Australian Country

Green behind the gold

On any given day, Simone Williams may be jetting into New York or touching down in Tokyo as part of her day job as a Qantas cabin service manager, but there’s always one place she’d much prefer to be — her sprawling Gold Coast hinterland property, Hillview Homestead. “My husband, Bruce, and I bought Hillview 14 years ago,” she explains. “I grew up in Brisbane and always dreamed of living in the country in a beautiful old Queenslander.”

Just half an hour from the glittering Surfers Paradise

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