Buyers Warm To North Coast Waterfronts

Brisbane buyers are driving prices up between Brisbane and Sydney, writes Paul Coombes.

If They're Grieving, It's Not Showing

Bernie Wotherspoon felt no pangs of sympathy when he heard Christopher Skase was dead. ``To be honest, I wouldn't walk across the road to pee on him if he was on fire," said Mr Wotherspoon, a Brisbane boat builder. Mr Wotherspoon lost $9,000 in pay and entitlements when his employer, Lloyds Ships, shut down with the collapse of its parent company, Qintex, in 1989. ``It was hard on a lot of people: the battlers who had to sell their cars and things to carry on," Mr Wotherspoon said.