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GRANT AND BEC STATTON HAD a carefully considered wish list when it came to searching for a new home in the Queensland town of Toowoomba. The family of six had outgrown their abode and hoped to find a larger property in a central location, with room for a tennis court. It took two years, but eventually a house became available in East Toowoomba – the traditional home of the Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair tribes – that more than met the brief.

“I had always walked past this house and thought it was really

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