Brisbane News Magazine April 4-10, 2018. ISSUE 1171

APR 4-10, 2018 ISSUE 1171

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Can you feel it? There seems to be an extra dose of energy lifting the spirits of this city right now. A sense of excitement, above the baseline we usually enjoy. I think it’s materialising because of all the new faces in town – a very warm, Brisbane welcome to visitors here for the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. That energy is also being generated by the extra dose of cultural events coinciding with the Games, in a program called Festival 2018. It’s so mammoth that its simple name is all the explanation that’s needed. Music, theatre, exhibitions, workshops, markets, tours, most of which don’t cost a cent to experience. One of the unique performances is the Megafauna puppets roaming South Bank and the Gardens (P10). Then there’s the WOW program (P12), on at the Powerhouse in lovely leafy New Farm. Check out The List (P6) for other ideas for getting out and about, between competing in or watching the sporting action going on at the Coast.

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TIMELINE: 1982 The last time the Commonwealth Games was held in Queensland, Matilda the Kangaroo was crowned as mascot. She was 13m tall, and moved her head from side to side as she glided around QEII stadium, here in Brisbane. Her eyelids moved, too, and legend has it that she winked at the Duke of Edinburgh. The official mascot of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games is a blue koala named Borobi, created by Upper Kedron teacher Merrilyn Krohn. She says that she used Matilda as inspiration for her entry into a mascot design competition, which attracted more than 4000 submissions.

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THE CHAT

Diving for gold Fiona Purdon Hearty cheers from her home crowd will put extra spring in Maddison Keeney’s performance at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

The world diving champion, who lives at Holland Park West, is the reigning world 1m springboard champion and is a gold medal contender in the 1m and 3m springboard, and the 3m synchronised springboard event with teammate Anabelle Smith.

“I’m really looking forward to the atmosphere of a home Games,” the 21-year-old says. “It will be a great experience to compete in your own country on such a big stage.”

Perth-raised Maddison has been diving for 11 years and moved to Brisbane four years ago, lured by the city’s top-level coaches and facilities. She trains for 27 hours a week at the Sleeman Sports Complex at Chandler, a schedule that she maintained while completing a science degree at University of Queensland.

“I practise hard every day and that is what helps me be a better diver,” she says. “Diving offers a different challenge every day. There is always something you can work on and strive for.’’

The Rio Olympic bronze medallist’s latest goal is to become the world’s first female diver to nail a reverse three-and-a-half-tuck dive in competition.

The feat is so complex it must be performed in a controlled indoor environment which rules out the outdoor pool at the Commonwealth Games.

The Gold Coast Games are Maddison’s second Commonwealth Games after she won a silver and a bronze medal at Glasgow in 2014.

Away from the pool and her new role as an IT specialist at Suncorp, the diver is a keen cook.

“I love googling recipes,” she says.

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Brisbane’s most popular street party is back on Apr 7. The Racecourse Rd Festival has a new name – Silks – and a bigger line-up of music, roving entertainment, market and craft stalls, pop-up bars, street food from around the globe and children’s activities.

On from 10am-9pm, Racecourse Rd, Ascot. Entry $5 for adults.

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and features some of the world’s best – and most daring – climbers, paddlers, BASE jumpers, skiers, snowboarders and mountain-bike riders. Screening Apr 9-14, $27-$37, at the Brisbane Powerhouse.

Australian rock band You Am I pays homage to the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap at The Triffid on Apr 6. The show has been given the tick of approval from Spinal Tap lead singer David St Hubbins, aka US actor and writer Michael McKean.

Salil Tripathi, chairman of PEN International – which advocates for writers’ human rights – and journalist Peter Greste (above) talk with Geraldine Doogue at the Conservatorium of Music on Apr 12 about freedom of the press.

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DRIVE 7TH ANNUAL RODEO, EATONS HILL

Yee-haw, the rodeo is back for the seventh year at Eatons Hill Hotel, from 2pm on Apr 7. While the bull riding is the main attraction there will also be whip cracking demonstrations, children’s entertainment, a cattleman’s bar and a B&S after-party.

6 EXHIBITION SKYLORE, MT COOT-THA As part of the new, permanent exhibition Skylore: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Astronomy, Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium will screen Stories in the Stars, from Apr 3-14 on its Cosmic Skydome. The show

follows Erica and Daniel, two Aboriginal city slickers who travel home to the country and learn about the significance of astronomy in their culture.

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08 LIFE

Belinda Seeney The grass is not greener, it is a technicolour hell from which there is no escape There’s a small twinge of envy when I speak to parents of young children.

I’m not jealous that their children are still young – good grief, no.

Children who can use a go card, toast a sandwich and legally mooch around the house without parental supervision are the best kind of children.

No, my longing comes from all the wonderful methods these parents have to occupy their young progeny.

At the risk of sounding like an out-oftouch octogenarian, things were a lot different back in my day.

Nowadays long-suffering parents can plonk their children in front of the television whenever they need a bit of shush, regardless of the time of day.

There are streaming services, dedicated kids channels on pay TV, endless YouTube videos, and some Smart TVs even come with preprogrammed kids’ content.

The crowning jewel is ABC Kids, a digital channel that broadcasts commercial-free, uninterrupted children’s shows from 5am to 7.30pm.

Every. Single. Day. This seems such decadence when

seen through the eyes of someone who tamed toddlers in the BC (Before Cable) era.

Netflix was non-existent, digital television was a pipedream and TV sets were black boxes powered by cathode ray tubes. Heck, I didn’t even own a DVD player.

Oh, how I yearned for something other than a re-run of Blue Heelers or the cheesy Days of Our Lives to captivate my young whippersnappers while I made lunch or tried to peg washing on the line.

I had nothing but my wits and wiles to keep them entertained which, dulled by an endless cycle of sleepless nights, dirty nappies, constant crying and messy feeds, didn’t amount to much. Jealousy is indeed a curse, as I discovered a few weeks back.

I found myself involuntarily passing time in the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital emergency department with one of my go cardwielding, sandwich-toasting, housemooching and elbow-fracturing children who was still a few months shy of the adult hospital’s minimum age. As we waited for X-ray results

and the ibuprofen to kick in, we were ushered into a waiting room filled with the walking and wailing wounded and seated smack-bang between twin television screens broadcasting the magical ABC Kids.

I take it all back: the grass is not greener, it is a technicolour hell from which there is no escape.

Four hours of jaunty songs, hypnotic cartoon characters, babbling beasts and hyped-up presenters later and I was begging the nurse to administer pain relief to me.

How do parents do it?

As a fragile and frazzled new mum, I don’t think I could have handled the never-ending cast changes of The Wiggles, the simmering tension between Hoot and Hootabelle, the acid-trip antics of In the Night Garden and the pure narcissism of Little Princess.

Honestly, the time Marlena was possessed by a demon on DOOL was nothing compared with the legitimate horror show that is Baby Jake.

Unlike Mt Thomas’ senior constable Maggie Doyle, I dodged a bullet.

Have you noticed how everyone is going to Japan? It’s the destination du jour. Not to be outdone, we booked a holiday there but unlike a lot of people, we are going in their summer, which is our winter of course.

I had enough of the cold weather on our European vacation and I don’t ski. I tried it a few years ago at Thredbo but it didn’t take. And nobody wants to hear the language I used each time I fell face first in snow.

Japan in summer will be just fine.

It will be the first time I have been there since I was 11. That was quite an extensive tour – part of a loop of the Pacific we did on our annual holiday.

We were living in Hong Kong then and my father had some business contacts in Japan.

I can only remember certain highlights including – after touring Osaka, Kyoto and surrounds – a sojourn near Hakone Lake where we stayed in a hotel that had a traditional

wing. We only spent a night in the traditional wing, sleeping on futons and lounging on mats and cushions which weren’t very comfortable.

The best thing about the hotel was, I recall, an old pinball machine in the hallway that worked without requiring any coins. We spent hours working on our pinball wizard skills.

The other thing I remember was a fishing trip we went on. I think my father envisaged fishing for trout in some mountain stream but they took us to a fish farm where we hoisted fish out of a small pond where there was standing room only. For the fish, that is. Hardly sport. My brother managed to fall into the pond somehow.

We also went to Tokyo on the bullet train (past glorious Mt Fuji) after that and then to Nikko in the mountains.

Then we were off to Hawaii for a short break before going home to Australia. I will never forget that flight

Phil Brown from Tokyo to Honolulu. We flew through one of those North Pacific storms, the ones that send the swells pumping into Waimea Bay. My father did his usual trick, which was to down a couple of scotches before falling into a deep sleep.

How he could slumber through the turbulence that followed on that flight is beyond me. The man had no nerve endings. My mother was white as a sheet as we were tossed around the sky and my brother and sister and I were equally ashen-faced.

Eventually it abated and my father woke up, looked around and then ate a hearty meal. We all refused food until on the ground in Honolulu.

That was long ago and far away.

It’s time I revisited Japan again, I think. But won’t be flying on to Hawaii this time.

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10 FEATURE

Let there be

wild things Monsters from Mt Nebo are ready to invade Brisbane for this month’s Festival 2018 Fiona Purdon In a tin shed high on a mountain, amid the eucalyptus trees and the loud chattering of bellbirds, monsters are being made.

A team of creatives led by Nick Paine and David Morton shape wood, weld metal, wire circuits.

Slowly, a huge shape forms and is coaxed to life. Then they make another, and another, and prepare them to invade the city.

Nick and David are puppeteers, and their Mt Nebo-based company Dead Puppet Society is responsible for the family of dinosaurs roaming South Bank’s new creative precinct Flowstate from Apr 4. The prehistoric Megafauna family of two adults and a child are the puppet incarnation of the grass-eating diprotodon, a giant wombat-like creature that was the largest known marsupial.

“These puppets are based on the same creatures who did once walk in the area,” Nick says. “They will stop and interact with the public. They will feed and roam.

“We wanted to bring puppets into the street, to create a living MONSTERS INC ... Nick Paine and David Morton at Mt Nebo. Picture: AAP/Ric Frearson. installation with all the skill and

technology that we would need for the theatre.”

Even for an internationally respected company whose signature is large-scale puppets, these creatures are huge. The adult male puppet is 3.5m long and 2.5m high.

Each creation will require three people to make them work. They will even “make creature noises”.

“The puppeteer operating the head is hooked up with a microphone and we have created a system of breathing and cool animal noises,’’ Nick says.

These gentle giants are the latest in a 10-year run of successful performances. Last year they collaborated on the critically acclaimed Laser Beak Man, based on a character created by artist Tim Sharp, who has autism. It was a sellout at Brisbane Festival at La Boite Theatre, and was nominated for four Matilda Awards. Their 2016 season of The Wider Earth, which they created with Queensland Theatre, earned stellar reviews and this year featured in Sydney Festival. It has won the company the Gold Matilda and a best director award for David, among a

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GIANT FOOTSTEPS … One of Dead Puppet Society’s dinosaurs (Picture: Russell Shakespeare); Anna Straker in The Wider Earth (Picture: Dylan Evans); La Boite’s Laser Beak Man.

swag of other gongs, and was nominated for two Helpmann awards.

“If you had told me a decade ago that we would have a show at the Playhouse at the Sydney Opera House I wouldn’t have believed you,’’ David says.

Nick and David met a decade ago while studying theatre at QUT. Their shared interest in puppetry led to them becoming creative business partners and life partners.

“Everything has sparked from then on including our love for each other and of what we do,’’ Nick says.

“I help to develop concepts with David for new work and then I have to find ways to make it happen.’’

David adds: “I’m more the artsy type, I like to design, write scripts, direct the works, I like to collaborate with our creative team.’’

These puppets are based on the same creatures who did once walk in the area Their company’s name is a riff on the classic 1989 film by Peter Weir, Dead Poets Society, starring Robin Williams as an inspirational teacher.

“We also liked the idea of making puppets come alive. A dead puppet is a puppet not being used,’’ David says.

“From the start we have been about showing that puppets were not cheesy, cheap or childish. Instead we wanted to make them real and evocative.

“We have re-imagined the art form for a contemporary audience.”

The couple were married in the

United States four years ago and followed it with a ceremony in New Zealand three years ago. They are also planning an event in Brisbane.

For several months of the year the pair live in New York, working with creatives there and exploring ideas for future performances. They are also enjoying their new home in the village of Mt Nebo, west of Brisbane, which they are renovating after buying in May last year.

“I grew up in the bottom of the mountain at The Gap,’’ David says.

“This is a peaceful retreat to come up to, when we are doing builds and also when we need a bit of space.’’

After the roving Megafauna installation, which has sparked talks with interstate museums and festivals, the couple will travel to the UK for talks about a possible tour of The

Wider Earth, which is about Charles Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle. There are also plans for a 2019 tour of Laser Beak Man while they have several ideas for a new show to premiere in Brisbane in 2019 or 2020.

“In the next 10 years hopefully we will be in an even greater place,’’ David says.

“We are not out to become billionaires but it’s nice to be earning a living from our art and to continue to be part of Brisbane’s thriving artistic community.’’

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PROFILE

Personal shout out Jane Armistead Jane Caro is shouting out a simple message to women everywhere – be yourself.

The advice comes as the author and social commentator prepares to join a panel discussion on the issues women face today, for this week’s WOW (Women of the World) Festival.

“I love events like these that are able to open up these discussions and get everyone to together,” she says.

Jane remembers back to her first experiences in the fulltime working world in the ’70s.

It was a time when, she says, she was never taken seriously.

Fast forward through the decades and Jane has carved a successful career in advertising, become a novelist, journalist, lecturer and an outspoken feminist.

As the mother-of-two prepares for

the birth of her first granddaughter, she takes a moment to reflect on how far women have come since then.

“I’m really proud of the way women have managed to pass on their courage to each other,” she says.

“It’s showing they’re not settling for second class and we’re determined to be equal and contribute our talents and perspectives to the world.

“Social media has given us access to talk to one another directly … women have been able to talk to each other about their life experiences and how they feel.”

Speaking to this self-assured woman, who is now a successful media personality, it’s hard to imagine a time when she wasn’t comfortable in her own skin.

For years, Jane struggled through feelings of anxiety and let her insecurities take hold.

“I felt all sorts of shame because I was outspoken, too noisy, or whatever else people said to me,” she says.

“I didn’t have a clear idea of who I was, or have a strong identity.”

“When I realised I could be myself, it was liberating.”

Jane will share her experiences during the festival as she joins fellow panellists campaigner Jasvinder Sanghera and First Nation arts leader Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin.

WOW Festival, Apr 6-8. See Jane Caro’s panel discussion at the Powerhouse Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse, Apr 6. wowaustralia.com.au

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It takes a village

by Fiona Purdon Ngoc Phan has been making headlines from the day she was born. In 1980 the Brisbane actor and playwright was the first child of a Vietnamese refugee to be born in Alice Springs.

“That is my claim to fame,’’ Ngoc says. “When my parents were in a refugee camp in Malaysia we were told a family in Alice Springs wanted to sponsor us. My mum was pregnant when we arrived in May and I was born in December.’’

Her family’s refugee experience is the subject of two La Boite Theatre productions: Ngoc’s play My Father who slept in a Zoo, part of the La Boite Hwy series; and this month’s return season of The Village.

In The Village, Ngoc tells the story of her parents’ perilous escape from Vietman by boat.

The Zillmere actor is one of the play’s six narrators, who each tell stories about people who have been forced to flee their birth countries.

“My dad was in charge of getting 30 people on to this boat, which was only 9m long and 1.5m wide, and then with escaping,” Ngoc says. “The boat split and started to fall apart just as they reached their island destination.”

The actor, who appeared in telemovie Shapelle (2014) and Australia Day (2017), says the subject matter is deeply moving.

“During one Q and A session after a performance, one student asked a question and started crying, then other students and teachers started to cry,’’ she says.

Alice Springs was home to Ngoc for her first 18 years, where she lived with her sponsor family including adopted “grandparents”, the late federal senator Bernard Kilgariff and his wife Aileen.

“Their support wasn’t political but it was humanitarian. In The Village I’m showing a time in very recent Australian history, where there was a different outlook compared with what we see on the news today in regards to the treatment of refugees,’’ she says.

Ngoc teaches NIDA’s open program at South Brisbane TAFE and appears in Benjamin Law’s Freudian Slip web series. Next up for her is a starring role in The Mathematics of Longing at La Boite Theatre in June.

“I’ve tried to walk away and get a regular job but when I’m not in the arts industry there’s something in my spirit which breaks a bit. This is my calling, it’s the only thing that truly makes sense to me,’’ she says.

THE VILLAGE, Apr 23-May 5, La Boite’s Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove. laboite.com.au

REFUGEE STATUS ... Ngoc Phan. Picture: AAP/Megan Slade

14 FILM

Time warp again with Vicky Roach A WRINKLE IN TIME (PG) hhjjj Director: Ava DuVernay Starring: Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon Running time: 109 minutes Disney hasn’t so much adapted Madeleine L’Engle’s children’s fantasy A Wrinkle In Time as given it a cinematic facelift. Bedazzling visual effects notwithstanding, the finished product is disconcertingly bland.

You can’t blame 14-year-old leading lady Storm Reid, but her academically gifted misfit, Meg Murry, feels similarly synthetic.

The school student might be struggling with universal teen selfesteem issues, but her ugly duckling persona is about as credible as Wonder Woman’s “plain Jane” disguise. Meg’s problems begin when her physicist

father (Chris Pine) disappears – seemingly into thin air. She and her mother (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) believe he has teleported himself across the universe – but try telling that to the kids in the playground.

Knowing an open wound when she sees one, “mean girl” Veronica Kiley (Rowan Blanchard) makes Meg’s life hell. Seeing his sister struggle, Meg’s precocious younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) reaches out across the universe to ... Oprah Winfrey. Who else?

The decision to cast Oprah as the wise and all-powerful celestial being Mrs Which, resplendent in bejewelled brows, metallic lipstick, and robes, would appear to be an inspired one.

Reese Witherspoon has a bit more to work with as the flaky, flame-haired, sharp-tongued Mrs Whatsit. Mindy Kaling draws the short straw with the

dreamy-verging-on-vacant Mrs Who, who quotes other people – woodenly.

Australian actor Levi Miller (Jasper Jones) has an open face that works well in this fantasy environment. As Meg’s dishy fellow student Calvin O’Keefe, he sees the real person beneath her awkward facade.

When Meg and Charles Wallace follow Mrs Which, Mrs Whatsit and

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PROFILE 15

Paint the town blue London-based mural painter Rosie Woods travels the world transforming public spaces with her colourful murals. She will turn her hand to Brisbane walls this month, as part of the Brisbane Street Art Festival: Where can we see your work?

My first mural (3m by 3m) was last Sunday at Warner St, Fortitude Valley and my second is part of a collaboration this Saturday (Apr 7) at South Bank Cultural Forecourt. I’m painting them in a day. I love that there will be lots of people about – I love the buzz and interaction.

What will we see?

I like painting geometric shapes and flowing forms. For my April 7 work the theme is encounters. I’m going to use interlinking metallic rings and bright blue because I’ve been in Queensland since December and I love the blue skies and tropical yellows.

TRUE BLUE … Visiting street artist Rosie Woods.

Why street murals?

I grew up in London’s southeast, near Greenwich, and have been painting forever. I

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Where else have you worked?

I’ve painted murals in Italy, Germany and Indonesia and my biggest mural (12m by 12m) was in Birmingham in England’s midlands.

Why is street art becoming so popular?

It’s very democratic because it’s art for everyone. You don’t have to be privileged or educated to enjoy it.

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Sizzling hot spot RESTAURANT Tony Harper OK, let’s get directly into the meat of the matter. (That’s a pun – admittedly a bad one.) The star plate at Walter’s Steakhouse is, not surprisingly, steak – dry-aged porterhouse cooked for two, three or four diners. And it arrives, like a platter of Mongolian beef, sizzling aboard a hot, hot plate.

It’s a nice bit of theatre.

The shenanigans continue when the wait staff talk about the meat, and plate it at your table. If you are stuck for lunchtime conversation it’s a windfall, at worst it’s a bit of luxury.

Ours is requested rare. And … bingo! Out it comes on its too-hot plate, sizzling like it should, caramelised, bone almost burnt and exactly, unexpectedly, gleefully rare.

In fact it’s perfect: a wonderful piece of meat with the intensity that comes with dry-ageing, the double bonus of pink insides and the reduced, deliciously fatty, baked exterior.

We pair it with sides of German potatoes ($10: sauteed cubes with bacon and onion) and creamed spinach ($12) in an attempt to balance the onslaught of protein. Both are nice sides, and as a spinach hater I kind of applaud the making-delicious (thank you cream) of leafy greens. Health nuts will hate it.

I’m longing for horseradish or hot English mustard, but neither is offered. Perhaps they are lurking in the kitchen?

Walter’s hasn’t attempted to replicate the mastery of Cha Cha

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In fact there’s a focus and a little bit of quirk to the menu.

Aside from the porterhouse in its various sizes there are only two steaks – eye fillet and striploin (sirloin); the two cuts that combine to make up the prize porterhouse. Then there are pork striploin, a lamb chop and a salmon steak: succinct and sweet.

Among the earlier dishes are pierogi ($14) – Polish potato and cheese dumplings, pan-fried until just

a tiny bit crunchy outside, onion jam adding sweet hits, a decent pool of nut-butter at their feet. Wow. And veal tongue ($18), set amid a copious, slightly overdressed mountain of curly endive; great tongue swamped by too much other.

Walter’s Steakhouse is in the space that was once Restaurant Two. And if the previous inhabitants had issues with a barn-like space, things have been rectified. The bar area is separated from the restaurant (bar menu, fat chairs), and the restaurant has curtained-off areas for private

dining. It’s more intimate. The feel is gentleman’s club meets French bistro.

Everything else stacks up beautifully.

The people behind Walter’s are conditioned restaurateurs and the staff are a mix of drilled newcomers and seasoned professionals. The drinks are all-encompassing and not overpriced, suited to the meat theme, Australian dominant, but still with plenty of international content.

I like its theatre, I like its quirky looks, I like the attentive, wellmannered staff, and I love its big, sizzling steaks. Walter’s is a winner.

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Scents of feeling Q&A: Saskia Havekes, the celebrated Sydney-based florist and founder of Grandiflora Fragrance Leesa Maher Why floristry?

My obsession with flowers started at a very young age. I picked (them) from our garden at home and bought roadside posies for my mother. When I lived in New York I stalked favourite flower shops. I visit flower markets worldwide for inspiration.

You opened Grandiflora in Sydney in 1995. Why was it a success?

I knew there was a huge gap in the market for the natural, garden-picked style I loved so much. I wanted to capture the look and feel of gathering blooms from the field or landscape and insert a twist of the unusual to capture the eye and imagination.

Why move into perfumery?

Knowing the transient nature of the blooms I love most, especially the Magnolia grandiflora, I wanted to capture the nature and personality of flowers in a more permanent way.

Tell us about your latest scent, Boronia.

I loved the Australian landscape where I grew up (in northwest Sydney) and would boil the billy after school at the creek where I played with tadpoles and smelt boronia on my way through the Angophora costata trees. The oil of the boronia

megastigma has been sourced in Tasmania. I heard it mentioned numerous times when I was in France two years ago as a whisper through the niche perfumes’ top perfumers.

Are your scents unisex?

I feel that two are ‘shared’ fragrances: Sandrine, which is quite citrus, fresh, peppery, green; and Boronia because it is classified as a chypre and has a more botanical rather than floral application. Boronia smells like our Grandiflora studio/ workshop in Potts Point.

What sets Grandiflora fragrances apart?

The combination of superior oils, created in Grasse, in the south of France. And their sillage. I like to spray behind my neck and on the hem of my dress or pants.

Your fave blooms at home?

Magnolia grandiflora and large green leaves and scented blooms (such as) gardenias, tuberose, freesias, and Mr Lincoln, Fragrant Cloud and David Austin roses. Longevity, transience, shape and fragrance are what I’m looking out for.

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French dressing with Alastair McLeod Tuna or anchovies? Green beans or olives?

Does it matter? While this dish tips a beret to the fabled French salad, it’s only a petit nod.

The truth is, everywhere you go along the French Riviera the salad nicoise will be different.

One chef will substitute broad beans for green another may add globe artichoke hearts and salad leaves. Some consider the addition of potatoes anathema, others sacrilege to omit.

The soul of this salad is its salty robustness and a celebration of the loud flavours of this region. So anchovies, olives, garlic and tomatoes are a must.

This is food of the sun. Be warned, when you prepare this, it is unlikely to measure up to that perfect salad nicoise you had in the Vielle Ville in Nice a few summers back, a few steps from the beach. You were tanned, your shoulders sparkling with sand.

There is no seasoning as tasty as nostalgia.

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HOT SMOKED SALMON NICOISE INGREDIENTS 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 2tsp grain mustard 60ml white wine vinegar 80ml extra virgin olive oil Sea salt and freshly milled pepper 60ml mayonnaise 250g hot smoked salmon 250g kipfler potatoes, boiled till tender, peeled and cut into discs 150g heirloom tomatoes, halved 150g green beans, blanched, refreshed and split lengthways 75g olives, pitted 8 white anchovies 3 soft boiled eggs ½ Lebanese cucumber, peeled and cut into small pieces 2 baby gem lettuce, leaves separated Handful picked flat leaf parsley and basil leaves

METHOD Whisk together the garlic, mustard, vinegar and oil in a bowl, then season. Set aside. Dress the plates with a few blobs of the mayonnaise. Arrange salmon, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, olives, anchovies, eggs and cucumbers on top.

Toss lettuce and herbs in a bowl with a little of the mustard dressing. Arrange in the centre of the plates and drizzle over any remaining dressing. Serves 4

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Open sesame The movable facade of this inner-city house conceals a box of hidden treasures

NEAT FIT … The architects saw this house’s facade as a giant piece of furniture, with sliding and hinged windows and doors.

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Michelle Bailey From the quiet shady spaces of the back garden the additions to this Rainworth house by architecture practice Vokes and Peters appear quite remarkable.

The animated timber facade moves like secret drawers to a box of treasures, with windows and doors hinging and sliding, revealing openings big and small. The operable facade is responsive to the strength of the breeze and intensity of sunlight, tempering seasonal change.

“We thought about the whole facade as a giant piece of furniture,” architect Aaron Peters says. “It’s essentially a system of solid hardwood windows and doors that open out and fold down.”

For the owners, the expressive facade is symbolic of the changes that have taken place to their cherished Queenslander and in their lives as they moved interstate.

Before Brisbane the couple lived in Sydney and a lot of the houses in their neighbourhood were terrace houses.

From the front they presented a traditional streetscape but the alterations made to the back of those houses were a revelation of sorts. The couple were keen to achieve similar here, albeit in a different context.

Stepping into the contemporary living room at the back of the Queenslander, the moment the floor sinks, the ceiling lifts and the back garden is framed by a large picture window. A fixed bench seat occupies

the flared end to the room next to which operable shutters are positioned to channel breeze, sunlight and the view.

The steel balustrade that secures the largest opening suggests that the space is more akin to veranda than lounge.

“We had to create a room that could be a deck and a dining room and a living room,” Aaron says.

“It had to feel really open but be able to be closed down. Had we made a room and then put a deck on it, it would have immediately diminished the quality for the room.”

Back inside, spaces have been transformed in ways that are reminiscent of the style of roommaking of the 1940s.

“We didn’t want to create an ‘open plan’,” Aaron says. “We wanted to make distinct rooms that were scaled

in a way that might have been found in the original cottage.”

Bedrooms and living spaces were flipped to allow the social areas of the home to occupy the northern side, improving access to natural light.

“We put the kitchen in a place which allows it to activate the most amount of spaces,” Aaron says.

“In this instance having it at the centre of the plan with views both to the backyard and to the street was quite important.”

At the front of the house a veranda was introduced as an extension of the sitting room.

“The new veranda gave us some ability to occupy the edge of the street, rather than have a sheer wall and a window,” Aaron says.

“It was a very introverted house.

The veranda allowed the front of the house to be welcoming.”

Architect: Vokes and Peters, ph: 3846 2044 Builder: Robson Constructions, ph: 0411 278 997 Photographs: Christopher Frederick Jones

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BOOKS

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Wise words for living well The Wisdom of Sundays Oprah Winfrey Macmillan, $35 “Being brave enough to break your own heart is about being brave enough to make the decisions that end up being really right for you.” Cheryl Strayed, author of the award-winning novel Wild is just one of many intimate, powerful voices media juggernaut Oprah Winfrey assembles in this book of conversations about finding meaning in life. Winfrey interviews people such as Pema Chodron, Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dwyer, Elizabeth Gilbert and Arianna Huffington, presenting ideas and feelings on living and learning.

For example, Ram Dass says: “Past and future are thoughts, just thoughts.

It is just this moment.”

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The French Art of Not Giving a F*ck Fabrice Midal Allen & Unwin, $30

The Year of Less Cait Flanders Hay House, $20

There is a certain irony in caring deeply enough to seek out the wisdom of a selfhelp book on how not to care. Like many, I’ve spent a lifetime searching for understanding on how to nurture my inner calm. So it’s disconcerting when the soulsoothing benefits of yoga classes and mindful meditations unravel into a seething mass of stress at the first glimpse of heavy traffic ahead.

Perhaps this guide by leading meditation and mindfulness teacher, Fabrice Midal, is the answer. Midal’s premise is to stop feeling guilty for not being perfect and embrace life by saying no to things that don’t fulfil us.

When Canadian blogger Cait Flanders imposed a year-long shopping ban on herself at age 29, she had already paid off a debt of close to $30,000, quit drinking and lost 13kg. Her two-year transformation from being an obese 25-year-old with a secret credit card debt should have set her up for a happier, healthier life. Instead, she returned to her old ways – not drinking – but spending almost all she earned. Her solution was a year-long ban on buying non-essentials. The year threw up challenges, such as her parents’ divorce, but without her usual vices to rely on, she discovered what truly mattered to her.

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Coastal lifestyle Here is a large tri-level house in the heart of sought-after Burleigh Heads that is ripe for refurbishment or redevelopment within easy walking distance to the beach.

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The usable land presents an array of opportunities, including organic farming and keeping livestock.

The four-bedroom house on the property has a charming rustic design with a double gable roof and wraparound covered terrace with views over the property.

Inside, living and dining areas are in an open-plan configuration boasting slate flooring and soaring cathedral ceilings with exposed Oregan feature beams.

There’s a new Freedom kitchen overlooking the dining area, complete with a breakfast bar and plenty of cabinetry and benchtop space, while nearby sliding glass doors open the space out to a covered terrace.

Back inside, there is a new laundry,

and the four bedrooms, all which contain built-in wardrobes and are serviced by a modern two-way bathroom with a separate powder room.

One of the highlights of the house is a loft level, which overlooks the floorplan and could be used as either a lounge area or another bedroom.

Outside, the land has an enclosed yard as well as a lily-lined dam and natural bushland.

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Horoscope with Tanya Obreza VIRGO

ARIES

(August 24-September 22) Best day: Thursday 5th There may be moments this week when you just have to leave others to their own devices. No one is willing to listen, so any advice will just fall on deaf ears. Remember the saying, ”When the student is ready, the teacher appears”. People will learn in their own time and way.

(March 21-April 20) Best day: Saturday 7th Your tenacity and hard work finally finds its audience, so take advantage of any good press. But fame of any kind is usually fleeting.

Make sure you record all praise so that, in the future, you can hold others to their word. If they want what you have so badly, get it in writing.

LIBRA

TAURUS

CANCER

(April 21-May 20) Best day: Monday 9th It’s a week when many Taureans are freed from constraints that should have found a natural conclusion some time ago. Don’t blame yourself. You didn’t fail. It just didn’t work out. You know what they say: As old doors close, new ones open. Make the most of new opportunities.

(June 22-July 22) Best day: Friday 6th For the most part you’re in the mood to go with the flow, which is easy when most areas of your life are running smoothly (as they should be now). A cosmic union creates balance in your emotional life, which radiates and creates peace within your family, career or personal sectors.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Best day: Wednesday 4th This week a backward-moving Mercury brings the full spectrum of emotions, and perhaps some conflict.

But you’re not entirely innocent in all this. You can’t treat love as a battleground and expect peace. Take care that past struggles don’t spill into present relationships. Don’t even try looking to the future – live for today.

LEO (July 23-August 23) Best day: Tuesday 10th Telling it as it is just might help you get what you want this week.

You could also be worried that an opportunity is passing you by.

Don’t worry, a seed has been planted.

Hard work and determination will do the rest. From tiny acorns mighty oak trees grow.

(September 23-October 23) Best day: Sunday 8th Retrograde Mercury still brings disruption. A living situation may become chaotic, particularly with relatives. Be mindful of electronics at home or work. Disconnect everything if you’re leaving for a few days. Turn off the TV and computer and just get out of the house. Fresh air will do wonders for your mood.

SCORPIO (October 24-November 22) Best day: Tuesday 10th “Unbridled” best describes this week.

With passions reeling between agony and ecstasy you’re on an emotional bender. And this can only mean that you’re ready to offload a fair few of those inhibitions. The outcome promises to be spectacular.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23-December 21) Best day: Sunday 8th No one can accuse you of not pulling your weight. You’ve been working long and hard, so stay primed for

BRAIN FOOD WITH LARA CURION One of the highest paid YouTube user, known as DC Toys Collector, earned $A6.2 million in 2014. A series of posts show an anonymous pair of hands unboxing and playing with children’s toys, using a soft soothing voice that seems to mesmerise her young fans.

The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is a portrait acclaimed as the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, and the most parodied work of art in the world. After 500 years, Mona Lisa’s face might be the most recognised on the planet.

special surprises. Perhaps a pay increase, or a small lotto win? Many Sagittarians also seem to be back in touch with every friend on the planet.

Fun follows.

CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) Best day: Wednesday 4th Putting your grand plans into motion could prove tricky. While you’re keyed up about forging ahead, other people’s roles and certain details need to be considered. Pushing your agenda before it’s primed to go isn’t the best recipe for success. Make a move after the 15th, when Mercury once again moves forward.

AQUARIUS (January 21-February 18) Best day: Saturday 7th If someone’s trying to swindle you, more fool them. Competitors might feel the need to bring you down.

Don’t let them. Even though they’re being underhanded, you won’t miss a trick. Once your Aquarian mind locks in its co-ordinates, your intuitive aim never misses the target. Opponents should take cover.

PISCES (February 19-March 20) Best day: Thursday 5th Figure out who’s best at what, and drum up a solid sense of teamwork.

Should love or benefits come your way, accept with gratitude. In the same spirit, give openly and rewards will return when you most need them.

Some take a stroll down memory lane.

ANSWERS

Maremma guardian dogs have been used to protect livestock in Italy for more than 2000 years. Recently, a Maremma program on Middle Island, Victoria, is credited with saving the Little Penguin colony. Visit zoo.org.au to see how Maremmas may help the eastern barred bandicoot in the wild.

The sea anemone is a sea creature that looks like a plant and within its wavy tentacles lives the little clownfish, sharing a happy, symbiotic alliance. The little clownfish keeps the frond-like tentacles clean and has a safe haven to breed, while the anemone stuns and digests other creatures passing by.

The lyrebird is found on the ‘tail’ of the Australian 10 cent piece. It’s known for its ability to mimic the forest sounds around it, including the call of two kookaburras at once. In captivity, the lyrebird has mimicked the sounds of drills, hammers, phones and camera shutters.

In 2001 the Australian Census was impacted by what was known as the Jedi Census Phenomenon: 65,486 people registered as Jedi knights, padawan or Sith lords. To circumvent this, the censors now add these answers to the “not defined” category of religion statistics.

CROSSWORD SOLUTIONS: CRYPTIC: Across: 1 Prompt, 4 Proclaim, 9 Oyster, 10 Meantime, 12 Fracture, 13 Ardent, 15 Rage, 16 Impresario, 19 Estimation, 20 Agog, 23 Entail, 25 Decorate, 27 Archives, 28 Stroll, 29 Disunite, 30 Demean.

Down: 1 Proffer, 2 Onslaught, 3 Pretty, 5 Reel, 6 Contrast, 7 Abide, 8 Maestro, 11 Primate, 14 Crooked, 17 Rigmarole, 18 Ambition, 19 Emerald, 21 Gremlin, 22 Sortie, 24 Tacks, 26 Beat. QUICK: Across: 1 Flimsy, 4 Progress, 9 Superb, 10 Above all, 12 Prodigal, 13 Rattle, 15 Type, 16 Roundabout, 19 Square deal, 20 Stab, 23 Awaken, 25 Vengeful, 27 Glorious, 28 Domain, 29 Regulate, 30 Needle. Down: 1 Fusspot, 2 Impromptu, 3 Serbia, 5 Ruby, 6 Giveaway, 7 Exact, 8 Solvent, 11 Lay odds, 14 On paper, 17 Out of hand, 18 Free will, 19 Stagger, 21 Balance, 22 Ignore, 24 Along, 26 Quit.

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