done to ensure everyone enjoys these unique spaces,“ Ms Bolton said.

“The Cooloola Teewah Working Group resume their meetings today after a hiatus during COVID, and I have a meeting scheduled with our new Minister this month.“ The open camping area will be divided into seven separate camping zones, allowing campers to choose a zone to camp before arriving at the site.

To address the rock fall issues, an external risk assessment on the foredunes and beach ridges above Teewah Beach was undertaken

and identified sections of beach with a high risk to rock fall.

These areas are now closed to camping with ‘Danger no camping’ signs installed to mark these locations.

The majority of the no camping areas are located at the southern end of Teewah Beach towards Noosa North Shore and for this reason zones 5, 6 and 7 are smaller zones with lower camper capacity to reduce overcrowding.

Teewah Beach camping zones are available to book at www.qld.gov.au/camping.

Fighting for life

By Abbey Cannan A man in his 60s is fighting for life after being pulled from a house engulfed in flames in Eumundi on Sunday night.

The man was airlifted by rescue helicopter to Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in a critical condition after sustaining upper-body burns from a house fire on Bush Tucker Court at 5.45pm on 31 January.

A Queensland Fire Emergency Service (QFES) spokesman said they had three fire rescue crews and two rural fire service crews on the scene just before 6pm.

“The initial report was that there was a house fire and a carport with a couple of vehicles alight,“ the spokesman said.

“The roof of the carport had collapsed, so it was bad enough to cause that much damage.

“The crews could see flames at the front rear of the building and estimated that about a quarter of the house was engulfed in flames when they got there.“ The spokesman said once the fire was out, QFES left the scene to the Queensland Police Service (QPS) at about 8.05pm.

A QPS spokesman said the house fire related to a self-harm, mental health matter.

A man has been left with burns to roughly 80 per cent of his body after a house fire in Eumundi.

Lazy campers left broken tents and rubbish at Teewah Beach.

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Gary’s heart and sole Local resident Gary Cooper will start his ‘Heart and Sole Challenge’ walking the Sunshine Coast Coastal Pathway from Pelican Waters to Tewantin on Saturday 6 February local to raise $20,000 for Zephyr Education Inc, to assist children who have been affected by domestic violence.

As local children all head back to school this week, Mr Cooper is stepping it up to raise awareness for children who are not equipped with support and resources to tackle a new school year due to the impact of violence.

Mr Cooper does not let being blind and non-verbal get in the way of helping others and giving back to his community. His mother, Roz Cooper, could not be more proud and will be walking beside her son every step of the walk.

“It is really important to Gary that all children have an equal chance at life and that the money raised will go directly to supporting local children’s participation in extra-curricular activities such as school camps, music lessons and sporting equipment,” Roz Cooper said.

“Gary tries not to let the things he can’t do

get in the way of doing things he can do and even though he is blind and non-verbal, he thoroughly enjoys the satisfaction of being able to help others.”

Established in 2013, Zephyr Education Inc currently supports the educational needs of children in 96 shelters and family services organisations throughout Queensland from the Gold Coast to Weipa and west to Mt Isa. Zephyr Education Inc’s co-founder and President, Isabella Bevan, said that they have just experienced their busiest month preparing children for the school year.

“In 2020 we helped 1150 children start school and we estimate that this year we will exceed that figure with over 1000 school packs assembled before the end of November last year that included textbooks, stationery, lunch boxes and school bags,” Ms Bevan said.

“Many of these children arrive at domestic violence shelters with just the clothes they are wearing and it is vital for their self-esteem and continuing education that they fit into their new school. We ensure they have the same uniform, books and equipment as every other child.”

Mr Cooper is hoping that he can encourage as many people as possible to donate to this important charity and that they can also feel the satisfaction of giving back to the community - the same way he does.

“Walking 96km is a massive effort for Gary and he will be motivated to achieve his target by people joining him on the walk and giving him encouragement and donations,” Ms Cooper said.

“Gary’s walk will culminate at ‘Gary’s Heart and Sole Fundraising Event’ at the Harbour Wine Bar, 5.30pm Thursday 11 February, where people are encouraged to come along to enjoy some live music, a silent auction and go into the draw for a lucky door prize.”

Donations can also be made directly to Zephyr Education Inc by visiting their website https://zephyreducation.com.au/support-us/ donations/ and reference ‘GARY’ so that progress can be tracked. People will also be able to keep up to date with his progress by checking his Facebook page www.facebook.com/garysheartandsolechallenge

Gary Cooper is raising $20,000 for Zephyr Education Inc, helping children impacted by domestic violence.

Quarry legal case gathers momentum From page 1 “We know it may not end up with our ultimately gain of no quarry but if we can bring it back to normal levels we’d be happy,” she said.

“The truck drivers are there to do a job.

The roads are not fit for purpose.”

Noosa MP Sandy Bolton said she had written to the Premier and relevant state government departments demanding further action for the safety of residents.Ms Bolton said assessment of the road 10 years ago found it was inadequate to deal with 80 truck movements a day and now there were more than 200. She said there had not been an assessment done on the the capacity of the road to deal with the tonnage.

“This issue is a priority for all of us and we are awaiting the engineer assessments of the haul route and timber bridges by Transport and Main Roads,” she said.

Ms Bolton said no mechanism existed to review quarry operations which raised concerns not only for the Kin Kin community but other operations across Queensland.

Last Friday the latest of several roundtable meetings initiated by council to bring stakeholders, including state and local government representatives and residents together, discussed evidence gathering measures. A quarry representative attended earlier roundtable meetings but due to the impeding legal proceedings was not invited to Fridays meeting.

The quarry was approved by council in 1987 subject to conditions contained within a Quarry Management Plan (QMP) that addresses site operations and traffic management but not extraction limits or the number of trucks permitted on the haul route.

“This is a Quarry Management Plan we

Noosa MP Sandy Bolton inherited,” Cr Stewart said. “It would not be approved today if it came before council.”

“My message to the quarry operators is they have a license to trade however they are clearly in breach, so stop breaches. Stop engaging in behaviour that is effecting the community. These operators are part of the community so this has an effect on them.”

The meeting was the latest step in a collaborative process to address the need in the community associated with the increased movements of trucks, Cr Stewart said.

She said the next steps involved council continuing to work with the community for the next month or two to gather evidence.

Cr Stewart said council would take on the costs of the legal process and further talks with a preeminent Brisbane-based Barrister were scheduled to take place in coming weeks with an aim to finalise the legal case for the Planning and Environment Court.

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The originals of Peregian

By Margaret Maccoll Peregian Beach market stalwarts Trevor and Cher’ie Venning have just sold their farm but that won’t stop them from continuing to sell local produce as they have done there for the past 29 years.The Vennings have lived in the region all their lives but they come from strong stock accustomed to meeting the changes and challenges that come their way.

Trevor Venning grew up at Verrierdale in a street that carries his name. He attended Verrierdale’s one-teacher State School where he was one of 26 students.

“When I was a child growing up you could go to Noosa from Coolum and to Coolum from Yandina and there was nothing in-between,“ he said.

His parents, Les and Mary Venning, bought their Verrierdale farm from Mr Verrier dating their ties to the region back to 1944.

Mary was born in Yandina but Verrierdale must have been a far cry from where Les grew up in Bath, England, and his journey here wasn’t one he had planned.

Les had a violent father so he ran away from home and hid in a ship, Trevor said. For a month Les lived off the grain stored in the ship before he was caught in Scotland and put into an institution before being sent to Australia.

He was 15 or 16 years of age and never saw his parents again.

Trevor and Cher’ie Venning at Peregian Beach Markets.

After meeting and marrying, Les and Mary bought 15 acres from Mr Verrier for their family farm.

“My father worked at the Eumundi Butter Factory. My mother grew flowers. My sister sold them at the Eumundi markets,“ he said.

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and it marked the beginning of a long relationship with markets for the family.

Trevor and Cher’ie built a house in 1961 on an acre block of Les and Mary’s land before acquiring their own 50 acre farm at nearby Litfin Street, farming bananas on 20 acres of it and selling them at markets across the region as

well as some at Rocklea markets, now Brisbane Marketplace.

The farm has always been run just by the family. The couple’s eldest son worked the farm after he left school but was tragically killed in a car accident. Four years later their second son left the school and worked the farm before gaining employment with animal producers Jacobsen Bloodstock in Verrierdale.

“We sold 100 cases of bananas a week,“ Trevor said. “We had to make the cases, then they brought in cardboard.“ Trevor and Cher’ie were instrumental in establishing a number of markets in the region including Gympie and Kandanga where they sold their bananas.

“We had so many bananas,“ Trevor said.

But three years ago Panama disease hit the farm, wiping out their entire crop.

“We lost the whole lot of 8000 plants within two years,“ Trevor said. “We lost everything.“ However the farmers battled on with eggs from their chickens and lychees grown on the farm.

At their markets they set up their stall selling their own produce alongside a variety of produce from neighbouring farmers.

Having sold their farm they have agreed with the new owners to continue working their lychees.

Noosa Target to go, but Kmart will return as K Hub Target Noosa will shut its doors this Saturday 6 February but will reopen on 26 February after it has been transformed into a Kmart K Hub. The Noosa Junction store will be one of

50 stores across Australia, including one at Gympie, to become a new K Hub. According to their website the new stores will take their most popular Kmart products across kids, home and clothing and display them in

a smaller format store.

To prepare for the expected increase in customers to the new store an extra 15 staff have been employed to join the existing 11 staff.

There are sales on at the outgoing Target so get in quick to score yourself a bargain before the doors close on Saturday.

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Chamber looks to future The towns of Noosa’s Northern Hinterland have a bright future focussed on nature-based adventure tourism and sustainable businesses that honour the environment and preserve the characterful identity of villages says Phil Moran, president of the newly-formed Pomona and District Chamber of Commerce Inc. (PDCC).

The Chamber formed in September last year as businesses in Pomona and surrounding satellite villages considered how they could emerge stronger and more cohesive following the COVID-19 pandemic. The group was incorporated officially in early January and is recognised by the Queensland Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It has about 40 members and will be looking to expand this membership following incorporation. The PDCC represents businesses in the towns of Pomona, Cooran, Kin Kin and Boreen Point.

Working together, the businesses involved believe they can look to each other for mutual support, promotion and advocacy that strengthens local commerce and job creation.

“It was a big step to reinstate a Pomona Chamber and bring in other communities, but in the end we realised that our future is together, linked by initiatives such as the Noosa Country Drive and the Noosa Trail Network upgrade that recognises Pomona the ‘hub town’ for adventure-based tourism expansion,” Mr Moran said. Kin Kin forms the northern hub under the plans endorsed by Noosa Council and Tourism Noosa.

“A Chamber representing the whole region allows us to become a unified voice when dealing with the council and other levels of government. Sensible growth and development is inevitable, but it must not come at a cost to what we have now. Keeping our lifestyle, scale and connection to the natural environment are important and should not be compromised,” he said.

“Residents want a say in what happens and the Chamber will be mindful of that as we seek

Pomona and District Chamber of Commerce president Phil Moran greater definition around council and government planning for this region to 2031 and beyond.”

PDCC seeks to provide, united leadership and advocacy on matters relevant to business in the Northern Noosa Hinterland communities.

Mr Moran said: “We want to make a posi-

tive difference to the district’s economic and business health by influencing future development consistent with Noosa lifestyle values, through achievable policy solutions underpinning local identity. And we will encourage innovation and sustainable growth that respects the environment.”

At Cooran, the Chamber supports lo-

cal moves to make that town the first in Queensland to be powered 100 per cent by renewable energy. “This is just one example of the innovative thinking going on in the hinterland - including the rural sector, where we will work closely with organisations such as Country Noosa,” he said.

The Chamber hopes Pomona will be the town Noosa Council chooses to be the subject of a pilot ‘place-making’ study in 2021. It also wants to open a dialogue with Noosa Council about parking issues, quarry truck impacts on businesses, such as noise and dust, as well as safety, greening of village streets and connected pathways at Cooran and Pomona (so-called active transport solutions).

“Greener towns are cooler places as we combat the effects of climate change and the more we encourage the take-up of walking and cycling to get about, we make life less congested and more relaxed,” Mr Moran said.

“Hopefully the Chamber also will become the place where those with a business idea or concept can come so that we can assist with information, or put them in touch via networking to others who can help get new ventures off the ground.

“As city-based people realise they can work from home just as easily in the Noosa hinterland or can bring forward plans for innovative and sustainable businesses based locally, household wealth accrues through higher house prices, but we must recognise that comes at a cost to housing affordability.

“The villages of the Northern Hinterland have a role to play in providing affordable housing options under the new Town Plan - including the possibility of tiny house enclaves.”

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Ballet birthday surprise

By Abbey Cannan Proving age is no barrier to doing what you love, a Noosa ballet dancer has reached his 80th birthday with a special surprise from his idol.

Reigniting his passion after moving to the Sunshine Coast, Leon Daulnais was able to meet his favourite ballet dancer, Queensland Ballet Artistic Director Li Cunxin.

To top off the exciting meeting, Li personally signed his book “Mao the Last Dancer” for Leon.

FitBarre teacher Angelika Burroughs said it was the best birthday present for the ballet fan.

“It’s inspirational to have Leon in our class,“ she said.

“I hope to be able to do what he does in 30 or more years of time despite my past dance injuries.

“He is fantastic proof that age is no barrier to do what you love, revoke your passion and stay fit with it.

“I hope his example will make people think, re-value daily life and motivate them to open the new doors of joyful experiences.”

Angelika said Leon was a true gentleman.

“Male dancers have been trained from a very young age how to treat a lady well, support and take care of her,” she said.

“This training hasn’t changed in 600 years, since ballet began in the 15th century.”

Ballet ‘Giselle’ made a significant impression on five-year-old Leon, when his Mum took him to see it as a child.

Leon loved it so much that some years later, at the age of 16, he walked into his local ballet studio.

Vale Joan Halliday was his first inspiring, unforgettable teacher at the Halliday Dance Centre in Sydney.

“Miss Vale Joan was a revered figure in Australian dance history,” Angelika said.

Leon Daulnais with his favourite ballet dancer, Queensland Ballet Artistic Director Li Cunxin.

“Dancing with Kirsova Ballet Company, Borovansky ballet (which later became The Australian Ballet) and Ballet Rambert Joan and her sister Monica became RAD (Royal Academy of Dance) examiners and teachers for many years.”

Leon’s second ballet teacher, Valrene Tweedie was an Australian dancer, teacher and choreographer.

“Tweedie was the only Australian dancer to audition successfully for the Ballet Russes companies that visited Australia between 1936 and 1940,” Angelika said.

“She joined original Ballet Russe in 1940 at the age of 14. Valrene then changed her name to Russian - Irina Lavrova and danced extensively in North and South America with the ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and ballet Theatre.”

Leon danced until he was 29, when he realised that he needed a stable job and became a hairstylist.

Achieving a successful career in Sydney’s central, elegant Elizabeth Arden’s boutique, opened the doors for Leon to relocate to an

Leon Daulnais, 80, still attends FitBarre classes in Noosa every week. even more prestigious Elizabeth Arden salon in London.

Some years later, his passion of learning new skills and eagerness to explore brought him to Hong Kong where Leon enjoyed his life-

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Li was highly surprised to hear that it wasn’t their first meeting, as they had previously connected in Hong Kong after one of his touring performances.

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Third degree for Christina A Brisbane-raised business analyst who worked in investment management and finance in London for 10 years has graduated from USC with her third degree - to become a midwife.

Christina Carde’s new Bachelor of Midwifery, with a University Medal for Academic Excellence, has already delivered her longed-for career change at age 46.

“I’m incredibly excited to have received a position as a Registered Midwife in the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service 2021 graduate program,” the Bokarina resident said.

“It’s where I did my clinical practicum, which included obstetric emergency training.

“I’m really looking forward to this tremendous opportunity to consolidate my practical and theoretical midwifery knowledge as I move into professional practice.

“My long-term goal is to bring about positive change in Queensland maternity services to support more women with perinatal mental health vulnerabilities and to strengthen their capacity as new mothers.”

In an unusual twist, Ms Carde will be working alongside colleagues from her previous job as a business analyst for the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (SCHHS).

“I chose the midwifery profession during my time at the SCHHS because I saw the significant impact that the incredible midwifery team were having on the health and wellbeing of the women and families within our region,” she said.

The midwifery profession is personal for Ms Carde, who is the mother of two teenage boys.

“I had two very different birth journeys and I felt that I had a lot to offer in terms of my lived experiences,” she said.

“My own experience of a traumatic birth and a personal struggle with the undiagnosed postpartum PTSD have ensured that I’m aware of the significant role that a midwife has in identifying and supporting mothers most at risk.”

Christina Carde at her workplace at Sunshine Coast University Hospital.

Ms Carde studied at USC alongside her husband Richard, who has almost completed a Master of Cyber Investigations and Forensics. And her eldest son has enrolled at USC to study Information and Communication Technology this year.

“Our sons have been really proud of our achievements,” said Ms Carde, who earned a grade point average of 6.82 out of 7.

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Hatchlings clean-up ter collected at this annual event has continued to go down, showing that our community is becoming more proactive and responsible in how they dispose of their rubbish.

“Less rubbish on the beach and in our waterways is good for our environment, our wildlife and our turtle hatchlings.

“This season already, we’ve seen two clutches of turtle hatchlings emerge and make their way out to the ocean, and there are more to come over the next two to three months.

“When they are in their post-hatchling stage, at 10-40 centimetres, they float to the surface and eat everything around them, usually plankton and little jellyfish, but also, unfortunately, a lot of plastic.

“By cleaning up rubbish from our waterways and beaches, and reducing litter in gen-

eral, we’re helping the survival rates of these hatchlings and other marine wildlife.”

Clean Up for the Hatchlings is an annual event, now in its eighth year, hosted by Sunshine Coast Council, in partnership with Reef Check Australia, Unitywater, SEA LIFE Trust and Clean Water Group.

Following the clean-up activities, hundreds of volunteers enjoyed a free barbecue, activities, speakers and more at La Balsa Park in Buddina where they also weighed and sorted the debris collected, contributing to the Australian Marine Debris Initiative (AMDI) database.

Groups nation-wide input their information into the AMDI database, recording the location, quantities and types of marine rubbish collected, to give an overview of the impact on

beaches across the country.

Council’s Environmental Operations Senior Project Officer and event organiser Raeleen Draper said the data collected of the day would informed source reduction projects.

“Some of the top items picked up were cigarette butts, single use plastic items such as straws, cutlery and plastic food packaging.

This year we also saw an extraordinary amount of microplastics - and unfortunately there was even two couches collected from Warana,” Ms Draper said.

“By entering data into the Australian Marine Debris Initiative database, it helps government and the community come up with solutions to reduce rubbish at the source so it doesn’t end up at the beach and in our oceans in the first place.”

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A reduction in the amount of rubbish collected at Saturday’s (January 30) clean up for the hatchlings event has left organisers with a smile on their dial.

A total of 495.5 kilograms of rubbish was picked up by 697 volunteers from 19 locations across the Sunshine Coast - 100 kilograms less than last year.

The reduced amount of litter collected has left organisers with the hope that a genuine behaviour change around littering is setting in.

Environment Portfolio Councillor Peter Cox thanked the 697 volunteers who joined in the clean-up effort.

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Noosa top results in QLD As the new school year begins, Noosa District State High School is celebrating the achievements of their 2020 graduates who have achieved outstanding results.

Marijn Van der Kooij, Lillie Mellin and Jake Missett achieved in the top one per cent of all students in Queensland’s Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR).

Marijn is enrolled at the University of Queensland to study a Bachelor of Advanced Finance and Economics Honours.

Lillie has been accepted into the University of New South Wales for a double degree, Bachelor of Medicine and Doctor of Medicine, while Jake is chasing his dream of becoming a film director, pursuing a career in the cinematography industry.

Noosa District State High School’s Principal Brett Burgess was thrilled by the results of the Year 12 students, especially the top 16 per cent of the Noosa High cohort who achieved ATAR scores above 92.00.

“In fact almost 40 per cent of all Noosa students achieved an ATAR above 80.00 which is up there with the best in the state and certainly Sunshine Coast leading,” Mr Burgess said.

“It was through the hard work and dedication of teachers, students and parents throughout their schooling that has enabled achievement at this level.“ NDSHS has a recent history of achieving excellent OP results and now ATAR results, with over 40 per cent of Year 12 students pursuing tertiary and further studies.

All students from the 2020 Year 12 cohort (175 students) gained their Queensland Certificate of Education by passing 20 or more units of study.

“It is clear that Noosa District families do not need to spend tens of thousands of dollars on private school fees to access a first class education. Our results speak for themselves and our students results are among the best in Queensland,” Mr Burgess said.

The Year 12 students who received an ATAR of 92.00 and above visited the NDSHS Cooroy Campus on Wednesday 27 January to thank their teachers and to publicly receive acknowledgement for their academic success.

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Join in at Climate change talk at Peregian Beach Peregian Beach residents will face the threat of coastal erosion in the decades ahead according to Noosa Council modelling and need to work on mitigation measures.Peregian Beach Community Association presiden, Marian Kroon said local modelling showed public amenities in Peregian Park around the surf club would reach ‘medium risk’ of coastal erosion by 2040, and ‘high risk’ by 2070, while the backyards of some homes along the beachfront on Lorikeet Drive in South Peregian were also in the ‘low risk’ category.

Marian said Council’s Climate Hazard’s Adaptation Plan underlines the high cost of replacing existing public infrastructure such as the picnic area, skatepark, and parking areas should they be damaged as a result of coastal erosion.

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strengthen our dunes and the vegetation that helps them remain intact.

“No one is better placed than the local community to work on the ground with our Council and State Government to help manage this risk.”

The guest speaker at the Association’s February meeting will be Council’s Climate Change Adaptation project coordinator Grant Hinner who will discuss Council’s draft Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan and advise on the proposed actions that the community can take.

“Community stewardship has an important role to play both in raising awareness of the risk and in the implementation of adaptation options,” Marian said. “PBCA members have long been active in dune restoration and other mitigation activities, and we look forward to learning what else the community can do to protect our precious coastal environment”.

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Parents rejoiced as they dropped their kids off at school and waved goodbye at the bus stops for the first week of Term 1 in 2021.

“Woo hoo. It’s time to cheer. Oh the immense joy I feel, come this time of year,” Good Shepherd Lutheran College parent Lisa Lee said.

Good Shepherd Lutheran College had 148 new students enrol in the new year from Prep to Year 11 including two sets of twins, one in Year 7 and identical girls in Year 8.

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Montessori Noosa students are excited to be back to school in the new year.

The school will be aiming to bring joy and connection after a tough and isolated 2020 school year.

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By Abbey Cannan After a lack of connection in the past school year created anxiety for some students, Montessori Noosa says they are deliberately enforcing strategies that bring joy in 2021.

Montessori Noosa principal Richard Wallace said there was a sense of renewed energy and confidence this year.

“Perhaps it’s a newly acquired resilience,“ Mr Wallace said.

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were keen to connect, families were too. It was a very positive start to the year and it continued all week.” Mr Wallace said there was no doubt 2020 was a challenging year for students and teachers, as there was an extra Covid layer of anxiety that affected everyone.

“Students who already suffered anxiety had it intensify, people who were typically able to cope and support others were often less able,“ he said.

“It also led to a coming together and in some ways though difficult, the school was able to provide a support network even if it was online.“

While students are generally quite adaptable when it comes to technology, 2020 forced schools to adapt quickly and coherently to the situation.

“Now that school is back as usual, these systems are still in place,“ Mr Wallace said.

“So for example, a student who is unwell can still make contact with a teacher and work from home. Interesting this has also occurred when a teacher was unwell and students were working with a supervising teacher.“ He said the biggest shift in 2021 will be a renewed effort to create and sustain quality connection.

“The practical operation will, return to something like it was before, with improved IT systems and skills,“ Mr Wallace said.

“The biggest change is social. If absence makes the heart grow fonder then where there was an inability for school events to take place, when we are able these will take on increased value.

“We are being deliberate about strategies that ensure 2021 has joy. Obviously this is about fun events and connection but its also about caring for one another so there is a confidence that whatever may come, people are connected.“

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Home on Hastings

By Phil Jarratt

Una with memorabilia.

Picture: ROB MACCOLL

One-time Laguna House girl Una Johns remembers the halcyon years of Noosa Heads village.

“When did we decide we didn’t want to live on Hastings Street any longer? When couples started having sex on our front lawn!”

The wonderfully colourful Una Johns, once a Laguna House girl and a belle of Main Beach, tells it like it is, or was. That’s her style, has been since she came down from the hills at 15 with her sister Marie to work at Noosa’s poshest guesthouse, and at 86 she sees no reason to change.

This writer encountered the lady’s frank approach many years ago when the French were exploding nuclear bombs in the Pacific and I foolishly suggested in an allegedly humorous column that people should scratch Peugeots in protest. Alarmed at what might happen to her brand new blue Peugeot, Una Johns rang and gave me a frank lesson in responsible journalism.

I published an apology the following week, which Una pulled out of her clippings file when we finally met in person last week, and we had a good laugh about it. A youthful and charming octogenarian, Una shared stories from her adventurous life, occasionally prompted by daughter Sandra, who grew up on Hastings Street, in the days when you could.

The Hines family were itinerant farmers, so Una and Marie grew up constantly on the move, finding themselves at Tuchekoi in the Noosa hinterland in their early teens during a horrific three-year drought. Says Una: “There

was no money coming in so we just had to go out and work.”

Thirteen-year-old Una fibbed about her age and got a job at Gympie’s Northumberland Hotel, where she first made news serving the Queensland governor. Later, she and Marie worked at the Pomona pub before accepting live-in jobs at Laguna House on Hastings Street.

Then in the hands of the Gilchrist family, Laguna House was in its heyday in the late 1940s and ‘50s, a huge establishment that dominated the inlet side of Hastings Street and managed to combine old world charm with a casualness befitting the sand and gravel village. Una recalls: “In those days guests would come up in the train and then get the bus from Cooroy in time for a late lunch that we’d prepare. We’d finish that and then all go swimming and come back of a night for the dinner shift. There were six of us and we had a small wage but we also had our accommodation and meals. A lot of men came down from Gympie and they’d take ‘bachelor pads’ that we had to be careful around when doing the cleaning.“The dining room was very nice and clean. We had to do the silverware twice a week. Guests had the same table year after year, and the same families came back and you got to know them all. I waited on one family from Brisbane who had six children and they always asked for me to serve them. Oh, that was hard.”

Laguna House was always full of interesting characters, and so was the street out front, where John Paterson, “Mr Vita-Tan”, would park his Rolls when he arrived from the Gold Coast, ever eager to rub his mutton bird oil over the Laguna girls when they walked past.

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Una (left) with sister Marie in Laguna House days.

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Happy days at Laguna House.

Then there was Pop Calvert, a rich squatter from the Darling Downs who came every year and parked his silver Jag right in front.“We really thought that was something,” Una recalls.

“Every Friday all of us six live-in girls would jump in the Jag and Pop would drive us over the hill to where the Junction is now and we’d pick wildflowers for the dining room tables, then come back and do the arrangements. We worked very hard but we also spent plenty of time on the beach, and we had a roster so each of us got a weekend off every few weeks.

“Sometimes of a night we’d go up to Freeman’s farm along the goat track and fill up sugar bags with fruit and vegetable for Laguna and then slide back down the track, where the steps are now. Saturday nights we’d go out to country dances at Kenilworth or Belli in Ken Gilchrist’s big Chevy. He was the boss’s son.

Sometimes those dances would go till 3am, and if there wasn’t a fight, it wasn’t a good night.”

At one of the weekend dances, the Hines girls met the Johns boys, and although she wasn’t initially impressed, Una and Ken Johns were soon an item, while Marie took up with Jimmy Johns. A former airman 11 years Una’s

senior, Ken was an athletic man with a quiet authority about him, a bit of a dasher. Says Una: “I was in the toilet at one of the dances one night and a girl came in and said to her friend, ‘That Ken Johns can put his shoes under my bed any time.’ That was when I thought I’d better keep an eye on him.”

“I think both Dad and Uncle Jimmy were considered to be very eligible bachelors,” Sandra Johns adds quietly.

The Johns family owned what seemed like half of the beach side of Hastings Street, their interests stretching from Edgar Johns’ Beachview Flats, where Netanya Noosa Resort is now, to Edgar’s Seaview Flats at the edge of The Woods, passing along the way Colin Johns’ Beachcomber Flats, Cyril Johns’ Bayview (later Barry’s Bistro), a family home, the Johns’ Seabrae Caf¨¦ and general store. Edgar also had a dairy farm at Lake Weyba and his eggs, cucumbers and watermelons supplied the town.

They were Noosa’s quiet achievers. Says Una: “You have to remember that money meant nothing in Noosa in those days.” Sandra adds: “You ran out of cash, you sold a block of land.”

Within a couple of years, the Johns brothers and the Hines sisters were happily mar-

Picture: COURTESY PICTURE NOOSA ried. Both couples lived on the beachfront and raised their children there in a blissful existence interrupted only occasionally by storms and cyclones, at which time Ken and Jimmy and every other owner on the front would disappear to a quarry and make their own protective rock walls.

Ken and Jim were handy bodysurfers and, watching from their verandas, often swam out to rescue bathers, or reported shark sightings that closed the beach. Ken also ran a hose down from the house to loosen the hard sand save a small child buried at the water’s edge.

And in between heroics, business was good and there were the endless family barbeques on the beach, grilling the catch of the day.

But by the 1980s, the real world was starting to catch up with sleepy Noosa - tourists parked in their driveway and abused them when asked to move, laughed when they saw the clothesline in the middle of a famous tourist strip, and there was the odd amorous adventure on the lawn. Plus rates had gone sky high.

The brothers sold out in 1987 and Ken and Una bought the house she still lives in near Weyba Creek and took a succession of well-earned world tours. Does she miss it?

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Ken Johns in his front yard. Picture: SUPPLIED

The Johns family Seabrae Cafe on the Main Beach sandhill.

Picture: SUPPLIED “Never. The kids might have a bit, but I’m happy where I am. They drag me down to Bistro C, which is where our house was, for birthday lunches once a year, but that’s enough for me.”

Background information on Noosa in the 1950s is with grateful acknowledgements to Hastings Street, Stories from Noosa’s Past, by Emma Freeman.

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Tourism industry united in calling for more support National and state tourism bodies have been united this week in urging the Commonwealth Government to provide targeted support for tourism operators set to struggle beyond the scheduled end date for the JobKeeper program.

QTIC Chief Executive Daniel Gschwind said, “JobKeeper has been a highly effective lifeline for tens of thousands of businesses in our industry. Many will still struggle to survive without some support as long as international borders remain shut and uncertainty remains over domestic travel conditions”.

The Federal Government has been firm in its plans to cease the current JobKeeper program in March this year.

Queensland’s Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, echoed the industry’s call for a continuation of tourism business support after industry consultations in Cairns. The region is heavily affected by the continued suspension of all international travel and domestic uncertainty.

“We welcome the Premier’s support on this issue,” Mr Gschwind said.

QTIC is part of the Australian Tourism In-

dustry Council (ATIC), bringing together all state and territory tourism councils. ATIC has written to the Prime Minister, Treasurer and Trade and Tourism Minister, making the case that a properly targeted support program for affected businesses is required to maintain the viability of the industry and to retain skilled staff required for the recovery.

QTIC also raised the ongoing desperate need for business support in Friday’s Senate Committee Hearings in Brisbane into The future of Australia’s aviation sector, in the context of COVID-19 and conditions post pandemic.

Mr Gschwind said, “The industry’s case has been stated clearly by all state tourism councils, including QTIC, and consistent with other national industry bodies, including the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI). While parts of the economy are recovering, many tourism operators are still under severe stress, caused by the COVID travel conditions.”

“The long-term cost of letting businesses fail will far exceed the potential cost of investing in those businesses that will need support beyond the end of JobKeeper.”

Chaplain commissioning

By Ian Jobling The Chair of the Noosa Regional Chaplaincy Committee (NRCC), Russell McGuire, has invited all chaplains from state schools throughout the Noosa area, and members of the Noosa community to the Annual Commissioning Service to be held on February 15.

School chaplains provide social, emotional and spiritual support to all students, staff and children, and the prayers and support of local Christians and the wider community provide an empowering factor for them.

As well as having an opportunity to speak to the school chaplains about their roles and challenges in schools over afternoon refreshments at 4 pm, those attending will be given a brief overview of the Chaplaincy programme

by SU QLD Field Development Manager Sunshine Coast, Steve Kilah.

Tewantin State School Principal, Rob Jennings, will outline what the Chaplaincy programme delivers in schools, and Member of

Parliament Llew O’Brien will relate how chaplains impacted his life.

Lisa Klein, a chaplain who works in both a primary and secondary school will then speak about her experiences, joys and challenges.

The hour-long event will conclude with a formal commissioning of the chaplains by local clergy members, representing a number of Noosa Churches. Interested persons are welcome at this significant milestone in the life of the school chaplains. Please register to attend at http://suqld.org.au/noosa The Commissioning Service will be held at Noosa Christian Outreach Church, EumundiNoosa Rd, Noosaville on Monday 15 February.

Afternoon refreshments will be served upon arrival at 4pm so there is an opportunity to meet and chat with the Chaplains. The service will commence at 4.30pm and finish at 5.30pm.

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MONDAY

THE AMAZING RACE AUSTRALIA WIN, 7.30pm

After watching the first few episodes of this mad dash around the country, you may find yourself in two camps: 1. You are inspired to plan an action-packed adventure.

2. You’re tired just thinking about it. The Amazing Race Australia has brought together a diverse bunch of travellers who are all keen to get their hands on the prize. Tonight, they are going to need more than just pep to get through a round that leaves some scratching their heads at the cryptic clues. Beau Ryan hosts.

FRIDAY

BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS SEVEN, 7pm

We really could have done with some tips from the Better Homes and Gardens crew over the summer break, but alas, they had to have their holidays too.

Thankfully they are back tonight for the 27th season and the good ideas just keep coming. While some fashion trends may appear to be on a cycle, home fashions – particularly gaudy 19a80s-era exteriors – should be put to pasture for good.

Tonight, Johanna, Charlie and James (above) make over the front of a house that is stuck in the most unfashionable of decades. They show how with a few affordable tweaks to the garden, the fence and the front door, the garish can be glorious once more.

MONDAY

MAN OF STEEL 7MATE, 8.30pm

This re-imagining of the Superman tale, directed by Zack Snyder (Watchmen), produced by Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) and starring British hunk Henry Cavill (The Tudors, right), has blockbuster written all over it, but delivers an unexpectedly grittier tale than its predecessors. Cavill is brooding as the superhero who dons steel (rather than tights), ditching the comical elements of the classic to embody a serious, lonely Clark Kent who, upon discovering his extraterrestrial origins, unloads mass destruction in his fight to save Earth. Starring Amy Adams as Lois Lane and Russell Crowe as Kent’s biological father, the story has a different feel, which might displease comic-book tragics, but this glossy take should hold viewers captive with its abundance of rip-roarin’ action.

The clever casting crew behind this crime-drama did an excellent job of nabbing British heartthrob Ioan Gruffudd to play the lead. Sometimes you just need a wildcard to be the point of difference among all the other crime-dramas out there (and let’s face it, his smile doesn’t hurt, either). Not that you’ll see much smiling in this season three return as Dr Daniel Harrow (Gruffudd) investigates the death of a young man who claimed to be his son. The news shocks those close to him, but Harrow is pushed to reveal a chapter of his past.

But just like in many of the cases his team investigate, it’s best not to take things at face value. A welcome return to our screens.

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SEVEN (7)

NINE (5)

WIN (8)

6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Q+A. (R) 11.00 The Pacific: In The Wake Of Captain Cook With Sam Neill.

(PG, R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Back Roads. (PG, R) 1.30 The Ex-PM. (Ml, R) 2.10 Unforgotten. (Final, Mal, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 The Heights. (PG, R) 4.30 Back Roads. (R) 5.00 Escape From The City. (Final, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Where Are You Really From?

(PG, R) 2.30 Great British Railway Journeys.

(PG, R) 3.00 NITV News: Nula. 3.30 Great British Railway Journeys. (R) 4.00 Who Do You Think You Are? (PGa, R) 5.05 Letters And Numbers. (R) 5.35 Jeopardy! (PG)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Runaway Millionaires.

(2019, Mal, R) George Zhao.

2.00 House Of Wellness. (PG) 3.00 The Chase. (R) 4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News.

12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG) 1.00 MOVIE: Fierce Creatures.

(1997, Mls, R) John Cleese.

3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (R) 5.30 Nine News Local. The latest news, sport and weather.

6.00 Headline News. 7.30 Entertainment Tonight. (PG, R) 8.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGal) 1.00 Jamie & The Nonnas. (R) 2.00 10 Travlr Northern Territory. (R) 2.30 Entertainment Tonight.

3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG) 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum. Analysis of the day’s news.

7.00 ABC News. Takes a look at today’s top stories.

7.30 Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat. (Final) Nigella Lawson prepares mac ‘n’ cheese.

8.05 Vera. (Mv, R) DCI Vera Stanhope and her team investigate a 30-year old mystery.

9.35 Mystery Road. (Final, Mdlv, R) Jay and Emma have to prove who really murdered Reese, before Marley is jailed for a crime he did not commit.

10.30 State Of The Union. (Ml, R) 10.40 ABC Late News.

10.55 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (R) 11.25 Aftertaste. (Mls, R) 11.55 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Uncovering France’s Roman City. A look at the city of Nemausus.

8.35 Who Do You Think You Are? Jack And Michael Whitehall. (PG) Father-and-son comedians Jack and Michael Whitehall investigate their family tree.

9.45 My Grandparents’ War: Helena Bonham Carter. (PG, R) Part 1 of 4.

10.40 SBS World News Late.

11.10 8 Out Of 10 Cats. (Mals, R) 12.00 Twin. (Mal, R) 3.30 MOVIE: Alias Ruby Blade. (2012, Malv, R) Xanana Gusmao, José Ramos Horta. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven Local News.

6.30 Seven News.

7.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

(Return) Host Johanna Griggs and the team demonstrate some terrific ideas for the house, garden and the kitchen, as well as effective and appealing ways to renovate, cook and decorate.

8.30 To Be Advised.

1.00 Harry’s Practice. (R) Information about pet care.

1.30 Travel Oz. (R) Greg heads to the Sunshine Coast.

2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 My Greek Odyssey. (PG, R) Hosted by Peter Maneas.

5.00 NBC Today. News and current affairs.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Tennis. ATP Cup. Day 4. Night session. From Melbourne Park.

10.30 MOVIE: Double Jeopardy.

(1999, Mlsv, R) A woman who was convicted of murdering her husband, learns he staged his own death.

Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones.

12.30 Award Winning Tasmania. (R) An exploration of Tasmania’s Tarkine region.

1.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

(R) Clancy is taken hostage.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Global Shop. Home shopping.

4.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 A Current Affair. (R)

6.00 WIN News.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 The Living Room. (PGl, R) Miguel Maestre makes two Japanese-inspired meals. Dr Chris Brown meets a wombat.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show.

Graham Norton chats with Hollywood star Sam Neill, actor Billie Piper, Cold Feet star James Nesbitt, comedian Andi Osho, and music legend Tom Jones who also performs his song No Hole In My Head.

10.30 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news.

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) Hosted by Stephen Colbert.

1.30 Home Shopping. (R)

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch. Noon Basketball. NBA. Atlanta Hawks v Los Angeles Lakers. Replay. 2.00 Post Radical. 2.50 Hunting Hitler. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 Only Connect. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering.

7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Hoarders. 9.20 City Porn. 10.10 Housos. 11.10 Monogamish. 12.10am VICE News Tonight. 12.35 MOVIE: Cellar Dweller. (1988, M) 2.00 The Movie Show. 2.30 NHK World English News. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News.

5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

7TWO (72) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon Room For Improvement. 12.30 Australia’s Best Backyards.

1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Weekender. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Dog Patrol. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Selling Houses Australia. 10.30 Property Ladder UK. 1am The Fine Art Auction. 4.00 Australia’s Best Backyards. 4.30 Escape To The Country. 5.30 Home Shopping.

9GEM (52) 6am TV Shop: Home Shopping. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Days Of Our Lives. 12.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.00 Antiques Roadshow. 2.30 MOVIE: Till Death Us Do Part. (1969, PG) 4.30 Tennis. ATP Cup. Day 4. Night session. 7.30 David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds, One Planet. 8.40 MOVIE: The Lady In The Van. (2015, M) 10.50 MOVIE: The Big Chill. (1983, M) 1am TV Shop: Home Shopping.

BOLD (81) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman.

Noon Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 L.A.’s Finest. 3.00 Bondi Rescue.

3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 12.30am Home Shopping. 2.00 Nash Bridges. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 4.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.00 Jake And The Fatman.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Tree Of Life.

Continued. (2011, PG) 7.55 Complicity. (2018, PG, Japanese) 10.05 The Nutty Professor. (1963, PG) 12.05pm Death Defying Acts. (2007, PG) 1.55 The Castle Of Cagliostro. (1979, PG) 3.55 My Brilliant Career. (1979) 5.50 Dilili In Paris. (2018, PG, French) 7.30 I Heart Huckabees. (2004, M) 9.30 Big Fish.

(2003, PG) 11.50 Tsotsi. (2005, M, Tsotsitaal) 1.35am Gauguin: Voyage To Tahiti. (2017, M, French) 3.30 Jealous. (2017, M, French) 5.30 Death Defying Acts. (2007, PG)

7MATE (73) 6am Step Outside With Paul Burt. 6.30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. 7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 Hellfire Heroes. 9.00 American Pickers. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life.

Noon Swamp People. 1.00 Storage Wars Canada.

2.00 Back Country Rescue. 3.00 Storage Wars.

3.30 Pawn Stars. 4.00 Timbersports. 4.30 Hellfire Heroes. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 2. Western Bulldogs v Carlton.

8.30 MOVIE: Need For Speed. (2014, M) 11.10 MOVIE: Drive Angry. (2011, MA15+) 1.15am Hellfire Heroes. 2.15 Late Programs.

9GO! (53) 6am Children’s Programs.

8.00 Smashhdown! 8.30 Rainbow Rangers. 9.00 Care Bears: Unlock The Magic. 9.30 True And The Rainbow Kingdom. 10.00 Tennis. Melbourne Summer Series. Day 6. Day session. 5pm Tennis.

Melbourne Summer Series. Day 6. Night session.

10.00 Police Ten 7. 11.00 Traffic Cops. Midnight Quantum Leap. 1.00 Rivals. 2.00 Soapbox Racing.

Red Bull Series. Round 5. Replay. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago: Masters Of Spinjitzu.

4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel. 5.10 Bakugan: Battle Planet. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic.

PEACH (82) 6am Judging Amy. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Fam. 8.30 Becker.

9.00 The King Of Queens. 10.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 11.00 Frasier. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Man With A Plan. 2.00 The King Of Queens. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 MOVIE: Runaway Bride. (1999, PG) 11.45 MOVIE: High Fidelity. (2000, M) 2am Everybody Loves Raymond. 2.30 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 3.30 Frasier. 4.30 Home Shopping.

Programs. 6.10pm Brave Bunnies. 6.20 Bluey. 6.25 Kiri And Lou. 6.35 The Adventures Of Paddington.

6.45 Andy’s Safari Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana.

7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Cinderella. 10.40 Anh’s Brush With Fame. 11.10 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces.

Midnight Catalyst. 12.55 Parks And Recreation.

1.20 Reno 911! 1.40 The IT Crowd. (Final) 2.05 Brassic. 2.55 News Update. 3.00 Close. 5.00 The Day Henry Met. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Sarah & Duck. 5.25 Hoot Hoot Go! 5.35 Miffy’s Adventures Big And Small. 5.40 Late Programs.

N ITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 8.10 Aussie Bush Tales. 8.20 Waabiny Time. 8.45 Wapos Bay. 9.05 Kagagi. 9.30 Bushwhacked!

10.00 Skindigenous. 11.00 The Panther Within.

Noon From The Heart Of Our Nation: The Sunset Concert. 2.00 NITV On The Road: Laura Festival.

3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked! 3.55 Aussie Bush Tales. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Cooking Hawaiian Style. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 News. 7.30 MOVIE: Hunt For The Wilderpeople. (2016, PG) 9.15 Bedtime Stories. 9.25 Big Name, No Blanket. 10.25 Heart Coming Home. 11.25 Late Programs.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

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Saturday, February 6 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (7)

NINE (5)

WIN (8)

6.00 Rage. (PG) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

10.00 Rage. (PG) 11.00 Rage Retro Month.

(PG) 12.00 ABC News. 12.30 Employable Me Australia. (Mal, R) 1.30 Miniseries: Agatha Christie’s The Witness For The Prosecution.

(R) 2.20 Making Child Prodigies. (R) 3.00 Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat. (Final, R) 3.30 Dream Gardens. (R) 4.00 Soccer. A-League.

Round 7. Brisbane Roar v Melbourne Victory.

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Cycling. Road National Championships. Criterium. Highlights. 4.00 Travel Man. (PG, R) 4.30 Remarkable Places To Eat. (PG, R) 5.40 Secret Nazi Bases.

(Premiere)

6.00 NBC Today. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG) 12.00 Horse Racing. CF Orr Stakes Family Day and Inglis Millennium Day. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R) 5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Creek To Coast. Roger Vickery goes bush.

6.00 Easy Eats. (R) 7.00 Weekend Today. News, current affairs and sports.

10.00 Tennis. Melbourne Summer Series. Day 7. Day session.

5.00 News: First At Five.

5.30 RBT. (PGdl, R) Follows the activities of police units as they test for alcohol and drug-affected drivers around Australia.

6am Morning Programs. 7.30 All 4 Adventure.

(PGl, R) 8.30 4x4 Adventures. (R) 9.30 St10.

(PG) 12.00 Beyond The Fire. 12.30 GCBC. (R) 1.00 10 Minute Kitchen. 1.30 Destination Dessert. (R) 2.00 Bondi Rescue. (PGlm, R) 2.30 Australia By Design: Innovations. 3.00 What’s Up Down Under. 3.30 My Market Kitchen. (R) 4.00 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 4.30 Farm To Fork. (R) 5.00 News.

6.00 Ask The Doctor: Senses. (PG, R) The doctors look at the various senses.

6.30 Landline Summer. (R) Presented by Pip Courtney.

7.00 ABC News. Takes a look at today’s top stories.

7.30 Death In Paradise. (Return, Mv) A masked man stabs a woman in her home.

8.30 Call The Midwife. (Return, PG) Mother Mildred seeks to help a distraught woman who abandoned her newborn.

9.30 Endeavour. (Madv, R) Part 3 of 4. The murder of a chocolate factory owner leads Morse to the sleepy village of Chigton Green.

11.00 Call The Midwife. (PG, R) Lucille cares for an unmarried mother.

12.00 Deep Water. (Final, Mal, R) 12.50 Rage Retro Month.

(MA15+adhlnsv) 5.00 Rage. (PG)

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Going Places With Ernie Dingo.

(PG) Ernie Dingo explores the Mary River.

8.05 Michael Portillo’s Abandoned Britain. (PG, R) Part 2 of 4. Michael Portillo pays a visit to a mysterious former Ministry of Defence installation.

9.00 MOVIE: Hannibal. (2001, MA15+v, R) An escaped serial killer, hiding in Italy, is tracked by an FBI agent and a horribly mutilated victim out for revenge. Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Giancarlo Giannini.

11.20 MOVIE: Love And Friendship.

(2016, PGa, R, Ireland, France, Netherlands, ) Kate Beckinsale.

1.00 Atlanta. (Madlv, R) 4.00 Luke Nguyen’s Food Trail. (R) 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Cricket. Big Bash League. Grand Final.

10.30 To Be Advised.

12.00 Cycling. Santos Tour Down Under.

Highlights. From South Australia.

1.00 Travel Oz. (PG, R) Greg Grainger takes a look at a variety of holiday destinations here and abroad.

1.30 Harry’s Practice. (R) Dr Harry Cooper and Dr Katrina Warren present information about animals and pet care.

2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 My Greek Odyssey. (PGln, R) Peter Maneas heads to the island of Kalymnos, one of the biggest in the Dodecanese.

5.00 Get Arty. (R) A showcase of art projects, including Better Homes and Gardens presenter Adam Dovile teaming up with Jacqui to make an indoor tent.

6.00 Nine News Saturday.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Tennis. ATP Cup. Day 5. Night session. From Melbourne Park.

10.30 MOVIE: The Thomas Crown Affair. (1999, Mls, R) After a billionaire who feels life poses no more challenges decides to steal a Monet from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, he is hounded by an insurance agent determined to expose him.

Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary.

12.45 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. (Msv) A countdown of the top 10 TV hosts.

2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Global Shop. Home shopping.

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Wesley Impact. (R) Religious program.

6.00 Bondi Rescue. (PGal, R) The tower on Bondi Beach is on high alert when a swimmer’s quick dip results in a possible spinal injury.

7.00 Toddlers Behaving (Very) Badly. Part 3 of 3. Childcare expert Laura Amies teaches toddlers how to behave.

8.00 MOVIE: The Help. (2011, Ma, R) During the civil rights movement of the ’60s, an aspiring author decides to write a book detailing the African-American maids’ point of view on the white families they work for and the hardships they experience.

Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer.

10.55 Bull. (Mv, R) Bull defends his old friend, an in-debt gambler accused of killing her father to gain her inheritance.

12.00 Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.30pm Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Jayde Adams: Serious Black Jumper. 9.35 Live At The Apollo. 10.20 Would I Lie To You? 10.55 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 11.15 Mock The Week.

11.50 Kitty Flanagan: Charming And Alarming.

12.55am Escape From The City. 1.50 Comedy Up Late. 2.20 News Update. 2.25 Close. 5.00 The Day Henry Met. 5.05 Late Programs.

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6am WorldWatch.

Noon Fade To Black: Fight To The Death. 1.30 Atlanta. 2.30 New Girl. 3.00 Insight. 4.00 WorldWatch. 4.30 Basketball. NBL. Cairns Taipans v Brisbane Bullets. 6.30 PBS NewsHour. 7.30 The Last Man On Earth. 7.55 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 The X-Files. 11.00 Tent And Sex. 11.30 7 Days Of Sex. 12.20am MOVIE: Network. (1976, M) 2.30 France 24. 3.00 Late Programs.

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6am Home Shopping. 8.30 Travel Oz. 9.00 NBC Today. 11.30 Horse Racing. CF Orr Stakes Family Day and Inglis Millennium Day. Noon Bargain Hunt. 1.00 ICU. 1.30 Creek To Coast.

2.00 Weekender. 2.30 Sydney Weekender. 3.00 Property Ladder UK. 5.30 The Great Outdoors: Greatest Escapes. 6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 11.30 The Great Outdoors: Greatest Escapes. 12.30am Late Programs.

9GEM (52)

6am Newstyle Direct. 6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 My Favorite Martian. 10.30 The Avengers. 11.30 MOVIE: The Raging Moon. (1971, PG) 1.45pm MOVIE: The Pride And The Passion. (1957, PG) 4.30 Tennis. ATP Cup. Day 5. Night session. 7.30 MOVIE: The Bridge On The River Kwai. (1957, PG) 10.45 MOVIE: A Fistful Of Dollars. (1964, MA15+) 12.45am Garden Gurus Moments. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

BOLD (81) 6am Home Shopping. 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. Noon Diagnosis Murder. 1.00 The Doctors. 2.00 iFish.

2.30 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures. 3.30 All 4 Adventure. 4.30 Mighty Machines. 5.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 5.30 Scorpion. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans. 10.20 Hawaii Five-0. 11.20 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 2.30pm

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Death Defying Acts. Continued. (2007, PG) 7.20 My Brilliant Career. (1979) 9.15 Dilili In Paris. (2018, PG, French) 10.55 The Castle Of Cagliostro. (1979, PG) 12.55pm Bill. (2015, PG) 2.40 Big Fish. (2003, PG) 5.00 Cheerful Weather For The Wedding. (2012, PG) 6.50 Love And Friendship. (2016, PG) 8.30 The Squid And The Whale. (2005) 10.00 At Eternity’s Gate. (2018, M) 12.05am Late Programs.

7MATE (73) 6am Morning Programs.

12.30pm Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Aussie Dreamlivers Alaska. 2.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 2. Collingwood v Gold Coast Suns. 4.00 Desert Collectors. 6.00 2020 Cricket Australia Awards. 6.30 Cricket. Big Bash League.

Grand Final. 7.00 Building Giants. 8.00 Mighty Ships. 9.00 Mighty Cruise Ships. 10.00 Air Crash Investigation. 11.00 Late Programs.

9GO! (53) 6am Children’s Programs.

2pm Peaking. 2.20 Xtreme Collxtion. 3.20 MOVIE: Open Season: Scared Silly. (2015, PG) 5.00 Tennis.

Melbourne Summer Series. Night session. 10.00 MOVIE: Blown Away. (1994, M) 12.30am No Man’s Land: Expedition Antarctica. 2.00 Xtreme Collxtion.

3.00 Power Rangers Super Beast Morphers. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Adventures In Unova And Beyond. 4.50 Late Programs.

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6am Judging Amy. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Fam. 8.30 Becker.

9.00 The King Of Queens. 10.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 11.00 Frasier. Noon To Be Advised.

4.30 Friends. 6.00 Columbo. 8.00 Kojak. 9.00 Spyforce. 10.00 The Big Bang Theory. 10.30 The Middle. Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 2 Broke Girls. 3.30 Becker. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 The Brady Bunch.

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Touch Football. WA Super League. 4.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 2019. Men’s. Newcastle All Blacks v Googars. Replay. 5.00 On The Road.

6.00 Going Places. 7.00 Everyday Brave. 7.30 News. 7.40 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman. 8.30 Adam Goodes: The Final Quarter.

10.00 MOVIE: Once Were Warriors. (1994, MA15+) 11.50 Late Programs.

Sunday, February 7 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (7)

NINE (5)

WIN (8)

6.00 Rage. (PG) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

9.00 Insiders. 10.00 Offsiders. 10.30 The World This Week. (R) 11.00 Compass. (R) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Landline Summer. (Final) 1.00 Everyone’s A Critic. (PG, R) 1.30 Aftermath: Beyond Black Saturday. (PG, R) 2.30 The Mix. (R) 3.00 Soccer. W-League. Round 7. 5.00 War On Waste: The Battle Continues. (PG, R)

6.00 France 24 English News First Edition.

6.30 Al Jazeera News. 7.30 Italian News.

8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.00 Cycling. Road National Championships.

Women’s Race. 11.00 Road National Preview.

12.00 Cycling. Road National Championships.

Men’s Race. From Ballarat, Victoria.

4.35 Greek News.

5.35 Secret Nazi Bases. (PG)

6.00 NBC Today. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG) 12.00 House Of Wellness. (PG, R) 1.00 To Be Advised.

4.00 Better Homes: Australia’s Most Amazing Homes: Inventive Architecture. (PG, R) 5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Weekender.

6.00 Easy Eats. (R) 7.00 Weekend Today.

10.00 Tennis. Melbourne Summer Series. Day 8. Day session.

4.00 Surfing Australia TV. Showcases Surfing Australia’s programs.

4.30 To Be Advised.

5.00 News: First At Five.

5.30 Territory Cops. (PGdl, R) Alecia and Mitch go on a weekend night patrol.

6am Morning Programs. 7.30 Fishing Aust.

(R) 8.00 GCBC. (R) 8.30 Australia By Design: Innovations. (R) 9.00 Luca’s Key Ingredient.

9.30 St10. (PG) 12.00 10 Minute Kitchen. (R) 12.30 Left Off The Map. (R) 1.00 My Market Kitchen. (R) 1.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 2.00 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. (R) 2.30 Farm To Fork. (PG, R) 3.00 Bondi Rescue.

(PGal, R) 3.30 To Be Advised. 5.00 News.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

7.00 ABC News Sunday.

7.40 Grand Designs: House Of The Year. (Final, PG) Part 4 of 4.

8.30 Harrow. (Return, Mav) After a young man who claimed to be his son turns up dead, a troubled Harrow tries to distract himself with work.

9.25 Stateless. (Final, Malsv, R) Margot makes an important discovery that leads her to believe that Sofie is imprisoned at Barton.

10.20 Killing Eve. (PG, R) Villanelle returns to Mother Russia.

11.05 Wentworth. (MA15+dsv, R) 11.50 Endeavour. (Madv, R) 1.20 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.10 Wentworth. (MA15+dsv, R) 5.00 Insiders. (R)

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 The Last Hours Of Pompeii: New Discoveries. (PG) Part 1 of 2.

9.30 Bruce Lee: Be Water. (M) Documents the life and career of martial arts icon and actor Bruce Lee through archival footage.

11.20 Filthy Rich And Homeless. (Ml, R) Part 1 of 3.

12.25 24 Hours In Police Custody: A Moment Of Madness. (Mal, R) 1.20 Mary Beard’s Shock Of The Nude. (MA15+ans, R) 3.30 Depression And Me. (Madl, R) 4.25 Great British Railway Journeys. (R) 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Holey Moley Australia. (PG) Contestants tackle a mini golf course.

8.30 MOVIE: Captain America: The Winter Soldier. (2014, Mv, R) Captain America teams up with the Black Widow to battle a powerful yet shadowy enemy. Chris Evans, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson.

11.15 World’s Most Shocking Emergency Calls. (MA15+av, R) Documents shocking emergency calls.

12.15 Medical Emergency. (PG, R) 12.45 The Guardian. (Madsv, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 3.30 Million Dollar Minute. (R) 4.00 NBC Today.

5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 60 Minutes. Current affairs program.

8.10 The Trump Show: Downfall.

Charts Donald Trump’s last months as US president as he attempts to win, and subsequently overturn, the 2020 election.

9.25 Nine News Late. Takes a look at the latest news and events from Australia and around the world.

9.55 Outbreak: The Virus That Shook The World. Documents the COVID-19 pandemic.

11.30 5 Mistakes That Caught A Killer: Roy Whiting. (MA15+av) 12.30 Young, Dumb And Banged Up In The Sun. (MA15+adlv) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.00 Take Two. 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.30 The Sunday Project. Panellists dissect, digest and reconstitute the daily news, events and hottest topics.

7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

The teams take on new heights when they touch down in Townsville, Queensland.

9.00 FBI: Most Wanted. The team searches for a young woman who is heading down a deadly path of vengeance, using ties to an online radical conspiracy organisation to further her cause. Barnes must make a life-changing decision.

11.00 The Sunday Project. (R) Panellists dissect, digest and reconstitute the daily news, events and hottest topics.

12.00 Home Shopping. (R) 3.30 CBS This Morning.

Morning news and talk show.

5.00 Headline News Early.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Compass. 8.30 Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids. 9.30 Enslaved. 10.30 Catalyst.

11.30 Designing A Legacy. 12.30am You Can’t Ask That. 12.50 Restoration Australia. 1.50 Comedy Up Late. (Final) 2.20 News Update. 2.25 Close. 5.00 The Day Henry Met. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Sarah & Duck. 5.25 Hoot Hoot Go! 5.35 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

9.30 SBS Courtside. 10.00 Basketball. NBA. 76ers v Nets. 12.30pm WorldWatch. 1.30 New Girl. 2.00 Basketball. NBL. SE Melbourne v Illawarra. 4.00 Basketball. NBL. Melbourne Utd v Perth. 6.00 New Girl. 6.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 7.00 Abandoned Places. 7.35 The Last Man On Earth.

8.00 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.35 Why Women Kill. 9.35 United Shades Of America. 10.20 Late Programs.

7TWO (72) 6am Mums At The Table.

6.30 It Is Written. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. 7.30 Leading The Way. 8.00 David Jeremiah. 8.30 Home Shopping. 9.00 Australia: The Story Of Us. 11.00 NBC Today. Noon The Surgery Ship. 1.30 Her Majesty’s Theatre. 2.00 All The Things. 2.30 Cycling. Santos Tour Down Under. Highlights. 3.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 M*A*S*H. 8.30 Wild Bill. 9.30 Miniseries: Bancroft. 11.30 Late Programs.

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6am Morning Programs. 7.30 In Touch. 8.00 Beyond Today. 8.30 The Incredible Journey. 9.00 TV Shop. 10.05 My Favorite Martian.

10.35 MOVIE: Mr Forbush And The Penguins. (1971, PG) 12.40pm MOVIE: Sailors Three. (1940) 2.25 MOVIE: Bikini Beach. (1964, PG) 4.30 MOVIE: Irma La Douce. (1963, PG) 7.30 Death In Paradise.

8.40 Chicago P.D. 9.40 Chicago Fire. 10.40 Late Programs.

BOLD (81) 6am Home Shopping. 7.30 Key Of David. 8.00 Roads Less Travelled. 8.30 Mega Mechanics. 9.30 One Strange Rock. 10.30 Escape Fishing With ET. 11.00 Scorpion. 1pm The Doctors. 2.00 Beyond The Fire. 2.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. 3.30 Reel Action. 4.30 What’s Up Down Under. 5.00 iFish. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise.

6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: Los Angeles. 10.20 48 Hours. 11.20 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 11.30

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Castle Of Cagliostro. (1979, PG) 8.00 Big Fish. (2003, PG) 10.20 My Brilliant Career. (1979) 12.15pm Cheerful Weather For The Wedding. (2012, PG) 2.00 The Man Who Knew Infinity. (2015, PG) 4.05 Bill. (2015, PG) 5.50 Looking Up. (2019, PG, Mandarin) 8.30 Biutiful. (2010, MA15+, Spanish) 11.10 Gauguin: Voyage To Tahiti. (2017, M, French) 1.05am Pioneer.

(2013, M, Norwegian) 3.10 Late Programs.

7MATE (73) 6am Morning Programs.

11.30 River To Reef: Retro. Noon The Fishing Show. 1.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 1.30 Shipping Wars. 2.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 2. Brisbane Lions v Geelong. 4.00 Shipping Wars.

4.30 Graveyard Carz. 5.30 Counting Cars. 6.00 Last Car Garage. 6.30 Border Patrol. 7.00 Border Security. 8.30 MOVIE: Remember The Titans.

(2000, PG) 10.55 Late Programs.

9GO! (53) 6am Children’s Programs.

1.30pm Liquid Science. 2.00 Dance Moms. 4.00 MOVIE: Look Who’s Talking Too. (1990, PG) 5.30 MOVIE: Three Amigos! (1986, PG) 7.30 MOVIE: The Terminator. (1984, M) 9.40 MOVIE: Mad Max. (1979, MA15+) 11.40 Lethal Weapon. 1.30am Liquid Science. 2.00 Mike Tyson Mysteries. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Power Rangers Super Beast Morphers.

3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Late Programs.

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Netball. SA Premier League. 12.40pm Rugby Union.

Ella 7s. Replay. 1.00 Bowls. SA Super League. 1.30 Soccer. African Cup NSW. Grand Final. Ghana v South Sudan. 3.45 Football. Monsoon AFL. 5.45 African News. 6.00 APTN National News. 6.30 Artefact. 7.30 NITV News Update. 7.40 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. 8.40 She Shears. 10.05 Intune 08. 11.05 Late Programs.

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6am Fam. 8.00 Becker.

9.00 Neighbours. 11.30 The Neighborhood. 1pm Becker. 2.00 The Middle. 3.30 Friends. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 Friends. 10.30 2 Broke Girls.

Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 Mom. 3.30 The Neighborhood. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 The Brady Bunch.

Monday, February 8 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (7)

NINE (5)

WIN (8)

6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 11.00 To Be Advised. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Death In Paradise. (Mv, R) 2.00 Rake. (Madl, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 The Heights. (PG, R) 4.30 Back Roads. (PG, R) 5.00 Restoration Australia. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 6.30 This Week. 7.30 WorldWatch. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 Al Jazeera News. 2.00 Destination Flavour China. (R) 2.30 The Story Of God With Morgan Freeman. (PGav, R) 3.30 Who Do You Think You Are? (PGa, R) 4.35 Great British Railway Journeys. (PGa, R) 5.05 Letters And Numbers. (R) 5.35 Jeopardy! (PG)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 NFL. Super Bowl LV. Tampa Bay Buccaneers v Kansas City Chiefs.

3.00 The Chase. (R) Hosted

by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia. Contestants race to answer quiz questions correctly to avoid being caught by The Chaser.

6.00 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

9.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. Reviews, previews, interviews, highlights and opinions from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.

10.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 1. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Headline News. 7.30 Entertainment Tonight. (PG, R) 8.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised.

2.30 Entertainment Tonight.

3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30. Presented by Leigh Sales.

8.00 Australian Story. Australians tell personal stories.

8.30 Four Corners. (Return) Investigative journalism program that leads national debate and confronting issues that matter.

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

9.35 The Pacific: In The Wake Of Captain Cook With Sam Neill: Endeavour And New Zealand. (PG) Sam Neill retraces Captain Cook’s voyage.

10.25 You Can’t Ask That. (MA15+n, R) 10.55 ABC Late News.

11.25 Waltzing The Dragon With Benjamin Law. (PG, R) 12.25 Wentworth. (MA15+dv, R) 1.10 Rage.

(MA15+adhlnsv) 3.40 Wentworth. (MA15+dv, R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 The Architecture The Railways Built: Snowdown.

(PG) Presented by Tim Dunn.

8.30 24 Hours In Emergency: Live And Learn. (M) A 23-year-old is rushed to emergency after colliding with a lamp-post while riding his motorbike.

9.25 The Story Of The Songs: Celine Dion. (M) A look at three of Celine Dion’s tracks.

10.20 SBS World News Late.

10.50 Agent Hamilton. (MA15+v, R) 11.40 Outlander. (MA15+av, R) 1.50 Cocaine Trade Exposed: The Invisibles.

(Mad, R) 3.30 Great British Railway Journeys.

(R) 4.45 Destination Flavour China Bitesize.

(R) 4.55 Poh & Co. Bitesize. (R) 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven Local News.

6.30 Seven News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 Holey Moley Australia. (PG) Contestants battle for supremacy on an obstacle-filled supersized mini golf course.

9.00 9-1-1. (M) In the aftermath of the dam break, massive mudslides wreak havoc throughout Los Angeles.

10.00 The Rookie. (Mv) National security issues arise.

11.00 World’s Deadliest Weather: Caught On Camera. (PGa) North California is besieged by wildfires.

12.00 Cycling. Santos Tour Down Under. Highlights.

1.00 The Guardian. (Madsv, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 NBC Today.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 1. From Melbourne Park.

11.00 Chicago Med. (Mam, R) Bekker takes drastic action to keep Rhodes from leaving Med for good. Charles mourns a loss.

12.00 Straight Forward. (Mdlv, R) After a member of her family is murdered, a conwoman decides to get even by robbing the crime boss behind the hit.

1.00 Destination WA. (PG, R) Trevor Cochrane goes on a tropical island getaway that is only accessible from Perth.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. Home shopping.

3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Take Two. (R) Home shopping.

5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today. The latest in news and current affairs.

6.00 WIN News.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

Hosted by Beau Ryan.

8.30 Hughesy, We Have A Problem.

(Return) Dave Hughes is joined by celebrities to discuss solutions to problems experienced in modern life.

9.30 The Graham Norton Show.

(R) Graham Norton chats with Sam Neill, Tom Jones, Billie Piper, James Nesbitt and Andi Osho.

10.30 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news.

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 3.30 CBS This Morning.

5.00 Headline News Early.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.50 David Attenborough’s Rise Of Animals. 9.50 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 10.40 Escape From The City. 11.35 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 12.15am Would I Lie To You? 12.45 Parks And Recreation. 1.10 Reno 911! 1.30 Brassic. 2.15 News Update. 2.20 Close.

5.00 The Day Henry Met. 5.05 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31)

6am WorldWatch.

Noon Basketball. NBA. Philadelphia 76ers v Brooklyn Nets. Replay. 2.00 The Curse Of Oak Island. 2.50 Hunting Hitler. 3.45 WorldWatch. 4.10 This Week. 5.05 Only Connect. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

8.30 Taskmaster. 9.25 RocKwiz. 10.15 Late Programs.

7TWO (72)

6am Home Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 MOVIE: The Falcon Strikes Back. (1943, PG) Noon House Of Wellness.

1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Foyle’s War. 10.40 Code Blue: Murder. 11.50 Late Programs.

9GEM (52)

6am TV Shop: Home Shopping. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. 10.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 1. 5pm Tennis. Australian Open. Night 1. 10.00 Law & Order. 11.00 Timeless. Midnight Adventures In Rainbow Country. 12.30 My Favorite Martian.

1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 1.30 Gideon’s Way. 2.30 TV Shop. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. 5.00 TV Shop.

BOLD (81) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder.

10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. Noon Nash Bridges.

1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami.

3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder.

4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 10.20 To Be Advised. 12.10am Shopping. 2.10 VF Confidential. 3.10 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 2.25pm

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Morning Programs. 6.50 Love And Friendship. (2016, PG) 8.30 Looking Up. (2019, PG, Mandarin) 11.10 Bill.

(2015, PG) 12.55pm Ernest & Celestine. (2012, PG) 2.25 The Thief Of Bagdad. (1940, PG) 4.25 Amazonia. (2013, No dialogue) 5.55 The Man Who Knew Infinity. (2015, PG) 7.55 Cold War. (2018, M, Polish) 9.30 Song Lang. (2018, M, Vietnamese) 11.20 Late Programs.

7MATE (73) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 Graveyard Carz. 11.00 Last Car Garage.

11.30 Counting Cars. Noon Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Reluctant Outdoorsman. 3.00 Aussie Dreamlivers Texas. 3.30 Blokesworld. 4.00 Shipping Wars. 4.30 Hellfire Heroes. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars.

7.30 Restoration Workshop. 8.30 MOVIE: Man Of Steel. (2013, M) 11.25 Late Programs.

9GO! (53) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 2.00 Monster Croc Wrangler. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team.

5.00 The Nanny. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Tennis. Austn Open. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 MOVIE: Sahara. (2005, M) 11.00 Paranormal Caught On Camera. Midnight Quantum Leap. 1.00 Bromans. 2.00 Late Programs.

PEACH (82)

Bamay. 3.00 Jarjums. 3.55 Aussie Bush Tales. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Cooking Hawaiian Style. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News. 7.30 Follow The Rock. 7.40 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman. 8.30 Living Black Conversations.

9.00 Blood Brothers. 10.00 News. 10.10 My Survival As An Aboriginal. 11.05 Late Programs.

6am Judging Amy. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 The Neighborhood.

9.00 Friends. 10.00 The Big Bang Theory. 11.00 Becker. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Man With A Plan. 1.30 The King Of Queens. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Two And A Half Men. 11.00 Late Programs.

Target young families across this growing region

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Tuesday, February 9 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (7)

NINE (5)

WIN (8)

6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Four Corners. (R) 11.00 To Be Advised. 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

1.00 Call The Midwife. (PG, R) 2.00 Rake. (Mal, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons.

4.05 The Heights. (PG, R) 4.35 Back Roads. (R) 5.05 Restoration Australia. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 10.30 German News.

11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News.

12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS NewsHour.

2.00 Destination Flavour China. (R) 2.30 The Story Of God With Morgan Freeman. (PGa, R) 3.25 Who Do You Think You Are? (PGa, R) 4.35 Great British Railway Journeys. (R) 5.05 Letters And Numbers. (R) 5.35 Jeopardy! (PG)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Watch Your Back. (2015, Mlv, R) 2.00 Gold Coast Medical. (PGa, R) 3.00 The Chase.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

9.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. Reviews, previews, interviews, highlights and opinions from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.

10.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 2. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Headline News. 7.30 Entertainment Tonight. (PG, R) 8.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGa) 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum. Analysis of the day’s news.

7.00 ABC News. Takes a look at today’s top stories.

7.30 7.30. Presented by Leigh Sales.

8.00 Foreign Correspondent.

International affairs program, featuring in-depth stories from ABC’s network of foreign correspondents.

8.30 Australia Remastered: Wetlands. Aaron Pedersen takes a look at one of Australia’s dynamic natural habitats, the wetlands.

9.30 To Be Advised.

11.00 ABC Late News.

11.30 Q+A. (R) 12.35 Wentworth. (MA15+ads, R) 1.20 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.45 Wentworth. (MA15+ads, R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys: Linz To Bratislava.

(PG) Hosted by Michael Portillo.

8.35 24 Hours In Emergency: Because The Night. (M) A 37-year-old woman with autism has been rushed to emergency after suffering a crush injury.

9.30 Cat Tales. (PGa, R) Takes a look at cats.

10.30 SBS World News Late.

11.00 The A Word. (Final, Mal) 12.05 The Pier. (Malnsv, R) 1.00 Deep State. (Mlv, R) 3.00 Wasted! The Story Of Food Waste. (Ml, R) 4.30 Great British Railway Journeys. (PG, R) 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven Local News.

6.30 Seven News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 Holey Moley Australia. (PG) Contestants tackle a mini golf course.

9.00 The Good Doctor. (Ma) Shaun has a hard time balancing his fears and concerns about potentially jeopardising Lea’s health.

10.00 The Resident. (Ma) Cain’s elective surgery patient returns.

11.00 Station 19. (Ma) A young boy falls into water pipes.

12.00 Splitting Up Together. (PGas, R) 1.00 Harry’s Practice. (R) 1.30 Travel Oz. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 NBC Today.

5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 2. From Melbourne Park.

11.00 Chicago Med. (Mam, R) The doctors and nurses are on high alert when an overflow of patients are rushed into Chicago Med. 12.00 Straight Forward. (Mls, R) A con woman is forced to flee to New Zealand and start a completely different life.

1.00 Destination WA. (R) Nikki Parkinson discovers all the family-friendly fun that Whiteman Park has to offer.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Take Two. (R) Home shopping.

5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today. The latest in news and current affairs.

6.00 WIN News.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

Hosted by Beau Ryan.

8.30 NCIS. (Mv) Gibbs and Fornell’s crusade to find the head of the drug ring comes to a climax.

9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. (Mv) The NCIS team must track down an organised crime leader who is trying to buy stolen defence technology.

10.30 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news.

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 3.30 CBS This Morning.

5.00 Headline News Early.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 9.00 To Be Advised.

9.45 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Final) 10.05 The IT Crowd. 10.55 Frontline. (Final) 11.30 Jayde Adams: Serious Black Jumper. 12.30am Live At The Apollo.

1.15 Parks And Recreation. 1.40 Reno 911! 2.00 Brassic. 2.45 News Update. 2.50 Close. 5.00 The Day Henry Met. 5.05 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

11.00 SBS Courtside. 11.30 Basketball. NBA. San Antonio Spurs v Golden State Warriors. 2pm WorldWatch. 3.00 Lee Lin Chin’s Fashionista. 3.10 VICE World Of Sports. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 Only Connect. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 The Rise And Fall Of Nokia Mobile. 9.35 The 2000s. 10.25 Late Programs.

7TWO (72) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness.

1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Sydney Weekender. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector George Gently. 10.30 The Bay. 11.45 Late Programs.

9GEM (52) 6am TV Shop: Home Shopping. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. 10.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 2. 5pm Tennis. Australian Open. Night 2. 10.00 Law & Order. 11.00 Timeless. Midnight Adventures In Rainbow Country. 12.30 My Favorite Martian.

1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Joyce Meyer.

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

BOLD (81) 6am Shopping. 8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. Noon Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 10.25 CSI: Miami. 11.20 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 1.30pm

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Thief Of Bagdad. Continued. (1940, PG) 7.45 Asterix And Obelix In Britain. (2012, PG, French) 9.50 The Man Who Knew Infinity. (2015, PG) 11.50 Amazonia.

(2013, No dialogue) 1.25pm Looking Up. (2019, PG, Mandarin) 4.00 Coming Home. (2014, PG, Mandarin) 6.00 Ernest & Celestine. (2012, PG) 7.30 Lola And Her Brothers. (2018, M, French) 9.30 I Am Love. (2009, MA15+, Italian) 11.40 Late Programs.

7MATE (73) 6am Morning Programs.

9.00 American Pickers. 10.00 America’s Game.

11.00 A Football Life. Noon Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Reluctant Outdoorsman. 3.00 Restoration Workshop. 4.00 Fish’n With Mates.

4.30 Hellfire Heroes. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 Outback Opal Hunters. 10.30 Yukon Gold. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GO! (53) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team. 5.00 The Nanny. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Tennis. Austn Open. 7.00 The Nanny.

7.30 MOVIE: RoboCop. (2014, M) 9.45 MOVIE: Shaft. (2000, MA15+) 11.45 The Nanny. 12.15am Quantum Leap. 1.10 Urbex: Enter At Your Own Risk.

2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Late Programs.

PEACH (82)

Wild Kai Legends. 2.00 Nyami Ngaarlu-Gundi Woman Of The Water. 2.30 Water Is Life. 3.00 Jarjums. 6.00 Cooking Hawaiian Style. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News.

7.30 African American: Many Rivers To Cross.

8.30 Superstition. 9.20 NITV News Update. 9.30 Hunting Aotearoa. 10.00 Football. Monsoon AFL. Replay. Midnight Late Programs.

6am Judging Amy. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Becker. 9.00 The King Of Queens. 10.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 11.00 Frasier. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 2.00 The King Of Queens.

3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker.

5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Mom. 11.00 Late Programs.

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Wednesday, February 10 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (7)

NINE (5)

WIN (8)

6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Foreign Correspondent. (R) 10.30 Stan Grant’s One Plus One. (R) 11.00 Grand Designs: House Of The Year. (PG, R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 National Press Club Address. 1.55 Rake. (Mlsv, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 The Heights.

(PG, R) 4.30 Back Roads. (R) 5.00 Restoration Australia. (R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 10.30 German News.

11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News.

12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS NewsHour.

2.00 Destination Flavour China. (R) 2.30 The Story Of God With Morgan Freeman. (PGa, R) 3.25 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R) 4.35 Great British Railway Journeys. (R) 5.05 Letters And Numbers. (R) 5.35 Jeopardy! (PG)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: My Life As A Dead Girl. (2015, Masv, R) 2.00 Gold Coast Medical. (Ma, R) 3.00 The Chase.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

9.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. Reviews, previews, interviews, highlights and opinions from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.

10.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 3. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Headline News. 7.30 Entertainment Tonight. (PG, R) 8.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGal) 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30. Presented by Leigh Sales.

8.00 Hard Quiz. (PG) Presented

by Tom Gleeson.

8.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. A satirical news program exposing the humorous, absurd and downright hypocritical.

9.00 Aftertaste. (Mls) Easton announces he is opening a new restaurant with his niece Diana in just a month’s time.

9.30 QI. (Ml) Hosted by Sandi Toksvig.

10.00 To Be Advised.

10.45 ABC Late News.

11.15 Four Corners. (R) 12.00 Media Watch. (PG, R) 12.20 Wentworth. (MA15+lv, R) 1.05 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.45 Wentworth.

(MA15+lv, R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Britain’s Most Historic Towns: Georgian Edinburgh.

(PG) Alice Roberts visits Edinburgh.

8.30 Michael Palin: Travels Of A Lifetime. (Premiere, PG) Michael Palin revisits his first travel series.

9.35 Vikings. (MA15+) Alfred sets out to confront the Vikings.

10.30 SBS World News Late.

11.00 24 Hours In Emergency. (Ma, R) 11.55 MOVIE: C’est La Vie. (2017, Mls, R, France) Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gilles Lellouche. 2.05 Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents. (Ma, R) 3.10 Fourth Estate: The NY Times And Trump. (Ml, R) 4.15 Great British Railway Journeys. (R) 4.55 Poh & Co. Bitesize. (R) 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven Local News.

6.30 Seven News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PGav) 7.30 Ambulance: Code Red. (Premiere, Ma) Follows the work of an ambulance service.

8.30 The Bay. (Return, Mav) After dealing with the repercussions of her actions from last year, DC Lisa Armstrong is given the opportunity to step up and prove her worth when asked to assist with a murder investigation in Morecambe.

10.30 Criminal Confessions: Chris Watts – Confession Untold. (Return, Mlv) A look at the case of Chris Watts.

12.00 Code Black. (Mav, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 NBC Today.

5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 3. From Melbourne Park.

11.00 Chicago Med. (MA15+amv, R) Natalie and Elsa treat an ill pregnant woman who is convinced that God will save her.

12.00 Straight Forward. (MA15+lv, R) A con woman is forced to flee to New Zealand and start a completely different life.

1.00 Destination WA. (R) Trevor Cochrane goes snorkelling in the crystal-clear waters of the Cocos Islands.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. Home shopping.

3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today. The latest in news and current affairs.

6.00 WIN News.

6.30 The Project. The hosts and guest panellists take a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 Jamie’s Easy Meals For Every Day. Jamie reinvents some family favourites, including new spins on butter chicken and salmon.

8.30 Bull. The founder of a trial consulting firm uses psychology and technology to win cases for his clients.

10.30 The Project. (R) The hosts and guest panellists take a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) Hosted by Stephen Colbert.

1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 3.30 CBS This Morning.

Morning news and talk show.

5.00 Headline News Early.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7pm Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Leaving Allen Street. 9.45 Restoration Australia. 10.40 Enslaved. 11.40 Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids.

12.45am Parks And Recreation. 1.05 Reno 911! 1.25 Brassic. 2.10 News Update. 2.15 Close. 5.00 The Day Henry Met. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Sarah & Duck. 5.25 Hoot Hoot Go! 5.35 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31)

6am WorldWatch.

Noon Basketball. NBA. San Antonio Spurs v Golden State Warriors. Replay. 2.00 The Curse Of Oak Island. 2.50 Hunting Hitler. 3.40 WorldWatch.

5.05 Only Connect. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 MOVIE: Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. (1996, PG) 10.05 MOVIE: Alpha. (2018, PG) 11.50 Late Programs.

7TWO (72)

6am Home Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness.

1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Make It Yours. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Frankie Drake Mysteries. 8.30 A Touch Of Frost.

10.50 Jonathan Creek. Midnight Late Programs.

9GEM (52)

6am TV Shop: Home Shopping. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. 10.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 3. 5pm Tennis. Australian Open. Night 3. 10.00 Law & Order. 11.00 Timeless. Midnight Adventures In Rainbow Country. 12.30 My Favorite Martian.

1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 1.30 Dangerman.

2.30 TV Shop. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. 5.00 TV Shop.

BOLD (81) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder.

10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. Noon Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles.

10.20 NCIS. 11.15 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 1.50pm Follow The Rock. 2.00 On The Road. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked! 3.55 Aussie Bush Tales.

4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Red Chef Revival. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 NITV News Update. 7.30 First Australians. 8.30 Map To Paradise. 9.30 Living With Giants. 10.30 News.

10.40 Late Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Amazonia.

Continued. (2013, No dialogue) 7.15 Coming Home.

(2014, PG, Mandarin) 9.15 Ernest & Celestine.

(2012, PG) 10.45 The Thief Of Bagdad. (1940, PG) 12.45pm Maudie. (2016, PG) 2.55 Asterix And Obelix In Britain. (2012, PG, French) 5.00 The Eagle Has Landed. (1976, PG) 7.30 Love Is In The Air. (2005, M, French) 9.30 Ali’s Wedding. (2017, M) 11.35 Late Programs.

7MATE (73) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 America’s Game. 11.00 A Football Life. Noon Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Reluctant Outdoorsman. 2.30 Wild Ops. 3.00 Storage Wars.

3.30 Pawn Stars. 4.00 Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Hellfire Heroes. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 The Simpsons. 9.00 Family Guy. 9.30 American Dad! 10.30 Family Guy. 11.00 Late Programs.

9GO! (53) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team. 5.00 The Nanny. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Tennis. Austn Open. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 8.30 MOVIE: Minority Report. (2002, M) 11.30 The Nanny. Midnight Quantum Leap. 1.00 The Horn.

2.00 Late Programs.

PEACH (82)

6am Friends. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Fam. 8.30 Becker.

9.00 The King Of Queens. 10.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 11.00 Frasier. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 2.00 The King Of Queens.

3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker.

5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 2 Broke Girls. 11.00 Late Programs.

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Thursday, February 11 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (7)

NINE (5)

WIN (8)

6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Australian Story. (R) 10.30 To Be Advised. 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

1.00 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 1.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (R) 2.00 Rake. (Mlv, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 The Heights. (PG, R) 4.30 Back Roads. (R) 5.00 Restoration Australia. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Destination Flavour China.

(PG, R) 2.30 The Great Wall Of China: The Hidden Story. (PG, R) 3.25 Who Do You Think You Are? (PGas, R) 4.35 Great British Railway Journeys. (PG, R) 5.05 Letters And Numbers.

(R) 5.35 Jeopardy! (PG)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Hometown Killer. (2018, Mav, R) 2.00 Gold Coast Medical. (Ma, R) 3.00 The Chase.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

9.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. Reviews, previews, interviews, highlights and opinions from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.

10.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 4. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Headline News. 7.30 Entertainment Tonight. (PG, R) 8.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGal) 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30. Presented by Leigh Sales.

8.00 Back Roads: Kyogle, NSW. Heather Ewart visits Kyogle.

8.30 Q+A. Interactive public affairs program featuring a panel of experts and commentators answering questions.

9.35 The Rise Of The Murdoch Dynasty: The Comeback.

(Ms, R) Part 3 of 3.

10.25 To Be Advised.

10.35 ABC Late News.

11.05 To Be Advised.

12.05 Wentworth. (MA15+as, R) 12.55 Killing Eve. (PG, R) 1.40 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.40 Wentworth.

(MA15+as, R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 The World’s Greatest Palaces: Edinburgh Castle. (PG) 8.30 Michael Mosley: The Truth About Cosmetic Treatments. (M) Part 1 of 2.

9.35 World On Fire. (Final, MA15+v) Harry returns to Poland.

10.40 SBS World News Late.

11.10 24 Hours In Police Custody. (Malv, R) 12.10 M: The City Hunts A Murderer.

(MA15+av, R) 2.00 The Little Drummer Girl.

(Mals, R) 3.40 Inside North Korea’s Dynasty.

(Ma, R) 4.35 My Sister’s Wedding In War-Torn Syria. (PG, R) 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven Local News.

6.30 Seven News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PGav) 8.30 Wife Swap Australia.

(Premiere, PGal) A fitness-obsessed mum and a bus-dwelling mother of eight swap lives, turning their families upside down.

9.45 Busted In Bangkok. (MA15+as) Follows Thailand’s tourist police as they deal with tourists from all over the world.

10.45 Gordon Ramsay On Cocaine. (Madl, R) Part 1 of 2.

11.45 Celebrity Obsessed: Madonna. (MA15+a, R) 12.45 MOVIE: Crimes Of Passion: Voice From The Grave. (1996, Mv, R) 2.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 NBC Today.

5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 4. From Melbourne Park.

11.00 Chicago Med. (Mam, R) Will is backed into a corner after unknowingly making a deal with a gangster.

12.00 Straight Forward. (Mlv, R) A con woman is forced to flee to New Zealand and start a completely different life.

1.00 Destination WA. (R) Trevor Cochrane holidays on Christmas Island.

Nikki Parkinson dines in Wanneroo.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. Home shopping.

3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today. The latest in news and current affairs.

6.00 WIN News.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 Ambulance Australia. (Ma, R) The team attends to a newborn baby.

8.30 Law & Order: SVU. (Mav) The squad spends New Year’s Eve dealing with a child abduction after an Amber Alert is sounded.

Carisi faces off against counsellor Rafael Barba in an emotional courtroom battle.

10.30 This Is Us. Kevin embarks on a stressful road trip.

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

12.30 The Project. (R) 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 2.30 Home Shopping. (R) 3.30 CBS This Morning.

5.00 Headline News Early.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Mock The Week.

(Final) 9.20 Hard Quiz. 9.50 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 10.20 You Can’t Ask That. 10.40 Rise Of The Animals. 11.40 Parks And Recreation.

12.05am Reno 911! 12.25 Brassic. 1.10 W1A. 1.40 QI. 2.15 News Update. 2.20 Close. 5.00 The Day Henry Met. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

Noon Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix. Rostelecom Cup. Replay. 2.05 Post Radical. 2.55 Hunting Hitler. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 NBL: Overtime.

(Premiere) 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island.

9.20 Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films. 11.10 News. 11.35 Late Programs.

7TWO (72) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness.

1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Creek To Coast. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown. 8.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (52) 6am TV Shop: Home Shopping. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. 10.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 4. 5pm Tennis. Australian Open. Night 4. 10.00 Law & Order. 11.00 Timeless. Midnight Adventures In Rainbow Country. 12.30 My Favorite Martian.

1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Joyce Meyer.

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

BOLD (81)

6am Shopping. 8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. Noon Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Hawaii Five-0. 9.30 L.A.’s Finest. 10.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.30 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 1pm

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Asterix And Obelix In Britain. Continued. (2012, PG, French) 7.50 This Beautiful Fantastic. (2016, PG) 9.30 The Eagle Has Landed. (1976, PG) Noon Coming Home. (2014, PG, Mandarin) 2.00 CJ7. (2008, PG, Cantonese) 3.40 Esio Trot. (2015, PG) 5.20 Maudie. (2016, PG) 7.30 Results. (2015, M) 9.30 It’s Complicated. (2009, M) 11.45 Late Programs.

5.50am The Eagle Has Landed. (1976, PG)

7MATE (73) 6am Morning Programs.

9.00 American Pickers. 10.00 America’s Game.

11.00 A Football Life. Noon Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Wild Ops. 3.00 The Simpsons. 4.00 Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Hellfire Heroes. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1. (2010, M) 10.25 MOVIE: Dredd.

(2012, MA15+) 12.30am Late Programs.

9GO! (53) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team. 5.00 The Nanny. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Tennis. Austn Open. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Fear. (1996, M) 9.30 MOVIE: The Silence Of The Lambs. (1991, MA15+) Midnight Quantum Leap. 1.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.00 Late Programs.

PEACH (82)

Tayamangajirri. 1.30 Red Earth Uncovered. 2.30 Bamay. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked! 3.55 Aussie Bush Tales. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Red Chef Revival. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 NITV News Update. 7.30 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. 8.30 MOVIE: The Namesake.

(2006, M) 10.30 News. 10.40 Late Programs.

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6am Friends. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Becker. 9.00 The King Of Queens. 10.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

11.00 Frasier. Noon WIN’s All Australian News.

1.00 Medium. 2.00 The King Of Queens. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Friends.

11.00 Late Programs.

PUZZLES No. 014

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Get set for bumper Easter The Queensland tourism industry is expecting strong bookings for Easter and the school holidays after the Greater Sydney COVID hotspot ended on Monday (February 1).

“With Queensland open to all Australians again the focus is on getting people to explore and take a holiday in the Sunshine State,” Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said.

“Opening the border to Greater Sydney could result in a $350m tourism windfall alone.

“That’s what 370,000 Sydneysiders spent in 2019, visiting Queensland for Easter.”

Data released this week by Tourism Research Australia though revealed the devastating impact coronavirus had on the tourism

industry last Easter, with spending down more than 80 percent in Queensland.

“The coming pick-up in holiday makers is very welcome news. And it’s a great opportunity for families and friends to get together again,” the Premier said.

“We know that regions largely reliant on tourism are continuing to do it tough, particularly with the international border still closed to overseas visitors.

“I want everyone to get out now and explore Queensland. If your family hasn’t been to the Great Barrier Reef, this year is the perfect opportunity. There’s just so much to do here.

“The great variety of experiences we offer here, have been highlighted again for me,

in numerous photos so many happy summer school holidaymakers have posted in the comments section on my Facebook page.”

Tourism Minister Stirling Hinchliffe said Rugby League could also pile points on the board for a big Queensland Easter.

“We’re expecting an Easter feeding frenzy among Sharks fans on the Sunshine Coast for the April 3 match against the North Queensland Cowboys,” Mr Hinchliffe said.

“The Cowboys always bring a showdown to town, so there’s even more reason for Sydney footy fans to make Queensland their Easter destination and then make the hop further north for the school holidays.

“I know the tourism industry genuinely ap-

preciates the support Queenslanders and interstate visitors have shown in the last year by exploring our vast state.

“Easter, the footy and the school holidays are another incentive to keep that support going.

“Events and visitors mean jobs for Queensland tourism’s economic recovery.

“We’re helping tourism rebuild better and know just how important Rugby League will be for Easter in Queensland.”

Psorisis clinical trial begins

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USC Clinical Trials is about to begin a study of an experimental new treatment for mild to moderate chronic plaque psoriasis, a common skin condition.

The phase 1 study, to be led by USC Associate Professor Sue Thackwray will assess how the body responds to a topical gel applied directly to an area of plaque psoriasis and whether the condition improves over four weeks of treatment. Dr Thackwray said plaque psoriasis was a long-lasting, autoimmune condition in which skin cells are produced too quickly, causing a build-up of rough, red, scaly skin. It is the most common form of psoriasis and affects people of all ages and skin colours.

“The most commonly affected parts of the body are the knees, elbows, and scalp,” she said.

“Patches can also occur randomly over the body, and patches may heal and reappear in different locations. Plaque psoriasis is itchy and uncomfortable, and if not treated can lead to skin infection.

“Typical treatments for plaque psoriasis include topical creams, gels and ointments such as corticosteroids and salicylic acid ointments. If these are ineffective, systemic treatments such as oral disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs or intravenous biologics are used.”

The study requires people aged 18 to 75 years old with mild to moderate plaque psoriasis affecting less than 10 percent of their body (or a total area of less than 10 handprints).

They must be willing to avoid excessive exposure to sunlight during the treatment period and must be either not currently undergoing treatment for their condition or willing to potentially cease treatment for the duration of the study.

Participants will be required to visit the USC Clinical Trials centre at Sippy Downs approximately seven times over six weeks. For more details go to usc.edu. au/trials

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Llew’s News Llew O’Brien

Moving forward in 2021 As we recover from 2020, we celebrate our Noosa innovators who break new ground, and local business people and community groups who have all pulled together through these very challenging times.

Local businesses saw strong support over the holidays and we need to sustain this momentum through the quieter months to keep the wheels of the economy turning.

We are not out of the woods yet and the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine is due to start in weeks. We’re investing an additional $1.9 bil-

lion in COVID-19 vaccines and most people can be vaccinated by October.

We want people to enjoy everything each distinct Noosa community has to offer, the range of accommodation, the restaurants and caf¨¦’s, the beaches and hinterland. The vaccine is a key part of the Morrison Government’s economic recovery plan to protect people and enable families and friends to safely reunite and socialise and support local businesses to keep people in jobs and local towns vibrant.

One local business primed for success in

2021 is the Heads of Noosa Brewing Company which has achieved a $20,000 grant through the Morrison Government’s Energy Efficient Communities Program. These funds will help Heads of Noosa to slash energy costs and support local jobs.

We are also supporting world leading bushfirefighting innovators. A recent firefighting demonstration at the Noosa Aerodrome by Fireball International, Helitak and McDermott Aviation showed us how they are changing the way bushfires are detected, fought and extin-

guished, and their collaboration will benefit fire-risk communities worldwide.

I was pleased to announce support for the development of this remarkable world-first technology with a $500,000 Entrepreneurs’ Programme grant for Fireball.International and assisted Helitak with a $497,500 Accelerating Commercialisation grant.

Where there is a community willing to innovate, I am pleased to help the Morrison Government play its part to support it, and it’s great this is happening in Noosa.

Crossings signal progress on Cooroy to Curra upgrade Federal Member for Wide Bay and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Llew O’Brien has welcomed progress on the $1 billion Cooroy to Curra Section D Bruce Highway upgrade, with haulage crossings to be constructed on the east side of Gympie within weeks.

“Construction of the first crossings on the local road network will begin around East Deep Creek in early February, which will provide access for machinery and materials and will significantly reduce the number of construction vehicles on local roads,” Mr O’Brien said.

“When completed, the crossings will reduce disruption for local road users, and

they’re a welcome step forward in the muchneeded four-lane Gympie Bypass.”

Mr O’Brien said the roadworks would include the construction of temporary road pavements, installing rumble grids within the work areas, and installing signage for traffic management.

Changed speed limits will be in place at all heavy vehicle crossings, and all crossings will be monitored and road conditions managed with sweeper trucks and water carts.

Work will begin in February at the following crossings: Flood Road - near Cooloola Scrap Metal Noosa Road - near T-intersection with Penny Road

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Road - near T-intersection with Noo- · Sandy Creek Road - adjacent to the North · Penny Coast Rail Line sa Road Progressively over the next twelve months the following crossings will begin: Keefton Road - within Woondum State Forest area Noosa Road - near Mothar Mountain Speedway East Deep Creek Road - near Nolan Meats Randwick Road - adjacent to North Coast Rail Line Bolcaro Road - approximately halfway along Tin Can Bay Road - adjacent to the North Coast Rail Line

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The project is being managed by the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, with a Bielby BMD joint venture awarded the tender for upgrades from Woondum through to Veteran.

A second contract will be secured early this year for the remaining section between Veteran and Curra, and the works will be complete by mid-2024, weather permitting.

“The Gympie Bypass is a once-in-a-generation infrastructure project that will save lives and turbo-charge Wide Bay’s economy, creating about 576 jobs during the next four years,” Mr O’Brien said.

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Cycle lane separate In anticipation of backlash from cyclists wanting to use the shared pathway from my letter last week, the only way I can see it working is have the footpath for pedestrians, a cycle lane that cars cannot enter with raised sides (I have seen these in a lot of cities), then parking for cars, then the road a small strip/island in the middle and repeat on the other side.

Make the cycle lane safe for everyone to ride in away from cars. They do this in Sydney and many other cities around the world and the cycle lane becomes a safe zone for everyone with no cars allowed or able to enter it.

If council are not making the island in the middle smaller, I am unable to see how there will be any difference to what we currently have with cars parking blocking a lot of the cycle path.

Judy Senn, Tewantin

LENSCAPE

Wild about the wild With so many new residents arriving here each week/month/year, maybe we should have an induction course to explain that this near pristine paradise did not just ‘happen’, but has been created by the hard slog of many generations of environmentally astute individuals.

Instead of the Australian Citizenship test of “who’s Don Bradman?” and “what on earth is a baggy green?”, we could decree that each new household purchase and read, cover to cover, “Wild About Noosa”. It’s Tony Wellington’s magnificent book of photographs and incredibly well informed (and oft hilarious) text about the wealth of native creatures we encounter in our gardens, parks, beaches. If you haven’t read it yet you are missing out on a most enjoyable few hours. It’s available on Tony’s website - and I reckon should also be required reading in all local schools - but then the Education Department may object as it does delve into some very strange sex lives.

Susie Osmaston, Noosa Heads

Should we change Australia day Last week I asked readers: Should we change the date and the way we view Australia Day? In answer to the question: Of course it’s time to change both the date and the way we view Australia Day. It doesn’t make sense to keep doing the same thing and expect it to have a different result. There’s no historical reason to keep this date. If we’re celebrating the start of British colonization, the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay on the 18th, 19th, and 20th January. If we’re celebrating the nation of Australia, it didn’t exist until Federation on the 1st January 1901. Until then we were a group of British colonies.

It hasn’t always been called Australia Day. That began in 1935 and not in all States until 1946. Aboriginal people protested it then and have done so every year since then. It’s time we heard their pain and stop hurting them.

Patricia Mullins, Sunshine Beach

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Terrie Haley was on the river at dawn and captured the image in this beautiful shot. If you have a Lenscape please email to newsdesk@noosatoday.com.au

perience. Certain that tourists could easily find AFL field with a Google search.

I would have been on the Go Noosa bus at least 4 times a week. My experience was that each driver was exceptionally courteous and certainly stopped at every available stop, including the temporary stops at The J and Noosa Arts Theatre.

Well done Noosa Council for this well supported service. I’m sure you are the envy of Southern Councils.

Jill Simpson, Noosaville

Australia day What a stunning day and we enjoyed it at Boreen Point with our local car club.

Australia day does not celebrate the arrival of the first fleet or the invasion of anything.

Captain Cook landed in Sydney on the 28th of April 1770.

The first fleet arrived in Botany Bay - between 18th or 20th January 1788.

The 26th of January was chosen as AUSTRALIA DAY - WHY??- The Australian Nationality came into existence when the NATIONALITY AND CITIZENS ACT 1948 WAS ENACTED. WE ALL BECAME AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS ON THE SAME DATE. Now isn’t that a cause for celebration.

This discussion has been hijacked by those with another agenda. I hear their message but changing a date will not change anything. Will It? Isn’t it time that all Australians were taught the real reason we celebrate Australia day on Jan 26th? And personally, I want to keep celebrating it on 26th January.

Tom Smith, Tewantin

Who’s disadvantaged?

Sunday Courier Mail January 31st pages 10 and 11.

The terrible preventable loss of 3 lives at Alexandra Hills on page 10.

On page 11 the result of children as young as 12 driving a stolen car in Townsville taunting the police, Then with a police car crashing into a power pole and one officer lying on the grass with injuries and his partner with back injuries. Two of the young offenders don’t appear to be seriously injured.

It is said some of these kids are disadvantaged. They all have or did have parents at some time.

The disadvantaged are the 3 killed on page 10. Killed were 2 looking to a future as a family with a baby due who would make it complete, but alas also killed. Now there is left their grieving families and friends and the the officers injured on page 11.

The scales of justice need recalibrating.

Ernest Wright, Sunrise Beach

VALE Dr Margaret King Boyes OAM

By Eveline Goy Ten years ago almost to the day, on 30 January 2011, my dear friend, Margaret King Boyes, mentor, inspiration and role model passed away, after a long life well lived and countless remarkable achievements.

Every death is a tragedy, but the passing of Margaret has left a whole tribe of people bereft . She worked harder, listened better, and was always calm in a crisis. Everything had to be done ‘p.d.q.’ (pretty damn quick!) because time is running out and the world needs your help. She had learned from Margaret Mead herself to ‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret was a small woman with a massive charisma and luminous blue eyes that sparked fear in the bravest. She could empower you to tackle any challenge and showed confidence you would get results.

It didn’t need to be perfect, but you had to show willing.

In the late seventies she was invited by Police Commissioner Peter McAuley to Darwin to teach ethno-science to a group of promising public servants and police peo-

ple. To my surprise, I was included in that group. This introduction to her teaching led to three decades of friendship and dedication to support the vulnerable. The first and most lasting involvement was with the East Timorese, whose culture she had studied for her Masters in Anthropology in the sixties.

This resulted in the book Eden to Paradise (1963), later reprinted in 1994 with a new annex under the title Eden to Paradise and Paradise Lost. In this she documented Indonesia’s aggression of East Timor and Australia’s indifference to the East Timorese’s suffering. In 2002 Margaret made a final visit to East Timor as an independent country abandoned by Indonesian after much riot, murder and looting. Her latest book Healing Timor Leste: A Consultation of Specialists (2006), in which I collaborated, explored the resilience of the Timorese people and the many friendships with Australians, .

Margaret’s greatest contribution to the study of culture and ethnicity was her Ph.D. dissertation The Gates of Memory, which focused on 400 years of cross cultural communication between the peoples of two hemispheres since the Voyages of Discovery. She greatly admired Portuguese Captain Pedro Fernando da Quiros (1606), for his sincere

and concerned interest of all people, especially the Indigenes, before the world recognised them as humans. The thesis represents the maceration of 40 years of research into culture and human perception, and how these often lead to conflict and environmental destruction.

I have to leave this eulogy with a pessimistic conclusion. Having studied anthropology in Adelaide with Charles Mountford and Margaret Mead, Margaret later contributed to Aboriginal studies with her thesis Substance and Shadow, on Aboriginal funeral rites, after being initiated in the Kimberleys. Her research revealed and interpreted aspects of human relationships with care and sensitivity. Sadly, in this modern world, change driven by technology has accelerated, distancing us from respectful collaboration, towards exploitation and competition. This has damaged our health and the future of the planet. Margaret’s legacy is not safe. Students and scholars who share her passion to leave the world a better place will need to reinvent the wheel and find new paths and solutions.

“The true universalism is not the breaking down of the walls of one’s own house, but the offering of hospitality to one’s guests and neighbours.” ( Rabindranath Tagore)

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Mother Nature on the run Dalia Mikhael wears so many hats she could open a millinery shop, but she’d be too busy to run it.She is currently director of the Grass Roots Marketing Alliance, managing director of Noosa Environmental Education Hub and project officer for Zero Emissions Noosa, and that’s just the big ticket items. Dalia has spent many years designing and delivering “outdoors immersion” environmental programs that give life to the curriculum, while promoting Indigenous led, biodiversity discussion. Oh, and she’s also the mother of a seven-yearold daughter with musician husband Peter Wood, a former leading New Zealand multiinstrumentalist (Salmonella Dub).

Of Egyptian parentage, Dalia was the first of her family to be born in Australia, and grew up in Brisbane, attending Corinda High before doing a marketing degree at QUT, where she realized she was no great fan of any kind of mass marketing. So she dabbled in market research before finding a niche in the electricity industry, which was just starting to educate its customers about renewables. This was an application of marketing she could embrace, and ultimately it led to her founding of the Grass Roots Marketing Alliance, specializing in community engagement.

Dalia, Peter and their newborn moved to an acreage in the wallum at Weyba Downs in 2013, and Dalia quickly got involved in the challenging but rewarding business of educating people about the linked issues of the environment, sustainability and First Nations culture.

PHIL JARRATT sat her in the Noosa Today Hotseat.

So the marketing degree basically turned you off marketing?

It did, absolutely. It made me realise that there was so much to be done in grass roots communications, getting people to do the right thing for the planet. I think I was naïve enough to believe that this was what marketing was actually about, but as soon as I got thrust into the fast food and beverages kind of marketing, I quickly changed my mind. So I set up the Grass Roots Marketing Alliance in about 2000.

But this was after you graduated and started working in mass marketing, right?

Yes, I worked in market research for a while, and then went into the electricity industry and worked in every facet of that. This was my introduction to the school curriculum because I developed a program called Solar Schools, in which the data from the use of solar panels was presented to students so that they could learn about energy efficiency. It was just a part of the industry’s move into renewables, and no one really understood much about it.

What was the catalyst that got you into communicating information about renewables?

I understood that education was necessary across the board in all industries, and in the electricity industry particularly, they needed to know about climate change and emissions.

It kind of went from that to the logical next step, which was to educate young people before they entered the workforce.

This is about 20 years ago. Were you ahead of the curve?

Yes, in some ways. My whole approach was that marketing had to be of mutual benefit, a win-win for all. In the electricity industry that meant that the industry got a higher profile for the new renewables projects they were working on and the students got the benefit of this important educational resource.

In the marketing of measures to save the planet, does everything have to be a win-win?

By now couldn’t you just sell solar on the good it’s doing rather than the cost savings?

I think that even today there is some fear about making that the rationale, and Covid set it back too. In today’s world it has to be seen as an economic benefit first and an environmental benefit second. Fortunately, with solar it is absolutely both.

Dalia Mikhael.

Does Grass Roots Marketing Alliance still exist?

Yes, it does, and I still apply those philosophies developed at Grass Roots to virtually everything I’m doing, including the Noosa Environmental Education Hub, where the focus is not on us, it’s on the students. And it’s the same with the work I’m doing at the moment with the Noosa World Surfing Reserve to bring their surf safety awareness and Surf Code programs into schools.

You have a marketing degree but you’re not an educator and yet you seem to excel at getting the message into the school curriculum.

How? Well, my relationship with the education system really began with Solar Schools which was a great way to start because we were giving them a freebie - the industry was giving this to the Department of Education. That put me in a position of being able to connect with the curriculum leaders, and those contacts have grown over the years. Through that work I really got to understand what the Australian Curriculum was about and what its desired outcomes were, and how I could contribute to it.

Tell me how the Noosa Environmental Education Hub came into being.

In 2013 when we moved to Weyba Downs, everything looked so green and lovely, but then came the realization that there was a lot of biodiversity loss in Noosa, endangered species, like our koala, and other issues. On the other hand, there were environmental groups that had been going since the year dot and were the reason the place looks the way it does. But there was this gap - an aging population of participants and no one filling it from the younger generation. I kept hearing they weren’t interested, you couldn’t get them to do anything.It took a while, but I realized that here was something I could help fix. My two

Picture: ROB MACCOLL co-directors at the Hub now, Di Seels and Annika Patrick, were working at an outdoor space at Sunshine Beach primary school when I happened to waltz in one day to donate a beehive, and I looked around and thought every school should have something like this. I got to talking with Di and Annika and together we created the Hub in 2019. The Biosphere Reserve liked what was happening and asked if we could recreate it at other schools. We said rather than do that why don’t we approach it holistically and provide the programs which we could take anywhere.

They gave us some seed funding and we came up with our first programs, one of which was Waterways Health, in which a school adopts a waterway, and the kids do water analysis using NICA’s monitoring system. The list of programs now coming out of the EE Hub is long and I’m sure we’ll get to most of them, but can you start by explaining Aboriginal Perspectives?

Aboriginal Perspectives is not ours but it’s a cross-curricular priority and not done very well, so we’re trying to build a better framework for it. For me, if you want to talk about an area’s biodiversity, no one can explain it better than the original inhabitants. A lot of the information is fragmented, but there is such beauty in bringing experts from the Kabi Kabi into the schools to explain the land.

Bioregionalism?

Bioregionalism is an interesting one. It’s about teaching students about the ecosystems that support their existence in a certain place, teaching them about the place they live in a completely different way. We’re just finalizing a sponsorship on that which will enable us to roll it out in the near future.

Why does the education department need a body from outside, like the Noosa EE Hub, to develop environmental education programs?

A long time ago the Queensland Department of Education disbanded their curriculum development resource group, so while the Australian Curriculum decrees the type of things that Australian schools should teach, there really aren’t people here in the department who are generating curriculum. It all comes down to cost efficiencies, and in a way that’s been a blessing because it’s allowed industry to step up and build a partnership with the schools.

Doesn’t that open the door to branding education?

Well, I was always fearful that a McDonalds would want in, but schools are pretty savvy in understanding what is appropriate. Most schools today want to have a community relationship and for it to have relevance in their curriculum, but they’re not always sure how to go about it. When we bring to them something that’s Noosa Biosphere specific, it gives kids the chance to get their hands dirty while learning elements of the essential curriculum. And the teachers are happy to see the kids get more engaged in learning that isn’t text book-driven.

At the Hub we’re really focused on working with Noosa Biosphere and Noosa Council to get their environmental and sustainability messaging to the whole community, so as our schools programs become entrenched in the curriculum, the potential to do that is massive and cost-effective. But most marketers still want to use traditional mediums, like TV commercials. When I developed Solar Schools for the electricity industry, a New Zealand company called Genesis Energy jumped on it, and found they now had something to talk about in their TV commercials, how they were putting solar panels into schools.

How did you move from convincing corporations that they needed you to convincing community groups and organisations?

When I first moved to Noosa I did a lot of volunteering with community groups and got to understand how they operated, the fundamentals and the nuances of what they were doing. And that’s been really helpful in explaining to them what we can offer at the Hub, like bringing the schools on board and making their programs curriculum-linked.

If a school accepts your program for inclusion in its curriculum, what happens then?

Do you go in and educate the educators?

Pretty much, yes, but there’s definitely a redundancy clause. When the teachers are confident to deliver the program without us, we’re out.

But the community group partnerships that have been formed remain. How does the funding for these programs work? Can the schools afford to pay you for developing them?

The schools get funded each year for their educational resourcing, and they get STEM funding (science, technology, engineering and maths) which decreases each year but hopefully not to zero. The idea is that it’s to be used for sustainability education, so that enables us to be funded directly by the schools where our programs are directly relevant to their curriculum. We also rely on other funding. For example, Noosa Youth Advocacy Group is not something we can charge the schools for, it needed to be funded externally and Noosa Council stepped in, but it’s another win-win because they need to develop support and get input across generations for their key strategies.

Is the Youth Advocacy Group designed to churn out little Greta Thunbergs?

Not so much. (Laughs) It’s designed to give them a voice, and they come up with some great ideas that often come from what’s affecting them personally. They are often concerned about the number of jobs for young people in Noosa, and the Advocacy Group allows them to step up and do something about creating sustainable employment. But yes, some do want to become little Gretas, and through the program we teach them how to control ecoanxiety and work for positive change instead of inheriting this massive problem that our generation has created for them.

For me school education is public education, because once you get kids to adopt a new way of thinking, they take it home and educate their parents.

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Rattler romance on V-Day love train The Mary Valley Rattler is offering couples the ultimate ‘romance of the rails’ experience with an exclusive Valentine’s Love Train service on Saturday evening 13 February.

In the perfect lead-up to Valentine’s Day, the Rattler Love Train will depart historic Gympie Station at 5pm, 13 February, taking a leisurely scenic sunset ride through the spectacular Mary Valley to the atmospheric village of Amamoor, with on-board bubbles and antipasto.

Returning to Gympie Station, couples will enjoy a romantic two course dinner at the station’s Rusty Rails Café prepared by chef Lee Speer that will include options such as a decadent Swedish chocolate love cake with raspberry sorbet.

General Manager of the Mary Valley Rattler, Michael Green, said that steam trains and romance had forever been coupled together, so offering the Rattler Love Train on the eve of Valentine’s Day was a ‘natural’ for the heritage railway.

“With Valentine’s Day falling on a Sunday, our Love Train provides the ultimate lead-in to the special day,” Mr Green said.

“You could say it’s the perfect way to get your romance on track, and an excellent opportunity for couples outside the region to arrange a weekend away in the glorious Mary Valley. We can guarantee a truly romantic and memorable experience.”

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Flying blind Legally blind athlete and motivational speaker, Lorin Nicholson, does not hold back when it comes to facing his disability.

An adventure flight with Paradise Seaplanes on the Sunshine Coast on Australia Day was his latent venture.

When asked why a blind person would want to go on a scenic tour Lorin explained that ‘seeing’ something is a multi-sensory experience.

“Being blind, my other senses are naturally heightened,” he said. “I want to experience things with my family and just like anyone, there are many aspects to an experience that you remember and enjoy.”

“I have about 10 per cent peripheral vision and can picture what I think is happening and other senses like touch, hearing and smell make up the rest of the experience.”

Lorin shared the flight with his wife Lisa.

“I have been all over the world on jet planes, but this seaplane is a first for me.”

Pilot Shawn Kelly said their joy flights were no ordinary flight which is why they called them adventure flights.

“Our aircraft is the quietest piston engined aircraft in the world,” says Shawn of the Wilga 80 Seaplane, known affectionately as Willy.

Lorin experienced the aircraft’s “Doors Off” option.“It is kind of like skydiving sitting down,” Shawn said.

Paradise Seaplanes is very happy to cater to people with all-abilities where they are able, and can tailor an experience to be inclusive.

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Wild about Noosa this book is a passionate ode to a much-loved locale. Noosa has enjoyed over half a century of pioneering conservation effort, with the outcomes now evident in its remarkable biodiversity. Birds, mammals, reptiles and insects are all featured in this spectacular coffee-table, hard-cover book.

Tony Wellington has been a photographer, politician, published author, freelance writer, artist, film-maker, lecturer, musician and social commentator. His bestselling book Noosa & Cooloola: Celebrating 50 years of Noosa Parks Association was published in 2014.

Tony graduated from Sydney’s Macquarie University in 1976 with a BA majoring in Mass Media and Communications. He received the University Prize for his media studies.

Body Art Festival goes on Artists are being invited to book in now for the Australian Body Art Festival to be held from 9-11 April at Apex Park, Cooroy for a program that will look a bit different to past years.

Event manager Danielle Taylor said to comply with CovidSafe requirements the festival would change the format to create five discreet sessions.

On Friday 9 April there will be UV speed painting commencing mid-afternoon.

Saturday will comprise a Brush & Sponge and Special Effects sessions. On Sunday, the morning will feature both junior and senior Face Painting and the afternoon Wearable Art, final parades and announcements. Surfboard Art winners will also be announced on Sunday 11 April.

Danielle said surfboard artists could claim their boards prior to the weekend to start creating in advance or were welcome to paint onsite over the Festival weekend all ready for judging, announcements and the auction in the afternoon.

Each session will conclude with judging, announcements and parades, she said.

“What will not change this year is the amazing art, atmosphere, camaraderie and the creativity that this event generates,“ Danielle said. “We will still have live music, food vendors, markets stalls and photo booth.”

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There’ll be live entertainment from The Sandflys, and the Marina also offers boutique shopping, cafes, bars, restaurants and boat cruises.

Donation buckets will help KLUB VW raise funds for the Sunshine Coast Surfrider Foundation.

The Surfwagon Cruise around Noosa will leave the Marina at 12.30pm, heading along the river to Gympie Terrace, Noosaville, into Hastings Street at Noosa Heads, and then to Land & Sea Brewery for a refreshing afternoon.

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VW on show in Noosa KLUB VW Sunshine Coast presents the Noosa VW Show on Saturday 13 February 2021 with a great display of VWs, followed by a Surfwagon Cruise around Noosa.

Gates open at 8am and show times are from 9am to 12.30pm at the Noosa Marina, overlooking the Noosa River.

Entry for spectators is free. VW entry costs $10 at the gate.

Participant VWs will be parked in the Marina car park, with a limited number of parking spots available around the Marina.

He has worked on a freelance basis in the film and television industry, written books and articles, lectured in media, had exhibitions of his paintings around Australia, run folk clubs, recorded a CD of original songs, worked as a photographer, and published a regular political newsletter.

He is a father of three and keen surfer. Living in the hinterland of Queensland’s premier holiday destination, Noosa, he gets to surf world-class point breaks and indulge his fascination with the natural environment. Tony was Mayor of Noosa Council until April 2020.

The free author talk will be held at Annie’s Books on Peregian, 8 Kingfisher Drive, Peregian Beach at 6pm on Thursday 18 February.

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Former Mayor Tony Wellington is guest author at a footpath soiree on 18 February at Annie’s Books on Peregian where he will talk about his new book, Wild About Noosa “Tony Wellington has been a friend of ours for many years - we were aware of his superb photography before he entered politics, and we are thrilled to see him return to his art with the publication of this very exciting new book,“ bookstore owner Annie Grossman said.

“Our evening with Tony is going to be a fun and informative start to our events for 2021.“ Wild About Noosa celebrates the diverse range of wildlife that resides in the Noosa area. With superb colour photographs and text by former Noosa Mayor Tony Wellington,

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Take a country drive Trevor Pepys reviews the Country Life Hotel, Kin Kin “I’m bored,” said the missus. “All we ever do is go to the beach or bar crawl the length of Gympie Terrace until the sun sets and you can go in and destroy the reputation of some innocent restaurant, just for the sport of it. Why can’t you be more like that bandana bloke in the SandFlys? He’s always taking his missus on adventures in the country. I know, I’ve seen it on Facebook.”

She meant it, and there was a veiled threat of cutting off conjugal rights, such as making the bed and doing the washing. And, to be honest, our Covid routine had become a little tedious. It was time to revisit the far parts of the realm, to take what the tourism boosters call a Noosa Country Drive.

Back in a previous century, before life got so serious, Trev used to love driving the circle of suds, usually starting with a Eumundi Lager with old mate Bruce Wall at the Imperial Hotel, then motoring on for a schooner or two on the veranda at the Pomona pub, then just the one sneaky pint at the Country Life in Kin Kin before driving on to the Apollonian for one of Bob Abbot’s Sunday roast specials. If you’d kept yourself nice, you might even manage one for the frog and toad at the Royal Mail to finish the afternoon.

This, of course, is now out of the question in our nanny state, so we opted for an abbreviated version of the circle of suds, replacing constant bevies with quick hits of culture, starting with a short visit to the cute Railway Station Gallery at Pomona, completely empty save for a vollie or two on a steamy Sunday. Looking across the street to the pub, Trev was tempted to trade the Lake Cootharaba water colours for a quick game of darts and a swill, but the dude abided.

Next stop was the good old Country Life, where Trev could combine culture with a bevie and a graze, but first he had to placate the wiry old, inked-up bloke behind the bar, who was irate with the missus for taking phone snaps of the historic wall hangings to post on social media and one-up Bandana Bloke. “The last time I let a bloke take pictures inside the bar, they ended up in the paper and got another bloke who wasn’t supposed to be in here in big trouble,” he ranted.

“Don’t worry,” Trev assured him, “I’ll rip the film out of the back of the phone and destroy it while we’re having a drink and surveying the menu. Now, may I look at your wine list?”

Of course, this being an authentic country pub (built 1914) there was neither a wine list nor a menu, but Ink Man softened towards us and within minutes we were seated at an airy courtyard table with a Eumundi lager for Trev ($6.70) and a quaffable house chardy ($$7) for the missus, with shared dishes a crumbed

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Country Life Hotel. red emperor with chips and salad ($27) and crumbed steak and chips with mushroom gravy ($15) on the way.

Well, sort of on the way. Given the postholiday empty table count, the food should have come a lot quicker, but fortunately we were in the mood to dally, listening to the mellow sounds of Joel Mak, the excellent Rainbow Beach troubadour whom we’ve known since he was in nappies. In between sets Joel dropped by for a beer and a natter, the heavens opened for all of four minutes, the sun came out again, steam rose off the concrete and before you could say “Pepys for President”, our lunch arrived.

First the good news. You can’t go wrong with a good reefie, and the red emperor certainly passed muster, although it could have been a little less cooked under its heavy shell of breadcrumbs. But it was a big plateful and quite acceptable pub grub, which was just as well, because the crumbed steak (seems like they crumb just about everything at the Country Life) was the bad news.

The missus gave up on it and even Trev struggled a bit. Underneath the crumbed disguise, its texture looked like it had been 3Dprinted rather than ripped off the side of a cow.

On the other hand, the mushroom gravy was delicious.

The verdict: Look, we went for a drive in the country, not a gourmet experience, and the Country Life gave us a great afternoon of fun, music, and frivolity. Not to mention a piece of fish that was almost excellent.

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Yummie Chinese on menu Tewantin Noosa Bowls Club held its inaugural Yum Cha session last Sunday and locals were keen to come along to sample the traditional Chinese brunch of Chinese tea and dim sum.

On Sunday 14 February the bowls club will celebrate Chinese New Year with a special lunch and dinner and traditional Lion Dancing on the day at 1pm and 7pm.

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Verity Northcott and Ewan Tweedier serve up the Yum Cha.

Michiko and Shozo Kobayashi with Nicki and Walter Bolzer.

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Ross and Julie Brown of Noosaville.

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Big Aussie Day for motoring enthusiasts Australia Day was celebrated in motoring style with the Roadrunner Car Club as they held their inaugural ‘Australia Day Show’n’Shine’.

A massive display of 70 cars lined the lawn of the Apollonian Hotel at Boreen Point while members lunched in the shade.

The Show’n’Shine had a competitive edge with trophies awarded for particular categories including the Apollonian Hotel’s ‘Own Choice’ which went to a very Stunning MGTC owned by Colin Boucher from Gympie. Colin received a hand made ‘Perpetual Trophy’ from Neil Paynter- the Apollonian publican - with an engraved glass and a cool bottle of Champagne to boot.

Roadrunner Car Club spokesperson Noel St John-Wood said their Sunshine Coast based Car Club “turned out in force under a True Blue Queensland sky - it was just the right day for a celebration involving some of the many unique cars we have in the club ranging in era from the 1920s through to 2020s”.

“We don’t need much coaxing to get out on a day like this one-its just very relaxing and a good social event that we aim for“, he said.

70 cars joined the lineup.

Apollonian Hotel publican Neil Paynter presents the pubs ‘Own Choice’ award to Colin Boucher for his stunning MGTC.

Magnificent cars dating back over the past century were on show.

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QCWA CENT SALE QCWA Cooroy Branch are holding a Cent Sale on Saturday 13 February at CWA Hall, Maple Street, Cooroy.

Admission $2per person. Doors open 12 noon, starts 1pm. Afternoon Tea will be served.

All Welcome.

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PROBUS CLUB Noosa 2010 Combined Probus Cub will hold their next meeting at the Tewantin Bowls Club, Hilton Terrace, Noosaville.

All are welcome to join us Tuesday 9 February at 9am and hear of our many interesting activities followed by morning tea.

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TEWANTIN-NOOSA NATIONAL SENIORS The next meeting of the Tewantin-Noosa National Seniors will be held on Thursday 18 February at 10am for 10.30am start at the Tewantin-Noosa RSL. Guest Speaker is Shannon from Lend Lease. She will talk about the new Retirement Village at Sunrise Beach. COVID19 rules apply. Please phone Norm for morning tea orders on 3129 0540. All welcome.

NOOSA SENIOR INDOOR BOWLS For fun, social interaction and exercise come along from 8.30 - 11.30am to Indoor Bowls at the Noosa Leisure Centre every Friday. Cost $3 to play and $2 for morning tea. All Welcome.

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PROBUS CLUB Noosa 2010 Combined Probus Club will be holding our monthly meeting at the Tewantin Bowls Club Hilton Terrace Noosaville on Tuesday 9 February at 9am visitors welcome to join us. We have a walking group, theatre and restaurant visits, darts, golf and other activities.

For more information contact Brian 0403 435 978.

NORTH TEWANTIN BUSHCARE Join the North Tewantin Bush Care Group of local volunteers every first and third Sunday of the month from 7.30-9.30 am to help maintain the beautiful natural flora in the area. We weed and plant along the river. It is light work and a lot of fun. All equipment is provided and an excellent morning tea follows. Grab a hat and come along.

Ring 0432 384 596.

ROTARY MEETING CHANGE Due to COVID19 testing at our usual meeting venue Tait Duke Community Cottage Noosa Heads Rotary Club meetings will now be held at the Villa Noosa Hotel from 6-8pm the first and third Tuesday each month until further notice. Phone 5474 4053 or 0427 708 928 or visit rotarynoosaheads.org.au

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cost is $4. It is a very enjoyable evening as Pat and Norm provide New Vogue as well as Old Time Dancing. Come and be a Spectator, and see if you will enjoy it. Everyone is welcome.

Phone 0407 456 939 for more information, or come and visit.

NOOSA BEEFSTEAK AND BURGUNDY CLUB We meet on the third Wednesday of each month at a different local restaurant for good food, wines and fellowship which is our aim.

We invite couples or single men and women to join us. For further information contact John Dicker on 0414 323 266.

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The AGM of the Tewantin-Noosa RSL Women’s Auxillary will be held at the Tewantin-Noosa RSL on Friday 5 February at 10am. All members and friends welcome. Phone Kay on 5447 5042.

Andrew’s two A Cappella choirs Spiritsong Chamber Choir (classical) and Good Vibrations (popular) will sing again from early February.

Both choirs SATB, some solos sometimes Spiritsong Chamber Choir meets at Tewantin on Wednesday evenings, Good Vibrations meet in Cooroy on Monday evenings.

If you would like to create good music in a choir, email Andrew. andrewjemmet@gmail. com or phone 5474 1498. Must be willing and able to practice songs. Computer files provided.

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Sunday Dance classes are held Sundays at 12.30pm at the Tewantin Masonic Hall. We teach basic dance steps, waltz then old time and new vogue social dances. It’s lots of fun, so hope to see you there. Phone 0429 829 328 or visit www.andrewsclassdance.com

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UKULELE LESSONS The Fun Ukulele Social Club is exciting to get you playing the uke, meeting new people and having fun. No experience necessary. Raw beginners welcome. Group lessons - Noosaville.

Call Phone Cherry the Ukelady on 0410 573 629.

ARTS & CRAFTS Learn to crochet workshops: One-to-one tuition with Janelle Turley is on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 9.30-11.30am at Noosa Shire Arts and Crafts Association, Wallace House, Wallace Drive, Noosaville. A Felt Pod workshop will be on 6 February from 9.30am to 1.30am with tutor Coralee Asker. Charcoal portraits four week course will be held from Tuesday 16 February from 9am to noon with tutor Lizzie Connor. Art after Dark will be held on Thursday 25 February from 6-9pm. The association is a centre for creativity, learning & friendship.

New members welcome. Phone 5474 1211, email: create@ noosaartsandcrafts.org.au or visit https:// noosaartsandcrafts.org.au.

HOME SEWERS NEEDED We have been sewing throughout Covid and Boomerang Bags are more in demand than ever, but we are limited with the number of sewers at our sewing bees. We need competent sewers to sew bags at home. We can give you packs of fabric cut and ready to sew. It would be preferable if you have an overlocker.

Donations of clean re-useable fabric are always welcome and we can arrange to collect if necessary. We continue to support Ocean Crusaders to remove rubbish from the Noosa River and have donated over $5,000 In the last four years. Call Sandra on 0466 449 946 for more information.

PROBUS NOOSA RIVER Looking for something to do? While we are not yet conducting our usual monthly meetings our club offers many activities and these subclubs are meeting regularly and include the following activities - craft, golf, art, lunch, outings,walking trips, theatre, wine appreciation, creative writing, book club, scrabble, coffee mornings, Mahjong and ukulele. Phone 0410 687 639 for more information.

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Grow your own bird habitat As urbanisation increases your garden can contribute to maintaining bird diversity whilst also bringing joy to your day as you share your life with our feathered friends. A well landscaped garden will also support a community of native wildlife including insects, amphibians, mammals and reptiles.

On February 12 Steve Popple will be the first guest speaker at Friday Environment Forum in 2021 talking about ‘Birdscaping our gardens’.Steve is an avid birder and horticulturist who has a wealth of experience in creating and enhancing habitats for birds.

The talk will cover the key elements that will ensure that your garden can attract a diversity of birds throughout the year plus which bird attracting plant species are particularly suited for gardens of all sizes on the Sunshine Coast.On 26 February Kate Heffernan from Australian Wildlife Conservancy will share the conservation strategies used at Curramore Wildlife Sanctuary near Maleny.

The property is a hotspot for biodiversity with an array of vegetation types including rainforest, tall eucalypt and grassy open forests.

You are invited to join the audience for these forums. COVID-safe procedures are followed so seating is limited and pre-registration online is essential. Go to www.noosaparks.org.au for the registration link for each forum.

The forums run from 10.30am-12noon at Noosa Parks Association Environment Centre, 5 Wallace Drive, Noosaville. Entry is $5 by ‘tap & go’. Arrive at 10am for morning tea/coffee and biscuit which is included in the entry price. Interpretive birding starts at 8.30am in the carpark.

Weekly Roster for Tewantin- Noosa Meals on Wheels beginning Monday 8 February 2021 to 12 February 2021 Monday Drivers: Rotary D’Break, Tony, Keetha, Andrew, Matthew & Marilia, Margaret & Bill, Patricia, Martina, Jason Kitchen: Martina, Denise, Martina, Len, Geoff, Stephen.

Tuesday Drivers: Alice, John Mc, Tania & Friends, Denise, Barani & Peter, Trina & Don, Kevin & Bob, Gary, Simone & Chris Kitchen: Christine O, Christine , Loz , Jo Wednesday Drivers: Hugh & Randal, Victor & Tatiana, Gary, Lis & Liz, Nancy, Bronwyn & Nick, Rosemary H, Roz, Simone & Chris Kitchen: Glenis, Richard, Judi,Mary, John Thursday Drivers: Mark, Heidi, Jenny & Kevin, Donna & Julie, Justin, Sharon & Jan, Barani & Peter, Lucky, Victor & Tatiana Kitchen: Loz, Jerry, Sharron Friday Drivers: Bruce, Victor & Tatiana, Susie & Noel, Jean & Janet, Lynette & John, Driver needed for F run, Paul, Dee, Julie B Kitchen: David, Karyn, Geoff, Neil, Charlotte You can also check the roster on our website www.mealsonwheels-tewantinnoosa.org.au If you are unavailable or can do an extra run, please phone the kitchen on 5449-7659.

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Australia Day shines on Well what a start to the week ahead! Australia day really turned it on with clear skies and light winds that all could enjoy. From Noosa the bar crossing has been easier with early morning high tides and light winds. Unfortunately the beautiful conditions didn’t last and with 20 knot winds hitting the coast the only option was to stay in the river.

Most anglers headed to one of two locations with North reef the more popular for reef fishing and Sunshine Reef for pelagics. North reef has been pretty consistent with pearlies, tuskies, snapper and lipper. Sunshine has had some huge Spanish over 25KG which have been taking big trolled baits. If you do catch and keep one of these bigger fish be sure when you eat it to only have a small piece. Ciguatera could be present and although it has not shown up you can’t be too careful. If targeting big fish like this be sure you run a decent length of wire to prevent bust off’s. With the reduction in rainfall, Halls Reef will start to fire up especially if bait gets pushed into the bay following the strong winds.

Surf fishing remains much the same with smaller bread and butter species on offer. For those with long cast outfits then smaller reef fish like snapper and sweetlip are on offer. If looking to do some drone fishing or slide baiting we hold various rods and reels that will let you have enough hook setting power on big fish. This is the time of year when big GT and Spanish come in a lot closer and become a viable target. This is a popular method around Fraser Island as bigger pelagic often swim through.

Fishing the Noosa River is one of the best options for when the strong South Easterly winds start to blow. This is because it is protected and many locations are available, especially to the land based angler. Along Gympie Terrace you will find cleaner conditions with the wind from behind as you fish. This is a particularly great spot for whiting and smaller trevally. The sand flats often hold good numbers of whiting in the daytime and light running rigs with live beach worm will certainly find the fish. If you are a lure angler then small lures like the Atomic K9 in orange wander is a classic whiting colour for when they are refusing all other colours. The river mouth is also a great spot and with the spring tides now behind us the current will drop and allow you drift baits in the channels for flathead and trevally. If after bream then try around the rocks of the dog beach and inside woods bay. While the river is still running darker it is best to stay in these areas as this is likely to be where the fish are.

Freshwater continues to fish well and with the winds you can always find shelter in a protected bay. Lake Macdonald has some great areas to fish out of the wind. Borumba also offers some great spots but it can be hard when the winds get up as the wind can funnel

Tyler Chubb and Ben Bischoff paddled their kayaks out to Sunshine Reef and came back with this 10kg longtail and 20kg Spanish mackerel. around the dam. With the fish very much staying deeper lures to use would be deeper diving hardbodies on the troll and vibes like the newer coloured Jackall TN60’s which are very well known bass and yellow belly magnets.

With the winds set to drop next week let’s hope we can get back to the pelagic run and some big fish stories.

Now for all the latest information log onto www.fishingnoosa.com.au for up to date bar and fishing reports, don’t forget to drop into Davo’s Tackle World, Davo’s Boating and Outdoors in Noosa and Davo’s Northshore Bait & Tackle in Marcoola for all the right equipment, bait and advice to get you catching. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and remember Tight Lines and Bent Spines!

Local angler Dave Leonard with a coral trout and Spanish mackerel from a recent trip to Sunshine Reef.

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Tide Times

THURS 4TH FEBRUARY

4TH FEBRUARY TO 10TH FEBRUARY 2021 Time

Height

Time

THURS 4TH FEBRUARY: 00:42 AM 6:44 AM

1.58 m 0.65 m 1.6 m 0.75 m

28 / 22 °C

FRI 5TH FEBRUARY 12:53 PM 7:21 PM

1.6 m 0.51 m

Sunny.

2:02 PM 8:29 PM

1.47 m 0.53 m

SAT 6TH FEBRUARY

3:24 PM 9:41 PM

1.38 m 0.52 m

SUN 7TH FEBRUARY

4:43 PM 10:48 PM

1.37 m 0.46 m

MON 8TH FEBRUARY

5:48 PM 11:47 PM

1.4 m 0.39 m

6:42 PM

1.45 m

FRI 5TH FEBRUARY: 1:57 AM 8:09 AM

Light showers. Mostly sunny.

Height

28 / 22 °C Increasing cloudiness.

28 / 22 °C

SAT 6TH FEBRUARY: 3:21 AM 9:47 AM

1.67 m 0.77 m

Afternoon clouds.

SUN 7TH FEBRUARY: 4:37 AM 11:11 AM

1.78 m 0.72 m

Showers late. Clearing skies.

MON 8TH FEBRUARY: 5:41 AM 12:16 PM

1.9 m 0.63 m

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2.01 m 0.53 m 0.32 m 2.09 m

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TUES 9TH FEBRUARY 27 / 22 °C

WED 10TH FEBRUARY

WED 10TH FEBRUARY: 00:38 AM 7:21 AM

30 / 23 °C Light showers. Partly cloudy.

TUES 9TH FEBRUARY: 6:35 AM 1:08 PM

31 / 22 °C

1:51 PM 7:29 PM

0.46 m 1.5 m

Light showers. Partly cloudy.

25 / 21 °C

Caroline Bird won the $100.00 Davo’s Tackle World/ChaseBaits Fish of the Week prize with this 56cm tailor which she caught on a trolled hard body lure.

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Board course completed

Got it.

Catching a wave in.

Nippers build strength The Peregian Nippers were in a race against the tide at their mini-carnival on Sunday as the beach was slowly swallowed by the rising ocean which peaked at 2.08m just as the carnival concluded.

Beach sprints and flags were run first while there was enough beach to use and board and swimming races concluded the fun day out for the nippers.

Peregian Beach Surf Life Saving Club chair Leigh McCready said: “The Peregian Nippers program re-started three years ago and has gone from strength to strength as numbers have built and parents have volunteered to complete their Surf Rescue Certificate and supervise children in the water and many others have completed their Bronze Medallion to patrol Peregian Beach.”

“Our Nipper program is small and familyfocused, aiming to build confidence in the open waters and learn safety skills which teach kids to not only look after themselves in the water but also their family, friends and eventually the public when they become lifesavers.

“We run two mini-carnivals a year which are something a bit different for the kids and allow the competitive children a chance to shine.”

Peregian Nippers will conclude in midMarch for the season with registrations opening again in August for the 2021/22 season.

Anyone wishing to become a lifesaver and patrol Peregian Beach should email hello@peregiansurfclub.com or call 04000 53444.

Volunteers lend a hand

Heading into the waves

Taking on board instructions

Sliding to success

The dash for the flags.

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Dylan focuses on success At 25 years of age, most young men are settling into their studies or their careers with sights set on a bright future.

For Dylan Theuerkauf, this is no different.

What lies in Dylan’s past however is an incredible story of overcoming life changing setbacks; to fight back and never give in.

Dylan’s story is one of and determination and positivity.

This is Dylan’s story.

Three years ago Dylan was a 22 year old young man, keen on dirt bikes and things that moved quickly. Dylan was a typical 22 year old living on the Sunshine Coast and enjoying the lifestyle such a place has to offer, however in a moment Dylan’s life would be turned upside down.

“I was on a dirt bike (up near Gympie). I loved dirt bike riding; I was obsessed with it.

It was my new motorbike and I was really obsessed with it. It was this dream motorbike I’d always wanted it my whole life and then I’d finally gotten it.”

“It was a bit too fast for what I could comprehend, it was a bit too quick.”

What happened next, nearly took Dylan’s life.

“I don’t remember much; I really don’t remember the whole week. I smashed my skull and I was in an induced coma for about 12 days. I had heart surgery because I broke six ribs and one of my ribs pierced the main muscle to my heart. I broke my pelvis in three different places, I broke my hip and I’ve got a steel rod in my leg. I had a fractured skull and a few other things.”

“I lacerated my urethra and I needed urethral surgery, I spent about 10 months with a catheter on. That was one of the most horrible things I’ve ever experienced, just 10 months of constant pain.

Recovery for Dylan was slow and painful, anyone could forgive a 22 year old for throwing in the towel and giving up, this is too hard, this is simply too hard. Dylan is not any 22 year old.

Doctors told Dylan he would have to learn to walk again following the accident, a conversation he recalls having with his mother.

“For the motorbike accident I had to keep going down to Brisbane, I had to learn how to walk again” “That was pretty rough. Not remembering anything and then waking up to being told of this news was a bit mind blowing. Being told that I had to learn how to walk again, I didn’t accept that. I said to Mum; Mum I’ve been walking for 22 years I’m pretty sure I know how to do it but I did have to learn how to walk again and that was pretty rough to have to take in.”

“When you’re put in a situation like that you don’t realise how strong you are until you have to find that strength within you to just keep going. Anyone can do it, it’s all about perspective and mindset and moving forward.”

As Dylan began to recover from his injuries, he saw an opportunity in his life to enrol in university. With the application submitted, weeks later the unthinkable happened.

“I applied for Uni and then I got diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. I was first diagnosed sometime last year, I can’t remember exactly when. Chemo brain messed me up a bit. I don’t remember much of that.”

Dylan Theuerkauf “In the first couple of weeks after I was diagnosed I kind of just laid there and felt like I had no one and I felt like I was by myself. The happiest people I’ve met are the people sitting there in the chair next to me getting chemotherapy.”

During his recovery from the motorbike accident, Dylan got in touch with STEPS Employment Services in Nambour. Lance Shiels, Dylan’s employment solutions partner recalls.

“Dylan came onto the case load right before he found out about his diagnoses. Dylan came onto the case load because of the injuries he sustained on the motorbike and he wasn’t too sure what kind of work he wanted to target and then he got the diagnoses for the cancer and there was so much unknown.”

At this point, no one would blame Dylan for giving in, for refusing to keep pushing forward.

Dylan however, would have none of it, crediting his amazing fightback and recovery to one thing.

“Other than the support of my family, I felt totally alone - but you have to keep your

North Shore safety collab With little immediate access to either ambulance support or any medical centre on Noosa North Shore, both Rural Fire Brigades in that area have teamed up with Noosa Heads Surf Lifesaving Club to learn advanced resuscitation techniques (ART) to assist with resident and visitors first aid when required.

Both brigades have worked with the community education services from Noosa SLSC to gain certification in ART. Brigade member feedback was excellent for both training facilities and the training itself from Noosa’s experienced instructor Riley Palmer.

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operators - the brigade members can assist with patient resuscitation and management until more experienced help arrives.

Given the tragic loss of life we experience on the North Shore across the year - having these facilities available to assist is seen as a major step forward by the North Shore and Teewah communities - and all thank Noosa SLSC for their excellent support with this.

Advances resuscitation team on the North Shore.

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mind going and keep doing stuff, you don’t let it hold you back. You are only limited by your own mind so you can keep pushing forward.

You have to keep up the connection with other people, you can’t sit back and dwell on it, you have to keep pushing through and do what you can do.”

“All you can do is do your best and keep moving forward because there is always a good outcome no matter how bad things seem, there’s always someone out there that is worse off than you.

STEPS Employment Services provided Dylan with an avenue to remain engaged and throughout his chemotherapy treatment, he kept his appointments and continued to turn up.

“There were times throughout Dylan’s treatment and chemotherapy where he couldn’t work but he was still engaging with us. He was still coming in for appointments to connect which was really good. It comes back to Dylan’s determination to keep on coming in and engaging. You know, he had some pretty

rough days but to just keep coming back into the office to chat was really good.”

Dylan was still as eager as ever to get his qualification and while undertaking chemotherapy treatment, an opportunity with STEPS Education and Training came up. Dylan enrolled in the Youth Care Sunshine Coast Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing, Disability, Home and Community) and never looked back.

“I was going through chemo and as soon as this opportunity came up, I got a call about it. I thought this will be good. I could do something towards becoming an occupational therapist and help other people that have been through similar things to what I’ve been through. I can empathise and understand what others are going through.”

“To come out of all of this with a qualification, I mean I’m pretty happy.”

Motivated by the desire to help others, such as the people who helped Dylan throughout his motorbike accident and Hodgkin’s Lymphoma recovery, Dylan is a man motivated by his own experiences to work to make the community a better place.

“I just want to help other people, just lift other people up. It costs nothing to be a good human, so I just want to be good to other people. It’s what’s it’s all about at the end of the day. I understand what it’s like to go through all of that and to be able to help other people, you know; you kind of know so it makes sense.”

The support provided by STEPS trainers really helped Dylan to succeed in his studies and achieve his goal of becoming qualified.

“It was good, there was a lot of support, so it was helpful. The computer stuff I fell a bit behind on because I’m not much into computers, but I got the support I needed to help me get through, it’s all in asking for help.”

“When you have a bit of ambition and some goals, you just push through because you know that waking up another day is another day for a new opportunity.

“I definitely recommend the course. It’s good, you can get qualified. I would recommend it because there is a lot of support so if you feel like you’re getting stuck you can get the help and support you need to get through it.”

Dylan hopes that his story of courage, perseverance and resilience will help inspire people who are doing tough.

“If it can help someone else than that’s the goal. The way I see it, it’s not about me it’s about helping someone else that might need it, someone else that is in that situation and they feel alone and feel like they’ve got nothing left to just pull the strength out of them and to keep moving forward.”

“When you don’t accept the condition, you’re in, you’re only limited by your own belief.

Don’t accept the situation, change it. Like I said, each day you wake up is a new opportunity to do something different.”

Dylan has graduated with his Certificate III in Individual Support and is now realising his dream working with two organisations on the Sunshine Coast as a Support Worker.

Interested in the Youth Care program and training to become a support worker? Get in touch with STEPS Education and Training at youthcare@stepsgroup.com.au or on 5436 6000.

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The Noosa Croquet Club is going into 2021 with a positive attitude.

Keeping a positive focus Like most sporting clubs, Noosa Croquet Club had a bad 2020, with very little interclub competition and a confusing time for it’s members.

Colin Hindson said they learnt the best ways to cope during the Covid pandemic, and the Club have now entered 2021 with a positive attitude.

“Our members have been very good and apart from the few who have ended up stranded interstate, or in a few cases, overseas, they have continued to support the Club and the numbers actually playing have been quite high, which is very positive,“ Colin said.

“Our membership remains at a good level, and we continue to encourage new people to have a go - a Come and Try Day on Sunday morning of February 7 at 8.15am. Or just call in any Sunday morning and have a look, no obligations. “Our very attractive and secluded grounds at Seashell Place Noosa Waters are one of Noosa’s best-kept secrets, a little oasis with five first-class courts.

“Our competitive year is commencing in

February with an internal Club singles competition (as in single players, not unmarried). The Doubles competition will be played mid-year) played over a series of Saturday afternoons.

This competition for a lower handicap group will also be played during March.“ In April, the Club will commence their Pennant and Shield competitions, where they compete against five other clubs on the Sunshine Coast.

“This is a fiercely competitive series of games, and it will be even more so this year as we were unable to play at all during 2020,“ Colin said.

“We will also be competing against Nambour Club on Saturday 6 February in a special one-off low-key game for newish players, as a way of introducing them to competition.

“So we are preparing for a busy year, but still keeping a sharp eye out to maintain our Covid preparedness - we are aware that we are lucky to have even this amount of freedom.

“So let’s go in 2021 - where else to relax and play sport but Noosa Croquet Club.”

Funding to attract elite sport to Sunshine Coast The Sunshine Coast Council will receive a $1.33 million boost to attract high value sports tourism to the area and position Sunshine Coast as the premier destination for high performance sports training, as part of $8.9 million in bushfire recovery projects announced by the Australian and Queensland governments.

Nine Local Economic Recovery projects were recently announced by the Minister for Agriculture, Drought & Emergency Management, the Hon David Littleproud, to support recovery in Queensland communities hit hard by the 2019-20 bushfires, including

Sunshine Coast Council’s Train Sunshine Coast initiative.

Federal Member for Fairfax, Ted O’Brien MP said, “With our eye on the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Queensland, this funding brings further critical investment of our already growing sport tourism sector.

From AFL and rugby, netball to water polo, the Sunshine Coast is already proving a popular destination for elite sporting teams”.

Federal Member for Fisher Andrew Wallace said “With major sports teams from all over the country based here on the Coast last year, and some of the NRL’s most important match-

es happening at the Sunshine Coast Stadium, we have all seen firsthand what a big difference sport can make to our local economy.”

“We have the perfect climate, the perfect facilities and the perfect lifestyle to accommodate and develop high performance athletes in a wide range of sports. This funding for the Train Sunshine Coast Initiative is yet another example of the Federal Government helping to support jobs and boost the Coast’s economic recovery by backing our region’s strengths.”

This project is part of the third round of projects announced in Queensland and the first for 2021. They come from $36.8 million

for bushfire recovery projects under the Local Economic Recovery program, announced by the Australian and Queensland governments last year.

Minister Littleproud said the announcement brings the total projects approved under the LER Program in Queensland to 27 with a total value of more than $26 million, with further projects still to be approved.

“The devastating effects of the fires have been exacerbated even further by the COVID-19 pandemic, so I am pleased this LER funding is available to help communities, local economies and natural areas recover,” Minister Littleproud said.

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Muriel eyes retirement When Muriel Willett first joined Cooroy Golf Club the course comprised only nine holes, women weren’t allowed to vote at club elections, and hardly anybody rode in golf carts.

But none of that mattered to Muriel, because playing golf meant she could spend precious time with her husband Lionel.

The Willetts had been farmers at Dalby, and moved to the Sunshine Coast in 1981. Working the land was still a passion, though, and they bought a 50 acre property, where they raised a few beef cattle.

And they played golf.

Lionel joined Cooroy first, and Muriel followed a few months later - becoming an associate member in 1982.

“I never intended to play,” Muriel said, “but he encouraged me, and I came to love the game.”

Muriel’s first official handicap was 36, but she managed to trim it to 17 at one stage.

“There weren’t a lot of women playing at Cooroy then,” she said. “Only about 10 played in competitions.”

But it was the travel, and the social side of golf, that Muriel most fondly remembers.

“We’d travel a lot to play in veterans’ carnivals,” she said, reciting a long list of towns the couple visited throughout Australia during a 30-year period of competing in veterans’ events.

But all good things come to an end.

Lionel, who with a few mates began vets’ golf at Cooroy, is now 91 and struggles to get around 18 holes of golf.

And, without him playing by her side, the appeal diminished for 88-year-old Muriel who told fellow members recently she was giving the game away - for a while, anyway.

But she went out on a high, scoring 40 points in her final competition round last month, only to be pipped for the trophy on a countback.

Going back to the basics pays off Paul Betar, one of Sydney’s best known motor dealers until his retirement, tracks his interest in golf back to when he was a teenage caddie at Pymble on Sydney’s Upper North Shore.

So diligent was he that he became only the second ‘A grade caddie’ at the club - a status that not only gave him a slightly larger pay packet, but also entitled him to play on the beautiful, parkland course after school.

“I remember my mum waiting in the car park several times, the headlights of her car turned on, as we trudged up the last fairway in the pitch black,” he said.

Building a career, raising a family and living life pushed golf into the background, and Paul didn’t play for 30 years - not until he brushed off his clubs eight years ago, took a few tentative swings, and decided to again commit to the game.

Fast-forward to Saturday last, and Paul’s performance in the Monthly Medal stroke competition at Noosa Springs - he shot a net 70 to win by two strokes - showed he’d not only regained the skills of his youth, but perhaps even improved on them.

“I’m always tinkering with my swing - always looking to get better,” he said.

“On Saturday I just tried to concentrate on the basics - a low and slow takeaway, correct posture and accurate alignment. And it seemed to work.”

Paul and his wife Sue regularly visited Noosa for holidays. Then, about five years ago, on the night before returning to Sydney, he turned to Sue and said: “I don’t want to go home.”Nor did she, so they put their Sydney home on the market, sold it within a week, disposed of the Mercedes-Benz Sydney dealership they’d owned since 2008, relocated to Noosa and joined Noosa Springs.

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Getting the straight one TAKE THE TIP PETER HEINIGER

Muriel Willett is farewelled by her golfing friends after nearly 40 years at Cooroy. east Queensland’s finest courses.

Noosa Springs’ Sunday Series returned at the weekend - a competition which offers not only weekly prizes, but a spectacular grand prize of free golf at Noosa Springs and Links Hope Island for a year. Paul Matthews, with 35 points, won the men’s division.

The best score recorded each calendar month earns golfers a spot in the final, to be played in December, with the male and female winners of that event claiming the year’s free golf.

Visitors to Noosa Springs re encouraged to enter the weekly Sunday Series, with Sunshine Coast residents eligible for the Locals Sunday Special green fee rate of $79, which includes the cost of an electric cart.

Money back if Covid intrudes With the threat of COVID-19 still an unknown quantity, organisers of this year’s Sunshine Coast Winter Classic have moved quickly to provide security for competing golfers.

If an outbreak of coronavirus prevents interstate players from entering Queensland for the event, they will immediately receive a full refund. This year’s Classic will begin on Monday, June 7 and continue until Friday, June 11, with a rest day on Wednesday, June 9.

It will be staged across four of the Sunshine Coast’s premier golf courses - Twin Waters, Maroochy River, Peregian and Noosa Springs.

Noosa Springs Golf and Spa Resort executive general manager Mark Brady, one of the tournament’s organisers, said entrants in last year’s inaugural event had suggested a rest day after the first two rounds.

“It will also give competitors and their partners an opportunity to explore our region and sample some of the delights of the Sunshine Coast,” he said.

Last year’s event was capped at 76 competi-

tors because of the pandemic. Mr Brady said he was expecting a field of 120 players this year, with entrants likely from all Australian states and, possibly, from New Zealand.

The Winter Classic, a stableford event played over 72 holes, is open to male and female players with an official golf handicap.

The entry fee is $695 ($645 if paid before March 15). It includes golf, a welcome cocktail reception and a presentation function.

Club competitions NOOSA Monday, 25 January Women’s stableford: A grade - Karen Haynes 38, Rungratree Cox 34; B grade - Sharman Phillips 35, Robyn Vincent 34; women’s 9-hole stableford: Lynne Hancock 15c/b, Elisabeth Thomson 15, Barb Allen 14c/b.

Tuesday, 26 January Men’s stableford: A grade - Derek Connolly 40, Chris Wright 39c/b, Graham Farrell 39, Dean Jeffrey 38; B grade - Shane Taylor 39c/b, Brad Edwards 39, Stephen Jackson 38c/b, John Henry 38c/b; C grade - James Hiron 43, Michael Davenport 39c/b, Bert Hofer 39c/b, Greg Kuch 39c/b. Rundown to 35.

Wednesday, 27 January Vets stableford: A grade - Kevin O’Farrell 40, Ty Dickson 38, David Whiticker 37c/b; B grade Barry Macdonald 38, Scott Hobden 37, Evan Millar 35c/b; C grade - Neal Moloney 36, Paul David 33c/b, John Evans 33. Rundown to 32c/b.

Thursday, 28 January Women’s stableford: A grade - Heather Alsop 37, Mandy Webb 36, Orawan Millar 33c/b; B grade - Noreen Scanlon 36, Marilyn Leslie 34, Anne Martin 32; C grade - Patty Neale 35c/b, Lynne Hancock 35c/b, Meliss Cowie 35. Rundown to 30c/b.

What would you say is the hardest shot in golf? If you said ‘the straight one’, you would be spot on! Yet many of us stand over the ball continually, striving to hit that hardest shot in golf and are let down more often than not.

Yes, your shorter clubs will be easier to hit straight due to the club’s loft and length of shaft. However once we start to reverse those two components, the straight shot becomes almost as hard as shooting 59 for 18 holes.

Inevitably you’ll find the key to playing better golf is to play to your strengths.

When trying to hit the fairway with your driver, one of the easiest ways to get there is to slice the ball. Just ask Bubba Watson. He does it all the time and he has two US Masters green jackets to show for it.

It doesn’t matter what path your ball takes to finish on the fairway, just as long as your second shot is played off the short grass and not out of the rough, or even worse.

Now go out and enjoy your golf and hit whatever comes naturally to you, but make sure you allow for it. Good golfing.

PETER HEINIGER - Noosa Springs resident PGA teaching professional NOOSA SPRINGS Monday, 25 January Men’s stableford: Paul Weatherstone 39, Bruce MacKenzie-Forbes 38c/b, Graham Dill 38; women’s stableford: Anne Howick 41, Debra Oates 40, Jennifer Aitken 34c/b.Tuesday, 26 January Men’s stableford: John Taylor 37, Phillip Fortington 36, Martin Scollon 34; women’s stableford: Kelly Lynch 36, Linda Jedynak 34, Elizabeth Wadsworth 32.

Wednesday, 27 January Men’s stableford: Simon Rice 39, Graham Owen 38c/b, Peter Catchlove 38c/b; women’s stableford: Wendy Hopping 40, Anne Smith 38, Narelle Magner 37c/b.Saturday, 30 January Men’s stroke: Paul Betar 70, Paul Grant 72c/b, Josh Constable 72; women’s stroke: Judy Buss 72, Maddison Kelly 73c/b, Rosie Randall 73c/b.

Sunday, 31 January Men’s Sunday Series, stableford: Paul Matthews 35, Glenn Sunderland 33, Bruce McCleary 32; women’s Sunday Series: Leisha McMenamin 32c/b, Jeni Sunderland 32c/b, Niki Matthews 32.

COOROY Wednesday, 27 January Vets 4-man ambrose: John Butler, Graham Laing, Peter Smith, Terry Wilson 56.375; Bruce Wilshire, Glen Johnstone, Dennis Beckhaus, Jim Prendergast 56.5; Dave Chapman, Bob Atkin, Wayne Carty, R. Carty 58.125.Thursday, 28 January Women’s stableford: Chris Michael 39, Jenny Tucker, Helen Doughty 33. Rundown to 31.

Saturday, 30 January Men’s stableford: Div 1 - L. Grainger 43, J. Kennedy 38; Div 2 - T. Gordon 38, M. Davies 37c/b; Div 3 - D. Davy 47, M. Saunders 42. Women’s stableford: Jocelyn Rabjohns 41, Terri Cairns 36, Carole Clancy 34.

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Scott Aufderheide bowling against Coolum on Saturday.

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Tom Stewart bowling against Coolum.

Two wins for Thunder

By Randall Woodley The cricket season is down to the last two matches for the season and these will be played each Saturday during February, before the finals commence in early March. The First Graders, now running second on the ladder, after their win against Coolum are assured of a place in the semis. They will need to stay at first or second place to ensure they play their semi-final at home which is always an advantage. Last Saturday, the Fifth Graders had a big win over Glasshouse but the other two teams lost their matches on the first innings.

FIRST GRADE: On Day I of the match against Coolum the Thunder were 3 for 127 in reply to the Sharks all out for 126. Day 2 saw them keen to play for an outright win and they started according to plan; bat for an hour then put Coolum in again. After a 1st over maiden Andrew Kratzmann whacked a straight 6 first ball to get the ball rolling. They then scored another 76 runs off the next 11 overs before a couple of wickets saw them declare 77 runs ahead, 6 down. Alex Bennett had fallen at 95 in a really impressive innings where he had smacked three sixes. Kratzmann was out for 23.

The declaration saw five hours left in the day but the young Coolum side fought hard and came out to dead bat on a featherbed pitch playing back to literally everything. TNT had them 2 down at lunch and then 4 down at drinks but they batted through the next 2 hours without losing another wicket.

Scott Aufderheide could only bowl 6 overs with his injured back and with the other spearhead, Tom Freshwater away, it was left to the other team members to take the wickets. They all did their job but time ran out and when the match concluded Coolum were 7 for 185. Best of the Thunder bowlers were Dom Taylor, 3 for 83 off a marathon 30 overs, Harrison Lea 2-20 off 10 and Tom Stewart 1- 33 off 17.

A couple of dropped chances in this innings and quite a few for the game probably cost Thunder the outright but otherwise the batting and bowling was top class. If the team can improve on their catching, they are looking good for the finals.

THIRD GRADE: Coming into Day 2, Maroochydore Swans were 1-66 chasing TNT’s 139. It did not take too long for the first wicket to fall with a Blake Steel direct hit runout in the 3rd over of the day. From there Maroochydore slowly chipped away at the total with their next wicket falling for 77 giving Nick Bennett his 2nd wicket for the innings. A few streaky shots and dropped catches later, they passed TNT’s score in the 46th over. They were eventually bowled out for 206 with Nick Bennett running through the middle order, bowling good line and length to finish with the great figures of 6-67 off 21.3 overs. Others to take wickets were- Ben Giddy, Brad Thompson and Brett Fordyce.

At stumps TNT were 4-61 conceding the first innings win to the Swans. The team is third on

Dom Taylor bowling against Coolum the ladder with two matches to go. Next week the boys take on Burpengary at Read Park.

FIFTHS: Last Saturday the team resumed their match against Glasshouse needing only 27 runs to take 1st innings points. With Steve Gallagher and Tony Watson at the crease the pair only took 7 overs to pass the target. Watson was later out for 42 and Gallagher 45. Once the first innings points were achieved TNT went about setting up the game for the outright win. The captain declared later on 7 for 218 with Nigel Webster finishing with a great knock of 78 not out. This left 45 overs in the day to bowl out the Rangers and win the outright.

With veteran Mike Thomson headlining the bowling attack and back up support from the rest, TNT went within a whisker of getting the outright having Glasshouse 8 for 43 at stumps.

Many a debate will continue as to whether bowlers or batsmen win games but the efforts from TNTs bowlers to take 18 wickets for 106 runs against an opposition that was playing for a top four spot and on par with runs for and against - was simply awesome.

Bowling stats for the game as follows: Thomson 3-30, Luke Anstey 6-32, Steve Hill 4-7, Euan Baxter 2-9 and Naveen Chand, Ben Shaw and Ian Brundell all taking a wicket each.

Wicket-keeper David Baker took five catches during the match. The win sees TNT into clear 3rd position on the ladder only a few points behind second with two rounds to go. Next Saturday the boys host Caloundra at Dale Officer Oval.

SIXTH GRADE: Day 2 of the match against top side Palmwoods and chasing their score of 258 was always going to be a challenge for the Thunder team. The question was could the boys bat all afternoon? Starting at 0-9, they did their best to thwart the Palmwood’s bowlers until forty-five minutes before stumps in the 69th over when the last wicket fell at 127. Top scorer for TNT was Ron Lewis who batted for 40 overs for his 29. A first innings loss but th team is still eyeing off a semi-finals spot. Next week the team is away to second placed Maroochydore and will need to improve in all aspects of the game if they are to win.

Noosa Hills results Event: Ambrose - 30 January.

Winners: Jill Jones/Bob Forrest 47.25.

Runners up: Jan Pattle/Dave Whitehead 48.75. NTPs: 3rd hole Bert Hofer, 6th hole Norm Barnes, 11th hole Studley Martin, 14th hole Adam Melville, 17 hole Jill Jones.

Ball rundown: Kim Guinness/Kim Poulsen 49, Timo Helenius/Studley Martin 49.25, Monte Dale/Steve McLean 49.5, Zane Jesberg/Michael Gooding 49.5, Bert Hofer/Murray Joseph 49.75, Rusty Milliner/Wareen Smith 50. Shot for par Zane Jesberg - Unsuccessful.

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Grace and Sarah

Grace Otto - A rising star Despite the fact that Grace Otto of the Sunshine Beach Surf Life Saving Club, is a 16-yearold, year 11 student at St Andrews College, this quiet, young lady, knows exactly what she wants when it comes to competing in the rugged world of surf life savings surf sports competition.

For Grace there are two golds: first is the Nutri Grain Iron Woman and following this is the biggest event of all, the Coolangatta Gold. “ To me these events are my big attraction.

Because they are made up of different disciplines, board, ski, swim and run, I find this to be the greatest challenge of all; there is nothing better than these events.” What she finds so challenging about the Coolangatta Gold is the long distance. ‘’To me the distance is the big factor.”

It all started when, as a U/10 she joined the Sunshine Beach Nippers. When she came of age, she obtained her SRC,(Surf Rescue Certificate) and later went on to obtain her bronze medallion. ‘’ She was a bit reluctant at first, a bit shy,” said her parents, “but with a bit of a gentle shove and being there for her, she started to relax and enjoy.’’

On obtaining her SRC she became a member of Patrol 10,but on obtaining her bronze she was rostered on to Patrol 1. “They were good patrols and as a result I made a lot of good friends. On patrol 1 our Patrol Captain Ross Williams, was good and kept us busy doing conditioning work with lots of swims and runs.” It was during these sessions, plus paddling the rescue boards, that she developed a liking for the Iron Woman events. “It was the best of everything, doing all the three legs. At first, I wasn’t real confident body surfing, but mum and dad kept encouraging me to keep at it: then I started to crack bigger waves, and I became more confident. Now it is all good and I am happy with it all.”

Her first experience in the Iron Woman came as a U/11 nipper: then as a U/14 with experience gained, she won the State Junior Iron Woman Championship. Following this she moved up into the senior ranks and despite being a U/17 competitor, she competed in the Open division: in an extraordinary performance (it being her first year in the opens),she made the finals in the big state wide carnival, the Summer of Surf, at Mermaid Beach.

People were now starting to take note: the heavy grind of her training program, heavy swim sessions in the mornings, board and ski in the evenings, plus a very determined and positive mental attitude and her future was looking very good. With coaches Josh Minogue (board) and Paul Gilmore (ski) plus a strong ever present family group supporting, all ingrediencies for a successful career are in place.

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Grace paddles hard. club, Sunshine Beach. This is a club that through the years has earned a reputation for developing outstanding junior competitors: good coaching ,team spirit and a solid group of veteran members always there to assist.

However, it was about this time that the COVID-19- hit and there were a lot of cancellations. Just before the big Unbreakable Surf Carnival at Alexandra Headlands, Grace was starting to show signs of fatigue: a young athlete with a heavy program. A blood test, a normal precaution for athletes, showed there was an iron deficiency and that was quickly addressed. “Cancellations, coming at this time was a bit helpful,” said a family member. “It gave Grace a chance to get a bit more rest and a possible change of diet; we all re-

alise the importance of both these factors in a young athletes career.”

With the carnival dates being uncertain because of health restrictions, there is however, the possibility of the Nutri Grain series restarting in February at Kingscliff. Because of health restrictions regarding her age group(u/17) Grace will not be competing.

“This young lady,” said Head Coach Josh Minogue, “has a really great work ethic and works well with her ski coach Paul Gilmore.

The club could not be prouder and she definitely has a great future ahead” Regarding her education she said, “I have two years schooling to go and then hopefully it will be Uni. I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens.” To Grace and team, we

wish them all the very best” At Noosa Heads Surf Club, it is good to see the once traditional Sunday morning surf swim is back on the charts. This is a swim for all members, and under the organisation of Sandy Warren and handicapper Gerard O’Brien, it is starting to get great support. The swim which is conducted on a handicap basis, is run every second Sunday and registration is at 8.30 for a 9am start. In the words of the late Bruce Warren( husband of Sandy) the former bronze squad swim coach, “The club swims make the young ones understand the importance of swimming: rescue work is not just a case of jumping into an IRB or grabbing a rescue board. Sometimes our patrol members will just have to swim for it. That is the cold hard facts of life.” Well said Bruce -and thank you.

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The dog board in Mexico.

Expect the unexpected Over the many years we’ve come to expect the unexpected from Tom Curren, everyone’s favourite loony world champion surfer, but his latest Rip Curl-funded video, Free Scrubber, adds a whole new dimension to weird.

Okay, we know that 2020 was a pretty whacko kind of year for most people, and we know that three-times world champ Curren, now 56, is a pretty whacko dude, but none of that quite prepares you for Free Scrubber, 15 minutes of totally unscripted raw brilliance, all shot with a handheld and a drone by Aussie Andy Potts over three months in Covid-lockeddown, deserted Salina Cruz, Mexico, land of the long right barrels.

“Free Scrubber fell somewhere between Searching For Tom Curren and Eraserhead,” wrote Sean Doherty on Coastalwatch. Others compared it with David Lynch’s weirder moments, but in the surfing context, no one does weird better than Curren.

Although I didn’t know him when he was winning world titles, I caught up with him quite a few times later in life, including a memorable appearance at the Noosa Festival of Surfing in 2008. But long before that, around the turn of the century, we had a strange encounter at the Quiksilver World Masters in France.

As the event director, I had commissioned surfboard shapers from around the world to recreate the most famous boards ridden by the champions who would be competing, including Curren’s mid-‘80s Al Merrick “Black Beauty”. This fascinating collection would be displayed at the event and would then travel the world exhibiting at Quiksilver’s flagship stores.

On opening night we held a big cocktail party to introduce the Masters Collection and seek a few words from each of the champion surfers, explaining what had made the board so special in their storied careers. All went well until I called Tom Curren to the stage, and when he finally appeared he seemed not to understand what had gone before nor what was now expected of him. Instead he gave me a bro shake, thanked me profusely, then took the board out of its display stand and walked off stage with it, and out the front door. He was seen tying it onto the roof of his car, and later rode the board in the contest.

The global CEO of Quiksilver, a Curren groupie from way back, wouldn’t hear of me demanding it back, so Curren kept it, and the global exhibition kind of fizzled. Cut to just a couple of years ago, another Masters championship, this time in the Azores Islands. Curren shows up with just one board, a skim board around which he’s rather untidily stuck a few lumps of foam. It looked a mess and rode even worse.

Only a surfer of Curren’s extraordinary ability could even catch a wave on it. When he was inevitably eliminated because of it, we had a chat and I asked him if I could take a picture of the offending object. Tom, as always, was obliging, but didn’t want to be in the photo with it. The skim board was the puzzle of the event - what the hell was he thinking - but I was amused to see that self-same dog of a board still in Tom’s bizarre quiver two years later in Free Scrubber.

Which brings me circuitously back to this intriguing short film that you can Google (while we still can) or find on the Rip Curl site. Andy Potts just happened to be working with Curren in California when the great man decided to decamp to Mexico while you still could, so he followed.

They set up home at Bugs Arica’s surf camp, Andy filmed and Tom does what he does, goofing around, killing you with a sweet guitar lick or cruisy vocal, surfing like he always surfs, just about perfect, or just being Currenesque.

After a series of events too complex too explain here, the raw footage ended up with another inspired loony, surfer/musician/journo/ film-maker Vaughan Blakey, who sat down with Nick Pollet in the edit suite and went WTF! Wisely, they went with the gut, which was that this is raw Curren, like only those who know him have ever seen.

There’s much to be said about explaining the inexplicable, but in Tom Curren’s case, like his dad Pat and Miki Dora before him, there’s a joy in just accepting it for what it is, a drum beat at variance, but not opposed to, the music surrounding it. Despite the fact that he nearly cost me my job, I love Tom Curren and I love this flick. See it.

The dog board in Azores.

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Auctioneer Gordon MacDonald calls the bidding on the three units 1, 2 and 3 at 63 Noosa Pde, Noosa Heads, at the in-rooms and on-line auction at Heads of Noosa Brewery. 227002

One three-bedroom apartment and two two-bedroom apartments 1, 2 and 3 at 63 Noosa Pde, Noosa Heads, were sold at an in-rooms and on-line auction. 227002 North Queensland in the three months to October 2020, closely followed by the Far North at 83 per cent.

The Sunshine Coast region, which takes in Noosa and Gympie, enjoyed a 54 per cent boost, with the Wide Bay Burnett up 48 per cent, and Mackay and Whitsundays increasing 38 per cent.

All outstripped Greater Brisbane, up just 16 per cent, while demand on the Gold Coast plummeted 14 per cent.

Master Builders Sunshine Coast regional manager Nicola Scott welcomed the response. She said it gave builders and tradespeople in the Sunshine Coast-Gympie region opportunities to re-apply as they had to turn them away earlier due to amount of work on their books.

“The numbers speak for themselves,’’ she said.

“This is proof a strong building industry means a strong economy.

“The approvals reflect the number of people moving to the region.

“Without it thousands of jobs would have been lost.’’

The HomeBuilder grant has been most popular in Victoria with 17,382 new home applications and 4213 for rebuilds/ extensions.

Queensland has 13,507 for new homes and 3106 rebuild applications, followed by New South Wales with 8714 and 4973.

The program, which helps Australians either build a house or renovate an existing home, has received more than 30,000 applications above the original forecast.

Ms Scott said the success of HomeBuilder demonstrates measures that support people to overcome the deposit gap is a game-changer in making home ownership available to more people in the region.

“The number of residential developments going ahead clearly demonstrates the need for land.

“The regional centres are benefitting through growth and developments, small businesses ... it can only be seen as a positive.’’

THREE OPPORTUNITIES IN ONE There was strong interest for the in-rooms and on-line auction of the three units at 1, 2 and 3 at 63 Noosa Pde, Noosa Heads.

Held at 5pm on Wednesday, at Heads of Noosa Brewery, Nathan Howie of Noosa Estate Agents has been marketing the property with Gordon MacDonald of The Auction Group calling the bidding.

The three-bedroom unit and two two-

bedroom units on the 611sq m mediumdensity corner site with pool were offered in one line.

As such, it provided a wonderful opportunity times three, the auctioneer said.

People were still heading on-line when he was given the green light to open the auction for business, both on-line and from in-rooms which gave overseas and interstate buyers an equal opportunity to bid in the auction arena.

A $1.8m from the floor saw, saw bidding on the right and from on-line to $2m.

A new bidder in the centre at $2.1 was countered by $2.150m on the right.

Bidding front and centre saw on-line bidding to $2.225m then $2.3m on the phone.

A late registration brought a bid of $2.4m which opened a three-way battle between on-line, on the phone and on the floor.

At $2.690m, with 15 registered bidders and a total of 53 bids, the property was sold to the bidder on the phone, who was from Sydney but has other Noosa property.

WEEKEND AUCTION SUCCESS Two Tom Offermann Real Estate-listed properties scheduled for auction last Saturday set the scene for an exciting year ahead.

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Six registered bidders and about 30 keen observers watched with interest when after 11 bids, penthouse apartment 10/7 Mitti St Little Cove, was sold under the Hammer for $1.75m.

Agents Eric Seetoo and Tim McSweeney said it was sold above the reserve price and the Sydney buyers of a dad bidding for his daughter, were “ecstatic”.

SOPHISTICATED BEACH RETREAT Selling prior to auction two weeks into the marketing campaign after just five private inspections was 40 Currawong Cresc Peregian Beach.

Tom Offermann Real Estate’s Tracy Russell said she had multiple offers for the three-bedroom, three-bathroom residence which was billed as the ultimate coastal escape.

Within 500m of the beach and close to the village, it was little wonder that the near-new house with pool sold prior to auction.

“We had lots of interest from all over,’’ Tracy said. “It was a local family that ended up with it.

“They loved the simplicity and design of the property but will add a few touches.’’

The buyers are very excited and the result exceeded the vendors’ expectations.

Tracy is also fielding a large amount of enquiry about another property close to the sand of Peregian Beach.

The massive Mediterranean-style villa 2 Santa Rosa/82 Peregian Esp, Peregian Beach, goes to auction on Saturday, February 6, at 10am.

In the three weeks since the marketing campaign began, Tracy and colleague Michael McComas say there have been over 100 enquiries, 70 groups though at OFIs and multiple registrations received.

“Santa Rosa is a fun, iconic building in a beautiful spot,’’ Tracy said.

“It’s right on the beach and features a huge roof terrace.

“The size is good for a house alternative and was refurbished inside four years ago.

“It’s just a beautiful lifestyle, very private, and featuring solid construction.’’

IDEAL LOCATION Sharon McLure of Laguna Real Estate had an immediate response to the twobedroom, one-bathroom apartment 4/26 Katharina St, Noosa Heads, with the renovated top-floor property going under

A vacant 69ha with three permanent dams at 27 Ceylon Rd, Belli Park, will go to auction Friday, February 12, at 10.30am.

The four-bedroom, three-bathroom house with pool at 40 Currawong Cres, Peregian Beach has sold prior to auction. 227002 contract at the asking price of $725,000.

There were 10 groups at the first inspection, Sharon said. However, a Sydney buyer had already snapped it up sight unseen.

Sharon has since been inundated with inquiries for a similar property - two or three bedrooms in a block of four with low body corporate fees.

“It was an investment opportunity offering location, low fees, and luxury,’’ she said.

“It had a lovely indoor/outdoor flow with large outdoor entertaining, covered terrace and fabulous views just a five-minute stroll to Hastings St, beaches and Noosa Junction.’’

LOVE THE COUNTRY LIFE Think serene off-the-grid lifestyle, unique and a great location. That’s what Vicki Pain and Jen Galinska of Ray White Rural Eumundi are offering at 27 Ceylon Rd, Belli Park.

The 69.54ha of prime land is set for auction on Friday, February 12, at 10.30am.

It has been in the family as a working farm for the past 30-plus years. Previously the rich fertile soils have produced an income from cattle and small crops.

Currently carrying 25 head plus progeny, it has three permanent dams with excellent water capacity.

The large dam is about in the centre of the property.

There are several options on offer to build a dream home from elevated scenic views over both the land and the surrounding valleys.

AUCTION ACTION WEDNESDAY, January 27 Noosa Heads 1, 2 & 3/63 Noosa Pde: One 3bed, 2bath apartment, two 2bed, 2bath apartments on 611sq m, pool, Nathan Howie 0414 424 333 Noosa Estate Agents. Sold at auction $2.690m THURSDAY, January 28 Noosa Heads 304 Maison, 5 Hastings St: 1bed, 1bath, 1car fully-furnished, beachfront apartment, Gillian McCauley 0467 600 009 Kym de Warren 0412 325 421 Richardson & Wrench Noosa. Sold at auction $1.2m 17 On The Beach, 49 Hastings St: 1bed, |bath, 1car beachfront apartment, Frank Milat 0438 528 148 Shane McCauley 0403 646 930 Richardson & Wrench Noosa. Dealing with confirmed offer.

Passed in $2.1m, continuing to negotiate with ongoing interest 6/39 Noosa Pde: 3bed, 2bath, 1car apartment, Frank Milat 0438 528 148 Shane McCauley 0403 646 930 Richardson & Wrench Noosa. Registered bidders.

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A three-bedroom, two-bathroom beachfront apartment at 2/82 Peregian Esp, Peregian Beach, is scheduled for auction at 10am on Saturday, February 6. 227002 Passed in, still negotiating above $1m SATURDAY, January 30 Noosa Heads 10/7 Mitti St: 3bed, 2bath, 1car apartment, Eric Seetoo 0419 757 770 Tim McSweeney 0411 122 331 Tom Offermann Real Estate. Sold under the hammer for $1.75m Peregian Beach 40 Currawong Cres: 4bed, 3bath, 2car house, Tracy Russell 0413 319 879 Tom Offermann Real Estate. Sold prior SATURDAY, February 6 Noosa Heads 18/1 Picture Point Cres: 3bed, 2bath, 2car apartment, 10am, Eliza Coppin 0423 726 639 Tom Offermann Real Estate. Sold prior Peregian Beach 2/82 Peregian Esp: 3bed, 2bath, 2car beachside apartment, 10am, Tracy Russell 0413 319 879 Tom Offermann Real Estate ●

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If living in a villa under the Tuscan sun by the Mediterranean is imbedded in your romantic psyche, Santa Rosa, seaside of Peregian Beach and blessed with classic features, is a dream-come-true.

Short of feeling sand between your toes, dining on the rooftop whilst admiring moon beams and twinkling lights dance across the Coral Sea from Sunshine Beach to Point Cartwright, is undeniably 5-star.

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Auction Saturday 6 February 11am View Friday 10.30-11.00 & Saturday 10.30 Agent Michael McComas 0447 263 663

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4/33 PICTURE POINT CRES NOOSA HEADS

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Steered by the watercolour panorama that spreads out before it like an ever-changing artwork, are the megawatt-lustrous Main Beach, Laguna Bay, Noosa River waterways, North Shore, and hinterland. Commensurate, is the massive terrace of the penthouse-style apartment, which is seemingly perched above the trees, and has the prized address of Picture Point Terrace.

Cultivate a sunny state of mind and forever holidays.

Auction Saturday 27 February 10am View Saturday 10.0-10.30 Agent Luke Chen 0417 600 840

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16/8 QUAMBY PLACE NOOSA HEADS

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Short of feeling sand between your toes, dining on the terrace of a lavish apartment in the dress circle, with dazzling seascapes across the Noosa River to the North Shore, means virtually dining on the beach. Just add salttinged air and a holiday mood.

Indoors are two levels of absolute cool luxe with a refurbishment complementing the contemporary beach house aesthetic implicitly.

Auction Saturday 6 March 10am View Saturday 11.00-11.30 Agent Luke Chen 0417 600 840

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Imagine 180-degree Coral Sea sensational vistas from Marcus Beach to Coolum from six oversize bedrooms, five bathrooms, office space for say an architect’s practice, as well as multiple living, dining, and entertaining options, which then open out to massive terraces, a wet-edge pool and extensive lush botanicallike tropical gardens.

This really is paradise only 10 minutes from café central, riverside Gympie Terrace.

Price $3.9M Agent Michael McComas 0447 263 663

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Aspire to being centre stage on Gympie Terrace with 180-degree pelican-eye views of the Noosa River, people fishing from the jetty-dotted foreshore, walking their dogs, also having classy cafés on your doorstep?

Like to entertain? It is a breeze as the living/dining area is wrapped on two sides by a massive north-facing terrace.

Living the good life is all here.

Price $1.35M View Saturday 11.00-11.30 Agent Chris Miller 0412 894 542

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7310/5 MORWONG DRIVE NOOSA HEADS Australia’s favourite holiday destination is Noosa.

Trending on wish-lists are swimming in the azure waters of Main Beach, walking Noosa National Park, lunching on the beachfront, enjoying a 5-star resort, and all within cooee of each other. Paradise awaits, a stroll away from Laguna Bay, and a scorching-hot investment idea for someone wanting to dip toes in at the shallow end.

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Auction Saturday 20 February 11am View Saturday 1.00-1.30 Agent Chris Miller 0412 894 542

12/4 S E R E N I T Y C LO S E NOOSA HEADS Picture turquoise waterways over Noosa Sound, Noosa River, Laguna Bay and beyond to Double Island Point from the north-facing balcony. What about the serene location in a prestigious part of Noosa Hill and a quiet residential enclave, with bushland opposite? This apartment in the very chic-named Petrie Mansions, with all the hallmarks of quality, could be yours this summer.

A3 B2 C1 D Price Guide $1.25M View Saturday 11.00-11.30 & Wednesday 12.00-12.30 Agent Robyn Reid 0418 144 484

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PICTURE PERFECT ON THE BEACHFRONT IF a picture-perfect location, perched on dunes in an exclusive beachfront estate, surrounded by nature reserves and eagleeye views to Coolum and beyond, sounds like utopia, you’ve found Noosa’s best kept secret: Noosa Dunes.

The residence is ideally north-east facing and footsteps away to the pristine white sand including a stunning stretch of dog-friendly Castaways Beach via two residence-only accesses. Its high elevation allows sweeping 300-degree views of the Coral Sea and beaches from the headland of Noosa National Park to Point Cartwright, Mooloolaba and beyond, plus the verdant Hinterland. There’s immediate access to coastal cycleways as well as walking trails from the Noosa National Park to Lake Weyba.

Admire the native pandanas, banksias and cycads that mimic the nearby national park and fringe the front pathway, also the honey-hued American hickory ash flooring inside the impressive contemporary residence. It not only delivers privacy, but those awe-inspiring views truly enhance the art of coastal living, whether out on the deck, which wraps both the south and east sides or enjoying the open-plan highceilinged living and dining spaces.

There is also an adjoining more casual family-style space, which cleverly opens out to a private deck on the north-side and has westerly views. With its covered area for lolling around, top level alfresco area for barbeques, and a glistening, sun-drenched freshwater plunge pool designed for aquarobics, it is the undeniable year-round hub of entertaining and family fun. It is of course augmented by a kitchen which is C-shaped and comes with a pantry and the latest appliances.

How about waking to the sounds of the surf, watching dawn send shimmering rays over the ocean from the master suite with its walk-in robe and over-generous ensuite?

Or marvel at the annual whale migration.

Another big plus here is the spa bath for not just soaking pleasure but drinking in those verdant sunset views.

A bedroom with built-in robes, plus a powder room are also on this level.

The lower level, just like the one above, encapsulates the perfect lifestyle for a young family, today’s work-at-home barefoot executive, plus those desirous of guest accommodation. There are three double bedrooms all with built-in robes, a family bathroom, kitchenette or maybe it is a bar to service the media/living room, which

opens out to an undercover terrace and balcony. There is also access to the rear garden from the laundry and patio, which currently houses gym equipment.

Go for a jog through the Noosa National Park, or grab the kids, surfboards, and the dog, and before you can say “white sand” you are on Castaways Beach.

“Noosa Dunes estate has it all in buckets and spades,” extols Tom Offermann Real Estate agent Michael McComas. “It is a master-planned, exclusive, private and secure gated estate with architecturally-designed multi-milliondollar, prestigious, contemporary homes.

Discerning owners want nothing less than a spectacular location by the beach as well as sensational panoramic views.

“The central location is also vitally important. It is an 8-minute drive to Hastings Street and Noosa’s Main Beach, a few minutes more to Little Cove and the world-famous surfing reserve in the Noosa National Park, and 5-minutes away, are the villages of Peregian Beach and Sunshine Beach with a bevy of cafes, bars, and boutiques”.

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water filtration; plunge/mini lap designed for aquarobics Garage: 2-car + boat/golf cart + storage About: imported American hickory ash floorboards; main media room w kitchenette/bar; zoned aircon; fans; no-maintenance native gardens; VacuMaid on all levels Kitchen: C-shaped w stone benchtops; pantry; glass splashbacks; latest Bosch dishwasher oven; 5-burner gas cooktop; Fisher & Paykel refrigerator Bathrooms: latest Greens shower heads; 2 textured glass windows Noosa Dunes: master-planned, exclusive, private & secure gated beachfront estate; bordered by Noosa National Park & Lake Weyba to the West; direct access to dogfriendly Castaways Beach; 2 resident-only gates to beach; 150m/2m walk to sand; dog friendly; access gate nearby to Noosa National Park Location: 8-min drive to Hastings Street & Noosa’s Main Beach, Little Cove & surfing reserve in Noosa National Park, 5-mins to Peregian Beach & Sunshine Beach villages ●

HOME ESSENTIALS Address: 6/512 David Low Way, Castaways Beach Price: $3.8M Description: 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 garage, pool Inspect: By appointment Contact: Michael McComas, 0447 263 663, TOM OFFERMANN REAL ESTATE 10 NOOSA TODAY

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3 Natasha Avenue Noosa Heads 4 bed | 4 bath | 4 Car

Open By Appointment

Proudly Richardson&Wrench Noosa | 07 5447 4499 12 NOOSA TODAY

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- Rare opportunity & location at one of Noosa’s premier properties - 180 degree north-facing views of Laguna Bay, Double Island Point, Noosa River and the Noosa National Park Tender Closing Tuesday 9 February - Private internal lift, Solar power, Water Tank - Superior fixtures and fittings throughout including security gate, cameras & intercom, with beautiful landscaped gardens Rick Daniel on the 926 square metre block.

0411 737 767 - Minutes’ drive from Noosa Main Beach

‘The Best Reputation in Real Estate’

www.rwnoosa.com.au 23 Hastings Street, Noosa 12481323-SN06-21 noosatoday.com.au

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ESCAPE TO THIS STUNNING HAVEN PRIVATELY positioned in a unique Noosa Heads location with sweeping 180 degree north-facing views of the Ocean, Laguna Bay, Double Island Point, Noosa River and the Noosa National Park, this exceptional residence reflects a luxury, yet relaxed, resort-style ambience. Homes of such unsurpassed quality, set in this coveted Noosa ridgeline location, rarely come onto the market… making this a truly special offering.

Inside the custom-designed, contemporary lifestyle home set over three levels, you’ll find an ultra-spacious layout which was carefully designed by Chris Clout Design, with interior decor finished by Di Henshall.

A private internal lift glides effortlessly between levels. On the top floor, you have the grand master suite, complete with a private retreat, full-width terrace to soak in those panoramic views, an opulent ensuite which includes a freestanding bath with captivating views, plus an enormous walk-in dressing room. There are two additional bedrooms on this level, each with their own beautifully appointed ensuite.

The home’s entrance level offers spacious open plan living and dining

zones adjoining the sleek designer kitchen with gorgeous fantasy brown marble island bench, butler’s pantry and Miele appliances. Wide stacker doors perfectly frame the home’s stunning views and draw back to facilitate seamless indoor/ outdoor living on the spacious entertaining terrace adjoining your infinity-edge pool.

The fourth bedroom and study/home office with storeroom, full bathroom and wellappointed laundry with drying deck are also located on this floor.

On the lower level, you can entertain family and guests in the large games room or escape to the media space with entertainment unit and built-in wet bar with dual zone wine fridge. This level also features a huge four car garage, powder room and ample under house storage.

Just some of this incomparable home’s features include: Air conditioning, solar power, water tank, Tasmanian Oak floating floors, security gate, cameras, lights and intercom, superior fixtures and fittings throughout and beautiful landscaped gardens on the 926 square metre block.

Your luxurious new home offers a brilliant coastal location, just 4 minutes’ drive from Noosa Main Beach and the

thriving heart of Noosa Heads with its fabulous cafes, restaurants and world-class boutique shopping.

This outstanding executive residence both captivates and entices to the point where you’ll never want to leave.

To discover the magic of this unrivalled property for yourself, arrange your personal viewing with exclusive agent Rick Daniel 0411 737 767 from Richardson & Wrench Noosa. ●

HOME ESSENTIALS Address: 3 Natasha Avenue, NOOSA HEADS Description: 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4 garage Price: Tender closing 9 February Inspect: By appointment Contact: Rick Daniel, 0411 737 767 or rick@rwnoosa.com.au, RICHARDSON & WRENCH NOOSA noosatoday.com.au

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Richardson&Wrench 212 ‘Sebel’ 32 Hastings Street Noosa Heads 1 bed | 1 bath | 1 Car

- Sunny aspect looking over the resort pool - Larger ground floor with car park on title - Ducted air conditioning with lift access - Strong holiday income and tax benefits - Opposite Noosa’s Main Beach $875,000 Open Wednesday 1 - 1.30pm

Shane McCauley 0403 646 930

Frank Milat 0438 528 148

17 ‘On The Beach’ 49 Hastings Street Noosa Heads 1 bed | 1 bath | 1 car

- North facing beachfront - Panoramic views to Laguna Bay - Complex has new pool, gym and facilities - Ducted air with car park on title - Newly refurbished in total luxury $2.3 Million Open By Appointment

Frank Milat 0438 528 148

Proudly Richardson&Wrench Noosa | 07 5447 4499 14 NOOSA TODAY

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Shane McCauley 0403 646 930

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Amazing buyer activity happening around Noosa at the moment, with record low levels of property on the market there has never been a better time to capitalise on selling your property. If you are considering selling or looking for real estate advice, please do not hesitate to contact Nathan.

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Gina, the face you know and trust, invites you to join the winning team, it’s never been easier!

Here’s what our happy landlords are saying about our team: We’ve had the pleasure of dealing with Gina Fomiatti during the search for a suitable tenant for our property and her performance has been outstanding. Her attention to detail and her valuable advice has been extraordinary. If you’re looking for a Real Estate agent to handle your property leasing arrangements, go no further than Gina at Ray White Pomona Hinterland.

Bob and Dianne Landlords

Gina Fomiatti Business Development Manager Property Management 0490 246 033

As a first time investment property owner I was nervous about choosing the right property manager. After speaking with a few in the area I chose Gina and it proved to be a fabulous choice. Gina managed my property like a true professional.

She obviously knows the industry very well and made sure that she got the best tenant at the best rent. But importantly she obviously also cares about the tenants and doing the best by everyone concerned. I never had a moment’s worry with Gina in charge, nothing was too much trouble, all maintenance and inspections were carried out perfectly. I especially appreciated the fact she made a special effort to keep me informed of any issues and was able to guide me because of her years of experience.

Beth Landlord

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REFINED LUXURY The Lumina Residences success story continues with the unveiling of L2.

Representing just fifteen boutique apartments, L2 delivers the finest in inspired living, perched amid Noosa’s most exclusive enclave, Settler’s Cove.

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L2 is the rarest of opportunities for owner-occupiers who value 5 Star resort living on the doorstep of Hastings Street and Noosa Main Beach.

Lumina’s first stage sold entirely off the plan. Demand for L2 will be even stronger.

Every effort has been made to accurately describe the details of this development however this is a guide only. All marketing material, including models, illustrations and plans are indicative only.

All details were correct at the time of printing and are subject to change without notice. This material is representative as a guide only and does not constitute an offer or inducement.

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OPEN HOMES Time

Address

A B C

Price Guide

Agent Time

Address

Black Mountain

Noosaville

Saturday 6th February

Saturday 6th February

10.00 - 10.30am

70 Black Mountain Road

5

3

2

Offers Considered

Wythes Real Estate 0415 111 370

11.00 - 11.30am

151 Blanckensee Road

4

3

2

$1,050,000

Wythes Real Estate 0415 111 370

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Price Guide

Agent

10.00 - 11.00am

80/179 Weyba Road

1

1

1

offers over $450,000

11.00 - 11.30am

2/235 GympieTce

3

2

1

$1,350,000

Doonan

11.00 - 11.30am

8/29 Ann Street

2

1

1

Auction

Laguna Real Estate 0419 701 856

Saturday 6th February

12.00 - 12.30pm

8/293 Weyba Road

3

2

1

Offers Over $725,000

Laguna Real Estate 0407 379 893

1/159 GympieTerrace

2

1+

1

$850,000

Laguna Real Estate 0407 379 893

Laguna Real Estate 0407 379 893

11.00 - 12.00pm

213 Grays Road

4

3

2

O/Over $1,150,000

Wythes Real Estate 0409 953 311 1.00 - 1.30pm

Garwoods Estate Agents 0408 710 373

Tom Offermann Real Estate 0412 894 542

Wednesday 10th February

Noosa Heads

11.00 - 11.30am

Saturday 6th February 10.00 - 10.30am

4/33 Picture Point Cres

2

2

1

Auction

Tom Offermann Real Estate 0417 600 840

10.00 - 10.30am

18 Cooran Ct

4

4

3

$6,800,000

Tom Offermann Real Estate 0418 980 247

1/159 GympieTerrace

2

1+

1

$850,000

$2,600,000

Noosa Waters Saturday 6th February

11.00 - 11.30am

11.00 - 11.30am

11.00 - 11.30am

28/1 Quamby Pl

12/4 Serenity Cl

3

3

16/8 Quamby Pl

3

2

2

2

1

1

Contact Agent

Tom Offermann Real Estate 0419 757 770 1.00 - 1.30pm

2Topsails Pl

4

3

2

Tom Offermann Real Estate 0447 263 663

2.00 - 2.30pm

7 Mermaid Quay

5

3

2 O/O $3,000,000 Considered

Laguna Real Estate 0407 379 893

Laguna Real Estate 0407 379 893

Price Guide $1.25m Tom Offermann Real Estate 0418 144 484

1

Auction

Tom Offermann Real Estate 0417 600 840

Wednesday 10th February 1.00 - 1.30pm

7310/5 Morwong Dr

1

1

1

Auction

Tom Offermann Real Estate 0412 894 542 12.00 - 12.30pm

7 Mermaid Quay

5

3

2 O/O $3,000,000 Considered

3

2

2

Auction

Tom Offermann Real Estate 0413 319 879

3

2

2

Auction

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12/4 Serenity Cl

3

2

1

1.00 - 1.30pm

212/32 Hastings Street

1

1

1

Price Guide $1.25m Tom Offermann Real Estate 0418 144 484

AUCTION

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Peregian Beach Friday 5th February

Noosa Sound

10.30 - 11.00am

Saturday 6th February

Saturday 6th February

10.00 - 10.30am

5/83 Noosa Parade

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Dowling Neylan 0405 976 181 10.30 - 11.00am

2/82 Peregian Esp

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Time

Address

A B C

Price Guide

Agent Time

11.00 - 11.30am

Saturday 6th February 2/24 Orealla Crescent

A B C

OPEN HOMES

Price Guide

Agent

Saturday 20th February

Sunrise Beach

10.00 - 10.45am

Address

3

2

1

Contact Agent

Select Noosa 0418 758 465

7310/5 Morwong Dr

1

1

1

Auction

Tom Offermann Real Estate 0412 894 542

2

1

Auction

Tom Offermann Real Estate 0417 600 840

2

1

1

Auction

Laguna Real Estate 0419 701 856

3

2

2

Auction

Tom Offermann Real Estate 0413 319 879

3

2

Auction

Tom Offermann Real Estate 0413 044 241

Saturday 27th February 10.00 - 10.30am

4/33 Picture Point Cres

2

Sunshine Beach Noosaville Saturday 6th February Saturday 27th February 9.00 - 9.30am

10 Ross Cres

5

3

2

Auction

Tom Offermann Real Estate 0413 044 241 11.30 - 12.00pm

10.00 - 10.45am

162 Edwards Street

4

3

2

Contact Agent

Sunshine Beach Real Estate 07 5447 2999

12.00 - 12.45pm

7/2 Parkedge Road

3

2

2

o/o $1.9M

Sunshine Beach Real Estate 07 5447 2999

8/29 Ann Street

Peregian Beach Saturday 6th February

Auction Diary 11.00 - 11.30am

2/82 Peregian Esp

Noosa Heads

Sunshine Beach

Friday 19th February

Saturday 20th February

1.00 - 1.30pm

212/32 Hastings Street

1

1

1

AUCTION 19 February Richardson & Wrench Noosa 5447 4499 10.00 - 10.30am

10 Ross Cres

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Buying, Selling & Renting from the mountains to the sea

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TROPIC LUXE AT SUNSHINE BEACH COCOONED amidst lush tropical gardens, this luxurious Sunshine Beach home exudes individuality, chic style and privacy. Everywhere you look, you see beauty.

A 10 minute stroll (700 metres) to the patrolled beaches of Sunshine Beach and vibrant Duke Street village with its exceptional restaurants and bars, boutiques and the newly refurbished Sunshine Beach Surf Club. Hastings Street, Noosa Main Beach and the Noosa National Park are only 5 minutes away by car. The soon-to-be-completed Sunshine Coast Airport expansion is only a 25 minute drive and sure to make visiting easy.

The unique home has been lovingly rebuilt in two stages, transforming this home into an elegant and sophisticated tropic luxe residence suited to both family living and entertaining.

Featuring antique hand-carved Indian entry doors, stacked stonework, expansive concrete beam structure, Australian hardwood timbers and custom-made Moroccan lace accent panels (commercial grade) that radiate beauty…the interplay of these elegant features makes this home a showstopper to passers-by.

The re-build was designed in consultation with Gerard Smith of Mojo Design Studio, Noosa Heads, one of Australia’s award-winning architects.

Impeccably presented, the calming aesthetic of neutral colour palettes, layers of elemental textures and pearl white interior is perfect for seaside living. Bi-fold doors, hidden screens, glass panels and clever use of plantation shutters bring understated beauty and elegance to the generous rooms which deliver an intuitively appealing space - this home just keeps giving.

The sprawling open plan living areas awash with natural light and airflow convey comfort in every room. A choice of two bedrooms on the lower level is complemented by the shared bathroom featuring modern colour tones of sand and chocolate, floor to ceiling tiles and floating cabinets with Caesarstone tops.

Ascend the staircase to the upper level and you will see what makes this retreat so special. Step inside another light-filled living area with warm timber floors and beautiful cross breezes, complete with cafe bar for that early morning coffee. A glass louvred office leads off this room and is ideal for a work-from-home business or client meetings.

This level is also home to a further two bedrooms, including the master, and two more fabulous bathrooms. The main ensuite features a luxurious hydrotherapy massage spa for two, surrounded by Italian tiles.

With a range of indoor and outdoor areas, functionality abounds throughout.

Effortless entertaining is achieved with the large covered alfresco area with a servery from an impressive chef’s kitchen, allowing for seamless integration between inside and out.

Soaring ceilings surrounded by high

glass louvres set the tone for this expansive kitchen. With marble island, polished timber bench tops, Miele dishwasher, Ilve 900mm oven and 5-burner cook top with a Schweigen commercial range hood, the kitchen is a chef’s dream.

The abundant 2-pak cabinetry and large

pantry has been well thought out and is able to house sufficient kitchen appliances, flatware and glassware to accommodate two families.

The beauty and elegance of this spectacular home and unbeatable location will take your breath away. Contact Anita Nichols to arrange your private inspection. ●

HOME ESSENTIALS Address: 39 Weyba Street, SUNSHINE BEACH Description: 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 garage Price: Offers over $2,400,000 considered Inspect: By appointment Contact: Anita Nichols 0434 236 110, LAGUNA REAL ESTATE 22 NOOSA TODAY

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Experience and Expertise A Noosa resident for the past 32 years, Melanie is a fully Licensed Real Estate agent and the Licensee of our Noosaville office, specialising in prestige and waterfront properties.

Focusing on achieving the best possible outcomes for her clients, with an intimate knowledge of excellent sales strategies, her service and experience is paramount to achieving that end.

Enthusiastic, diligent, proficient and highly regarded as one of Noosa’s most successful Real Estate professionals - your real estate requirements are her passion.

Call Mel for an obligation free, confidential chat today!

Melanie Butcher

Licensee/ Licensed Real Estate Agent

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Entry Level Opportunity!

AuctiOn On SitE SAt 27 FEb 12pm

8/29 Ann StrEEt, nOOSAviLLE

2A 1B 1C • Renovate and reap the rewards this property offers!

• Create your ideal home, idyllic weekender or rental property • Small residential complex, east facing balcony, garden views • Terrific two bedroom unit, solid brick, lots of character • A few minutes walk to the Noosa River and Gympie Terrace • Low maintenance, low body corporate fees, spacious grounds • Properties of this kind are in short supply, don’t delay

AuctiOn On Site Sat 27 Feb 12pm viEW Sat 11-11.30am

John Swainson 0419 701 856

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Location, Luxury & Low Fees!

2A 1B 1C

4/26 Katharina Street, nooSa headS • Investment opportunity- Low fee & high returns • Renovated top floor apartment with effortless indoor/outdoor flow • Polished Italian tiles, stylish white kitchen with stone bench tops • Large outdoor entertaining, covered terrace with fabulous views & bar • Generous bedrooms with newly installed split system air-conditioning • Only a short stroll to Hastings Street, Beaches and Noosa Junction

For SaLe $725,000 VieW Open By Appointment Sharon McLure 0400 084 975

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