GREEN BEHIND THE GOLD

A Queensland couple has found their forever home in the lush countryside of the Gold Coast hinterland.

Words and styling TAMARA SIMONEAU

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 many 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 by car from the glittering Surfers Paradise strip, Hillview is a world away in lifestyle with its rolling green hills and thousands of acres of surrounding Crown land in the lush Currumbin Valley. Once the heart of a thriving dairy farm owned by one of the area’s pioneering…

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