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Volunteers connect at Expo By Erle Levey and Margie Maccoll More than 300 local residents attended Noosa Council’s inaugural Volunteers Connect Expo last Saturday where connections were forged between potential and current volunteers and the organisations that rely on them to deliver great things for the Noosa community. Held at the Noosa Leisure Centre, the expo brought together more than 50 local not-forprofit community and environment organisations, sporting clubs and emergency services, providing visitors with the opportunity to learn more about them and their volunteer opportunities. Noosa Council community connect manager Alison Hamblin said its aim to get together not for profit organisations and help them search for volunteers in the community had been “really successful,” with groups collecting names of potential volunteers and visitors walking out the door with a list of flyers and ways they could volunteer. “We have about 300 not for profit organisations in Noosa,” she said. Continued page 4
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Century in the sun By Phil Jarratt Considering the fact that I have never done a surf patrol in my life, I feel very honoured to have been asked by the Noosa Heads Surf Life Saving Club to write the centenary history of this great club, collaborating with Life Member and NT column colleague Ron Lane and other club elders. My excuse for not contributing to this worthy part of the surfing life has always been that there was no such thing as a Nippers program when I was growing up, and it was all too easy, like many of my generation, to follow the path of the free and easy life of the surfboard rider. But throughout my long and ongoing surfing life, I’ve
always held surfers who gave up their weekends to serve rather than surf, even though as accomplished watermen they excelled at riding waves, in the highest regard, and I’ve always been enchanted by the Australian iconography of the sun-drenched lifesaver. As my mate Ron Lane says of his teenaged years when the first driver to see him hitching to Noosa for weekend patrols, by the side of the road with his thumb out and his surf club tee on backwards for quick recognition, would slam on the brakes and welcome him aboard: “Mate, we were gods!” Well, part messiahs and part naughty boys
perhaps, and later girls and groms too, but the surf life saving movement has become an important part of Australian culture, and nowhere more so than in Noosa Heads, where its development was hard-won and a long time coming. While Bondi Beach would become the first surf life saving club in the world in 1907 because the need was clear to the thousands who flocked there every weekend and holiday to promenade and try the new and recently-legalised pleasure of surf bathing, our isolated pocket of paradise would struggle for two decades to gain the necessary support to form a club, and then only succeed with the assistance of a property developer whose quid pro
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This week we celebrate World News Day – a day to celebrate journalism, and the fact-based, verified information it produces. It’s also a good day to remind ourselves why that matters. Because whether it’s a real-world conversation around the water cooler at work, or an answer being generated by AI, we need to be feeding the system – both human and robot - accurate, verified information. Get that wrong and the consequences can be catastrophic. Truth matters – especially when the truth is less sexy than a more compelling story, told entertainingly by an advocate or influencer that gets more clicks on social media. And that’s the problem. We are producing more information and “news” than ever before, while having fewer journalists doing the work of checking it, challenging it and finding out whether it’s actually true. So where have all the journalists gone? In regional Australia, if you’re looking for some of the best-paid journalists in town – often the former editors or longest-serving scribes at the local paper – you’ll increasingly find them writing marketing and “news” for the local council.
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Zenon’s can drive Eight year old Sunshine Coast boy Zenon just likes to help people, something his dad Greg Hack believes he inherited from his mother, a nurse, and the way he was brought up. Zenon started collecting 10c cans and bottles after his big brother Kyle’s partner, Chloe, was diagnosed with Stage 3 triple-negative breast cancer. Kyle, 30, and Chloe have three boys aged 14 months, 10 and 12, and their lives have been turned upside down while Chloe undergoes chemotherapy, with surgery planned for early December. When Zenon went to hospital to visit and saw how sick the patients were he told his dad, ‘they’re not going to have a good Christmas’, so he thought of a way to buy them presents, and Zenon’s Can Drive began. Zenon and his family have now collected tens of thousands of cans and bottles from people across the Sunshine Coast, sorting them and cashing them in through Containers for Change. Along the way his project has gained the attention of the community and he has learned of other families in heart-breaking situations. There’s a family from his school community with three children aged 7, 10 and 12, whose mother was receiving palliative care and have had to say goodbye to their beautiful mum. In another case a single mum who is terminally ill, has a 9-year-old daughter with special needs. So Zenon’s little can drive has grown into a mission to help three families and seven children facing cancer, terminal illness and unimaginable loss. His mission has brought together complete strangers, local businesses and an incredible community of people who also want to help. Greg said with people asking how they could
The Sunshine Coast Business Awards last week revealed the finalists for its 2026 program, with 133 businesses named as finalists across 19 categories. The finalists follow a strong year for the Awards, with 247 applications received - up from 239 in 2024 and building on the record 263 entries received during the Awards’ milestone 30th anniversary in 2025. Winners will be announced at the Gala Celebration on Saturday 28 November. Sunshine Coast Business Awards Chair Jennifer Swaine congratulated all 133 finalists on reaching this stage of the program. “One of the things we love most about the Awards is seeing so many new businesses come through the program each year. It’s a real sign of the strength and constant renewal of the Sunshine Coast business community,” she said This year’s program also introduced a new category, the Corporate Community Champion Award, recognising for-profit businesses that demonstrate a genuine and strategic commitment to supporting the community through structured and sustained initiatives. “These are businesses that are embedding community contribution into their operations and culture, and playing a vital role in strengthening the social fabric of the Sunshine Coast,” Swaine said. Sunshine Coast Business Awards Judging Chair Wallis Westbrook said the process remained rigorous, with written submissions and interviews with a panel of volunteer judges who
Sunshine Coast Business Awards has revealed the finalists for its 2026 program. (Supplied) donated hundreds of hours to assess entries across all categories. “The standard across every category was exceptional, and it’s a real credit to our volunteer judges, who gave up so much of their time to assess each entry so thoroughly,” Westbrook said. Export, Sustainability and Business of the Year along with Corporate Community Champion winners will be selected from category winners, with Advanced Aquarium Technologies, Sunny Rays Catering, Laguna Pest Control and Alex Surf Club also being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Finalists will now progress to the next stage of judging, presenting in person to the judging panel ahead of the Sunshine Coast Business Awards Gala Dinner, to be held at the Sunshine Coast Convention Centre on Saturday 28 November, with actor and comedian Shane Jacobson returning as Master of Ceremonies.
New view at Cootharaba Zenon on his can drive to help other people. assist they were urged to set up a GoFundMe page. It gives those people another way to get behind Zenon and the little mission that started with him simply wanting to help his big brother Kyle, Chloe and their three boys through Chloe’s cancer journey, he said. Zenon’s journey, including his collections, progress and shout-outs to the people who are helping along the way, is being shared by his family through his Zenon’s Can Drive Facebook page. With Christmas approaching, Zenon wants to make sure the seven children across these three families still have something special to look forward to. He wants to help put presents under their trees, bring a little excitement and happiness to Christmas morning and remind these children that, even through some of the hardest moments of their lives, there is a whole community thinking of them. To help visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/ zenons-can-drive-helping-families-facing-cancer or visit Zenon’s Can Drive Facebook page.
Visitors to the Noosa hinterland can now enjoy sweeping views from two new viewing platforms at Cootharaba Lookout following the completion of upgrades to the popular trail destination, formerly known as Shepperson’s Lookout. The improvements form part of the Noosa Regional Trail Upgrade, a coordinated program of works across the Woondum and Wahpunga trail experiences. The project is supported by funding from the Australian Government’s Growing Regions Program and is scheduled for completion by the end of 2026. The Australian Government has provided $1.6 million to the project through the Growing Regions Program. Noosa Mayor Frank Wilkie said the new platforms had improved one of the region’s most popular trail stopping points. “The new viewing platforms provide an even better opportunity for visitors to stop, take in the spectacular hinterland views and enjoy the natural beauty of the area,” Mayor Wilkie said. “These works are part of Council’s broader investment in the Noosa Biosphere Trails network, helping create safer, more enjoyable and sustainable experiences for walkers, horse riders and mountain bike riders while protecting the environmental values that make these places so special.” The upgrade has transformed Cootharaba Lookout into a more welcoming and functional rest stop, with improvements including new
Enjoy the views from a new platform at Cootharaba lookout. (Supplied) picnic seating, a relocated shade structure, upgraded water facilities, a horse hitching post and new bollards to prevent unauthorised vehicle access. New retaining walls, seating nooks and wayfinding features have also improved the site’s usability. More than 700 native trees and shrubs were also planted to help integrate the upgrades into the surrounding environment. The Cootharaba Lookout works are one component of the wider Noosa Regional Trail Upgrade, which includes trail repairs, drainage improvements, upgraded trail nodes, new access controls and improved wayfinding and interpretive signage across the network. The program is being delivered in accordance with the Noosa Trails Master Plan and reflects Council’s ongoing commitment to a connected, sustainable and accessible trail network for residents and visitors.
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Volunteers connect at Expo From page 1 “It shows how connected we are as a community and that people really want to give back to the community. “We really rely on our volunteers to provide that social fabric for our community.” Event coordinator Monique Johnson said the Expo had been designed to showcase the not-forprofit and volunteer organisations in Noosa and invite residents to see what was available. In opening the Expo Noosa Council Mayor Frank Wilkie said the event was about connection. “It is about bringing people together, strengthening our community, and creating opportunities for residents to discover the many ways they can make a difference through volunteering,” he said. “Volunteers are at the heart of communities like ours. They support people when times are tough. “They help protect and care for our natural environment. They contribute to sport and recreation, arts and culture, emergency response, community services and so much more. “Importantly, volunteering is not only about giving back. It is also about belonging. It is about meeting people, learning new skills, sharing experiences and building stronger connections within our community.” Slow Food Noosa vice president Melissa Innes said the Noosa volunteers expo was one that made a lot of sense in terms of connecting those in the community looking for connection, and to volunteer and share their time in areas of interest. “The expo also provided much-needed support to local community organisations who often struggle to connect with potential volunteers who would like to help them if they understood their organisation better,” she said. “Not only was there an opportunity for stallholders from not for profit organisations to meet members of the public who were genuinely interested in the many activities taking place in the community through these organisations, but there were also connections being made between organisations and how they can help each other as well.” Melissa said people from all walks of life at-
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Noosa FM 101.3 volunteers Sibylle Reisch, David Morris and Ian Glew. (Rob Maccoll) tended and while the majority of attendees were retired there were younger parents who brought their children to show them the value of these organisations and how they could share their time to be involved. Volunteers had a variety of reasons for volunteering and being involved in the Expo. At Story Dogs, Cara said for her it was to give back and be involved in the community but it was also something nice she could do with her dog Milly. “She’s such a beautiful dog. She loves it,” Cara said. Noosa FM101.3 volunteer Ian Glew said being a presenter on the community radio station meant learning a new skill, working with a “good crew” and while your first time on air on your own was “quite daunting” it was also exciting.
Nick Cooke and Hayley spoke about the variety of projects being run by Cooroy Pomona Lions Club including a vital eye sight project they were involved in which screens school children aged 3-18 years and had discovered one in four local children tested needed to be referred on for further testing. “We’ve done about 13 screenings across Noosa Shire and Gympie regions and found it’s one in five children nationally but one in four locally,” Hayley said. Dixie of Noosa Arts Theatre and Ash of Noosa Pirates Rugby League Football Club spoke about the advantages of cross-pollinating of volunteers which they explored at the Expo. “We all need more volunteers. We all need to create relationships with each other,” Dixie said.
Ash, who has three kids playing football said volunteering for he and his wife on the football field or in the canteen was a way to break down stereotypes, to engage their children and show them the value of volunteering. Dixie who has been a volunteer for most of her adult life because she enjoys mixing with other people and meeting other people, said it was a practise she had also passed on to her children. “It’s a sense of community,” she said. Having moved to Noosa from Sydney Dixie said volunteering helped her find a place where she felt fulfilled. “Volunteers just want to volunteer,” she said. “It’s not about what I can get it’s about what I can give back. It’s about building the relationships.
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Family’s thoughts about OAM By Sue Stanley If only we had known when Clinton was born 50 years ago, it would have saved us a river of tears. Who would have thought when our beautiful baby boy Clinton was born Down syndrome, we would be sitting here at Government House watching Clinton receiving an Order of Australian Medal from the Governor of Queensland Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young AC PSM. Over the years, we have watched Clinton become the man he is today, and our family could not be prouder. My 103-year-old mum, Joan, beamed beside me as she watched her grandson receive the award. Clinton’s younger brother, Ben, flew up that morning to join us. Ben has always said that having Clinton as his brother has made him a better man and a better father to his four boys. Clinton has achieved remarkable success in sport as a world champion swimmer and multiple world record holder. He has also raised funds and volunteered for disability, health, and community organizations. Along with his service to Scouts and Life Saving, Clinton continues to develop his life skills. As a mum, I could not be prouder. Clinton visits his dad at Arcare every Monday, and although his dad does not remember Clinton’s achievements, their love for each other still shines through.
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Teen honoured as international Eco-Hero By Steve Linnell A Sunshine Coast teenager who has spent almost a decade campaigning to protect threatened wildlife and local ecosystems has been recognised with a major international environmental award. Fifteen-year-old Spencer Hitchen has received the 2026 Eco-Hero Shimon Schwarzschild Special Award, recognising his work as a conservationist, environmental educator, nature photographer and advocate for threatened species. Spencer’s passion for the environment began when he was just six, with a particular focus on the vulnerable Glossy Black-Cockatoo and the Wallum ecosystem on the Sunshine Coast. His campaign to protect local Wallum Woodland gained international attention when, at the age of 10, he launched a petition which attracted almost 86,000 signatures. Since then, Spencer has taken his campaign well beyond his backyard, becoming an advocate for greater youth involvement in environmental decision-making. In November last year, he became the young-
est person to address a major Australian corporation’s annual general meeting, where he questioned company leadership about environmental accountability. His work has also taken him to Federal Parliament in Canberra, where he has received recognition from the Federal Environment Minister and other decision-makers, including Queensland and NSW environment ministers. Spencer has combined his conservation work with his passion for photography, using images of Australian wildlife to encourage people to better understand and protect their local environment. In 2022, he launched an annual calendar featuring his wildlife photography and has since donated thousands of nature education calendars to children around the world. His photography has also attracted international recognition, including the People’s Choice Award in the global Crikey! Photography Competition and the Youth Category of the BirdLife Australia Photography Awards. He was also shortlisted in the Youth Category of Australian Geographic’s Nature Photographer of the Year.
His philosophy is simple: “Observe, Learn, Protect – your Local Environment.” Spencer founded the global iNaturalist project Our Big Backyard, bringing together observations of backyard species from around the world, and established World Stand UP 4 Nature Day in 2023. His local observations and scientific data have been used to assist decision-making and help park and fire services protect important habitat during controlled burns. His environmental journey is now the subject of the documentary Love Letter to the Unseen, directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Josh “Bones” Murphy, which explores biodiversity loss through a young person’s perspective. Spencer also co-authored the Climate Action Roadmap: Youth Forward at 11, designed to turn youth concern about climate change into practical action. He has shared platforms with environmental figures including Dr Jane Goodall, Damon Gameau and Dr Bob Brown. “When we look at the global picture, it can be scary and overwhelming, but the key is to start
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Remembering our veterans By Steve Linnell For many Australians, the Second World War ended with Japan’s surrender in August 1945. But for thousands of Australian servicemen and women, their military service continued in Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF). Among those determined to ensure their contribution is remembered is Ron Nightingale, whose own connection to BCOF began with his father. Nightingale describes himself as a proud “war service brat”, growing up in Geebung, Brisbane, where his father built a home on war service land at Marchant Park. He joined the Army at 17, later serving in the regular Army before joining the Army Reserve with B Company, 9th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment. After a working life as a courier driver and small business owner, Nightingale retired but continued a long-standing passion for military history and veterans’ welfare. His involvement with BCOF began after his father died in 1992. “My father’s last wish was that I help his mates from the Australian Contingent of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force who served in Japan from 1946 to 1952,” he said. Nightingale subsequently became the official representative of the BCOF Association and began campaigning for greater recognition of the Australian personnel who served in occupied Japan. BCOF was established after Japan’s surrender, with Australian forces forming part of the multinational force responsible for the occupation and reconstruction of Japan. Nightingale was involved in representations to the Commonwealth Inquiry into Defence Honours and Awards in 1993, which resulted in BCOF personnel receiving the Australian Service Medal. In 1995, he was among those involved in receiving and installing an official memorial in Brisbane’s Anzac Square commemorating the
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(Supplied) 580714 04 108 BCOF personnel who died during their service. His campaign continued. In 2003, he made representations concerning the Clarke Report into benefits, helping secure Gold Card and Totally and Permanently Incapacitated pension benefits for eligible BCOF veterans. Those benefits were eventually received in 2017. “Only 82 out of 17,021 received them,” Nightingale said. Now, 80 years after the first Australian BCOF personnel arrived in Japan, Nightingale has taken on another mission — to ensure their story does
not disappear. Earlier this year, he was contacted by remaining members of the BCOF committee and asked to represent the association on Anzac Day, marking the 80th anniversary of the force’s arrival in Japan. He has since begun rebuilding the association and opening it to the families of BCOF veterans, including 100 year-old Tewantin resident and veteran John “Jack” Walter. Among Mr Nightingale’s plans are creating a digital museum documenting their service, developing educational material for schools and continuing the campaign for medals he believes
the veterans were promised but never received. These include proposed recognition associated with the BCOF period, including the BCOF Medal 1946-1952, the General Service Medal with Japan clasp, the Australian Peacekeepers Medal and an 80th anniversary commemorative medal. “The Association does not require fees,” Nightingale said. “We do this out of pride and remembrance of our fathers and mothers.” For Nightingale, the campaign is personal. He has spent decades researching the stories of Australian servicemen, including helping families discover what happened to relatives who served in the First World War. He also helped restore the Anzac Day service at Nundah Historical Cemetery and produced its Book of Honour recording servicemen buried there. Now his attention is focused on a generation of Australians who served in Japan after the Second World War — and whose contribution he believes deserves to be remembered by their families and future generations. “We hope that with effort and stubborn pride we will succeed,” he said.
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Feedback received on Holts Road Noosa Council has received 79 submissions on a proposed amendment to rezone 94 and 170 Holts Road, Cooroy, from Rural land to Industry land and areas of Environmental Management and Conservation. The eight-week public consultation period on the amendment to help Noosa’s future employment needs, while balancing environmental protection and community interests closed on 20 September 2026. Mayor Frank Wilkie thanked community members for their submissions on the proposed Noosa Plan 2020 changes.
“The public notification period was an important step and all feedback received will be reviewed by council staff,” Cr Wilkie said. “All submissions will be considered as part of the review.” The consultation feedback and any proposed changes will be presented to councillors, before returning to a Council meeting for a decision. This could occur before the end of the year. Cr Wilkie said if Council decides to proceed with the amendment, that decision and the consultation report will be referred to the
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Last Sunday’s World Tourism Day was an opportunity to reflect on what tourism should deliver for a destination. For Tourism Noosa, our focus continues to evolve beyond simply attracting visitors. It is about managing the visitor economy in a way that supports our local businesses and jobs, respects our community and helps protect the environment that makes Noosa so special. Today, our approach is increasingly centred on regenerative tourism and looking at how tourism can leave a positive legacy for our beautiful destination. That means pursuing high-value visitors who stay longer and contribute more to our local economy, while continuing to invest in destination stewardship, sustainability and community initiatives. Through our Tread Lightly Noosa initiatives including Trees for Tourism, Plastic Free Noosa and Precious Plastic Noosa, to supporting our industry to strengthen its sustainability credentials, we are working with our members and partners to turn these principles into practical action. As we recognise World Tourism Day, we recognise and celebrate the many local tourism businesses, staff, volunteers and community partners who contribute to Noosa every day. The opportunity ahead is to ensure tourism continues to be a force for good, supporting a strong local economy while protecting the environment, lifestyle and community that make Noosa such a remarkable place to live and visit.
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BUILDING BEYOND 2032 Games delivery shaping South East Queensland’s future SOUTH East Queensland is growing quickly, and the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games provide an opportunity to deliver the venues, transport, housing and community infrastructure the region will need for decades to come. Across the region, that plan is already taking shape. Early works are underway at Brisbane Stadium in the Victoria Park precinct, and at the Brisbane Showgrounds, which will house the Athlete Village and an upgraded 20,000-seat Main Arena, brightening the Ekka’s future and contributing a permanent inner-city housing legacy for Queenslanders. The Queensland Tennis Centre will add up to 3000-seat show court and up to 12 match courts to its existing Pat Rafter Arena. Delivery is progressing across the wider region, with site preparation progressing at the Logan Indoor Sports Centre, design underway at the Moreton Bay Indoor Sports Centre and the Sunshine Coast Stadium, and a new Redlands whitewater rafting centre being delivered. These facilities are being planned for long-term sporting, event and community use. The Gold Coast is slated to host events at a new arena and hockey centre, to be funded and delivered by the City of Gold Coast, beside its Convention Centre, plus the Athlete Village and triathlon, while Toowoomba’s showgrounds become an Equestrian Centre of Excellence. This activity presents a range of opportunities for South East Queensland businesses to supply goods and services for the Games, across construction, transport, technology, security, event services and more, boosting employment. The 2032 Games will be an event for all
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of Queensland, with communities across the state slated to share in hosting opportunities, investment and the global spotlight, including Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton, Mackay, the Whitsundays and Maryborough.
Better connections for a growing South East Queensland MAJOR transport projects across South East Queensland are underway or in planning, including The Wave on the Sunshine Coast, the Logan to Gold Coast Faster Rail, Cross River Rail, the Brisbane Metro expansion, the Gold Coast Light Rail extension from Harbour Town at Biggera Waters to the Gold Coast University Hospital, the GC Surfer bus service linking Robina to Coolangatta via Burleigh Heads and the Gold Coast Airport (Gold Coast Transport Plan), and road upgrades. For Brisbane, that means new rail lines and stations, northern and eastern bus priority corridors, and road upgrades.
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Its legacy should be measured in the opportunities it creates long after 2032 a place where Queenslanders can swim, train, gather and connect for decades to come,” Hayne says.
Beyond 2032 a swimming legacy for Queenslanders QUEENSLAND has produced more Olympic swimmers than anywhere else on the planet, yet has never had a facility to match that talent. The Chandler (Sleeman Sports Complex) pool has been home to Queensland swimming since the 1982 Commonwealth Games, but the new National Aquatic Centre will take that legacy further. Rising in the Victoria Park Precinct, the Centre will become the heart of Australian swimming for 2032 and beyond. Design is underway, with a firm appointed via the Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority. It will feature a main and secondary
stadium with indoor pools, holding up to 25,000 spectators during the Games and up to 8000 afterwards, alongside the new Brisbane Stadium and Showgrounds. ARM Architecture, Arkhefield and NH Architecture are the principal architects; ARM Director Andrew Hayne says the venue is designed as an inclusive, intergenerational space for Queenslanders well beyond Brisbane. The Centre is part of the Queensland Government’s 2032 Delivery Plan, linking venue construction to road, transport, tourism and grassroots sport upgrades statewide.
That matters to the regions as much as the capital: thousands travel to Brisbane each year for championships, and for many, from Cairns to Charleville, that trip is a first exposure to an Olympic or Paralympic pathway. “Whether you’re chasing gold or teaching your kids to swim, this place will feel welcoming and inspiring from the moment you arrive,” Mr Hayne says. “Its legacy should be measured in the opportunities it creates long after 2032 — a place where Queenslanders can swim, train, gather and connect for decades to come.”
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Beyond the billboard There’s a bit more science behind destination marketing than putting a beautiful Sunshine Coast beach on a billboard and hoping for the best. When we promote the region, we think carefully about who we want to reach, when we want them to visit and what we hope they’ll discover while they’re here. Our latest Sunshine Moments campaign, now live across Queensland, Sydney and Melbourne, is a good example. This spring, we’re reaching travellers who are interested in the experiences the Sunshine Coast is known for: nature, food and drink, wellness, events, outdoor adventures, family time and simply slowing down. Reaching travellers who value these kinds of experiences matters because how they spend their time here has a flow-on effect across the community. Someone who eats at a local restaurant, books a tour, visits a hinterland town or discovers a small producer they hadn’t heard of before spreads their spending well beyond their accommodation. When they visit matters too. School holidays naturally bring strong demand. The weeks in between can look very different for hotels, attractions, tours, restaurants and cafes. Good destination marketing helps smooth that out by giving people reasons to travel at different times of the year. But perhaps the most important part is attracting people who genuinely connect with what makes this place special.
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Local view on Holts Rd By Joanne Hoey
ON THE SOAPBOX The two photographs tell a story a zoning map struggles to tell. There are homes around this land. There are people who wake up looking across it. There are animals that move across property boundaries without knowing one paddock is Rural-zoned and another may one day be industrial. There are waterways that continue downhill regardless of where the planning boundary ends. And there is bush. A lot of bush. Fire does not recognise a zoning boundary either Bushfire risk needs to remain central to this conversation. Previous Council planning material relating to the Holts Road locality identifies bushfire hazard among a range of natural constraints, alongside biodiversity, waterways and riparian areas and water-resource catchment considerations. For families who live among heavily vegetated properties, bushfire is not an abstract overlay. We think about how we would leave. Which road we would take. Whether emergency vehicles could get through. What happens when smoke reduces visibility. What happens if one road is blocked. So when land use is intensified, residents naturally want to know how additional buildings, businesses, traffic and people would interact with the existing risk. That does not establish that development cannot occur. It establishes why detailed investigation matters before a decision with decades-long consequences is made. We understand Noosa needs jobs There is another side to this story, and residents should acknowledge it. Noosa needs employment. Our children need somewhere to work. Local businesses need appropriate premises. A healthy community cannot simply close the door on economic development. ShapingSEQ 2023 identified an Urban Footprint expansion at Cooroy intended to support employment and industrial land and noted its proximity to the Bruce Highway and existing industrial activity. But the Queensland Government also makes an important distinction: inclusion within an Urban Footprint does not mean every area within it is necessarily suitable for urban development. Environmental values and natural hazards still matter. Continued page 10
That’s what our campaign is really about: encouraging visitors to experience the Sunshine Coast in the same way we love to experience it ourselves. We call those experiences Sunshine Moments. It might be a swim before breakfast, an indulgent lunch in the hinterland, a walk through the forest, live music with friends or simply an afternoon with nowhere else to be. And you can get involved too. Share your own Sunshine Moment on social media by tagging @VisitSunshineCoast and using #SunshineCoastForReal You can find more Sunshine Moments at visitsunshinecoast.com/find-your-sunshinemoment-for-real
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There are mornings around Holts Road when the mist hangs between the trees and the only interruption is the call of a whipbird. Black cockatoos cross overhead. Wallabies emerge at the edge of the bush. Kookaburras call between properties. King parrots arrive in the trees. After rain, the waterways come alive. Horses stand quietly behind fences while families leave for school and work along the narrow rural roads that connect Holts Road, Ocean View Road, Ferrells Road and Silverleaf Lane. It is easy to describe this area on paper as land. It is much harder to stand above it and believe that is all it is. From this bird’s-eye view, the proposed site at 94 and 170 Holts Road is not an isolated rectangle waiting to be filled. It sits inside a living landscape. And that is what many residents fear may be missing when this debate is reduced to hectares, zoning colours and employment forecasts. Twenty hectares can change much more than twenty hectares Noosa Council’s Proposed Major Amendment No. 4 would change approximately 20 hectares of currently Rural-zoned land to Industry and Low Impact Industry zones, incorporating Enterprise and Innovation and Technology precincts. Council has also linked the amendment to future employment-land demand, including the need to accommodate forms of industrial activity beyond the existing rural zoning. Approximately another 13.8 hectares containing identified environmental constraints would move from Rural zoning to Environmental Management and Conservation. Residents support protecting environmentally sensitive land. But it is important to understand what some of that protected landscape actually represents. These are not simply 13.8 hectares of new environmental value suddenly being created as part of an industrial proposal. The waterways are already here. The creeks are already here. The vegetation beside them is already here. The riparian areas largely exist because they protect and surround those natural drainage lines and watercourses. The wildlife moving between them is already here. The ecosystem did not begin when somebody drew a planning boundary around it. And a riparian strip protecting a creek cannot automatically protect everything occurring beyond that strip. That matters when considering the cumulative effect of changing surrounding rural land to an industrial future. Look at it from both sides Travel around to Silverleaf Lane and look back across the area from the other direction. The perspective changes again.
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Local view on Holts Rd From page 9 That distinction lies at the heart of what residents are saying. The question is not: Do we want jobs or trees? The question is: Is this the right place for this scale and type of industrial future, and has enough work been done to establish that before the zoning is changed? Those are very different questions. What do we know before we make the decision? On 17 September 2026, residents stood before Noosa Council to explain the community’s concerns. They spoke about site suitability, water, environmental constraints and rural character. During public question time, Council was also asked what current site-specific expert investigations had supported the selection of 94 and 170 Holts Road. The response recorded at the meeting indicated Council had relied on existing technical information and planning overlays rather than commissioning standalone site-specific studies specifically for the rezoning decision, with more detailed work able to occur during later development assessment. That answer deserves careful thought. No one needs to allege misconduct. No one needs to accuse anyone of acting improperly. The question can stand entirely on its own: at what point should detailed investigation occur? Should we first establish, through sufficiently detailed site-specific evidence, that a place is appropriate for industrial development and then change its planning designation? Or should the designation change first, with much of the detailed investigation occurring when individual development applications arrive later? Residents believe that is an important publicinterest discussion. The things that do not fit neatly in reports Much of planning can be quantified. Twenty
View from Silverleaf Lane. (Supplied) hectares. Thirteen-point-eight hectares. Traffic movements. Employment forecasts. Road widths. Buffers. But not everything that matters fits easily in a spreadsheet. How much is the sound of a whipbird worth? How do we calculate darkness at night? What value do we assign to seeing wallabies outside the fence? What column of a planning report records the fact that somebody has looked across the same valley for forty years? Local resident Barry George tried to express some of that frustration with pen and paper. Barry’s cartoon is not an ecological report or planning assessment. It is something else. It is a resident expressing what it feels like when the familiar landscape outside your home suddenly appears on a map with a very different future attached to it. That emotion should not determine a planning decision. But neither should it be dismissed. Planning exists because decisions about land ultimately affect people. Seventy-nine submissions — and seventynine reasons people cared enough to write The eight-week public consultation period
closed on 20 September 2026. Council has since announced that 79 submissions were received. Council has said the feedback will be reviewed, all submissions will be considered, and the consultation material and any proposed changes will return to councillors before Council makes its decision. If the amendment proceeds, it will then return to the Queensland Government for further consideration. Seventy-nine can sound like a number. Around here, it looks different. It is people sitting at kitchen tables late at night reading planning documents. It is neighbours learning words like ‘Urban Footprint’, ‘riparian buffer’ and ‘medium-impact industry’ because suddenly they need to. It is people photographing their roads, creeks, trees and wildlife because things they once took for granted now feel as though they need to be documented. It is three residents standing at a Council lectern on behalf of their neighbours. It is people who may never previously have attended a Council meeting becoming engaged with the future of their town. Come and look Perhaps the simplest thing we can ask of those
who will ultimately help decide the future of Holts Road is this: come and look. Stand at the property overlooking Holts Road and see the first bird’s-eye view. Then drive around and stand at Silverleaf Lane and look back from the other side. Look beyond the lines marking 94 and 170 Holts Road. Look at where the houses are. Look at the gullies. Look at the vegetation. Look at where the water will travel. Imagine the landscape after several days of Queensland rain. Think about fire. Listen. Then look at the planning map again. Those two views may not decide whether Amendment No. 4 should proceed. Nor should they. Planning decisions need evidence, policy, technical assessment and consideration of the future needs of the whole community. But those views provide something equally important: context. Because Holts Road is not just approximately 20 hectares proposed for a different colour on a planning map. It exists within a rural community. It exists within a network of waterways and vegetation. It exists alongside homes. It exists within habitat used by wildlife that residents see around them every day. And whatever happens here will become part of the landscape future generations inherit. Residents are not asking Noosa never to change. We are asking that before we make a change that may be difficult to reverse, we understand the place we are changing. Understand what is there. Understand the risks. Understand the alternatives. And where questions can be answered by evidence, answer them with evidence. Because when a place is still alive with birds, waterways, bushland, animals and families, the most important question may not simply be what we can build there. It may be what we already have — and whether we are certain we are prepared to lose it.
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Laguna REIQ award finalists Laguna Real Estate is celebrating an outstanding industry achievement after being named a finalist across five categories in the prestigious 2026 REIQ Awards for Excellence, including Large Residential Agency of the Year – the premier agency category. The five finalist categories are: •Large Residential Agency of the Year •Multi-office Network of the Year •Regional Residential Agency of the Year – Laguna Real Estate Gympie •Business Development Manager of the Year – Kellie Drinnan •Agency Support Person of the Year – Penny Choyce Established in Noosa in 1978, Laguna has grown into a four-office network servicing communities from Noosa to Gympie. As a
proudly independent agency, its success is particularly significant in an industry dominated by large franchise groups. The nominations recognise Laguna’s overall business performance, multi-office strength and continued growth of its Gympie office, alongside the individual contributions of Kellie Drinnan and Penny Choyce. Principal Olivier Miller said the achievement reflected the dedication of the entire team. “I am incredibly proud of our team. To be recognised across five categories reflects the commitment, performance and dedication our people bring to our clients every day.” Since 2002, Laguna and its people have received 72 major industry recognitions, including winning REIQ Large Residential Agency of
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For now, being named among Queensland’s best across five categories is already something worth celebrating.
Hinternoosa recognised in REIQ awards Hinternoosa Principal and Director Sirah Robb said the five finalist places reflected a commitment shared across the team. “Heather, Dannielle and Ruth do very different work, and each brings genuine care to the people who rely on them. It is wonderful to see their individual contributions recognised,” Sirah said. “The two agency finalist places belong to our whole team. They reflect the work people do every day to support our clients, support one another and contribute to the community we call home.” The individual nominations tell distinct stories. Heather’s work helps clients and agents navigate the detail involved in bringing properties to market. Dannielle builds lasting relationships
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Hinternoosa has been named a finalist in five categories of the 2026 REIQ Awards for Excellence, with recognition spanning residential sales, property management, agency support and contribution to the community. The finalists are: •Heather Fleming - Agency Support Person of the Year •Dannielle Preston - Business Development Manager of the Year •Ruth Venning - Rising Star Salesperson of the Year •Hinternoosa - Large Residential Agency of the Year •Hinternoosa - Contribution to the Community Award
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with property owners and has helped grow Hinternoosa’s property management business. Ruth has developed her sales career through local knowledge, collaboration and close connections within the Verrierdale community. The Contribution to the Community finalist place is especially meaningful for an agency with longstanding ties to the Noosa Hinterland. Hinternoosa supports local initiatives including Cooroy Sconetime, Noosa Open Studios and Noosa Ultra Trail, alongside other community organisations and events. “Recognition like this gives us a chance to thank the people behind the work: our team, the clients who place their trust in us and the community groups who welcome our involvement,”
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Breast health information Noosa Radiology will host a free public information session on breast health on Wednesday, 21 October at 5:30pm, bringing together three of the region’s leading breast specialists to help local women better understand breast cancer risk, screening and care. The session will feature Dr Lisa Hammerton, a Breast Physician with a background in breast health and preventative care, Dr Drew McMenamin, one of the Queensland’s most experienced subspecialist trained Radiologists in Breast Imaging and Dr Felicity Adams, a breast surgeon with extensive experience in the diagnosis, treatment and surgical management of breast cancer. Together, the three specialists will speak on a range of topics relevant to women of all ages, including individual breast cancer risk factors, the role of personalised risk and breast density in screening, the different types imaging available, and the latest approaches to breast cancer treatment. The event reflects Noosa Radiology's ongoing commitment to accessible, personalised breast care in the community — including its recently launched Same Day Breast Imaging, Consultation and Biopsy service, which allows patients to receive imaging, specialist consultation and, if required, biopsy in a single visit. Organisers say the session is designed to empower women with clear, practical information so they can make informed decisions about their own breast health, regardless of age or family history. The information session will be held at Noosa Radiology on Wednesday, 21 October at 5:30pm, and is free to attend. Places are limited, with attendees asked to register by scanning the QR code included in event promotional materials. 577674 01
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In the 1980’s the establishment of the Marsden/ Browns Plains Road Industrial Development was on 500 acres set aside for future Educational land and environmentally sensitive site: with five heads of water sources within its boundaries. In this case the community finally forced the Logan City Council to reconsider the flora (and fauna ) of the area when SGAP members found three new species within one small site and this contributed to a 40m environmental zone around the site; only native plants to that region to be planted and constrained the Industrial Industry to ‘light’ with only a few ‘medium’ - those non polluting to the surrounding environments. Friends who lived in the accompanying residential area utilised this area for keeping fit and walking their dog/s. Worth checking out! Lorraine M. Bird, Noosa Ive just read the Noosa Today story titled Dont be a tosser, page 15.
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A practical solution, of re-introducing Council Naturestrip hard rubbish pick up along with reducing Tip fees would surely be very welcomed by many. I’ve often heard residents speak of the expensive fees charged at the local Tip. And also the fact that the once annual hard rubbish collection has never been resumed since Covid, which was the excuse to stop that program. I agree that not all waste thats found on the roads is hard rubbish, so we need to be able to report people witnessed for littering. Tougher fines need to apply. But! Council, bring back annual Kerb collection of hard rubbish. Jenys Finlay, Tewantin Coalition position Was the Opposition’s mission to oppose the position of net zero emission to be the placation of the old vexatious faction and to gain traction and completion of the ruction; or a pious genuflection to the direction of One Nation? Please Explain. Margaret Wilkie, Peregian Beach.
Celebrating Footy, Confronting Violence Australia does sport better than almost anywhere on earth. The AFL and NRL Grand Finals aren’t just games — they’re part of our national rhythm. Streets hum with excitement, kids pull on team colours, and families gather for what feels like a cultural holiday. It’s one of our proudest traditions. But alongside the cheers and barbecues, another story unfolds — quieter, darker, and far more confronting. While fans decorate their cars and plan parties, domestic violence workers prepare for a surge in calls. They strengthen safety plans, ready emergency accommodation, and brace for what they know is coming. Because in Australia, football finals can bring out the best in us — and the most insidious. For many women, the final siren doesn’t signal celebration — it signals danger. Domestic violence calls spike sharply around major sporting events. On State of Origin nights, assaults rise by 40 per cent. After the NRL Grand Final, NSW sees a 25 per cent jump in reports. These aren’t statistics; they’re families spending the biggest sporting weekends of the year in fear. Sport doesn’t cause domestic violence. But alcohol, gambling, heightened emotion and aggressive behaviour can escalate existing patterns of abuse. We’ve seen it recently: bottles thrown at referees, crowds hurling abuse, anger broadcast into living rooms. When aggression is normalised in public, it becomes easier to excuse in private. All this comes during a national crisis. Fifty two women have been killed this year. Police are called to domestic violence incidents every three minutes in NSW, every eleven minutes in Victoria. Queensland records the highest rates in the nation. Services are on high alert — not for the game, but for the aftermath. Men must be part of the solution. Football doesn’t make a man violent — he makes that choice. And he can make a different one. If you see aggression escalating, speak up. Silence is part of the problem. Australia loves its footy. But our families deserve to feel safe too. We can celebrate our sporting traditions proudly — and still insist on respect, accountability and safety in every home. Garry Reynolds, Peregian Springs
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Celebrating Seniors Month 2026
Good vision supports an independent life As people get older, good vision becomes increasingly important to everyday independence — whether driving, reading, travelling, enjoying the outdoors or simply recognising a familiar face across the room. Changes in eye health, however, are not always obvious. Conditions including cataract, glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration can develop gradually, making regular eye examinations an important part of maintaining eye health as people age. At Noosa Optical, examinations are designed to allow time to understand each patient’s visual needs, discuss any changes they may have noticed and carefully assess their eye health using advanced diagnostic technology. Continuity of care is also important. Owner and principal optometrist Catherine Tromp, who has led the practice since 2007, values the opportunity to know her patients over time. Previous findings can then be considered alongside current results, lifestyle needs and any changes in vision. When glasses are required, the same attention extends beyond the prescription. Appropriate lens selection, careful fitting and wellmade frames can all contribute to comfortable,
Catherine Tromp, owner and principal optometrist at Noosa Optical. (Supplied) effective everyday vision. Noosa Optical has cared for the local community since 1989 and is Noosa’s only
100% locally owned and operated optometrist. For the practice, the emphasis remains on
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Life is for living - at any age There is something special about growing older in a community like Noosa. With its beautiful surroundings, vibrant social life and wealth of local services and activities, there are countless ways to stay active, connected and enjoying life. Queensland Seniors Month 2026 is a celebration of older Queenslanders and the many contributions they make to their families, workplaces and communities. It is also an invitation to get out, try something new, connect with others and make the most of the opportunities available at every stage of life. For many, enjoying the years ahead starts with looking after your health and wellbeing. Regular check-ups, staying active, eating well and getting a good night’s sleep can all play a part in maintaining the energy to enjoy the things that matter. Noosa Optical is helping locals look after their eye health, while Pin & Tonic focuses on wellbeing and feeling your best. And when it comes to something we all need, The Mattress Company can help make quality sleep a priority. Keeping the body moving is equally important, whether that means returning to a favourite activity, improving mobility or simply making everyday movement easier. Cooroy Physio & Wellness Clinic supports the local community with physiotherapy and wellness services designed to help people stay active and doing the
things they love. Of course, wellbeing isn’t just about physical health. Staying socially connected, having a sense of purpose and being involved in the community can be just as important. Noosa Council’s Noosa Seniors provides opportunities, information and connections for older residents across the region. And then there is the fun. Cooroy RSL offers a place to catch up with friends, enjoy a meal or take part in community life, while Girls on Tour brings together the simple pleasures of friendship, travel and discovering somewhere new. For those who love the freedom of getting behind the wheel, TrueCover Car Insurance is also part of this month’s Seniors Month feature, recognising that staying mobile can help make it easier to enjoy everything the Noosa region has to offer. Whether it is a morning coffee with friends, a new hobby, a day trip, keeping fit, travelling somewhere you’ve never been or simply enjoying more time with family, there is no shortage of ways to make the most of life. This Seniors Month, take the opportunity to get out, get involved and perhaps try something you’ve always wanted to do. Because getting older doesn’t mean slowing down – it can mean having more time to enjoy the journey.
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Celebrate Seniors Month This October, Noosa Seniors celebrates Queensland Seniors Month with a special intergenerational approach, welcoming students from Good Shepherd Lutheran College to join older residents, families and the wider community for a day of connection, conversation and fun. Held on Friday 30 October from 10am–1pm at Noosa Seniors, 11 Wallace Drive, Noosaville, the free community event will bring local services, support organisations and community groups together in the one place. Older residents, their families and carers can meet local support services face-to-face, ask questions and discover programs and opportunities that support healthy, active, inde-
pendent and connected ageing. There will also be plenty to enjoy, with live music, morning tea, sausage sizzle, and lucky door prizes, alongside fun intergenerational activities bringing younger and older members of our community together. The Noosa Seniors team will showcase the centre’s social activities, outings, wellbeing programs, information sessions and volunteering opportunities. Noosa Seniors Coordinator Maria Sloane said the Expo was about making information accessible while creating an enjoyable community event. “We want people to feel connected in
their community. By hosting the expo seniors and their families can have a chat, ask questions, and discover support services and activities they didn’t know existed,” Maria said. Noosa Seniors Expo, a free community
event is on Friday 30 October 2026, 10am– 1pm at Noosa Seniors, 11 Wallace Drive, Noosaville. The event is funded by the Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety, Queensland Government.
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Cooroy clinic support Since opening earlier this year, Cooroy Physio & Wellness Clinic has been providing residents across Cooroy, Noosa and the surrounding hinterland with convenient access to physiotherapy, rehabilitation and exercise-based care. Located at 2/42 Maple Street, Cooroy, the locally owned clinic is OPEN WEEKENDS, providing greater flexibility for patients who find it difficult to attend appointments during the working week. Owner and Practice Manager Lisa Talbot, a long-time Cooroy local with extensive expe-
rience in healthcare administration and practice management, established the clinic after recognising the growing demand for accessible physiotherapy services across the region. “As our local communities continue to grow, we want people throughout Cooroy, Noosa and the hinterland to have access to quality physiotherapy close to home,” Lisa said. “Our focus is on professional, evidence-based care in a friendly and welcoming environment, with appointment options that
fit around busy lives – including weekends.” Physiotherapists Mitchell Wingrove and Daniel McAlpine treat a wide range of conditions, including neck and back pain, sporting injuries, headaches, joint and muscle conditions, post-surgical rehabilitation and chronic pain. Treatment is tailored to each patient and can include hands-on physiotherapy, exercise rehabilitation and one-on-one Reformer Pilates. With demand continuing to grow, the clinic is expanding its team, allowing for greater
appointment availability and an expanding range of services for the community. The clinic features a dedicated rehabilitation and exercise space and welcomes private patients, as well as DVA, NDIS, WorkCover Queensland and eligible Medicare Chronic Condition Management Plan referrals. New patients are welcome, with weekday and weekend appointments available. Visit cooroyphysio.com.au or call 07 5309 1155.
A car insurance provider that’s putting seniors first For many seniors, the car remains central to everyday life —getting to the shops, visiting family and friends, or simply enjoying the freedom of the open road. Yet choosing car insurance can be complicated. Premiums vary considerably, policies differ in what they cover, and features important to older drivers aren’t always standard. This is why a growing number of seniors are looking more closely at insurance designed specifically with their needs in mind. Australian-owned TrueCover was established with a simple proposition: car insurance designed for seniors, by seniors. Its policies include features such as 24/7 nationwide roadside assistance, ambulance cover, agreed value and no maximum driver age. TrueCover’s business model is focused on providing value to seniors, rather than paying dividends to shareholders. Customers who switched between 1/7/2024 and 28/2/2025 reported an average saving of $343 (company figures), although
individual circumstances and premiums will vary. Many seniors are also finding it harder to get the kind of personal service they expect. TrueCover operates an Australian-based customer service team, meaning customers can speak directly with someone when they have a question about their policy or need assistance. Insurance is about more than price. It is about understanding what you are paying for and knowing what support is available when something goes wrong. For seniors reviewing their car insurance, taking the time to compare both price and cover could be worthwhile. Call TrueCover on 1300 800 900 or visit truecover.com.au (Any advice provided is general only and has been prepared without considering your particular needs, objectives or financial situation. You should read the Product Disclosure Statement and Target Market Determination at truecover.com.au to help decide if the product is right for you.)
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Girls go on tour Both Machu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands are widely considered ultimate global bucket list items. Travellers frequently combine both iconic South American destinations into a single grand itinerary to experience ancient human history alongside pristine natural wildlife. In 2027 Girls On Tour will travel again to these incredible destinations, will you join us? This spectacular adventure will begin when we depart Australia for Lima, Peru for two nights before travelling first to Cusco and then on to The Sacred Valley of the Incas to visit the ancient city of Machu Picchu, a highlight and bucket list item for many. Some of the other cities and sites visited will include Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman, Cusco, Pisac, Maras,
Moray, Quito (Ecuador), The Equator, Cotopaxi National Park and Guayaquil. When our Peru and Ecuador adventure comes to an end, our four day Galapagos Adventure begins!! We will fly from Quito to San Cristobal in the Galapagos Islands where we will meet our naturalist guide and transfer to our private charter trimaran, Horizon* for the start of our journey into the Galapagos with its most wonderful wildlife. Girls On Tour travellers recently returned from an epic 7,034km rail journey from Malaysia to Mongolia which included The Great Wall, The Terracotta Warriors and the steppes of Mongolia to name a few of the highlights. This is what one of the ladies, Robin, on this tour had to say “Wow! What an incredible se-
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ries of adventures we’ve had as we travelled by train through Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, China to Mongolia. Each country has its special places, customs and food but in all we met many friendly, kind people who were interested in who we are and where we’re from. Our guides in each city were knowledgeable, the hotels were comfortable and our small group of ladies were great travelling companions. The tour ran like clockwork under Judy’s guidance; her meticulous planning and attention to detail ensured that we made all connections without fuss. And best of all, we had so much fun and made wonderful memories!” For more details contact Judy on 0409 057 417 or email info@girlsontour.com.au
Seniors Month is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the people who have helped shape our community and, just as importantly, to recognise the value of staying connected, active and involved. At Cooroy RSL, being part of the community is at the heart of what we do. More than simply a place to enjoy a meal or a drink, the Club is a community hub where friends meet, new friendships are formed and there is always something happening. Whether it’s catching up over lunch, enjoying live entertainment, joining in one of our regular activities or simply stopping by for a coffee and a chat, Cooroy RSL provides a welcoming place to connect and enjoy good company. We also know that value matters. Our $18 seniors meals offer an affordable way to enjoy a delicious meal out without stretching the budget – perfect for a regular catch-up with friends or an excuse to leave the cooking at home for the day. Throughout the year, there is plenty happening at the Club, with live entertainment, raffles, social activities, great food and special events providing lots of reasons to come together. One of the special events coming up is Pink Up Cooroy raising vital funds for the McGrath Foundation on Friday 23 October. Bookings essential at reception. This Seniors Month, we encourage everyone to celebrate the importance of connection and community. Catch up with an old friend, make plans with family, try something new or simply enjoy being out and about. At Cooroy RSL, we love seeing familiar faces walk through the door and welcoming new ones. We hope to see you soon!
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Set in 1920s Italy, this lavish period drama follows the fortunes of Bella Ainsworth (Natascha McElhone), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist who has set up a British hotel on the Italian Riviera. Bella’s highsociety English clientele brings no shortage of romantic intrigue, societal scandal and rich subplots filled with mystery – imagine The White Lotus meets Downton Abbey, with a dash of political turmoil thrown in for good measure. In Friday’s premiere, marriageminded mother Julia DrummondWard (Lucy Akhurst) arrives in Portofino for the summer, hoping to arrange a match between her daughter Rose (Aussie actress Claude Scott-Mitchell, pictured) and Bella’s son Lucian (Oliver Dench). Finding the facts: Twelve ordinary Australians must come to a decision in The Jury: Skeleton in the Garden.
Re-enacting a real manslaughter trial word-for-word, this groundbreaking social experiment casts everyday unscripted Australians as its jurors. This second season is another dive into the chasm that can exist between justice and truth. The case this time? The death of a woman whose remains were unearthed in a suburban backyard a decade after she vanished. The crown alleges she was killed by the property owner, a man who had been a friend of the victim and her husband. A maze of alcoholism, coercive control and circumstantial evidence lies ahead as the jurors attempt to put aside their own personal prejudices and decide what really happened – based strictly on the facts at hand.
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The Block judges Shaynna Blaze and Darren Palmer (both pictured) put their money where their mouths are in this new renovation challenge that sees the interior designers give their own spin to a dilapidated property bought for just one Euro. Located in the historic Italian village of Castronovo, the abandoned property Blaze and Palmer bought sight unseen is on the verge of falling apart when they arrive in Tuesday’s premiere. With the help of a local builder, the pair begin transforming a dated bedroom into a chic retreat – getting hands-on with demo, plastering and painting along the way. While undertaking the epic project, they find a little time to soak up the Sicilian culture before their first “room reveal”. From bargain hunting at local antique markets to sourcing fabrics in Palermo, it’s a charming slice of la dolce vita.
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SEVEN (7)
NINE (8, 9)
TEN (5, 1)
6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 News. 10.00 Amanda & Alan’s Italian Job. (R) 10.30 Take 5. (Ml, R) 11.00 Austin. (PG, R) 12.00 News. 1.00 Portrait Artist Of The Year. (R) 1.45 The Cage. (Ml, R) 2.35 Poh’s Kitchen. (R) 3.00 Murdoch Mysteries. (PG, R) 3.45 Grand Designs Transformations. (PG, R) 4.45 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. (PG, R)
6am Morning Programs. 10.10 Prince’s Master Crafters Next Generation. (PG, R) 11.05 Canal Boat Diaries. (PG) 12.00 WorldWatch. 1.55 The Truth About Anxiety With Celia Pacquola. (Mad, R) 3.00 Nula. 3.35 The Cook Up. (PG, R) 4.05 Structures Of Marvel: Medieval Paris. (R) 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)
6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 Seven’s National News At Noon. 1.00 MOVIE: Farmer Seeking Love. (2022, PGa) Donna Benedicto, Tanya Clarke. 3.00 The Chase. (R) 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.
6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 The Block. (PGl, R) 1.15 Destination WA. (Final, R) 1.45 My Way. (R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30 Tipping Point Australia. (PG, R) 5.30 WIN News.
6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R) 6.30 Bold. (PG, R) 7.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R) 7.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 8.00 Lingo. (R) 9.00 The Finish Line. (R) 10.00 Farm To Fork. (R) 10.30 Ent. Tonight. (R) 11.00 Building The Dream. (R) 12.00 Everyday Gourmet. 12.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG, R) 1.00 News. 2.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R) 2.30 The Finish Line. (R) 3.30 Lingo. (R) 4.30 Bold. (PG) 5.00 News.
6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Gardening Australia. 8.20 Death Valley. (PGa) John and Janie investigate an actor’s murder. 9.05 Portrait Artist Of The Year. (R) Six artists paint portraits of Marcia Hines. 9.50 Class Clowns. (PGs, R) Australian comedians compete for the Class Clowns Cup. 10.25 ABC Late News. 10.40 Crime Night! (PG, R) 11.15 Murdoch Mysteries. (Mv, R) 12.00 Rage New Music. (MA15+adhlnsv) 5.00 Rage. (PG)
6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Hotel Portofino. (Premiere) 8.35 WWII With Tom Hanks. (Maw) The US makes plans to end the conflict with Japan. 10.15 SBS World News Late. 10.45 Spy/Master. (Mav) 11.40 Darkness: Those Who Kill. (MA15+a, R) 1.30 Wisting. (Malv, R) 3.10 Sing To Remember: Defying Dementia. (PG, R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.
6.00 Seven Local News. 6.30 Seven News. 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. Hosted by Johanna Griggs. 8.30 MOVIE: Oppenheimer. (2023, MA15+s) The life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose landmark work on the Manhattan Project created the first atomic bomb. Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr. 12.30 GetOn Extra. 1.00 The Midwich Cuckoos. (MA15+av) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Million Dollar Minute. (R) 5.00 NBC Today.
6.00 9News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Chateau DIY: Australia. (Premiere) 8.30 MOVIE: The Accountant. (2016, MA15+alv, R) A maths genius works as an accountant for criminals. Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons. 11.00 See No Evil: The Wrong Woman. (MA15+av, R) 11.50 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 12.40 Pointless. (PG, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.30 Global Shop. (R) 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Postcards. (PG, R)
6.30 Deal Or No Deal. (R) 7.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG, R) Hosted by Rebecca Gibney. 7.30 Love It Or List It Australia. (R) An inner-city beach bungalow is in need of more space. 8.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (Malns, R) Celebrity panellists compete to see who can remember the most about events of the week. 9.30 10’s Late News. Comprehensive coverage of local, national and international news, as well as the latest sport and weather. 10.30 Two And A Half Men. (Ms, R) 12.00 Home Shopping. (R)
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7TWO (72)
9GEM (81, 92)
10 COMEDY (52, 11)
6am Children’s Programs. 8.45 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures. 9.00 Play School. 10.25 BeddyByes. 11.15 Gardening Australia Junior. 11.40 Iron Man And His Awesome Friends. 12.55pm Talking Tom Heroes. 1.20 PJ Masks Power Heroes. 1.50 Kangaroo Beach. 2.30 Monster Makes. 2.45 Gardening Australia Junior. 3.00 Play School. 4.05 Andy’s Global Adventures. 4.30 SuperKitties. 5.25 Octonauts. 5.50 Super Monsters. 6.05 Spidey And His Amazing Friends. 7.05 Gardening Australia Junior. 7.35 TBA. 9.35 BattleBots. 10.20 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 10.00 France 24 English News. 10.30 Small Business Secrets. 11.05 Icons Unearthed: Harry Potter. Noon DW The Day. 12.30 Hudson & Rex. 2.20 Forged In Fire. 3.05 Stories From The Cities. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.40 Inside The Huddle. 6.10 Over The Black Dot. 6.40 Jeopardy! 7.35 Celebrity Jeopardy. 8.30 Original Gangsters With Sean Bean. (Final) 9.25 The Naked World. 10.20 Sex Actually. 11.15 The Americans. 12.15am Brassic. 1.10 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera News Hour.
6am Morning Programs. 7.30 Million Dollar Minute. 8.30 Gatecrashers. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Escape To The Country. 2.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. 2.30 Weekender. 3.00 The Outdoor Room. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Medical Emergency. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 The Americas. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 11.30 Bargain Hunt. 12.30am Escape To The Country. 1.30 Our Town. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Medical Emergency. 3.00 Better Homes. 5.00 Our Town.
6am Morning Programs. 7.30 Thunderbirds. 8.00 TV Shop. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon The Travelling Auctioneers. 1.05 MOVIE: Summer Holiday. (1963) 3.20 MOVIE: It’s All Happening. (1963) 5.30 Yorkshire Auction House. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 TBA. 8.30 MOVIE: Beaches. (1988, M) 11.00 Forensics: Catching The Killer. Midnight Antiques Downunder. 12.30 Antiques Roadshow. 1.00 Creflo. 1.30 MOVIE: It’s All Happening. (1963) 3.30 My Favorite Martian. 4.00 Seaway. 5.00 Yorkshire Auction House.
6am Shopping. 7.30 MasterChef Aust. 8.30 Ent. Tonight. 9.00 GCBC. 9.30 Farm To Fork. 10.00 Bold. 10.30 Deal Or No Deal. 11.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. 11.30 Shaun Micallef’s Parents’ Evening. 12.30pm Becker. 1.00 Friends. 3.00 Frasier. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet. 4.30 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 8.00 Two And A Half Men. (Ms, R) 9.30 Becker. (PG, R) 10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Ridiculousness. 11.30 Ent. Tonight. Midnight Shopping. 2.30 Bold. 3.30 Shopping. 5.30 Joseph Prince.
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SBS WORLD MOVIES (32)
7MATE (74)
9GO! (82, 93)
10 DRAMA (53, 12)
6am Morning Programs. 11.00 Going Places. Noon Sunny And The Dark Horse. 1.30 Stompem Ground 2022: Yatangal. 2.00 Kriol Kitchen. 2.30 The Cook Up. 3.00 Jarjums. 5.00 Ocean Warriors. 5.30 Nula. 6.00 Bamay. 6.40 Great Parks Of Africa. 7.30 MOVIE: Watership Down. (1978, PG) 9.20 MOVIE: Mars Attacks! (1996, M) 11.15 Nula. 11.45 Turn Up Respect. Midnight Going Places. 1.00 Amplify. 2.00 Barunga Festival. 3.00 NITV On The Road: Women Of Barunga. 4.00 NITV On The Road: Barunga Bush Bands. 5.00 Bamay. 5.30 Late Programs.
6am The Movie Show. 6.30 Paris Can Wait. (2016, PG) 8.10 The Majestic. (2001, PGal) 10.55 Afire. (2023, Mals, German) 12.50pm The Hudsucker Proxy. (1994, Ma) 2.55 Wings Of Desire. (1987, PGaln, German) 5.15 Agatha Christie’s Crooked House. (2017, PGals) 7.25 Starring Dick Van Dyke. 9.30 The Teachers’ Lounge. (2023, Malv, German, Polish, Turkish, English) 11.20 My Own Private Idaho. (1991, Madlns) 1.15am The Legend Of Fong Sai-Yuk 2. (1993, Mav, Cantonese, Mandarin) 3.05 The Queen. (2006, Ml) 5.00 Viceroy’s House. (2017, PGa)
6am Morning Programs. 9.00 NFL Tailgate. 10.00 NFL. Cleveland Browns v Pittsburgh Steelers. 1.30pm Pawn Stars. 2.00 American Pickers: Best Of. 3.00 Timbersports. 3.30 Air Crash Inv. 4.30 American Resto. 5.00 Storage Wars. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Richmond v Geelong. 9.15 MOVIE: 2 Guns. (2013, MA15+) 11.30 Outback Pilots. 12.30am Storage Wars. 1.00 Tougher In Alaska. 2.00 American Resto. 2.30 Sound FX: Best Of. 3.00 NFL. San Francisco 49ers v Arizona Cardinals. Replay.
6am Morning Programs. 8.30 Baywatch. 9.30 Addams Family. 10.30 Bewitched. 11.30 World’s Greatest Islands. 12.30pm MOVIE: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. (2012, PG) 2.30 Baywatch. 3.30 Seinfeld. 4.40 Addams Family. 5.40 MOVIE: Uptown Girls. (2003, PG) 7.30 MOVIE: Freaky Friday. (2003, PG) 9.30 MOVIE: A Cinderella Story. (2004, PG) 11.30 Top 20 Funniest. 12.25am Babies Behind Bars. 1.15 Love Island UK: All Stars. 2.15 Legacies. 3.05 Parental Guidance. 4.50 Lego City: No Limits. 5.10 Wild Manes. 5.30 Beyblade Burst: Quad Drive.
6am Shopping. 8.00 Days Of Our Lives. 8.45 The Young And The Restless. 9.30 Living Room. 10.30 Building The Dream. 11.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. Noon Days Of Our Lives. 12.45 The Young And The Restless. 1.30 JAG. (PGa, R) 3.30 Bull. (PGlmv, R) 4.30 JAG. (PGal, R) 6.30 Bull. (PGv, R) 7.30 NCIS. (M, R) 10.20 Bull. (PGv, R) 11.15 JAG. (PGadv, R) 1.15am Home Shopping.
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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SEVEN (7)
NINE (8, 9)
TEN (5, 1)
6am Morning Programs. 10.30 Rage Vault Guest Programmer. (PG) 12.00 News. 12.30 Beyond Paradise Christmas Special. (PGd, R) 1.25 Father Brown. (PGv, R) 2.10 Death Valley. (PGa, R) 2.55 Griff’s Great Australian Rail Trip. (PG, R) 3.45 Take 5. (PG, R) 4.10 The Tony Blair Story. (PG, R) 5.05 Aust Story. (R) 5.35 Landline. (R)
6am Morning Programs. 10.00 Unwheel Adventures. (PGal, R) 11.05 Icons Of Auto. (Premiere, PG) 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 Sailing. Sail Grand Prix. H’lights. 3.00 Gymnastics. Artistic World Challenge Cup. H’lights. 4.30 Churchill’s Forgotten War. (PGa, R) 5.25 Empire Builders: The Rust Belt. (Premiere, PGav)
6.00 NBC Today. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG) 12.00 Horse Racing. Epsom Day and Turnbull Stakes Day. 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Creek To Coast.
6am Morning Programs. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. (PG) 12.00 Rugby League. Women’s Exhibition Match. Papua New Guinea Orchids v Prime Minister’s XIII. 2.00 Rugby League. Men’s Exhibition Match. Papua New Guinea Kumuls v Prime Minister’s XIII. 4.00 Drive Review. (PG) 4.30 Garden Gurus. 5.00 News. 5.30 Getaway. (PG)
6am Morning Programs. 10.30 What’s Up Down Under. (PG) 11.30 Deal Or No Deal. (PG, R) 12.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG, R) 12.30 Shaun Micallef’s Parents’ Evening. (PGl, R) 1.30 Sydney Harbour Cops. (PGa, R) 2.30 Love It Or List It: Brilliant Builds. (PG, R) 3.30 Food Trail: South Africa. (Return) 4.00 Lingo. (R) 5.00 News.
6.05 Kath & Kim. (PGals, R) 6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) Presented by Tom Gleeson. 7.00 ABC News. A look at the top stories of the day. 7.30 Beyond Paradise. (Return, PGa) A body is found in the river on the county border. 8.30 Father Brown. (Final, PGv) As Mrs Devine and Sullivan’s wedding approaches, Father Brown attempts to stop a would-be killer from ruining their big day. 9.15 Midsomer Murders. (Mv, R) Barnaby and Nelson investigate when an unpopular local stable owner dies under suspicious circumstances. 10.45 Doc Martin Christmas Special. (M, R) 11.55 Rage. (MA15+dhlnsv)
6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Jewels Of The Mediterranean: Crete. (PGaw) 8.20 The Langham: Britain’s First Grand Hotel. (Premiere) A look inside London’s luxurious Langham Hotel. 9.20 Sagrada Familia: Gaudi’s Challenge. (R) A look at Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia. 10.20 Cumbria: The Lakes & The Coast. (Ml, R) 11.15 Signed, Theo Schoon. (PG, R) 1.05 And Then Came The Water. (R) 2.00 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. (PG, R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.15 Euronews. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.
6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R) A drug detector dog makes an amazing find. 7.30 MOVIE: Pitch Perfect. (2012, Mls, R) A university freshman is coaxed into joining an all-girl a cappella group. Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Rebel Wilson. 9.50 MOVIE: The Invention Of Lying. (2009, Mls, R) A screenwriter learns how to lie. Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner. 12.00 The Midwich Cuckoos. (MA15+av) After more bloodshed, the children plan to leave. 1.30 Harry’s Practice. (R) 3.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 It’s Academic. (R) 5.00 House Of Wellness. (PG, R)
6.00 9News Saturday. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 MOVIE: Bohemian Rhapsody. (2018, Ml, R) Charts the life of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the popular rock band Queen. Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee. 10.15 Freddie Mercury: A Secret Daughter. (Mans, R) A look at a secret child of Freddie Mercury. 11.45 Wild Cards. (Mav, R) Max and Ellis go undercover in a reality show. 12.35 Find My Country House Australia. (R) 1.00 Next Stop. (R) 1.30 The Garden Gurus. (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Global Shop. (R) 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Helping Hands. (PGa, R)
6.30 Gogglebox Australia. (R) Opinionated viewers discuss TV shows. 7.30 Selling Houses Australia. (PG) Two brothers must sell their late father’s property. 8.40 Love It Or List It Australia. (PGl, R) Megan and Justin are on the hunt for a home that suits their growing family of five. 9.40 Love It Or List It: Brilliant Builds. (PG) Kirstie and Phil look back on two clever loft conversions, including a struggle for space in Walthamstow. 10.40 Ambulance Australia. (Maln, R) 11.40 FBI. (Madv, R) 12.40 Boston Blue. (Mav, R) 1.30 Watson. (Ma, R) 2.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Hour Of Power.
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7am SuperKitties. 6.40pm Bluey’s Big Play. 7.30 Teenage Boss: Next Level. (Final) 8.00 MOVIE: Spy Kids 3: Game Over. (2003, PG) 9.20 Merlin. 10.00 Fresh Off The Boat. 10.45 Young Sheldon. 11.00 Mr Bean: The Animated Series. 11.45 Pokémon: Ruby And Sapphire. 12.05am Operation Ouch! 12.35 We Baby Bears. 3.00 The Inbestigators. 3.20 Odd Squad. 4.10 Ariel. 4.35 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 10.00 France 24 English News. 10.30 Small Business Secrets. 11.05 The Mission. 12.05pm Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy. 1.10 Great Australian Concerts: Diesel. 2.20 If You Are The One. 3.30 WorldWatch. 5.30 Mastermind Aust. 6.00 7 Up. 6.35 14 Up. 7.35 21 Up. 9.30 28 Up. 12.10am Brassic. 3.00 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.
6am Morning Programs. Noon Escape To The Country. 1.00 House Calls To The Rescue. 2.00 Better Homes. 4.00 Escape To The Country. 5.00 Horse Racing. Epsom Day and Turnbull Stakes Day. 6.00 Dog Patrol. 6.30 Bondi Vet. 7.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Chateau. 9.30 Escape To The Country. 10.30 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys. 11.30 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 11.45 The Baron. 12.45pm MOVIE: Contraband Spain. (1955, PG) 2.30 MOVIE: Orders To Kill. (1958, PG) 4.45 MOVIE: Dunkirk. (1958, PG) 7.30 Rugby League. NRL. 2025 Grand Final. Melbourne Storm v Broncos. 9.35 MOVIE: Bad Boys. (1983, MA15+) 11.35 MOVIE: Cry, The Beloved Country. (1951, M) 1.40am The Baron. 2.40 Late Programs.
6am Shopping. 7.30 Deal Or No Deal. 8.30 Bold. 11.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 11.30 Becker. Noon Frasier. 1.00 Becker. (PG, R) 1.30 Frasier. (PGa, R) 2.30 Friends. (PG, R) 7.30 Two And A Half Men. (PGas, R) 11.00 Becker. (PG, R) 11.30 Frasier. 12.30am Home Shopping.
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6am Morning Programs. 11.40 MOVIE: The Unknown Country. (2022, PG) 1.10pm Nula. 1.40 Great Parks Of Africa. 2.30 Over The Black Dot. 3.00 S.O.G. The Book Of Ward. 5.00 Murder In Big Horn. 6.00 Bamay. 6.40 The Other Side. 7.30 Pro Bull Riding USA: World Team Series. 8.30 MOVIE: Let Me In. (2010, MA15+) 10.35 Lee Fields, Faithful Man. 12.05am Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 12.45pm The Queen. (2006, Ml) 2.40 A King In New York. (1957, PGa) 4.35 A United Kingdom. (2016, PGa) 6.40 Storm Boy. (2019, PG) 8.30 The Gentlemen. (2019, MA15+lv) 10.35 Private Desert. (2021, MA15+s, Portuguese) 12.50am La Maison. (2022, MA15+adnsv, German, English, French) 3.30 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 1pm Blokesworld. 1.30 Dipper’s Rigs. 2.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 3.00 Motor Racing. Night Thunder. WA Late Model Title. Replay. 4.00 Frozen Gold. 5.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Brisbane v Gold Coast Suns. 7.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Pt Adel v Adelaide. 9.15 MOVIE: Ghost Rider. (2007, M) 11.30 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 1.45pm My Way. 2.00 NBL: Overtime. 3.10 Motor Racing. FIA World Endurance C’ship. 6 Hours of Fuji. H’lights. 4.20 Tennis. Laver Cup. H’lights. 5.30 Basketball. NBL. Brisbane Bullets v JackJumpers. 7.30 Basketball. NBL. Melbourne United v Cairns Taipans. 9.30 MOVIE: The Mask. (1994, PG) 11.30 Late Programs.
6am Shopping. 9.00 Reel Action. 9.30 Building The Dream. 12.30pm The Living Room. 2.30 JAG. 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 Bondi Rescue. (PGaln, R) 5.30 JAG. (PGl, R) 7.30 NCIS. (Mv, R) 10.20 JAG. (PGa, R) 12.15am Home Shopping.
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6am Morning Programs. 10.30 World This Week. (R) 11.00 Compass. (PGv, R) 11.30 Praise. (R) 12.00 News. 12.30 Landline. 1.30 Gardening Aust. (R) 2.20 Portrait Artist Of The Year. (R) 3.05 Grand Designs: House Of The Year. (R) 4.00 Creative Types. (PGl, R) 4.30 Amanda & Alan’s Italian Job. (R) 5.00 Take 5. (PGl, R) 5.30 Back Roads. (R)
6am Morning Programs. 7.30 France 24 English News. 8.00 DD India News Hour. 9.05 For The Love Of Dogs. (PGa, R) 9.35 Beyond The Scorecard. (PG) 11.05 Icons Of Auto. (PGa) 12.00 WorldWatch. 1.00 Speedweek. 3.00 Going Places. (R) 4.00 The Last Violin. (PGl, R) 5.25 Empire Builders: The Rust Belt. (PGv)
6.00 NBC Today. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 Bathurst Preview Show. 1.00 House Of Wellness. (PG, R) 2.00 Jabba’s Movies School Holiday Special. (PGav, R) 2.30 Air Crash Inv: Accident Files. (PGa, R) 3.30 Border Security: Int. (PG, R) 4.00 Better Homes. (R) 5.00 News. 5.30 Weekender.
6.00 Weekend Today. 9.00 Wide World Of Sports. (PG) 10.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show. (Final, PG) 12.00 Grand Final Day. 12.20 Rugby League. State Cup C’ship. Grand Final. 2.10 Grand Final Day. 3.00 Rugby League. NRL Women’s Premiership. Grand Final. 4.30 Grand Final Day. 5.00 9News Sunday. 5.30 Grand Final Night.
6am Morning Programs. 9.00 Mixed Martial Arts. UFC 332 Prelims. 11.00 Pooches At Play. (PG, R) 11.30 GCBC. (R) 12.00 Farm To Fork. (R) 12.30 Deal Or No Deal. (PG, R) 1.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG, R) 1.30 Exploring Off The Grid. (Return) 2.00 Gogglebox Aust. (R) 3.00 The Finish Line. (R) 4.00 Lingo. (R) 5.00 News.
6.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 7.00 ABC News. A look at the top stories of the day. 7.30 Portrait Artist Of The Year. (Final, PG) 8.20 Grand Designs: House Of The Year: Incredible Transformations. (Final) Kevin McCloud explores dramatic reinventions. 9.10 The Cage. (Final, M) The net closes in on Matty and Leanne. 9.55 Father Brown. (Final, PGv, R) 10.45 MOVIE: Cosi. (1996, Mal, R) Ben Mendelsohn. 12.20 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 2.30 Midsomer Murders. (Mv, R) 4.00 Antiques Roadshow. (PG, R) 5.00 Insiders. (R)
6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Roman Empire By Train With Alice Roberts. (PGa) 8.25 Ancient Superstructures: Neuschwanstein Castle. Takes a look at the castle Neuschwanstein. 9.25 Cleopatra: Cracking The Enigma. (PGa, R) 10.25 Royal Autopsy: King George IV – The Party King. (MA15+s, R) 11.20 Australia’s Health Revolution. (Ma, R) 2.40 Wales: Land Of The Wild. (R) 4.30 Bamay. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.15 Euronews. 5.30 PBS News Horizons.
6.00 Seven News. 7.00 The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. (PG) From Edinburgh, Scotland. 9.10 MOVIE: The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart. (2020, Ml, R) An exploration of the Bee Gees. Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb. 11.40 24 Hours In Police Custody: Too Close For Comfort. (Malv, R) 12.40 Pure Genius. (Ma, R) 1.35 Harry’s Practice. (R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 3.30 Million Dollar Minute. (R) 4.00 NBC Today. 5.00 Sunrise Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.
6.30 Rugby League. NRL. Grand Final. From Accor Stadium, Sydney. 8.30 NRL Grand Final Post-Match. The commentary team provides views, opinions, analysis and post-match interviews from the NRL Grand Final. 9.45 To Be Advised. 10.45 The First 48: Unforgotten – Darrin. (Ma) 11.45 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. (Mls, R) 12.45 Next Stop. (R) 1.15 Explore: Nova Scotia. (R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.30 Destination WA. (R) 5.00 Today Early News. 5.30 Today.
6.30 10 News+. 7.00 Gogglebox Australia. Opinionated viewers discuss TV shows. 8.00 The Graham Norton Show. (Return) Graham Norton chats with Tom Cruise, Florence Pugh, Lolly Adefope and John Bishop. 9.00 Shaun Micallef’s Parents’ Evening. (PGl, R) Comedy quiz show in which three well-known Australians team up with their lesser-known parent or child. 10.00 FBI. (Mav, R) The team investigates online conspiracy. 12.00 10 News+. (R) Hosted by Denham Hitchcock and Amelia Brace. 12.30 Home Shopping. (R)
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7am SuperKitties. 10.15 Bluey’s Big Play. 7.30pm MOVIE: Paddington In Peru. (2024, PG) 9.10 Animal Park. 9.55 Secrets Of The Zoo. 10.40 Merlin. 11.25 Young Sheldon. 11.50 Pokémon: Ruby And Sapphire. 12.10am Operation Ouch! 1.10 Miraculous. 2.35 Horrible Histories. 3.00 The Inbestigators. 3.25 Odd Squad. 3.40 Late Programs. 5.40 Thomas And Friends.
6am Morning Programs. 10.00 France 24 English News. 10.30 Small Business Secrets. 11.00 Letterkenny. 11.30 Motorcycle Racing. World Superbike C’ship. Italian Round. 12.30pm MOVIE: The Lost Boys. (1987, M) 2.20 MOVIE: The Goonies. (1985, PG) 4.35 WorldWatch. 6.00 35 Up. 8.10 42 Up. 10.45 49 Up. 1.25am NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera News Hour.
6am Morning Programs. Noon House Calls To The Rescue. 1.00 Harry’s Practice. 1.30 Medical Emergency. 2.00 A Moveable Feast. 2.40 The Yorkshire Vet. 3.40 My Greek Odyssey. 4.40 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys. 5.40 Escape To The Country. 6.40 Vicar Of Dibley. 8.30 Vera. 10.30 Genius: Picasso. 11.30 Vicar Of Dibley. 12.20am Harry’s Practice. 1.00 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 1pm MOVIE: The Blue Lamp. (1950, PG) 2.45 MOVIE: Red River. (1948) 5.30 Midsomer Murders. 7.30 Clarkson’s Farm. 8.35 Fawlty Towers. 9.55 Blackadder Goes Forth. 11.15 Cold Case. 12.15am Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. 1.10 Creflo. 1.40 Midsomer Murders. 3.40 MOVIE: Cairo Road. (1950, PG) 5.30 Late Programs.
6am Shopping. 7.30 Deal Or No Deal. 9.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. 11.30 Becker. Noon Frasier. 1.00 Becker. 1.30 Frasier. (PGa, R) 2.30 Friends. (PG, R) 7.30 Two And A Half Men. (Ms, R) 10.30 Becker. (PG, R) 11.00 Frasier. (PGa, R) Midnight Home Shopping.
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6am Morning Programs. 1.30pm Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 4.30 Sammy Butcher: Out Of The Shadows. 5.00 All Stars: More Than A Game. 5.35 Going Places. 6.00 Bamay. 6.40 Great Parks Of Africa. 7.30 Extraordinary Animals. 8.30 MOVIE: Backtrack Boys. (2018, MA15+) 10.25 MOVIE: Stand By Me. (1986, M) Midnight Going Places. 1.00 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 12.35pm My Own Private Idaho. (1991, Madlns) 2.30 Viceroy’s House. (2017, PGa) 4.30 Starring Dick Van Dyke. 6.35 The Wedding Planner. (2001, PGals) 8.30 Isle Of Dogs. (2018) 10.25 Michael Collins. (1996, MA15+v) 12.50am Hamburger Hill. (1987, MA15+lv) 2.55 The Gentlemen. (2019, MA15+lv) 5.00 Princess Caraboo. (1994, PGa)
6am Morning Programs. 2pm Red’s Fishing Adventures. 2.30 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 3.00 Air Crash Inv. 4.00 Frozen Gold. 5.00 Counting Cars. 6.00 Border Security: Int. 7.00 Border Security. 8.30 MOVIE: Jurassic World Dominion. (2022, M) 11.25 MOVIE: The Forever Purge. (2021, MA15+) 1.35am Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 11.15 Seinfeld. 11.45 Conquering Skin Cancer. 1.45pm MOVIE: The Cure. (1995, PG) 3.45 MOVIE: A Cinderella Story. (2004, PG) 5.45 MOVIE: Doctor Dolittle 2. (2001, PG) 7.30 TBA. Midnight Bel-Air. 12.55 Conquering Skin Cancer. 2.50 Animal Tales. 3.50 Surfing Aust. 4.20 Big Rigs Of Oz. 4.50 Wild Manes. 5.10 Bubble’s Hotel. 5.30 Late Programs.
6am Shopping. 7.30 Leading The Way. 8.00 All 4 Adventure. 9.00 Roads Less Travelled. 9.30 Navigating The World. 10.30 Building The Dream. 12.30pm What’s Up Down Under. 1.30 Roads Less Travelled. 2.00 Living Room. 3.00 JAG. 5.00 I Fish. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 NCIS. 10.20 Fire Country. 11.15 JAG. 1.15am Shopping. Friday, 2 October, 2026 NOOSA TODAY 21
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(l-r) Hannah Etchells (Noosa Council), Nicole Dray (Rural Fire Service) and Cheryl Thomson (Qld Parks and Wildlife) after a planned burn.
Disaster Dashboard and Noosa Alert Opt-In, sign up and make it one of your favourites! Remember, weather doesn’t plan, but you can Severe weather season has arrived, so it’s time to Get Ready. That means taking a few minutes to prepare your household for whatever may come our way and part of that is choosing to make Noosa’s very own Disaster Dashboard your number one source for information. On the dashboard, you’ll find
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a map of Noosa and realtime information about road conditions, power outages, emergency weather warnings, petrol station locations and water outages. It also maps planned prescribed burns and provides access to flood cameras across the shire. There’s a digital version of the
Noosa Emergency Action Guide, which is also available in hard copy as part of the Get Ready Noosa emergency info pack. These free packs include a household emergency information plan, a magnetised emergency number contact list, a Bushfire Safety Guide, First Aid tips and more. The packs can be collected at several Council venues and
from Council’s customer service counter at Tewantin. On the Disaster Dashboard you can also sign up for Noosa Alert, where you can choose to receive alerts via text message as severe weather events approach. To stay informed, go to Noosa’s Disaster Dashboard at disaster. noosa.qld.gov.au
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Get Ready Noosa event is coming In Brief Disaster Resilience Officer, Ian Williams, said the event is designed to connect residents with local emergency services and help them better understand the roles they play in keeping the community safe.
“While each emergency service has a distinct role during a disaster, we work closely together when it comes to community education and preparedness. Events like this give residents the chance to meet the agencies that support them and learn how we’re working together to keep our community safe.” It’s an extension of the Get Ready Schools and aged care programs already in place,” Ian said.
(l-r) Amanda Toohey, Natalie Meehan, Ian Williams and Jody Blimka are getting ready for 7 November.
It’s going to be a super Saturday on 7 November at Bunnings Noosaville. Complete with a sausage sizzle supporting Noosa SES, the event will bring together local emergency services and their specialist vehicles from 8am - 2pm, offering personalised advice to help residents prepare their families and properties
for the severe weather season ahead. Visitors can also watch demonstrations on how to pack and emergency evacuation kit. Whether you’re a longtime local or new to Noosa, experts will be on hand to help you with storm readiness, bushfire and heatwave preparedness. Our free Noosa Get Ready emergency information packs are available to everyone.
“Severe weather is a reality of living in Noosa. “That’s why Council’s Disaster and Fire Management teams will join Queensland Police, Queensland Fire Department (Rural Fire Service and Fire and Rescue), Noosa SES, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and Queensland Ambulance Service to share practical advice and help residents become more disaster resilient.”The Get Ready Qld team will also be joining us,” he said.
Our heroes in yellow and orange Seeing community spirit in action is at the heart of our Noosa SES groups and Rural Fire Service brigades. In times of trouble, these volunteers are ready to roll up their sleeves and give their time and energy to help our community. As our severe weather season arrives, both organisations are always looking for more volunteers to share the load. So contact SES or RFS to find out more.
Simtable Get Ready Schools program kicks off Our building aged Council and emergency services team up again in 2026 Local schools have returned for their final term for the year, and for many, some special guests will be visiting soon. Starting as a pilot program at two local schools in 2022, our Noosa Get Ready Schools’ program now engages with more than 2,500 students each year. The presentations to Year 5 students has a Minecraft theme and is highly interactive. It’s made by our Disaster Resilience team in collaboration with Noosa police, Rural Fire Service and Noosa SES with each student then taking home
a Noosa Get Ready emergency information pack to their parents and care givers. The items inside connect back to Noosa’s Disaster Dashboard via QR code and help local families become better equipped for disaster season.
tell them about this amazing program and ask them to contact our Get Ready Schools’ team on disaster@noosa.qld.gov.au so we can help make that happen.
care resilience Disaster resilience workshops involving Noosa’s Simtable continue to take place at local aged care facilities. The Simtable uses 3D hazard mapping technology and accompanies Council’s Disaster and Fire Management teams and Rural Fire Service in briefing residents and fire wardens at each facility.
No visit is complete without a tour of the response vehicles, showing students how emergency services communicate with each other when responding to a disaster.
It simulates how disasters like bushfire could impact them and how to prepare for the storm and bushfire season. To find out more or to register your interest, email disaster@noosa.qld.gov.au
Ask the admin team at your school if we’re visiting the Year 5 cohort at your school. If not, Has your school scheduled a visit with our team?
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6am Morning Programs. 10.45 Father Brown. (Final, PG, R) 11.30 Stuff The British Stole. (PG, R) 12.00 News. 1.00 Landline. (R) 2.00 Back Roads. (R) 2.30 Home Delivery. (PG, R) 3.00 Murdoch Mysteries. (PGad, R) 3.40 Grand Designs Transformations. (PG, R) 4.40 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R)
6am Morning Programs. 7.30 France 24 English News. 8.00 DD India News Hour. 9.15 For The Love Of Dogs. (PGa, R) 10.15 The Definition Of Happiness. (Mal) 12.05 WorldWatch. 2.00 Peace Wilderness Man. 2.45 The Cook Up. (R) 3.20 Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story. (PGansv, R) 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)
6.00 Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 Seven’s National News At Noon. 1.00 Beat The Chasers UK. (R) 2.00 Bridge Of Lies. (R) 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.
6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 MOVIE: Hashtag Proposal. (2023, PGa) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30 Tipping Point Australia. (PG) 5.30 WIN News.
6am Morning Programs. 7.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 8.00 Lingo. (R) 9.00 The Finish Line. (R) 10.00 Farm To Fork. (R) 10.30 Ent. Tonight. (R) 11.00 Gogglebox Aust. (R) 12.00 Everyday Gourmet. 12.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG, R) 1.00 News. 2.00 Deal Or No Deal. (PG, R) 2.30 The Finish Line. (R) 3.30 Lingo. (R) 4.30 Bold. (PG) 5.00 News.
6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Australian Story: Wild Pt 2 Chrissy Amphlett. 8.30 Four Corners. Investigative journalism program. 9.20 Media Watch. (PG) Presented by Linton Besser. 9.35 Planet America. 10.10 Foreign Correspondent. (R) 10.40 ABC Late News. 10.55 The Business. (R) 11.10 Murdoch Mysteries. (Mad, R) 12.00 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 12.45 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 2.40 Gardening Australia. (R) 3.40 Love Your Garden. (R) 4.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)
6.00 Mastermind Australia. (PG, R) 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 The Jury: Skeleton In The Garden: The Vanishing. (Return, Mal) 8.30 24 Hours In Emergency: Shelter From The Storm. (M) 9.25 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. (Mals, R) 10.15 SBS World News Late. 10.45 Black Sands. (MA15+av) 11.35 MOVIE: Chuparrosa. (2024, G, R, Spanish) 11.50 Soccer. FIFA ASEAN Cup. Third place playoff. 3.00 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.
6.00 Seven Local News. 6.30 Seven News. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 My Kitchen Rules. South Australia’s classy bogans Alisha and Deanne are keen to prove they can cook at their instant restaurant 9.05 The Rookie. (Mhv) The team works together after Nolan and Juarez discover a possible suicide that spirals into a conspiracy. 10.05 The Agenda Setters: Rugby League. (R) An expert panel tackles the biggest rugby league topics. 11.05 The Agenda Setters. 12.05 Transplant. (MA15+a, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 NBC Today. 5.00 Sunrise Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.
6.00 9News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 The Block. (PGl) Dan and Dani bring their baby to visit. 9.10 Australian Crime Stories: The Investigators: The Lost Girls. (Mav, R) A look at the disappearance of a mother and daughter. 10.10 9News Late. 10.40 Outback Opal Hunters. (PGl) 11.40 Footy Furnace Trade Show. (Premiere, Ml) 12.30 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.30 A Current Affair. (R) 5.00 Today Early News. 5.30 Today.
6.30 Deal Or No Deal. (PG) Hosted by Grant Denyer. 7.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG) Hosted by Rebecca Gibney. 7.30 Shaun Micallef’s Parents’ Evening. Comedy quiz show. 8.40 Have You Been Paying Attention? Celebrity panellists compete to see who can remember the most about events of the week. 9.40 MOVIE: Cop This. (2026, Mls) On the last day of operation a suburban police station is about to be replaced by an AI terminal. Nicolette Minster, Ray O’Leary, Firdi Billimoria. 11.20 10’s Late News. Coverage of news, sport and weather. 12.20 Two And A Half Men. (Ms, R) 1.00 Home Shopping. (R)
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6am Children’s Programs. 1.20pm PJ Masks Power Heroes. 2.30 Monster Makes. 3.00 Play School. 4.05 Gardening Australia Junior. 4.30 SuperKitties. 5.25 Octonauts. 5.50 Super Monsters. 6.05 Spidey And His Amazing Friends. 7.05 Batwheels. 7.35 Ninjago. 8.00 Young Sheldon. 8.25 Young Sheldon. 8.40 Secrets Of The Zoo. 9.25 Hard Quiz Kids. 9.55 Merlin. 10.40 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 10.00 France 24 English News. 10.30 Small Business Secrets. 11.00 Icons Unearthed: Harry Potter. 11.55 France 24 English News. 12.25pm Hudson & Rex. 2.10 Going Places. 3.10 WorldWatch. 5.05 Jeopardy! 6.00 56 Up. 8.50 63 Up. 11.35 The Americans. 12.30am Brassic. 2.15 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera News Hour.
6am Morning Programs. 11.30 The Outdoor Room. Noon Better Homes. 1.00 My Greek Odyssey. 2.00 Weekender. 2.30 Auction Squad. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Medical Emergency. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 A Touch Of Frost. 10.45 Escape To The Country. 11.45 Bargain Hunt. 12.45am Doc Martin. 1.45 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Yorkshire Auction House. 1.00 Fawlty Towers. 2.20 Blackadder Goes Forth. 3.40 MOVIE: Barnacle Bill. (1957) 5.30 Yorkshire Auction House. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Death In Paradise. 8.40 The Brokenwood Mysteries. 10.40 Rizzoli & Isles. 11.40 Death In Paradise. 12.40am Antiques Roadshow. 1.10 Creflo. 1.40 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 9.30 Farm To Fork. 10.00 Bold. 10.30 Deal Or No Deal. 11.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. 11.30 Ridiculousness. 12.30pm Becker. 1.00 Friends. 3.00 Frasier. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet. 4.30 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 8.00 Two And A Half Men. 9.30 Becker. 10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Ridiculousness. 11.30 Ent. Tonight. Midnight Shopping. 2.30 Bold. 3.30 Shopping.
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6am Morning Programs. 1.30pm Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 4.30 Bamay. 5.00 Ocean Warriors. 5.30 The 77 Percent. 6.00 Bamay. 6.40 Great Parks Of Africa. 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 8.35 Living Black. 9.05 The Haka Party Incident. 10.40 MOVIE: Powder. (1995, M) 12.40am Bamay. 1.00 The Boy, The Queen And Everything In Between. 1.25 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 12.10pm The Tunnel (Part 2) (2001, Malsv) 2.00 A United Kingdom. (2016, PGa) 4.05 Time Bandits. (1981, PGahv) 6.15 Trinity Is Still My Name. (1971, PGv) 8.30 Sukiyaki Western Django. (2007) 10.50 Dog Day Afternoon. (1975, Malv) 1.05am Dirty Dancing. (1987, Mas) 2.55 Isle Of Dogs. (2018) 4.50 Discovering Film. 5.50 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 2.30pm Motor Racing. Night Thunder. WA Late Model Title. Replay. 3.30 Counting Cars. 4.30 American Resto. 5.00 Storage Wars. 5.30 American Pickers: Best Of. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 The Agenda Setters: Rugby League. 8.30 Aussie Gold Hunters. 9.30 Gem Hunters Down Under. 10.30 Outback Opal Hunters. 11.30 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 11.30 Motor Racing. IndyCar Series. Grand Prix of St Petersburg. H’lights. 12.35pm Motor Racing. Formula E. Miami ePrix. H’lights. 1.40 Cybershack. 2.10 MOVIE: Dumb And Dumber. (1994, PG) 4.30 Addams Family. 5.30 Seinfeld. 6.30 NBL: Overtime. 7.30 Big Bang. 8.30 TBA. 10.30 NBL: Overtime. 11.40 Big Bang. 12.40am Late Programs.
6am Shopping. 8.00 Days Of Our Lives. 8.45 The Young And The Restless. 9.30 Living Room. 10.30 Building The Dream. 11.30 Bold. Noon Days Of Our Lives. 12.45 The Young And The Restless. 1.30 JAG. 3.30 Bull. 4.30 JAG. 6.30 Bull. 7.30 NCIS. (M, R) 10.20 Bull. (PGa, R) 11.15 JAG. 1.15am Shopping.
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Tuesday, October 6 ABC TV (2)
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TEN (5, 1)
6am Morning Programs. 10.30 Planet America. (R) 11.00 The Tony Blair Story. (PG, R) 12.00 News. 1.00 Beyond Paradise. (PGa, R) 2.00 Back Roads. (R) 2.30 Home Delivery. (PG, R) 3.00 Murdoch Mysteries. (PGv, R) 3.45 Grand Designs Transformations. (R) 4.45 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R)
6am Morning Programs. 10.10 Prince’s Master Crafters Next Generation. (PG, R) 11.05 Canal Boat Diaries. 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 The Jury: Skeleton In The Garden. (Mal, R) 3.00 Going Places. (R) 3.40 The Cook Up. (R) 4.10 Julia Bradbury’s Irish Journey. (PGa, R) 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)
6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 Seven’s National News At Noon. 1.00 Bridge Of Lies: Celebrity Specials. (R) 2.00 Bridge Of Lies. (R) 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.
6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 The Block. (PGl, R) 1.30 Find My Country House Australia. (R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30 Tipping Point Australia. (PG) 5.30 WIN News.
6am Morning Programs. 8.00 Lingo. (R) 9.00 The Finish Line. (R) 10.00 Farm To Fork. (R) 10.30 Ent. Tonight. (R) 11.00 Shaun Micallef’s Parents’ Evening. (R) 12.00 Everyday Gourmet. 12.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG, R) 1.00 News. 2.00 Deal Or No Deal. (PG, R) 2.30 The Finish Line. (R) 3.30 Lingo. (R) 4.30 Bold. (PG) 5.00 News.
6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Foreign Correspondent. (Final) 8.30 The Tony Blair Story: The Loss Of Power. (Final, PGa) 9.25 I Was Actually There. (Final, Ml, R) 9.55 Take 5 With Zan Rowe. (Ml, R) 10.35 ABC Late News. 10.50 The Business. (R) 11.05 Four Corners. (R) 11.55 Media Watch. (PG, R) 12.10 Murdoch Mysteries. (Mv, R) 12.55 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 1.45 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 2.40 Gardening Australia. (R) 3.40 Love Your Garden. (R) 4.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)
6.00 Mastermind Australia. (PG, R) 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 The Jury: Skeleton In The Garden. (Mal) 8.30 Insight. 9.30 Dateline: Cuba: Inside The Blockade. 10.00 SBS World News Late. 10.30 The Point. (R) 11.25 Mussolini: Son Of The Century. (MA15+v) 12.25 The Vanishing Triangle. (Mal, R) 3.00 Endurance: Race The Pole. (PGn, R) 3.55 The World’s Most Remote Hotels. (PGa, R) 4.30 Bamay. (R) 5.00 WorldWatch.
6.00 Seven Local News. 6.30 Seven News. 7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 My Kitchen Rules. Tiffany and Giancarlo show off Italian family recipes. 9.05 Off The Grid With Colin And Manu. (PGal) Colin Fassnidge and Manu Feildel fly into Fiordland to cook onboard Pure Salt. 10.05 The Amazing Race. (Return, PG) Hosted by Phil Keoghan. 11.35 Happy’s Place. (PG) 12.05 The Path. (MA15+adlv) 2.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 NBC Today. 5.00 Sunrise Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.
6.00 9News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 The Block. (PGl) 8.45 1 Euro House. (Premiere, PG) 9.45 Topknotz: Wild On Water. (Return, Ml) 10.45 9News Late. 11.15 The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. (MA15+alvv) 12.05 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.00 Hello SA. (PG, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 The Garden Gurus. (R) 3.00 Home Shopping. 4.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.30 A Current Affair. (R) 5.00 Today Early News. 5.30 Today.
6.30 Deal Or No Deal. (PG, R) Hosted by Grant Denyer. 7.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG) Hosted by Rebecca Gibney. 7.30 Sydney Harbour Cops. MAC tackles rescues across NSW. 8.30 The Cheap Seats. (Mal) Presenters Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look at the week that was. 9.30 10’s Late News. Comprehensive coverage of local, national and international news, as well as the latest sport and weather. 10.30 Two And A Half Men. (Ms, R) Charlie’s friends and family undermine his plans. 12.00 Home Shopping. (R)
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6am Children’s Programs. 1.20pm PJ Masks Power Heroes. 2.30 Monster Makes. 3.00 Play School. 4.05 Gardening Australia Junior. 4.30 SuperKitties. 5.25 Octonauts. 5.50 Super Monsters. 6.05 Spidey And His Amazing Friends. 7.05 Batwheels. 7.35 Ninjago. 8.00 Young Sheldon. 8.25 Young Sheldon. 8.45 Secrets Of The Zoo. 9.25 Kids Baking C’ship. 10.10 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 2.15pm Going Places. 3.15 Inside The Huddle. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.50 The Mega-Brands That Built The World. 6.40 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 Oliver Stone: The Outsider. 9.30 MOVIE: Wall Street. (1987, M) 11.50 The Americans. 12.45am Brassic. 2.30 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera News Hour.
6am Morning Programs. Noon My Kitchen Rules. 1.35 Surf Patrol. 2.00 Creek To Coast. 2.30 House Of Wellness. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Medical Emergency. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Call The Midwife. 8.45 Inspector Morse. 11.05 Escape To The Country. 12.05am Bargain Hunt. 1.00 Our Town Queensland. 1.30 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Yorkshire Auction House. 1.00 MOVIE: The Bargee. (1964, PG) 3.15 Antiques Roadshow. 3.45 MOVIE: Home At Seven. (1952, PG) 5.30 Yorkshire Auction House. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 Grantchester. 9.50 Wong & Winchester. 10.50 Rizzoli & Isles. 11.50 New Tricks. 1am Creflo. 1.30 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 9.30 Farm To Fork. 10.00 Bold. 10.30 Deal Or No Deal. 11.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. 11.30 Ridiculousness. 12.30pm Becker. 1.00 Friends. 3.00 Frasier. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet. 4.30 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 8.00 Two And A Half Men. 9.30 Becker. 10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Ridiculousness. 11.30 Ent. Tonight. Midnight Shopping. 2.30 Bold. 3.30 Shopping.
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6am Morning Programs. 1.05pm Backs To The Blast. 2.00 Kriol Kitchen. 2.30 The Cook Up. 3.00 Jarjums. 5.00 Ocean Warriors. 5.30 Indian Country Today News. 6.00 Bamay. 6.40 Great Parks Of Africa. 7.30 Cold Justice. 8.50 MOVIE: The Judge. (2014, M) 11.20 Elder In Residence Oration 2025. Midnight The Boy, The Queen And Everything In Between. 12.30 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 12.55pm Once Upon A Time In China II. (1992, Mav, Cantonese) 3.00 Mr Blake At Your Service! (2023, PGal, French) 5.05 Where The Wild Things Are. (2009, PGahv) 7.00 Another Country. (2015, PGaw) 8.30 The Drover’s Wife. (2021, MA15+av) 10.30 Once Upon A Time In China. (1991, MA15+v, Cantonese) 12.55am Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 12.30pm Tougher In Alaska. 1.30 Gem Hunters Down Under. 2.30 Aussie Gold Hunters. 3.30 Air Crash Inv. 4.30 American Resto. 5.00 Storage Wars. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Outback Truckers. 8.30 Marlin Kings: Chasing Giants. 9.30 Outback Truckers. 10.30 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under. 11.30 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 11.30 World’s Greatest Islands. 12.30pm Ronaldo. 2.25 NBL: Overtime. 3.30 Big Bang. 4.30 Addams Family. 5.30 Seinfeld. 6.30 Baywatch. 7.30 Big Bang. 8.30 TBA. 11.00 Big Bang. Midnight Jane The Virgin. 12.50 Love Island UK: All Stars. 1.45 Legacies. 2.35 Surfing Aust. 3.05 World’s Greatest Islands. 4.00 Late Programs.
6am Shopping. 8.00 Days Of Our Lives. 8.45 The Young And The Restless. 9.30 Living Room. 10.30 Building The Dream. 11.30 Bold. Noon Days Of Our Lives. 12.45 The Young And The Restless. 1.30 JAG. 3.30 Bull. 4.30 JAG. 6.30 Bull. 7.30 NCIS. (Mav, R) 10.20 Bull. (PGdv, R) 11.15 JAG. 1.15am Shopping.
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NINE (8, 9)
TEN (5, 1)
6am Morning Programs. 11.20 Back Roads. (R) 12.00 News. 12.30 Press Club. 1.35 Media Watch. (PG, R) 2.00 Back Roads. (R) 2.25 You Can’t Ask That. (Mal, R) 3.00 Murdoch Mysteries. (PGa, R) 3.45 Grand Designs Transformations. (R) 4.45 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R)
6am Morning Programs. 8.00 DD India News Hour. 9.10 For The Love Of Dogs. (PGa, R) 10.10 Prince’s Master Crafters Next Generation. (R) 11.05 Canal Boat Diaries. 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 Dateline. (R) 2.30 Insight. (R) 3.35 The Cook Up. (R) 4.10 Julia Bradbury’s Irish Journey. (PGa, R) 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)
6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 Seven’s National News At Noon. 1.00 Bridge Of Lies: Celebrity Specials. (R) 2.00 Bridge Of Lies. (R) 3.00 The Chase. (R) 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.
6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 The Block. (PGl, R) 1.15 Getaway. (PG, R) 1.45 My Way. 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30 Tipping Point Australia. (PG) 5.30 WIN News.
6am Morning Programs. 8.00 Lingo. (R) 9.00 The Finish Line. (R) 10.00 Farm To Fork. (R) 10.30 Ent. Tonight. (R) 11.00 Sydney Harbour Cops. (R) 12.00 Everyday Gourmet. 12.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG, R) 1.00 News. 2.00 Deal Or No Deal. (PG, R) 2.30 The Finish Line. (R) 3.30 Lingo. (R) 4.30 Bold. (PG) 5.00 News.
6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Hard Quiz. (PGa) 8.30 Class Clowns. (PGs) The comedians must deliver a sex ed talk. 9.00 Crime Night! (PG) 9.35 Small Prophets. (Ml, R) 10.05 Planet America. (R) 10.40 ABC Late News. 10.55 The Business. (R) 11.10 The Cage. (Final, M, R) 11.55 Murdoch Mysteries. (Ma, R) 12.40 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 1.30 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 2.40 Gardening Australia. (R) 3.40 Love Your Garden. (R) 4.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)
6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 The Jury: Skeleton In The Garden: Death Threats. (Mal) 8.30 70 Up. (Premiere, PGa) Participants are revisited at the age of 70. 9.55 Apollo Has Fallen. (M) 10.45 SBS World News Late. 11.15 The Old Man. (MA15+v) 12.00 Liaison. (Mlv, R) 3.00 Endurance: Race The Pole: The Nimrod Expedition 1907-1909. (R) 3.55 The World’s Most Remote Hotels: Briol. (PGa, R) 4.30 Bamay. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.
6.00 Seven Local News. 6.30 Seven News. 7.00 Home And Away. Cash and Eden celebrate their love. 7.30 My Kitchen Rules. Mary and Golden prepare a Filipino feast. 9.05 A Taste For Murder. (Malv) When a family member in Italy is arrested for murder, a grieving DCI Joe Mottram can’t help getting involved. 10.05 House Of Wellness. (PG) Insights and experiences that highlight living well. 11.05 The Agenda Setters. An expert panel tackles the biggest AFL topics. 12.05 Riviera. (MA15+adlsv, R) 2.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 NBC Today. 5.00 Sunrise Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.
6.00 9News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 The Block. (PGl) The teams are re-united with their families. 8.40 Chefs Ahoy. After sampling wagyu beef in Japan, Miguel Maestre’s chaotic style clashes with Dan Hong’s Asian-fusion precision. 9.40 To Be Advised. 10.40 9News Late. 11.10 Sight Unseen. (Mav) 12.00 Footy Furnace Trade Show. (Ml) 1.00 Drive Review. (PG, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.30 A Current Affair. (R) 5.00 Today Early News. 5.30 Today.
6.30 Deal Or No Deal. (R) Hosted by Grant Denyer. 7.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG, R) Hosted by Rebecca Gibney. 7.30 The Celebrity Traitors UK. (Return) 9.10 Boston Blue. (Mm) Danny and Lena work to calm a volatile situation at a local hospital over over a critical transplant error. 10.10 10’s Late News. Comprehensive coverage of local, national and international news, as well as the latest sport and weather. 11.10 The Cheap Seats. (Mal, R) Presenters Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look at the week that was. 12.10 Two And A Half Men. (Ms, R) 12.30 Home Shopping. (R)
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6am Children’s Programs. 1.20pm PJ Masks Power Heroes. 2.30 Monster Makes. 3.00 Play School. 4.05 Gardening Australia Junior. 4.30 SuperKitties. 5.25 Octonauts. 5.50 Super Monsters. 6.05 Spidey And His Amazing Friends. 7.05 Batwheels. 7.35 Ninjago. 8.00 Young Sheldon. 8.25 Young Sheldon. 8.40 Secrets Of The Zoo. 9.25 The Piano. 10.15 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 2.10pm Going Places. 3.10 12 Dishes In 12 Hours. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.50 The Mega-Brands That Built The World. 6.40 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 Guy Martin: Train That Changed The World. 9.50 Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable. 10.45 Ramy. 11.50 The Americans. 12.45am Brassic. 1.40 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. Noon My Kitchen Rules. 1.35 Our Town. 2.00 Weekender. 2.30 House Calls To The Rescue. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Medical Emergency. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Heartbeat. 8.45 Foyle’s War. 10.55 Escape To The Country. 11.55 Bargain Hunt. 1am Fresh TV. 1.30 Our Town. 2.00 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Yorkshire Auction House. 1.00 MOVIE: The Young Ones. (1961) 3.15 Antiques Roadshow. 3.45 MOVIE: Sailors Three. (1940) 5.30 Yorkshire Auction House. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.40 Midsomer Murders. 10.40 Rizzoli & Isles. 11.40 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. 12.40am Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 9.30 Farm To Fork. 10.00 Bold. 10.30 Deal Or No Deal. 11.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. 11.30 Ridiculousness. 12.30pm Becker. 1.00 Friends. 3.00 Frasier. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet. 4.30 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 8.00 Two And A Half Men. 9.30 Becker. 10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Ridiculousness. 11.30 Ent. Tonight. Midnight Shopping. 2.30 Bold. 3.30 Shopping.
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6am Morning Programs. 12.20pm Off Country. 2.00 Kriol Kitchen. 2.30 The Cook Up. 3.00 Jarjums. 5.00 Ocean Warriors. 5.30 News. 6.00 Bamay. 6.40 Guardians Of The Wild. 7.30 Friday Night Thunder. 8.30 Pro Bull Riding: USA. 9.30 Ocean Warriors: Mission Ready. 10.00 MOVIE: Hey, Viktor! (2023, M) Midnight The Boy, The Queen And Everything In Between. 12.30 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 12.30pm Dog Day Afternoon. (1975, Malv) 2.45 Trinity Is Still My Name. (1971, PGv) 5.00 Ama Gloria. (2023, PGa, French, Kabuverdianu) 6.35 Brief Encounter. (1974, PGa) 8.30 All The Pretty Horses. (2000, Mv) 10.40 Thirst. (2009, MA15+ahlsv, Korean, English) 1.10am The Legend Of Fong Sai-Yuk. (1993, Mav, Cantonese) 3.05 Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 12.30pm Tougher In Alaska. 1.30 Outback Truckers. 2.30 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under. 3.30 Air Crash Inv. 4.30 American Resto. 5.00 Storage Wars. 5.30 American Pickers: Best Of. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 The Force: BTL. 9.30 Caught On Dashcam. 10.30 World’s Wildest Police Videos. 12.30am Late Programs.
6am Morning Programs. 11.30 World’s Greatest Islands. 12.30pm Parental Guidance. 2.30 Baywatch. 3.30 Big Bang. 4.30 Addams Family. 5.30 Seinfeld. 6.30 Baywatch. 7.30 Big Bang. 8.30 TBA. 10.45 Big Bang. 11.45 Jane The Virgin. 12.35am Love Island UK: All Stars. 1.30 Legacies. 2.20 Baywatch. 3.20 Parental Guidance. 4.30 I Love VIP Pets. 4.50 Late Programs.
6am Shopping. 8.00 Days Of Our Lives. 8.45 The Young And The Restless. 9.30 Living Room. 10.30 Building The Dream. 11.30 Bold. Noon Days Of Our Lives. 12.45 The Young And The Restless. 1.30 JAG. 3.30 Bull. 4.30 JAG. 6.30 Bull. 7.30 NCIS. (Mv, R) 10.20 Bull. (PGv, R) 11.15 JAG. 1.15am Shopping.
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Thursday, October 8 ABC TV (2)
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NINE (8, 9)
TEN (5, 1)
6am Morning Programs. 11.00 Crime Night! (PG, R) 11.30 Small Prophets. (Ml, R) 12.00 News. 12.55 Doc Martin Christmas Special. (Ma, R) 2.00 Back Roads. (R) 2.30 You Can’t Ask That. (Madl, R) 3.00 Frankie Drake. (PG, R) 3.45 Grand Designs Transformations. (R) 4.45 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R)
6am Morning Programs. 8.00 DD India News Hour. 9.10 Blind Ambition. 10.15 The Blind Sea. (PGal) 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 The Jury: Skeleton In The Garden. (Mal, R) 3.00 The Film I’ll Never See. 3.35 The Cook Up. (R) 4.10 Julia Bradbury’s Irish Journey. (PGa, R) 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)
6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 Seven’s National News At Noon. 1.00 Time Is Money. (R) 2.00 Bridge Of Lies. (R) 3.00 The Chase. (R) 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.
6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 The Block. (PGl, R) 1.00 Chefs Ahoy. (R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30 Tipping Point Australia. (PG) 5.30 WIN News.
6am Morning Programs. 8.00 Lingo. (R) 9.00 The Finish Line. (R) 10.00 Farm To Fork. (R) 10.30 Ent. Tonight. (R) 11.00 Taskmaster Australia. (PGls, R) 12.00 Everyday Gourmet. 12.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG, R) 1.00 News. 2.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R) 2.30 The Finish Line. (R) 3.30 Lingo. (R) 4.30 Bold. (PG) 5.00 News.
6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Back Roads. (Final, PG) 8.30 Take 5 With Zan Rowe. (Final, PGl) 9.00 Amanda & Alan’s Italian Job. (Final) 9.30 The Cage. (Final, M, R) 10.35 ABC Late News. 10.50 The Business. (R) 11.05 Death Valley. (PGa, R) 11.50 Frankie Drake Mysteries. (Mav, R) 12.40 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 1.25 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 2.40 Gardening Australia. (R) 3.40 Love Your Garden. (R) 4.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)
6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News. 7.35 Tucci In Italy. (Premiere) 8.25 Inside Sydney Fish Market. (Premiere, PGal) Looks at the Sydney Fish Market. 10.25 SBS World News Late. 10.55 Cry Wolf. (Premiere, MA15+l) 11.45 Snow. (Ma, R) 2.25 Endurance: Race The Pole: The Terra Nova Expedition – 1910 To 1913. (R) 3.20 The World’s Most Remote Hotels: Kasbah De Toubkal. (PG, R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.
6.00 Seven Local News. 6.30 Seven News. 7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 8.30 Glenn And Mick’s Celebrity Intervention. (Ms, R) Glenn Robbins and Mick Molloy surprise their good friend Sam Pang with a much-needed intervention. 9.40 Unbelievable Moments Caught On Camera. (PGa) Footage of headline-grabbing moments. 10.40 Unfiltered. (M) 11.10 Gatecrashers. 12.10 Attila The Hun. (Mav) 2.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 NBC Today. 5.00 Sunrise Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.
6.00 9News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 The Block. (PGl) 8.40 Paramedics. (Mlv) An elderly man has head injuries. 9.40 RPA. (PGm, R) An actor is sent for an MRI. 10.40 9News Late. 11.10 Chicago Med. (MA15+am) 12.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.00 Next Stop. (PGa, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.30 A Current Affair. (R) 5.00 Today Early News. 5.30 Today.
6.30 Deal Or No Deal. (R) Hosted by Grant Denyer. 7.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG) Hosted by Rebecca Gibney. 7.30 The Celebrity Traitors UK. 8.50 NCIS: Sydney. (Mv) With multiple lives in danger, including their own, the team races to stop a bomber. 9.50 10’s Late News. Comprehensive coverage of local, national and international news, as well as the latest sport and weather. 10.50 Sports Tonight: The Weekly Kick-Off. 11.20 Two And A Half Men. (PG, R) The guys warn Evelyn about her attitude. 12.30 Home Shopping. (R)
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Pickleball, travel and Hoi An Following the wonderful success of our June 2026 pickleball tour, Noosa Travel is excited to announce that we are heading back to Vietnam in March 2027 for another fabulous week of pickleball, coaching, relaxation, friendship, food and fun! If you love pickleball — or simply love the idea of combining your favourite sport with an unforgettable holiday — this is a tour you won’t want to miss. Our March 2027 tour takes us to beautiful Hoi An, one of Vietnam’s most charming and atmospheric destinations. Here, ancient streets, colourful lanterns, delicious food and friendly locals create the perfect backdrop for an active getaway. And the accommodation? The spectacular 5-star Hoiana Resort & Golf, where you can enjoy a little luxury while being surrounded by all the facilities you could wish for. With its beautiful setting, spacious rooms, swimming pools, restaurants and easy access to Hoi An, Hoiana provides the perfect base for our group. Of course, pickleball is at the heart of the experience, and this tour offers more than just the opportunity to play. Along with plenty of court time, there will also be pickleball coaching, giving players the chance to develop their skills, learn new techniques and improve their game in a fun and supportive environment. Whether you’re an experienced player looking to sharpen your skills or a beginner keen to learn more about the sport, the coaching sessions are a fantastic addition to the experience. And when we’re not playing pickleball, there’s plenty to discover. We’ll explore the magic of Hoi An, famous for its UNESCO-listed Ancient Town, colourful lanterns, riverside atmosphere and wonderful
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One of the highlights of travelling with Noosa Travel is the opportunity to enjoy a destination without having to organise all the details yourself. Our escorted group tours are designed to take the stress out of travel, while creating a friendly and
sociable atmosphere where everyone can relax, enjoy themselves and make new friends along the way. The June 2026 tour proved just how much fun this combination of pickleball and travel can be, and we’re delighted to offer the same fabulous experience again in March 2027. Imagine starting your day with a pickleball coaching session, putting your new skills into practice on court, enjoying wonderful Vietnamese food for lunch, exploring the sights of Hoi An in the afternoon and returning to your luxurious 5-star resort to unwind. World-class pickleball, expert coaching, incredible food, the charm of Hoi An and the luxury of Hoiana Resort — all in one unforgettable holiday. So, if pickleball is your favourite sport and Vietnam is somewhere you’ve always wanted to experience, why not join us? Phone Noosa Travel on 07 5449 7000.
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Discovering the Tweed By Tania Phillips The Tweed region in Far Northern NSW has stepped out from behind its more famous neigbours to take it’s place in the sun after being named in the Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2027 – 50 inspirational travel destinations. The region, sandwiched between Byron Bay, the Gold Coast and former Lonely Planet darlings The Scenic Rim, was named in the 50 inspirational travel destination as one of the top places to visit in Oceania – sandwiched between Dunedin and Waitaki in New Zealand, which topped the list, and third-placed New Caledonia. The only other Australian entry was in the Experiences were Immerse in art in the Red Centre was just ahead of experience Fa’a, Samoa, Embark on Ocean adventures – French Polynesia. As someone who has lived in the Tweed for more than 40 years – it’s big news. For years in television shows, movies, magazine articles and even books it was hard not to feel like we were the shadow land - a strip of highway on the way to somewhere else. But that’s ok, because we knew something the rest of the country and the rest of the world didn’t – it’s bloody beautiful here, the pace is slower and we have lots of natural, cultural and gastronomical experiences to offer. According to Lonely Planet’s Oceania Destinations Editor Jessica Lockhart, the selections across the board and around the globe this year tapped into what Lonely Planet is seeing and hearing most from travellers – the desire to slow down, escape the crowds and seek out meaningful experiences that go beyond the obvious. She said the Tweed fits perfectly within that profile, given its majestic landscapes, vibrant arts and culture and memorable eco experiences. From its pristine coastlines and ancient rainforests to its picturesque riverside villages and rolling rural landscapes. The Tweed invites visitors to connect more deeply with place, people and nature. “We’ve been watching the Tweed rightfully grow in popularity with domestic tourists,” Jessica said. “It’s becoming known as a foodie and outdoors destination, especially the opening of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail and the Gidjuum Gulganyi Walk. Now, we think it’s time that we let international tourists in on the secret: The space between the Gold Coast and Byron Bay isn’t one you want to speed through. It’s a destination in its own right – and one that’s worth lingering in.“ “Of course, they are telling us what we here in Tweed already know,” newly minted Tweed mayor Reece Byrnes. Byrnes’ family came to the region in the 60s and is a long -time advocate of the region as the youngest person ever elected to Tweed Shire Council. “To be recognised by Lonely Planet as one of the world’s must-visit destinations is a wonderful honour for the Tweed and a proud moment for our community.
The Tweed River snakes it’s way through the valley. (Luke Marsden)
Taking an early morning surf at Kingscliff. “This recognition celebrates our spectacular natural landscapes, vibrant villages, rich culture and outstanding local businesses. We warmly welcome visitors to experience The Tweed at a slower pace, support local and respect the places and communities that make our region so special.” Reading through what Lonely Planet sees in the area you live in, kind of reminds you of why you live where you do. The Tweed they say is an idyllic travel destination for rest, renewal and adventure. “From sunrise surfs to countryside rail trails, hinterland hiking, snorkeling trips and riverside sips, The Tweed offers experiences to suit event pace and
From rail power to pedal power. The rail trail has become a major drawcard in recent years. every mood. Its national parks, wide open spaces and year-round sunshine are guaranteed to have visitors leaving refreshed and renewed.” Lonely Planet praised both The Tweed’s emerald coastlines and charming riverside settings where nature is both backdrop and playground. “The region is loved for its unique combination of outdoor adventures, creative culture, diverse wellness experiences, flourishing food bowl and exceptional paddock to plate dining options. While it is increasingly gaining recognition, The Tweed still remains a largely hidden gem for many, offering a gentler and uncrowded charm that sets it apart.” This is a place where you can fish on a river-
bank or in the ocean, swim with turtles or drift down creeks on hired canoes, sit on headlands and watch the whale breach (or sit in surf clubs and do the same thing with food on tap), walk in world heritage listed rainforests, enjoy muchawarded restaurants and quaint country pubs. Ride bikes or walk on a rail trail heading south towards Byron Bay or walk or ride almost the entire length of our coastline on curated paths cutting through bushland and coastal suburbs. Where Wollumbin (Mt Warning) watches over as you take drives through cane farms and down country roads, you can visit breweries, rum distilleries and wineries and enjoy farm tours and tropical fruit or fresh seafood.
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The quirky Hay Bale Trail.
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Scenic Rim quirky getaways From Kalbar’s famous Hay Bale Trail and carrotthrowing contests to the Scarecrow Festival on Tamborine Mountain, country shows, spring markets, food, flowers and festivals, the Scenic Rim celebrates Spring differently. As the landscape greens up and paddocks pop with colour and harvests, two of the region’s most wonderfully quirky traditions return: Kalbar’s famous Hay Bale Trail, when enormous hay bales are transformed into extraordinary roadside creations, and the Scarecrow Trail and Festival, bringing another army of wonderfully weird and whimsical country characters. Across Spring, the Scenic Rim’s farms, villages, main streets, wineries and gathering places come alive with country shows, markets, food and wine, live music, family fun and fabulous festivals, all served with a generous helping of country hospitality, and an ongoing celebration of supporting local produce growers and creators. Kalbar Country Day and famous Hay Bale Trail. 17 October 2026 | George Street, Kalbar | 7am–2pm The famous Hay Bale Trail sees locals unleash their creativity, and their worst hay puns, on enormous hay bales dotted around the district. Star creations include Mick-hay and Min-hay Mouse, Slink-hay and even the Kalbar J-hay-l, a jail constructed from hay bales. The challenge is part sculpture, part community competition and entirely country. It culminates in the Kalbar Country Day on Saturday 17 October, with more than 140 market stalls, music and bush poets, food and drinks, vintage tractors and cars, face painting and balloon twisting, a People Mover Train between the Showgrounds and Main Street, and, because this is the Carrot Capital of Australia, the fiercely contested Junior and Senior Carrot Throwing Competitions. Early birds can even score the famous gold coin breakfast, available to the first 350 people. Tamborine Mountain Scarecrow Trail and Festival 30 October–1 November 2026 | Tamborine Mountain For one wonderfully weird weekend each spring, Tamborine Mountain is taken over by scarecrows, hundreds of them. It’s one glorious outdoor sculpture show, with locals, families, schools, community groups and businesses creating scarecrows ranging from the traditional to the clever, colourful and completely bonkers. The Spot the Scarecrow Discovery Trail becomes one big scarecrow treasure hunt and there’s a serious-ish competitive streak too, with categories including Creative, Traditional, Business, Family, Child, Celebrity and even First Time in Field, culminating in the coveted Best in Show. NOVEMBER Christmas shopping gets a distinctly Scenic Rim twist at Summer Land Camels, with its popular country market returning for a festive day at the 30 NOOSA TODAY Friday, 2 October, 2026
Cedar Creek Falls. (Supplied) camel farm. DECEMBER Katherine Outback Experience and Tom Curtain Tour: 5 December |Boonah Award-winning country artist and horseman Tom Curtain brings the Australian outback to life through horsemanship, working-dog demonstrations, bush stories and live country music in this a family-friendly celebration of life on the land. The Katherine Outback Experience itself centres on real horse training and working dogs. Katherine Outback Experience
Light Up Kalbar: 5 December 2026 | Kalbar Kalbar gets its Christmas sparkle on as the historic village comes together for a festive community celebration, lighting up the town and bringing locals and visitors together for some country Christmas cheer. Boonah Christmas Street Festival and Parade: 17 December 2026 | Boonah Boonah celebrates Christmas Scenic Rim-style, with its town centre becoming the setting for a festive community street celebration and Christmas parade. It’s a big, family-friendly finale to the year in the heart of the region. Just an hour from Brisbane the Scenic Rim
stretches across more than 4,200 square kilometres of ancient mountains, World Heritage-listed rainforest, national parks, productive farmland and historic towns and villages. It’s a chance to get away – but not too far with farmstays, luxury retreats, boutique hotels, glamping, wineries, breweries, distilleries, paddockto-plate dining and plenty of country roads in between. And this spring, great escapes to the near south could involves baby alpacas or breakfast Champagne, a farm basket or a grapefruit martini, an e-bike or a 4WD, a romantic chapel or a rainforest reset. For more information head to visitscenicrim.com.au.
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Generations of creativity By Steve Linnell Three generations of artistic talent will come together at the Pomona Railway Station Gallery when A Family Affair opens on Saturday, September 26. The exhibition brings together the work of Cooran artist Mia Hacker, her mother, Pomona artist Gail Robinson, and Gail’s sister, Gympie-based artist Faith Robinson. While their artistic styles are very different, the three artists share a strong connection to family, the natural world and storytelling. Mia works with raw earth pigments and natural materials, including charcoal hand-harvested from bushfires, creating textured works inspired by the environment. “My work explores the connections between humanity and the environment,” Mia said. “I use natural found materials, including earth and bushfire-harvested charcoal, to create intricate, textured pieces that reflect the richness of the natural world. “I believe art can transform how we see the world and our place in it, and my work reflects that belief.” Mia’s artistic journey was encouraged by her grandfather, prize-winning international artist John Robinson, who gave her cotton-rag cold-pressed paper, brushes and paints, prompting her first body of work on paper. Faith discovered her own artistic medium while still at secondary school, when she began working with clay. She has continued to explore pottery for about 50 years, working with earthen clay and a variety of kilns. Her work also includes acrylics on canvas and draws inspiration from the surrounding landscape. Gail’s practice takes a different path, exploring the relationship between words, identity and installation. She began talking at the age of two and has spent much of her life exploring language.
(Supplied) 580866 01 During the early Floating Land biennales, she began investigating the crossover between spoken and written words and installation, a practice she continues through conference and community settings. The family’s creative history stretches back generations and includes copperplate engrav-
ers and a classical English artist. For the three women, that artistic inheritance continues to evolve. “Grandchildren reveal entirely new ways of seeing the same world—the genetic variations of creativity in our family are alive and well,” they said.
A Family Affair opens at the volunteer-run Pomona Railway Station Gallery on Saturday, September 26, and continues until Thursday, October 21. The gallery is at 10 Station St, Pomona, and is open from 10am to 4pm Tuesday to Friday and 10am to 2pm Saturday and Sunday.
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For Robert (not his real name), the bus trip from Noosa to Maroochydore, followed by the journey to Mooloolaba, was always going to be a challenge. The destination was SEA LIFE Sunshine Coast, where a day of seeing seals, fish and other marine life was planned. But getting there was a different story. For a young person on the autism spectrum, a long road trip, unfamiliar surroundings, noise, crowds and the constant stimulation of a busy attraction can quickly become overwhelming. Robert can be difficult when things become too much. The bus trip from Noosa was long and, by the time he arrived at SEA LIFE, the stresses of the journey were evident. Then came an unexpected change. Robert was taken into the aquarium’s new sensory-friendly room - a quieter space designed specifically for visitors who need somewhere to escape the noise and stimulation of the main attraction. The difference was striking. The new space provided Robert with an opportunity to calm down and reset before returning to enjoy the aquarium. And enjoy it he did. Among the highlights was the seal show, which provided a memorable finish to a day that could easily have ended very differently. For Robert and the family accompanying him, the experience demonstrated why sensory accessibility can mean much more than simply providing ramps, accessible toilets or other physical facilities. The new sensory space at SEA LIFE Sunshine Coast has been developed with specialist advice from Creative Sensory Spaces, a sensory design studio specialising in inclusive environments. SEA LIFE Sunshine Coast general manager Quinn Clarke said accessibility was about understanding the different needs of visitors. “Accessibility and inclusion are not simply about providing access to a space, they are about understanding what people need to feel comfortable, confident and included,” Mr Clarke said. “This is an important step forward for us, and we are incredibly proud to be opening the doors
Picture: Steve Linnell 580669 04 ahead of the September school holidays.” The facility is intended to provide a calm, welcoming and adaptable environment for visitors who can find busy, noisy or highly stimulating surroundings challenging. For families travelling from Noosa and elsewhere on the Sunshine Coast, that can make the difference between a day out that becomes too difficult and one that creates positive memories. Creative Sensory Spaces founder and sensory design specialist Dr Bliss Cavanagh said the project demonstrated how major attractions could make their environments more inclusive. “It’s fantastic to see a major attraction like SEA LIFE Sunshine Coast investing in sensory accessibility in such a meaningful way,” Dr Cavanagh said. “Initiatives like this send a powerful message that inclusion isn’t just about being able to enter a venue; it’s about being supported to comfortably experience and enjoy it.” The sensory room is part of SEA LIFE Sunshine Coast’s broader commitment to making the aquarium accessible and welcoming to a wider range of visitors. For some families, however, its value will be measured in much simpler terms. It is somewhere to go when the world becomes too loud. For Robert, that small sanctuary helped turn a difficult journey from Noosa into a successful day out, complete with a seal show and plenty of marine life to remember. And sometimes, that is what inclusion looks like.
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50 years of creativity By Steve Linnell What will a community arts organisation discover when it opens a time capsule sealed 25 years ago? That question will be answered at 10am on Saturday, October 10, when the Caloundra Arts Centre Association opens a time capsule as part of celebrations marking its 50th anniversary. The capsule was sealed at the turn of the century and is expected to provide a fascinating glimpse into the people, activities and aspirations of the Caloundra Arts Centre 25 years ago. For today’s members, many of whom have been involved with the centre for years, it will be a chance to reconnect with an earlier chapter in the history of an organisation that has become an important part of the Sunshine Coast community. The Caloundra Arts Centre Association (CACA) now has about 550 members involved in 21 arts and craft groups, with people travelling from across the Sunshine Coast to take part. And while members come together to paint, draw, sew, craft and pursue a wide range of creative interests, vice president Susan Dickie said the centre offered something equally important – friendship and connection. “It’s about the people as much as it is about the art,” she said. That social connection can be particularly valuable as people move into retirement and look for new ways to remain active, meet people and pursue interests that may have been put aside during their working lives. For some, it is about developing a skill. For others, it is about rediscovering a passion they enjoyed years ago. For many, simply having somewhere to go each week and people to share it with can be just as important. CACA’s story began in the 1970s, when community interest in arts and crafts helped establish an organisation that has continued to evolve over five decades. Among its longest-serving members is Marg Bartlett, who has played an important role in the centre’s history.
Picture: Steve Linnell 579662 05 Around 2000, Marg started the Friday morning painting class, helping create an activity that has become part of the centre’s long-running program. Her story reflects the contribution made by generations of members who have volunteered
their time, shared their skills and helped create opportunities for others. The organisation is not-for-profit and largely self-funded, relying on membership and amenities fees, fundraising activities and occasional grants to meet the costs of running the centre.
Volunteers are therefore at the heart of the organisation, contributing their time and skills to keep the centre operating and its programs available to members. The 50th anniversary is providing an opportunity to celebrate those people and look back at the milestones that have shaped the organisation. The October 10 time capsule opening will be one of the most intriguing moments of the celebrations. There is a certain nostalgia in opening something deliberately put away for the future. What did members 25 years ago believe was worth preserving? Who were the people involved? What did they hope the centre would become? Today’s members will soon find out. The centre is also marking its anniversary by art-wrapping the building throughout the year, turning its home into a very visible celebration of its creative community. Other events include the Christmas Artisan Fair on November 14 and 15, which is a major fundraiser for the organisation. Earlier anniversary activities included a Destash Market and Small Artworks fundraising exhibition. For CACA, the 50th anniversary is about far more than reaching a milestone. It is about recognising the generations of people who have walked through its doors, learned new skills, made friends, volunteered their time and helped ensure the centre remains part of community life. After half a century, the basic idea remains remarkably simple – bring people together and give them a place to create. And when the time capsule is opened on October 10, today’s members will have a unique opportunity to hear something from their predecessors and discover what their artistic community was thinking about 25 years ago. The capsule will reveal one chapter of the story. With 550 members now involved, CACA is already writing the next one.
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Dee Young and her brother Nick on their food journey to the Top End. (574686)
Dee Young: The Noosa Forager ... working with the freshest local produce she can find. (574686)
Dee Young at Uluru: Camel steak with mash, bok choy, and fennel cooked out with onion and tomato mustard seed relish. (574686)
Dee Young with apprentice chefs at her first restaurant and oyster bar: Fish Bone in Avalon on Sydney’s northern beaches. (574686)
Dee Young has been cooking her way into hearts around the world with fresh, local food. ERLE LEVEY discovers that in her role as The Noosa Forager she shares stories and ideas from far-flung places in Australia and around the globe to provide food served with passion.
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Dee Young lives and breathes the values of good, healthy food. Her business, The Noosa Forager, depends on it. A qualified chef and artisan food manufacturer, Dee is based at Sunshine Beach and has been working with food for more than 30 years. The Noosa Forager is about to celebrate its fourth birthday. Following on from that, Dee is one of two delegates sponsored by Slow Food Noosa to attend the 2026 Slow Food International world conference in Turin this month. Dee is passionate about creating unique food experiences, mostly through putting together grazing platter boxes, but also to share the story behind the farmer, and their produce. Her support of the food industry and promotion of the region - both for the lifestyle and the produce - has seen her awarded a Snail of Approval for the way in which she upholds the Slow Food philosophy of good, healthy and fair food. Dee, together with Kylie Carr and her husband Mick of Bunya Grove Produce at Amamoor, will attend the Terra Madre Salone Del Gusto five-day conference and food festival in Turin. Delegates from more than 160 countries are expected to attend, along with an estimated 500,000 visitors. For Dee, it is a dream come true. It will bring the opportunity to meet and talk with farmers and producers - mainly from Italy and Europe but also from other countries. She will join with a team of self-funded Slow Food Noosa committee delegates as well as some previous delegates. Plans include visiting schools and farms in Italy with Slow Food Noosa Snail Kids coordinator Di Seels. The Snail Kids program connects local farmers and food producers with primary schools to teach children about healthy, sustainable food and where it comes from. Along with other farmers and those from the food industry, Dee has been a guest speaker and demonstrator with the Snail Kids program at Kin Kin State School, Eumundi State School and at Sunshine Beach State School.
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LAND ERLE LEVEY Sunshine Beach was where Di Seels initiated the program and on numerous occasions Dee has presented in the permaculture garden about food that is living and non-living. Recently she joined with Di Seels and fellow Slow Food Noosa member Ana Vaia Garcia for a cooking demonstration at Eumundi, using produce gathered from the school garden. “It was a full all-hands-on-deck production line that involved the students helping in the making of pesto from scratch and rolling the dough for the pizza. “We even used tomato paste with Noosa Reds oxheart tomatoes that I picked up the night before.’’ Dee considers being involved with Slow Food Noosa is in its self an honour. “I am full of gratitude for the volunteers and members who support this not-for-profit organisation. “Lifelong relationships have been built with other like-minded Slow Food Noosa Snails. “I feel so lucky and extremely grateful for this incredible opportunity to be sent to Turin, Italy, to experience Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2026, and to be one of a few representing Slow Food Noosa and Surrounds. “We will be experiencing and learning from the hundreds of food workshops, tastings, talks, discussions and introductions.’’ Dee’s journey in food has seen her go from running her own seafood restaurant on Sydney’s North Shore to living off the land and utilising local produce while travelling to Far North Queensland and the Top End of the Northern Territory. CONTINUED PAGE 37
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Cook. Travel. Love FROM PAGE 34 She will be taking the stories and recipes that were developed on these journeys to share in Italy. Dee has already booked her days and evenings in Turin with exciting events, workshops and seminars. This will be on top of talking with producers from throughout Italy and Europe predominantly, but also from around the world. “The intention is to also visit some farms in the region.’’ Adding to the sense of community that is encouraged by Slow Food, Dee will visit the area to the north of Turin where she has family ancestry. “My father’s great grandfather was living at Ticino, on the border of Switzerland and Italy. “There will be producers and farmers at the festival talking about food biodiversity and traditions from the bordering Alpine countries. “This experience will change my life forever. “I am so emotional right now and pinching myself that I will be immersed in some of the most intelligent discussions and decisions on food security and Slow Food principles - as well as sampling some of the cleanest, fair foods, in the world.’’ Dee said at this time in her life she has never been so ready to learn more, and to bring home to Noosa, the Sunshine Coast and hinterland an abundance of knowledge to share, as well as help preserve and strengthen the Slow Food principles. “I am committed to sharing on my social media platforms, and in-house brochures, for the broader community to connect with our local farmers or producers, and become even more engaged with them.’’ Dee’s career started with a part-time job at 14 years old, filleting fish in the early hours of the morning in the back of a local Avalon fish shop with fish monger Old Ray. From there it was Ibiza Cafe at Avalon Beach where she washed dishes and watched the chef at work, before finding herself in the dessert section and making her way around the different sections of the kitchen. “Little did I know how fast I would fall in love with the aroma, the rush and passion of the kitchen. “I became head chef of the Ibiza cafe after returning from living and working in Europe.’’ Dee found herself privately catering on a yacht in Pittwater at Sydney, a head chef, a front-ofhouse manager, pasta mains chef at Ventuno Bar & Restaurant at Walsh Bay Sydney, and second chef at the Wharf Shed in Geelong, Victoria. That led to her success in owning Fish Bone Oyster Bar & Restaurant in Avalon, on Sydney’s northern beaches. “Years ago I took a break from working in restaurants and embarked on a 4WD food journey with my brother Nick. “We left from Noosa and drove to Cape York, living out my dream of living of the land with what we could catch and locally source from the towns as we passed through. We would stop to chat to the locals about some secret spots and pick up some locally-grown produce, all the while video recording and photographing the journey.’’ This included everything from kangaroo stew to camel and crocodile. And they camped in locations made famous by Paul Hogan as Mick Dundee in the classic Australian movie, Crocodile Dundee. In essence, that journey was the start of what Dee now does as The Noosa Forager - collecting and presenting good, clean, local food for clients. These can be picnic hampers, private dinner parties or corporate events. The emphasis is on fresh produce and Dee’s knowledge of the food as well as the farmers, seafood suppliers and artisans she knows and supports. Dee’s European experience included a position as chef de partie at London’s Chapel Lafayette at the age of 19. This was together with having a cultural and gastronomic adventure exploring the continent, including Greece, Turkey and Egypt. Returning to Australia she took chef positions in different states and coastal towns. A favorite destination was the Whitsundays Islands, as head breakfast chef for Club Med Lindeman Island. “In my down time I discovered the magic of the Whitsundays …. the freedom, tinny fishing, making beach fires, cooking on coals and chipping fresh oysters off the rocks that lined the coral reefs.’’
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“Local food made with love. You can see it. You can smell it. You can taste it.” Growing up, Dee embarked on countless road trips of the east coast - surfing, fishing and cooking her way to Noosa. Drawn to the diverse beauty of Noosa and the surrounding region, she has settled into family life. “This time, instead of commanding the restaurant kitchen, I’ve stepped back and created my boutique business foraging locally-produced foods and delicious ingredients that deserve to be shared. “Our grazing platters are a fantastic and convenient way to sample fresh local produce in one sitting. “However, I do not stop at grazing platters. I am a recipe inventor and menu planner, degustation curator and I love using local produce to create in-house dining experiences for my clients. “I love nothing more than growing foodie relationships with our local artisans and producers.’’ Add to that chatting to customers about food, bringing that story and collaboration of food talents together, providing a taste of Noosa, the hinterland and the wider Sunshine Coast and Gympie regions. “I love cooking,’’ Dee said. “I love seeing people happy eating food, and I enjoy showcasing our beautiful local artisan food in a memorable setting. “It’s wonderful to be able to build relationships not only for myself but for clients with the local producers, farmers, cheese-makers, bakers and fishmongers. “Then it is a matter of combining my chef skills and knowledge to create something that I would love to experience myself for any occasion, if on holidays or visiting for only a short time. “Local food made with love. You can see it. You can smell it. You can taste it. “That’s one of my favourite things about my line of work - it’s to hold knowledge about food that I can share, and I get to hear the gorgeous comments the guests have when they are eating the local produce.’’ When the occasion allows Dee will give a little introduction about the dish and the producers. During cooking lessons she explain the steps of how to create the meal, how to make better food choices, how to look after fresh food, and the importance of supporting the local community as well as food producers. “I really love talking about food and the origin’s of food, and to continue sharing my knowledge of the local producers through food demonstrations at schools with the Slow Food Kids. This involves discussing the clean principles as to the importance of composting, keeping the carbon
in the ground, preventing food wastage and the benefits of respecting the environment.’’ Dee is regularly called on to talk about her grazing platters to travel writers and appear on television shows highlighting the region for the natural attractions as well as the food. Her son Gene is both business partner and, at age 14, Slow Food Noosa’s Youth Delegate. This is due to his interest in cooking, food and the environment. The exciting part about Dee’s business and her passion is that everyone working with food and beverage loves and believes in what they are creating. “They care so much on how the product is made, all the way to the end. They have a passion and want to share that story with you. The region produces some of the best quality artisan and farm produce in the world. “Nobody I have met is pretending to be something they are not ... all want to share the finest, most honest food that they can produce. You can taste the labour of their love.’’ With Noosa, Cooloola and the Sunshine Coast being the only place in Australia with three UNESCO Biosphere reserves sitting side-by-side one another, it is inspiring to know that producers are regenerating their land and working to make clean decisions on what they produce. This is in addition to using products that they can source from other neighbouring growers or producers. “I love it that it is one big culinary family doing business with each other; supporting, holding a down-to-earth approach to sharing knowledge, having open gates, and showing off produce and the fruits of their hard work. They are all the nicest bunch of people you will ever meet.’’ Fresh is Best - that is the simple philosophy Dee has always worked under. By sourcing food locally she not only supports the community but knows where the food is coming from. “We have everything at our doorstep, buying local and limiting the need for hours in transport, and using only what’s in season. “Small batches of quality, locally-made, and sometimes perishable produce are available fresh - but need to be attended to almost straight away for longevity. “I try my best to be sustainable with my packaging and love the fact that my grazing boxes, along with the utensils, are compostable - apart from a clear window that can also be recycled.’’ Perishables need to be treated with professionalism. You have to recognise their life - the receiving, cleaning, storing, prepping and serving. Having a good sense of time is another important aspect of Dee’s work - understanding how
The outback chef: Dee’s pantry for travelling in remote parts of Australia. (574686)
Dee Young and Ana Vaia Garcia at the Slow Food Noosa Film With Food as part of 2026 GourMay. (552355) long something will take to make, and then deliver. The time goes in the preparation before the components of food come together to become their own identity. That’s a challenge those in the food industry are always faced with. One of the simplest tips Dee can provide for those who want to grow their own food and do something for the environment is to start a worm farm. “It’s one of the best things I have achieved in recent years. “There are clean, living, friendly worms that eat all my blended vegetable scraps, turning them into nutrient-rich soil. This keeps my vegetables and herb garden glowing; and it keeps my greens out of landfill, turning them back into carbon.’’ Dee admits to being a book lover - reading the stories of fellow chefs and getting exited about beautiful, good content that rewards the mind and taste buds. Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly was, in its time, her favourite book. This was due the raw way in which it revealed what working in highend restaurant kitchens was really like. Dee still loves Almost French by Australian writer Sarah Turnbull due to the way it normalises that life, as a chef, can only be fully understood by other hospitality workers. “I don’t use cook books to cook; I use the inspiration I get from the photos and the chef’s experiences. That grounds me to the person I am - being a chef, you are not lonely when you know you are one of a kind, and one of millions around the globe.’’ Among those to provide inspiration along the way have been chef and food critic turned farmerfood activist Matthew Evans, who lives on a mixed farm that occupies a one-time apple orchard in the Huon Valley outside Hobart. “I’ve been in awe of his work practices since following his family’s journey to Tasmania when he aired The Gourmet Farmer. “It’s exactly what we as humans and foodies need - a true blue look at what it takes and how to do it.’’ When Dee returns from Italy there will be many stories she will be able to tell, and ideas to pass on. Yet something that says so much about Dee Young and the person she is comes from clients of The Noosa Forager. “Most people tell me that their romantic picnics are spent talking about the food in the platter than any other conversation. “I love that. That’s the aim.’’ Dee Young is an inspiring young chef. Her passion for supporting fresh, local produce is as contagious as her enthusiasm for life ... and her appreciation for the producers and artisans who invest time and effort bringing us some incredible local produce that celebrates our region. Friday, 2 October, 2026 NOOSA TODAY 37
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Shaun Morris and Brooke Marshall of Thunder Ridge Equestrian: First in 160km lightweight division on Chingford Turn Me Loose.579051 03 junior. UNDERSTAND THE HORSE Akhmed Pshunov travels to all of the eastern states for the national endurance riding events, and while trying for a Top 10 finish he is always mindful of the horse. “I like to be competitive but will always try to complete the course,’’ he said, “... I don’t vet out very often. “I appreciate my time with horses and have about an 80-percent completion rate. “Hard work is no stranger to me - I have always loved this sport and worked hard. “As riders, we need to understand how the body of a horse works, otherwise you will not have success. “This takes time. You need to understand the horse. “It’s a matter of encouraging the horse to achieve the best without over-stressing them. “We all get tired. We have to find that happy line ... to find that happy medium is really important. “You always have to be patient. Endurance is long distance - there’s always more distance in front of you.’’ Akhi has known Stan Zischke since he moved to Australia in 2007, and paid tribute to him for the training of the horse he rode - Glenewan Secret - but also to their friendship over the years. He said Stan’s love of horses went back to riding them to school. Stan had the Kilkivan butcher shop after completing his apprenticeship at Nolans. Later, he ran Spud Zischke’s Fruit Bowl in Gympie. “We found a friendship ... we understand each other,’’ Akhi said. “Glenewan Secret is a really tough and smart horse. She goes and goes and never stops. “Stan got her from Peter Spotswood at Glenewan Arabians in Kandanga. “He has great instinct and is a good judge of quality horses.’’ Stan’s first ride in 2003 was first place heavyweight riding Beckalinda Sambucca in an 83km event at Eden Creek in NSW. He was consistently top 20 including third in the Far-A-Way 120km in 2008 and won the heavyweight at the 2014 State Championships for a 99km ride on Prince Dominant. As well as winning the Far-A-Way 2017 heavyweight division over 84km on Glenewan Whisper, he took out the 2017 Rockybar State Championship. Stan started Glenewan Secret with a training ride of 20km at Biggenden in 2019 and took out the Stirlings Starlight 80km ride in 2021. Subsequently he completed 29 training rides on Glenewan Secret before Akhi won on the mare at Kilkivan earlier this year.
BIGGENDEN TURNS IT ON The 2026 Queensland State Championships was judged successful by many involved in the sport of endurance. There were 90 nominations for the three events being held on the weekend of September 11-13: 160km, 80km and 40km. It was considered a good field as the Queensland season comes towards an end but with some big events still planned for the southern states. Conditions were near perfect with light cloud cover, and temperatures around 10 degrees at the 10.30pm start for the 160km ride, then the 80km at 2.30am. By the the time the leaders were finishing the second leg, the thermometer sat at about the 12 to 13-degree mark. TAKING IT IN HER STRIDE For Brooke Marshall of Thunder Ridge Equestrian, it was her second state championship win, finishing equal first with stablemate Giulia Ciprino at Widgee two years ago. Brooke was riding Chingford Turn Me Loose, a 13-year-old grey part-Arab mare standing 16.3 hands. As such, the horse has a stable name of Spider due to the long legs. “I like to see the horses do their best for every ride,’’ Brooke said, “no matter if they are competitive or a novice horse. “Spider just wanted to go. The ride went better than expected and it was good to have finished before the heat of the day.’’ Brooke started riding endurance in 2011, and in 2016 won the Far-A-Way Easter Carnival marathon as a junior on Bashan Vashti, going on to win the Tom Quilty Gold Cup over 160km in Victoria that year. She has gone on to complete five Tom Quilty
rides, including a third lightweight at Stirling’s Crossing in Imbil this year. Always competitive whether riding or training horses, Brooke paid tribute after the Biggenden ride to Akhmed Pshunov who has been a family friend since he relocated to Australia. Akhi has worked with Thunder Ridge Equestrian through the years and has helped give credit to the name of the stables through his ability to train horses, Brooke said. For Akhi, he has completed six national Tom Quilty rides, his first was in Victoria on Captain’s Creek Rupert. That was in 2009 when he finished 16th middleweight. He finished second in the 2008 Far-A-Way 320.0km Marathon on Hirstglen Maybe. Other Tom Quilty buckles have been at Tasmania in 2018, finishing ninth middleweight on Abbeywood Bella, and third in 2012 on Tarrangower Crecendo; 10th in New South Wales in 2015 on Matta Mia Su Al; fourth in South Australia in 2017 on Sangah The Messiah, and third in 2011 on Tarrangower Crecendo. “This is not about me but the many people who have helped me personally, and in the sport of endurance,’’ Akhi said. “Brooke Marshall, Giulia Ciprino and Ken Moir were inspirational on this ride. Matthew Sample for all his support as well as that of endurance - and all the juniors. They are the heroes. “Thanks also to endurance rider Amanda Doyle and Michael Wood. I have worked with Amanda, but it’s also the way in which she has supported me through the years.’’ Understandably, Ahki is very proud of the way in which his daughter, 12-year-old Bella, is progressing with her riding, which has included fourth junior at Biggenden, and completion of the 2026 Tom Quilty Gold Cup.
NOTICE TO MEMBERS The Noosa District Rugby Union Club Inc. is seeking the attendance of members at the 2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM). Date: Friday 30 October 2026 Time: 6 pm Location: Clubhouse of Noosa District Rugby Union Club Inc. 1 Bicentennial Drive Sunshine Beach QLD 4567 Agenda: 1. Presentation of the 2026 Annual Report. 2. Preliminary Presentation of the 2026 Audited Financials. 3. Election of the 2027 Management Committee To nominate for an Executive Position or to be a representative of the Club’s Management Committee, please request a nomination form and submit via: Email: president@noosarugby.com.au Post: PO Box 364 Noosa Heads QLD 4567 Chris Burton President Noosa District Rugby Union Club Inc. Closing date for nomination forms is no later than 5pm on Thursday 15th October 2026 All members are encouraged to nominate for positions.
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Noosa Heads Surf Lifesavers visit Cherbourg. (Supplied)
Life saving in Cherbourg TALKING SPORT RON LANE After 69 years of service with the Noosa Heads Surf Life Saving Club at Noosa Main Beach, each season still brings a new challenge. For several seasons, our club has shared our way of life with the young people of Cherbourg. Under our new, progressive and open-minded president, Donald McKill, the club is tackling these challenges with a fresh outlook and leaving no stone unturned. The following flyer from Malani Baker and Ava Harding, (and passed on by Steve Mawby,) the 2026–27 Female Nipper Captains, provides an informative and thought-provoking report. “As Noosa Nippers captains, we were fortunate to be part of the trip to Murgon and Cherbourg. It was a great chance to represent our club, share some skills and spend time with students from local indigenous schools. On the way there we stopped at Goomeri Bakery for a pie and also a game of footy in the rain. A fun way to start the trip. Travelling together also helped us to connect more as team laughing and telling stories along the way. We also visited the Ration Shed in Cherbourg. We heard stories from an Elder, listened to Dean Saffron speak briefly about his family and totems, and watched a video of Sophie sharing her story. Sophie spoke about moving from Palm Island to Cherbourg for a better education and life experiences. Her story was sad and confronting, it made us think about how different people can be even for the youth of our age. We could not relate to a lot of what we heard in the Ration Shed, because our lives were very different, to what we were told. But we could understand being young and wanting opportunities. Walking through the dormitories and hearing 42 NOOSA TODAY Friday, 2 October, 2026
the stories was very interesting and sad. It made us think and reflect on how grateful we should be about how our lives had turned out as others have not been granted with what we have grown up in. At the local pool in Murgon, we helped run activities like flags, dolphin diving, tube rescue surf skills and riding boards. It was good seeing all the students having a go, especially seeing the ones who were nervous at first. By the end we were all smiling laughing and students getting more confident and having fun. In conclusion the trip to Cherbourg and Murgon showed us that Nippers is more than just a sport and beach. It is also about helping others, learning from different people and coming together as a team. We are overly thrilled to welcome the students to Noosa in November and give them a Nippers experience with us. Long time NHSLSC member Jack Lewis has forged a strong relationship with the Cherbourg and Murgon communities over the last eight years: resulting from of a customised Community Education Program, which contributes to our club’s strong equity and inclusion culture. Once a small team of Noosa lifesavers, including Jack Lewis, visited Murgon Pool prior the kids travelling to Noosa to experience body surfing, nipper board activities and a bar-b-q lunch: and from there it just expanded. This year we are extending this engagement through supporting the local kids at Cherbourg and Murgon to join our mainstream program at Noosa for the first four Sundays in November. This will commence with our U13 and U 14 nippers first travelling out to the Murgon Pool on September 11 to meet the local kids and assist in running the ‘Nipper Try Day.’ The Cherbourg Community is approximately 2 hours 15 minutes’ drive northwest of Noosa. In the late 60’s and early 70’s approximately 40 per cent of Noosa Lifesavers travelled from Murgon District to our beaches and inspired the title of our book called Bush to Beach written to celebrate the clubs 75th anniversary. Details of another recent ‘Bush to Beach’ initiative can be found in this link. https://lifesaving. com.au/app/uploads/Shoreline-Magazine-June2026.pdf
We thank you for your support, and it goes without saying the long-lasting benefits this brings to both the Cherbourg community as well our U13s and U14s. From one of the Cherbourg community members comes the following. “Yaama everyone. I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone involved in making yesterday happen. It was such a great day and so good to see the Cherbourg kids and the kids from Noosa Surf Life Saving Club, together having fun, learning from each other and making new friendships. A lot of people put in a lot of work behind the scenes to get the program off the ground and seeing it happen yesterday was special. Thank you to everyone from Noosa Heads Surf Life Saving Club who travelled to Cherbourg, and to everyone in Cherbourg who made the day possible. We also thank the parents, volunteers, chaperones and others who gave their time. A special thank you to Aunty B, for guiding the Noosa group through the Ration Shed. I am sure everyone left with a deeper understanding and appreciation of Cherbourg, its history and its community. Aunty B, I truly appreciate the time and effort you shared with us. Yesterday showed that we have created something special that we can continue to build on. It was a privilege for me to photograph the day, and I’ve put together both the colour and black-and-white at the link below. Hppts ://www.dropdox .com/scl/fo/ m4en64uzdjumzy6xy4j29/AB4rAuLzUofNioh9 j4HKs? rlkey-=sd289n2urb56c7024urc08d5f&dl-0 Thanks again everyone. It was a great day and something I was very proud to be a part of.” Maarubaa Dean. GREAT MONTH FOR NOOSA BARBELL CLUB. Once again, the Noosa Barbell Club is lifting itself to glory and success. Situated at 1/15 Lionel Donovan Drive Noosaville, it is owned and operated by Cross Fit 4566 in Noosa and competes under the coaching and guidance of Head Coach Woogie Marsh and team. Speaking on behalf of his team, coaches and support group, club-head Coach, (affectionally
known as Swampy) Marsh, had this to say. “It has been a huge month for Noosa Barbell Club with athletes representing the club from Melbourne to Greece and across Queensland competition platform, bringing home medals, personal bests and some memorable performances. The month began on the national stage, with Cooper Ward travelling to Melbourne for the Australian Youth and Under-15 National Championships. In his final year in the youth division, Cooper delivered a personal-best performance when it mattered most, snatching 102 kg and clean and jerking 130 kg to win silver and finish his youth career on a high. Meanwhile, Erin Oberem represented Noosa Barbell and Australia internationally at the IMWA Masters World Championships in Greece. Travelling with her son for her first international competition, Erin had the opportunity to pull on the green and gold representing both Australia and her Noosa Barbell community on the world stage. Reflecting on the experience Erin said, ‘Huge thank you to all the incredible humans that have supported and encouraged me. Feeling so deeply loved and blessed to be here. Such a privilege to wear the green and gold.’ Attention then turned to the junior and senior athletes, who opened their season by representing Noosa Barbell across three days of competition at the Queensland State Championships. Kase Dowd began strongly, snatching a personal-best 68 kg and clean and jerking 88 kg for a new personal-best competition total. Another standout performance came from the club’s adaptive athlete, Eli Frew. Eli was fantastic snatching 40kg, clean and jerk 52 kg, while competing as a guest at the championships. The opportunity represented another important step forward for adaptive athletes in Queensland Weightlifting. We would like to extend a massive thank you to the Queensland Weightlifting for working with the club to help make opportunities such as this possible.” Next week, we will bring readers further results from days two and three of the state titles and introduce new sporting champions from across the community.
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Century in the sun LIFE OF BRINE PHIL JARRATT philjarratt.com From page 1 In the final years of the 19th century, what little there was of Noosa Heads mainly belonged to Walter Hay, the former Maryborough station manager and ferryman who had blazed the “Shortcut” from Gympie to Tewantin, enabling Cobb and Co coaches to bring miners and their families from the Gympie goldfields to stay at the fishing shacks they had established along the Noosa River strip which had been christened “Gympie Terrace”. In the 1880s Hay built a sixroom guesthouse (later 10 rooms plus a spacious dining room) and a home on the hill overlooking Laguna Bay and opened Bay View Guesthouse. Soon Walter and his teenaged sons had taken over a mangrove sandspit in the cove off the Noosa River estuary, named it Hay’s Island (now the basis of Noosa Sound) and established an extensive market garden to service the produce needs of Bay View and briefly those of the Grand Hotel (something of an overstatement) which had opened on Hastings Street in 1890 but burned down a couple of years later. The Hays also fed guests at Bainbridge’s Guest House, a six-bedroom place built by Gympie mine manager John Bainbridge on Hastings Street. Although the new guesthouse stole some business from the Hays, Bainbridge soon tired of running it and leased it and ultimately sold it to a notable colleague from the goldfields. John Donovan had made a name for himself in Gympie as a canny investor and a director of the successful No 2 South Great Eastern Gold Mining Co, and in 1904 he made the local records book when he bought 1000 shares of Great Eastern. In 1906 he and wife Eliza looked south for their next investment and bought the Bainbridge, renaming it Laguna House and relocating two more houses to the property which now stretched 50 metres along Hastings Street’s sandy track, with a beach access directly opposite. The wooden balconies were soon hung with bright beach towels and modest bathing costumes as the entrepreneurial Donovans filled every room. It didn’t take long for Donovan to realise that he needed some form of surf safety measure to prevent his customers from drowning, and he looked to the recent invention in Sydney of the surf rescue reel. The brainchild of Lyster Ormsby, a founding member and first captain of Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club, the reel was first demonstrated in March 1907, allowing a lifesaver wearing a belt attached to a line to reach a swimmer and be assisted back to shore by a crew on the beach. Introduced to Queensland at Greenmount in 1908, it was to become the mainstay of surf life saving for generations. In 1915 John Donovan bought a safety reel from the Royal Life Saving Society in Brisbane and over Easter a team of lifesavers travelled to Noosa to install it at the front of Laguna House and demonstrate its use. It would take more than 20 years before a surf life saving club was created in Noosa, but this was the humble beginning.
The expanded Laguna House, 1920s. (Heritage Noosa)
Foundation members with the Laguna House safety reel, 1929. (NHSLSC)
A later shot of Laguna House, showing the Donovan home on left. (Heritage Noosa)
Belt training for the R & R squad, 1950s. (NHSLSC)
Noosa marchpast, 1928. (NHSLSC)
Modern boat crew action. (NHSLSC) NOOSA WEATHER FORECAST THURS 1ST OCTOBER Sunny.
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MAKING A HOUSE A HOME PROPERTY MATTERS ERLE LEVEY IT’S a generational home ... one that has warmly hosted friends and family through the years. Just like those who have enjoyed its design and location, the house has grown and been reimagined. Peter TeWhata at Tom Offermann Real Estate is taking 57 Park Edge Rd, Sunshine Beach, to auction on Saturday, 10 October, at 11am. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom, two-car house comes with a pool that has been so much part of family life here, but also hosted sporting and business identities from thoughout Queensland, across Australia and around the world. The location is attractive, with wide exposure to Noosa National Park but also direct views to the hinterland. As such it invited offers of interest over the years from people in Noosa Heads, Tewantin and Tinbeerwah because they could understand the position it held. The same applied to the design of the house - open, inviting yet private due to the way it is at the end of a cul-de-sac and has been set back from the street. Repurposed and extended over time, the house sits on 1547sq m but with the potential to further be expanded and to capture more of the views that stretch across Lake Weyba and Noosa’s eastern beaches to Coolum and Mooloolaba. Peter has received many direct calls about the property while open houses have been really well attended. “They like the privacy, the national park backdrop and the leafy surrounds. “From the lounge you get views to Mt Coolum, so it gets the early morning sun and the last rays of the day. “Among those from interstate and who are local are people who have had an eye on the
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6 Mitti St, Noosa Heads: Five-bedroom, three-bathroom, two-car house, pool. Auction Saturday, 3 October, at 11am. property for many years.’’ The dress-circle address is handy to schools, sports facilities and Noosa Junction. The house has benefitted from the hand of renowned Noosa architect Tim Ditchfield and features Tasmanian oak floors as well as VJ ceilings. The split-level living areas form the heart of the house, with fireplace and custom seating. Banks of disappearing doors, louvres and picture windows provide commanding views every which way. Undercover terraces are on the east and west sides but it is the C-shaped granite-topped kitchen that grabs your attention -complete with shaker-style cabinetry including a semi-island breakfast bar. There’s a walk-in pantry, the splash back is adorned with mosaic tiles and appliances include Miele oven and five-hob gas cooktop, Neff dishwasher; LG fridge and integrated Smeg micro. There is a servery for the terrace with integrated barbecue, highlighting the Noosa lifestyle for breakfast, casual lunches or convivial evening gatherings by the pool. Upstairs, there are eagle’s nest views from the main bedroom suite retreat with walk-in robe, white bright tiled ensuite with single basin cabinetry, and a gym, or office. On the ground floor in the east wing are three bedrooms with secure terrace access; all have robes and ensuites; the bathroom has a separate toilet; and a laundry and storeroom are nearby. The two-car garage with epoxy flooring has storage plus bike and surfboard racks, and there is a cubby/tree house on the fringe of the national park. “The concept of an elevated and openly engaged residence in harmony with its surrounds was a genius architectural design by Tim Ditchfield,“ Peter said. “It also aligns perfectly with the idyllic sub-tropical climate ... the deliberate restraint used throughout, creates a calming sense of composure from the initial entry.’’
SUBSTANCE, STYLE AND LIVEABILITY In a fantastic location, a three-bedroom, twobathroom, one-car townhome at Noosa Heads has a homely feel as well as the option of dual living. Erica Newton at Tom Offermann Real Estate is taking the property to auction Friday, 9 October, at 1pm, with decent numbers already inspecting at open homes. Positioned in a handy location away from the traffic yet within easy reach of Noosa Junction, the property has had a high-quality renovation and has full short-term holiday approval. “It’s one of those places where you could do dual living,’’ Erica said. “Especially if there are older children as the two-level floorplan means you can be separated yet still together.’’ Privately positioned within the tightly-held Banksia Terraces, the townhome is within a leafy, tropical setting and offers a balance of tranquillity, convenience and understated sophistication. Following an extensive renovation inside and out, the extended balcony creates an elevated outdoor setting overlooking the resort-style pool and lush tropical gardens. Inside, natural light and clean architectural lines define the interiors. New flooring, windows and doors sit alongside a beautifully appointed new kitchen, refined lighting, ceiling fans and bespoke window coverings. New skylights further draw daylight into the home, creating a sense of openness and calm across both levels. Comfort and technology have been thoughtfully integrated throughout, with temperature-controlled ducted air-conditioning that can be managed remotely, double-glazed windows and additional insulation to the upperlevel bedroom. Upstairs, the principal living space unfolds in an open-plan configuration, extending onto the generous west-facing balcony. At ground level, a private east-facing courtyard provides another peaceful outdoor sanctuary, complete with gated access towards Pinaroo Park.
A new garage door, upgraded electrical infrastructure and a sophisticated security system with cameras and online access provide a seamless level of modern convenience. Comprising just 16 townhomes, Banksia Terraces is an intimate residential enclave distinguished by its beautifully landscaped tropical gardens, resort-style swimming pool and sun terrace. NAUTICAL ELEGANCE BY DESIGN There’s something powerful about the sight and sound of water, and it’s on full show with white water vistas at a Marcus Beach property. Tim McSweeney at Tom Offermann Real Estate is taking the three-bedroom, twobathroom, two-car beach house at 37 Tristania Dve to auction Saturday, 3 October, at 11am. With a nautically-inspired design by Colin Loel, the beachhouse has retained its original contemporary status, complemented by botanical-like gardens designed by Felix Adena. The house stretches across three levels, all bathed in washes of natural light and offering sweeping 180-degree views - from Lions Head to the north in Noosa National Park, to Mooloolaba and beyond to the south. “There’s so much to love about the impressive residence on so many levels and how it remains absolutely relevant to today,“ Tim said. Polished blackbutt flooring is in the living and dining spaces, highlighted by a large woodburning fireplace trimmed in Moroccan fossil marble. Outdoors there is an expansive covered terrace with all-weather plantation shutters on the south side. The designer kitchen has a lengthy Fossil Marrone marble and stainless steel-topped island breakfast bar and open under-storage. The main benches have stainless steeltopped creamy cabinetry, numerous high-end appliances including Fisher & Paykel threedoor fridge with icemaker; Smeg five-hob gas cooktop and oven; Miele integrated dishwasher; pull-out plus walk-in pantries.
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37 Tristania Drive, Marcus Beach: Three-bedroom, two-bathroom, two-car beach house. Auction Saturday, 3 October, 11am. surround. A study with custom desk and storage is adjacent. HIDDEN SERENITY Most prestige homes impress on sight. Fewer make you feel something the moment you arrive. Layered living spaces, framed green outlooks and natural light do that work at an architect-designed house in Little Cove. The beach sits steps from the door. Hastings Street is five minutes on foot. The five-bedroom, three-bathroom, two-car house with pool at 6 Mitti St, Noosa Heads, is scheduled for auction Saturday, 3 October, at 11am. Ray White Noosa’s David Conolly and Mike Hay are marketing the property in conjunction with James Callianiotis of Realcorp International. The Noosa National Park trails start at the
doorstep. Yet this is a home that’s central without ever feeling exposed. Luxurious yet never formal, it encompasses advanced wellness technology including a magnesium pool, sauna, hydrogen plunge, and Circadian lighting. The bespoke stone kitchen features a fluted limestone island, Naccarado quartzite, and Eco Brass taps. Layered living spaces, framed green outlooks and natural light create a serene oasis. The tech is quietly serious. Control4 runs lighting, climate, security and audio. A TallTech Circadian system tracks natural sleep cycles. Whole-home water filtration and a Zip HydroTap finish the wellness detail. The main level has open-plan living, dining and kitchen opening straight onto the alfresco, pool and gardens. Bedrooms sit below with real separation. A
curved staircase climbs to an upper wing built for whatever comes next - a main retreat, guest rooms, offices, a studio. That flexibility is the point. FORTHCOMING AUCTIONS FRIDAY, 2 October Noosa Heads 13/2 Serenity Cl: 3bed, 2bath, 2car apartment, 12pm, Rick Daniel 0411 737 767 Coastal Noosa SATURDAY, 3 October Noosaville 4/2-4 William St: 2bed, 3bath, 1car riverfront apartment, 12pm, Jesse Stowers 0414 367 282 Tom Offermann Real Estate Marcus Beach 37 Tristania Drive: 3bed, 2bath, 2car beachhouse, 11am, Tim McSweeney 0411 122 331 Tom Offermann Real Estate.
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The lower level takes a more casual approach to lounging. It has custom wall cabinetry, kitchenette and plantation shutters while doors slide away to the north side herb and water gardens. A second expansive terrace is accessible from two sizeable bedrooms with built-in robes and shutters. There’s a white mosaic-tiled bathroom with single basin cabinetry as well as a powder room. Wake up to an amazing sunrise each day from the main bedroom suite retreat, with a balcony and lustrous timber cabinetry including a chest of drawers. There’s a walk-in robe and the ensuite design comes with white mosaic tiles and subtle aqua feature. The ocean views can be enjoyed from the bathtub which has a Fossil Marrone marble
11/2-10 Banksia Ave, Noosa Heads: Three-bedroom, two-bathroom, one-car townhome. Auction Friday, 9 October, 1pm.
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Steered by lashings of year-round sun and
across the white terrazzo-effect tiles in the living and
serendipitously-anytime views of the Noosa River, the
dining space and an affinity for natural tones underpins
lustrous blue green sweep of Noosa North Shore across
a holiday everyday vibe. Walk a few steps to Gympie
an inspiring 180° watercolour panorama that behaves
Terrace where a myriad of trendy restaurants, cafes
like an ever changing artwork dotted with yachts and
and bars line the adjacent parks and set the scene for a
pleasure-craft. Boasting a Northern orientation on
lifestyle awaiting.
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aesthetic, attracts brilliant light to seemingly twirl
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the riverfront, practicality, calmness, and white-bright
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10 DUKE STREET, SUNSHINE BEACH
Boldly staking its claim on a wide sequestered curved
Similar design excellence is evident in the kitchen with
corner, a cool sassy residence with serious design clout,
quartz-topped cabinetry, lengthy island with arty pillars
takes its place in the sun 5 minutes to the sand.
and oversize ball pendants, rosewood cabinetry with
A clever sense of playfulness to the symmetrical main
huge walk-in pantry, top-end appliances. Just a short,
pavilion design, led by an apex draws the eye down and
flat walk to Sunshine Village.
separates it into unique stunning spaces and thanks to
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two walls of disappearing high doors it coalesces to the
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22/40 HASTINGS STREET, NOOSA HEADS
The beachside strip of Hasting Street is known
tiles making quite the impact.
worldwide for its laidback coastal vibe, glow worm
Whispers of Caribbean charm are everywhere from
tree lights and sophisticated array of sassy boutiques,
bright splashes of blue, specially chosen chic furniture
galleries, cafes, bars and restaurants.
and accessories, and curated collections of colourful
In the vibrant heart of it all, just 150m to the sand a sage
artwork to seaside artifacts, also the dramatic vaulted
investor’s unmissable opportunity evokes an immediate
ceiling, and large east-side windows, a magnet for
holiday mindset. The sun drenched white-bright
drenching or filtering streams of natural light via the
aesthetic, with plantation shutters and sparkling white
shutters on the two walls.
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A2 B2 C1 D Auction Saturday 10 October 12.00pm View Sunday 1.00pm - 1.30pm Wednesday 12.00pm - 12.30pm Agent Rebekah Offermann 0413 044 241 rebekah@offermann.com.au
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22 NETHERBY RISE, SUNRISE BEACH
Perfectly poised in the absolute dress circle of Sunrise
be overjoyed by barefoot luxury albeit an effortlessly
Beach, with 180° views which are never compromised,
cool vibe, how the luminous quality is matched by the
from the Noosa National Park to the north & breaching
interior as fresh and exhilarating as an early morning
whales out the front; then south to Point Cartwright,
swim in shimmering pool. It’s vivacious, cool with
and mere minutes to toes-in-the white sand. Nothing
voluminous spaces, and a wall of disappearing doors,
really beats waking to the sound of waves breaking
all forming the heart of the residence and mimicked
onshore, checking the white-tips from bed, grabbing
alfresco.
the boards and kids and never missing a day. Inside
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A3 B3 C2 D Auction Saturday 17 October 12.00pm View Saturday 10.00am - 10.30am Wednesday 11.00am - 11.30am Agent Peter TeWhata 0423 972 034 peter@offermann.com.au
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28 SOBRAON STREET, SUNRISE BEACH
There’s so much to love about an extraordinary seaside
contemporary status retained thanks to renowned
treasure, three minutes to squeaky white sand, surf
architect Ken Robinson and builder Bruce Windrum,
breaks for the super stoked, also a rooftop terrace and
who won 2 Master Builders Awards in 2003.
Coral Sea views to sigh for!
Similar admiration for the soothing sounds of a
A commanding presence in a cosseted of a tiny cul de
waterfall which flows over 2 levels and 3 gardens within;
sac, it is shrouded in mystique from the street. Push
a sweeping staircase to the mezzanine lounge; and
aside the statement doors into the foyer, to reveal
door to the roof terrace with privacy shutters and
an acutely desirable multi-level residence, its original
magical views sweeping the eastern seaboard.
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A5 B3 C2 D Auction Saturday 17 October 2.00pm View Saturday 9.00am - 9.30am Wednesday 12.00pm - 12.30pm Agent Erica Newton 0410 603 519 erica@offermann.com.au
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Positioned in one of Noosa’s most coveted waterfront
golden evenings and some of the most spectacular
settings, this beautifully spacious two-bedroom
sunsets Noosa has to offer, as the sun slips behind the
apartment plus multi-purpose room captures a front-
silhouettes of Mt Tinbeerwah and Mt Cooroy.
row seat to the very best of the Noosa River.
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With sweeping views stretching from the river mouth to the hinterland, the coveted north-west aspect delivers something truly special - magical afternoons,
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1 6 - 1 8 S E AV I E W T E R R A C E , S U N S H I N E B E A C H Trade the everyday for the magnetism of Seaview
The spectacular timber and glass-paned entry door
Terrace and a luxury seaside sanctuary, seducing
magically teases, stepping into the foyer, divulging lofty
escapes to a ‘salty’ getaway close to toes-in-the-sand
ceilings, pastel tiled floors and thoughtful design.
of Sunshine Beach. The generous yet serene sculpted
Banks of disappearing doors on the NW side open to
multi-level beach house, fringed and enhanced by
undercover terraces on two sides, suggesting breakfast
layers of native gardens, is sequestered in rainforest
with birdsong and numerous entertaining options.
evoking privacy and mystery. It defines the lush
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streetscapes from the front as well as the rear access.
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Perfectly positioned within the coveted inner circle of
Recently refreshed and ready to enjoy, the home is
Price $2.15M
Regatta Circuit, this beautifully presented single-level
ideal for relaxed living and easy entertaining.
residence offers an effortless lifestyle in one of
Just moments from the Noosa River, Gympie Terrace,
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Noosaville’s most tightly held addresses.
boutique shopping, cafés and restaurants, with
High raked ceilings create a wonderful sense of light
Hastings Street and Main Beach only minutes away, this
and space, while two generous living areas and a
is Noosa living at its best.
well-appointed kitchen flow seamlessly to a covered alfresco terrace and private, low-maintenance gardens.
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327/62 HASTINGS STREET, NOOSA HEADS
Perfectly positioned within the impeccably maintained
Ideal as a private coastal escape or premium
French Quarter Resort, Apartment 327 is a beautifully
investment, it boasts an excellent established holiday
renovated retreat just moments from Hastings Street
rental income. Surrounded by lush tropical gardens,
and Noosa Main Beach. A prized north-facing aspect
the resort features a spectacular lagoon-style pool,
fills the apartment with natural light, complementing
creating an idyllic holiday atmosphere in Noosa’s most
the stylish contemporary interiors and relaxed open-
sought-after beachside locations.
Price $2.45M
plan design.
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86 PA N O R A M A D R I V E, DOONAN Set on a generous 5,265m² allotment in Doonan, this property presents an opportunity to secure an acreage holding within the Noosa hinterland. The residence comprises three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a double garage. Located approximately 8km from Eumundi and just 13km from the cafés, restaurants and riverfront lifestyle of Gympie Terrace, Noosaville, the property offers a desirable balance of hinterland tranquillity and easy access to the Noosa lifestyle.
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Agent Cameron Uruqhart 0411 757 570 cameron@offermann.com.au
9302/5 MORWONG DRIVE, NOOSA HEADS Is this your moment of serendipity to eat play love everything, with a sassy sparkling gem near the seaside to get you into the mood? Think Laguna Bay and Noosa Main Beach almost on your doorstep, famous Noosa National Park with its Surfing Reserve a boardwalk stroll away, and in the vibrant heart of it all. Just a 5-minute walk to the sand is one super cool year-round summer stunner. The airy feel achieved through soft neutral tones mimicking the location creates a calming backdrop, and there’s certainly a coalescence with the undercover terrace. Relax on the leisure furniture and fully appreciate sundrenched bluebird days, seemingly poised in a rainforest canopy of palms and eucalypts. Look out for the occasional koala and enjoy a cuppa with a side of choruses from the colourful birdlife.
A1 B1 C1 D Price $955,000 View Saturday 1.00pm - 1.30pm
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A RARE RETREAT WHERE LUXURY MEETS THE NATIONAL PARK HALCYON days are here with stellar enticements, a triumph of flawless pedigree, supreme tranquility, bountiful natural beauty and the pinnacle of locations to reach for the stars, five… maybe six!
whilst coalescing with expansive undercover terraces on the east and west sides. It suggests more options for entertaining whatever the season.
Picture an irresistible dress circle address in Sunshine Beach and an avantgarde residence on a 1547m2 site, from renowned architect Tim Ditchfield. It is pitched perfectly yet is ostensibly cocooned within the forever verdant Noosa National Park, is mere minutes to sand, surf breaks and Hastings Street, similarly the vibrant cosmopolitan heart of Noosa Junction, and when it comes to boast-worthy eagle eye views, it is top of the world, and beyond all expectations.
Commensurate is the C-shaped granitetopped kitchen with shaker-style cabinetry including a semi-island breakfast bar. There’s a walk-in pantry, the splash back is adorned with mosaic tiles and appliances include top brands such as Neff, LG and Miele.
Equally breathtaking is how the vast blue sky and Coral Sea meld into one, stretching from Noosa River, Lake Weyba to Cooroy Mountain, sweeping to Coolum, Mooloolaba, Point Arkwright, Buderim and Caloundra. And it’s not just the dazzling water views. Expect an after dark coastal light show that extends to the hills beyond Montville and Flaxton, while close to home koalas in the nearby eucalypts visit from their habitats in the Noosa National Park. Easy to also be overwhelmed by the natural beauty surrounds of the National Park being the perfect backdrop at the end of the cul de sac, adding mystique to the residence’s understated street presence. Open the secure gate to obvious privacy, look around to an abundance of more green spaces and panoramic scenery. Push aside the French doors to definitive integrity, form and function in the inspired and prodigious north-facing split level living areas, with fireplace and custom seating. Banks of disappearing doors, louvres and picture windows on almost three lengthy sides encapsulate the views every which way. Similarly, the evocative yet sensual space has high VJ ceilings acting as a magnet for abundant sunlight to shimmer and shadow dance over the endless Tassie oak floors,
The window opens to a servery for the terrace with integrated barbeque, and popular for lunches, those splashing around in the luminescent pool or enjoying a game of bocce on the lawn. Walking more your game? Take the pool stairs, along a dedicated meandering pathway noting all the flora and fauna, to the site’s border, which becomes the National Park’s track to Noosa Junction shopping Slip into blissful dreams with four sizeable bedrooms. Upstairs, wake to dress-circle views from the premier suite retreat with walk-in robe, white bright tiled ensuite with single basin cabinetry, and a gym, or maybe it’s an office. On the ground floor in the east wing are three bedrooms with secure terrace access; all have robes and ensuites; the bathroom has a separate toilet; and a laundry and storeroom are nearby. The two-car garage has storage plus bike and surfboard racks; and little kids will love the cubby/tree house on the fringe of the National Park “The concept of an elevated and openly engaged residence in harmony with its surrounds was a genius architectural design by Tim Ditchfield,” comments Tom Offermann Real Estate agent Peter TeWhata. “It also aligns perfectly with the idyllic subtropical climate, in a form designed to open and close as needed to allow for free flow
ventilation. It certainly is a place of retreat and recharge, and the deliberate restraint used throughout, creates a calming sense of composure from the initial entry, continuing throughout. “This address is sprinkled with sylvan magic. and living or investing in coveted Sunshine Beach where recent property sales speak for themselves, make this sizeable slice of paradise a tour de force. It is undoubtedly one of a kind!” Insider Intel:
• Living/Dining: NE angled & split level
features; eco gas fireplace; custom bench seating
• Kitchen: C-shaped granite-topped w shakerstyle cabinetry incl 2m semi island; walk-in pantry; mosaic-tiled splashback; LG fridge, Miele oven & 5-hob gas cooktop, Neff dishwasher; integrated Smeg micro; window to servery & terrace w integrated BBQ
• Bedrooms: 4 total; sth wing upper level pre-
mier suite retreat w white-bright tiled ensuite w single basin cabinetry; WIR; gym/office; east wing grnd floor 3 w secure nth side terrace access; 2 w WIRs & white-tiled ensuite; 1 w BIR; sep toilet
• Land Area: 1547m • Extras: laundry & study; 2-car garage w epoxy • Internal Area: 293m flooring, storage incl storage space; solar; • External Area: 67m cubby house; outdoor shower Architect: Tim Ditchfield • • Location: cul de sac, end of Parkedge • Pool & Terraces: pool abuts lawn; 3m x 6.3m Road; 1 min via pool stairs & dedicated 2
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sites; entry w French doors; Tassie oak floors; VJ ceilings; multi louvres, slide away doors & windows; fans/aircon
walkway to block border & National Park’s Wallaby Track to Sunshine Beach village; mins to Noosa Junction, also beach & close to Hastings Street via Noosa National Park walkway
Add ress: 57 Parkedge Road, SUNSHINE BEACH Inspect: Saturday 9.00am - 9.30am & Wednesday 10.00am- 10.30am Description: 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2 garage, Auction: Saturday 10 October, 11am Contact: Peter TeWhata 0423 972 034, TOM OFFERMANN REAL ESTATE 16 NOOSA TODAY | Friday, 2 October, 2026
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THE FOUNDATION FOR SOMETHING EXCEPTIONAL BARELY a stone’s throw from Gympie Terrace and the sparkling edge of the Noosa River. There’s little reason to hesitate on a site like this. Positioned in a first class Noosaville pocket, it’s ready made for those wanting to redesign and rebuild from the ground up, capitalising on one of the river precinct’s most sought after streets. A striking new home could rise across the 569m2 block, designed to make the most of its proximity to the river and the foreshore lifestyle that defines this stretch of Noosaville. With its long boundary running north, there’s clever scope to orient a sunny pool and entertaining area to soak up the light throughout the day. A new designer residence here would find itself in great company, surrounded by architecturally considered homes that have already set the tone for this pocket of the river precinct. The original 88m² cottage remains on site, offering two bedrooms, a bathroom, a single car space and a leafy, established garden, a genuine holding option for those weighing up land banking while plans are finalised. “This is footsteps from the buzz of Gympie Terrace and the walking paths that trace the Noosa River’s edge,” says Tom Offermann Real Estate agent Rebekah Offermann. “The foreshore here is genuinely well loved. Dog
walkers, paddleboarders, kayakers and the Noosa Ferry all share the same stretch of water, with the Noosa Yacht and Rowing Club, cafes,
bars and boutique shopping all within easy reach.” “It’s the kind of holding that rewards
patience,” Rebekah adds. “Sit on the land while you finalise plans, then build when the time is right, with a north facing block that’s just waiting for the right design to make the most of it. The location does the heavy lifting for whoever ends up here, and the surrounding streets show exactly what’s possible.” This quietly sought after stretch of Noosaville continues to draw attention from those with a longer term vision, and it’s easy to see why. Facts & Features: Land Area: 569m² About: built 1960; two bedrooms, one bathroom, single car space Location: moments to Gympie Terrace & Noosa River foreshore; close/central to restaurants, bars, cafes incl. waterfront, boutiques, Noosa Yacht & Rowing Club; supermarkets, essential services, transport links; shopping precincts; Noosa Ferries each way from Tewantin Marina stopping at riverside jetties to the Sofitel wharf & Hastings Street; riverside park landscaped w/ gazebos, BBQs, dog friendly walkways & exercise equipment; businesses incl. water sports, flyboard, SUP board, boat & jetski hire, cruises, sailing & tennis courts; 3km to Noosa Heads, Noosa Main Beach, Hastings Street, + National Park & Noosa Junction
HOME ESSENTIALS Address: 15 Cloudsley Street, NOOSAVILLE Description: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom Price: $2.2M Inspect: Contact agent Contact: Rebekah Offermann 0413 044 241, TOM OFFERMANN REAL ESTATE 18 NOOSA TODAY | Friday, 2 October, 2026
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SPACIOUS APARTMENT LIVING SERENITY Close is so popular due to its quiet, central Noosa location, which is walking distance to Noosa’s most iconic attractions, including Noosa Main Beach, Hastings Street and the Noosa National Park. Tightly held for good reason, this spacious apartment will be directly opposite the new and exciting CALILE hotel, which will offer restaurants and retail, adding further convenience to this property. Plus, you will have all the trendy cafes, restaurants and boutique retail outlets just a 550 m walk away in Noosa Junction. This apartment will have broad appeal from those looking to downsize to those needing a home away from home. The apartment is very neat and well maintained, with further scope for upgrades if you wish. Serenity Apartments are positioned high on the hill and elevated from the Noosa River and Laguna Bay, offering distant views of Noosa North Shore and Laguna Bay from the common area gardens. Key benefits: SPACIOUS SINGLE-LEVEL APARTMENT WARM NORTHERLY VIEWS OVER THE POOL AND MANICURED GARDENS LARGE MASTER BEDROOM WITH WALKTHROUGH ROBE AND EN-SUITE (NORTHERLY ASPECT) HOLIDAY LETTING AVAILABLE ACCESS TO NOOSA RIVER FOR SWIMMING AND FISHING OPTIONAL FURNITURE INVENTORY PACKAGE PRIVATE ACCESS AND BALCONY FOYER UNDERGROUND CAR SPACE WITH ADDITIONAL STORAGE FACILITY Locational Benefits: DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THE NEW AND EXCITING CALILE HOTEL (CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION) NOOSA JUNCTION SHOPS, CAFES AND IGA (550M WALK) NOOSA MAIN BEACH AND HASTINGS STREET (1.3KM) NOOSA FARMERS MARKET (2.2KM) SUNSHINE COAST AIRPORT (30KM DRIVE)
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HOME ESSENTIALS Address: 15/2 Serenity Close, NOOSA HEADS Description: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 garage, pool Price: By Negotiation Inspect: Contact Agent Contact: Jonathan Tomasini 0401 807 687, RAY WHITE NOOSA CONOLLY HAY GROUP
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David Conolly 0438 259 956 david.conolly@raywhite.com
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bathrooms and spacious open-plan living and dining areas, with the kitchen enjoying a leafy outlook. Ray White Noosa 07 5447 2451
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55 Ball Road Eumundi Ballara House is a property which perfectly represents hinterland life. low-maintenance acres with uninterrupted views of Mount Cooroy. This home is defined by its geography, designed for privacy and protected by scarcity. Master-built in 2023 by GTO Building and
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a warmth that needs to be felt to be fully understood. Soaring raked sense of volume and calm, with the living spaces deliberately oriented toward the mountain and the landscape beyond.
Ray White Noosa 07 5447 2451
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14 Wesley Court Noosa Heads The stretch of residential real estate between the Munna Point Bridge and the Sheraton Bridge along the iconic Noosa Parade represents a genuine scarcity. Properties in this tightly held pocket carry some of the highest Sentiment among buyers and sellers in Noosa. For generations, they have been the backdrop to endless summers, curating countless memories for holiday makers and permanent residency alike. The geography maintains the Scarcity; with only a handful of properties bought and sold each year and no way of ever extending or recreating what already exists. It is unique.
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PRIVATE, PEACEFUL & PERFECTLY POSITIONED PRIVATELY tucked away at the rear of an intimate complex of just five, 5/77 Poinciana Avenue offers an appealing combination of peaceful living, immaculate presentation and exceptional convenience within walking distance of the heart of Tewantin. Recently refreshed with new interior paint and beautifully maintained throughout, the two- bedroom residence is ready for its next owner to simply move in and enjoy, while its low-maintenance nature and sought-after location also make it an attractive investment proposition. What immediately appeals is the homes position within the complex. Set well back from the street at the very rear, Villa 5 enjoys a quieter setting surrounded by established greenery and shared common areas that create a welcome feeling of openness around the residence. Inside, the home is fresh, comfortable and immaculately presented being recently painted. The practical floorplan provides two comfortable bedrooms, a central bathroom and easy living spaces, with a dedicated
carport completing a home designed around uncomplicated everyday living. You have the convenience of being able to walk into Tewantin Village. Combined with the immaculate presentation and easy-care nature of the property, it makes this a very appealing option for both owner-occupiers and investors. For those seeking a home that is easy to own, easy to enjoy and exceptionally well positioned, 5/77 Poinciana Avenue presents a compelling opportunity. Freshly presented, privately positioned and
with the heart of Tewantin just a stroll away, it offers an uncomplicated way to enjoy one of Noosa’s most established and appealing village
communities. Convenient to Noosaville, Gympie Terrace and the wider Noosa region. ●
HOME ESSENTIALS Address: 5/77 Poinciana Avenue, TEWANTIN Description: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 garage Price: Offers Over $750,000 Inspect: Contact Agent Contact: James Callianiotis, 0418 794 970, REALCORP INTERNATIONAL/NOOSA HEADS REAL ESTATE
Coastal Retreat Set within the prestigious Park Crescent enclave in Sunshine Beach, this exceptional single-level end unit delivers an enviable combination of privacy, natural light, and coastal sophistication. Boasting direct lift access and positioned on the mid-level at the highly sought-after ocean end of the complex, the residence enjoys an elevated ocean view outlook, capturing cooling sea breezes and the soothing rhythm of the nearby ocean. 8/2 Park Crescent, Sunshine Beach 2 2 1 Price $1,495,000 Open Saturday 11-11.30am Wednesday 11-11.30am rwnoosa.com.au Shane McCauley 0403 646 930 Frank Milat 0438 528 148 5447 4499
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Old Tewantin Location with DA Approval Ready Set Go! Beautifully renovated bungalow with DA approval in place for a second home!
James Callianiotis 0418 794 970 noosarealestate.xyz
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A rare opportunity to secure and invest in the heart of Old Tewantin with individual titles.
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Tucked away in a peaceful, leafy pocket of Noosaville, this is the kind of home that feels removed from the pace of everyday life.
13 Jacksonia Place Noosaville
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Tewantin Village
Land. 4 Acres
4 Acres. One Extraordinary Opportunity
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Zoned Rural Residential with an impressive 200-metre frontage on north-facing acreage
35 George Street Tewantin
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69 Memorial Drive, 5 Bed 5 Bath 7 Car Eumundi RARE MIXED-USE OPPORTUNITY IN THE HEART OF EUMUNDI A unique opportunity combining residential living, commercial income and investment potential will go to auction on Saturday, 3 October. Set on a prominent 1,619sqm holding, 69 Memorial Drive brings together two self-contained residences and two commercial spaces in one highly versatile property. The upper residence features three bedrooms, two bathrooms and generous open-plan living flowing to a covered deck, while the separate lower residence offers two bedrooms, one bathroom, its own kitchen and living areas. At street level, the commercial component includes an established fitness and wellness facility alongside a separate barbershop tenancy, providing strong exposure to Memorial Drive. The commercial spaces currently generate approximately $109,000 per annum plus GST and outgoings, with the residential component offering potential rental income of approximately $104,000 per annum. With extensive onsite parking and a central position moments from Eumundi’s famous markets, cafés and village amenities, this is a rare opportunity for investors, owner-occupiers or buyers seeking a flexible live-and-work property.
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Cameron Miller
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Price Guide
Black Mountain Saturday 3rd October 10.00AM - 10.45AM 11.15AM - 11.45AM
71 Blanckensee Road 85Tallowwood Place
3 5
2 3
2 2
Offers over $1,450,000 Offers over $1,799,000
3
2
2
$1,700,000
4
2
2
Contact Agent
Boreen Point Saturday 3rd October 11.00AM - 11.30AM
35 Urunga Parade
Castaways Beach Saturday 3rd October 12.00PM - 12.30PM
12 Castaways Court
Agent Time 10.00AM - 10.30AM 10.00AM - 11.00AM 10.00AM - 11.00AM Hinternoosa 0404 344 399 10.00AM - 10.45AM Hinternoosa 0404 344 399 10.00AM - 10.30AM 11.00AM - 11.30AM 11.00AM - 11.30AM 11.00AM - 11.30AM 11.00AM - 11.30AM Laguna Real Estate 0412 043 880 12.00PM - 12.30PM 12.00PM - 12.30PM 12.00PM - 12.30PM 1.00PM - 1.30PM Tom Offermann Real Estate 0409 685 211
12 Mary Street
2
1
2
Offers Over $849,000
Hinternoosa 0410 243 487
3 4
2 2
1 2
Offers Over $990,000 Offers Over $1,325,000
Hinternoosa 0449 921 662 Hinternoosa 0404 344 399
Cooroy Saturday 3rd October 9.00AM - 9.30AM 11.00AM - 11.30AM
30 Lake Macdonald Drive 29 Overlander Avenue
Price Guide
Agent
104/61 Noosa Springs Drive 6 Mitti Street 6 Mitti Street 2 & 4 / 24 Katharina Street 2A & 2B Jan Street 36/12-14 Serenity Close 3 Smoke Bush Drive 1/44 Park Road 11/2-10 Banksia Avenue 10 White Beech Road 11 Kareela Avenue 93 Upper Hastings Street 14 Wesley Court
3 5 5 2 3 3 4 4 3 4 4 3 5
3 3 3 2 2 3 2 3 2 2 2 2 3
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 2
$1,650,000 Auction Auction Expressions of Interest Contact Agent $6,750,000 $1,500,000 Contact Agent Auction Contact Agent Call Agent Expressions of Interest Auction
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0418 714 653 Realcorp International 0418 794 970 Ray White Conolly Hay Group 0438 259 956 Ray White Conolly Hay Group 0438 259 956 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0409 685 211 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0413 044 241 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0475 804 467 Coastal Noosa 0411 737 767 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0410 603 519 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0423 972 034 Realcorp International 0418 794 970 Ray White Conolly Hay Group 0438 259 956 Ray White Conolly Hay Group 0429 827 224
2
2
1
Auction
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0413 044 241
3 2 3 4
3 2 3 2
2 1 2 2
$1,650,000 Auction $3,150,000 Contact Agent
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0418 714 653 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0413 044 241 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0412 894 542 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0423 972 034
4
2
2
Offers over $1.690M
Realcorp International 0418 794 970
4
2
2
Offers over $1.690M
Realcorp International 0418 794 970
4 2 4 4 2 2 4 2 3 3 2
2 2 3 2 1 2.5 2 3 2 2 2
2 Offers over $1.690M Realcorp International 0418 794 970 1 Auction Tom Offermann Real Estate 0417 600 840 2 $12,900,000 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0475 804 467 2 $2,250,000 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0423 972 034 1 Auction Laguna Real Estate 0434 236 110 1 $1,200,000 Laguna Real Estate 0419 332 973 2 $2,150,000 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0418 980 247 1 Auction Tom Offermann Real Estate 0414 367 282 2 Submit all Offers Ray White Conolly Hay Group 0429 827 224 1 Offers Above $2,150,000 Cons. Laguna Real Estate 0419 332 973 1 Price Guide $1,200,000 Laguna Real Estate 0434 236 110
2
2
1
2 2 3 2 2 4 3
2 2.5 2 1 1 2 2.5
1 Price Guide $1,200,000 Laguna Real Estate 0434 236 110 1 $1,200,000 Laguna Real Estate 0419 332 973 1 Offers Above $2,150,000 Cons. Laguna Real Estate 0419 332 973 1 Auction Laguna Real Estate 0434 236 110 1 Offers Over $745,000 Considered Laguna Real Estate 0407 379 893 2 $2,250,000 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0423 972 034 1 O/O $1,900,000 Cons. Laguna Real Estate 0419 332 973
2 2
1 2
1 Offers Over $745,000 Considered 1 $1,550,000
5 3 3
3 3 1
2 2 1
Auction Auction $1,975,000
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0410 603 519 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0423 972 034 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0409 685 211
3 5
3 3
2 2
Auction Auction
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0423 972 034 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0410 603 519
22/40 Hastings Street
Wednesday 7th October
Saturday 3rd October 1.30PM - 2.00PM
AB C
Sunday 4th October 1.00PM - 1.30PM
Cooran
Address
10.00AM - 10.30AM 12.00PM - 12.30PM 1.00PM - 1.30PM 1.00PM - 1.30PM
104/61 Noosa Springs Drive 22/40 Hastings Street 6105/5 Morwong Drive 10 White Beech Road
Noosaville Thursday 1st October
Doonan
12.00PM - 1.00PM
Saturday 3rd October
Friday 2nd October
10.00AM - 10.30AM 10.30AM - 11.00AM
86 Panorama Drive 269 Beddington Road
3 5
2 3
2 5
Auction Offers over $2,999,000
13 Jacksonia Place Tom Offermann Real Estate 0411 757 570 1.00PM - 2.00PM Hinternoosa 0404 344 399 Saturday 3rd October
Eumundi Saturday 3rd October 10.30AM - 11.00AM 1.00PM - 1.30PM 1.30PM - 2.00PM 2.30PM - 3.00PM
2/1 Cowell Street 3 38 Seib Road 5 524 to 532 Eumundi Range Road 4 3 Booniah Court 4
2 3 3 2
2 6 2 2
Offers over $979,000 Offers over $2,650,000 Offers Over $3,800,000 Offers Over $1,399,000
Hinternoosa 0415 111 370 Hinternoosa 0404 344 399 Hinternoosa 0404 344 399 Hinternoosa 0404 344 399
5
6
By Negotiation
Hinternoosa 0404 344 399
Lake MacDonald Saturday 3rd October 9.00AM - 9.30AM
80 Hayward Road
6
Marcus Beach 37Tristania Drive
2
2
Auction
1 4 5 4
1 2 3 3.5
1 2 2 2
$1,990,000 Call Agent Auction GUIDE $3.2M
Thursday 1st October 26/6 Quamby Place 11 Kareela Avenue 6 Mitti Street 1802/7 Lakeview Rise
13/2 Serenity Close 5/42 Hastings Street 11 Kareela Avenue 6 Mitti Street
3 3 4 5
2 2 2 3
1 1 2 2
Auction $3,350,000 Call Agent Auction
Saturday 3rd October 8.00AM - 8.30AM 9.00AM - 9.30AM 9.00AM - 9.30AM 9.45AM - 10.15AM 10.00AM - 10.45AM
Tuesday 6th October
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0411 122 331 10.00AM - 10.30AM 10.00AM - 10.30AM 11.00AM - 11.30AM 12.00PM - 12.30PM Tom Offermann Real Estate 0417 600 840 12.00PM - 12.30PM Realcorp International 0418 794 970 12.00PM - 12.30PM Realcorp International 0418 794 970 12.00PM - 12.30PM Prestige Property Group Noosa 0415 558 656
Friday 2nd October 11.30AM - 12.00PM 12.00PM - 12.30PM 3.00PM - 3.30PM 4.00PM - 5.00PM
13 Jacksonia Place 8/303 GympieTerrace 41 Wyuna Drive 19 Sternlight Street 3/120 HiltonTerrace 9/5 Barbados Crescent 30 Regatta Circuit 4/2-4 William Street 39 Dolphin Crescent 14/67 Gibson Road 5/273 Weyba Road
4/7-11 James Street
$1,200,000
Laguna Real Estate 0407379893
Wednesday 7th October 3
Noosa Heads 10.00AM - 10.30AM 3.00PM - 3.30PM 4.00PM - 5.00PM 5.00PM - 5.45PM
9.00AM - 9.30AM 10.00AM - 10.30AM 10.00AM - 10.30AM 11.00AM - 11.30AM 11.00AM - 11.30AM 11.00AM - 11.30AM 11.30AM - 12.00PM 11.30AM - 12.00PM 12.00PM - 12.30PM 12.00PM - 12.30PM 12.00PM - 12.30PM
11.00AM - 11.30AM
Saturday 3rd October 10.30AM - 11.00AM
13 Jacksonia Place
11 Kareela Avenue 4 2 2 Call Agent 314/61 Noosa Springs Drive 3 3 2 GUIDE $2.65M 1A & 2A/16 Safari Street 3 2 2 Contact Agent 154/61 Noosa Springs Drive 3 2 2 $1.85M-$1.875M 2/10 Natasha Avenue 3 2 2 Expressions of Interest 30 NOOSA TODAY | Friday, 2 October, 2026
Coastal Noosa 0411 737 767 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0414 367 282 Realcorp International 0418 794 970 Realcorp International 0418 794 970
5/273 Weyba Road 9/5 Barbados Crescent 14/67 Gibson Road 3/120 HiltonTerrace 109/295 Weyba Road 19 Sternlight Street 17/67 Gibson Road
Thursday 8th October 12.00PM - 12.30PM 1.00PM - 1.30PM
109/295 Weyba Road 19/239-245 Gympie
Laguna Real Estate 0407 379 893 Laguna Real Estate 0407 379 893
Sunrise Beach Saturday 3rd October
9.00AM - 9.30AM 28 Sobraon Street 10.00AM - 10.30AM 22 Netherby Rise Realcorp International 0418 794 970 11.00AM - 11.30AM 39 Netherby Rise Prestige Property Group Noosa 0415 558 656 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0409 685 211 Wednesday 7th October 22 Netherby Rise Prestige Property Group Noosa 0415 558 656 11.00AM - 11.30AM 28 Sobraon Street Ray White Conolly Hay Group 0438 259 956 12.00PM - 12.30PM
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Address
AB C
Price Guide
Agent Time
Address
Sunshine Beach 21 Hill Street 11A Sarena Court 16-18 SeaviewTerrace 57 Parkedge Road 4 Nebula Street 31 Whale Drive Unit 7/5 Douglas Street 10 Duke Street 3 Wildflower Street 47 BelmoreTerrace 7/23 Crank Street 61 SeaviewTerrace
3 4 4 4 4 4 2 3 3 5 3 4
2.5 2 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 3
2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 6
Contact Agent $1.975M $5,600,000 Auction $2.95M $3,500,000 $1.25m Auction $1.875m $5.25m Contact Agent Contact Agent
Sunshine Beach Real Estate 0417 637 697 Coastal Noosa 0411 737 767 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0447 915 953 Saturday 24th October Tom Offermann Real Estate 0423 972 034 3.00PM - 3.30PM 86 Panorama Drive Coastal Noosa 0411 737 767 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0413 044 241 Sunshine Beach Real Estate 0448 786 489 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0410 603 519 Saturday 3rd October Sunshine Beach Real Estate 07 5447 2999 11.00AM - 11.30AM 37Tristania Drive Sunshine Beach Real Estate 0417 637 697 Sunshine Beach Real Estate 0448 786 489 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0411 122 331 12.00PM - 12.30PM
13/2 Serenity Close
4 2
2 2
Auction $2,950,000
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0423 972 034 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0468 922 519
Saturday 3rd October
11.00AM - 11.30AM
10 Duke Street
3
2
2
Auction
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0410 603 519
11.00AM - 11.30AM 11.00AM - 11.30AM
Tewantin
Auction
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0411 757 570
3
2
2
Auction
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0411 122 331
3
2
1
Auction
Coastal Noosa 0411 737 767
6 Mitti Street 6 Mitti Street
5 5
3 3
2 2
Auction Auction
Realcorp International 0418 794 970 Ray White Conolly Hay Group 0438 259 956
Friday 9th October
Thursday 1st October 35 George Street 19 Werin Street 5/77 Poinciana Avenue 8Talara Court
11/2-10 Banksia Avenue
3
2
1
Auction
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0410 603 519
0 3 2 4
0 2 1 2
0 2 1 2
Offers over $1.5M Contact Agent Offers over $750K $1,225,000
Realcorp International 0418 794 970 Saturday 10th October Realcorp International 0418 794 970 22/40 Hastings Street Realcorp International 0418 794 970 12.00PM - 12.30PM Laguna Real Estate 0412 043 880
1.00PM - 1.30PM
2
2
1
Auction
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0413 044 241
0 3 2
0 2 1
0 2 1
Offers over $1.5M Contact Agent Offers over $750K
Realcorp International 0418 794 970 4/2-4 William Street Realcorp International 0418 794 970 12.00PM - 12.30PM Realcorp International 0418 794 970 Saturday 17th October
2
3
1
Auction
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0414 367 282
2
1
1
Auction On Site
4 4 5 4 2 3 0
2 2 2 2 1 2 0
2 2 1 2 1 2 0
$1,225,000 O/O $1,380,000 Cons. By Negotiation O/O $1,395,000 Cons. Offers over $750K Contact Agent Offers over $1.5M
Laguna Real Estate 0412 043 880 Saturday 24th October Laguna Real Estate 0411 328 488 8/303 GympieTerrace Laguna Real Estate 0434 236 110 12.00PM - 12.30PM Laguna Real Estate 0411 328 488 Realcorp International 0418 794 970 Realcorp International 0418 794 970 Saturday 17th October Realcorp International 0418 794 970 12.00PM - 12.30PM 22 Netherby Rise 2.00PM - 2.30PM 28 Sobraon Street
2
2
1
Auction
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0417 600 840
3 5
3 3
2 2
Auction Auction
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0423 972 034 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0410 603 519
4
2
2
$1,225,000
3 4
2 4
2 2
Auction Auction
Tom Offermann Real Estate 0410 603 519 Tom Offermann Real Estate 0423 972 034
Noosaville
Friday 2nd October 35 George Street 19 Werin Street 5/77 Poinciana Avenue
Saturday 3rd October
Saturday 3rd October 8Talara Court 5/18 Avron Court 34 Outlook Drive 76 Outlook Drive 5/77 Poinciana Avenue 19 Werin Street 35 George Street
12.00PM - 12.30PM
Thursday 8th October 8Talara Court
Tinbeerwah 16a Pacific View Drive
3/120 HiltonTerrace
Laguna Real Estate 0434 236 110
Sunrise Beach
Laguna Real Estate 0412 043 880
Sunshine Beach Saturday 10th October
Saturday 3rd October 12.00PM - 12.30PM
2
Friday 2nd October
4 3
4.00PM - 4.30PM
2
Noosa Heads
57 Parkedge Road 2 Elanda Street
9.00AM - 9.30AM 10.00AM - 10.30AM 10.00AM - 10.30AM 11.00AM - 11.30AM 1.00PM - 1.30PM 1.45PM - 2.15PM 2.30PM - 3.00PM
3
Marcus Beach
10.00AM - 10.30AM 11.00AM - 11.30AM
11.00AM - 11.30AM 11.45AM - 12.15PM 12.30PM - 1.00PM
Agent
Doonan
Wednesday 7th October
10.00AM - 10.30AM 10.45AM - 11.15AM 11.30AM - 12.00PM 4.00PM - 4.30PM
Price Guide
Auction Diary
Saturday 3rd October 9.00AM - 9.45AM 9.00AM - 9.30AM 9.00AM - 9.30AM 9.00AM - 9.30AM 9.30AM - 10.00AM 10.00AM - 10.30AM 10.00AM - 10.45AM 10.00AM - 10.30AM 10.00AM - 10.45AM 11.00AM - 11.45AM 11.00AM - 11.45AM 1.00PM - 1.30PM
AB C
OPEN HOMES
5
3
3
Offers Over $2,695,000
10.00AM - 10.30AM Hinternoosa 0404 344 399 11.00AM - 11.30AM
10 Duke Street 57 Parkedge Road
12871189-RV22-26
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AUCTION 13/2 SERENITY CLOSE, NOOSA HEADS B E D. 3 / B A T H . 2 / C A R . 1 / P O O L . 1 / A U C T I O N : FRIDAY 2ND OCTOBER AT 12:00PM
Every day begins with tranquil, picturesque vistas bathed in natural light and enjoying a desirable northerly aspect, the apartment opens to an extra large terrace where leafy surroundings, water views and the coastal outlook create a wonderfully relaxed se ing for morning coffee, a ernoon entertaining or simply unwinding at the end of the day. Privately positioned within the beautifully established Serenity Apartments, this spacious three-bedroom residence offers an enviable blend of tranquillity, generous proportions and effortless Noosa lifestyle appeal.
O P E N F R I DA Y 2 N D O C TO B E R 1 1 : 3 0 A M – 1 2 : 0 0 P M
RICK DANIEL 0411 737 767 12904846-JV40-26
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NOOSA BEACHSIDE BOUTIQUE REALTORS
SUNSHINE BEACH REAL ESTATE 47 BELMORE TERRACE SUNSHINE BEACH
A5 B3 C2 Inspired Design, Breathtaking Ocean Views • Tightly held masterpiece on elevated 607m2 block • Reimagined and extended into a striking and charismatic residence by Bark Design Architects • Breathtaking ocean views across multiple light-filled levels • Lots to love; hardwood blackbutt flooring, high ceilings, atrium-style courtyard, library/second lounge, office • Covered balcony + rooftop deck showcasing the ocean vista
VISIT OUR OFFICE 5/48-54 Duke Street, Sunshine Beach, QLD 4567 OR CALL US (07) 5447 2999 32 NOOSA TODAY | Friday, 2 October, 2026
FOR SALE
INSPECT
AGENT
$5.25m
Sat 3rd October 11-11.45am
Caitlyn McConnell M: 0417 637 697
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RIVERFRONT LIFESTYLE, WALK EVERYWHERE JUST steps from the Noosa River, this spacious ground floor unit enjoys a beautiful outlook and river glimpses over a leafy, grassed reserve. Quiet, private and perfectly positioned, it’s an easy walk to the Noosa Yacht Club, Gympie Terrace cafes, restaurants and boutiques. Set in a tightly held boutique complex of just six units rarely offered to market. The north facing property offers generous open plan living and dining, a well appointed kitchen and a spacious deck overlooking the green reserve, plus a dedicated office. There are two good sized bedrooms, with the master opening to its own private courtyard. This is quintessential Noosa living. Launch the kayak, head off for a spot of fishing at your doorstep, take a stroll along the river or leave the car at home and walk to the wonderful choice of cafes and restaurants along Gympie Terrace. With so many everyday conveniences close by, everything you need is right at your fingertips. There’s also a lockup garage, pool and low body corporate fees, making this an excellent choice for permanent living or investment. Ground floor units in such a prime Noosaville location with a north facing aspect, river outlook, pool and garage, are rarely offered for sale — particularly in this price range. Don’t miss this opportunity to secure your
own slice of the Noosa lifestyle. Contact us today to arrange your private inspection, or join us at the Open Home Wednesday or Saturday at 11am. *Disclaimer: Digital furniture has been used in some images
HOME ESSENTIALS Address: 3/120 Hilton Terrace, NOOSAVILLE Description: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 garage Inspect: Saturday and Wednesday 11-11.30am Auction: Auction On Site Saturday 17th of October, 12pm Contact: Anita Nichols, 0434 236 110, LAGUNA REAL ESTATE
YOUR OPPORTUNITY: VERSATILE DUAL-LIVING PRESENTING an outstanding potential investment opportunity with exceptional dual-living flexibility, this spacious residence on a generous 1022m² block offers two fully self-contained levels - delivering the perfect setup for dual income, holiday letting, or multigenerational living. Designed to maximise both lifestyle and returns, the property allows you to live on one level while renting or holiday letting the other, creating an immediate income stream. Alternatively, lease both levels for a highperforming dual-income investment. With six bedrooms plus a dedicated office, the scale and layout provide outstanding versatility to adapt to long-term tenants, short-stay guests, or extended family living. Upstairs, beautiful hardwood floors enhance the main living areas, while carpeted bedrooms add comfort. The thoughtfully designed floor plan positions the main bedroom privately away from the additional bedrooms, separated by the living zone for added seclusion. Direct balcony access creates a peaceful retreat, enhancing guest appeal and lifestyle comfort alike.
The expansive kitchen with servery anchors the upper level, making it ideal for entertaining - a highly desirable feature for both permanent
residents and holiday guests. Downstairs, stylish and durable concrete tiles complement the second fully self-contained living space,
ensuring low-maintenance practicality for tenants or short-term stays. Lifestyle features further increase rental and holiday appeal, including a gas fireplace, inbuilt spa bath, and a sparkling saltwater pool — perfect for attracting premium guests. Solar power improves energy efficiency and reduces running costs, enhancing overall investment returns, while a large shed provides valuable storage or workshop space. The established grounds, complete with eureka lemon, meyer lemon, mandarin trees and a thriving herb garden, add charm and selfsufficient appeal - an attractive bonus for both long-term renters and holidaymakers seeking a hinterland experience. Ideally positioned just one minute from Pomona Town Centre and only 35 minutes to Hastings Street and Noosa Main Beach, this property combines strong income potential with lifestyle desirability in a sought-after hinterland location. A rare opportunity to secure a flexible, income-generating asset with immediate and long-term growth potential.
HOME ESSENTIALS Address: 7 Signal Street, POMONA Description: 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4 garage Price: Offers Over $1,800,000 Considered Inspect: Open By Inspection Contact: Craig and Jasmine Taylor, 0421 283 951, LAGUNA REAL ESTATE
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Queensland’s Multi Award Winning Company Est. 1978 34 NOOSA TODAY | Friday, 2 October, 2026
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Dual Living, Dual Income
34 OutLOOk DRIVE, tEWAntIn
5A 2B 1C • Generous 735m² allotment with two separate residences • Ideal for dual living, multigenerational families or investors • Generate 2 rental incomes, currently receiving $1,500 pw in rent • Main residence with three bedrooms and one bathroom • Private courtyard and lock-up garage to main residence • Second dwelling with two bedrooms and 1 bathroom • Modern, open-plan living, large covered alfresco in the 2nd dwelling • Walk to Shopping Centre, schools and transport
FOR SALE By negotiation VIEW Sat 10-10.30am
Queensland’s Multi Award Winning Company Est. 1978 36 NOOSA TODAY | Friday, 2 October, 2026
Anita nichols 0434 236 110 anita@lagunarealestate.com.au
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