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Sophie FosterQLD digital real estate editor

Sophie Foster has been a News Corp journalist for two decades in Australia and Fiji, specialising in real estate, finance, business and crisis journalism.

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Brisbane
Welcome to Yorkeys Knob council sign at the entrance to the Cairns beachside suburb. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKE.

The rudest place names on earth

Will the novelty ever wear off for those living in Yorkeys Knob, Bullshit Hill or Dickey Point? Probably not, but they’re just the tip of Australia’s “quirky place name” iceberg.

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Alan McGirvan, who started his career as the first breakfast show host for Double J - the precursor to Triple J, and who went on to create the biggest messaging service on the East Coast of Australia - employing 600 freelancers across Aust/NZ/Asia and 10 permanent staff in Brisbane. Pic Annette Dew

Alan McGirvan: Voicing your dreams

Being put on hold when you call a business can be frustrating but in the 1980s it was something new to Alan McGirvan who ran with the idea and the rewards continue to flow.

Brisbane
Bushfire arrives into the township of Malua Bay NSW, just south of Batemans Bay. New Years Eve.  Locals waiting for the fires to arrive on the designated evacuation site of the beach.   Picture: Alex Coppel.

Thousands open homes to fire evacuees

Thousands of Aussies have opened their houses, units and investment properties as free emergency accommodation for people fleeing devastating firestorms that raged across three states.

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