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FEBRUARY 12-18, 2020

BERNARD FANNING

THE AGE OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL

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That it is 20 years since much-loved band Powderfinger’s hit album Odyssey Number Five came out is as mind-boggling as Super Bowl superstar J.Lo’s physique at 50. How fast the decades have flown. For anyone who kicked back with a glass of wine or a pint and mimed the words to My Happiness at their local inn there is a show to pencil into the diary – Powderfinger’s frontman Bernard Fanning at The Peninsula Picnic in Mornington. Journalist Jane Rocca met Fanning, who is a stay-at-home dad these days, since the band split, and is working on new music. He’s this week’s cover story. ●

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ustralian actress Claudia Karvan, best known for her TV roles in The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way and Newton’s Law, has always done things her way and dominated our screens for more than three decades. Now the 47-year-old admits she’s learnt to worry less and dance more.

Later this year, Karvan will commence filming a new TV show for a streaming channel. It’s a comedy about contemporary families and involves a new female writer, too – but she’s tight-lipped about the details for the moment.

“I’ve been working on it for a while now and can’t wait to start filming. I am back in the acting and production role again,” Karvan says.

It was thanks to a gap in her schedule that Karvan decided to become a contestant on Channel 10’s new season of Dancing with the Stars (along with comedians Ed Kavalee and Celia Pacquola, singer Dami Im and retired AFL star Travis Cloke).

Karvan had, after all, taken up salsa dancing as a hobby three years ago to help with a herniated disc – what could go wrong?

“Yoga was really my thing; and I had to stop doing it because of my sore back,” Karvan says.

“When I was producing Doctor Doctor [in 2016], I did it from a stand-up desk, I sometimes had to have meetings on my knees and couldn’t drive very far at all. It was horrible. I was a bit at a loose end for something physical to do.”

A cortisone injection in her back sped up the recovery, but she had to quit yoga at the time. She was determined to avoid surgery so it seemed salsa dancing was just the therapy.

“I always considered myself very unco-ordinated and uninhibited when it came to dancing,” says Karvan, who with two friends turned up to a dance class three years ago ready to learn to salsa wearing diamante dance shoes for the occasion.

When Karvan takes this call, she’s just finished a four-hour dance rehearsal for Dancing with the Stars.

“It’s the most unusual job I’ve ever had,” she says.

“There’s no script, no director and there’s no responsibility in so far as learning lines or acting goes, but I thought I’d be having more fun to be honest, it’s a little bit harder than I had originally thought.

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the secret life of CLAUDIA From screen queen to dancing queen, Claudia Karvan finds fulfilment in her “most unusual” role.

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“I don’t feel competitive and am not a perfectionist but I have an amazing dance partner and I don’t want to let him down. I am trusting his intuition here.”

While she’s usually the one mentoring young actors seeking advice for success on the screen, the tables have now turned.

“I do feel lucky to be able to learn something new at my age,” she says. “I am usually in the position of mentoring, so this is a real luxury – I’ll come out of this with half a dancing degree.”

Karvan, who lives in Sydney with her husband Jeremy Sparks and their two teenage children (daughter Audrey, 18, and son Albee, 13) scored three AFI Awards for her production work alongside John Edwards for Love My Way between 2005 and 2007. In the series she played Francesca “Frankie” Paige and she looks back on it with much affection.

“I rarely reflect on my career to be brutally honest, I tend to spend more time reflecting on family, relationships, friendships and that sort of thing,” Karvan says.

“But a seismic shift happened when I produced Love My Way – that was my fork in the road moment and it was really satisfying for me.”

While she dabbled in Hollywood and the big screen (Daybreakers and Aquamarine), the actress found her niche on Australian television and

“I do feel lucky to be able to learn something new at my age. I am usually in the position of mentoring, so this is a real luxury ...”

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became a Logie-winning favourite; stealing hearts with her role as Dr Alex Christensen in The Secret Life of Us from 2001 to 2003, as Judy Vickers in Puberty Blues (2012-13) and Caroline Tivoli in The Time Of Our Lives (2013-14).

She’s been a hit on the ABC, SBS, Stan and various commercial networks, but for all her accolades, Karvan isn’t scrambling to find more projects to do.

“I like to have a focus, yes, but my eyes aren’t bigger than my belly,” says Karvan of her career ambition. “As I have gotten older I am not tolerant of stress. I like being a bit more realistic about what I can achieve with my days and like to go a bit slower.

“I like to do things, but not too much when it comes to work. I am certainly not the kind of person who wants to put too much on my plate.”

Karvan, who is learning Spanish, treks for eight kilometres in the Blue Mountains with an experienced hiking buddy and loves to travel, says she’s happiest when flying to destinations she’s been to before.

“I frequently return to places – I’ve done Chile five times, Bali is a regular go-to because my dad and best friend live there and I’d love to visit Uruguay and Colombia,” she says.

But for now the focus is squarely on the dance floor – although you can catch a glimpse of her in True History Of The Kelly Gang as Ms Shelton, too.

“I know the director Justin Kurzel and am a huge fan,” she says. “I really enjoyed it; it’s original and left me feeling very unsettled. I’m a huge fan of Essie Davis too. It’s quite violent and really affecting and actually deserving of all the attention.” ●

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Bernard Fanning WHO \ Powderfinger’s

frontman, soon to release a fresh record WHAT \ Playing The Peninsula Picnic WHERE \ Mornington

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Can you give us a hint of what to expect?

I haven’t kind of come up with a vision as such, but I have been playing more electric guitar and moving away from previous acoustic guitar and piano-driven tracks. I think it’ll be more rock ’n’ roll and boisterous this time. Sitting by myself and inventing something that wasn’t there a few minutes ago is what excites me.

Why do you think Powderfinger resonated with so many Australians?

It’s always hard to know why when you’re within it. I think people really connected with the songwriting – people like the emotional place it came from. But we’re also a pretty damn good rock ’n’ roll band; there’s that primal aspect people love too. I think people loved us because our success didn’t happen overnight either – it was a long experiment that lasted more than 20 years. We kept getting better in my opinion.

We always tried to improve on what we had done before; we weren’t enamoured with the idea of

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his year marks the 20th anniversary of Powderfinger’s Odyssey Number Five album – your highest selling record and one that produced four hit singles. What do you recall of that period?

At the time we were coming off a massive international tour. I think we spent nine weeks at home. But, like anything, you get tired of touring and being away from those you love. That feeling really did feed into the feel of Odyssey Number Five. Most of the songs are about missing people and My Happiness is about that – it’s about happiness creeping back in and then you have to go again. It’s often used as a wedding song, which baffles me to this day (laughs) along with the single These Days – which is about days that turned out nothing like I planned. It’s not the right signal to send to your prospective partner, but it’s another popular wedding song.

I guess it has a feel-good melody to it and people love the feeling it conjures.

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celebrating our achievements. You never reach an end goal when you’re in a band like ours. Sure there’s milestones along the way, but you’re always trying to improve. The celebrity angle wasn’t our bag. I think people appreciated that as well; we tried to use whatever media power we had to raise awareness about social issues – there’s a long line of bands that have done that before us and we were part of that tradition.

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When will we see another solo album by you released?

I am writing for another record to be released in 2021. I am a stay-at-home dad (two kids aged 10 and seven) while my wife is studying, so I am home a lot with the kids. They’re both in school now, but I am in charge of managing all that as well as spending time in the studio writing when I get a chance.

You live in Byron Bay – a popular place for famous people to retreat to now.

It’s an incredible place to live; life here isn’t that different to how others get on with their lives, though. It’s become absurdly hectic and for the old locals, I guess it’s changed a lot.

The people who were here prior to the past 10 to 15 years have noticed a shift. But there’s always been surfers, musicians and artists here since the 1960s. It was a hippy fishing town; but it’s not like all the celebrities are hosting parties for us to attend. We’re doing our family thing.

What can we expect from your show at The Peninsula Picnic?

I have Powderfinger’s Ian Haug playing guitar with me; so that’ll be amazing. We haven’t been on stage together since Powderfinger split in 2010. He’s great company and I know it sounds cheesy, but it’s like having one of your brothers around. I have an instinctive sense of where Ian might go musically on stage. ● THE PENINSULA PICNIC \ Music headlined by Bernard Fanning, with food and wine, Mornington Racecourse, March 28. ● peninsulapicnic.com.au

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Taking shape One of Melbourne’s most famous painters shares how he found purpose in another art form.

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ate last month, those strolling outside Myer’s city windows were confronted with a very Melbourne sight: not only were the windows filled with a new ceramics range representing a collaboration between potter Robert Gordon and artist David Bromley, but among the creamers and platters stood Bromley himself, peering out at passersby as they snapped their iPhones at him.

It was all part of celebrating a collection that features 50 pieces, ranging from as little as $9.95, with curated installations at Myer Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

“They used to call me ‘flavour of the month’ and it would terrify me because I wanted to do this forever. Time will tell.”

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Those with an eye for detail would have noticed something written in Bromley’s signature scrawl: a declaration that pottery had saved his life. How so?

“I was a very mixed-up young guy,” he explains, “And I went from being top of the class at school to a high school dropout at 14. But, I reached a stage in my life – at 24 – when I decided the key to good mental health was to be purposeful and committed.

“I’d moved to live next to my favourite surf break, and one day at the market I saw a woman standing in front of a pottery stall. I asked her how to do it, and she told me where a class was. After the first lesson or two, I was like ‘This is it’.”

Although pottery didn’t stick, art did, and Bromley has become well-known for his nostalgic paintings, colourful butterflies and metallic nudes.

Around six years ago, he became acquainted with famed potter Robert Gordon, and both say the working relationship was a symbiotic one.

“There are similarities between David and I,” Gordon says. “Both of us are oriented to making products that people want to buy, and that they appreciate.”

Bromley has long since stopped caring whether the art critics value or dismiss his work; all he knows is that people keeping loving and buying it.

“I always loved nostalgia, and that was seen as lightweight,” he says. “I liked feel-good imagery, and that was seen as lightweight. I’m lucky that I never bought into that. Thirty years ago, they used to call me ‘flavour of the month’ and it would terrify me because I wanted to do this forever. Time will tell.

“But I don’t overthink it. I love music, and I’ll go and see someone like The Pogues and you think, ‘God, those guys are having fun’. That’s what I’m like when I’m in the studio: I turn my music up and the whole world disappears.”

Gordon’s rags-to-riches tale has some parallels: he

never envisioned he would be continuing the craft taught to him by his parents and grandmother, nor that his children would be continuing his business.

In the late ’70s, he was selling his wares on St Kilda Esplanade at their Sunday marketplace. He had no formal training, and remembers something an employee – who did have qualifications – told him. “He said, ‘I thought your pots were terrible, but I couldn’t believe how you sold them!’ If you put personality into everything you do, somebody relates to it. I think David is the same.” ● The Robert Gordon X Bromley & Co tableware collaboration is exclusive to Myer.

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rom “Surviving the Apocalypse” to “Criminal Investigations”, Victorian school curriculums are adapting to a changing world by offering subjects focused on real-world applications and collaboration.

The key is in curating a learning environment that combines soft skills with external applications, according to Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar principal Dr Deborah Priest.

“There are two key focuses for us,” she says. “Firstly, developing our students’ character and wellbeing – placing [mental and physical health] on the same level as academics. And, secondly, the learning must be connected to a real-world context, with inter-faculty collaboration.”

Priest says this flexibility in thinking and emphasis on cooperation is vital in equipping students with skills that they can carry into life.

“Soft skills are best learnt in context,” Priest adds. “While traditional core subjects are still, and always will be, important … it’s also about looking at the ways we can develop skills for the future – from being collaborative and fluid, to existing in a virtual world.”

Over a two-year period, the school has been developing a range of new subjects to best reflect a changing society and the modern workplace, including the year 8 subject “Lights,

ADAPTING TO A CHANGING WORLD Camera, Action” which was launched in 2019. Exploring ethical questions about how people conduct themselves online, the subject addresses both the challenges and benefits of having an online profile and teaches hands-on skills for working in a virtual sphere.

It’s an approach being met with enthusiasm by students, with enrolments for a series of new year 9 electives (developed out of feedback from the girls) already completed.

“Our elective ‘Criminal Investigations’ already has three classes filled,” says Priest. “We’ll be using real-life equipment to simulate a crime scene investigation as closely as we can, conducting soil analysis,

“While traditional core subjects are still, and always will be, important ... it’s also about looking at the ways we can develop skills for the future.”

DR DEBORAH PRIEST

DNA sequencing … the girls are fascinated.”

Also popular is “The Game of Life”, a practical subject addressing money management, how to apply for jobs, and planning for life after school.

“It’s about creating students that aren’t just tertiary-ready, but lifeready,” says Priest.

In Melbourne’s north, Marcellin College is also shaking up its curriculum, amounting to a kind of “renaissance in schooling”, according to deputy principal Adriano Di Prato.

“We need to prepare students for their future, not how we work now,” he says. “We’re moving away from the standardised teaching of the last 50 or so years and building a new learning ecosystem.”

Known as “Polaris”, the system is focused on foundational literacies (including financial and digital literacy), capability skills focused on responding to complex challenges, and personal characteristics extending to mental and physical

health. The school is introducing Polaris in stages, with 2020 seeing the commencement of the depth (years 9 and 10) and pathway (years 11 and 12) phases.

“The focus is on dynamic learning, with the opportunity for hyperspecialisation,” Di Prato says.

On top of VET and VCE offerings, niche subjects such as the sciencebased, religious education “Who is Jesus, really?” and “Surviving the Apocalypse” – a humanities subject exploring how to thrive in a postapocalyptic world, year 9 and 10 students will have five periods a fortnight to meet with mentors, careers advisers or school counsellors to develop methods of managing their extra-curricular activities and overall wellbeing.

“We’re trying to build an understanding that wellbeing and learning are interconnected,” says Di Prato. “It’s about comprehensive wellbeing … and catering for unique learning processes.” ●

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THE ART OF GIVING BACK Community service helps students to understand how they can make a difference.

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ndependent schools are making positive contributions to society by offering community service programs that teach students the importance of giving back.

“School is a lot more than just reading and writing,” says Scott Miller, chief executive of Volunteering Victoria. “Young people get a lot of value and virtue from realising that our community is made up of different people and places that sit outside of our daily grind of school and sport.”

Volunteering can help build personal resilience, increase confidence, health and wellbeing, and importantly, allow young people to realise their ability to make a difference.

“A lot of good can come when we give young people the opportunity to give back to the community,” says Miller. “They can see what their contribution is doing to make the world a better place. When a young person can identify with a certain cause and offer their time, there’s no better way of getting that real world-experience because it says, ‘I’m part of the solution. I’m not just part of the problem any more because I’m doing something about it.’”

Since Siena College was founded by the Dominican Sisters in 1940, the school has had a strong history of embedding community service into its curriculum. “Service and addressing issues of justice in the broader community is a fundamental tenet of the education we offer here, and as a Dominican school, it’s intrinsic to our mission,” says Gaynor Robson-Garth, principal of Siena College from 2007 to 2019.

The school runs a number of fundraising initiatives throughout the year, and each term has a different focus. Last year, money raised was donated to Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion, Vinnies’ Winter Appeal, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and St Mary’s House of Welcome, an organisation that supports those experiencing homelessness, poverty and mental illness.

“Our task is to educate women who will go out, be leaders in the community and address the root causes of injustice,” Robson-Garth says.

Siena College works with a women’s co-operative called Kopanang in South Africa. Apart from donating funds through their “A Night Of Change”

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trivia and silent auction, International Women’s Day breakfast and Christmas market, year 11 students have the opportunity to participate in an immersion where they spend two weeks living with a host family and assist with everyday programs. The community has been impacted by HIV/AIDS, endemic poverty and high unemployment after the closure of the goldmines.

“The students come back very changed people,” she says. “Before they go, they are often more concerned that they might be living in a house where there’s no running water or toilet indoors, but once they’re there, those things become quite trivial. It’s the emotional issues that confront them the most.

“A student will say, ‘When I see how these women support each other and maintain their sense of dignity and optimism despite all their hardship, then I realise that any difficulties I face are so trivial by comparison.’ It’s a way of really getting a sense of our privilege here and of our absolute responsibility to use our privilege to work with others and envision a better world.” ●

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SHAPING OUR FUTURE LEADERS Resilience, adaptability and the ability to co-operate will all be essential skills of the future.

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t has become clear that the future on our planet will be vastly different to our current reality. In preparation, Victorian schools are developing curriculums that cultivate resilient and confident individuals; young learners who will one day be able to use their dynamic capabilities to lead complex global communities.

Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar in Canterbury is nurturing the world’s future leaders through programs that encourage inquiry-based learning, critical thinking and creativity, says principal Marise McConaghy. “To us, a leader is anybody who can make a difference big or small, who has the ability to see a problem that needs to be addressed, can think critically and creatively about a remedy, and execute that idea,” McConaghy says.

This philosophy is put into practice through Strathcona’s Tinker Train program. The junior school and early secondary program has been adapted from a design process used by the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University and various industries.

Using a visual metaphor, students who undertake the Tinker Train program are tasked with progressing through the stages of solving an authentic problem.

“We want our students to look beyond what is already available … beyond technologies and solutions that already exist … towards solutions that are new and different,” McConaghy says.

“As students progress through the metaphorical ‘train’, they move from the acquisition of knowledge, to articulating a problem and ideating a potential prototype solution, to physically creating the solution, and sharing and explaining their decision with peers and teaching staff.”

The Tinker Train program prepares students from a young age to challenge the unknown, be resilient and courageous, and show initiative while working collaboratively to solve problems.

“We want our students to be empowered in their learning and confident in their abilities,” says McConaghy.

Caulfield Grammar School, a co-educational independent school, has a strong history of academic achievement and engaging students to achieve exceptional results.

“To us, a leader is anybody who can make a difference big or small, who has the ability to see a problem that needs to be addressed, can think critically and creatively about a remedy, and execute that idea.”

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However, Caulfield prides itself on being about more than academic achievements. They are committed to nurturing students to become capable and highly skilled, but also emotionally aware.

“The Visible Wellbeing approach, designed by Professor Lea Waters, draws on the latest research and ideas from three evidence-based education movements: the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Visible Thinking and Melbourne Graduate School of Education’s Visible Learning,” says Melanie Beere, the deputy head of senior school at Caulfield’s Wheelers Hill campus.

“Over the course of two years, the school has trained staff in Visible Wellbeing,” Beere adds. “The students have then gone on to create a student action group centred on a shared love and passion for wellbeing.”

The students’ action group is run collaboratively

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by a collection of 20 students from years 8 to 12.

They meet once a fortnight to discuss projects they wish to establish for the broader schooling community, with all projects centred on wellbeing, student voice and making a difference. Some projects the students have put together include notes in the year 7 lockers to welcome them to the secondary school, wellbeing-themed awareness days, and an ongoing monthly Actions for Happiness calendar, which features “tips” suited to that month’s theme.

“The students have full autonomy over the ideas they create for Visible Wellbeing, and they are never short on ideas,” Beere says. “The program is nurturing and cultivating students with high emotional intelligence … they are active listeners, can work collaboratively, have empathy and can ‘read’ people and situations, which is imperative to creating any kind of future leader.” ●

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Hindsight: CAMILLA BACHET A former student reflects on her time at Melbourne Girls Grammar.

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hen she’s in Melbourne, Camilla Bachet often finds herself drawn back to her old school. One minute she’ll be walking the Tan Track, the next she’s sneaking through the Melbourne Girls Grammar gates to see how the latest renovations are coming along.

Almost two decades have passed since she graduated, but it’s always nice to be back in a place that holds so many cherished memories.

“I loved my time there,” she says. “All of my best friends now are still my old school friends. It was a

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fantastic learning environment – I found it was very inclusive, all the teachers were very supportive.”

Bachet knows the professional path she took – engineering – is uncommon for a young woman.

“We’re still struggling to get female engineers at work.” But in her time at the Merton Hall campus, she remembers only support and encouragement for all students to pursue subjects that interested and inspired them.

A school trip to Papua New Guinea in year 11 planted the seed for the other enduring arm of her

“You design something in a refugee camp to be built in the next few weeks; you see that impact immediately.”

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working life – humanitarianism. The visiting students slept in the local school, went trekking and were billeted out to families in villages where they were the only non-natives.

“You saw different challenges in each household, each village, the difficulties that were faced in those environments. It made me think, ‘How can I actually do work that combines travel and helping people?’”

She’s managed to sate those joint passions exceptionally well. For the past three years, Bachet has worked for GHD on The Connections Project, modernising century-old irrigation systems in the Murray River region to provide farmers with more water for their crops and land, and also ensure there’s more feeding the ecosystems downstream.

She’s happy with the outcomes, yet more proud of her work in Nepal and Bangladesh with RedR, an international, engineering-centred organisation that rebuilds lives in the wake of disaster through training, supporting and providing aid workers.

Amid the Rohingya refugee crisis, with water stocks down to five litres per person per day, she designed a new reservoir to help 20,000 desperate people.

“In Australia you work for months and months on a project, you see it get built and that’s great, but you don’t see the impact on the individuals’ day-to-

day lives,” she says. “You design something in a refugee camp to be built in the next few weeks; you see that impact immediately.”

She feels fortunate to be described as a humanitarian engineer, having met many aid workers who move only from one emergency to the next. “That’s a tough lifestyle, I’m lucky to be able to do both.”

In March 2019, Bachet’s old school declared her the inaugural recipient of the Emily Hensley Award, named after MGGS’s first principal, to honour alumnae who embody the school’s values through their contribution to society and professional success. It’s hard to imagine a more worthy first name for the honour board.

“I didn’t realise people were that impressed by it – you know when you just do the work and it is what it is. I was really chuffed to have been awarded that. I saw the old principal and vice-principal at the awards, it was like nothing had changed. I still have very fond memories of my time there.” ●

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The 60-year-old home design guru and architecture historian returns to Australia for a new stage show, The World According to Kevin McCloud, to talk about design, his life, field questions from the audience and tell us why he fell in love with

“I tell people to stay cool and relax. My house is as messy as yours and I don’t have a trendy kettle ... even though I’d like to buy one.” amateur ballooning. “Everyone’s asking if I have any pictures of me ballooning, the answer is no,” he says with a smile. “But in all seriousness, it’s the best way to see a city and to see architecture and I enjoy it, even though I am not a great balloonist.”

Grand Designs made its TV debut in 1999, and McCloud has made a living by taking the audience inside people’s homes to be part of the design and construction process.

There’s so much more to the series than the fabulous home itself – it’s as much about human relationships as it is about finding the best natural light and engineering headaches.

“We all succumb to the vagaries of fashion and try to keep up with the Joneses, impress our neighbours and show them that we’re cool,” says McCloud, who also studied opera in Florence before he became famous. “But when it comes to homes, you have to be careful not to be a slave to fashion. It’s like when

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you buy a new suit; you wear it once and don’t wear it again. It’s not sustainable in the broader sense of consuming, nor is it meaningful for the planet.

“I have a rule of thumb for the show and that is if your project is looking like a furniture show room we’re not interested. There’s no story, no personality or individual there.

“In reality, people live in a far messier way than that. I tell people to stay cool and relax. My house is as messy as yours and I don’t have a trendy kettle at home even though I’d like to buy one.”

When it comes to his own dream home, McCloud says it will involve his son who is also an architect.

“I’ve always wanted a place to sit in a hammock in the rain, but be able to be dry under a cover watching the sunset in the distance while drinking a glass of white,” he says. “I want to be able to have a shower outside in the middle of winter – that’s my quirky thing.”

McCloud, who separated from his wife, Suzi, an interior designer, after 23 years of marriage a few years ago, didn’t expect the tabloids to still be on his case. And while the topic is offlimits, it’s McCloud who brings it up in the conversation. “As Kenneth Williams once said in Carry On Cleo, ‘Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me’.

“We actually separated two and a half years ago and one particular British newspaper wrote about it last month like it happened on Wednesday,” McCloud says. “It’s ridiculous; [a] complete distortion. We are very good friends.”

McCloud admits that being in public isn’t easy – he’d rather talk about art and architecture over a decent glass of wine any day. “When I’m not working on the show I love working on old cars and competing in the mud driving one from the 1920s or ’30s,” he says. “I also like mountains, climbing and getting out to the natural world.” ● THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KEVIN McCLOUD \ Arts Centre Melbourne, February 16.

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This example can be found on Queen Street, a quiet, suburban pocket of Coburg. It’s fairly close to Moreland Station and closer still to Melville Road and the 58 tram, which could easily lay claim to being Melbourne’s funnest tram route (you can often spy the Melbourne Zoo’s elephants from the tram as it winds its way through Royal Park).

The front garden and covered verandah present nicely to the street, with the three bedrooms all accessed from the front hallway.

The main bedroom comes with a built-in wardrobe and has a lovely window onto the verandah (and a privacygranting hedge). The refitted bathroom is further into the house. It has a shower and separate bath, and is next to a separate laundry and powder room.

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Perhaps the teenagers of the house need their own living room. Options. This light-filled family living space is full of them. ● ANDERS FURZE property@domainreview.com.au Agent: Nelson Alexander, Mark Verrocchi 0413 135 935 Price: $1 million-$1.1 million Auction: 11am, February 15

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Supremely quiet, a short stroll to Port Melbourne Beach, Lagoon Reserve, Gasworks Arts Park, the Bay Street dining and shopping scene, transport and Station Pier.

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100 metres from beach, moments to Villages, lake, schools and public transport.

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