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A Sunday Drive
This house has been waiting for me,” Tania Norman says as she recalls a conversation she recently had with a tradesperson. Tania fi rst fell in awe of her new home when she and her husband, Kieth, went for a drive 20 years ago. “We drove past this ho
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Framed On Farm
Photography has always been a part of Edwina's life, mostly documenting travels or as a tool in her 20-year teaching career. “But it wasn't until COVID, when we were all forced to look within ourselves to fi nd things that would sustain us through th
Australian Country6 min read
A New Stage
Hannah Fredericksen is not normally one to sit still. She chases her dreams, however ambitious they may be. She chose a job far different to that of anyone in her family and practically “stalked” an area of Australia for 10 years, having her heart se
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A Lifetime Legacy
Danielle came to Australia from America in 2016 with a degree in art history and stints at California's legendary French Laundry and Chez Panisse restaurants under her belt. She added another notch to that list of accomplishments when she headed up t
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Pilbara Progression
It is dawn on ANZAC Day in Onslow, Western Australia and the new sun appears over the Indian Ocean to pierce the war memorial, blazing through the centre of an arch mirroring its rising. The memorial is built specifi cally to capture these rays on th
Australian Country4 min read
A Rising Phoenix
The spectre of the bushfi res of summer 2019 looms large over the garden at Keewaydin, the home of Rae and Guy Sim at Running Stream in the NSW mid-west. On one dreadful December evening, the Sims watched in horror as fi re surrounded their home on 4
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Baker's Dozen
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Editor Kirsty McKenzie email kmckenzie@umco.com.au Contributors Bronte Camilleri, Anastasia Casey, Mandy McKeesick Photography Alan Benson, Ken Brass, Mandy McKeesick, Edwina Moutray, Tryambika Shah, Jen Tighe, Ross Williams Advertising Nicola Fender
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AND THE WINNERS ARE… 2023 Photographers Of The Year
Edwina Moutray's work was judged head and shoulders above the rest by readers who voted online. Edwina is a former school teacher, now a rural lifestyle photographer, based in the Coddington district of south-western Victoria. As well as documenting
Australian Country4 min read
Embracing Opportunity
Say yes to every invitation. That was the sage advice Erika Marsh accepted when she moved from all that was familiar in Brisbane almost 1200 kilometres north-west to Longreach in outback Queensland. The newly graduated speech pathologist had grown up
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Store Strolling
This beautiful catalogue, $35, accompanies the exhibition Wedgwood: Master Potter to the Universe, on display at The David Roche Foundation, Adelaide (now until 27 January 2024). Inside the book are images of more than 240 pieces from a broad range o
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Helping Out On This Issue …
Ross has been a photographer for 30-plus years, shooting food, wine and commercial and residential architecture, as well as travelling overseas to photograph everything from mining projects to aircraft. He relishes the challenge of arriving at a prev
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Outback Advocate
It has to be one of the most heart-wrenching telegrams in the history of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS). The year was 1975, long before the advent of the digital radio concentrator system and satellites, which made telecommunications in the o
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Mailbag
LAST ISSUE GENERATED LOTS OF FEEDBACK FROM OUR READERS. I note that many of your letters of appreciation are from females. However, this one is from a male who has been a long-term subscriber and keen reader every issue. I relish the memorabilia and
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Stockists & Contacts
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Hospitality Haven
As Caroline Gabriel recalls returning to India at the end of 2021 after a COVID-enforced absence, it was as though the pieces of a jigsaw had slotted back together. It meant she was finally able to properly take over the running of Mizpah Delhi, the
Australian Country4 min read
On The Bright Side
When Matt White and Britt Howard decided to return to Australia after years living and working in the US, they had a pretty definite wish list for their new home. They wanted to live in the country, but not too remote. It had to be close to the ocean
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What Goes Around …
If the accepted wisdom about adversity revealing a person's true colours is correct, Susan Duncan's bushfire plan delivers the full rainbow. The journalist and author is recalling the summer of 2019, when fires encircled the home she shares with her
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Diary Notes
Australia's longest-running cultural festival will radiate with stories from WA and across the globe in 2024, celebrating our shared humanity. With the collective theme of Ngaangk, the Noongar term for our star, our sun and our mother, the Perth Fest
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Editor's Letter
The playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote: “There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why … I dream of things that never were and ask why not?” This issue, it's my pleasure to introduce you to a bunch of why-not people. We start with
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Off The Shelf
Greed is a fascinating topic and one that Fiona Lowe explores with great insight in this tale of financial corruption in a small community. On the surface, Izzy Harrington is on the brink of an ideal future, perfectly packaged for a perfect life as t
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Off The Shelf
American chef Danielle Alvarez came to Australia in 2016 with a degree in art history and stints at California’s legendary French Laundry and Chez Panisse restaurants under her belt. She added another notch to that list of accomplishments when she he
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Ode To Family
When accounting business owner Sarah Parkinson and her bank manager husband Rohan left the city of Brisbane for the bush, they were headed to a property built by Rohan’s family more than 100 years ago, yet one which no Parkinson had ever lived in. Si
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Editor's Letter
As this issue goes to press, photographer Ken Brass and I have recently returned from a couple of amazing road trips, both to places that are very dear to my heart. The first was to my home country of central-western Queensland, then we spent an amaz
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Rescue Remedies
I t’s a savage day in the Tasmanian midlands but the spine-chilling cold goes deeper than the shallow, worn flagstones in The Commissariat Store. “I see this place very differently now,” confides weather-beaten Jon McCure, sheltering from a howling g
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Heritage Hotelier
Douglas Blain was five years of age when he took control of his life. “My favourite books were Winnie The Pooh and The Wind in the Willows so all I could do, to get to that world, was dig a huge hole in my garden,” he recalls. “I grew up believing th
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Bathurst & Beyond
The paddocks at Wilga station are bathed in soft light as evening descends on the property where Hamish and Mez Keith welcome guests to their two farmstay options. The lambs in the paddock seem as enchanted with the golden hour as their human visitor
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In The Mist Of It
When Alli and Peter Collins moved to Montville in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, they took to the area like ducks to water — quite literally as it was the region’s water that led them there in the first place. “You could say we’re water snobs,” Alli ch
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The Magic Of Merribee
When Lucy and Richard Marshall purchased Merribee as a weekender in the Shoalhaven region of NSW, they didn’t plan to establish an extraordinary garden and associated tourism business there. “It would be nice to be able to say that we had a vision ba
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Fresh Perspective
Max Lam is an amateur photography enthusiast with a passion for capturing various subjects, especially landscapes. Based in Sydney, he enjoys photographic driving trips to different locations. He particularly loves the serene and tranquil countryside
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