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Another year is coming to an end. And for yours truly, the end of 2015 represents a career milestone. For me, December marks 10 years as a journalist and also 10 years employed by The Westerner newspaper. Since starting with the paper straight out of university in late-2005 I have worked in as many offi ces as Australia has had Prime Ministers during that time. I have even been able to meet and interview three of them as part of this job.I have also met and spoken to so many fantastic and inspiring people from within our own community and beyond, including touring musicians who have come to our part of the world to perform.People seem to love end of year ‘best of’ lists, so I have selected my 10 favourite stories of the past 10 years – the ones I thought were important, the ones I really enjoyed writing, and some of the articles I am most proud of.You can read this special feature online at thewesterner.com.au, along with Reel Time’s best and worst movies of 2015.I wish you and your family a very happy and safe Christmas and New Year.

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Cheap cancer drug a dream giftBy Lee Oliver

All one Bunya family wants for Christ-mas this year is affordable cancer treatment drugs.

The wife of a 37-year-old father of two diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma can-cer from asbestos exposure, is appealing for the new drug Keytruda to be subsidised under the Federal Government’s Pharma-ceutical Benefi ts Scheme (PBS).

The woman, who did not wish to be named, says Keytruda is currently on the PBS for melanoma sufferers and has been trialled on mesothelioma patients, with positive results.

Her husband hopes to start using the drug after his chemotherapy treatment but the cost is extremely prohibitive.

“To start this drug after chemotherapy, which is our plan, will currently cost us between $9000 and $11,000 every three weeks. If it is fast tracked onto the PBS, it can cost us $30,” the wife said.

Currently the family “couldn’t afford even one round” of the drug for her husband.

“(He) was the breadwinner for this family

and has not worked in nine weeks. Funds are very limited right now,” she said.

“Without selling the family home, we would not be able to use Keytruda at all if it is not on the PBS.”

The woman says her husband’s exposure to asbestos occurred as a toddler, when renovations were carried out on his family home at Ashgrove in the late-1970s.

“There will be a huge wave around 2020 in Brisbane of asbestos-related disease, as people affected by the 1990s boom of DIY renovations will be hit with diagnosis, though it does not affect everybody who has been exposed,” she said.

She said her family has “not fully come to terms” with her partner’s diagnosis.

“We are devastated and are living in fear of the unknown,” she said. “I am terrifi ed of not having the strength to get myself and my babies through this.

“My children need their daddy, and this drug (Keytruda) can help buy us time.”

To sign the petition to have Keytruda placed on the PBS, which will be presented to the Health Minister, go to www.change.org and search for ‘Keytruda on PBS’.

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Winners: Crossbones DVD pack: J. Bongard (Warner); Tallowood Bound books: D. O’Brien (Mt Samson), C. Nunan (Caboolture), H. Roberts (Warner); Turning Japanese books: S. Curtis (Lutwyche), B. Manthey (Cashmere); Big Bash Book: A. Elliott (Ocean View); Allen & Unwin books: M. Watson (Warner), J. Costelloe (Warner); Icon Aussie DVDs: M. Luke (Bunya), B. Scott (Brendale); Crown & Andrews board games: T. Balfour (Albany Creek), L. Greer (Eatons Hill); Firestarter Music CD pack: K. Williams (Warner).

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CompetitionsCompetitionsStarring Michael Shannon (Man of Steel, The Runaways) and Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road, Warm Bodies), Young Ones is a stunning sci-fi tale of revenge and violence set in a post-apocalyptic, drought-ravaged future. After fi ghting off raiders to protect what little he has, a man strikes a plan to bring water to his family’s barren farmland. But betrayal sets off a vicious cycle of greed, vengeance and murder. Young Ones, which also stars Elle Fanning (Malefi cent, We Bought a Zoo) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In, The Road) is available now on Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital through Icon Home Entertainment.

The Westerner has two Icon Home Entertainment Dystopian DVD packs, containing Young Ones, City of Embers, Dredd and The Road and each valued at $99.80, to give away. For your chance to win tell us in which fi lm did Nicholas Hoult play a character called ‘Beast’ – X-Men: First Class, Jack the Giant Slayer or Clash of the Titans? Send your answer with your name and contact details to: The Westerner DVD competition, PO Box 5189, Brendale BC, 4500 or email [email protected], Attn: DVD competition. Entries close 15 January.

Hold on to your teacups – you’re about to fall head over heels for Hester and Harriet. In Hilary Spiers’ book, two widowed sisters move together into a comfortable cottage in a pretty English village. The only blights on their cosy landscape are their crushingly boring cousins. But their quiet and ordered Christmas celebrations are turned upside down with the arrival of their runaway teenage nephew and a young refugee woman and her baby.

Thanks to Allen & Unwin Book Publishers, The Westerner has one copy of Hester and Harriet (RRP $29.99) to give away. For your chance to win send your name and contact details to: The Westerner Book Competition, PO Box 5189, Brendale BC, 4500 or email [email protected], Attn: Book Competition. Entries close 15 January.

In the community

Anne is a singer and school music teacher who will perform alongside her adult children, Dan and Bridie, in the Voices of Birralee choir at QPAC’s Spirit of Christmas concerts.

I discovered I had an aptitude for music... When I was at a small country convent, one of the nuns suggested to my Mum that it would be a good idea for me to learn the piano. Mum agreed and I started lessons.

Singing in a choir with my children... will be a joy for me. I am thrilled that they get as much a buzz from singing as I do and I get to share that experience with them.

My favourite Christmas songs... I love the old favourites – ‘Hark the Herald Angels Sing’, ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ plus ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ and Tim Minchin’s ‘Drinking White Wine in the Sun’.

If I could travel back in time to meet a composer... it would be Vivaldi. I love his music especially ‘Gloria’, which we are singing at Spirit of Christmas.

Away from music I enjoy... movies, theatre, reading, walking and sleeping!

Three music albums in my collection I couldn’t part with.... Swoon Collection by ABC Classic FM, Five Hebrew Love Songs by Erik Whitacre and Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. This list changes often.

The best piece of advice I have been given... “Love is a doing word.”

My advice to aspiring musicians and singers... Persist! Music will give you the best experiences and also encourage you to work very hard. It’s all worth it.

What I would like for Christmas... To spend time with my family. I love their company and getting together with them is the best present ever.

The Spirit of Christmas concerts, featuring the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and a 250-voice choir. are on 18-19 December at the QPAC Concert Hall. Tickets are available from www.qpac.com.au or 136 246.

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Federal Member for Dickson Peter Dutton has hit back at suggestions he has not done enough to ensure

his electorate is prioritised during the construction of the National Broadband Network (NBN).

Labor candidate for Dickson Michael Gilliver recently held a forum with Senator Chris Ketter and Shadow Communications Minister Jason Clare, at which they chided Mr Dutton for poor internet speeds in the district.

Over 100 local residents gathered at Albany Creek State High School to hear the trio spruik Labor’s broadband policy.

“People see broadband access as a ba-sic utility. They expect clean water out of the tap, power at the fl ick of a switch, a fl ush-able toilet inside the house, and super fast and reliable broadband,” Mr Clare said.

Mr Gilliver said Mr Dutton is “standing

idly by” on the issue. “There are some residents in Eatons Hill,

Draper and Bunya that don’t have access to any form of fi xed line broadband at all, let alone an installation date for the Coali-tion’s watered down NBN,” he said.

Mr Dutton refuted the claims, saying his priority is to have the NBN available for families and businesses as soon as pos-sible. He dismissed the forum as another Labor talkfest, pointing out that in the six years Labor was in power no Dickson households were connected to the NBN.

“Under the Coalition almost 8000 prem-ises can connect to the NBN today. Work is near completion to enable another 15,000 premises to connect and the build is under-way to bring the service to another 2800 premises,” Mr Dutton said.

“Nine-hundred premises in Dayboro and King Scrub will be connected early next year, 5600 premises in Albany Creek and Eatons Hill in 2016, and 1400 premises

in Highvale, Samford Valley and Samford Village the year after, as well as a further 6100 homes in the areas surrounding Bray Park and Strathpine.”

Warner’s Neville Sonter contacted The Westerner about his ongoing battle for improved internet speeds.

His connection is so fraught with diffi culties that Telstra has recommend he disconnect from the service should his dissatisfaction continue, which is unfeasible as he works from home.

The majority of residents in his street also have trouble with internet connection.

“It works out that there’s a Telstra van in the street almost every week trying to keep people happy because everybody’s complaining about it,” Mr Sonter said.

Mr Sonter said while Telstra argues there is nothing more they can do to improve internet connection speeds, he believes they are making him wait for the NBN and resisting calls to improve infrastructure.

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He believes Council has put the Youngs Crossing project in the “too hard basket”.

“Council has picked one of the most controversial and costly options and... put it on the backburner,” he said.

“There are a number of cheaper options that Council has talked about in the past

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Councillor Mick Gillam (Division 8) said it would be “at least ten years before any-thing happens” on the project.

“Council will not be building this road by itself as we believe there should be very sizeable contributions by the State and Federal Governments due to the signifi cance of Youngs Crossing/Old North (Roads) as a major transport route.

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Break and enters into sports clubs, Bunya and Brendale: Sports clubhouses at Bunya and Brendale were broken into late last month. Two sports premises at the South Pine Sports Complex at Brendale were broken into overnight on 20 November. Entry was gained by open-ing an unlocked door. Cash and alcohol was stolen. The same night cash was stolen from a sports clubhouse at Cribb Road at Brendale by thieves who forced open roller doors. Between 22 and 28 November a sports club at Bunya was broken into by drilling out door locks. Keys and a remote control were stolen.

Break and enters into homes, Pine Rivers: Items such as boxing gloves, charm bracelet, television, computers and iPads were stolen from local homes over the past fortnight. Break-ins occurred at Mt Mee Road at Dayboro, Greendale Court and Gertrude Street in Strathpine, North Aston Court and Sparkes Road in Bray Park, and Devoran Street in Albany Creek, where an offender drew on the outside of the house with a red marker pen.

Assault charges, Brisbane northside: Three boys have been charged following an investigation by Ferny Grove Child Protection Unit detectives into serious assaults on Brisbane’s northside. Police will allege that in the early hours of 8, 14 and 25 November taxis were called to a Keperra address by a female caller. Upon

arrival the drivers were allegedly assaulted by teenage boys. Police will also allege that a taxi driver was assaulted when called to a Gaythorne address on 5 December, before a 57-year-old man standing nearby was allegedly knocked unconscious and stomped on, suffering facial injuries including a broken nose and split lips. A Redbank Plains boy, 15, a Red Hill boy, 16, and a Stafford boy, 14, will be dealt with under the provisions of the Youth Justices Act.

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Brent Cash never got to see the holiday photos he took in Tasmania a few years ago. That was, until this week.

The Warner resident had been hiking with workmates in the Western Arthur Range in the remote south-west wilderness in Tasmania in February 2013.

“We had stopped and I took some photos and I put it (my camera) down and have not picked it up again,” Mr Cash recalls. “When I went to look for it that night I couldn’t fi nd it and I knew I had lost it.

“I wasn’t going back for it as it was three hours to get back there, up a hill. I left a note at the (hiking) registration hut hoping someone who would follow the route that we took would fi nd the camera and then fi nd my address and happily send it back.”

Fast-forward almost three years and the camera, which had spent 11 seasons in the wild, is back in Mr Cash’s hands.

Neil and Lorelle Griggs from Hobart were exploring the area a fortnight ago and stumbled upon the camera, still in perfect condition, well off the marked hiking track.

After stopping to check their compass bearings while “taking a short cut between one mountain range and another”, they found the digital camera on the ground.

“I know the area pretty well so I knew where they (Mr Cash and friends) had been,” Mr Griggs explained. “It’s a great place to take photos. It’s pretty wild country.

“I just thought if I had lost my camera I would hope that someone would be decent enough to try to get it back to me. Thousands of cameras are lost around the world every year so I thought it would be impossible to fi nd the owner.”

Unable to fi nd any clues in the 97 photos on the camera’s memory card, he showed his daughter-in-law Jodie Griggs, “because she likes that sort of a challenge”. The only clue to the camera owner’s identity was the Clear Mountain Rural Fire Brigade t-shirt a man in the photos – Mr Cash – was wearing.

“It (the t-shirt) did achieve some form of notoriety because I wore it every day while we were walking for about eight or nine days, and it appeared in most of the photos,” said Mr Cash, who was a member of the brigade until 2008 before moving abroad for work.

Ms Griggs contacted Clear Mountain Rural Fire Brigade via Facebook, and subsequent communication has resulted in the “point and shoot” camera being returned to its owner.

“The interesting bit is it was not (found) where I lost it,” Mr Cash said. “It’s a great story and I’m appreciative that someone has taken the trouble to try and fi nd me, and more amazingly that they’ve been successful.”

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A Brendale company that is in the business of leisure is one of the fi nalists of the inaugural Moreton

Bay Region Innovation Awards. The Gidget Retro Teardrop Camper is

one of 67 entries for six categories of the Moreton Bay Regional Council-sponsored business awards, which promote and celebrate innovative products and tech-nologies created by local enterprises.

Based on the teardrop design of small camper vans popular from the 1930s to the 1960s, the compact Gidget campers – with design names such as the ‘Noosa’ and the ‘Bondi’ – are in high demand all over the world.

Business owners Glenn and Christine Wills from Albany Creek started designing the campers back in 2012 and began production this year, with the modest aim of making “only four or fi ve a year”.

Demand for the custom-built campers has been so great that the business has expanded from two employees to more than 25 – including experienced former boat and caravan craftsmen aged in their 60s – in less than 12 months.

“We’ve had people from Abu Dhabi

and Russia and England wanting to buy them but at the moment our markets are Australia and quite a lot (sold) to USA, Canada and New Zealand,” Ms Wills said.

She said customers “really embrace the fact that it’s Australian made”.

“The Americans particularly love the fact that it’s Australian made because they perceive Australian made as being hard working, they see it as robust and they see it as being honest and authentic,” she said.

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You’ve probably heard of Ace Ventura: pet detective. Now meet Amie Forbes: pet photographer.

The Highvale resident has been photographing animals for four years, aiming to “capture their character and their personality” in her images.

“Working with animals I don’t like to pressure them. I fi nd that the best photos I’ve ever taken are natural shots,” explains Ms Forbes, who allows two hours for her pet photo shoots.

“If you do try and force the animal into a position… it can stress them out.I allow time at the beginning of the shoot to allow the animal to feel comfort-able with me.

“Some animals, depending on their obedience level, you can get them to sit in a pose for you.”

Now Ms Forbes has donated her images to a new fundraising calendar.Sales of the calendar, which features 13 images of dogs, cats and horses,

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The 12-month calendars are $25 each with proceeds going to the Lions Medical Research Foundation, which for 52 years has funded research into conditions ranging from diabetes and Parkinson’s Disease, to asthma and schizophrenia.

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Many teenagers look forward to landing a job after they leave school.

For Armstrong Creek’s Eamon Briscoe, who has very severe autism, employment options are extremely limited.

On the low functioning end of the Autism Spectrum, the 17-year-old requires a very high level of one-on-one support to get through each day.

With Eamon set to graduate from Mitchelton Special School this month, his mother Niki Briscoe said it was “extremely diffi cult” to fi nd suitable workplace options for her son.

“For many families with a disabled child this can be a most anxious and worrisome period,” she said.

“The usual options open to disabled students leaving school are very limited and not suitable for Eamon’s unique situation.

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“Eamon, contrary to appearances, is not intellectually impaired and many of these options are not very challenging or motivating. He needs something of purp-ose to motivate him.”

Their “customised solution” is Autism Enterprises, a registered business which has created employment for Eamon and other people with similar conditions.

Founded in October, Autism Enterprises is a courier service for community volunt-eering work and paid work.

Eamon and his driver deliver copies of The Big Issue magazine, the sales of which support the homeless and disadvantaged people, around Brisbane and Ipswich.

Autism Enterprises also works with Sherpa, an on-demand delivery business which uses a crowd sourced network of drivers, and hopes to provide shopping services for the elderly or needy within the Dayboro area.

“Since beginning Autism Enterprises, Eamon has gained pride in himself knowing he can contribute to society and help make a living for himself,” Mrs Briscoe said.

“He has also enjoyed making new friends and connections with people in the community.”

Autism Enterprises is interested in hearing from businesses that may be interested in supporting the venture with mechanical, petrol, website design and webside hosting aid or other assistance.

To offer support phone 0477 774 574 or email [email protected].

A woman who could barely read or write ten years ago has won an international writing contest.

Pauline Longdon won a major award from American Writers and Artists at the copywriters training organisation’s annual Bootcamp event in Florida in October.

She trained with the organisation to become a copywriter and her submission was one of 400 works from around the world entered at the three-day conference.

“I had travelled so far and it was great to be recognised in front of so many people,” Ms Longdon said.

The award win seems worlds away from when she had “a shorter concentration (span) than a goldfi sh”, after her world was turned upside down a decade ago.

The Albany Creek local was diagnosed

with major depression after being “burnt out” following back-to-back deployments to East Timor and the Solomon Islands as an army nurse.

“I used to be a prolifi c writer and reader at school. When I went through depression I just lost all my ability to write and even read,” Ms Longdon said.

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“I was told I’d be depressed for the rest of my life and I’d never nurse again. I started to look for a way to recover and to fi nd a new career.”

Now Ms Longdon’s copywriting business The Copy Alchemist has clients in 47 diff-erent industries from countries such as the USA, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

Niki Briscoe from Armstrong Creek has founded a company that aims to provide employment for people with autism, such as her son Eamon.

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Corey Briese-Marshall says his favourite thing about Christmas is looking at Christmas lights with his family.

The nine-year-old from Armstrong Creek is the winner of our annual ‘Christmas at my place’ competition for 2015. Corey’s winning drawing adorns the front page of The Westerner.

Second prize went to Hannah Jade Makings, whose drawing shows her and her brother fi nding their presents on Christmas morning. Katelyn Reid won third prize with a drawing depicting Santa Claus and his reindeer fl ying over her house.

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Lollipop Land is the creative vision of storyteller Jule Barten and doll maker Chris Boston, who has created more than 90 hand-sculpted characters for the exhibition.

Characters include fairies, dragons, witches, a white unicorn and elves who make “all the chocolates in the world”, who have “downed tools for the season”.

“Last year they were busy working in the factory; this year they’ve been given some time off and they are having their very own tea party,” Jule explains.

Jule, from Mt Mee, said while Lollipop Land and the stories of its characters evolve each year, the display is a place “where imagination has no boundaries”.

“We encourage people to make up their own stories. The things that kids come up with are surprising,” she said. “I think our imaginations should always be stimulated and all we do is aim to inspire that imagination.”

Worlds depicted in Lollipop Land include Honeysuckle Hollow, Marshmallow Castle, Witches Woods and the Cupcake Orchard.

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Caboolture, Redcliffe and Strathpine will be closed from 12noon Thursday 24 December 2015 and reopens Monday 4 January 2016 at 8.30am.

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Cemeteries

Cemeteries will continue to facilitate burials over the Christmas period on Tuesday 29 December, Wednesday 30 December and Thursday 31 December 2015. Burials will be accommodated from 10am to 3pm.

Normal operations will resume on Monday 4 January 2016.

Child Care

Birralee Child Care CentreClosed from 6pm Friday 18 December 2015, reopens 7am Monday 4 January 2016.

Pine Rivers Family Day CareClosed from 12noon Thursday 24 December 2015, reopens 8am Monday 4 January 2016.

Cultural Services

Caboolture Regional Art Gallery and HUB Shop Closed from 12noon Thursday 24 December 2015, reopens Monday 4 January 2016 (normal hours).

Pine Rivers Art GalleryClosed from 12noon Thursday 24 December 2015, reopens Monday 4 January 2016 (normal hours).

Redcliffe City Art GalleryClosed from 12noon Thursday 24 December 2015, reopens Monday 4 January 2016 (normal hours).

Bribie Island Seaside MuseumClosed from 12noon Thursday 24 December 2015. Closed 25, 26 and 28 December 2015 and 1 January 2016. Open 27, 29, 30 and 31 December 2015. Reopens Saturday 2 January 2016 (normal hours).

Pine Rivers Heritage MuseumClosed from 12noon Thursday 24 December 2015, reopens Saturday 2 January 2016 (normal hours).

Redcliffe MuseumClosed from 12noon Thursday 24 December 2015. Closed 25, 26 and 28 December 2015 and 1 January 2016. Open 27, 29, 30 and 31 December 2015. Reopens Saturday 2 January 2016 (normal hours).

Major Venues

Redcliffe Cultural CentreClosed from 12noon Thursday, 24 December 2015, reopens 8.30am Monday 4 January 2016.

Caboolture Hub Learning & Business Centre Closed from 12noon Thursday, 24 December 2015, reopens 8.30am Monday 4 January 2016.

Queensland State Equestrian CentreClosed from 12noon Thursday, 24 December 2015, reopens 8.30am Monday 4 January 2016.

Environmental Centres

CREEC Environmental Centre 150 Rowley Road, BurpengaryClosed from 12noon Thursday, 24 December 2015, reopens 8am Monday 4 January 2016.

Osprey House Environmental CentreDohles Rocks Road, GriffinClosed from 4pm Wednesday 23 December 2015, reopens 8am Tuesday 5 January 2016.

Kumbartcho Sanctuary15 Bunya Pine Court, Eatons HillClosed from 12noon Thursday 24 December 2015, reopens 8am Tuesday 5 January 2016.

Libraries

Thursday 24 December 2015Closed from 12noonFriday 25, Saturday 26 and Monday 28 December 2015ClosedSunday 27 December 2015North Lakes Library open normal hoursTuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 December 2015Open normal hoursThursday 31 December 2015Closed from 5pmFriday 1 January 2016ClosedSaturday 2 January 2016Open normal hoursSunday 3 January 2016North Lakes Library open normal hoursMonday 4 January 2016Open normal hours

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Thursday 24 to Monday 28 December 2015ClosedTuesday 29 to Wednesday 30 December 2015Operating normal routeThursday 31 December 2015Closed from 5pmFriday 1 to Sunday 3 January 2016ClosedMonday 4 January 2016Operating normal route

Pools and Leisure Centres

All swimming pools and leisure centres will be closed Christmas Day, except for:Settlement Cove Lagoon, Redcliffe Lifeguards will be on duty from 7am to 8pm Christmas Day and 7am to 10pm weekends and New Year’s Eve.Samford Aquatics Closed from Wednesday 23 December 2015 to Saturday 2 January 2016Redcliffe War Memorial PoolClosed from Friday 25 to Saturday 26 December 2015 and Friday 1 January 2016.For a full list of pool and leisure centre opening hours during the Christmas period, see www.moretonbay.qld.gov.auMorayfield Sport & Events Centre298 Morayfield Road, MorayfieldClosed from Thursday 24 December 2015, reopens Monday 11 January 2016.

Visitor Information Centres

Bribie Island – Benabrow AvenueCaboolture – BP Travel Centre, Bruce HighwayClontarf – Pelican Park, Hornibrook EsplanadeRedcliffe – Redcliffe ParadeStrathpine – Daisy Cottage, Cnr South Pine and Gympie RoadsWoodford – Archer Street

Closed Christmas day. Normal opening hours apply on all other days.

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All refuse and recycling collections will continue as normal, including all public holidays. Waste bins, as per normal, must be placed on the kerbside by 6am on the day of collection.Waste Facilities - Bunya, Caboolture, Dakabin and RedcliffeOpen 7am to 12noon Christmas Day. Normal opening hours apply on all other days. Transfer Stations - Dayboro, Mt Nebo, Ningi, Samford, Toorbul, Upper Caboolture, Wamuran and WoodfordClosed on Christmas Day. Normal opening hours apply on all other days.Treasure Markets - Dakabin and CabooltureClosed on Christmas Day. Normal opening hours apply on all other days.

EmergenciesIn the event of an emergency (e.g. problems with road repairs, animals, public building maintenance and security) or matters of public safety, please contact council on 3205 0555.

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19 December. Now in its third

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It sees locals walk through the town, stopping off at four churches to sing carols.

A large group of carollers will begin their walk at the St Francis Xavier Catholic Church on McKenzie Street at 5.30pm, before making their way down the hill towards William Street.

“Because Dayboro is a back-in-time type

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She said the singers had a collection of 12 traditional and “proper” Christ-mas carols to

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More than 70 singers are expected to sing Christmas carols on the streets of Dayboro on 19 December.

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Bribie Island Visitor Information CentreBenabrow Avenue, BellaraP. (07) 3408 9026E. [email protected]. Daily 9am to 4pm

Caboolture Historical Village Information Centre280 Beerburrum Road, Caboolture P. (07) 5432 4423E. [email protected]. Daily 9am to 4pm

Caboolture Visitor Information CentreBP Travel Centre, Bruce Highway, BurpengaryToll free. 1800 833 100E. [email protected]. Daily 9am to 4pm

Moreton Bay Hinterland Visitor Information Centre127 Archer Street, WoodfordP. (07) 5422 9900 E. [email protected]. Daily 9am to 4pm

Pine Rivers Visitor Information CentreCnr Gympie and South Pine Roads, StrathpineP. (07) 3205 4793E. [email protected]. Daily 9am to 4pm

Redcliffe Visitor Information CentrePelican Park, Hornibrook Esplanade, ClontarfToll free. 1800 659 500E. [email protected] Open. Daily 9am to 4pm

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19 DECEMBERCarols in the Street in Dayboro – Starting at St Francis Xavier Church, 135 McKenzie Street, Dayboro. From 5.30pm.

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With only two weeks to go until Christmas, children are being encouraged to post their Santa Mail early to ensure the big man in the red suit has time to reply before he packs his sleigh and comes to town.

More than 100,000 letters from young Australians were sent to the North Pole last year and Australia Post is again preparing to deliver thousands of letters to Santa.

Letters mailed before Christmas will receive a response direct from the North Pole.

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Santa Mail letters can be placed in any Australia Post red post box or in-store at selected post offi ces. For information, fun Christmas activities, games, puzzles and tips on letter writing, visit www.auspost.com.au/education/santamail.

Summer activitiesSummer activities19 DECEMBERRamp Day Out is a full day scooter event for young people and families at Redcliffe Skate Park. From 8.30am.11 & 13 JANUARYFierce and Ferocious Beast Cartooning. Learn to draw with Cartoon Dave (Toasted TV) at Albany Creek and Woodford Libraries.11-22 JANUARYActive Kids park sessions for fitness and fun at Dayboro, Eatons Hill, Mt Mee, Albany Creek, Ferny Hills, Samford Village and more.12 & 21 JANUARYDiscover the artistry of old style portraiture and picture framing at Pine Rivers Heritage Museum at Whiteside. From 10am to 12pm.For more information on these and other great local school holiday events and activities over summer go to www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/events.aspx.


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Students at Pine Rivers State High School at Strathpine have put their heads together – and under hair

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Their Pine Rivers High colleague Harry Bowes, from Ocean View, was diagnosed with leukaemia in August and has been undergoing chemotherapy in hospital.

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Although the suffrage movement has operated for years, it only piques Maud’s interest when she is caught up in the civil disobedience that the movement inspired. While delivering a package for her boss, who oversees the laundry where she has worked since the age of seven, a group of women throw rocks into shop fronts while shouting, “votes for women”. One of the women rocks, Violet Miller (Anne-Marie Duff), works at the laundry, and invites Maud to meet the group of Suffragettes she associates with. Maud soon becomes immersed in the fi ght for suffrage.

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Gleeson is a brilliant casting choice. The complexity he brings to the character enables him to simultaneously be the subject of sympathy and scorn. The interactions between Steed and Maud are the most thought provoking of the fi lm.

Films that cover wide-reaching social movements often focus on a single person or group in order to narrow their focus. While this is understand-able, the writer runs the risk of generalisations, which unfortunately Suffragette occasionally falls victim to. It merely alludes to the divisions within the movement as to the methods being undertaken, and ignores the exclusion of specifi c groups completely.

Suffragette struggles to convey the complexity of the situation. Although covering a lot of historical ground – from the bombings, hunger strikes and tortuous force-feeding – the fi lm does not examine them in any great depth. The result of this is that although the fi lm’s message is largely clear, it is not expressed as strongly as it otherwise could have been.

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SuffragetteSuffragetteHe’s toured around Australia and

overseas but Adam Weston from Birds of Tokyo says he is most

excited about playing a concert “just around the corner” from his home.

The drummer, who lives at Cashmere, will perform with his chart-topping rock band at his local venue – the Eatons Hill Hotel – on 18 December.

“I saw Refused there, I’ve seen Grin-spoon and even my singer’s other band, Karnivool,” he said. “It’s kind of surreal when you’re watching these international, kind of famous acts out in suburbia.

“We’ve been travelling away for shows in Port Hedland and regional South Australia and… New South Wales, so it’s pretty cool to have a show that’s just around the corner.”

The one-off concert at Eatons Hill Hotel follows a year Birds of Tokyo spent largely based in America, playing shows and prepping its fi fth studio album.

One of Australia’s biggest contemporary rock bands, its last studio album, March

Fires, went to the top of the Australian charts two years ago. The album’s biggest single, ‘Lanterns’, peaked at position three of the national hit list.

Birds of Tokyo’s latest release is a career retrospective, logically entitled Playlist… A Singles Collection.

The band’s members had baulked at bringing together hits such as ‘Lanterns’, ‘This Fire, Plans’, ‘Wild At Heart’, ‘Anchor’ and new single ‘I’d Go With You Anywhere’ for a ‘best of’ album, however Weston now sees merit in the compilation.

“One of things I’ve noticed in the last couple of years is people know ‘Lanterns’ and some people know the older, rockier stuff,” he explains.

“In the space of a few years (of record-

ings) to tell someone that they’re listening to the same band – ‘Lanterns’, ‘Silhou-ettic’ and the production of ‘Anchor’ – they sound like three completely different bands because of the sort of stuff we’re experimenting with.

“The Playlist compilation was just an excuse to connect the dots for people, to say, ‘Here’s 17 or 18 songs which are kind of varied and will give you a bit of an in-sight into what the band’s been up to the last ten years’.

“If anything it’s sort of wiped the slate clean and we’ll go into 2016 focussed on this new album.”

Birds of Tokyo play at the Eatons Hill Hotel on 18 December. Buy tickets at www.eatonshillhotel.com.au.

Birds of Tokyo are performing a one-off show at the Eatons Hill Hotel this month.

Birds of Toyko fi nd local nest

Lanie Lane will end her self-

imposed exile from the music

business with a performance on the

opening night of the Woodford Folk Festival.

Lane back in business with Woodford debut

After quitting music almost one year ago and retreating to rural Queensland, Lanie Lane is back for her maiden

performance at an event she believes will be “right up my alley”.

The award-winning blues-jazz musician, whose two albums To the Horses (2011) and Night Shade (2014) peaked at positions 12 and 42 on the Australian chart, quit the music business citing the pressures of touring and recording.

“Everything to do with music has been scaled back, since I’m not wanting to be a fulltime singer and artist anymore,” Lane explains. “It’s quite an intense career. I love having a more simple life and less intensity and pressure around me.”

Having moved to Yeppoon, Lane has spent much of 2015 travelling and creating visual art.

“I’ve always been artistic. I think c r e a t i v i t y and the expression of it comes from the same place inside of us and it’s just a matter of how you channel it,” she said.

“I’m just letting that (artistic) channel fl ow more than the music one at the moment. “I think I’ve got less to say in words at the music and more to s a y in a visual sense.”

L a n e says she has “really come to life in t h e

bush”, noting: “It’s defi nitely inspiring for me to be in nature and continually receiving the beautiful urge to create from that space”.

Back with guitar in hand, Lane is set to rock at one of Australia’s most revered cultural events – Woodford Folk Festival – for the fi rst time on 27 December.

“I’ve been very much looking forward to it, hoping it was going to happen one day,” Lane said. “I know that the festival is amazing and environmentally quite incredible... and

the whole atmosphere sounds really, really like something I’d love to be part of.”

Lane’s show at Woodford is her last before a New Year’s resolution to use her creative skills “to benefi t other people, not just myself”.

“I’m not sure exactly where that’s going to lead to but I’m very excited

to fi nd out what the universe has in store for me,” she said.

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Six medals from six events was the haul for a young swimmer from Highvale who has been breaking

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Niamh Bedggood recently competed in the Pan Pacifi c School Games in Adelaide.

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