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Emily Irene Jurss
Local ResidentEmily Jurss (pictured left) with her partner Shane Lofts
Australian journalist Emily Jurss (previously Emily Black) returned home to the Gympie region 2019 after she was diagnosed with a meningioma brain tumour and extreme domestic violence. After five years living in Cooloola Cove and Tin Can Bay, she has now returned to the heart of Gympie and has rejoined to her journalism career as a freelance journalist for Big Rigs Newspaper.
Prior to the diagnosis, Emily was a senior real estate reporter for News Corp Australia.
With more than a decade of experience in journalism, her accomplishments to date include being part of a tight-knit team who founded Noosa Today and its associated real estate magazines and in her role of The Hervey Bay Independent and Fraser Coast Life & Style she was the journalist, researcher and photographer for the sold out one off publication: Past & Present: Fraser Coast Memories 2018.
Prior to the diagnosis, Emily was a senior real estate reporter for News Corp Australia.
With more than a decade of experience in journalism, her accomplishments to date include being part of a tight-knit team who founded Noosa Today and its associated real estate magazines and in her role of The Hervey Bay Independent and Fraser Coast Life & Style she was the journalist, researcher and photographer for the sold out one off publication: Past & Present: Fraser Coast Memories 2018.
Australian Reporter Emily Jurss
Creative Media Consultant. Due to a contract with Prime Media, I am unable to write as a journalist for other publications, but can consult and provide marketing and advertising services to small businesses.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Gumeracha
🌟 William Beavis Randell
William Beavis Randell established his family home, Kenton Park, in the Gumeracha district and developed a flour-milling business there. His son William Richard Randell and other family members worked in the enterprise before the younger William became a Murray River steamer pioneer. The distinction matters: the Gumeracha miller and the river captain were father and son. Kenton Park, the mill and the township’s development give the elder Randell a direct local story, linking farming, flour production and the family business that preceded the river trade.
