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Paul Kelly, Bernard Fanning and Missy Higgins are among the performers at a sold-out concert that event organisers hope will bring joy — and tourism dollars — to the flood-hit South Australian town of Mannum.

Predating the region's enormous theme parks, a flying saucer perched behind a small BP service station in scrubby bushland on the Gold Coast holds a special place in the memories of thousands of Queenslanders.

Brian Teakle may have retired from his role as an engineer in 1990, but that was just the start of his lifelong plan to regenerate soils while farming sheep in South Australia's mallee, and the native plants are flourishing.

When Kim Robinson told her husband, Bruce, she wanted to create a luxurious getaway in the middle of their working farm, Bruce knew they could risk losing the historic property that had been in their family for more than 150 years. They did it anyway.