Hinterland Stories

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Australia Day Address 2025

Australia Day Speech 2025 by Madonna Hampson on The meaning of Community

A Montville Gem Fire Warden, Montville Weather Man, Master-Montville Lodge, Sportsman, Musician, Army Officer, Chorister, Businessman. ...

Tony Cooper - Entrepreneur, Tailor, Interior Decorator, Businessman, Developer, Natural Health Exponent in Vibration Medicine and Colour

An entertaining tale of how an early Montville Councillor organised his transport home from Nambour.

Jim Cox has been a local since 2002 and has been active in shaping the local art scene and creating awareness of environmental issues.

Two much loved Montville citizens were Les and Dulcie Gomersall who lived along Western Avenue for 50 years.

by Gordon Plowman (2021) The pillars either side of the Montville Memorial Gate pay tribute to the fallen and those who served during...

Christmas 2019 sees the St. Mary’s Hall in the best condition it has been in for years. Current Chairman of the St. Mary’s Auxiliary,...

Montville Memorial Hall, St Mary’s Church Hall and Community Hall (Former RSL Hall) St. Mary’s Church Hall and Community Centre (c. 1978)...

It must have been ten years ago that I first heard the need for a deck on the eastern side of the hall being discussed. I was the new...

by Julia Holloway (nee Pederson) I have treasured memories of growing up in Montville with my parents John and Jill Pederson and...

The scent of pineapples instantly transports me back to Montville and my Grandparents’ farm where I spent many school holidays. The...

Hinterland Times ran our follow-up story on the work of Italian POWs along the Blackall Range and across the Sunshine Coast Hinterland in...

Montville Gems is a new Montville History Group (MHG) collection of stories about Montvillians who have helped make living in Montville...

Montville's Australia Day Awards recipients 2022 Jim Cox - Montville Citizen of the Year 2022 Jim Cox being presented the Montville...

by Laurie Grimwade nee Smith The Pupil I was born in the Palmwoods Private Hospital on 23 November 1940, the third daughter of Peter and...

The Citizen of the Year Award for 2021 went to John Watson. John was born, bred and educated in New Zealand where he started his career...

The Montville Citizen of the Year Award was first instituted in 1990. The Montville Lifetime Citizenship Award was instituted in 2015....

by Bill Thompson Our family came from England in 1947 as ten-pound poms. My father was a dentist and said that his hobbies were sailing...

The Gorsch Family, of eleven, moved to Western Avenue, Montville from the Lockyer Valley in 1956. Len, the oldest son, came up several...