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Caloundra: reasons for being there
Selected by Dr Deborah Jordan and taken from a newspaper cutting held in the Palmer Papers. This piece, Caloundra: reasons for being there was first published in the Brisbane Telegraph, 28 January 1928.
Nettie Palmer was born and bred in Melbourne and alive to the differences between the Sunshine and the south. She, too, was city [...]
The Caloundra South Development
A city with the population of Gladstone on the Sunshine Coast’s doorstep. Seven-storey buildings may soon welcome our southern visitors courtesy of the State Government’s growth plans.
Caloundra South is just one of the many developments that the state government is promoting and fast-tracking to accommodate its agenda of growth. With a projected population of [...]
Charms of Caloundra in 1925
The Sunshine Coast was home to two gifted writers, Vance and Nettie Palmer, from 1925. In those days when few white people were exploring the bush, they were out most days, glorying in the earth and sea and sky.
These were the years of their daughters growing, running free among the heath and sheoaks; the time [...]
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