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Your Central Ward candidate for the upcoming Brisbane City Council elections GETTING THE PRIORITIES RIGHT RIvERWalk

Must be rebuilt urgently.

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Must be installed on our storm water drains now to protect our homes from needless flooding.

NEW faRM PaRk’S SUMMER HOUSE CafE

The cafe must be rebuilt, to its original heritage design, for the enjoyment of current and future generations.

OvER-DEvElOPMENT Of THE INNER SUBURBS

Planning laws must be overhauled to give the community greater input into, and objection powers over, development applications.

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PROTECTING TREES

Council must protect our beautiful trees and public vegetation and also regularly maintain them.

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CITYCYClE

Newman and Quirk’s ill-planned, obtrusive and costly ($10 million and growing) bicycle/advertising billboard scheme needs to be reviewed and the money saved used on bikeways and other community facilities and grants.

HOWaRD SMITH WHaRvES

Must be kept as open public space for everyone’s enjoyment, with cafes and playground facilities. Plans to build a private hotel must be rejected.

PaRkING

No more parking meters in the suburbs.

fOOTPaTHS aND POTHOlES

Fix - urgently - the kilometers of local footpaths and hundreds of potholes, which are being neglected by this Council.

COMMUNITY faCIlITIES

Council needs to approve more childcare centres in suburbs like New Farm, Teneriffe and Fortitude Valley.

PROTECTING OUR HERITaGE

We must vigorously ensure the heritage value of our buildings and the character of our suburbs are protected.

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Businesses suffer as factions close overhead walkway

By Darryl Whitecross THE Valley Chamber of Commerce has called for a speedy resolution to the war above Wickham Street over the walkway which is denying the public access to the Fortitude Valley railway station and affecting surrounding traders. Chamber president Charles Apostolos said businesses in the area were slowly being strangled while the dispute over repairs to the 20m overpass is resolved. The walkway links the derelict L-shaped Walton Building and the McWhirters Building. It has been closed since early December. Mr Apostolos said he had tried to have the dispute resolved in time for the beginning of the new school year as many students from the nearby All Hallows day school for girls used the bridge to get to and from the station and their school. The students are among an estimated 4000 who used the bridge daily. Commuters now are forced to use the Brunswick Street entrance to the railway station. Media reports indicate the dispute is between the owners of the Walton Building, Mount Cathay Pty Ltd, and landlord, Happy Valley Pty Ltd, and that the root of the fracas was between landowner Dr Chiu Fan Lee and Happy Valley’s Jack Moc. Mr Apostolos said the standoff had

become and local and state election issue. “It’s a council and State Government issue. Someone’s got to seek to resolve it,” Mr Apostolos said. “All parties need to sit down together and address it.” He said he had spoken with Waltons “go between man” to try (“begging and begging”) to speak with Dr Lee’s to get the bridge open again, with no success. Even members of the Chinese community have been approached to intervene. Brisbane City Council has been trying to negotiate with all parties involved to achieve a resolution and to get the Waltons building refurbished and re-tenanted even threatening fines for non-compliance. Council wants the building given a facelift because the vacant premises had become a blight on the landscape that is the heart of the Fortitude Valley Entertainment Precinct. A lick of paint on the façade late last year did not impress the council. Mr Apostolos said he wanted the issue to become and election issue – and it has. Both major parties with the State Government and the council are sparring over who has done the least and who has failed in their duty to bring about resolution. State member for Brisbane Central, Grace Grace, said the issue had been

The LNP’s Rob Cavallucci, said that if the current State Government stopped blaming previous administrations and dealt with it before now the current standoff would not have eventuated. State member for Brisbane Central, Grace Grace, said the issue had been coming to a head for about 30 years because a previous State Government had not sought to secure the access rights for the walkway to the bridge. coming to a head for about 30 years because a previous state government had not sought to secure the access rights for the walkway to the bridge. Her challenger for the seat, the LNP’s Rob Cavallucci, said the argument was over the original easement documents which meant the State Government could intervene as that was an area over which it had control.

He said that, if the current State Government stopped blaming previous administrations and dealt with it before now, the current standoff would not have eventuated. “Ultimately, it’s a private matter between two private entities. No one other than those two parties can do anything about it,” Mr Cavallucci said.

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Business rejoice as CityCat terminal improves services By Vanessa Fang

TENERIFFE residents have rejoiced future with Newstead River Park and over the new $5 million CityCat the 900-odd apartments that will terminal which opened at the end of come online in the next five years,” Commercial Road last month. he said. Previously served only by the Brisbane City Council said the CityFerry, the eagerly anticipated improved frequency of services service has added an extra 163 meant the Teneriffe terminal would stops each day to the suburb on be included in all three morning week days and weekends. peak express CityCats travelling to Restaurant Eves on the River has Riverside. sat on its riverfront location for the A spokesman said services had past 10 years but owner Stephen been provided from the Teneriffe Holmes said the terminal every 12-13 terminal had boosted minutes, which was the suburb’s economy exceptional service and liveability. by any international “Teneriffe’s history standards or as a centre for the benchmarks. wool industry left us Richard said the a legacy of unique new terminal not architecture. The only benefitted the wool stores are best local residents and viewed from the workers but also the Brisbane River so visitors from the wider CityCat users are in Brisbane community, for a treat,” Stephen especially during the said. “Being declared Teneriffe Festival in an official suburb in July. 2010 gave the area a “The last couple of boost. The success of years, we’ve struggled Richard Bodley welcomes new a little bit. It’s been the Teneriffe Festival CityCat service since then has also difficult because helped to put us on people have had to the map.” queue up for an hour to get across Chairman of the Teneriffe Festival with the river ferry but, now that and Teneriffe Realty marketing we’ve got the CityCat, it’ll open it director Richard Bodley said the new up to more people who will come terminal was an “asset” to Teneriffe across,” he said. which would shave off commuting With an expected 30,000 people time for those living across the attending the festival this year, Brisbane River in suburbs such as parking issues could potentially Bulimba. be absolved with all the additional “It provides direct access to the public transport services. city for all the hundreds of people “Now that we have this fantastic who live within walking distance facility, we’ll certainly be marketing to the ferry and saves crossing the ourselves to a wider demographic,” river now. I just think it shows the Richard said. progress the council is committed For Claret House Wine Bar owners to the city, they understand the Chewie Choo and Lili Dyer said the demographics of people that new services would have a positive live here and they’re responding impact on their business. accordingly,” Richard said. “I think we have a lot of clientele “We’ve got the CityGlider service that come over from Bulimba and and the new CityCat service. All we had customers in last week and these nodes create a better innersaid the terminal is really good and city living environment. All this they will be coming more because of infrastructure is required for the that,” Lili said.

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Amity house appeal delayed again

THE Planning and Environmental Court’s hearing of architect Tony Dempsey’s appeal to build an apartment block in the back yard of his historic Amity House at New Farm has been delayed again. Mr Dempsey said his appeal against a Brisbane City Council decision to reject his application to build what is believed to be a six-storey apartment complex at his Welsby Street property had been delayed from January 27 to February 6. His application was first submitted in 2006. Mr Dempsey has declined to comment on the record, preferring to wait until the result of his appeal is known. His neighbours and others in the community concerned about preserving Amity House as it now is have not been silent. There has been a public awareness campaign waged against what some believe could be anything between four and seven storeys of apartments by the time the final application is approved. Public meetings have been held outside the property and there have been calls for the State Government to buy the heritage-listed property to preserve it for future generations. State Member for Brisbane Central Grace Grace and her opponent in the upcoming state election, the LNP’s Rob Cavallucci agreed that it was not appropriate for governments to buy

heritage-listed properties because the outcome was not to their liking. Ms Grace said she was against the development. “I do not believe that the integrity is maintained by building a four – or whatever storey building they’re talking about – on the back,” Ms Grace said. Mr Cavallucci said the real issue was that Ms Grace and retiring Brisbane City Council Central Ward representative David Hinchliffe had power within a fortnight of council rejecting the original application to have the government adjudicate over the decision and reject it if it saw fit after deliberation. He said that once that time passed, the owner of the property could appeal against the original decision in the Planning Environment Court, which Mr Dempsey had done. Cr Hinchliffe strongly disagreed saying council had the power to continue opposing the application in court and should do so. “That would send a strong message to the court,” Cr Hinchliffe said. “I’ve been told that there have been closed-door meetings between agents of the developer and council to stitch up a proposal which the LNP administration would accept. That is unforgivable. “I’ve been asking the council for years to maintain their opposition to this application. They shouldn’t buckle at this critical last stage,” he said.

Valley tied in red tape

By Darryl Whitecross HERITAGE red tape, the with the Valley Mall upgrade. Is it refurbishment of the Brunswick going ahead? What’s happening? Street Mall, the Waltons building Mr Apostolos said. “A date needs to fiasco and laneway developments be set to get a consultation process top the Valley Chamber of Commerce happening on exactly what the wish list of election general community wants issues. to see happening there.” President Charles Mr Apostolos Apostolos said the said both levels of Fortitude Valley precinct government needed to principally was “a big look at streamlining and cluster of heritage consultation process buildings” and something between its heritage needed to be done to councils and developers which brought developers and small businesses. and the Heritage Councils Redevelopments of closer together to the dingy lanes between streamline the process of and at the back of dialogue and approvals. buildings in the area, He said another major such as Bakery Lane priority the Valley heart – which are a councilCharles Apostolos was the Brunswick Street backed initiative – also Mall. are a priority for the The Chinatown Mall has had chamber. a major upgrade and facelift but Mr Apostolos said that, too, was “a promises to turn attention on the long, drawn out process” which often other mall in the Valley so far remain involved heritage constraints. unfulfilled. “In some cases it takes more than Mr Apostolos said the upgrade 12 months to get approvals to do was a priority. work,” he said. He said the mall had become a semi-rundown area and needed council and State Government attention. editor@newfarmvillagenews.com.au “What’s going to happen now

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Navy would be welcomed back By Darryl Whitecross WAR is not pretty but modern Teneriffe has such a romantic link with conflicts past, especially World War II, that the annual festival makes no apology for the association. Teneriffe has a special place in its collective heart for the United States Navy. Its ships and submarines docked at the Teneriffe Wharves and its barracks were on the corner of Ann Street and Commercial Road. Whenever one of the giant warships docks in Brisbane these days, and is opened to the public for tours, they are swamped. When Teneriffe was again proclaimed a suburb in its own right about two years ago, the organisers of the Teneriffe Festival were quick to seize on the links with the navy with the Wool, Wharves and War theme. It was with some interest that the area took on board reports earlier this month that suggested Brisbane could again become a naval powerhouse. A key defence department report has recommended that a new major base be built in Queensland with Brisbane shaping as the most likely port. A Landing Helicopter Dock also has been suggested. One of those to welcome an increased navy presence in Brisbane is Village News columnist Tony Townsend. Tony retired as a navy base chief in Brisbane in 1989. He was

the commanding officer at HMAS Moreton at Teneriffe and naval officer commanding of the Queensland Area. He said he would welcome “a modest expansion of navy infrastructure” and the “home porting of some ships” in Brisbane. “Southeast Queensland is still the most fruitful source of recruits compared to other centres,” he said. HMAS Moreton was decommissioned on May 11, 1994, after which developers moved in and the site now is the Freshwater Apartments, next to historic Amity House. There continues to be a Naval Support Office in Brisbane, across the river at Bulimba. Tony said the Brisbane River still was suitable for frigates and destroyers and some cruise ships. He said the depth of the river would always be a limiting factor to any of the bigger ships unlike Sydney Harbour. “It makes a lot of strategic sense for navy to have an operating base for major fleet units closer to the north of the continent than Sydney and I have always advocated such,” Tony said. A Defence spokesperson told the Village News that while no decisions had been made about any of the recommendations made in the posture review, the suggestion of a relocation to Brisbane would be “matters for consideration by the Government”.

Schools prepared for city growth STATE MP for Brisbane Central Grace Grace said she remained committed to the growth and development of New Farm peninsula schools. Ms Grace said she education had always been a high priority and she had worked had alongside schools to achieve positive outcomes. She said she was committed to ensuring development within schools matched the growth of the inner-city. School growth needed to match the demand that was coming from families moving into the area, she said. With education came training. She said education and jobs training were “a big issue” and she would work hard to ensure training was available for the jobs of the future and that people be able to afford to live in the city near where those jobs were available.

Riverwalk project taking too long BRISBANE City Council’s 2014 target date to have the controversial Riverwalk and CityCat terminals rebuilt after the January 2011 Brisbane River flood is unacceptable, according to State MP for Brisbane Central Grace Grace. Ms Grace said the Riverwalk and ferry terminals were a major election issue for New Farm peninsula residents. She said the Government had a keen interest in the projects as the council was spending state and federal money to get those infrastructure facilities rebuilt. “I think the time frames are too long at the moment,” Ms Grace said adding that she needed to ensure the government was getting value for money. She said the council had planned to use all of this year and next designing the replacement structures before having them built and in use by some time in 2012. “To me that’s far too long,” Ms Grace said. “They need to build them quicker.” Ms Grace said other issues she considered important were not was maintaining a good standard of inner-city living, including good public transport, law and order and a quality environment. She said she had “a strong passion” for social justice and worked hard for the marginalised people in the community. “This is a city that is for everyone,” she said.

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Pollies promise to come clean for peninsula By Vanessa Fang

CANDIDATES looking to clean up when Queenslanders go to the polls in a matter of weeks will help the New Farm peninsula’s squeaky clean image on March 4 – Clean Up Australia Day. Many of the would-be pollies and those seeking re-election at a local or state level plan to take to the streets armed with white and yellow garbage bags for the day. Seven sites, including New Farm Park and Teneriffe Hill Park, have been registered as cleanup sites and people picking up the litter will be united on the day with hundreds of thousands of other volunteers nationwide involved in what is Australia’s largest community participation event. ALP candidate for Central Ward Paul Crowther, who has held the registered site of New Farm Park for more than 20 years, and said the “fun morning” was a good opportunity to identify New Farm as “the best place in Brisbane”. “We always collect a hell of a lot of rubbish like car tyres. It was the first time last year that we never collected any sharps,” Paul said. “Water containers are the number one thing we collect. It’s so important to leave our parks pristine.” Clean Up’s chairman and founder Ian Kiernan was confident that the day would attract a larger crowd this year, after more than 560,000 volunteers removed in excess of 16,000 tonnes of rubbish last year. “Think of the places that are important to you –

your local park, sporting fields, beaches, walking tracks, neighbourhood streets and bike ways – and pull together your own team to join Team Clean Up.” LNP candidate for Brisbane Central Robert Cavallucci is to manage the clean up at New Farm Park for the first time after several years having volunteered outside the peninsula. “We still start at the northern end from Brunswick Street corner to the library, then the kids’ playground,” Robert said. “If we get 15-20 people, then it will be a great turn out.” Central Ward LNP candidate Vicki Howard has registered a site at Teneriffe Hill Park at Teneriffe. “As more and more people move into our inner northern suburbs, the pressures placed on our parks, waterways and open spaces are increasing. This growth places challenges on our interaction with the environment,” Vicki said. With the park covered, the rest of Teneriffe will be cleaned by the Teneriffe Progress Association followed by a free barbeque. Interim TPA secretary Roger Armfield said locals would meet at Sir Manuel Hornibrook Park, off Vernon Terrace, before being redirected. Business Clean Up day is to be held on February 8 and Schools Clean Up Day on March 2. To join Team Clean Up 2012. to register/search for a site or for further information, telephone 1800 CUADAY (282 329) or log on to log on to www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au

Registered sites Teneriffe

• Sir Manuel Hornibrook Park, Vernon Terrace, 7am followed by free barbeque. For updates: www.teneriffeprogress.org.au • Teneriffe Hill Park, Little Chester Street, 10-11am. Contact central@candoteam.com.au

New Farm

• New Farm Park, The Rotunda, 6am-9am followed by free barbeque. Contact paul.crowther@bigpond.com • New Farm Park, corner of Sydney and Brunswick Street. 6.45am-9am. Contact info@cavalluciforbrisbane.com.au

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• Centenary Pool Park, Gregory Terrace. 9.30am-midday. Contact nilesh.patel@ezidebit.com.au

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• Captain Burke Park Beach, eastern end of Holman Street. 9am-1pm. Contact ross.garling@me.com • Count White Park – near pergolas. 8am-midday. Contact roleary@kpmg.com.au

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Charges hikes force over 55 out of shops Commercial swimmers head west

A SURVEY just out shows that almost half of people aged over 55 are spending less in major retailers and shopping centres than they did 12 months ago yet wages increased by 4.4percent over the same period.

seniorsvoice by Tony Townsend Inflation rose 3.6 percent as measured by the Consumer Price Index. Recent research by National Seniors highlighted the causes for the drop in discretionary spending. The CPI measures changes in a basket of goods and averages the results so while audio visual and computing equipment sales for example, fell by 54.4 percent over the past five years, water and sewerage charges have increased by 62.1 percent, electricity by 61.2 percent and gas and other household fuels by 39.2 percent over the same period. It turns out that five essential living cost items are in the top 190 increasing items in the CPI basket, resulting in the purchasing power of 90 percent of all households being reduced over the past five years. Considering the effect on seniors, the NSA estimates that about 732,000 older households are spending half their income

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on just three essential living items and have little or no capacity to re-allocate their budgets when the prices of these essential items increase. Of these, pensioners are under considerable pressure but have the advantage that their income is adjusted to take account of movements in male wages over and above the CPI. The same does not apply to retired services personnel or public servants whose pensions are only adjusted according to the CPI, while the superannuation of self-funded retirees has been eroded by economic conditions and lower interest rates. With more than 33 percent of Australians aged 50 or more, the research throws a light on why retailers are also feeling the pinch. +++ The first dinner for 2012 of the NSA’s New Farm ranch is to be held from 6pm at the Merthyr Bowls Club in Oxlade Drive on Friday, February 17, when particular welcome is given to members unable to attend daytime activities. +++ THE branch is to celebrate its 22nd birthday at the general meeting at Merthyr Uniting Church from 9.30am on Wednesday, March 7, when Jim Lergessner, author of Snippets from a Baby Boomer’s Diary is to be the guest and Peter May is to provide the musical support. For further information on the NSA or its New Farm branch, telephone Tony Townsend on 33152523.

FORTITUDE Valley’s Commercial “Ocean swimmers are tough, Swimming Club has three having to fight the wind and swimmers entered in this currents with waves of choppy month’s Australian Open Water water slapping them in the face. Championships to be held in “Unseen creatures may Perth. be lurking below along with Club spokesman John seaweed and slime,” he said. McGuinness John said said Kurt Natalie and Hogan, 14, Sabrina would Natalie Hopsick, swim in the 14, and Sabrina 5km event and Ellis, 15, would Kurt 10km mix it with event. Kurt is the toughest ranked second swimmers in in Queensland the nation from in the event. February 17-19 He said at the purposeNatalie suffered built $37 million a knee injury Champion which disrupted Lakes Regatta her training Kurt Hogan, Natalie Hopsick Centre. for a couple of and Sabrina Ellis The open months last year events are to but is confident incorporate the selection trials she is on track to perform well for this year’s Junior Pan Pacific in Perth. Championships and Oceania The trio are doing nine training Championships teams. sessions a week in the Valley John said open water events pool, along with gym sessions, to were a test of endurance. prepare for the championships. “There is no black line on the Commercial Swimming Club bottom to follow. Navigation is runs training for children from required to head in the right eight years of age. For further direction without lane ropes in information, telephone Carolyn the ocean,” John said. Carsley 0414 776 543.

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Cash helps blokes go about their secret men’s business

Vicki Howard with support worker Ben Micallef & Oswald Rockshi at the Spring Hill Men’s Shed THE Spring Hill Men’s Shed group is to receive $14,000 in a funding boost for the inner-city facility run by Community Qld. Vicki Howard, the candidate for Brisbane City Council’s Central Ward, said the funding had been made available through council’s program to support men’s community groups across the city. Ms Howard said the Spring Hill Men’s Shed worked tirelessly with the disadvantaged and homeless in the inner-city. “Council wants Brisbane to be Australia’s most inclusive city and the funds provided will go towards improving facilities, kick-starting new projects and helping to buy equipment and materials for participants to enjoy new activities,” Ms Howard said. Since having initiated the program in 2009, council has invested more than $351,000 in Men’s Sheds across Brisbane. Ms Howard said the contemporary Men’s Shed was an updated version of the backyard shed that had long been a part of Australian culture, where men passed on their skills to their sons and generally created a “social” interaction between men. “It has been the traditional place

where they fixed lawn mowers and bicycles for a local school, restored furniture and made the kids’ cubby house,” Ms Howard said. “With the frenetic pace of life, these men’s sheds were seriously in danger of becoming extinct so a really worthwhile project like this one ensures that this cultural phenomenon in not lost in our community and culture,” she said. The Men’s Sheds initiative has been running in Australia for less than 10 years but is increasing in number across the country at a rapid rate. The Sheds are venues for young men to work with older men to learn new skills and learn about life. Ms Howard said it was important for people to reach out in time of loneliness, isolation or during a relationship breakdown and, through the Men’s Shed program, it was heartening that men had the opportunity to share their experiences in a warm and welcoming environment. “Problems can feel insurmountable to deal with in isolation so being able to discuss them in a safe and busy environment in an atmosphere of mateship can be life saving,” Ms Howard said.

Romance is alive and well on peninsula

By Lois Kennedy HAS romance gone from our lives? Have Migrants from Italy met the love the internet and speed dating replaced of their life on the long journey to courting and falling in, and out, of love? Australia. During World War II, American Have the love poems of Shakespeare, servicemen swept local girls off their Lord Byron and Keats been replaced by feet at dances and parties. Canvas Facebook and Twitter and the romantic seats at the cinema encouraged novels of Jane closeness in the dark and Austen by Chic-Lit, Cloudland Ballroom at celebrity-filled Newstead was the place to magazines, meet and be seen in the “tweet flirting” 1950s and 1960s. and txt-attraction? Over the years, New With St Farm has become known Valentine’s Day for elegant wedding in mind, the New parties at the homes Farm & Districts of the wealthy such as Historical Society Merthyr and Wynberg, is taking a celebrations in churches, romantic look at parks and gardens and the history of love on the riverbanks, and — assignations, receptions at Coolden and An Edwardian Valentine . . . May elopements, Riverside and New Farm and Bert Garnett’s 1940s weddings, Park where people meet, wedding at New Farm heartbreaks and fall in love and return year separations. after year. Through stories, photos and music, the Romantics are invited to join other history of romance through the decades members of the society from 2pm on is to be traced. Saturday, February 25, at the Merthyr In the early days of settlement in Road Uniting Church. Everyone is to Moreton Bay, Edward Southerden, a be invited to share stories and show passenger on the Fortitude in 1849, photographs, old and new. Everyone is met his future bride while quarantined welcome. on Moreton Island. He fell over while For further information, telephone chasing a sheep and, when he got up, society president Ross Garnett on whom should he bump into but the 3254 1449 or secretary Lois Kennedy pretty 16-year-old, Miss Mary Cribb. on 3254 4439.

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Long-serving teacher aide puts away her chalk School has been back for a few weeks now but there is something missing in the classrooms at New Farm State School. It is the first time in many years that teacher aide Mrs Beryl Farne Sang is not part of the usual hustle and bustle of the school day. New Farm State School last year said goodbye Mrs Farne Sang who was its longest-serving teacher aide. Year 7 students, LILY WESTON and LAURA HOCKINGS wrote this article on Mrs Farne Sang’s career at the school. BERYL Farne Sang has spent half her life at New Farm State School – with the past 36 years acting as a much-loved teacher aide – but now it’s time to retire. She began Prep in 1940 at the school and spent eight years there, counting current Prep teacher Wendy Maslen’s mum as one of her classmates. Back then, school life at New Farm was very different. There wasn’t a third storey on the main building, the school library only had two books and there wasn’t a grassy oval on which to play. During World War II, they had fire and air raid drills where students and staff had to hide in the trenches where the hall now is. When asked what discipline was like back then, she said: “You just didn’t act up”. “You never said anything; never did anything. It was just deadly,” Mrs Farne Sang said. She said the classes also were different. Prep involved a lot more school work. There was no play as there is today. Later in life, when she sent her children, Narelle and Geoffrey, to New Farm State School, she began volunteering at the tuckshop. In 1976, she became a teacher aide at the school. Mrs Farne Sang said that becoming a teacher aide gave her a different insight into the way a school worked. She has worked with children from Prep

NFSS longest serving teacher aide Beryl Farne Sang retires to Year 7, helping around the classroom with everyday activities. “I’ve had a lot of fun but I don’t know if the kids did. It’s been a lovely 36-year paid vacation,” Mrs Farne Sang said with a laugh. The end of the 2011 school year marked her retirement but she doesn’t intend to leave the school for ever as she expects to return this year as a relief teacher aide.

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Ukelele teacher Terry Halton shows Liza Armstrong how it’s done NEW Farm State School’s ukulele teacher Terry Halton has promised a toe-tapping good time in the classes he is to run on Monday nights. The classes are to part of the school’s growing community education program with the evening ukulele classes the latest inclusion. Terry said ukuleles were “easy to play, portable, fun and cheap”. His beginners’ class is designed to ground participants in basic strumming and chord patterns. “People should be able to play a song or two by the end of term, even if they’ve never played an instrument before” Terry said. Other classes in the program include mah jong, knitting and core conditioning. Old favourites such as the community choir and French classes continue to thrive. New Farm State School is on the corner of James and Heal Streets. For further information on the New Farm State School Community Education Program, contact program co-ordinator Nancy Cowell on 0428 689 065 or email nfsscommunityed@ live.com.au

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By Darryl Whitecross THE Ramsay Health Clinic at New existed between the hospital and the Farm usually receives accolades for community of the area for 25 years, helping people get over their hurts, clinic management had engaged with habits and hang-ups but it is being the community about development challenged on a number of fronts on “in good faith”. planned extensions. Mr Crowther said he wanted to The 90-bed psychiatric private ensure the views of all stakeholders hospital, credited with having turned were heard and what eventually was former Brisbane Lions Australian constructed was the culmination of rules bad boy footballer Brendan those discussions. Fevola’s life around, is to be The original development extended. application was put to council in The clinic, which is bounded by August last year. Oxlade Drive, Sargent Street and Ramsay said there was a growing Mountford Road, on the point of demand for mental health services the New Farm Peninsula, is owned in Brisbane and the clinic needed to by Ramsay Health Care, which is expand to meet that need. regarded as one of the largest private Mr Crowther said it was not his hospital operators in Australia. intention to have the redevelopment The New Farm Clinic was purpose stopped, which the locals wanted. built in 1986 as a “We have already replacement for an saved a significant fig New Farm Clinic older facility and tree on the site that recently underwent a was planned to be objections close on major refurbishment removed and this is a February 10. Paul and expansion major victory for the Crowther has encouraged local community,” he program with an additional 16 beds, said. as many people as additional car parking, Mr Crowther said possible to submit group rooms and residents received objections to “achieve the concessions and executive suites. The original plans commitments from the best outcome for to redevelop the clinic at the meeting the community”. remaining section of on a range of issues the hospital would see including noise levels, it expand to 42 beds in landscaping, the a building that was 19m high. Angry building height and maintaining the nearby residents said the height of character of the area. the building would ruin the character He said the original plans were of the area. that the building would be 19m high. Residents, at a recent public After discussion at the meeting, it meeting, said they were concerned was agreed the three-level building their “sleepy, little area of New Farm” would be reduced to less than 14m was to vanish as the clinic grew and high. One level would be for car became increasingly busier. parking. Later at a meeting convened by Eaves would be added to better ALP candidate for Brisbane City reflect the character of the suburb Council’s Central Ward, Paul Crowther and the roof would be non-glare and attended by clinic chief executive with a darker colour in keeping with officer Ken Craig, Ramsay Health others in the neighbourhood. Care’s state development manager While residents fear the extra Dean Clough and an architect. patronage the clinic will create a Mr Craig said that, in recognition of parking shortage on the streets, little the “excellent relationship” that had headway was made on that issue.

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FOR some time, I have read in the daily newspapers about the name David Devine. I found mention of it in the business and property pages – such items as a residential high-rise building being “another David Devine project”. www.caterinalay.com

stunned at the magnitude of business your company has been achieving in these supposedly quiet times. I had thought that the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) was really hurting.” Ken jumped in, as any selfrespecting marketing manager would: “We, as Metro and David Devine, operate as a marketing company that develops projects, rather than as a development company that markets its properties.” I noticed that Ken Woodley, the genial but direct Irish/Australian businessman and philosopher, referred only twice to the GFC (or seemingly the ‘gfc’ in his case) during our interview: “Previous to the GFC, whilst with Devine Limited,

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I recalled fleetingly having met this David Devine and thinking: “Well, he is flesh-and-blood after all, not just an icon” and I met friends of friends who knew him as a great community supporter and as a prominent racehorse owner (in fact, my friends Nev Morgan and Mick Power are Devine’s partners, along with Australian Football League legend Leigh Matthews in the boom horse Sizzling. Now there’s a good horse.) David Devine the person actually lives close by several of his completed highrise buildings and building sites, in one of Brisbane’s oldest suburbs, across the Brisbane River from New Farm and the CBD, at Kangaroo Point. Then I discovered that another friend, Ken Woodley, was David’s business partner. Brisbane is not that big a city after all. “I heard you were a ‘big shot’ with Metro Property,” I cheekily joked with Ken, “and now I have read that you are with David Devine.” I was being quizzical and Ken put me straight . . . . . . “David Devine is not just my great friend and partner,” he said. “David Devine is a great brand name. The brand is one of the most successful in the home unit building industry. The brand name represents vast experience, very ethical practices and is extremely well known in most of Australia. We have worked together for 28 years.” “I’ve been reading up on Metro and David Devine,” I volunteered. “I am

we had 60 percent of new highrise projects under our banner . We are now buying land at 40 percent cheaper than before the GFC and are clearly the market leaders in Brisbane.” “David Devine has spent a lot of time in research. We go for the target market. We ask if the price is right, the product right, the location right, if it will rent easily. We can’t afford to make mistakes or we are wasting our time.” Woodley joined Devine and friends at last year’s Magic Millions raceday, where Sizzling finished fourth. Another Devine horse finished second in the other big race. After that weekend, Devine suffered a reoccurrence of a back injury and was laid up in hospital and home for some time so my subject for the column this month was hard to nail down for an interview. Ever had a chronically bad back? I understand his plight fully and, for the moment, Devine’s marketing director and good friend is the go-to man. David Devine’s early education was at Melbourne’s Xavier College. He began his career with a chemical company and, in the late 1970s, moved to the fertiliser group Hortico, which transferred him to Brisbane as state manager. A later posting to Perth saw him decide to return to Brisbane where he bought a block of land and built a factory with limited capital, bought a business which built aluminium boats and, within six months, had recouped his investment, having increased the turnover 160 percent. Devine’s first venture into real estate in 1983 was in buying 67 allotments of vacant land at Eagleby. He developed house-and-land packages. At that time, Devine met and began his business relationship

Ken Woodley and David Devine, good mates and business partners with Woodley. Today, as Devine’s national marketing director, after 28 years of working together, Woodley is a major player and key factor in the company’s success. The company at that time was David Devine, developer, Ken Woodley, marketer, and the group of builders, calling themselves DMB – Developer, Marketer, Builder. In 1986, the company name became Devine and moved out of its then base in Logan City into other areas and activities. By the early 1990s, the Devine group of companies was operating profitably with enormous potential to expand geographically. The company Devine Limited went public in 1993. David Devine is married to Dianne and they have two children – Samantha and Peter. David has interests in racing, boating and loves a round of golf, provided his back is right. His great interest in Australian rules football stems from his Melbourne days and he is officially the Brisbane Lions No.1 ticketholder (he entertains his guests in his private box at the Gabba as well). Devine and Woodley are amicable and personable men, yet direct and to-the-point in conversation. They can be perceived as friendly but also appear wary of newcomers to their circle. In other words, they are astute businessmen who keep their eye on the ball while appearing to be relaxed. Woodley is intensely loyal to his friend and partner; loyal to “the brand” – the ideal marketer. I would

consider Devine is of the same ilk. Looking around our city, we see edifices and evidence of “the brand”, here and on the way: River Place, River City, Casino Towers, Brooklyn on Brookes Street (Fortitude Valley), Cathedral Place, Chelsea Bowen Hills, The Plaza and others. The company has moved into Victoria and South Australia, having merged with Hartman Corporation (Luke Hartman is national chief executive officer/ managing director, becoming a third and younger partner). Ken Woodley was a Dublin accountant who became a financial controller prior to entering marketing and then became GM of one of Ireland’s biggest developers; he married Mary and they have four children Mark, Lyn, Kenny and Alan. In 1982, he emigrated to Australia and favoured Brisbane as their new home. Ken enjoys following the Brisbane Broncos and has season tickets. David’s son Peter is a senior member of the advertising and marketing department and Ken’s son Kenny is a company project manager. Target sales are prominent in the sights of the partners: Brisbane inner-city 600 units per annum, South Australia 200 blocks of land and 180 homes per annum, Melbourne 500 blocks of land and 400 homes per annum. The future and the horizon are looking good for “the brand” and its people. February 2012 villagenews

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Dear Lord Mayor, I would like to thank you for announcing via several media sources that you are about to commence installation of the backflow flood protection devices in New Farm in order to protect the lives, properties and incomes of New Farm residents and businesses. This news had a big (positive) impact on my family, as it was only on Tuesday night that my wife had to console my two daughters during the torrential rain as they believed that we would be flooded again and have to move out. We only moved back into the house in September 2011 after the January 2011 Floods. Not long after we started to celebrate the news, we started to hear that you will be installing only two of the four backflow valves required to ensure the Mountford Road, Moray Street, Sargent Street and Oxlade Drive area’s are protected. I am sure that what I have heard is incorrect and that you are not playing with people’s lives and trying to score political points for the upcoming election, as you may as well pretend to be the fabled child sticking his finger in the leaking Dutch dyke which has 100 leaks. Could you please confirm that storm water drains labelled NF8, NF9, NF10 and NF11 on Figure 11 at page 60 of the MWA Report Volume 1 Part 5 are to be protected with the back flood protection measures as detailed in the MWA Report Volume 1 Part 5 on pages 65-68 and confirm that all of these will be installed in February. I look forward to your earliest confirmation of the delivery of a complete engineering solution, in accordance with the MWA Report, for the Sargent, Mountford, Moray and Oxlade area of New Farm. Regards, Chris Jacob

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My initial reaction to the Lord Mayor’s announcement regarding backflow valves for New Farm, was great. I finally flushed them out and

they are installing them to protect our community. Then, when I found out that they will only be installed in Moray Street New Farm, I was bitterly disappointed. This plan does nothing to address the flooding in Sydney Street, Brunswick Street, James Street, Lamington Street, Welsby Street, Merthyr Road or Alford Street. So, after 12 months of dithering, the Lord Mayor has no plan to really protect New Farm from needless flooding – he only has a plan to get re-elected. I also know from speaking to people in Sargent Street, which also flooded and is next to Moray Street, they feel very let down. I will continue my campaign to install backflow valves until all of New Farm is protected. Paul Crowther ALP candidate for Central Ward

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Having been a resident of Brisbane and seeing the bike scheme being set up, I was interested to see the fate of the Rome bike hire scheme in Italy recently, Cheers, Terry

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I WOULD like to have my say on the article on page 5 of January’s edition of Village News (“Fixed Riverwalk an eyesore, easily damaged: resident”). I read with interest, comments by Eileen Collins that there was no official inquiry into the failure of the original floating Riverwalk 12 months ago. Brisbane City Council advised that

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The headline, “Council’s bike scheme pedalling city into cycle of debt” (VN Jan 2012) is hardly unforeseeable given the helmet laws and the registration requirement. We have had a couple of trips to Europe in the past few years and it is so refreshing to see the number of cycles, hired and private, that are out and about. They seem to get by just fine with the use of helmets optional. There has never been any worthwhile evidence to support compulsory helmet use. Yes, you can say the occasional life is saved; you could argue the same case for requiring helmets to be worn in motor vehicles and by pedestrians. If there was sense in having laws requiring the mandatory use of helmets then other countries would go that way. As it stands, it seems it was only New Zealand who fell in to line with Australia The answer to our dilemma lies in 1. Rollback of helmet laws.

2. Simple registration process – say provide credit card details, commit to a deposit, agree to an hourly, daily or weekly rate. 3. Start riding. Graeme Lean, City East

Helmets scheme’s downfall

I WAS interested in your recent article about the failure of our CityCycle bike share scheme. I was also astounded that you failed to mention the major reason that our bike share is failing our nanny-state’s mandatory bicycle helmet laws. Australia is almost the only country on Earth that still has them. We have even created a TV advertisement to repeal bicycle helmet laws so that cyclists have the same freedom as they have in the other 98 percent of the world. (See youtube/2ZNLb_SBbuA) I feel that your reporter has failed to see “the elephant in the room”. (See helmetfreedom.org/943/citycycledenial/) Every country that has introduced a bike share scheme has worked because they do not have mandatory all-age bicycle helmet laws. Bike share works on spontaneity and no one carries around a helmet just in case they might need to jump on a bike. The shared helmets won’t work either because, not only do people hate wearing helmets, they hate wearing dirty communal helmets even more. Unfortunately, Brisbane City Council’s hands are tied as it is a State Government law. Yet, it was (lord mayoral candidate) Ray Smith’s own Labor Party which created the helmet laws in the first place so there is no surprise he didn’t mention helmet laws in his comments. I have also sent him a large amount of information and have never received even one response. Log on to www.helmetfreedom.org and read up on the issue. Geoff McLeod, Fortitude Valley

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BODY Refinery director Susan Cottrell gave birth to a healthy baby boy at 12.58pm on January 3 at the Mater Hospital. Zander Foley Cottrell Schmidt weighed in at 4.5kg and was 55cm long. Mum, husband Lachie and sister Saskia, who turns twoyears-old this week, were ecstatic.

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BICYCLES, bicycles everywhere . . . and still new stations are being installed. They are multiplying more quickly than rabbits. I live in the CBD, walk every morning and, frequently, later in the day also. It is obvious that the bicycle scheme is not a success. In any given week, I’d be surprised to see more than one bike per day (being ridden) . Sometimes days on end pass without seeing a single CityCycle user. The stations and the advertising encroach on the footpath and, often, it seems that the advertising is installed with little regard for traffic safety. Surely Brisbane ratepayers should have some very serious questions to put to the “Can Do Team” about why this folly continues. Graeme Lean

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II refer to the Riverwalk article in the January edition in which I was quoted incorrectly. In essence I said that the Riverwalk would still be there if it were not for two major faults. 1. The poor links or couplings that held the platforms together, and 2. The fixed sections that jutted out into the river where the current was strongest. However, I am not an engineer but council had been warned of these defects. There were other faults such as ‘boat openings’ that never opened, unsafe hand rails etc etc. Regards Eileen Collins PS I’ve never used the word ‘gotten’ in my life.

I RECENTLY moved into the area and have a lovely story on how caring people are in New Farm. My dog got out and went missing. I put signs up everywhere over New Farm and Teneriffe and had probably the worst 12 hours as he is a little maltese with no road sense. The next morning, I got a call from the Teneriffe Veterinary Surgery saying they had him and that a kind lady had dropped him off. I was also inundated with calls from residents of New Farm letting me know they saw him running around Merthyr Road/James Street and everyone was trying to catch the little devil. I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of locals. I want to say thanks to everyone. They have been so lovely. The lady who found him is a client of vet surgery and, for confidentiality reasons, they could not give me her name. I will leave a gift for her at the surgery but would like to publicly thank her. Tonia Ivanni

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LOVED seeing Len Chapman’s photo of the kookaburra on his balcony at New Farm (Page 3 VN, August 2011), I thought I’d send one of my own from Kangaroo Point with New Farm in the background over the Brisbane River. Maybe it is the same one who visits my balcony with its partner. I agree that it’s nice to see these birds in the inner suburbs of Brisbane. I am always thrilled when they visit. Karen Crichton

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IT predictably didn’t take long for those living on the river (“Fixed Riverwalk an eyesore, easily damaged: resident”, VN Jan 2012) to begin to trot out spurious reasons why the Riverwalk shouldn’t be replaced. They did the same when the original Riverwalk was constructed. While some of those owning property on the river have, as I understand it, title over some portion of the river, they certainly don’t own the route of the proposed replacement Riverwalk nor do they have any right to overturn the amenity it will afford local residents and visitors alike. Michael Jones, Sydney Street, New Farm

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Trash talk helps PENINSULA residents are being urged to get involved in Brisbane City Council’s ongoing Good Neighbour Clean-Up Project and volunteer some time for their elderly or disabled neighbours. Hamilton Ward councillor, David McLachlan, said the plan was that people offer to take rubbish too large to fit in a wheelie bin to council transfer stations. “We want Brisbane to be an open, accessible and inclusive city and a part of this is being good neighbours in our own streets and suburbs,” Cr McLachlan, the council’s Field Services Committee chairman, said. “Council needs people to support this important project, which aims to give elderly people a way to ‘age in place’ rather than moving too soon into a residential care. “If you have some time to give away or know of elderly or disabled people who could use the service then I’d urge you to get on the phone and make a positive difference in someone’s life,” he said. Council envisages the project to be an ongoing, with a strong bond built up among neighbours; continuing the spirit of unity displayed in the January 2011 Brisbane River flood recovery. To sign up or volunteer, telephone the Hamilton Ward office on 3403 1095.

Young crew sought for tall-ship voyages

APPLICATIONS are being taken from Australian youth to join enjoyed watching his young crew having to make those the national sail training ship Young Endeavour for 11-day inevitable adjustments. voyages along the east coast during this year A Young Endeavour voyage aims to increase selfThe ship, at time of publication, was being sailed up the awareness, develop teamwork and leadership skills and south coast of New South Wales by 24 build a strong sense of community young people from around the country, spirit. including four from Queensland. The 25 voyages each year are About 140 Queensland young co-ordinated as part of the Young people joined a voyage last year. Endeavour Youth Scheme which is run Petty Officer Matthew Jarvis, 33, in partnership with the Royal Australian from New Farm, said joining the crew of Navy. It has provided challenging the Young Endeavour as a watch leader training voyages for more than 11,000 seven months ago was a “pinnacle in young Australians since it began in his career”. 1988. Matthew said it was an “amazing During each voyage, the crew works experience” to see the transformation with navy staff to learn the skills to in the young people who get on board sail a square-rigged tall ship. Each with no experience and leave with a participant has the opportunity to sense of achievement set the sails, take the helm, navigate He said the enthusiasm and bonding using the ship’s charts, help in the among the crew was “infectious”. galley and climb the 30m mast. Once “There are always special friendships having learnt the skills to sail the ship, you make,” Matthew said. “It’s just so each crew takes command of Young amazing to see people from different Endeavour for 24 hours, setting a walks of life come together.” course along the Australian east coast. Matthew found his sea legs with A crew of 24 is to join each voyage New Farm’s Matthew Jarvis a Young Endeavour voyage in 1994, sailing to ports including Townsville, where his interest in the navy Airlie Beach, Mackay, Gladstone, emerged. Brisbane, Newcastle and Sydney. He joined up after having graduated from St James No previous sailing experience is required and College at Fortitude Valley. applications are accepted from all young Australians aged “I’ve always wanted to go and give back to Young 16-23. Endeavour. It’s a two-year posting that’s constantly active but The crew are selected by online ballot. Applications for the is very rewarding,” Matthew said. ballot close on March 2. For further information on dates He said he no longer suffered sea sickness aboard and fees or to apply for voyages log on to or struggled to find his land legs upon disembarking but www.youngendeavour.gov.au

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Keep one of us “I’m voting for Grace because she has lived in this area all her life and she delivers. I’m so thankful for all her help in ensuring I was properly housed, her efforts changed my life for the better.” Laima Aescht New Farm resident

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“Grace is a true local who fights against injustice. She works hard with all levels of Government. I will never forget her support against unfair massive rate increases for unit owners and my wife and I will vote for Grace.”

“I have known Grace for many years. She is an untiring champion for equality for women, seniors, gay community and those doing it tough. She gets my vote.” Phil Evans - Vice President New Farm & Districts Historical Society, New Farm resident

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Keep a hard worker “I will vote for Grace because during the floods she worked tirelessly to assist victims at the RNA centre and in the community. If it wasn’t for her help I, and others, would not have got all the support we received I was very grateful.” Gina Costa New Farm resident

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“Grace truly believes in education and our children’s future. Her efforts to improve our schools have been outstanding, benefiting all our kids. My husband and I will give Grace our number 1 vote.” Alyson Fenton Secretary Brisbane Central State School P&C, Spring Hill resident

villagenews JPs recognised for hard work TWO New Farm peninsula residents have been recognised for their years of community service to the Queensland Justice Association as Justices of the Peace.

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Fortitude Valley’s Darryl Hood, who was presented with his 25 Years Silver Certificate by state member for Brisbane Central Grace Grace, said he planned to continue providing his services to the community.

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MP Grace also presented New Farm resident Neil Reinhardt with a 40 Years of Service Ruby Certificate.

School’s historic achievements go online

By Ray Thurlow LAST year marked 150 years of state education in by the Department of Public Instruction. Fortitude Valley. Fast forward to the 21st Century. There is such That seat of learning has seen the construction of a plethora of teaching resources available — the classrooms in five different buildings latest in technology including and, apart from its humble beginning computers, whiteboards, in a ‘shed’ near the corner of Ann photocopiers, iPads, projectors and Brunswick streets in 1861, the and a far more participative school has always attracted pupils students’ role, combined with from far and wide to its Brookes Street, a greater emphasis on interFortitude Valley address. action. Such progress makes Opening its doors for the first time learning from the humble book on March 4, 1861, mixed gender seem almost archaic. classes of scholars were the order The school celebrated of the day. Eventually progressing to its first 150 years at a gala separate departments of infants, girls, get-together (albeit a very wet and boys and later a unit separated day) on Friday, March 4, last from mainstream pupils dedicated to year. The sesquicentenary has special needs, the school completed a provided the motivation to full circle before revisiting mixed/co-ed explore further the history of student classes again in 1950. FVSS. There have been many milestones This has resulted in over those 150 years. Long gone are a magnificent portfolio the “talk and chalk” days of the teacher of relevant documents, standing in front of the class, drumming newspaper articles, photos into scholars’ heads facts and figures, and other memorabilia, which dates and places, spelling, reading, will progressively go online, copybook writing, learning and reciting How different to today: A sample page with the assistance of the New poetry, the times tables, derivation, Farm & Districts Historical of a Fortitude Valley State parsing, subject and predicate, Greek Society on a new website. School pupil’s work in 1913. and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes, People who want to offer or mental arithmetic, history, geography, addition, loan items which could shine more light on FVSS’s subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions history, telephone Ray Thurlow on (07) 3353 5547 or and decimals (need I go on?) using what today would email rayjoe@bigpond.net.au be deemed limited resources of a blackboard (later Meanwhile, it’s “Onward, Ever Onward” (the green), text and exercise books and papers prepared school’s motto) for the next 150 years.

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NEW purpose-built play equipment for children and people with disabilities planned for New Farm Park is part of a Brisbane City Council first to provide All Abilities play equipment in its parks across Brisbane. Vicki Howard, the Central Ward candidate for the upcoming council elections, said the equipment was an “outstanding innovation” for people with a disability. She said it would help them take part in outdoor activities. Ms Howard said the Brisbane Access and Inclusion Plan 20122017 would see the council upgrade its park play equipment and include an holistic approach to general park upgrades and development. “It is ambitious but very achievable and it is great to see council has released such an inventive program that demonstrates a whole-of-council commitment to achieving equitable access for everyone,” Ms Howard said. “The plan is about access for all so that everyone can participate in council projects that are both meaningful and rewarding for all residents,” she said. A city council spokesman said the equipment planned for New Farm

Vicki Howard Park would be constructed in the current playground area and cost about $75,000. The equipment was to include a Multiuser spinner, the addition of tread chimes and the adaption of a swing seat. There was no indication as to when the work would be done. Community groups can apply for grants ranging from $2000$50,000 under the plan’s Community Partnership Program to support a wide range of initiatives. Ms Howard said the plan was a first for Brisbane and achieved universal inclusion for all residents and visitors to Brisbane. “It re-affirms that people with a disability make very valuable contributions to society,” she said.

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Chef pedals spring roll recipe after ride and roll event

By Darryl Whitecross SPRING rolls and cycling may seem an unlikely mix but Bicycle Queensland has cooked up a way to blend them. The two ingredients form part of a new activity during bicycle week next month. Jamie Randall, a chef at the Customs House restaurant for about 10 years, is to show cyclists how to make spring rolls at the end of the Ride and Roll event at the base of the Kangaroo Point cliffs on Sunday, March 11. He has extensive experience in restaurants around the world including London, Europe, Hamilton and Australia’s Great Keppel islands and the Snowy Mountains. The Ride and Roll is to be sponsored by bicycle group CycleAway, of which Jamie is a member. Cycleaway, which was formed to educate riders and organise events for cyclists at many skill levels, claims Jamie is “a font of knowledge on all things cycling” and has been its “chef extraordinaire” for some of its events, can “whip up lunch in a flash” and does “a mean” breakfast omelette. He also is the chef on the annual Cycle Queensland tour. He is no stranger to long rides either, having been on an 8500km 3½-month solo bicycle and camping tour of Europe and the United

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Jamie Randall and fellow cycling enthusiast Caroline Thurlow making rice paper rolls Kingdom and is an accredited Level 1 AustCycle trainer. Jamie hung up his apron 5½ years ago when his son was born to make family a priority. He maintains his passion for food and these days is an ingredients salesman for Jimele, a privately owned distributor of specialty food to the hotel, restaurant, retail and catering industry. Jamie said he would be taking part in the ride and then donning his chef’s hat to show the rest of the peloton how to make the healthy

Vietnamese rice paper spring rolls. He said the rolls were easily replicated at home and were an enjoyable and light snack after a ride. The ride, which is to start at 1.30pm on Sunday, March 11, is to follow a route around the city and over the Story Bridge through New Farm Park before finishing at the Kangaroo Point cliffs. It is one of two BQ Bike Week events on the peninsula on that day. The other is the lycra-free Lazy Sunday which is to begin at New Farm

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By Darryl Whitecross A WEEKLY run program around New exercising together in a supportive Farm which began in September environment,” Gareth said. has proved popular with peninsula “Twelve weeks on, we are now residents looking for some exercise at averaging over 50 people each week,” the end of the week. he said. A recent event attracted The New Farm Park run was started about 80 participants. by Gareth Saunders in September We have also had a significant as a weekly spike in the community-based number of running event in registered runners New Farm Park and and volunteers. We modelled on similar now have around programs run 70 registered around the world. volunteers and The event is a over 700 registered free timed 5km runners with both run along the those numbers Brisbane River at growing fast. Each New Farm each week we have Saturday from 7am juniors, seniors, for people of all athletes, nonages and abilities. athletes, people The run begins and with prams, people ends at the Watt with dogs etc Restaurant & Bar turning up to give it at the Brisbane a go,” he said. Powerhouse. To take part, Locals at a recent New Farm Park run people need to Gareth said the New Farm group register by 6pm on created “a new Australian parkrun the Friday before their first run. record” last month when 147 people For further information, telephone took part Gareth on 0400 984 304, email “We are an inclusive event newfarmoffice@parkrun.com or designed at getting anyone from log on to www.parkrun.com.au/ the community off the couch and newfarm

Park at 9.45am. Details of that event are still to be finalised. Bike Week is a nine-day celebration of cycling which runs from March 10 to 18 and includes more than 20 mostly free events for all ages and abilities. Registrations for events are being accepted. The theme of the week is “more cycling, more often”. The festival culminates with three mass-participation rides on Sunday, March 18, the 85km Brisbane Coottha Challenge, the 30km or 50km Great Brisbane Bike Ride and the Cycles Family Fun Ride. More than 5000 cyclists are expected to take part in the rides. Some events can be entered on the day but earlybird entries for the Coottha Challenge, Great Brisbane Bike Ride and Cycles Family Fun Ride close on Friday, March 4. To enter, go to bikeweek.bq.org.au/ More than 1000 riders are expected to be served breakfast in King George Square in the heart of the city on Ride to Work day on Wednesday, March 14. Other events planned during the week include 10-speed dating, sustainable transport seminar, bike orienteering, mountain bike skills for beginners and film nights. A full program of events is at www.bq.org.au

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Brewery owners toast move to a new area By Vanessa Fang BRISBANE entrepreneurs Adrian Slaughter and Marc Chrismas are excited about the opportunity to open a boutique micro-brewery on Helen Street at Teneriffe. The pair said they were excited about joining the “vibrant and dynamic” peninsula community, following their proposal to open the Green Beacon Brewing Company in one of the street’s historic warehouses. “It has been a dream of mine to run a small business that’s integral to the community,” Adrian said, highlighting his desire to be an “economic driver for the community”. “Now that were engaging all our contractors, all the people employing in this will be locals. Our electrical, structural and hydraulic engineers to our architectural firm, they’re very happy for business to be coming their way,” he said. Adrian said he respected nearby residents’ concerns about the brewery’s licensing terms. He was adamant about keeping the brewery a boutique venue distinctly opposite to the infamous venues in Fortitude Valley and that the wholesale licence Green Beacon had applied for only allowed it to sell its own hand-crafted ales. “We’re not going for commercial

hotel licensing. We’re not a bar. We’re a cellar door for a microbrewery that’s going to have less community impact than many other businesses (in the area). “There will be zero emission: No odour and zero noise,” Adrian said. “We’re working with the most stateof-the-art equipment from the United States we can get our hands on.” Working as “the antipathy of rowdy pubs”, the boutique venue, will “engage” customers by complementing their drinks with local seafood, served fresh as there will be no cooking facilities available on premises. “It will be a place where people can stroll in on foot, see the product, talk to the brewer while enjoying some local oysters, prawns and red claw,” Adrian said. “We want to know our locals, see them down there a lot and we want to be involved in activities in the peninsula (such as the Teneriffe Festival).” A range of different hops varieties is to be available through pale and bright ales, traditional porters, stouts, wheat beers and potentially seasonal ales at the brewery. At the time this issue went to press, a mediation and consultation between Green Beacon and residents who opposed the liquor

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licence was to take place. Liquor and Gaming Specialists director Matthew Jones said the meeting was to be positive and the final step to the formal process of the application. “The (LGS) chief executive will now consider whether the application passes by the coupling of documents, which could take a number of weeks,” Matthew said. The liquor application posted outside 26 Helen Street indicated the licencing hours were 10am to midnight, seven days a week but Green Beacon said the actual opening hours, which were mutually exclusive from the licencing hours, would not be determined until a later date by LGS.

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Mark Christmas & Adrian Slaughter Should the application be approved, Adrian and Marc said they hoped to retain the face of the warehouse while interior works were anticipated to begin next month.

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Tea house brings comfort to the tables By Vanessa Fang THE tinker of silver spoons and fine tea cups touching saucers at The Cobble Stone Tea House has ignited normally sleepy Lamington Street in New Farm. The tea house opened in November last year but already has grown popular among customers with its unique, hand-made artisan chocolates, rocky road sweets and fudges – a “vibe” mother-and-daughter owners Corrie and Amy Newchurch said was unique to New Farm. “I love the vibe and the people we get in,” Corrie said. “Everyone has been so lovely and they say ‘so glad you’re here’.” She said the feeling had been “really nice and really loving”. Corrie said they were proud of the tea house’s creature comforts, with all goods baked on the premises by the pair with local ingredients, apart from Belgian and Swiss chocolate, while gluten-free and lactose-intolerant options were available at no extra cost. Among the vast menu of coffee, 30 different teas, assorted slices and cakes – which change daily – three luxurious High Tea options have become hot favourites. “’Indulgent’ (option) is most popular. It comes with warm, savoury sandwiches and scones. You get an individual dessert or a fruit tart which we make in-house – a pastry lined with

chocolate, strawberries and blueberries in a glaze on the top and lemon or coconut and lime tartlets,” Corrie said. The use of fine china, warm carpeting, crisp tablecloths and fresh flowers reiterated their desire to create a venue ideal for “old world” peace and comfort. “Even our jams are from Lismore (northern New South Wales) and the place we source it from, they grow as much as they can to grow their own. We don’t buy commercially produced jam. With fresh things like tomatoes and lettuce, we just go to Merthyr Village or any farmer’s markets,” Corrie said. “Our strawberries come from Stanthorpe – their farm is pesticide free and I love the fact that it’s grown without chemicals. The smell of our house is incredible with dried strawberries.” Corrie said a shorter shelf life was an easy compromise in order to have products made fresh daily but reducing wastage was also a priority. “We found now that anything that’s gotten to the end of its life here, instead of going to the bin, we drop it off at the 139 Club (a welfare centre on Brunswick Street). It’s nice to do something different,” she said. The two-month-old shop had been a product of Corrie’s long-time baking passion which started out as a hobby to

Mother & daughter owners Corrie and Amy Newchurch make gifts for friends. “I loved dressing desserts and playing with sweets. When I was 18, I was working in an Italian restaurant, even when I was an administration manager, all the time I was still cooking,” Corrie said. She said she enjoyed experimenting with various rocky road flavours from sticky date to pecan and butterscotch liqueurs. One that “just happened” was the So Lovely, which is flavoured with chambord-soaked raisins, almonds, strawberries, cherries and cranberries, which became an instant hit, inspiring the upcoming Valentine’s Day flavour of dried strawberries and macadamias soaked in rosewater and white chocolate. “We just kept making them (rocky road, fudges and truffles) and coming

up with new flavours and then we thought: “We should sell these”. Corrie said the products’ wild success at the Eagle Farm Markets gave her enough motivation to seek out a shopfront for a traditional and cosy English tea house. “Having an English/Italian background, this is what we want to do so we put in an offer and we started scouring around for chairs that were comfortable,” Corrie said. “We wanted people who could sit and have tea, be relaxed – not somewhere you feel you’re getting rushed out the door.” The Cobble Stone Tea House is at 27 Lamington Street, New Farm. High Tea bookings must be made 24 hours in advance. ‘The Cobble Stone Tea House’ also has a presence on Facebook. For further information, for reservations or prices, telephone 3254 0550.

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Jack’s good’n was well worth fighting about with Pop FOR as long as I can remember, dogs have always been part of my landscape. As a child, I was surrounded by my grandfather’s working dogs: a motley, ever changing crew of mongrels, kelpies and cattle dogs. Pop, as he was known by all, was a small landowner, drover and horse-breaker. He possessed small patience with those who kept dogs as pets or lap dogs. For him, dogs had a purpose and that purpose was to work tirelessly and willingly, be it mustering or on the road with a herd of cattle or sheep: an intelligent dog, able to understand and execute complex commands; a dog who would continue to work even when plagued by dust, heat and sore feet. It was that calibre of dog that earned Pop’s respect and gratitude. Pop was a hard man but, at times, would display an inexplicable fondness and admiration for dogs that most others found unaccountable or unlikeable. One such canine was a bitch with the gender-confusing name of Jack. Jack was a handsome red cattle dog. She possessed an unpredictable temperament and was considered by some to be downright dangerous: a tireless worker, prodigious breeder and a ferociously protective mother.

When it came time to whelp, Jack always chose the same spot – under an old disused sulky; its slowly disintegrating body affording a modicum of protection from the relentless western sun. When Pop announced “Jack’s got pups”, it was immediately understood you were to stay well clear of Jack’s lair and its surrounding environs. For those who either forgot or didn’t heed Pop’s laconic warning, Jack soon reminded them; usually in an alarming and, at times, painful manner. Many times my mother and aunts would challenge and berate Pop for allowing a savage dog so near the house, often presenting him with a howling child, their tender buttocks clearly showing the imprint of Jack’s teeth as shocking proof the consequence of his action. In the face of this vociferous hysteria, Pop’s response was usually delivered with casual indifference: “A man can’t get rid of a good working dog just because some don’t have the sense to heed a warning or are willful enough to ignore it.” By his reckoning, grandchildren were plentiful but useless. Good working dogs were neither. Curiously, of all the

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too arrogant to try to comprehend them. A few days after the incident, I awoke to find Pop standing beside my bed. “Get dressed, boy. Keep it quiet and meet me out back.” Before I could ask why, he was gone. Still groggy from sleep, I pulled on jeans and hastily buttoned my shirt any which-way as I quickly moved through the dark house, carefully avoiding any creaking floor boards that may alert the sleeping household to my movements. Pop’s

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ones: “This pup is mine. You can’t have him.” My voice was tremulous in its defiance. A shadow of smile flickered across my grandfather’s face. He reached down and hauled the bag filled with puppies up over his shoulder. “Of course he’s yours, boy,” he said not unkindly. “Why else did you think I dragged you down here? You picked a good’n. He’s too young to take from his mum. Give it a few weeks and then he’s yours”. He ruffled my hair and, with Jack beside me, I watched him walk away. I knew he was going to the dam. I also knew the bag along with the pups would be weighted with rocks and then hurled deep into the centre of its murky, brown water. A ripple the only evidence of the bags slow and deadly journey to the muddy bottom. An over abundance of dogs is almost as useless and undesirable as an over abundance of grandchildren. I had saved the puppy for Jack but, more importantly, I had managed to secure the thing I most desired: To have a dog of my own. My very first dog.

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THE line-up for this year’s Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, to be held at the Palace Cinemas, has been announced. The festival, which has been run annually for 23 years, is to show 45 films from Wednesday, March 14, to Sunday, April 1, at the Centro Cinemas, in James Street, and Palace Barracks. Advance tickets went on sale on February 1. The official festival program, other information about the festival and the films is online at www. affrenchfilmfestival.org. Declaration of War, directed by Valerie Donzelli, is the film to be screened on the opening night and Francois Truffaunt’s The Last Metro is scheduled for closing night Each night of the festival has been given a specific name with the films to be shown to reflect that theme. These names include It Happened in Your Neighbourhood, It Must Be Love, The Power and the Passion, Talent Beware, Happy Families, Sex, Drugs and Rock‘n’Roll, A French Touch Around the World, Not Only for Kids and A Life Devoted to the Arts. Several special events are planned for the festival and on the closing night to celebrate the French je ne sais quoi. The website is to carry updates on those events.

Britney’s life on stage in cabaret AMERICAN singer Britney Spears is no stranger to most people, whether for her music or for her much-publicised personal life. The former Mouskateer’s life to this point has been brought to life in a cabaret show titled, ironically, Britney Spears: The Cabaret by award-

winning writer/director Deam Bryant. The show, described as not so much a cabaret show as a cry for help, stars Christie Whelan. The show was commissioned for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and has since had sell-out runs in Sydney and Melbourne. It is billed as being “hilariously funny and strangely touching” and is a satirical look at the perils of fame. Britney Spears: The Cabaret is to be performed at the Visy Theatre in the Brisbane Powerhouse, nightly from Wednesday, February 8, to Sunday, February 12, from 7.30pm. Tickets range in price from $30-$50. For further information log on to www. brisbanepowerhouse.org

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AFTER 20 years of having taken thousands of people around the world on a journey of ancient mantras and songs, Deva Premal and Miten, with guest Manose, are to present their “transformative, healing and often ecstatic experience of sacred song and chant” at the Powerhouse Theatre on Tuesday, February 7, from 7.30pm. Deva’s vocals are joined with Miten’s guitar work and Manose’s Newari flute playing and percussion in the live performance. Tickets are $48. For further information, log on to www.brisbanepowerhouse.org

Window to open on COSSAG display FORMER George frontman Tyrone Noonan has been around the music scene in Brisbane for some years now and is expected to attract a strong audience when he joins with fellow Soniclines Anthony Garcia and William Barton for a concert at the Brisbane Powerhouse on Saturday, February 11, from 7.30pm. The trio formed by Noonan met up with classical guitarist Anthony Garcia at the Chelsea Hotel in New York for the first time since their school days sparring in local Battle of the Bands competitions around Brisbane. Tickets range in price from $26-$35. For further information log on to www. brisbanepowerhouse.org

“This uplifting and magnetic place of the mountains must have been of solace as they hid these men so protectively,” Jinty said. The free COSSAG exhibition and sale of new affordable art is to open on Friday, March 23, at 6.30pm at the Francis Rush Centre, 277 Elizabeth Street, and is to be open from 9am5pm until Monday.

THE theme inspiring artists for this year’s The Cathedral of St Stephen Art Group exhibition and sale on March 23 is A Window Opens. Many artists from regional areas as well as from Brisbane are expected to display their work in a variety of interpretations. Jinty Stockings, of Montville, is to exhibit in acrylic, a stone-framed alcove in north Tuscany with a distant monastery, poppies, grasses and barley mingle with fruit from orchards. Jinty said the inspiration for the work came while she was on holiday there. She said she felt deep compassion for the partisans who had fought bravely in the hills and valleys there against the invaders in the last days of World War II.

THE films to be screened at this year’s Brisbane Queer Film Festival cover subjects from Iran’s death penalty for homosexuals to the Los Angeles ball scene and the realities of life in the sex industry. The festival is to be held at the Brisbane Powerhouse at the end of Lamington Street, New Farm, from April 13-22 and include award-winning international and Australian films. Festival director Sarah Neal said the festival would entertain, inspire and challenge Brisbane audiences with films to come from the United States, Israel, France, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Brazil, Norway, Hungary and Argentina. “There are also stories about the difficulties of ‘coming out’ in personal and professional life and the universal search for love and acceptance,” Sarah said. “In our documentary series, audiences can also grab a behindthe-scenes glimpse into the lives of porn star Francois Sagat, Country and Western singer Chely Wright or Hole’s drummer Patty Schemel,” she said. Along with full-length films, there also is to be two series of international short films The festival kicks off with an opening night party and the screening of the musical film Leave it on the Floor. Ticket prices begin at $16 with concession $14. Packages are available To book for further information, telephone 3358 8600 or log on to brisbanepowerhouse.org or www.bqff.com.au

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Carolls leave their Moorings to berth elsewhere

By Vanessa Fang ONE of New Farm’s most historic and iconic waterfront homes, The Moorings, is to be put up for sale this month. Owners, Jan and Doug Caroll, said they were in two minds – one sad and another excited – about selling the house in which they had lived in for 18 years. “We will downsize and probably stay local eventually because the area is great and there’s everything here,” Doug said. “In New Farm, this place is home. My heart is rooted here. It doesn’t matter where I travel, Australia is still the best country in the world.” The Moorings, at Riverview Court, has stood since 1932 in its enviable waterfront location where the former floating Riverwalk began. The spot offers full views of the Brisbane CBD, Kangaroo Point and Story Bridge. The Brisbane River flood in January last year “only dressed the top soil” and left the house completely unscathed. The house was built by renowned doctor “Jappy” Ross, a former World War I naval surgeon, on request by his wife and has had only three owners, including the Carolls. Jan said it garnered a lot of attention from nearby residents and passers-by, even being part of the commentary on the Kookaburra Queen paddlewheeler. “Many locals say they played here as children and we get a lot of stories,”

Jan said. “His (Jappy) son (Philip Ross) got in contact with us. He wrote us a letter and told us how this house was built and that his mother had a china plate and she had said to the father: ‘I want you to build me this house’.” A more ominous slice of history includes rumours that Jappy was mixed up in Japanese espionage, due to his Asian looks – although he was part Hawaiian, part English – and stint practicing medicine in Japan before settling in New Farm. “There were rumours there may have been secret tunnels and passageways in the river,” Doug laughed, pointing out that he not discovered any. “I spoke to the son and he told me he played with flashing torches with his friends on either side of the river and people thought it was Morse code.” The Carolls did extensive renovations in 1993 but retained much of its original appearance to give it “some history to stay with” and decorated with antique family furnishings and overseas relics. “You definitely wouldn’t call it open plan but that’s the way they built houses then. There’s been few additions (in the area) since,” Doug said. The pathways winding through the garden and the large jetty served a reminder of what the Brisbane River

Jan and Doug Caroll at The Moorings which is listed for sale with Andrew Clough and Kellie Jones at the Professionals New Farm looked like during the 1930s, while the interior, with five bedrooms, boasted walnut joinery, mahogany floors, Cyprus pine structure and solid timber doors. “We did extensive renovations to the house including opening the main veranda upstairs. The river wasn’t the main object of the view, because it was dirty and the shipworks across the river,” Doug said. “The river was in the transition of being popular and being cleaned up so we opened up the whole top veranda and made that our own bedroom.” The Carolls said they hoped the future owners would not change The

Moorings’ appearance too much to conform to the modernity of the everdeveloping peninsula. “One of the most disappointing things that ever happened was a house next door that pre-dated us (the house) in age and it was sold and they knocked it down to put up a block of units,” Doug said. “We got another block of flats (on the other side of the house) and that’s why we’ve made a very private courtyard.” While many cherished memories were created from family weddings, parties and charity events over the years, Doug and Jan remain optimistic about the “new chapter” in their future.

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