COASTS OF CHANGE: SUNSHINE COAST AND HINTERLAND

Meandering up the highway north from Brisbane just a few decades ago, you’d see wide expanses of farmland, quaint country villages and a few scattered towns dotted along the sundrenched, sparkling Sunshine Coast beaches.

A little before the champagne corks were popped to herald in the new millennium, things began to change. Rough gravel roads morphed into paved dual-lane carriageways, beach shacks were razed to make way for multistorey structures stretching skyward, and developers snapped up huge land parcels to build master planned communities from the ground up.

And it seems that it’s just the beginning of the