Road kill: Why do they keep redirecting Bruce Highway through this man’s shed?

Wednesday December 09, 2020

The Hardwick family has been told to vacate sheds on their north Queensland property for the second time in less than 30 years to make way for upgrades to the Bruce Highway.

Edmonton cane grower Ken Hardwick is about to lose his sheds again. (Photo: ABC)

Ken Hardwick, 86, knows the price of progress, having farmed cane on the southern outskirts of Cairns for seven decades, taking over the property his father pioneered.

The family property neighbours Bruce Highway, and in the 1990s sheds on the property were demolished and land resumed for highway upgrades.

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