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    WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

    May 22, 2019 3 minutes
    BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE
    PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS

    When Bev Ruskey announced that she was opening a tea house high in the hills between Boonah and Killarney in south-east Queensland, the response was unanimous: she was barking mad and the enterprise was doomed to fail. Undeterred, she went ahead and started a cafe on the property she and her husband, Bruce, had owned as a weekend getaway since 1991. Sadly, Bruce died prematurely and never got to see the completed project, but

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