Maleny

So go and, uh, enjoy a little bit of country music on the coast.

Uh, also we can tell you about the Maleny coming up in the...

Now you can put it as a date claimer.

It's well worth going to, and that's the, the Maleny Showgrounds.

Maleny Country Music & Music generally the 6th till the 8th of November.

And we do have our Stanthorpe Berry Festival.

Make that a date claimer.

Well, I started my master's in Gestalt psychotherapy and through that, meeting people through there, I found out about constellations.

Then I met Margueritte Kernig up in Maleny way.

Mm-hmm.

She'd been teaching it for many years, and one of the elders of...

[whooshing sound] Yeah.

Well, I, you know, Linda was from Maleny, uh, if any hairy men are listening.

Uh, but, um, I didn't know that, uh, Linda was a pseudonym for Angela Mollard, uh, who I have met a few times over the years in different media circles.

Well, A-Angela [chuckles] writing in "The Daily Telegraph" over the weekend says, "It feels like decades since we've seen a hirsute man on screen." It's not a word you hear very often, is it? Uh, hirsute, not man.

So if you'd like to catch up, uh, it's on today, today only, 9:00 till 3:30 PM.

The native orchids in Queensland are holding their Sunshine Coast Native Plant Market today only, okay? It's in the Maleny Showgrounds.

Uh, and, uh, if you're up that way and you're into native orchids, that's where you need to be.

Maleny, uh, Showgrounds today.

Uh, let's go to Sarah in Brisbane.

Good morning.

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Maleny's great for that.

Yeah.

Great community, beautiful area.

And as co-owner Megan Agnew explained to Jennifer Nichols, they're roasting two tons of Australian-grown legumes a day.

The company actually started in 1992 up in Maleny, and yeah, it's about 10 years ago now that we repositioned the company down in Landsborough, built a new factory, changed the brand, and it's, um, gone from strength to strength.

Our main product is our chickpeas, and they're grown in Queensland.

They're graded to the right variety for us in Kingaroy, and then we, we get them in Landsborough.

The Australian pla-platypus cons, uh, conservancy, uh, published an analysis of four hundred platypus mortalities between nineteen eighty and twenty twenty-four that showed drowning in nets accounted for fifty-five percent of fatalities.

Neil Anderson, who runs Platypus Whispers Tours in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland town of Maleny, has been writing to poli-politicians across the state for a decade.

That includes his local MP, Queensland Environment Minister Andrew Powell, whose office did not respond to AAP's questions, instead directing inquiries to Primary Industries Minister Tony Perrett.

Mr. Anderson says he is mystifaed-- mystified by the delay, uh, after the government survey showed thirty-five percent of respondents in favor of an immediate ban and a further thirty percent wanting a phase-out.