THUMBS UP AUSSIES -

ABN 93 732 819 761 Correspondence Only to 16 Scott Street Deagon 4017 Registrations Only to Post Office Box 11, Arana Hills 4054

Your ‘Fair Dinkum’ Management Team Co-Convenors Nev & Bev McLachlan Nev 0417 729 263 Bev 0427 135 442 [email protected]

Secretary Carmel Mathieson (07) 3269 8519 [email protected]

Registrar Bob Thomson 0417 150 201 [email protected]

Publicity Carol Simondson 0400 354 445 [email protected]

Facilities Kevin Lucas [email protected]

Programme Manager Gary Petersen 0434 772 066 [email protected]

Rounds & Clogging Liaison Michael Mills 0408 703 910 [email protected]

BUDERIM bush telegraph ... Coming to you on behalf of the 57th Aussie National Publicity mob.

LA T JU E L 2O Y 15

COOEE!!! Is a shout used in Australia, usually in the bush, to attract attention, find missing people, or indicate one’s own location. When done correctly, loudly and shrilly - a call of ‘Cooee’ can carry over a considerable distance. It carried well when I used it in New York, USA. The word ‘Cooee’ originates from the Dharruk language of the original inhabitants of the Sydney, NSW area. It means ‘come here’ and has now become widely used in Australia as a call over distances. So to you ALL - COOEE! Come to Buderim, Qld in 2016 and let’s all have a BONZA Convention. Are you all ears ’cause we need more of you cobbers who are all wool and a yard wide (authentic: trustworthy) and are a ball of muscle to come, dance sit and yarn with us. So stop bumping ya gums (talking too much) and go round up some more Aussie Explorers and tell them to put their mark on the registration form (downloadable from the Website, and cough up some dollars and ‘they are in like Flynn’. Be there and be in a square! Want some more ideas for the theme night?? You could come as a KINGAROY NUT! Perhaps a MACADAMIA NUT?! How about a GUMNUT? Weren’t those fabulous Gumnuts created by May Gibbs just the ants pants? I reckon if you put your thinking cap on you could whip up a great outfit. Mind though, you would look a little like mutton done up as lamb. But that’s OK. Strewth, at the end of the day we SQUARE DANCERS all love to dress up. Just come as a Pavlova! Put on your Akubra or give the Drizabone an airing. Have a ‘captain cook’ in your wardrobe I’m sure some Aussie households have Crocodile Dundee clobber. You could come as a woolly sheep!! Go catch a few waves on the way to the Convention—plenty of Coastline, not too far away from BUDERIM, and rated as some of the best Surfing possible - GO HANG 10! Yep! There’s more ... Turn the page

PARKING .... The USC is a regulated parking area. Charges apply Mon to Frid 8 am to 6pm all year. DO NOT PARK in these marked places, instead take advantage of the FREE PARKING at car park 15 off Claymore Road and the adjacent Chancellor College. Put that in your memory box as we don’t want you to get pinged.

Our ‘Fair Dinkum’ Management Team have great plans for the best dancing possible at the 57th National Square Dance Convention. Venue 1 University of the Sunshine Coast Sports Stadium. Where - 90 Sippy Downs Drive, Sippy Downs A beautiful stadium, HUGE, with plenty of parking; a cafeteria; outside eating space; room to ’shop till you drop’ by way of the vendors and an EXCELLENT DANCE FLOOR . Just up the road from Venue 2 ... More details about Venue 2 in the next issue.

Travelling by camel, horse, donkey? There will be a ‘long yard’ for your preferred mode of transport!!

MODERN DAY ‘TRUE BLUE’ AUSSIES ..... Your Co Convenors NEV & BEV ... Keep your ‘meat pies’ open for the next edition of the BBT to read about these modern day ‘True Blue Aussies’. Do you have dancing friends who are dithering about coming to the National and have not registered as yet??? Do you and your dancing friends know about the Caller/Cuer Conference? Please let them know about the special OPTIONS available especially for those folk who may be thinking of taking up Calling; for those folk who may be thinking of taking up Cueing; for those folk who would like the opportunity to do more round dancing. OPTIONS FOR ALL More details can be obtained by contacting Co Convenors - Nev & Bev McLachlan [email protected] Publicity Officer - Carol Simondson [email protected] What about CLOGGING? ‘rocking chairs’!!

There will be loads of time for CLOGGING so start practicing your

QANTAS RETURNS TO THE SUNSHINE COAST AFTER 10 YEAR BREAK ... MAJOR BOOST FOR BUSINESS, CONFERENCE, PREMIUM LEISURE TRAVEL and SQUARE & ROUND DANCERS & CLOGGERS!!! After an absence of more than a decade, Qantas will recommence regular air services into Sunshine Coast Airport, with the airline announcing they would fly between Sydney and the Sunshine Coast six days a week from December 2015. Speaking of planes, and I get off the track a little here... Our guest round dance Cuer/Teacher, Randy Preskitt worked at the Boeing company on the 767 before retiring. He possibly would love a bit of a yarn about planes ... that is in between talking telemarks, mini telespins, feathers, etc. The ‘fair dinkum’ management team hope you are enjoying these BBT’s. The next edition will be out early September. Carol Simondson, 57th National Convention Publicity Officer.