Wallabies at brekky

THREE Wallabies legends will be at a local business breakfast days out from the clash against Argentina at Robina.

Nathan Grey, Stephen Moore and Nathan Sharp will attend the Robina Rugby Business Breakfast on September 12 at CBus Super Stadium.

The breakfast will help other businesses who share an interest in sport to connect with each other – as well as raise money for the Perry Cross Spinal Research Foundation. Tickets cost $69.

The Wallabies play Argentina at the Cbus Super Stadium at Robina on September 15. ONE of the most quietly influential women in Gold Coast political circles, June Redman, has died.

The National Party stalwart, passionate community volunteer, charity worker and devoted mother of three sons (Rod and Grant, now deceased, and Jonathan) and daughter Kim, died on Saturday, aged 87, following a stroke.

Born on June 2, 1931, Ms Redman grew up on the Gold Coast and graduated from St Hilda’s School at Southport in 1947.

A former treasurer and secretary of the Gold Coast and Hinterland Historical Society, Ms Redman also worked for sandmining company Mineral Deposits, for Bruce Small Enterprises and formed the Gold Coast branch of the Leukaemia Foundation in 1983.

“As children, we used to cross the Jubilee Bridge (near to where the Sundale Bridge now stands) when we’d walk from my grandmother’s house

DR ANNE SMALL

Ms Redman was a single mother of four when she began working for some of the city’s most prominent players and National Party icons during the Bjelke-Petersen government era.

She was a loyal and trusted member of former Gold Coast