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Gobsmacked at green light for ICB expansion BY TIMOTHY SWANSTON The Inner-City Bypass (ICB) widening process has gained traction but it’s to the dismay of local residents, with Council recently announcing the preferred contractor to undertake the project. BMD Constructions successfully won the tender process and will be widening the ICB from three to four lanes in each direction between the Legacy Way and the RNA tunnel. The application to widen the ICB at the expense of parkland was lodged with the State Assessment Referral Agency (SARA) earlier in the year. It has been approved on the condition that no more than 50 trees are removed. Dr Joan Jacobi, a longtime resident of Spring Hill, has been protecting the parkland for almost 40 years and says she is completely “gobsmacked” that the ICB will be widened at the expense of dozens of trees near the Herston exit. “I fail to understand why it is necessary to widen this northern slip lane from the land bridge when it does not have to be widened from the Legacy Way tunnel,” Dr Jacobi said. “Fifteen years of growth for 200m of bulge? How can this be justified?”

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Dr Jacobi has met with Council representatives several times and says she is still in the dark about why removing the trees and cutting into the parkland by a few metres is required. “Why is all this necessary for a lane that is turning off to Herston? After all, only three lanes enter the tunnel,” she said. “To cut those trees is sheer vandalism and shows an appalling lack of ingenuity. “There must be a better solution.” Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said that the ICB expansion was part of more than 90 road projects over the next four years to tackle congestion as Brisbane’s population increased. “A key project Council is committed to delivering is an expansion of the Inner-City Bypass, which is one of the city’s busiest corridors carrying more than 100,000 vehicles every day,” Cr Quirk said. “Over the past six months Council has undertaken an intensive tender process to ensure the best possible outcome for ratepayers in delivering this vital project,” he said. “BMD Constructions provided the best overall value for money for Council and ratepayers – selected on a number of key criteria including experience and financial capacity to deliver large-scale projects and expertise across design and construction on projects in a densely populated urban area.” Works are being undertaken in the RNA tunnel to relocate the jet fans so that the road widening may commence.

Fair’s fair for new year, we hope village comment MIKE O’CONNOR A new year has dawned and with it the hope that the challenges facing inner-city residents will be addressed by all parties in a spirit of good faith and fair dealing. This was not always the case in 2016. The body corporate of Mactaggarts Place showed scant regard for the community in fencing off access to the river walk in the face of widespread opposition. The Brisbane City Council’s response was, at best, muted. The saga of the Engine Room renovation on the river walk also continued with the Council reneging on an agreement made with residents about the design, an example of bloody-minded bureaucracy. Having then said it intended for a restaurant in the renovated Engine Room to be run by a not-for-profit

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organisation, it awarded the tender to a company which agreed to give the Council a share of the profits. Go figure! Towards the end of last year, it was announced that several trees along Vernon Terrace would be removed as their root systems were threatening adjoining buildings. It remains to be seen whether these trees, which form part of the signature streetscape of Teneriffe, will be replaced by fully developed trees and not saplings. The Council’s apparent determination to grab a further slice of the Victoria Park green belt this year is also causing concern. The intent is to widen the Inner-City Bypass to alleviate traffic queuing on the Bowen Bridge Road exit. The intended solution will merely shift the problem from Point A to Point B. The traffic flow needs to be improved but not by excising more parkland. The Council employs battalions of engineers. They need to come up with a more imaginative and effective solution. Finally, welcome to the hundreds of people who are making the neighbourhood their home as more apartment buildings are completed. A happy and prosperous 2017 to all.

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Trainer toughs out difficulties Chris Merlo, a personal trainer and recovery coach, has an amazing story of overcoming alcoholism and depression and now helps people all over Brisbane with their addictions. Mr Merlo, or “Merls” as he is known by his fans on social media, is very open about his journey of recovery. “Depression and anxiety was something that was big in my life from my mid-20s and what that would do is manifest itself at all sorts of times for reasons unknown,” Merls said. “I ended up trying to escape it because it was so very hard. We don’t have the tools or the knowledge that we have now.” Merls discovered the benefits of exercise, nutrition, sobriety and human connection, making big changes in his life motivated by his sons Michael and James and mother Gail. “I now help people with all sorts of issues: if they drink too much, if they have drug problems, I help people through depression and anxiety issues,” Merls said.

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“I talk to them about my story and hopefully those messages resonate with them. “To make this change I had to sit there and dig deep and figure out what was going to work for me to make sure that I made the rest of this journey of mine a joyous, happy and better one.” Merls said he hadn’t had a depressive episode for five years. “I do a lot of work with the people who reach out to me on Facebook,” he said. “I get a lot of messages from people who say ‘Merls thanks so much for what you do each day with your messages because it really helps me get though and that means so much to me’. “It makes me accountable and want to keep going. “If you can connect back to your heart and act like you don’t expect anything in return, giving what you can, the rewards are monumental.”

New Farm Clinic, a purpose-built mental health care facility in the heart of New Farm, has just had a multimillion-dollar redevelopment and expansion, continuing its tradition of providing quality support to patients for the past 30 years. Chief executive officer Ken Craig said that this redevelopment would ensure that patients had access to high-quality mental health services. “South-East Queensland is experiencing a growth in demand for mental health services,” Mr Craig said. “New Farm Clinic cares for 7500 patients each year and is one of only a few private mental health facilities servicing the region. “This redevelopment will lead us into the next decade, ensuring that the clinic meets growing demands for quality mental health services in the region.” The clinic is now one of the largest private clinics in Brisbane, with 128 beds all in private rooms with ensuites.

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Rachael Collins, Director Clinical Services with CEO Ken Craig.

The two-level redevelopment houses 56 patient accommodation rooms, consulting suites, on-site carparks, group therapy rooms and a gymnasium. Mr Craig said the increase in private accommodation and group rooms would improve access to the clinic’s programs, including adolescent mental health, anxiety and depression along with mood and psychotic disorders. “New Farm Clinic has a competent, caring and committed complement of staff,” Mr Craig said. “The feedback from them and patients has been really positive – about everything like the environment we are providing and the décor. “We’ve managed to maintain the recuperative type of feeling we provide here at New Farm Clinic and make this space very welcoming.”

Developer John Livingstone has predicted what he describes as a “retail explosion” in Newstead in 2017. “Very few people realise what is going to happen. “The retail outlets you see at the Gasworks will double over the next 18 months, which is really exciting,’’ he says. He has backed his assessment of the area’s increasing appeal and potential by buying the former Eagers site in Evelyn Street where his company, JGL Properties, is building Newstead Series, a mix of townhomes and apartments. “We’re selling four-bedroom properties for between $1.6 million and $1.7million. “These are 235sq.m. homes. The three bedrooms are $1.25 million to $1.35 million and we have a twobedroom townhome with two car parks, two-and-a-half bathrooms and direct street access for $855,000,’’ he says. “It’s a serious home of 120sq.m. over two levels with two car parks.

That product differentiates the Newstead Series. “We’re spending a lot of money on art, on doing things differently at Newstead Series. “We have an expansive central courtyard with extensive lawns and landscaping, 25m pool and spa and usable dining, recreation and exercise spaces,” he says. The four buildings in the project – The Carlyle, The Donaldson, The Ajax and The Koerstz – have been named after famous Australian wool presses in acknowledgment of the redeveloped heritage-listed wool stores that line the river. He says he likes the NewsteadTeneriffe-New Farm peninsula so much that he and his family are moving there. “We have a real sense of what is going on here. It’s an amazing place. There’s the river, parks, retail, it’s flat and it’s so easy to get around. He said a visit to New York had exposed him to the new paradigm in property development, the walkable urban community.

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Walkability is the ability to live comfortably without a car in a growing, mixed-use neighbourhood or village. In the United States, people are being drawn to cities such as New York, San Francisco and Boston because of the high walkability of a lot of their precincts.

A quick survey of what is planned for 2017 reinforces John’s enthusiasm for the Newstead neighbourhood and its high level of connectivity. With the completion of Skyring Apartments, the Gasworks retail ...continued page 8.

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Engine Room gathers steam for charity After some years of uncertainty, the historical Engine Room along the Teneriffe Boardwalk has been given a tenant, a name and is almost finished renovations. The $900,000 facelift is expected to be completed soon, with the successful tenderer for the site, the Uniting Hands Foundation Australia (UHFA), hoping to have moved in by March/April. Local entrepreneur and founder of the UHFA Hom Pyashi said he was really excited to be moving into the space. “We’re calling it the Engine Room on the River and it will serve contemporary Australian Cuisine with a minimum of 10 per cent of profits going into the running of a charity,” Mr Pyashi said. “I established the UHFA in 2010 back in Nepal when I was thinking

OPINION that I should put something back into the community,” he said. “We used to help build schools and sponsor children among other things: for example, we recently went back to Nepal and built 80 houses after the earthquake.” The foundation moved to Australia in 2012 and was approved as a registered charity in June 2015. This was around the same time that Mr Pyashi and his group opened 88 Forty-Eight, a restaurant occupying one of the pods in the Fortitude Valley Mall. Mr Pyashi said his group had been doing charity work through some of his restaurants on the Sunshine Coast. “My charity was feeding the homeless community in Caloundra at my restaurant before many of them were moved to Caboolture,” he said. “We’re aiming to do similar activities here in the restaurant in the Valley, feeding the local homeless.” At the Engine Room site, Mr Pyashi is aiming to employ local disadvantaged people to give back to the community. “I’d like to be able to offer cooking classes, job training and host community BBQs where people can meet and greet one another. “We have a really good team set-up

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now – including my business partner Swotantra Shah. “At the Engine Room we’ll have a bigger kitchen than we do in Fortitude Valley. It means more space to play around and do exciting things with it. “I come from quite a poor place. “I’m very blessed that I’ve grown up in Australia with a good family. That’s where I come from and I want to give back.”

The Queensland Pops Orchestra’s first performance of the year is a Big Band concert at the Tivoli Theatre in Fortitude Valley on February 11, the Saturday before Valentine’s Day. Led by Patrick Pickett, the Big Band will play great swing hits by Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and other greats. Special artists will include Adam Lopez and Deborah O’Toole. Adam is opera trained and a twotime Guinness World Record holder for singing the highest vocal note by a male singer (C# in the eighth octave, a semitone higher than a grand piano can hit). He has appeared on international television and radio stations in Japan, Spain, Italy, Korea, Hong Kong and the US. Deborah worked for several years as a vocal tutor while performing in cover bands, music theatre, on television and as a freelance session singer. Her theatre highlights include Into the Woods, The Dusty Springfield Show, the 10th anniversary production of Les Miserables and ABBA tribute show BABBA. The performance commences at 7:30pm and tickets are $64.

Will 40-year fight be in vain? OPINION TIMOTHY SWANSTON The noise of car horns and the buzz of engines swells and fills my head as I approach the road barrier. I’m among mature trees, peeking out over the road and surveying it. Thud. I jump to the bottom of the few metres-high embankment at the Herston corner of Victoria Park and look up at the three people with me – Joan, Beverly and Michael. The age difference between us is significant yet we are united by an interest in a common cause – the soon-to-be-commenced widening of the Inner-City Bypass. Horticulturalist and distinguished scientist Dr Joan Jacobi is accompanying me around the park. We couldn’t be more different in age, gender and experience.

But I feel very connected to her as I listen to her talk about the 40 years she has spent fighting to save Victoria Park from the widening transport corridor and other threats. I’ve just climbed up past the few metres of trees that are proposed to be torn down to look at how wide the ICB already is. I’m shocked that all the thinking minds in local and state government have allowed this road to be widened. My thinking goes like this: “At what point do you say NO. When do the Band-Aids stop?” As a young person (just 23) who has lived in Brisbane for much of my life, I am deeply invested in the future of this city. I may criticise Brisbane regularly after a few schooners, lamenting the artistic and entertainment scene that pales in comparison with other world destinations. In sober moments, I truly believe this city is great, full of brilliant potential. That potential is clearly attracting a lot of people and the Brisbane skyline has been festooned with more cranes in recent years than most other cities. Recent data and projections suggest south-east Queensland’s population will grow by more than a million in the next 15 years. ...continued page 10.

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GONG XI FA CAI – WELCOME TO THE YEAR OF THE ROOSTER Come on down to Chinatown in Fortitude Valley and help us celebrate our BrisAsia Festival and Chinese Lunar New Year. Lion Dancers, traditional music, fire shows, crackers, and family fun are part of the packed program on 28 and 29 January 2017. All the event details will be available at brisbane.qld.gov.au/valleymalls

Lions take pride in hunger fight Members of the Teneriffe Lions Club will take part in the Lions International “Worldwide Week of Service to Fight Hunger” from January 9-15, said the branch’s formation secretary Desley Kelso. Desley said the local branch would concentrate efforts on the Trinity Pantry and the Neighbourhood Centre in New Farm. “Two members have registered to be included in the Trinity Pantry roster regularly,” she said. “This service is available from Holy Trinity Anglican Church and provides a service several times each week where people in need of basic food requirements are provided with meals or foods to enable them to prepare a meal.” In a round-up of events over the past months, Desley said the “Cure4BrainCancer Walk” was held in New Farm Park on October 30 when Teneriffe members and five other

local Lions clubs cooked burgers and sausages for walkers. The branch helped a New Farm resident purchase a “companion dog” and later helped New Farm Rotary and Chamber of Commerce run the Christmas Carols in New Farm Park hosted by Cr Vicki Howard on December 4. “During December, members have been very busy selling Lions cakes and puddings to help raise funds so that more people and organisations within the community can be assisted with their objectives,” Desley said. “Thank you to local residents who supported our sales at the Powerhouse Markets, outlets within the New Farm, Newstead and Teneriffe business and shopping precincts, Gasworks and POD in Brunswick Street Mall.” Contact the branch on Facebook at Teneriffe Lions Club or teneriffe@lionsq3.org.au or call membership chair Scott Young on 0408862505. The first “Meet & Greet” will be on Monday January 23 at 6pm at Community Place, 17 Skyring Terrace, Newstead.

SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND REGIONAL PLAN The State Government’s Draft South East Queensland Regional Plan was released late in 2016 and forecasts that an additional 2 million more people will live in our region by 2041. The State Government has set Brisbane City Council a target of approving more than 223 000 new homes and almost all are to be delivered through redevelopment of existing properties. Their plan will have a permanent effect on our city . I am calling on the State Government to support their own plan by delivering critically needed transport and social infrastructure for our suburbs. Without their additional investment in transport, roads, schools and green space the liveability of our city is at risk.

FAIRER FARES – WHAT’S CHANGING It’s been a long hard fight for fairer fares and from late December 2016, all TransLink public transport fares (for buses, ferries & trains) became cheaper. Brisbane City Council does not set public transport fares - they are controlled by the State Government and all fare revenue goes to them. We’ve been pressuring the State Government for many years and, thanks to your support, we’ve been able to convince them to reduce their fares.

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Walkability ‘the game-changer’ in Newstead  continued from page 5 precinct will extend and flow through to its ground floor retail space. On the other side of Skyring Terrace, the completion of Haven Newstead apartments will see the arrival of Betty’s Burgers from Noosa, Salt Meats Cheese from Sydney and Newstead Provisions to be operated by the people behind Jocelyn’s Provisions. The Lucent apartment complex, currently under construction on the corner of Longland Street and Festival Place, will also feature food and retail outlets. Bunnings will open its flagship Queensland store over three levels on Breakfast Creek Road and MercedesBenz Brisbane will spend $100 million on a five-storey Autohaus showroom, Australia’s first, adjacent to Bunnings on the banks of Breakfast Creek. The Mercedes-Benz facility will include an automotive museum, staff training centre, shops and cafes, rooftop restaurant, dining and function area as well as a garden pavilion. The number of people working in Newstead is also increasing and will

be boosted with the construction of a 14-level office tower by Charter Hall on Skyring Terrace in 2017. John sees the location of Newstead relative to the airport as a selling point. “In any city I’ve been to in the world, the area that’s between the CBD and the airport is a primary growth corridor and this has all the public transport – the City Glider, the City Cat – and access to the tunnels. “If you go to the top of Montpelier Road, you can drive to the Gold Coast without encountering a single traffic light,” he says. The Queen’s Wharf casino and entertainment complex in the CBD will, he believes, effect a fundamental change in Brisbane. “It will be like in Singapore where the Marina Bay Sands project virtually changed the entire city,” he says. “Newstead’s fundamental livability and walkability is the game changer. “And there’s one thing that I know for sure – once people move here, they’re not going to leave.” For details visit NEWSTEADSERIES.COM

Want a puppy? Give away a fish. PAUL FAIRWEATHER

Many of our friends have recently purchased puppies. The success of these introduced family additions is inversely proportional to the size of the dog. When it comes to suburban canines, less is more. Our daughter is desperate for a puppy but our son’s allergies mean her dog-owning ambitions will never be fulfilled in her childhood. On the plus side, we’ll avoid the expenses of doggy hotels and the inevitable arguments between husband and wife over the ideal size and breed of dog. My wife’s side of the family’s preferred pets were miniature fox

terriers, whereas I grew up with large and lovable Labradors. Let’s not even start on whether a dog should be allowed inside. No longer satisfied with puppy cuddles with a friend’s pet during breaks in soccer training, our daughter insisted that we needed a pet. We relented. We decided to get a pair of goldfish instead. After having to replace a succession of deceased goldfish, we ended up with one very tough fish: Goldie. After the initial enthusiasm of caring for her fish, our daughter’s interest soon waned and it was left to me to feed the fish and clean the tank. Goldie had lost her sparkle in more ways than one. Sadly, I too was not that diligent on the cleaning front and more often than not the water was green. I rationalised that the colour and slime were all very natural and must be good for Goldie but I did notice that she was losing her colour. The name “Old Yella” would be more appropriate. All that doesn’t sparkle is no longer golden. Goldie had to go. Our son suggested the perfect place would be a lovely pond in the forecourt of an historic house on the edge of our suburb.

He had visited the site as part of a school excursion. It already had a couple of goldfish and it wasn’t a natural waterway. I should probably have asked for permission from the caretakers but I didn’t have a Plan B. Early one morning, we rocked up and let Goldie free into her new home. On the way to visit my parents early on Sunday mornings, we’d visit Goldie and her new family. Within weeks, she’d grown much bigger and healthier, and regained her deep, golden colour. One Sunday morning, we arrived a little later than usual. One of the house guides and a caretaker were already out feeding the fish. I gave the kids a look that said, “Don’t say anything!” The caretakers told us that all the fish had names. They were surprised to notice an extra fish in the pond. Much speculation was made about the mysterious fish. Had it been born there? Had someone donated it? “Why don’t you kids name the new one?” the caretaker suggested. “Goldie!” my daughter exclaimed. “What a lovely name! Okay. She is Goldie.”

When Goldie was in the tank, she looked bored and often agitated. Now she is the image of a Zen Japanese watercolour as she glides gracefully around the pond with her fish family. We are all very happy for Goldie and I think she is much happier too!

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Wonder years good as gold village view BETH J LEACH Some of the questions our kids ask us are pure gold. Yes, we’ve had the usual science questions, of course, such as: “Why is the sky blue?” or “How does an aeroplane fly?” Those are easy. Since the invention of Google, I can fairly confidently answer such questions with fact if they’re outside my knowledge base. It’s a great tool. I know of a child who asked her mother, “What makes the wind?” and the mother answered: “The trees.” Obviously pre-Google … The questions that arrive like a bomb in my lap are among those I find most intriguing. I can almost see the cogs turning in their brains. Some can be confronting, especially the ones about sex or reproduction or personal experience. The question may pre-empt the stage I thought my child was at. However, I need to provide a reliable answer in the moment, not

wait until the question is within my comfort zone. There are also the hypothetical questions, a stage I noticed – especially in our sons – that goes on for some time. For our 10-year-old, they often come in the shape of survival or conquest story lines. “If there was a zombie apocalypse and we had no armoury and weapons and each day houses were getting raided and people were dying, who would win out of a zombie White Rhino and a zombie Hippo and what would our cats look like?” Sometimes they won’t get the answers they need in one go. Sometimes there’s no right answer, it’s conjecture. A child’s learning is rapid, accelerated. I’ve felt a tinge of anxiety when I’ve recognised I didn’t want them to grow older. It says more about me and where I’m at than about them and I know it’s right to surrender to the process. During these wonder years they’ll find information where they can. If it’s not from us, it’ll be in the schoolyard or on the internet but hopefully we’ll always play an integral part. The key may lie in never making them feel wrong for asking the question.

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Will 40-year fight be in vain?  continued from page 7 But what are we willing to sacrifice to accommodate this? I think that population growth shouldn’t come at the cost of our parklands and recreational spaces. Cities across the world are increasing the size of their parklands. Victoria Park is already smaller than what was listed on the heritage register – listed because of its significant value to the community – and now we want to make it even smaller? Parkland is important. As children, that’s where we created our fondest memories – chasing my sister Charlotte around with whatever sticks I could find, only to be bested by her and have my knuckles bruised for days. It’s where as a teenager I could find some refuge from school and home life, meet up with someone I fancied and talk, perhaps kiss. It’s where as adults we can walk and breathe fresh air, explore historic sites and feel distant from the hubbub of our work lives that seem to be increasingly bleeding into personal time. You may think “it’s only a few metres of trees”. I see much more than that. I see a dangerous precedent, a testament to short-sighted

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Powerhouse to launch Joh for PM musical this year It’s been an enormous year for the Brisbane Powerhouse and there’s another coming. From hosting Melt, Queensland’s only LGBTI+ cultural festival, to putting on the largest Brisbane Comedy Festival to date, it’s safe to say the team have a had a big year. They also have their work cut out for them, including a new musical about notorious former premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Village News caught up with CEO Fiona Maxwell and artistic director Kris Stewart to talk about the year that was and what’s on the cards for this year.

2016 WAS A BIG YEAR – WHAT DID YOU BOTH MAKE OF IT?

FM: 2016 was jam-packed, there was so much happening here at the Powerhouse and it was very busy

financially as well. The commitment we make to those artists is matched by audiences. It’s matched by the relationship they have with people who are fans and supporters of their work. Brisbane Powerhouse CEO Fiona Maxwell with Artistic Director Kris Stewart.

from a program point of view. We had some great successes with many of our festivals like the Comedy Festival, Melt, Cabaret and Wonderland. It was pretty bonkers! KS: It was pretty massive for us. We had Melt that opened the year which has become an annual event we do here. It’s Queensland’s only LGBT cultural festival. Comedy festival was its biggest ever and we had 40,000 people for that for the first time. It was massive and impressive and challenging and fantastic!

WHAT WERE SOME OF THE BIG CHALLENGES OR GOALS TO TICK OFF?

FM: It’s been a big year for the organisation. We’ve had a lot of organisational change. Like all nonprofits, we have to find ways to keep ticking over, to be more sustainable and work on ideas to expand our commercial activities in order to support our artistic activities, so it’s been an important

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year for strategy, thinking and ultimately some growth. I’ve been in the role for 18 months now – this year’s been the opportunity to bring on some new faces in the team and for that team to come together and start to put some new things in place. KS: For us there was a lot of great show events throughout the year but a lot of it is about where our real commitments have been placed. We’ve tried over the last year to make an even bigger commitment to Brisbane artists, because we sort of feel like: “if it’s not us then who?” We’re a city of 2 million people now. I think we have a cultural responsibility to be showcasing the best of ours, not just the best of everyone else’s. We had 909 Brisbane artists represented in our bill in the last year. This is a massive increase in what I think anyone has been able to do in the past and it comes from a big commitment we’ve made. Because of that, we’ve seen some great results

SO WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FOR 2017?

FM: 2017 is really exciting. We’ve got a huge program which is the core of our activity. We have a growing events and functions business, which will include interesting things like Myriad, the Premier’s innovation conference. We’ve got brides booked for weddings for every Saturday night until the end of time, both in our Rooftop Terrace but also in our new space, the River Studio. KS: We’ve had an incredibly busy 2016 and 2017 is also going to be very busy but in a weird way. A lot of it is about projects we’ve been working on for quite a while, things we’ve been excited about for a while and we’ve had on our horizon. We’ve got a musical coming up that we commissioned, raised all the money for and is having its world premiere here – it’s called Joh for PM, a musical about Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Following that we’ll have IRL Digital Playground – a festival all about digital and gaming culture and it looks at how audiences now have changed.

Roseville’s unexpected visitor historical society GERARD BENJAMIN THIS must often happen at New Farm’s older homes: a stranger at the front door says, “I hope you don’t mind my calling but my family used to live here a long time ago…” This just occurred at Roseville in Chester Street when owner Jane Capelli welcomed UK tourist Sally Williams, whose mother had visited the grand Teneriffe home during the 1930-40s. Sally’s grandfather was Frank Cowell, youngest son of hotelier Thomas Cowell and his wife Ann. Thomas Cowell’s was a classic story of a colonial “made good”. One of the earliest settlers in Woolloongabba, he kept a small dairy farm in Vulture Street and reputedly

Frank Cowell (left rear) beside his mother Ann, along with other members of the family, ca 1915.

carried milk to his customers in cans suspended from an old-fashioned yoke across his shoulders. Cowell eventually became the licensee of Queen Street’s Victoria Hotel only to be dealt a double blow. He lost his young wife in a house fire early in 1864 and later that year the hotel was destroyed in the great fire of Brisbane. Undaunted, he remarried in 1867, and with his new wife Ann raised a family of six children at his North Quay home overlooking the new Victoria Bridge. In the late 1890s, after her husband’s death, Ann moved to Roseville, renaming it Uradah. When she visited Roseville, Sally Williams found that her 92-year-old

mother’s stories about the house came to life. “My mother Suzanne remembers visiting the house during the 1930s and early 40s when her father Frank Cowell was its owner. “Having a young family himself, he did not live there but maintained the house for its occupants, his brother and two sisters. “There wasn’t the money to do this in style, since the family fortunes were affected by the Depression and a solicitor’s rumoured unscrupulousness.” Sally’s mother remembers the regular trips by ferry and tram from her parents’ home at Norman Park to Chester Street.

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“You could see that the house had been grand but it was a bit tired because the relatives were getting too old,” recalled Sally’s mother. “I remember the love seat and chaise longue in the lounge, and the antimacassars on the chairs to hide the wear and tear. “We always had tea beautifully laid out in the dining room when we visited but at other times my relatives ate in the kitchen. “I loved all the bells in the kitchen linked to every room in the house, a left-over from the days of servants. “All my aunts played the piano including one who was up to concert standard. In Uradah’s heyday they used to have dances, and guests would go out on to the verandah – but not when I knew it.” Reflecting on her visit, Sally said: “I was both awestruck with the home’s presentation, and overwhelmed with the feeling that I’d been there before, even though I had only known the house by way of photos and my mother’s recollections. “No wonder I am looking forward to a possible return in the not-toodistant future.”

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I n 1989 I was fortunate to grasp a business that the fallen tycoon Christopher Skase was wanting to sell quickly: Hardy Bros Jewellery.

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GARY BALKIN Don’t you just love the history of Brisbane and our south-east corner? I also enjoy following our history and heritage and can tell what was standing in a certain venue at times since the early 1950s. I am not alone in this. Remember when The Valley was still being declared “dead” just 25 years ago? Now Fortitude Valley is in the middle of a remarkable resurgence to the forefront of our city and the Emporium is a leading light. The Emporium has an array of good restaurants and shopping experiences that complement the

good feelings we have about the expanding capital city we call home. The famed McKinney family of Toowoomba origin has been firmly entrenched for its jewellery stores in Brisbane and interstate venues but the one-time jewellers and gem-stone merchants have long foregone their other bases and are ensconced here at The Emporium. In this up-market centre are McKinney Jewellers, and patriarch John’s daughter’s store “Margot”, specialising in high-end jewellery designs. Back in the patriarch’s store I met his grandson Andrew Welch, joining after securing his degree in business at the University of Queensland.

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So the generations continue. Some great Queensland families have grown in tandem with our great state and history is interspersed with events that have influenced our nation. Only older readers and students of our war years will know of the Brisbane Line – the demarcation declared by the Brisbane-based Allied Forces Commander MacArthur in 1943, where the American stated the Defence Forces would delineate where defence of Australia against expected Japanese forces would be planned, from Brisbane southward. Many of us lived north of the Brisbane Line and family memories related to me are of schoolkids in trenches exercises, much the same

as today’s fire alarm exercises, and of endless trainloads of allied troops heading back and forth from Cairns to Coolangatta. Some families sent their kids to be schooled over the border, from Armidale to Sydney and Melbourne. John McKinney, now 86, was first sent to St Hilda’s Southport. St Hilda’s had changed to a boys’ school while the girls went to Bowral in New South Wales. John recalls the trenches well, the sirens, and occasionally a plane overhead when schoolkids thought attack was reality. From St Hilda’s, John went to Kings School, Parramatta. After the war, John completed his education there and immediately began a job at Prouds jewellers in Sydney’s CBD. After working in every section of Prouds, he returned home to work in his father’s store, the premier specialty store on the Darling Downs. The famous store had started trading in 1884 when John’s grandfather, also John, opened as a barber and tobacconist, moved on to selling imported and fancy goods, china, dinner sets and silver cutlery, Winchester rifles, Parker pens, cigarette lighters and hair clippers. In later decades, good jewellery and gems were showcased and the

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“We did have a setback in the 1970s when we took a lease at Indooroopilly Shoppingtown with a business selling furniture and electrical goods. “We were burning our fingers as that was also the era when cut-priced whitegoods cornered the market. “The rental was tied to CPI (the consumer price index) and we were in a dilemma. “The answer was to change back to what we did best in Toowoomba, so we remodelled on the old theme, plus Sydney dealers delivered us pearls and other precious gems to showcase. We were on our way again. “In 1989 I was fortunate to grasp a business that the fallen tycoon Christopher Skase was wanting to sell quickly: Hardy Bros Jewellery. “Hardy Bros was an Australian institution, a fantastic business, and among other leading products was the annual Melbourne Cup. “For about a decade we had Hardy Bros stores in Melbourne, Sydney City, Double Bay, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Port Douglas. “We closed the Indooroopilly business to focus on its growth. “We eventually sold to Wallace Bishop and reverted to just McKinneys Jewellers in Brisbane and our old Toowoomba store. I travelled from Toowoomba and stayed in Brisbane frequently. “I sold the Toowoomba store in 2004.” When I walked in to McKinneys at The Emporium, John was on the phone to daughter Margot in America. She was in Dallas, Texas, where she was selling her jewellery into the great American chain of Neiman Marcus. John and his wife Anne had three daughters and the other two are Jane and Sally. Sadly, his wife passed some years ago, and he now lives in Hamilton, coming in daily at 10am to the life he loves, and never far from his family. “Youngest daughter Jane is back at the business following her raising of her three sons. “My other daughter Sally is also part of the team at the store. Their growing up surrounded by precious jewellery instilled in them a respect for fine craftsmanship and high standards.” McKinneys Jewellers has a strong presence in 2016 and John has been selling fabulous pink diamonds now for many years. He does not play golf at Royal Queensland as regularly these days, nor for decades has he been a speedway car racer. But John delights in concentrating on furthering the family’s interests in gems and their business at The Emporium.

Out with the ‘old’, in with the Seniors senior voice TONY TOWNSEND National Seniors is looking to the future with new senior appointments: CEO Dagmar Parsons, who so impressed us when she spoke at our October Wine and Cheese Extravaganza, and chair Christopher Guille from South Australia. These two, aided by the existing management team, are responsible for steering the largest single grouping of over 50s in Australia in both the member support and advocacy roles. We seniors, with much of our wealth in superannuation and the family home, appear an easy target for those who have difficulty comprehending the sacrifice many

have made over our long lives and to discount the experience gained because of that struggle. New Farm branch also faces the future with optimism. Membership is growing with younger ones replacing the more senior as they move on, and our committee is putting together as diverse a range of activities as possible for that membership. January is a quiet month with the only scheduled activity a celebration of Australia Day in the Uniting Church Hall on Wednesday January 25. That intrepid and highly productive group of ladies called “Stitch & Bitch” will now meet twice a month at the New Farm library – the first Monday and third Friday. The year kicks off in earnest with our first general meeting at 9:30am for 10am on Wednesday February 1 at the Uniting Church Hall where guest speaker will be the new CEO, Dagmar Parsons, followed by lunch at Café 63. For further information about NSA or any of our activities call Val Murphy on 0403 713 040 or read the newsletter published on the website www.nsanewfarmbranch.com

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Family-run fish shop a Teneriffe legacy village food ANNABELLE CHAPPLE In the inner city, where change is not only commonplace but expected, it’s reassuring for some things to remain the same. For more than 15 years Fish’s Seafood Market has been operated by the Byth family: first by father, now son. It’s a Teneriffe legacy. Bucking hip-food trends and the muscle of Instagram influencers, their humble fish and chip store is thriving. In an average week Fish’s sells 360kg of their signature crunchy, hot chips. Village News caught up with owner Brendan Byth to hear how the shop has entered the online world and to learn how to make one of their most popular prawn dishes.

Brendan: Back in 2001 my dad (Glen) started working here. He built it up from scratch, managing the store for another guy who owned it. In 2003, he needed another employee so we started working together. I was 19 but had started working in the industry from the age of 12, when dad owned a store in Cleveland. At the end of 2004 we bought the shop, added burgers to the menu and the business took off. The area had just started growing, booming, units were going up. That was when my sister (Melissa) started working with us. In 2008, we bought the freehold.

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Obviously I’m owner but I do the majority of the work too. I basically open, close, set up, cook and order. My sister opens and closes on my days off, cooks and does everything that I do. My dad also does the cooking. My wife Toula works on the till. Toula’s niece works a few nights a week and her nephew works a few nights a week, there’s only a few non-family members who work here. We all get along pretty well, we’re very easy-going people.

ANNABELLE’S NOTES It’s been years since I deep-fried anything but I found this recipe delicious and simple. The batter puffed up beautifully and was crispy, the prawns were tender and perfectly cooked. Aside from oil spatter, be aware of your timings. Pre-dip your prawns in batter and have them all ready on a plate so that when the oil is hot you can pay attention to each prawn cooking and get them served up quickly.

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HOW DO YOU GROW AND ADAPT THE BUSINESS IN THIS FOOD-TREND-DRIVEN WORLD?

The biggest thing that’s changed since we started here is the demand for fresh fish. Most shops don’t offer it because it’s more expensive but I prefer it. A lot of shops go cheap and nasty and the customers never come back. We buy the best and most expensive because the customer can taste the difference. We’ve also started doing online ordering through MenuLog and Eat Now, just to keep up with the times and younger people ordering on their phones.

ARE YOU PROUD OF HOW FAR YOU’VE COME?

Yeah. Over 15 years we’ve built up our reputation with local customers. People talk here and I suppose that’s the best advertising. We don’t do any other advertising really, it’s all word of mouth. Also, I know a lot of my customers. I could put their food order on the moment they walk in the door. We have people who move out of the suburb then drive all the way back for our food because they can’t get crunchy chips like ours anywhere else. Having my sister and dad here helps too: customers like seeing the same faces.

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Last call for Cirque After eight years serving the New Farm community, Christophe and Giselle Massieu have shut the doors on their institutional Cirque Café. Christophe said that a unit development was to be built behind their shop and remaining open would have been very difficult. “We could close for a while or relocate but regardless of what we chose, we would have to lose all our staff and start pretty much from scratch. “An option was to stay as is and endure the development for 18 months or so,” he said. “We thought about it and said: ‘I think it’s time to take a break!’ ”

The couple intends to enjoy a few months off and then take their two children, Fletcher and Darcy, over to France. “We’re going to take a sabbatical, then we’ll then go to France for about six months or so,” Christophe said. “Then we’ll come back with clear heads and new ideas and get cracking again!” The pair couldn’t say whether they’d get back into the same type of business. “There’s a few things we have in mind but we’ll have to really think about it and find the right spot in the right area.”

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