Talk of the Town: Inside luxury ski slopes home for Labor ministers
It might have a private gondala, chef’s kitchen and sunken hot tub, but this home on Whistler’s ski slopes — owned by two Queensland corporate identities — still doesn’t live up to Jackie Trad’s standards of luxury. TAKE A TOUR
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IT’S the $7 million Whistler holiday home that didn’t quite live up to Jackie Trad’s idea of luxury.
Trad, her Left-faction lieutenant Shannon Fentiman and their significant others bunked down in the Canadian ski slopes “cabin” during the northern winter.
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But the debonair Deputy Premier scoffed at accusations about a free stay in opulent surrounds when conflict-of-interest questions were recently raised by the Opposition.
“I am not sure about the luxury apartment reference, but anyway,” she snapped.
However, Talk of the Town has wrangled with the vagaries of British Columbia title searches for weeks to give readers a sneak peek inside the home.
And we can confirm it looks like luxury to us!
The home is perched within Kadenwood, an exclusive ski-in/ski-out enclave with its own private gondola to the top of the slopes, and features a chef’s kitchen, wine cellar and sunken hot tub.
The five-bedroom home is owned by Virgin Airlines boss Paul Scurrah and his wife Nicole, Anna Bligh’s chief of staff who was recently hired by Trad as a consultant to help the Government cut back on consultant costs.
It even featured in Western Living Magazine (think beautiful homes for rich cowboys) a few years back where it was described as a “classic Whistler cabin” with a “nod to Scandinavian design”.
When local real estate spruiker Dave Burch was flogging it off a few years back he reckoned it was “a masterpiece of modern design”.
Neither called it “luxury”.
But we’re convinced the comrades who gather at this weekend’s Labor conference to champion average Queenslanders will agree with us.
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