10:51a.m. 24th April 2008

| By Toby Walker

Buderim's Cassandra Heilbronn is an avid skater and solicitor (inset) who has just signed up for the RSL Girl in a Million Quest. Main photo: Brett Wortman/173975

As a skateboarding solicitor, Cassandra Heilbronn is already arguably one in a million – but she hopes to make it official with her latest quest.

The 23-year-old trainee litigation specialist from Buderim is the sixth Sunshine Coast girl to put her hand up for the 49th RSL Girl in a Million Quest, which raises money to care for veterans and their families.

Having participated in similar fundraising ventures for the Leukaemia Foundation and her local surf club, while growing up in Bundaberg, Cassandra said she was well prepared for the world of sausage sizzles, cake stalls and raffles.

The next three months will also give her a chance to meet more people across the Coast, the place she has called home since June last year when she moved from Brisbane to take a job with Butler and McDermott Lawyers in Nambour.

“I believe no one ever has enough friends and I am continually meeting people through work and their sponsorship with the Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles, so I’m going to games there,” she said.

“This will give me a chance to meet a whole lot more people out in the community that I might not have otherwise crossed paths with, so I’m looking forward to that opportunity.”

Not that Cassandra misses a chance to get out and about.

Between surfing at Alexandra Headland, jumping on a skateboard or just walking around Buderim with her friends, Cassandra feels well and truly at home.

And while she’s got a degree in commerce and politics to go alongside her law degree, she has put a tilt at politics on hold.

“I won’t follow Christian Dickson’s path just yet,” she said with a laugh. “Although I still can aim to be the first female prime minister; he won’t be able to beat me to that one.”

Entries to the quest close on May 1. For more information visit the website at www.rslqld.org/fundraising.