Australian Country

Together at last

It’s a story more romantic than any of the unions that have been celebrated in the former Tarome church. When Helen and Terry Roebig relinquished their busy Brisbane lives in 2019, they imagined they were moving to Mount Alford in Queensland’s Scenic Rim for a more relaxed life in a stylish century-old Queenslander on the 43-acre (17-hectare) Dulhunty farm.

The property came with Vanbery Cottage, a cute little B&B in a separate building that began life in the central Queensland coastal town of Maryborough but was moved to the south-east Queensland village of Tarome in 1919. There it served as the Tarome

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