Australian Country Homes

HINTERLAND HIGH LIFE

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Toni Smith was your typical inner-city girl, raised in Melbourne, living in Brisbane’s bustling Spring Hill and enjoying a successful career as a project manager in construction and mining when she decided to buy an investment property in the Sunshine Coast hinterland purely because it seemed to be a high-growth area.

Searching online, she stumbled upon a little old 1940s timber Queenslander, which had been moved from Brisbane to the Glass House Mountains in the ’90s. Toni was instantly smitten. “I knew I was going to buy it, even before

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