It’s not widely known, but parts of today’s Pine Rivers once helped move a war. During the Second World War, open land around places like Strathpine and Brendale was used as airfields and staging areas by Allied forces. At a time when fewer than 5,000 civilians lived across the region, an estimated 50,000 servicemen passed…
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On a cool morning in the D’Aguilar Range, the air smells of damp leaf litter and eucalyptus. There’s no grand sign announcing what begins here, no dramatic plunge over rock. Instead, the beginnings of the North and South Pine Rivers arrive quietly — small trickles gathering beneath towering gums, slipping downhill through ferny gullies before…