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NATURALLY INSPIRED

Their land backs onto a 16-acre (6.5-hectare) rural conservation zone that leads into a golf course, so there is no chance that they will ever be built out.

They say you have to travel to better appreciate what you have at home. For Victorian couple Max and Tania Irsic the adage proved true after an extended period travelling around Australia.

“We’d lived in some amazing places including the Daintree and Airlie Beach,” Tania recalls. “But

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