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Feb 20, 20231 min read
Gabi Mika McNaughton
Gabi attended Sydney's Fashion and Textile Design National Art School, gaining valuable insights into creative art that she would...
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Feb 20, 20232 min read
Kim Wilkins
Kim Wilkins is an Australian writer of popular fiction based in Brisbane, Queensland. She was born in London and grew up in Redcliffe in...
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Feb 20, 20232 min read
Bill Hoogwaerts
As a small boy, born in Holland in 1938, Bill Hoogwaerts witnessed at first hand the devastation caused by the Nazi's in World War 2. At...
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Feb 20, 20231 min read
Santo Perna
For over 30 years Santo Perna volunteered at Redcliffe Little Athletics officiating, sporting and marking the track lines to ensure the...
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Feb 20, 20233 min read
Graham Reid
Born in 1964 ,Graham grew up in Redcliffe, and was a junior at Redcliffe Leagues Hockey Club . He won the Brisbane Hockey Association ...
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Feb 20, 20232 min read
Tarnee White OAM
Olympic Gold medallist, Tarnee White was born in Redcliffe in 1981 and attended Southern Cross Catholic College. From an early age she...
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Feb 20, 20233 min read
Marle Juster OAM.
As a young boy, Marle Juster moved with his family from Brisbane to Margate in 1935, attending Humpybong School. There was little more...
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Feb 20, 20231 min read
Lorraine Fisher BEM.
Lorraine Fisher followed her parents footsteps by dedicating her adult life to volunteering in many of Redcliffe's charitable and...
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Feb 20, 20232 min read
Leanne Francis
1972 Olympic Games swimmer Leanne Francis , grew up in Redcliffe, attending Soubirous Brigidine College (School Captain 1972) and was...
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Feb 16, 20233 min read
Jim Fenwick
Jim Fenwick was born in Brisbane in 1934 and after many moves in his young life, he moved with his family to the Peninsula in 1942. He...
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Jan 18, 20238 min read
Bomb detonated on Redcliffe Parade in 1955
On Sunday the 10th July 1955 at 5.20pm, a bomb went off under a grey 1952 FX Holden utility on Redcliffe Parade outside Woolworths and...
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Jan 12, 20233 min read
Scott Hocknull
Woody Point resident Scott Hocknull is a vertebrate palaeoecologist, passionate science communicator and 3D digitisation and virtual...
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Jan 12, 20234 min read
Bill Goode
Bill Goode raced Stock Cars in the 1950s and soon progressed to the Mighty Midgets. He placed second to Lew Marshall in the first...
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Jan 11, 20235 min read
Sun Girl Quest, Suttons Beach Redcliffe
The Courier Mail Sun Girl Quest began in 1950/51with competitions held in major coastal Queensland towns and in northern New South Wales....
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Jan 7, 202311 min read
James Robert Hughes architectural drawings, ca. 1940-1960
Moreton Bay Library has recently made available a collection of local architectural drawings, ca.1940-1960, drawn by James Robert Hughes....
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Dec 28, 20223 min read
Percy Manley - Redcliffe's early hairdresser
Manley Street is named after Percy George Manley and his wife Agnes, who brought their family to Redcliffe in the early 1920's. Percy had...
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Dec 24, 20221 min read
2025 Pictorial History Of Redcliffe Calendars now available.
The team at the Photo Restoration Studio have just released a 2025 calendar showcasing the best 12 images from the 2 Pictorial History...
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Dec 22, 20223 min read
Greg Browning
The youngest player to debut for Australia’s national men’s hockey team, Greg Browning went on to be a key figure for the Kookaburras...
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Nov 18, 20223 min read
Sir Manuel Richard Hornibrook OBE
The master builder and industrialist was born in 1893 at Enoggera. He was the second of seven children to John and Catherine Hornibrook....
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