The party certainly lived up to its promises of being New Farm’s ‘Night Of Nights’ - guests were not disappointed with the ‘Bond’ theme carrying through to the smallest of details - we even had what we here refer to as ‘randoms’ who travelled far and wide, simply to be a part of ‘James Bond’ (especially you Mr Ben McKinnie of the Sunshine Coast who has so far dominated the Sunday Mail and Monday Courier Mail social pages!!! Thanks for that …. we will know who to turn to next time we have a party and we want to make sure we get press!!!)
For those of you who didn’t meet Ben (and there probably weren’t many of you!) he was the DIE HARD James Bond fan who traveled down to Brisbane in his ‘Finalist, Best Dressed’ Get Up i.e. slick white James Bond Tux with his lovely accomplice i.e ‘Agent Joanna’ expecting fellow ‘Die Hards’ to rival his 007 compulsion, but instead found a friendly bunch of New Farm locals and stylishly clad ‘All Brisbane Realty’ team who certainly made him very welcome - Note to Ben:: Next time, don’t come so well dressed and steal all our press!!!! (joking!! It was great to have you)

The All Brisbane Realty team have 3 additional new ‘besties’ to add to our good friend ‘Random Ben’ - the lovely Miss Emily Williams, her charming Manager Shane Tyler Greaves and her handsome and cheeky backing singer Turanga Merito were certainly in for a treat when they agreed to join us at the ‘James Bond Charity Gala’. Newly appointed National Ambassador for Diabetes Australia and Ex Young Diva, Emily was an absolute treasure to have in attendance. Emily, Shane and Turanga partied with us until the wee hours and we were so lucky to hear the live performance of ‘Lady Marmalade’ and a few impromptu numbers as the night wore on. What a fabulous Performer! A huge thank you certainly goes out to Emily who was positively a STAR - though wrapped up in a lovely, unpretentious individual who should be very proud of her achievements. Many thanks to Emily xx

The brilliance of his auctioneers skills were certainly on display when award winning auctioneer, Dane Atherton, took front of stage to conduct the live charity auctions. Dane commanded the 150 strong crowd and dozens of bidders vying for various auction items - there was pushing, there was shoving, there was hollering - all in the name of charity - and of course to take home some fabulous prizes all donated by business owners. To name a few - Camp Eden Health Retreat, Brisbane Mini Garage, Artwork by Matt Stewart, Anthony Jiggalin, Tracey Keller and Kieran McMaster generously donated by Joshua Levi Galleries, and the Corporate Lounge State of Origin Tickets donated by our good friend Nick from Corporate Sports Management.

The Emma Sheldrake artwork proved to be one of our most sought after prizes - the raffle was drawn on the night to a very excited Adrian Hegarty who has since reported that the piece entitled, ‘You Know You Can’t Resist is already hanging proudly in his living room. He also advised that he has turned down monetary bribes from several guests not as lucky to have their names pulled out of the hat!

The hosts for the evening’s ’soiree’ were certainly up for the ‘assignment’. Richard ‘Champs’ Champion never faulted from his suave, James Bond persona that sure impressed the ladies, and for the boys, the breathtakingly GORGEOUS Brooke Lowther ensured that there were a few jaws that needed picking up off the floor throughout the night!! Ann-Maree, sorry - Agent 008!! - is still fielding calls even days after the event for requests to pass on her number or to ‘hook me up’!!! Nice try boys but I think you may have been pipped at the post!

The best dressed award was taken out by a ’smokin’, Kate Clarke, in her vampy black cat suit number. A close second went to the uber sexy Jacqueline Mattiuzzi. The finalists were in their finest James Bond attire (including our good friend Ben from the Sunshine Coast!!). And were all treated to an entertaining performance by Aaron Smith on the ‘Best Dressed, Finalists Podium’ (from ‘The Trainstation’ Training Studio) in his efforts to take out the crown.

And for the highlight of the evening, who could deny that the ‘All Brisbane Realty ‘Bond’ Movie’ was the icing on the cake in the ‘theming’ department. Who would have thought the team would be SUCH great actors!!! Keep your ears to the ground (or atleast on Facebook) in the coming weeks to see if the IT department can work out how to post a link of the video WITH AUDIO!!!!!

Thanks to Kelly and Lisa at KAW agency for their wonderful work in assisting us to create the spectacular event that the ‘James Bond Themed Charity Gala’ lived up to be.

On behalf of Agent 007, Jason Bond and his accomplice Agent 008, Ann-Maree Bond we would like to sincerely thank all those who supported, attended, danced and drank with us. It was a pleasure to have each and every one of you in our company to celebrate our 2nd birthday. We hope to have you back to celebrate bigger and better years - until next time……

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