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In her office at the Nambour headquarters of the Sunshine Coast Regional Council, Cr Vivien Griffin pulls out the super-duper plan for the Mooloolah River Interchange and by the look in her eyes asks silently, ‘What do you think of that?’. It’s then that you realise that projected population growth is sending people loopy, including … [Read more...]
Sunshine Coast mayor Bob Abbot sees uncontrolled population growth as an insanity We’re looking at 98,000 dwellings that the State Government has told us we have to build in the next 20 to 25 years Charismatic Sunshine Coast mayor Bob Abbot says he can see a light at the end of the tunnel in the population-growth debate. He is … [Read more...]
The Greenhouse venue at the Woodford Folk Festival continues to be a mecca for many environmentalists. And it’s where the mainstream merges with the greenstream. It’s a place where conversions take place, where ordinary festivalgoers with no previous environmental commitment to live sustainably suddenly see that lifestyle changes are … [Read more...]
Hans Baer earned a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Utah in 1976. He taught at ANU in 2004 and is presently at the University of Melbourne. Hans has published 16 books and some 160 book chapters and articles on a wide diversity of topics, including Mormonism, African American religion, complementary medicine in the US, UK, and Australia, … [Read more...]
Brainstorming with Sohail Inayatullah is an experience where you are taken on a journey to future horizons, to a limitless array of possibilities and social scenarios – whatever he can bring your mind to imagine. To some people they might be mirages never to be grasped, for others with a different mindset it’s like a door being opened not … [Read more...]
Andrew Wilford is a professor with a passion, a really clever bloke, but he prefers to be known simply as Wilf. Wilf, who lives with his wife Rosie in an oasis-like, three-level hill-hugging home in Brisbane, at one time had a sharp haircut and wore an air force uniform before he flew higher and eventually into the complex world of big business … [Read more...]
Canadian-born Graeme Taylor used to be an emergency paramedic before he found his way into academia and later becoming an award-winning author. Whatever he does, he does it with passion. You hear the urgency in his voice as if there’s no time to lose. It’s probably always been his way. But saving accident victims lives is nothing compared … [Read more...]
The woman behind the Woodford Folk Festival’s Greenhouse program prefers to be the quiet, effective achiever in the background, rather than spearheading campaigns. That woman is Jillian Rossiter – she’s not exactly a shy, retiring person but she does respect her self-imposed limits and does brilliantly within them, working hard to bring … [Read more...]
Image: The Davis family gets a trial run on the purple pipe network that will deliver quality recycled water. The Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast are seen as rivals in many ways. Sunshine Coasters see their southern counterpart as a high rise shrine to the gaudy and glitzy, whereas many Gold Coasters regard their northern neighbour as being a … [Read more...]
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