The two local histories in this group are about utterly different places and are quite unalike in technique and form, yet they do share a common motivation. Both emanate from the researches and pens of local inhabitants, determined that the outside world should appreciate the qualities and problems of ‘our town’. However beyond this, they are linked only by ironies. One is the story of an environment and community being destroyed by an excess of wealth; the other is of a working-class suburb’s character and difficulties that spring from quite the reverse. The first is Nancy Cato’s very angry The NoosaStory: a Study in Unplanned Development; the second, In Those Days: Collingwood Remembered, is the fruits of the Collingwood History Committee.