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MARCH 20-26, 2019

RONNY CHIENG A DAILY DOSE OF LAUGHS

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WHY OSTRICH IS ON THE MENU

LYNN BURMEISTER

THE I V F QU EEN W ITH A BA BY-M A K ING ST Y LE OF HER OW N

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Come in close, put the kettle on – I have something to tell you. I’ve just turned 36 (single, no children) and as such, Dr Lynn Burmeister – on our cover – is as famous to me as a Jonas brother is to a 16-year-old. This glam doctor is changing the way women access fertility treatment, and is an intriguing personality, straight from the pages of a Candace Bushnell novel. She’s helped to rewrite the life stories of many Australian women and their families, including TV host Sonia Kruger, who fell pregnant with Dr Burmeister’s help at the age of 48.

Journalist Kate Jones met the doctor for this week’s feature. ●

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““I am Ronny Chieng ” … and I’m a comedian I studied law in Melbourne, lived here for 10 years

and started comedy here as well. I studied law because I got in and thought it would be an easy way to make money and gain prestige.

I started in comedy in the final year of law school – I did a university campus comedy competition and I won it, and then I kept doing shows after that around Melbourne. I moved into comedy full-time when I couldn't get a job. I graduated during the peak of the global financial crisis – thanks Gen X. I never got to practise as a lawyer, but I always knew that I wouldn’t regret it if I didn't.

I've lived in a lot of different places – Asia, Australia, America. Everywhere feels like home now, although I always need to find a quiet place to rejuvenate.

I’ve got all my places in Melbourne that I usually hit up when I get back here. I have a website of recommendations in Melbourne – I’m Okay With Anything – that I personally hit up, listing all my favourite spots.

While I’m here I’ll go watch Melbourne United basketball games. I’ll also go to my favourite bar, Bar Americano, after shows.

My new [Comedy Festival] show is called Tone Issues. I don't have overarching premises for my stand-up shows but if ever there was a premise for myself, it'd be that I have a terrible tone when talking to people. People think I'm being angry or sarcastic and everyone gets offended, even though I'm trying my best.

A typical day for me these days would be when I'm working on (US talk show) The Daily Show, which involves an intense work cycle. If I'm on the show that day, we've got to write the segment and hand it in around 11.30am. We get notes back at 1pm, we rehearse at 3.30pm, get more notes, rewrite and then at 6.30pm we tape the show.

After The Daily Show, I'll rush to do maybe three stand-up sets. I get home around midnight and then try to go to sleep. That said, absolutely nothing has changed since I started on The Daily Show. I still do my own laundry. ● MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL ● comedyfestival.com.au ● ronnychieng.com ● imokwithanything.com

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Dubbed an “IVF rockstar”, Melbourne’s Dr Lynn Burmeister is pioneering a fresh approach to fertility science.

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er headline-making departure from Monash IVF in 2017 came amid her allegations of stymying internal politics and bullying. It triggered a $12.3 million fall in revenue for the listed company and a court battle that resulted in a settlement. It also left Dr Burmeister with a massive $2.5 million legal bill.

Monash aside, she says she is motivated to make IVF and egg-freezing cheaper and more accessible to a wider range of people.

IVF costs in Australia vary widely – between $1870 and $9000 per cycle (or pregnancy attempt), according to consumer group Choice.

At Dr Burmeister’s No.1 Fertility, a chain of three clinics at Collins Street in the CBD, Epworth Geelong and Epworth Richmond set up in the past year, patients pay $3200 in out-of-pocket expenses

per cycle. At Love Fertility, a new low-cost clinic she plans to open in May at Frances Perry House, patients’ costs will be even lower – just $550 out of pocket per cycle.

“I think I just feel sad for some people,” she says.

“I feel this is coming from the heart. So I still want to provide good service to them, but make it affordable and just change the landscape that’s happening right now.”

Business is booming for Dr Burmeister, who is soon to open another clinic at Jolimont this month.

Called Emerald City, it will be more akin to a day spa than a typical medical space.

“It’s all going to be green because the whole theme behind it is that we’re making gems,” she explains.

“We’re going to have a growing room and that’s going to be a spa-like centre for the ladies. So preand post-transfer they get to lie down and not rush out. We’re going to have on-site acupuncturists and

reasons women decided to freeze their eggs were not having a partner with whom to have children; having a partner who didn’t want to be a father; and wanting time to prepare financially, emotionally and socially for single parenthood.

Although egg-freezing gives women the chance to avoid age-related infertility, success rates are slim – just 6 to 12 per cent per egg, Dr Burmeister says.

Expectation management is a large part of any medical professional’s job, particularly in IVF. Hopes of long-held dreams of parenthood can be painfully dashed and, on the flipside, ecstatically realised. Dr Burmeister offers her patients free counselling and takes a holistic approach that factors in diet and naturopathy.

“I basically look at all areas,” she says. “You know, there was someone whose husband was smoking and he hasn’t given up yet, and that makes really bad embryos. So I gave him another lecture about

“If I can try and make it not so clinical and a better journey for the patients, that’s what I’m trying to do.”

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r Lynn Burmeister may not be a household name, but in many households she’s something akin to a deity. The renowned IVF specialist has made countless dreams come true for couples and single women who feared they may never have children.

Chances are you’ve heard or read about Dr Burmeister, such is the Melbourne doctor’s reputation, particularly after her acrimonious split with Monash IVF and her prolific workload.

Ever since helping Channel Nine presenter Sonia Kruger give birth at age 49 and alternately being dubbed “the baby whisperer” and “fertility queen” by the media, and an “IVF rockstar” on online pregnancy forums, her popularity has soared.

Yet, and perhaps by the nature of her work, Dr Burmeister has somewhat of a polarising personality. One friend told me her appointment had cost $400 for four minutes, and described it as a waste of time.

But another holds Dr Burmeister in high regard for being what she calls “the co-creator” of her second child. “She’s definitely over the top glam and reminds me of the Sex and the City women, but she was so kind and caring,” the former patient says.

In person, Dr Burmeister is open, antiestablishment and at the helm of an IVF chain unlike any other in Melbourne.

“I would love to be a big brand and that’s my mission,” she says.

“I’m in control and so any decision that gets made in this company, I make. If something’s not working in the clinic, it’s not like I have to go through a whole line of processes. I can just go, ‘that’s not the way we should be doing it, let’s do it this way’ and make things more efficient.”

The desire to do things her way is a goal Dr Burmeister has eyed off for years.

TV personality Sonia Kruger had a baby at age 49, with the help of Dr Burmeister.

maybe a masseuse there to give them a back rub. I think it might make the process more enjoyable because it’s a pretty awful process. If I can try and make it not so clinical and a better journey for the patients, that’s what I’m trying to do.”

While IVF remains the most common reason patients come through the clinics, more women are opting to put their eggs on ice.

A survey by the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority found the most common

stopping smoking. I suppose people have high expectations, don’t they? Maybe I can’t meet them all the time, but most of the time I think I do a good job and I think patients walk away happy.”

A couple of those happy patients were Ashley Fowler and Shelley Brown. After two years of trying to fall pregnant naturally and then with the help of another IVF specialist, they decided to see Dr Burmeister.

“She was straight to the point and she was willing to look at things that hadn’t been looked at before,” Fowler says.

“She was open and honest about our situation and gave us a new hope, which was really good, but within reason as well. We really liked her upfront personality, whereas I think a lot of people are put off by that.”

Brown became pregnant in her first cycle with Dr Burmeister and their daughter, Erica, is now four months old. “It’s such a rollercoaster and it takes a lot out of you, emotionally and physically,” Fowler reflects. “It’s months and months of just waiting and that’s a horrible feeling. So I can see why a lot of people just stop.

“If we didn’t go and see Dr Lynn, it could have been a totally different story for us.” ● ● drlynnburmeister.com.au

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umplings practically form part of the food pyramid for your average Melburnian, but when was the last time you thought, “Man, I could really go doro wot tonight”?

The fragrant Ethiopian stew made with berbere spice and clarified butter isn’t usually top of mind.

Then again, Chinese people have lived in Victoria for about 110 years longer than Ethiopian migrants.

And while Ethiopian food is becoming more commonplace, African food as a cuisine is still underrepresented – unless you count the popularity of the Moroccan Soup Bar in North Fitzroy.

Besides, pigeonholing African food into a single continent is like squeezing Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese and Japanese cuisines – plus the rest – into one “Asian” label.

Ethiopian cooks tend to stick to traditional cuisine for communities hungry for a taste of home.

Wondimu Alemu opened Ras Dashen in Footscray in 2011, while also working full-time as an electrical engineer until 2014.

He left Africa in 1994 to escape political turmoil and met and married his wife in a refugee camp.

Once in Melbourne, she worked for a decade in the food department of the Western General Hospital.

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traditional knowledge of our foods from her parents. I wanted to answer that, and I was also passionate about having my own business,” Alemu says.

“My kids help us, and my sister, my daughter, my niece – we all work together.”

It’s more difficult to find contemporary iterations of African cuisine, but there are exceptions.

Polepole, an East African-inspired restaurant from Australians Dean and Jeanelle Mariani, came about more than four years ago after the couple fell in love with the country during their travels.

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glamping tent. “We are an introduction to the cuisine and a lot of people come to us for those African flavours,” Dean Mariani says.

The red ostrich meat is similar to beef but has a gamey texture and underlying flavour. With one farm in Victoria, which exports most of its product, short supply means ostrich isn’t always on the menu.

In the past four months, two cafes with African flair have opened in Melbourne’s southern suburbs.

There’s Tennyson in Elwood arranging avocado on Zimbabwean cornbread and putting boerewors sausage in pasta.

In St Kilda, Ostrich & The Egg is a South African mother-and-son operation, who upgraded from a

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You can still get the doughnuts, but now you can also eat vetkoek sliders, lamb bobotie and bunny chow.

“In Melbourne there’s a lot of Ethiopian and East African food, but South African? There’s pretty much zero to nothing,” says co-owner Gary Andrews, whose mum does the cooking.

“For us a lot of influences come from the Indo-Malay Polynesian area, and also through European and Dutch settlement. Four hundred years of amalgamation mean that South Africa has its own diverse food.”

What has changed in Melbourne is who’s eating African-style food. At PolePole half of the customers are repeat visitors, with some Kenyan and Zimbabwean diners, too. At Ostrich & The Egg, they were “flooded” upon opening and had to add seats. And Alemu has noticed a shift at Ras Dashen over the past eight years.

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People started noticing us and they started coming in numbers,” he says. “They like our food.”

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