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Great taste of Italy coming to Noosa
Chefs Andrea Ravezzani and Adriano Zumbo will be treating Noosa to everything Italian.
Picture: ROB MACCOLL
Italians are renowned for their love of food and family, so it makes sense that a group of remarkable, award-winning Italian chefs, most of them local, should bring to Noosa a celebration of the Italian culture with the Italian Food and Vino Festival. The idea for the three-day festival, to be held in August, began when the Italian Consul visited Noosa Waterfront Restaurant chef Andrea Ravezzani and suggested he find a way for the Italian community to be more involved in the Sunshine Coast region. “The Noosa Eat and Drink Festival didn’t go ahead so I thought why not take the opportunity. I sat down with my wife. “She said make it for the local people, make it an Italian experience,“ he said. Andrea contacted some friends including celebrity chef Adriano Zumbo, Matteo Galletto of Lucio’s Marina and celebrity chef Luco Ciano of Sydney, as well as Noosa’s many Italian restaurants to take part. Adriano Zumbo was happy to come on board when Andrea contacted him. Continued page 8
Talking the Walk By Phil Jarratt A presentation on Mabo Day last week should have been a celebration of a project that has the potential to become our greatest example of Native Title in action. Instead many people left the room scratching their heads about the future of the Cooloola Great Walk, and won-
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dering whether beautiful Poona Lake would be closed to walkers. Others, however, told Noosa Today they left with “a sense of cautious optimism”, saying that out of the confusion, “It will become clear that Kabi Kabi’s Native Title right to comanage Cooloola alongside Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service will produce a more prin-
cipled and effective management than is currently the case”. The presentation on the last day of the highly successful, week-long Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Summit at Sunshine Coast Conference Centre, was by Kabi Kabi Native Title applicant Brian Warner and proponent Michael
Lamprell, whose company CABN, following the state government calling for expressions of interest in 2019, was chosen to develop the commercial Great Walk ecotourism project in partnership with Kabi Kabi and build the required infrastructure in the Cooloola section of the Great Sandy National Park. Continued page 4