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Victoria Park spared as tunnel design reworked PEOPLE power has saved more than 26,000sq m of Victoria Park after the State Government reworked the design for the Spring Hill portal of the Bus and Train (BaT) Tunnel in response to community concerns.

State Member for Brisbane Central Robert Cavallucci said he welcomed the changes to the Victoria Park end of the project.

The bus alignment at the northern portal now would be stacked over the BaT rail infrastructure instead of running through the park next to the rail line.

This solution meant that the permanent BaT infrastructure was almost completely contained within the existing rail corridor, Mr Cavallucci said.

It combines a railway and a busway in a single, doubledecked, 15m-wide tunnel beneath the Brisbane River and the CBD, and will link to council’s Legacy Way tunnel.

“During recent months, on almost a weekly basis, I have worked extensively with local residents and members of the Spring Hill Community Group, directly with the Transport Minister and BaT Project director’s office,” Mr Cavallucci said.

As a result, further technical investigations were carried out, the options were analysed, and the design refinements provided a solution that addressed community concerns, Mr Cavallucci said.

Opposition Transport spokeswoman Jackie Trad was reported as saying that problems remained with the BaT tunnel concept.

“Compared to Cross River Rail, the BaT tunnel still has fewer and smaller stations, meaning it will fail to meet the future growth of SouthEast Queensland,” Ms Trad was quoted as saying.

The BaT project will run for 5km from Dutton Park in the south to

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Robert Cavallucci, Transport Minister Scott Emerson, Premier Campbell Newman, and Lord Mayor Graham Quirk look over plans for the BaT tunnel.

Victoria Park at Spring Hill in the north with new underground stations at Woolloongabba, George Street and Roma St. It combines a railway and a busway in a single, double-decked, 15m-wide tunnel beneath the Brisbane River and the CBD, and will link to council’s Legacy Way tunnel.

Early construction works are due to start next year before the tunnel opens for trains and buses in 2021.

For more information or details maps on the Draft Reference Design please visit www.qld.gov.au/ batproject.

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Bus terminus bound for New Farm Clinic amid route change

COUNCIL CONNECTIONS Budget 2014-15 Brisbane City Council budget 2014-15 continues Lord Mayor Graham Quirk’s focus on looking after the bread and butter issues like better public transport, improved roads and world-class facilities.

Brisbane City Council is responsible for maintaining approximately 5,500 kilometres of roads and work is prioritised according to need, with assessments made regularly.

In this year’s budget $60m has been allocated to road resurfacing. Locally we will see Merthyr Road, Malt Street and Bridge Street resurfaced. New footpaths will be installed along Ann Street, Astor Terrace and St Pauls Terrace and council will introduce new measures to reduce congestion at the Ann Street and James Street intersection and the Commercial Road and Skyring Terrace intersection.

Funding has also been provided to improve Centenary Place Park and New Farm Park, with new arbours in the rose garden being built to replace the current ones which have deteriorated.

Council will improve local stormwater infrastructure in Bowen Terrace, Welsby Street and Wickham Grove.

Our open spaces are important to us. As Brisbane grows, the need for accessible public parks and spaces with a greater diversity of facilities becomes more evident. That’s why each ward has a Ward Footpath and Parks Trust Fund to allocate to local initiatives. If you have any suggestions for improvements please let us know.

We are always looking to do more for the City in these tough financial times, and to that end, are very proud of our achievements and initiatives delivering for you.

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CONSULTATION on proposed change to the 196 bus service through Merthyr had been completed with overwhelming support received in favour of the proposal, Central Ward Cr Vicki Howard said.

Feedback forms were sent to households around the affected area in Merthyr in May and feedback has been overwhelmingly in support of the proposal, Cr Howard said.

Of the 122 formal replies received, 109 were in favour of the proposal to slightly alter the Route 196 service through Merthyr and remove the 193 service.

“Concerns about parking in Sargent St have been taken on board and this will result in moving the bus stop location in Sargent St to Mountford Rd at the new terminus to ensure parking can be reinstated in Sargent St. “The removal of the 197 under previous councillors and state representatives left many older residents behind; they no longer had a service that linked them directly to the

City and the Southbank entertainment precinct.”

Translink had allowed Brisbane City Council to investigate re-routing the 196, Cr Howard said, which would: • Move the 196 terminus to Mountford Rd outside the New Farm Clinic.

• Provide a very high frequency service to residents of Moray St – particularly the war widows - between Sydney St and Mountford Rd. • Remove bus services from most of Sargent St. • Continue to service all of the existing stops on the 196 route.

“Timetables will be reissued to accommodate this minor route change – the 196 service will remain a high frequency BUZ route as it is now,” Cr Howard said.

Passengers will be advised of the exact date of the new route coming in effect in August, when a date is confirmed.

Route 195 service will remain unchanged.

Olympian urges check-ups for men DUAL Olympian and Australian Men’s Water Polo Captain Rhys Howden, pictured, is visiting The Valley Discount Drug Store to raise awareness of the importance of Australian men having regular health check-ups.

Taking part in the pharmacy’s ‘Men’s Health Tune Up’ clinic on July 4, the 27 year old captain of the Aussie Sharks hopes to encourage men to put their health above their pride in light of new research showing males are neglecting important health tests.

“Research has found that men visit their doctor less frequently than women and generally only when their illness is serious,” Howden explained.

“It’s this behaviour that needs to change in order to improve overall health in Australian men and to ensure they’re living longer lives.

“Something as simple as having your blood pressure and cholesterol checked regularly is key to preventing a heart attack or a stroke.”

Taking 15 minutes and conducted by a registered nurse, the clinics will test patients BMI, blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol and give them the opportunity to have their lifestyle assessed and to discuss other health concerns they may have.

The Valley Discount Drug Store’s clinic will run on July 4 from 9:30am to 12:30pm and will cost $20.

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Jensen bowls over rivals in Challenge warm-up NO wonder he’s smiling. New Farm Bowls Club’s Geoff Jensen, pictured, beat Tony McFarlane to take out the prestigious Brisbane District Singles Championship.

Jensen’s win was a great warm-up for the Village News Challenge and the Village News Shield held last weekend.

New Farms director of bowls Paul Turnbull said the reintroduction of the Challenge and the Shield were welcome. “We really appreciate the

support of Michael (Hawke) and his team at the Village News - the association between the club and the Village News is getting stronger all the time.”

The club was offering free coaching to anyone interested in taking up bowls.

Central parents vow to keep up fight for school land THE land brawl between the LNP and Brisbane Central State School parents seems set to rage on with the P&C warning “the struggle is far from over” despite the State Government allocating $1 million for extra classrooms.

State Member for Brisbane Central Robert Cavallucci said the planned works would provide up to seven classrooms, which Central P&C president Paul Wilson welcomed but he said it fell short of what was needed.

Mr Wilson said: “The Government says this investment will increase school capacity from 220 to 400 students. At current growth rates, we think that’s a useful solution for the next three years, but the school community has an outlook that stretches well beyond an electoral cycle,” he said.

Mr Cavallucci said that in addition to the new works, for the past year he had been working on facilitating a 20-year master-planning exercise for all Brisbane central schools, which was now well under way.

Mr Wilson said: “The Government has said it will commence a masterplanning exercise for ‘all Brisbane Central Schools’. We would like to know who is running it and when

we can sit down with them for a fair dinkum master-planning process, which we’ve been seeking for months now.”

“Importantly, we want to know what the phrase ‘all Brisbane Central schools’ means,” Mr Wilson said.

“If those words keep open the possibility that rare and precious public land will be carved off to well-resourced private schools, then Government needs to know that the local community considers that completely unacceptable.

“We are watching developments very closely.

“Any proposal that robs inner-city

P&C president Paul Wilson said they are watching the LNP Government closely.

Central. The department was due to take possession on June 30.

The $1 million will be spent refurbishing existing property on the site.

The P&C had been fighting for the site to be given to them in full and

Any proposal that robs inner-city state school kids of the right to a safe and happy learning environment will meet with a noisy, sustained and angry response. state school kids of the right to a safe and happy learning environment will meet with a noisy, sustained and angry response.”

The education department has paid Queensland Health about $6.2 million for a 6000sq m parcel of land at Water St, Spring Hill, that abuts Brisbane

thought they had succeeded when Mr Cavallucci issued a press release in August last year saying he was “delighted” that EQ was “in the process of transferring back to the school” the land.

But neighbouring private school St Joseph’s College (Gregory Terrace)

had written to the Premier, Campbell Newman, in March last year expressing an interest in buying the land and some members of the P&C have accused Mr Cavallucci of keeping them in the dark over the extent of negotiations between Terrace and the LNP Government.

Mr Cavallucci denies the allegation.

The Government has not committed to giving the land to BCSS - only to expanding facilities to increase the school’s enrolment capacity.

The P&C said the lack of play space at the crammed inner-city school was a danger to pupils’ safety.

It was reported that a nine-year-old boy pupil was rushed to hospital in May after being hit in the head by a ball during lunchtime and knocked unconscious.

And an ambulance spokesman was reported as saying another child, 11, was taken to hospital with a compound fracture to his leg. Letter to editor, P16

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INNER-north icon the Story Bridge features in this year’s winner of the Lord Mayor’s Photographic Awards. Anthony Stoddart picked up the top prize for his Colour, Contrast, Capital (pictured). Cr David McLachlan (Hamilton Ward) said the contest drew 340 entries.

Merger boosts care for vulnerable COMMUNIFY Qld, a multi-service community care provider serving Brisbane’s inner-north and west since 1976, and New Farm Neighbourhood Centre (NFNC), operating since 1986, will merge operations this July.

The merger promises to bring improved service delivery across Brisbane’s inner-northern suburbs.

It also provides operational efficiencies to both organisations, an important factor in supporting the work of frontline staff.

Communify Qld president Carolyn Mason said: “It makes sense for our two organisations, which have always collaborated closely, to join together to better serve our communities.

“Together we will be better placed to respond to the needs of vulnerable people and provide much needed support.

“The merger strengthens foundations for the future for both New Farm Neighbourhood Centre and Communify.”

The decision to proceed with the merger was made after many months of negotiation, consultation and careful consideration, Ms Mason said.

“We are pleased that after undertaking appropriate due diligence, including consultation with key members and stakeholders, that both our management committees and members have approved the merger.” she said.

The members and management committee of New Farm Neighbourhood Centre recognised the benefits that could be realised by partnering with a complementary organisation.

These benefits include growth of service offering, sustainability through diversity and strengthening the centre’s capacity to support the local community into the future.

NFNC management committee president Kent Maddock said: “In seeking a merger partner the management committee sought an organisation that held similar values, and that would add value to the existing New Farm Neighbourhood Centre services and provide benefits to our client.”

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Threat of costs hangs over appeals AS Kangaroo Point residents rally to fight a thinking of appealing now had to consider non-compliant tower approved by council, whether they were putting their house on the Opposition has expressed concern that the line the community group could be forced to pay “It means that council is less the developer’s court accountable,” Cr Abrahams said. expenses if their “It is a major concern for us.” appeal fails.

Even to fund just its side of Deputy Opposition the appeal over the 20-storey Leader Cr Helen Riverview Towers, the Kangaroo Abrahams said that Point residents group needs to under recent State raise at least $100,000.

Government law Metro Property Development changes, a developer has won council approval to who successfully build the tower in defiance of beat an appeal the Kangaroo Point Peninsula over an approved Local Plan, which stipulates a development could 10-storey maximum. apply to the court for Fighting group member Karen costs.

Williams said the Lambert St Cr Abrahams, appeal was do or die for all of who is Shadow for Brisbane. the Neighbourhood “If this fight is lost, all future Planning and objections regarding any other Development non-compliant development Assessment anywhere in Brisbane are futile,” Committee, said she said. developers and The group is staging a The Kangaroo Point residents group’s councils were in a promotional poster, which depicts the community meeting at Kangaroo position to rack up Point on July 16. Contact Ms approved tower as King Kong. substantial costs Williams on 0412 683 681 or solicitors, barristers, email: kangapoint.residents@ town planners, and other advisers - and gmail.com. the risk of being ordered to pick up the tab Donations to help fund the appeal can could intimidate residents out of appealing. be deposited at: Account Name: Kangaroo She said vexatiousness was no longer Point Lambert Street Fighting Fund; BSB: the only grounds for costs, and residents 638-060; Account Number: 13228196

Park upgrades take root with plantings CENTRAL Ward parks received $53,000 worth of upgrades in May as part of a city-wide project, Cr Vicki Howard said.

“This investment has seen Central Ward residents now enjoying improved park facilities at parks across the ward, with widespread plantings of new trees following the Australia Day storm event,” she said.

“In addition, each of Brisbane’s 26 councillors has access to $398,000 from the Ward Parks and Footpath Trust for new footpaths and park improvements.”

Trees were planted at these parks: Ruby Robinson, Windsor Quarry, Wilston Reserve, Langley, Spencer, Downey, Finsbury, Rasey, Victoria (Spring Hill), Welsby, King Edward (City), Merthyr (New Farm), Wickham (City), and New Farm.

Screening aids Oxfam appeals

THE Queensland Committee for Oxfam Australia is staging a benefit screening of the film Charlie’s Country, on Thursday, July 17, at Palace Centro, 39 James St, New Farm, from 6pm.

Charlie’s Country is directed by Rolf de Heer and has achieved great critical acclaim with the star and co-writer David Gulpilil winning the best actor award at Cannes in May. The admission price of $25 includes a glass of champagne (or juice), and a raffle ticket.

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COINCIDING with the outbreak of World War I a century ago this month, the following letter, written by 26-yearold Miss Thea (Ethel) Tremearne in August 1914 to her father in Brisbane, describes a four-day ordeal trying to

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by Gerard Benjamin leave Germany after war was declared.

The recipient was prominent Brisbane businessman WEWT Tremearne (1861-1931), managing director of the Brisbane Stevedoring and Wool Dumping Company. From 1910, he was a driving force behind the building of wharves and storage sheds at New Farm, which enabled vessels from overseas shipping lines to berth.

Thea and her mother left Sydney in 1913 for an extended European visit. In August 1914, they found themselves in Coblenz on the Rhine, when the order was given to mobilise the German army.

Realising hostilities might soon begin, the mother and daughter sought an English clergyman’s counsel. He advised leaving by the next train and to keep a low profile.

Miss Tremearne continues, “We decided to go to England on the

following Sunday evening. Next morning I went to the station several times on different matters, and the scenes there were heartbreaking: mothers with their children saying an revoir to their husbands, and young girls leaving their soldier boys.

“These scenes were cruel to witness, and one especially stands clear in my mind. I was in the station restaurant and an officer came in, followed by his servant. The servant wished him good luck, and hoped to see him again. The officer grasped his hand, and with a fearful groan said, ‘Nobody knows.’ He was a brave man as he went to war. I think he thought it was his last meeting, and I wonder if it was.

“Everything was calmness before the storm. We packed, but how to get our luggage to the station was quite a problem. All horses had been taken, and ultimately we secured a taxi. A Prussian officer kindly allowed us to go with him, otherwise we would have had to leave our luggage behind.

“At Coblenz station there were two porters, and luckily we secured one.

Poor man, he was going to war. We waited on the platform for several minutes, then a train came in. We asked the conductor if the train went to Flushing, but he did not know, and I believe him.

“I think that nobody knew where they were going to, and where they would

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Mr Tremearne (left) in 1907 with a new car. He pressed for more port facilities in New Farm. (SLQ 204208) arrive. There were no seats available, and we had to be satisfied with standing all the way to Koln. I asked where the train was destined, and heard Amsterdam.

“At Koln we got out, and on the platform we met four Canadians who were going to London, and were taking the same route as we intended. They invited us to sit on their luggage with them, as ours had been registered through to Victoria station, and there we remained for two and a half hours.

“The place was packed. In the distance we could hear the crowds cheering the soldiers; it was so sad and mournful, this distant cheering. While perched on our suitcases we learned that two Russian spies had been caught just outside our station, and that the French were throwing bombs nearby.

‘And,’ said one of our new friends, ‘what is to prevent them from throwing one on us?’ These bombs killed 98 people.

Rather a cheering thing to say!” (from The Queenslander, 26 Sep 1914)

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This Stratton St Quonset hut shows its easy-to-assemble structure.

WHEN the war effort in 1942 required speedy storage and accommodation structures, the answer was the kitform, ready-to-assemble Quonset hut.

Retired engineer Roger Marks, who has documented innumerable legacies of the WWII American presence in Brisbane, is to be the speaker at the next meeting of the New Farm and Districts Historical Society.

Come to meet Roger to hear about local Quonset structures in particular, as well as his and his wife Jenny’s visits to Washington, DC, so as to sort through thousands of archival photos depicting wartime Brisbane.

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Chamber honours late-night saviours on the streets

By Alisa Cork EVERY Thursday, Friday and Saturday night from 11 o’clock through to 5am, a team of dedicated and streetwise NightWatch men and women tread the pavements of Fortitude Valley keeping their ears and eyes open for people in crisis, at risk or in need of support.

It is this support that the Valley Chamber of Commerce (VCC) acknowledged and celebrated at a working lunch held recently in honour of the NightWatch chaplains who have patrolled the streets of Fortitude Valley, the CBD and Caxton St precincts since 2004.

With 200 in attendance, the event at Cloudland on June 13 was the largest VCC business lunch so far, raising almost $10,000 for the NightWatch project.

The organisation’s president, Mr Robin Maini, said local businesses had come to rely on NightWatch chaplains and believed they were an essential part of the Valley community.

“VCC support this great cause which gives so much back to our business community - it’s what we are all about,” Mr Maini said.

“We are now in the fortunate

position where VCC is able to help other non-profit organisations within the business community, wherever we can.”

“The NightWatch fundraiser gave the chamber a chance to give back to the people who make our streets safer and help our members function as part of the wider community,” he said.

Lance Mergard, Senior Chaplain and founder of the ChaplainWatch program believes without the NightWatch Chaplains, Fortitude Valley would not be as safe. He said he greatly appreciated the public acknowledgement by the local business group.

“Not only did we appreciate the funding and support, we found everyone’s attendance at the Valley Chamber of Commerce event inspirational,” Mr Mergard said.

“To have the business community recognise our service, gives us the fortitude to keep going in the Valley night after night.”

NightWatch Chaplains work hand-in-hand with police, ambulance, government agencies, local business and stakeholders to provide a mobile and rapid community response to people in crisis, at risk or in need.

Missing numbers hinder help, say chaplains Above: Robin Maini and Hon Ian Walker Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts (keynote speaker at the event) Right: Lance Merard, Snr Chaplain “Without the chaplains, there would be many more people finding themselves in trouble, without a helping hand in their moments of irrationality or loss of understanding,” Mr Mergard said.

“They would not have anyone to help them solve their problems late at night or in the early hours of the morning, and mums and dads would be a lot more anxious about their kids.”

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Touring LA and thoughts turn to home, and how lucky we are I’M sitting at the edge of an Ice Age warp and weft of our community fossil excavation pit in the middle tapestry. ‘Binkin-ba’ has transformed of Los Angeles, as you do. And if it immensely over time and is testament wasn’t for the cloying smell of to our past adherence to asphalt seeping up through our National Anthem, “For the bubbling pores of the those who’ve come across earth at the La Brea Tar Pits, the seas, We’ve boundless the sticky tar responsible plains to share”. Our love for the demise of the great of our neighbourhood, the prehistoric mammals at this joy we find in our peninsula site, I could possibly imagine lifestyle, our freedom and myself in my hometown history will be celebrated this streets of New Farm in spring. month in our very own street The skyline is a carpet of festival. We really are a ‘lucky purple jacaranda blossoms, country’. red poinsettias and gum really do have much villageview weWe trees. could share. Watching

by Beth J Leach archaeologists dig out these The giant prehistoric mammals that have been giant bones highlights our uncovered here in their hundreds of temporary status on this earth. thousands were looking for a better Human life is so very short. The life on the open plains by fleeing constant change of the land, habitat, the rapidly encroaching polar ice society and cultures means our own caps of the last Ice Age. Inside the personal and spiritual value system Page Natural History Museum is a is the pivotal anchor of our integrity horizontal bar graph representing and how we accept possibilities in time and each mammal’s extinction. our present time and futures. It’s Silently I will on the woolly mammoths, the internal truth of knowing what cave bears and saber-tooth tigers as is right in the face of humanity I follow their lifelines, knowing the that allows the understanding that outcome of the script, until only one each person is equal, that everyone animal’s lifeline remains. Humans. deserves the chance to find a better Like the City Of Angels, our own life. For we are mere custodians of multicultural diversity provides the this land.

Opening night looms for new cinema complex

By Jaishri Johnstone THE redeveloped New Farm Cinema at Brunswick St was aiming to open at the end of July or early August, owner Peter Sourris said.

The complex would include a gelato bar, two coffee shops, a liquor bar and six 3D cinemas, Mr Sourris said.

“There will be one large purple room that will hold 220 seats, one exclusive intimate bronze room suitable for corporate use, that will hold 70 seats and later this year we will open two gold rooms as well as a Blue and Red exclusive room that will also hold 70 seats, all created to serve for different use”, he said.

The cinema also planned to promote itself as a venue for book launches, art shows and red carpet events.

Mr Sourris said was unable to confirm ticket prices yet and that he was still finalising the food outlets.

The site was bought by Mr Sourris and his brother and business partner, Stephen Sourris, in February 2013.

The two also own the Yatala Drive-In. “The movie industry has always been a passion and interest of ours as well as a love for great architecture,” Peter Sourris said.

Work continues on the complex.

“What really excites us about the New Farm Six Cinema is the Vive audio by Christie Digital, a surroundsound system that no other cinema in Australia has.

“We are delighted to bring this complex back to life after being abandoned for over 10 years prior to our redevelopment, and feel it will bring a new personality to New Farm and Brisbane, ” he said.

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Free vet clinic helps cash-strapped pet owners POWERHOUSE Park came alive with the barking, chirping and purring of more than 30 beloved pets at the Paw Prints free outdoor vet clinic on June 17.

With the help of 15 volunteers from Newstead notfor-profit organisation Footprints, RSPCA and the Homelessness Service Centre (HSC), pets were spoiled with goody bags following free vet checks, vaccinations, worming and flea treatments.

The initiative was introduced by Footprints to the community to help financially disadvantaged pet owners, after seeing clients sacrificing their own needs to care.

Marketing officer Kelly Wells said the event had many familiar and new faces attend, highlighting the growth of the event, now in its third year running.

“We hope to see it continue to grow with both clients, pets and other businesses wishing to assist,” she said.

“The Paw Prints initiative understands the strong healing power of companion pets and of the human/animal bond which is very important in the lives of many homeless who

Vicki Howard at Paw Prints find solace, protection and companionship through their pets. They care for their pets on limited resources so they themselves have less.”

Kangaroo Point foot bridge firms as reality THE long-touted Kangaroo Point foot and bike bridge to the CBD has received a kick along after council’s latest budget allocated more than $2 million for planning work in 2016-17.

A further $29.9 million had been allocated to the bridge construction in 2017-18.

The bridge and a CBD marina were included in council’s River’s Edge Strategy unveiled last year and were tagged as two projects wanted delivered within five years.

The bridge would join the rebuilt Riverwalk, connecting New Farm and the CBD. At a budget information session on June 20, infrastructure chairman Cr Adrian Schrinner said the total bridge cost was unknown.

“It will be more than what’s listed because the budget is four years and the project continues beyond that timeframe.”

Also, the design had yet to be determined.

The shorter Kurilpa Bridge between South Brisbane and the CBD cost $63 million.

Finish nears for $72m Riverwalk ALL but one of the required 30 girders had been installed on the New Farm Riverwalk, with the reconstruction due to be completed in September, a council spokesperson said.

The Riverwalk was destroyed in the January 2011 floods and is being rebuilt at a cost of $72 million.

Council said work on the 850m walkway was focused on making it more flood resilient.

“A key component of Riverwalk’s resilience will be the 37 concrete piles which will anchor the walkway into the river bed.

“The girders have then been placed on top of these piles and with only one more to install, the focus will be less on major structural works and more on finishing works.

“The next major construction milestone will involve installing the opening span to allow for the passage of vessels to and from moorings within the area bordered by the walkway.”

The Riverwalk will provide segregated pedestrian and cyclist paths, shaded rest areas and lighting.

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Changes to BaT Tunnel protects Victoria Park After months of working closely with the Spring Hill Community Group and other local stakeholders, we were able to work directly with the Transport Minister’s Office on a weekly basis to take on board the community feedback and deliver positive changes to the final outcome of the BaT Tunnel design. As a consequence of my advocacy as the local member and the productive relationship with the community, I am delighted that we have been able to announce a design that no longer impacts on Victoria Park.

This announcement has been welcomed by locals, as it preserves our precious heritage listed green space, and is an example of Government and community working together to achieve results in the best interests of locals. For more information or details maps on the Draft Reference Design please visit www.qld.gov.au/batproject.

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Brisbane Central State School future proofed After a year of working on the project I recently joined with Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek MP to announce that the Government would now spend more than $1 million to refurbish the former Health site which was recently acquired for $6.25M. My priority has always been to future proof Brisbane Central State School and that’s why we are spending more than $7.25 million dollars on a project providing more spaces to learn and to increase the school’s capacity.

This investment could provide up to seven extra classrooms and increase capacity from 220 up to 400 students. Over the next 12 months we will also engage in a master planning process to ensure that the future education needs of Brisbane Central students are met. This is a demonstration of delivering real planning which delivers real outcomes which was lacking in previous years. As the local Member, I want to see all students in our community have access to the best facilities, so they can enjoy a brighter future with a world-class education and our strong plan will deliver this.

Written by Robert Cavallucci MP State Member for Brisbane Central Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs

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Solicitor plans galloping pace after taking Rotary reins

New president John O’Bryne being presented with the new Pride of Workmanship plaque by Eves on the River restaurant manager Michael Cruyickshank and Rotarian Denise Buckley. The plaque was donated by Eves on the River for the annual awards.

A LIFTING ending to Rotary New Farm’s second year has seen the club recognised with a Presidential Citation from the Rotary International president and a new president-elect, Teneriffe solicitor John O’Byrne.

Former president Howard Hall officially handed over the reins to Mr O’Byrne at a changeover dinner at Eves on the River on June 25, marking the beginning to his year of “making a difference, together”.

Mr O’Byrne has been a familiar face in New Farm, having lived and worked in the local area for more than three years.

“I don’t really know why I joined Rotary New Farm, to be frank. It sounded like a good idea, friendship, fellowship and it wasn’t long before I realised what Rotary was all about: making a difference to our community,” he said.

State MP Mr Robert Cavallucci also attended the black tie event and awarded the outgoing board of directors with Certificates of Appreciation for the work they had done.

In its short tenure, Rotary New Farm has been heavily involved in the local

area, organising Clean Up Australia Day sites, Anzac Day and Australia Day citizenship ceremony events and hosting fundraisers to support the New Farm Neighbourhood Centre, Footprints and the 139 Club.

With an objective to work even closer with local community groups, this weekend’s Teneriffe Festival, September Race Day and an October Book Fair are among the long list of events planned for the next year.

Mr O’Byrne said: “It is interesting, I find the busier you are the more you actually achieve. The same goes within our local community.

“The more we do as a club the more activity generated and our satisfaction comes from seeing that things can get done and they get done well,” John said.

“All of us have a way of contributing, some with their time, others with their knowledge, others with compassion and empathy and those fortunate that can contribute financially.

“We are still looking for them.”

Those interested in Rotary New Farm can visit their stall at Teneriffe Festival on July 5 or log on to rotarynewfarm. com for more information.

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Make life easier: Say ‘no’ more Walkers share history nuggets IN business, I’m continually amazed at the number of people who are unaware of three words

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by Alan Blair that have the power to make everyone’s life easier. It seems we’ve stopped teaching people to use them, or perhaps people are just afraid to say them – fearful of confrontation. So I’m going to reveal the secret to making life easier by saying these three simple words – as frequently as possible.

“No, thank you.”

Why is that so hard to say?

There is nothing more empowering you can say when you’re just not interested in whatever it is that someone is proposing to you. This applies to sales people, prospective clients, your friends and anyone else that wants you to do something that you just don’t want to do. The response doesn’t have to be rude or abrupt; just a firm “No, thank you” can do wonders for everyone’s mental health.

I believe the main reason that people seem incapable of speaking these magic words is that most of us just don’t have a clear purpose for our lives. We haven’t taken the time to think about what we really want and prioritised our activities accordingly. Therefore, we end up doing things we really don’t want to do; things that don’t get us any closer to living the life we want to live. And because of this lack of focus, everyone involved suffers.

There is a simple solution. It’s simple, but in many cases, not easy to implement. Next time you’re asked to do something, pause and ask yourself this question: “If I do this, what difference will it make to what’s most important to me?” Thinking carefully about your answer should leave you with one of two impressions about whatever was proposed. The first possible impression could be, “Hell yes! This is exactly what I need to do now to achieve my most important priorities!”. Whenever your reaction falls short of that benchmark, I’d suggest you put the opportunity into the second category and politely say, “No, thank you”.

Trust me. Either way, you’ll be much happier with the results. And so will the person who asked.

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A PICTURESQUE river backdrop to keep the heart healthy, doing and stunning historical landmarks it in a group makes it a social makes New Farm and its surrounds activity with enjoyment for all ages. an idyllic place to lead an active Contact: Sharna at the New Farm lifestyle.

Neighbourhood Centre on 3358 New Farm Walkers is the newest 5600 group to hop on the bandwagon, Visit heartfoundation.org.au for joining Heart Foundation Walking as walking groups in surrounding part of a weekly meet-up. suburbs.

Walk organiser Sharna is thrilled to lead the group, sharing local NEW FARM WALKERS anecdotes on historical icons such WHEN: Every Friday, 9am as the Brisbane Powerhouse and the MEETING POINT: New Farm former CSR sugar refinery during the Neighbourhood Centre, walk.

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Valley officer honoured for Asian liaison FORTITUDE Valley local and Queensland police liaison officer Chi Kim Wong was recognised for his work in the local Asian community at Queensland Police Credit Union Everyday Hero awards on June 5.

To celebrate QPCU’s Officer Wong is recognised for his 50th anniversary, work with the Fortitude Valley Asian the inaugural awards community at the QPCU awards program sought to on June 5. acknowledge everyday heroes who had made an outstanding contribution to the Queensland community.

Candidates were nominated by colleagues, friends and families, for one of five award categories; dedication, excellence, ownership, working together, and achievement, which Mr Wong picked up.

Based at the Fortitude Valley Police Beat, Mr Wong has worked with Queensland police service for more than 13 years and was previously an Inspector with the Hong Kong police force.

His background in social work allows him to forge strong ties between the Queensland Police Service and the Asian community in Fortitude Valley, where he is a highly respected figure.

Mr Wong is also responsible for initiating Brisbane’s first Chinese Scout Group to encourage young Australian-born Chinese to maintain their cultural heritage.

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Cavallucci denial disputed MR Robert Cavallucci, MP for Brisbane Central, doth protest too much, we think!

(Village News, June 2014) We invite the public to view the P&C association’s statement of facts/timeline and documents on the Brisbane Central State School Reunification Committee Facebook page. We feel sure that the public will reach the conclusion that the State Government misdirected and misinformed the P&C regarding St Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace’s involvement concerning the future of the 169 Water St, Spring Hill, site and that it was the government who were not following process.

Regarding Mr Cavallucci’s claim that he did not approve his own July and August 2013 media releases, I can advise that I, with two other P&C representatives, attended a meeting on July 11, 2013 with Mr Cavallucci and one of his advisors at his Spring Hill office. At that meeting, Mr Cavallucci advised us that he was having to obtain “internal” approval before he could issue his media release. His words and manner suggested that such approval was out of the ordinary and very official.

We welcome the decision to continue with transferring from Queensland Health to Education Queensland the whole of the 169 Water St site and to undertake a master planning process for Brisbane Central State School.

In light of the closure of the Fortitude Valley State School by this LNP Government, the explosion in residential development within the school’s expanded catchment

area, and the increase in frequency and seriousness of student injuries on BCSS’s overcrowded play spaces, the return and retention of the whole of the 169 Water St site for the sole use and occupation of the BCSS is crucial to future-proofing for the next 20 to 50 years, not just the next 5.

Karyn Werham BCSS P&C Assoc. Reunification Subcommittee Secretary

Ugliness squarely on Brisbane WE might well take umbrage at Alain De Botton’s description of our city as ugly but we should accept some truth in his remarks.

Every city needs a pleasant focal point where the population can enjoy meeting and greeting and we did have such a place in King George Square with lawn, water features and sculpture. What have we now but endless areas of concrete, not at all suitable for a sub-tropical climate?

If, as De Botton’s says, there is the ugliness of money over taste can we refute his claim?

Elizabeth Howell New Farm

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Musicians to bag a hat-trick

Composer Rafael Karlen Bushfire break (2013) by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa courtesy of Fireworks Gallery, Newstead DECLASSIFIED Music is set to artistic excellence. mesmerise audiences at The Long Audiences will be greeted with Weekender at Newstead Fireworks eclectic Indigenous and nonGallery from July 10-13.

Indigenous Australian art alongside The Long Weekender is to boast a line-up of Steinway pianos three concerts on consecutive specially provided for the event nights performed by some

by Theme and Variations Piano of Australia’s most exciting Services in Newstead. musicians.

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New Farm backs disability organisation

NEW Farm residents and business owners have united in support of disability charity Cerebral Palsy League (CPL), raising vital funds for programs and services to help more than 8000 Queenslanders.

Fundraising general manager Ben Cox was humbled by the support of the New Farm community, particularly the Sorbello family, who have allowed CPL to sell their art union tickets at Merthyr Village, and local councillor Vicki Howard and state MP Robert Cavallucci.

“If you haven’t already bought a $2 ticket in our $5000 art union, next time you drop in to the Village, please buy a couple from CPL ticket seller and New Farm local, Ann Berridge,” Mr Cox said. “We also have our bigger art unions where you can win $30,000 worth of prizes including a holiday package and car. Tickets are just $2.50 and will close on July 30, with the prize drawn on August 6.”

With a child born with cerebral palsy every 14 hours, it is the most common childhood physical disability in Australia and currently affects over 34,000 Australians.

Ten CPL’s art unions are run yearly to fund vital programs and services such as therapies, technologies, equipment and employment for the 8000-plus

CPL staff member and New Farm local, Ann Berridge, with Councillor Vicki Howard people the organisation supports across the state.

“Money raised from our art unions goes directly into services and programs that help people have freedom of choice, the opportunity to chase their passion, and the support they need to live the life they choose,” Mr Cox said. “We provide services every day, at every stage of our client’s lives, and have been doing so for over 65 years in thousands of homes, schools, communities and workplaces.”

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Focus on care sets expert apart Teneriffe couple meet sponsor child A PASSIONATE hairdresser, an the natural hair to grow with them. obsession with high-quality hair “A heavy extension left on a small extensions and Emilly Hadrill Hair amount of natural hair will create Extensions EHHE was born in 2007. pressure and strain on the hair, Seven years later with salons resulting in breakage.” nationwide at Gold Coast, Hobart, Emilly has had the hairdressing Brisbane and soon Melbourne, urge in her from a young age and has EHHE is a market leading specialist always been a firm believer in honest in professional hair extension service. application and maintenance.

“My vision was to develop a Emilly and her team of highly system that not only lasted in the trained staff are dedicated to client’s hair, but also kept their ensuring the natural hair safe client’s natural and growing. hair remains “This has always safe and growing been the focus by attaching of the business, the extension and the reason, balanced and I believe, that equal in weight is has been so – preventing successful.” the damage In 2013, that most other Emilly’s Before and after. methods cause. fundraising efforts “We have many raised thousands new clients tell us they had hair of dollars for breast cancer research extensions put in by other salons and by hosting an auction of sports were told just to let their extensions memorabilia, photography sessions, grow out and then come back for hair and make-up packages, new ones. restaurant vouchers and other local “This is possibly the worst business donations. advice to give someone with new The event was funded completely extensions, and is simply a moneyby EHHE, having had numerous making scheme,” Emilly said. women come to our salons post“Hair extensions simply must be remission for their chance to feel regularly maintained in order to allow confident and feminine again.

The Sarmientos with Colombian children, Natalia in middle.

TENERIFFE local Hector Sarmiento Sarmientos’ support, which enables spent his childhood in Colombia Natalia to receive a good education. before moving to Australia many years The Sarmientos are eager to provide ago.

Natalia with extra assistance to allow Having witnessed the hardships that her to undertake further study. some families in Colombia endured, The couple’s sponsorship is Hector and wife Joanne began also supporting a local vocational sponsoring Natalia six years ago and education initiative that helps adults were granted the opportunity to visit to learn new skills and assists them in her last month. finding employment.

“Meeting Natalia for the first time Mr Sarmiento said he was grateful was a tremendous experience for us to be able to offer support to those as we truly got to know Natalia and with a less fortunate upbringing than understand how our support is helping his. her community,” Mr Sarmiento said.

The couple are keen to share their “At first Natalia was quite shy but experience with their local community as the day progressed, she quickly in the hope that locals will be inspired warmed to us and was eager to learn to sponsor a child through World about our lives in Australia.”

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Roll up for some pork on your fork

Jocelyn Hancock, the Patron Chef of Griffiths Group venues Alfred & Constance, Alfredo’s, Chester Street and Kwan Brothers, and Myles Parry.

FOR the third year in a row, entrepreneur Damian Griffiths will bring his popular Fortitude Valley venues to the Teneriffe Festival on Saturday with the Pork, Fork & Cork taking over London Laneway off Florence St from 10am until late.

The Griffiths Group latest venture, Kwan Brothers, will be the newest addition to the pop-up this year, alongside Alfred & Constance, Limes Hotel & Rooftop Bar, Alfredo’s Pizzeria and Chester Street bakery and bar.

To help warm patrons from the inside out Pork, Fork & Cork will be serving tasty treats directly from the wood-fired oven including freshly baked wood-fired pizzas, healthy salads and tasty sweet treats.

The famous pork roll with apple sauce will be on offer along with Kwan Brother’s charcoal-grilled lamb ribs and Alfredo’s pizzas including the Chuck Berry with fresh tomato,

oregano, mozzarella and basil and the Brown Sugar pizza with meatballs, pancetta and provolone, and for the health nuts, there will also be a flavoursome pearl barley salad with mushrooms, carrot, fresh herbs, feta, honey and sherry vinaigrette.

Chester Street’s seat treats will include chocolate and pecan brownie, coconut and raspberry slice, and cherry, almond and dark chocolate slice.

Cocktails will be flowing into the evening, with leis all around at Alfred & Constance’s White Lightning popup where festival-goers can refresh and unwind with a Guava Flow, Blue Hawaii and the Mango Cooler made with fresh juices.

Visitors to the Pork, Fork & Cork pop-up will be treated to local music talent including Amy Shark and Phil Smith, two fashion shows (11am and 5pm) and DJs in the afternoon into the evening.

Travel back in time – on a Leyland Panther

By Jaishri Johnstone AS WELL as eating and drinking, festival-goers can do some soaking up of history.

The historical displays and magical mystery history tour are what set this festival apart from the rest, with the opportunity to learn from the experts at the New Farm and Districts Historical Society about captivating facts concerning some of the local residences and woolstores.

There will be several fascinating historical displays scattered all throughout the streets of Teneriffe, accompanied by an energetic roving military band that provides rich character and reminds the suburb of its rich historical prominence.

The mystery tour will no doubt take everyone for a ride down memory lane.

This year festival-goers will be taken all the way back to 1825 to hear about those early days when Teneriffe was a cosmopolitan mix of landed gentry who lived in lavishly furnished homes with tennis courts and magnificent gardens.

In contrast, you will also learn about the newly arrived immigrants who worked as house servants, or the trades on the wharves and in the woolstores. The tour will be taken on a 1969 Leyland Panther.

This year, The Bank of Queensland

History tours will fire up the imagination.

New Farm has proudly signed on as the festival’s premier sponsor, having been part of the local community for over a decade now.

The festival attracts about 50,000 people across all of its events, making it one of Brisbane’s most significant festivals.

Bus tour duration: 60 minutes Bus ticket: $8 How to buy tickets: Tickets can be pre-purchased online at http://www. teneriffefestival.org/historical/ or at the Queensland Omnibus & Coach Society tent, located in the Festival’s Historical display – at Commercial Rd end.

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Streets to come alive with food, fashion, and a ton of fun EXCITEMENT has peaked for this weekend’s Teneriffe Festival, which would boast the largest program of music, fashion, food and kid’s entertainment the area had seen, Teneriffe Festival’s chairman Richard Bodley said.

“This Saturday the streets, laneways and river walks of Teneriffe will be splashed with colour and saturated with the sounds and smells of great music, fine food and people having an immense amount of fun,” Mr Bodley said of the July 5 event.

“The one-day event now offers an impressive program that includes 25 music acts, seven fashion parades, 100 street stalls and more than 40 food outlets and restaurants combining for the Tastes of Teneriffe,” Mr Bodley said.

“We have also introduced a multicultural precinct this year to profile our rich and diverse heritage and expanded the Kidszone to include more activities for the children.”

The 2014 Teneriffe Festival will encompass: FESTIVAL FASHION: The Emerge Australia Fashion Precinct will deliver runway events and creative workshops, all with an

interactive approach.

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FESTIVAL FOOD: Already well-known for the fabulous array of cafes, bistros and restaurants, Teneriffe's local favourites really turn it on for the festival.

Visit the Vernon Terrace deck to sit back and soak up the atmosphere at The London Club, Claret House, London Porterhouse, Wunderbar or Eve's Pizza Bar. Or stroll across the road to Sir Manual Hornibrook Park where Green Beacon, Newstead Brewing and Malt Dining can serve you a cold beer and tantalizing food on the riverfront while you soak up the entertainment on the River Stage.

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MARKET STALLS: With 100 market stalls lining the streets from the corner of Vernon Terrace and Commercial Rd, to Florence St, you'll find bespoke clothing, jewellery, home wares, homemade foods and also local organisations - all offering you something new to try.

Ethel St will host some great pop-up fashion boutiques and Dath St will house the first Festival farmers market.

“We are bringing the best of the best of local music talent this year,” Mr Bodley said.

As always, there remains a strong representation of jazz and blues on the London Laneway Roots stage.

But there’s something for every festival-goer with acts from contemporary to indie to acoustic and folk playing on the Street Stage, River Stage and Nova Busking Corner.

Rounding out the music is headline act Darren Middleton of Powderfinger fame, playing on the River Stage at 7pm.

The full 2014 Teneriffe Festival program is available at teneriffefestival.org The farmers market will feature about 20 fresh food providores, offering everything from cheese, freshly baked specialties, seafood and farm-fresh fruit and vegetables.

FESTIVAL MUSIC: Organisers have scored 25 major acts to play across four different stages on the day.

FESTIVAL HISTORICAL DISPLAYS: Learn from the New Farm & Districts Historical Society about the architecture, early industry and businesses and fascinating facts about local residences and wool stores. This year, seats on the Magical Mystery History Tour can be pre-booked via the festival’s website.

You can bank on playing hard DROP by Bank of Queensland’s area next to the Street Stage on Vernon Terrace and challenge the guys to a game of ping pong.

This year, BOQ New Farm has proudly signed on as the festival’s premier sponsor, assuming naming rights for the day.

BOQ New Farm’s bank managers, Sam Morris and Adam Shepherd, have been part of the Sam Morris & Adam Shepherd local community for more than a decade and are from BOQ New Farm. passionate about supporting local people and businesses. They’re looking forward to meeting as many people as possible at the festival. “The Teneriffe Festival is such a well-loved and renowned annual event and because we are passionate about our own backyard, we can’t wait to help make it the best community event yet,” Mr Shepherd said.

The managers, both aged 27, who attended Nudgee College together, took over the bank’s New Farm branch in 2012.

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IN A Teneriffe Festival first, chairman Richard Bodley is excited to announce the addition of a floating river stage at this weekend’s event.

“It’s the ideal platform for our internationally recognised headline act Darren Middleton,” enthused Mr Bodley.

“We can’t help but joke that we’ve floated the idea for a few years now, but this year we were able to turn it into a reality with the massive assistance of Mirvac.”

The Mirvac River Stage will provide festival-goers the perfect way to listen to six different bands from the ideal vantage point of Sir Manuel Hornibrook Park.

The drawcard for the day is Darren Middleton, who is best known from his previous life as guitarist and songwriter for Powderfinger.

The much loved Australian band played their last show in late 2010 and since then Middleton has been concentrating on developing his solo career.

With a national tour freshly under his belt, Middleton is clearly relishing being on stage again after a two and a half year break and his infectious indie-rock tunes and the first-rate harmonies from his backing band ensure an unforgettable experience for the audience.

Mirvac development director Brett

Robinson said: “We are really excited to be supporting the festival’s first ever floating music stage.

“We are committed to bringing new and exciting experiences to the Teneriffe community and the Mirvac River Stage is sure to delight festival-goers of all ages.

"We take great pride in seeing the festival grow more ambitious and stylish every year, which is a reflection of how the local area is flourishing in just the same way.”

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play host to five other acts throughout the day, comprising Nat Dunn, Brianna Carpenter, Jason Kerrison, Avabaree and the Band of the 1st Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery.

Adding to the relaxed atmosphere of the Mirvac River Stage precinct will be two riverside bars created by local favourites Green Beacon Brewing, Newstead Brewing and Malt Dining.

All performances on the day can be seen free of charge making it one of the best-value music events in Brisbane.

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Live music is a core component of the festival and covers many styles from jazz to roots and alternative pop to indie.

Even genres such as ‘porno country folk cabaret’ and Afro beats have been scheduled this year.

The festival’s musical roster continues to represent a diverse and dynamic musical line-up and has gone from strength-to-strength.

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WE know and get to meet some interesting, wonderful people in the inner-Brisbane precincts that are covered by this magazine, and we have a deep respect and gratitude for those who have emigrated from afar.

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by Gary Balkin

Migrants have added much culturally to the Australian way of life and at the same time share our love of our own heritage.

Marianna Cichocki is such a person, and she has not only lived in Brisbane for 63 years, she proudly announces: “I am nearly 100.”

Marianna was born in 1917 in Harbin, a village in Manchuria, of Polish parents, and married in Shanghai. After migrating here in 1951 she has lived in the neighbouring suburbs of Teneriffe and New Farm. This special lady, of obvious strength of voice and stature, upon further amicable discussion, admits to being “only” 97.

This writer has no doubt that Marianna continues to live a healthy lifestyle, and before I departed her Moray St apartment, she cut two leaves off a pot plant on her patio, advising me to “drink plenty of water, but have a drop of this plant gel in your first glass of the morning”.

Marianna has been doing so for nigh on 50 years.

Her birthplace of Harbin is located not far from the East Sea of Japan, and north of North Korea. Her father had moved from Poland to help build the Manchurian section of the eventual longest railway in the world, The Trans-Siberian Express, from Moscow to Vladivostok. Poland had supplied modern locomotives to run along the new tracks. Many other Polish families also lived and worked in the Harbin area.

Marianna has some favourite stories from her early life there …

“One day when I was about four, my elder sister Kasia and I were out on the rail tracks, as usual, collecting charcoal to heat our mother’s iron.

There were no electric irons back then. Suddenly my sister screamed out to me that a train was bearing down on me. In the nick of time I just lay down on the tracks and it passed over me. I will never forget that experience. I was unhurt, but more aware of the sound of the trains after that.”

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“I still have a copy of the 1939 program of a soloist performance of Chopin in a concert hall in Harbin.

My sister and I were often asked to appear in musical items. My sister had a soprano voice and I a mezzo soprano.”

Marianna could speak Russian and Polish fluently, as Russian was then that area’s official language.

She joined the Girl Guides, becoming a leader: “Once when the Girl Guides were out camping, along came some Japanese soldiers. They halted. It was about that time of the Japanese-Sino War, and the tensions were high. We were all frightened, and screamed at them to go away, in Russian, and fortunately they did.”

This was at the time of the welldocumented Manchurian Incident and with the occupation of Japanese forces in the area of Mukden (now Shenyang), close to Korea and the Russian port of Vladivostok, which is the end of the line of ‘The Railway’, tensions were certainly in the balance, with Russia also a little edgy. China, under then leader Chiang Kai-shek, was becoming increasingly successful in unification.

At that time of the strong Japanese presence, and when Marianna was 17, she worked as a nanny for a Japanese couple with a baby boy. She learnt to speak Japanese. The child’s father was a respectful man, driving Marianna to her church every Sunday.

Her own father had passed away by then and Polish nuns had taught her to sew well, stating that she would always have a job in sewing wherever she went to live.

Some years later, the family moved to Shanghai, where they lived in the French Concession, or Quarter, adjacent to the British Concession district. Each concession was under separate jurisdictions, supervised

by French and British policemen in full regalia, which must have been a striking, colourful experience, moving from one quarter to the other within the exotic hurly-burly of Shanghai.

Shanghai was then the most cosmopolitan city in China, and the world’s largest port. Marianna worked effectively as a seamstress, and later married Joseph, who owned a hairdressing salon in the famous Bund area of Shanghai where he introduced the latest European trends and technology. Their son Ted was born there.

Finally, with China asserting its policy of unification, they had no choice but to leave Shanghai and Australia beckoned. It was riverside Teneriffe, Brisbane, that became home to Marianna, then 34, and her extended family, including her mother. They chose a house in the

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Near misses with speeding trains and Japanese soldiers

Marianna Cichocki, 97, lived in China until she was 34. now somewhat trendy Florence St. Today, Number 21 is a three-storey block of six apartments. They were one of two Polish families in their street and Chermside St – alongside families from Scotland, England, Holland and Italy.

The Kelleher family also lived in the street, the Kellehers having settled there in the mid-1920s. The two families met as neighbours then, and now Patricia Varendorff, nee Kelleher, reminisced: “Coincidentally, my grandfather Dan had also been involved in the Chinese Eastern line, with a link to the Trans-Siberian Railway construction, but of an earlier time, and down the east coast from Mukden to Beijing and Tientsin.”

A toddler by the time she met her mother’s good friend and neighbour Marianna, Patricia has also remained a life-long friend, and nine years ago moved to the same residential apartment building in Moray St. Patricia’s mother passed away four years ago.

Marianna’s memories of 1950s Teneriffe are striking. A multi-cultural suburb, Teneriffe was essentially the port for Brisbane, and regular passenger liners of the Blue Funnel Line tied up at the wharves. “Many Americans were amongst the passengers,” said Marianna, “and they would wander around the suburb and often travel by tram to the city”.

“Chinese sailors from trading ships in port would walk around our streets, and I recall them taking mangoes from the tree in my garden.

That was okay as even the locals did the same. We all had plenty of fruit trees in our yards then. The Chinese sailors wore traditional Chinese clothing, had a ‘pig tail’ plait reaching down their back and had an elongated finger nail – all very traditional at the time.

“I was thrilled once when a Polish passenger ship came into port down at the end of Florence St. I purchased a vase from the ship’s shop, which I still use at home.”

Marianna had placed a sign in the

Florence Street garden of her family’s house, advertising dress design and clothing alterations. Those Polish nuns had proven to be right, and Marianna also worked for a dress boutique business, using her sewing skills as a designer and cutter to make customised dresses .

In that decade and the post-war decades to come, there were many social events that demanded the service of such designers and cutters as Marianna. A dress she designed was the winning outfit displayed in a fashion parade held in 1959 during a ball at the Brisbane City Hall for Princess Alexandra. Queensland celebrated its Centenary Year that year and the town was cock-a-hoop.

Each August many country people continued the tradition of coming en masse to town for Show Week or the Ekka, and that’s when the year’s big balls were held. The Embers, Benedicts, Bushwackers Balls all featured in the newspapers and magazines and Marianna’s outfits were among them.

So Marianna Cichocki is moving towards her own centenary. Marianna has always loved meeting friends and following her community’s interests.

Simultaneously, she also stays true to her heritage from another era, and has retained strong links to her Polish friends in Brisbane, even enjoying a 10-year stint as secretary of the Polish Women’s Association.

She attends a weekly Polish mass on Sundays at Our Lady of Victories Church in Bowen Hills, and is a regular attendee at the Polish functions.

Ted Twziontek, her son who used to play with Patricia Kelleher and other neighbourhood kids in the safe streets of Teneriffe, now lives in Sydney, is a company director, and has three children.

Meanwhile, this writer drinks much more water daily, and tends with care a new big-leafed pot plant, aloe vera, on his own patio. Marianna’s parting words: “It may not work for you, but it seems to work for me.”

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Brisbane debut child’s play for quirky artist

RENOWNED for her quirky paintings of children on ply, Australian artist Carmel Debreuil will make her Brisbane debut at Brisbane Modern Art Gallery in Fortitude Valley from July 8-25.

The exhibition will be Carmel’s eighth solo show in just two years, where she has also participated in seventeen group shows and various juried art fairs, Carmel’s work on ply and market pens including the Northern invokes nostalgia and humour Rivers Portrait Prize (NSW) and the Wilson She works in acrylic and Posca Prize (NSW) in which she was a marker pens on plywood as she finalist. feels the natural beauty of the “I’m so excited to finally have wood is an “integral part” of the a chance to bring my work to artwork.

Brisbane. It’s such a vibrant city “I see kids as these amazing with a cool arts and culture scene. creatures that are perfectly Queensland has so much colour imperfect. I love that they want and life and I think the kids in my to hang out with a giant squirrel paintings will feel right at home,” while wearing a Viking helmet and Carmel said. cowboy boots,” she said.

With a cast of children whose Carmel’s work can be seen from stance and attitude is full of the July 8-25, with opening night on bravado, nonchalance and swagger July 11 from 7-9pm. Brisbane of youth, Carmel’s work has a Modern Art Gallery is located at sense of nostalgia and humour.

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CLAUDIA and Ivan Coe know their version of eggs benedict must be good when a local chef regularly frequents their Lazy Dog Cafe to order them.

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Then there is the Egyptian customer who only orders the shakshuka because of the special spices used in the baked tomato and egg dish, making it a Lazy Dog specialty.

Since March this year when the cafe first opened, the Lazy Dog has been serving a blend of Australian, Middle Eastern and Asian inspired dishes to locals and visitors who seem happy to travel a considerable distance – even just for a slice of Claudia’s cake.

The Coes hale from Sydney and because of their increasing need for a ‘tree change’ after working for many years in businesses and corporate jobs, are now happily ensconced in Brisbane.

Ivan & Claudia Coe at their Lazy Dog Café on Skyring Tce opposite the Gasworks.

“We wanted to get off the treadmill and try to find a place in the world where we could make our mark and become part of a community,” Claudia explained.

“Brisbane was attractive to us because of educational opportunities for our children and also for our son to be able to realise his passion for golf.”

They found the perfect solution on the ground floor of The Park Waterfront building, next to the precinct and parklands, which brings together business and residential customers.

“We see great potential for this area in the years to come and wanted a place where we could grow with the community,” Claudia said. “We have invested everything

- body and soul, into getting the Lazy Dog established and we hope the community can appreciate the relaxing atmosphere we offer here.”

The Coes feel that the Lazy Dog is a place where locals can have their ‘dog day’ mornings or afternoons, relax without guilt and feel like they are sitting on their own back porch.

“We want people to use our place as an extension of their home, to sit and relax here, invite friends and family to share great coffee, a good meal and lively conversations.”

The café is named in honour of their own beloved pooch, Ziva, who sadly lost her life recently. Ziva was a regular installment at the Café and her spirit lives on with the many other canine visitors encouraged to visit here with their owners each day.

The wines served at the Valley Chamber of Commerce Friday Working Lunch last month at Cloudland were donated

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THE ULTIMATE NEW FARM FAMILY HOME 34 NEW FARM, 106 VILLIERS STREET WAS IT A ‘HAPPY FINANCIAL YEAR’?

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This stunning architectural residence epitomises the modern New Farm Family home. Offering an unbeatable location on Teneriffe Hill and capturing the most spectacular city views right from your living and dining room, every aspect of this home has been designed to complement the relationship between occupant and space.

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INNER CITY ARCHITECTURAL ESCAPE New Farm, 14 Walker Avenue This perfectly private residence is elevated high on Teneriffe Hill and enjoys arguably one of Brisbane’s most exclusive addresses right in the heart of thriving Teneriffe.

• Master bedroom boasts WIR & ensuite • Phenomenal open plan living and cutting edge design • Combining architectural brilliance with family practicality • The perfect family home in one of New Farms most sought-after enclaves

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Investors snap up apartments INVESTORS were snapping up new inner-north apartments, lured by their value relative to Sydney and Melbourne, property consultant Urbis reported.

Urbis’s associate director, Queensland Residential, Paul Riga said most of the apartments being built and sold had one or two bedrooms and were targeted at Gen Ys seeking the lifestyle and work convenience of the inner city.

Urbis’s latest Apartment Insights report for the first quarter of this year showed there were 31 “surveyed and settled” projects in the inner-north in either the presales, construction or completed phase.

There were 285 sales for the period, down 162 units from the previous period, the report showed. Of those sales, 37 per cent were for onebedroom apartments and the weighted average sales price was $547,018.

Mr Riga said 80-85 per cent of sales were to investors, 40 per cent of who were locals, 40 per cent were from interstate, and 20 per cent were foreign, largely Asian.

He said Brisbane’s apartments were more affordable than stock in the southern states.

The trend to inner-city highrise living was only going to continue as

Growing trend: Urbis’s Paul Riga.

Brisbane’s population grew every year due to interstate migration, and governments fought urban sprawl through “infill”, Mr Riga said.

He said $134 billion in infrastructure was planned for southeast Queensland by 2031, much of that slated for inner-Brisbane.

For example, Legacy Way and the planned Bus and Train Tunnel from Dutton Park to Spring Hill had a combined bill of $15 billion.

Mr Riga said it was cheaper for government to concentrate populations around centralised infrastructure, rather than to continually provide it for sprawling suburbs.

He said the inner-city including the inner-north was a relatively immature apartment market compared to Sydney and Melbourne, and overseas cities.

Inner-city apartment living was “clearly favoured by Gen Y markets”, he said, and the influx of childless singles and couples aged 20-34 would have an effect on the make-up of the inner-north.

Major makeover to link Teneriffe, Newstead TENERIFFE is set for its final major makeover with the redevelopment of Riverside Marine’s Skyring Terrace site.

The tourism and marine industries company plans to turn its Riverside Industrial Sands site into a mixed-use development comprising residential, commercial, short-term accommodation, retail and dining.

An application for a Preliminary Approval will be lodged with the Brisbane City Council.

Riverside Marine CEO Hume Campbell said preliminary plans divided the property into five precincts with buildings of varying heights and sizes to be delivered over an estimated 10-year timeframe.

An extension of Helen St through to the river and linking the riverside boardwalk from Commercial Rd to the neighbouring River Park Precinct are key public access features of the proposal.

“Riverside Industrial Sands is the last large-scale industrial operation in the suburb and the Skyring Terrace site is the last on this reach of the river to be redeveloped,” Mr Campbell said.

“Our vision is to deliver a very high quality development that links Teneriffe and Newstead and complements the existing character of these two contrasting precincts.

“We see our site as the transition zone between the historic woolstores and the new Gas Works development.”

Mr Campbell said the company would ensure interested locals had all the information required to form an informed view on the proposal.

“The Campbell family arrived and settled in Bowen Hills in 1856, hence Campbell St, and has enjoyed a long association with New Farm, Newstead and Teneriffe,” he said.

“We intend to retain that relationship by maintaining ownership of much of this proposed development and continue to have our corporate headquarters on Breakfast Creek Rd.” Mr Campbell said the proposal would be put before the community before a decision is made by Brisbane City Council so that the assessment process is coordinated with the community.

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RW AUCTIONS UNDER THE STARS NEW FARM

YOUR INVITATION TO THE inaugural RAY WHITE NEW FARM AUCTION EVENT. LIKE NO OTHER LOT 1: 2/134 Moray Street, New Farm LOT 2: 6/903 Brunswick Street, New Farm

LOT 7: 6/59 College Street, Hamilton

LOT 3: 31 Hetherington Street, Herston

LOT 8: 10/7 Boyd Street, Bowen Hills

LOT 4: 59 Kingsholme Street, New Farm

LOT 9: 56/54 Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe

LOT 5: 4/37 Moray Street, New Farm

LOT 10: 1502-1503/95 Charlotte Street, Brisbane

LOT 6: 3/179 Moray Street, New Farm

LOT 11: 1906-1907/95 Charlotte Street, Brisbane

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Christine Rudolph: 0400 943 984

Jeremy Szymanski: 0418 856 487

Scott Darwon: 0401 151 090

Ryan Leddicoat: 0422 132 222

Peter McDonald: 0407 026 165

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Track Record

Number of Properties 140+ SOLD so far in 2014 Auction Success Rate

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So far this year we have successfully sold 76% of our advertised auctions either before or on the auction date.

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Disclaimer: This information is being provided by Australian Property Monitors, Price Finder and MyDesktop (Ray White New Farm’s CRM System) based on settled sales as of 30 June 2014. It’s accuracy can not be guaranteed. Parties should rely on their own enquiries and Ray White New Farm will not be liable for errors or admissions herein.

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Was it a ‘Happy Financial Year’?

With Haesley Cush

attendance. Let’s look at them for sales and rentals.

If you look at the two graphs featured, you will see that there is a lag in the data collected. What that means is what’s happening in the market today, wont be accurately recorded for six months. So when we reflect on the information inserted we can see some heavy spikes in the market just before the election last year. Interestingly on the rental tables,

ARE we singing in a new year, saying good riddance to the past or sending it off with teary eyes not sure if we’ll see it again? Was it a happy financial year? What did 2013/14 bring us?

If the best way to predict the future is to look at the past, let’s see what happened.

In my opinion the best barometers to review are median price growth, next to number of transactions and (where you can) open for inspection

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I genuinely believe the last four weeks will be shown as a flat spot.

The prediction moving forward is that interest rates will remain low and the Brisbane market will continue to be buoyant. All in all, it is a happy farewell and a ‘Happy New Year’!

For a more detailed overview of the market email hcush@raywhite.com

Brisbane’s Executive Rental Specialists

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“ After many dealings over the years purchasing and selling property, we can say without hesitation that Nicholas Given is the most professional agent we have ever dealt with. His ethics, feedback and persistence in getting the best result for Heather and I was overwhelming. We were never left wondering what was happening, and we were informed at all times. Nick never gave up until the right buyer, at the right price, was found. Nick is a true professional, always had our best interest at heart and is just a good bloke. Thanks again Nick, it’s been a complete pleasure.” (Steve & Heather Carthy, 64 Browne Street, New Farm )

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Rarely does a one-level apartment of this SIZE and stature become available so close to the CBD. Sitting “on top of Brisbane” this great entertainer enjoys a huge living area and adjoining covered leafy terrace.

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Soaring demand leads to fast-track Unison release LEADING integrated real estate group Mirvac has announced its intention to fast-track the public release of its Unison development, citing an unprecedented level of interest.

Mirvac said that interest in its latest apartment release had led to predictions that the 135 one, two and three-bedroom apartments plus a special release of 9 terrace homes, would sell faster than expected, meaning that stage one of Unison wouldl be launched to the public earlier than anticipated.

With the Brisbane property market tipped to hit $400bn this year, Mirvac Group executive residential, John Carfi, was confident that Unison sales wouldl exceed all expectations.

“Property values in Brisbane rose by almost 3 per cent at the end of the first quarter showing the residential market is really bouncing back,” he said.

“Given the level of anticipation and registered interest we’ve already experienced, we are excited about the upcoming public release scheduled to take place on July 19.

“We are therefore also aiming to launch the northern tower earlier than planned and we’re expecting a similarly high level of interest from Brisbane home hunters,” he said.

Unison is the third stage of Mirvac’s premiere Waterfront precinct which includes Pier and the sold-out Park Apartments, as well as hectares of public parkland and an 8000m2 perched lake.

Resulting in one of Mirvac’s most successful years to date, the Waterfront, Newstead development has already delivered $350 million in sales, with all signs indicating another successful result for Waterfront's third stage, Unison.

Mr Carfi said Unison’s popularity was a result of increasing market demand for an affordable, yet sophisticated, urban dwelling in one of Brisbane’s most sought after areas.

“Unison offers homebuyers a rare opportunity to live and invest in the rich history of Teneriffe, while enjoying all of the comforts of innercity living and modern design,” he said.

“The development offers the ease of city living coupled with a local community feel, which we know is important to those looking to buy in this popular pocket of Brisbane.

“We have had overwhelming interest from predominantly local buyers who understand the unique opportunity and value that Unison presents. In fact, over 90 per cent of interest has originated from

The Unison development.

Queensland with over 40 per cent of registrations coming from the immediate area of Newstead which means locals are embracing this exciting and emerging new address.

“Architecturally speaking, the design combines a unique, modern interpretation of Teneriffe’s distinguished heritage with a sleek contemporary reinvigoration.

“This combination of old and new will appeal to those seeking the convenience of modern living without losing the soul and character that is so unique to the area.”

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From the terrace, step inside through the open plan living and dining areas with their timber floors and built-in speakers to the galley kitchen boasting beautiful marble benchtops and Meile appliances and you’ll discover how

easy and practical hosting dinner parties can be. Add to this a powder room and casual dining room or study with its own adjoining terrace. Direct access to the secure 2 car garage and laundry is downstairs.

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Upstairs are three spacious bedrooms complimented by marble bathrooms and builtin robes. There’s even a laundry chute!

The huge master bedroom with spacious ensuite has plenty of robe space and commands its own impressive views of the river and city.

This apartment offers potential for a refurbishment and capital growth.

Jezz Griffiths 0410 338 608

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3/118 Oxlade Drive, New Farm

3/118 Oxlade Drive, New Farm

Lorna Bailey 0410 609 789 lorna.bailey@rh.com.au

Sold in 10 days Highest Price achieved in “Reflections” since 2010.

1/229 Moray Street, New Farm

1/229 Moray Street, New Farm

Listed with another agent for over 60 days. Listed and Sold

by Lorna in 10 days.

NO 1 QLD AGENT MARCH 2014

9/75 Welsby Street, New Farm

32/53 Warry Street, Fortitude Valley

OUTSTANDING RESULTS DON’T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT. OUR YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND PROVEN MARKETING STRATEGIES ARE ACHIEVING RECORD SALES RESULTS FOR OUR SELLERS. CONTACT LEE OR LORNA TO GUARANTEE THE BEST POSSIBLE OUTCOME FOR YOUR PROPERTY.

22/177 Merthyr Rd, New Farm

30/120 Sydney Street, New Farm

Sold in 4 Days. Multiple Offers Received. Happy Buyers. Ecstatic Sellers.

Record Sale!

Highest price ever achieved in the “Parks” Complex.

peninsulaproperty Restored a house?

Tell Rose all about it SPENDING hours sanding original timberwork, searching for replacement period building materials and agonising over paint charts – if this sounds familiar you may have restored an old house.

Rose Cullen, a history PhD student from the University of Sydney, is coming to Brisbane to research house restoration in Australia since the 1960s. She’s looking at private individuals choosing to restore old houses with respect for their history.

All sorts of private restoration projects, large and small, humble and grand, are relevant to Ms Cullen’s project. She explains: “I am interested in how and why older houses in Queensland have been restored by everyday Australians.

What motivated people to take on these projects? How did they preserve or change their old houses?

What challenges did they face?”

House restoration has been an increasing trend in Australia since the 1960s as we began to value our architectural heritage and older inner-city suburbs began to be regenerated. The private homeowner plays a significant role in the preservation of Australia’s built heritage by restoring older houses and ensuring they are lived in and loved.

Rose Cullen.

In her archival research, Ms Cullen has found stories of Brisbanites restoring old houses in the 1960s and 1970s. For example, by the 1970s there was a resurgence of interest in quaint cottages close to the city.

Ms Cullen is visiting Brisbane from July 5-17 and hoping to conduct oral history interviews with people who have been involved in private house restoration, either restoring their own houses or professionally.

She is particularly interested in hearing stories about restoring Queenslander houses and women’s experiences restoring houses.

If you have a story to share about restoring or conserving an old house sometime in the past 50 years, no matter how small or large, Ms Cullen would love to hear from you.

Contact: Rose Cullen rcul3351@uni.sydney.edu.au

Awesome foursome join forces in new office MOVING to a new agency after decades of selling real estate on the peninsula are Sandie Oxley, Kellie Jones, Julie Jackson-Lemaire and Charmaine Henrickson.

With more than 40 years’ experience among them they will be setting up a new office for the McGrath Estate Agents group. Spokesperson Charmaine Henrickson said that they felt McGrath Estate Agents had strong values of excellence. “They are a community-minded company with a level of excellence and integrity that we were drawn to.”

“Trust me to give you and your place the attention you deserve” - Cynthia Keays

Place Property Management cynthiakeays@eplace.com.au 0412 333 442 PLC-NF984_275x235_4C_Village News_June_CK_FA.indd 1

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simon caulfield Place Number 1 Agent Q1 2014

Over $30,000,000 worth of With current market conditions some of the best we’ve experienced in years, ensure your property stands out from the crowd. Simon Caulfield and his team are maximising results for their clients with outstanding sales in 2014.

50 HOLMAN ST KANGAROO POINT

23/98 THORN ST KANGAROO POINT

54 QUAY ST BULIMBA

216 GLADSTONE RD DUTTON PARK

76 LANGSHAW ST NEW FARM

27 GRENIER ST SPRING HILL

13N/39 CASTLEBAR ST KANGAROO POINT

SIMON CAULFIELD Lead Agent – Place Estate Agents Setting the benchmark for 2014

0437 935 912 sc@eplace.com.au

kirralee couch property sold in 2014!

Place Number 1 Courier Mail Marketer Q1 2014

Their expert advice and unequalled level of personal attention to their loyal clients has once again set them apart.

With Simon and his team there are no empty promises, just exceptional results. Will you be their next success story?

166/501 QUEEN ST BRISBANE

20/89 LAMBERT ST KANGAROO POINT

3/88 OXLADE DR NEW FARM

24/42 FERRY ST KANGAROO POINT

4022/56 WHARF ST KANGAROO POINT

417/100 BOWEN TCE FORTITUDE VALLEY

KIRRALEE COUCH Lead Agent – Place Estate Agents Setting the benchmark for 2014

0418 871 554

kirraleecouch@eplace.com.au

18/30 O’CONNELL ST KANGAROO POINT

82% of our business is referred

“In 5 years, over $100,000,000 of Real Estate we have sold has come from referrals.

Clients who have experienced our service were delighted to inform their own family and friends to also engage in our service.

It is not just the great prices we achieve but the great client service we provide!”

simon caulfield “Dear Simon and Team, We wanted to write to you to express our sincere thanks for your help with the recent sale of our home and purchase of our new home.

As you know we needed a fast sale to be able to move into our new house and your knowledge of the area, strong network and professional approach resulted in a contract within two weeks of listing!

We were very impressed with the result, especially given the market conditions at the time.

We have now bought 2 houses and sold 1 with you in the last couple of years and during that time we have been extremely grateful for your honest and ethical approach, straight no-nonsense advice and astute awareness of the market.

We would have no hesitation recommending you to our family, friends or associates who are looking to buy or sell (and already have).

Thanks again and we look forward to catching up with you soon.

Best regards Tony & Georgina Lalor”

SIMON CAULFIELD Lead Agent – Place Estate Agents Setting the benchmark for 2014

0437 935 912 sc@eplace.com.au

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3/5 SYDNEY ST, NEW FARM

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15/18 HELEN ST, TENERIFFE

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39/27 CUNNINGHAM ST, NEWSTEAD

anthony pasmore Testimonial: I have had an association as a client with Anthony for three years. I had returned to Australia from overseas, in 2011, ahead of my husband and needed to search for a new home. Anthony visited my apartment and gave me an appraisal of its value for possible sale or rental. That information was useful then and today.

After three years and numerous hiccups in our plans, we found through Anthony, the home of our dreams. His persistence, professionalism and local knowledge gained us success in this important endeavour.

He was at all times forthright and informative while allowing us the space to form our own judgements about the numerous properties we inspected. Ultimately, his experience was extremely valuable to this process.

We now call him a friend and "our Real Estate Agent"!

I would have no hesitation in recommending Anthony to assist anyone with the purchase or sale of a property for either home or investment.

Suzie & Leighton – “Ecco on Helen” Teneriffe

ANTHONY PASMORE Lead Agent – Place Estate Agents

PROFIT FROM MY EXPERIENCE “I am proud to announce that I have recently joined Judy Goodger’s sales team at Place Estate Agents, and in my first month have completed sales totalling $3,697,500.

I have 14 years’ sales and marketing experience in the New Farm and Teneriffe area and I’m excited to be better servicing my clients under the Place banner.”

– Anthony Pasmore

0410 342 675

anthonypasmore@eplace.com.au

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D L O S Place New Farm has made in excess of $150m worth of sales in the first 6 months of 2014

“Continuing to achieve outstanding results for our clients�

NEW FARM 3107 5111

Proudly supporting the Teneriffe Festival

With over $4.5 Billion in sales, list your property with Sherrie Storor and put the entire team to work.

Sherrie Storor 0466 872 705 sherrie@eplace.com.au