Jetstar March 2017 Magazine

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MARCH 2017

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TIWI ISLANDS I ABEL TASMAN I BALI I BANGKOK COVER STORY

TAKE A BITE OUT OF TASMANIA MARCH 2017

FROM FOOD AND ART TO WILDERNESS AND WINERIES, TASSIE IS IN TOP FORM

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Sport This month, the world’s best surfers will descend on the Southern Gold Coast for more than a week of topnotch competition at the Quiksilver and Roxy Pros. Gold Coast local

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and surf champion Mick Fanning wouldn’t miss the event, which marks a return to competiton after a year’s break. “I’d go crazy if I were sitting at home and couldn’t go surf Snapper (Rocks),” he recently explained to journalist Gené Stephan.

Arts, culture and music The Quiksilver Pro is one of several major sporting competitions and events to be held at the Gold Coast this year. Rounded out with a calendar of international music and cultural festivals such as Blues on Broadbeach and the Bleach*

Festival, there’s a must-attend event in almost every month this year.

Games ahead The buzz around the Gold Coast is set to increase as the region prepares for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, to be held in April next year. The excitement is palpable; the games will be the largest sporting event in Australia this decade and the biggest sporting spectacular the Gold Coast has ever seen. With so much on offer, in such a vibrant location, it looks like there’s no stopping the Gold Coast. destinationgoldcoast.com

PHOTOGRAPHY QUIKSILVER & ROXY PRO, BLEACH FESTIVAL, BLUES ON BROADBEACH

With a year-round line-up of major events, there’s always something happening on the Gold Coast

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Q&A with Ian Moss WORDS JUSTINE COSTIGAN

What can audiences expect from your show this year?

The last time I performed at Broadbeach I had a three-piece band, this time I’ll be joined

by Clayton Doley, Australia’s greatest Hammond organ player. I’ll be playing some songs from my new album Pictures in the Sand as well as some of my old hits such as Tucker’s Daughter and Bow River.

Ian Moss, one of Australia’s most admired musicians, is set to join the stellar lineup of talent at the Blues on Broadbeach Music Festival this 18-21 May. What makes Blues on Broadbeach special?

It’s a great atmosphere.

Broadbeach feels almost villagelike and there are lots of young people about enjoying the music.

The last time I was there I stayed in a hotel in the centre of things and when I opened my window I could hear great music drifting up to my room. I loved it.

Quiksilver Pro & Roxy Pro (14-25 March) See the world’s best surfers rule the waves at Snapper Rocks on the Southern Gold Coast at this annual event.

Spot the stars of surf, including local favourite Mick Fanning, and enjoy free entertainment and the holiday vibe throughout the 11-day competition. worldsurfleague.com

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Bleach* Festival (31 March to 16 April) Using the region’s stunning natural landscapes as venues, Bleach* Festival brings together cuttingedge music, circus, theatre, dance, cabaret, visual art and sport in a genre-defying festival over three weekends featuring local, national and international collaborators. bleachfestival.com.au

What role has the blues played in your career?

I’m known for rock ‘n’ roll (Ian was a founding member of iconic Australian band Cold Chisel) but my influence and style has always been anchored in the blues. You can hear it in many of my songs.

Anyone you’re looking forward to seeing at the year’s festival?

Last time I was here I saw Ray Beadle and he was on fire, so I really want to catch him again this year. And I’ve never seen (festival headliner) Bonnie Tyler so I’m hoping I’ll get the chance. bluesonbroadbeach.com

Gold Coast Film Festival (19-30 April) The Gold Coast Film Festival is a celebration of film and film-making in one of Australia’s top film-making destinations. Be captivated by internationally acclaimed dramas, comedies and genre films, locally made indie gems and family features. gcfilmfestival.com

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Surf Life Saving Championships (25 March to 2 April)

• Cooly Classic Ocean Swim (8 April) • Gold Coast Superhero Weekend (21-23 April) • The World Badminton Mixed Team Championship – Sudirman Cup (21-28 May) • Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show (25-28 May) • Cooly Rocks On (7-11 June) • Gold Coast Airport Marathon (1-2 July)

Surfers Paradise Live (28-30 April) Surfers’ biggest music festival, this all-ages, free event is all about celebrating the joys of raw, live music.

Headliners The Veronicas lead a diverse and eclectic mix of live music genres that will rock the city across multiple stages over three music-filled days. surfersparadise.com

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ON THE COVER: One of the world’s tallest trees in Tasmania’s Styx Valley PHOTOGRAPHY: Tourism Australia & Graham Freeman AMENDMENT: Our November 2016 cover featuring Fremantle should have included the following information: East West Design’s mural by Graeme Miles Richards, South Terrace, Fremantle

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contents Meet Katie Noonan

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MARCH 2017

EXPERIENCE 08 I WHAT’S ON

54 I FOOTY FEVER

10 I NEWS

The joys of the annual Tiwi Islands Grand Final

14 I MY PLACE Katie Noonan’s Sunshine Coast

16 I THE SHORTLIST Big attractions you won’t want to miss

18 I HOW-TO Make friends when travelling

20 I IMBIBE What’s new in health drinks

22 I FOOD ICON Filipino comfort food

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EXPLORE

25 I BITE-SIZE CITY GUIDE Loving the Yarra Valley

29 I BEAUTY ON THE FLY Hacks for your beauty bag

30 I STYLE

62-76 I DESTINATION OF THE MONTH Top reasons to visit Tassie

80 I KAYAK COUNTRY Paddle New Zealand’s Abel Tasman National Park

90 I BALI BLISS Bali is balm for the soul

99 I CHILD’S PLAY Peter Helliar’s new kids book

105 I WHEELY FUN Mountain biking bliss

111 I SOCIAL DINING Fine food making a difference

119 I BANG RAK Bangkok’s stylish ‘hood

127 I SURF’S UP

The latest activewear looks

Discover Victoria’s Great Ocean Road

32 I SUITS YOU

168 I BACKPAGE

The art of decluttering

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Tales from row 57

40 I HEALTH Drum your way to fitness

43 I GET THE LOOK We love Tiki style

44 I RECIPE Byron Bay’s favourite breakfast

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47 I SPA & WELLNESS Perth’s luxe new spa

50 I WORK AND PLAY

ESSENTIALS 142 I Jetstar news 148 I Where we fly 155 I Entertainment guide

New-wave health-preneurs

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It’s a great month to travel EDITORIAL For all editorial enquiries, please email Jetstar@hardiegrant.com.au Account director Christine Dixon Managing editor, Jetstar Ingrid Nason Editor Justine Costigan Assistant editor Krysia Bonkowski Subeditor Leanne Tolra Intern Serena Thompson Art director Robert Bertagni Designer Natalie LaChina Picture editor Janet Gomes

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you can rely on us to get you safely to these events, and far beyond

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arch promises to be a busy month with thousands of our customers flying to events and festivals across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan.

This is one of my favourite times of year to visit Japan, as travellers from every corner of the globe flock to see the famous cherry blossoms start to open.

Perhaps you’re on your way to Melbourne to catch a glimpse of the Formula 1 Grand Prix, or to see a show at the renowned International Comedy Festival.

If you’re headed to Sydney, expect the streets to come alive for the city’s famous Mardi

Gras festival, which attracts hundreds of thousands of people from around Australia and the world.

More than 50 festivals across New Zealand this month will celebrate everything from music to food and wine, and art and culture.

And in Singapore, you might be lucky enough to catch the Singapore International Jazz Festival – a huge event that brings together local and international artists and attracts music fans from all over.

On our extensive network of 85 destinations across 18 countries, you can rely on us to get you safely to these events, and far beyond.

Whatever your reason for travel today, sit back, relax and enjoy a pleasant trip with us.

And we wish you a wonderful time at your destination – wherever that may be.

We look forward to having you on board with us again soon.

Jayne Hrdlicka Jetstar Group CEO

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Chill-out in Bali.

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BONNIE TYLER KEVIN BORICH RAY BEADLE IAN MOSS CASHTHE SHANESAVAGEPACEYANDTRIOTHE– LASTCHEAPDRINKSFAKES SLIM JIM PHANTOM LACHY DOLEY AND THE HORNS OF CONVICTION

TRIO PHIL MANNING – HUSSY HICKS – CLAUDE HAY

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KASEY CHAMBERS TROY CASSAR-DALEY July 28-30, 2017

SHANE NICHOLSON TRAVIS COLLINS - FANNY LUMSDEN and many more

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Venture into the valley

PHOTO BALGOWNIE ESTATE

Head to Balgownie Estate in Victoria’s Yarra Valley for a weekend getaway in the vines. For more tempting Yarra Valley ideas see page 25.

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Look to the skies in Waikato

March Add these fun and fascinating things happening across the Jetstar network to your bucket list this month

World Science Festival Brisbane 22-26 March Brisbane, Queensland

Adelaide Festival 3-19 March Adelaide, South Australia

Adelaide Festival and its spin-off events sweep the city off its feet each year. Join the literati at Adelaide Writers’ Week, celebrate world music and arts at WOMADelaide, or catch enthralling theatre, exhibitions, dance and music throughout the city.

Feed your brain at the southern hemisphere edition of the New York World Science Festival. Some of the top minds in science, technology, engineering and maths will take you on a journey through the weird, wacky and miraculous. worldsciencefestival.com.au

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Moomba 10-13 March Melbourne, Victoria

Noosa Festival of Surfing

Balloons Over Waikato

Madman Anime Festival

Whether it’s for long, body, skim or stand-up, board riders of all ages and specialties head to Noosa this month for the world’s biggest surfing event by competitor number. Between waves, surfers congregate at the festival beachfront bar for free live music, film screenings and entertainment. noosafestivalofsurfing.com

For nearly two decades, colourful hot-air balloons have filled the skies over Hamilton in their hundreds for this annual event. Flights take off at sunrise every day for five days, with tens of thousands of people turning out for the orchestral balloon light display and fireworks of Zuru Night Glow. balloonsoverwaikato.co.nz

Madman’s festival of Japanese animation and pop culture ‘MadFest’ heads west, bringing Australian film premieres, Japanese anime stars and stage performances to Perth. Come dressed in your finest to vie for a spot in the Madman National Cosplay Championship. animefestival.com.au

4-11 March Noosa, Queensland

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22-26 March Hamilton, New Zealand

4-5 March Perth, Western Australia

Australia’s largest community festival turns the banks of the Yarra River into an allages playground. The free entertainment includes live music, the colourful Moomba Parade, professional skateboarding and water sports, and the beloved Birdman Rally. thatsmelbourne.com.au/ moomba

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i Light Marina Bay 3-26 March Singapore

Every evening for three weeks, Marina Bay becomes an open-air gallery filled with large-scale light installations created using recyclable materials. Food stalls and live entertainment create a festival atmosphere perfect for Singapore’s balmy nights. ilightmarinabay.sg

Ten Days on the Island 17-26 March Around Tasmania

Try some delicious treats

A statewide frenzy of art and culture, Ten Days encompasses hundreds of genre-spanning performances at venues of all sizes across the state. tendays.org.au

Tiwi Islands Art Sale 19 March Bathurst Island, Northern Territory

Timed to coincide with the Grand Final on this football-mad island, the art fair is a unique opportunity to take home the creations of some of the Tiwi Island’s most talented artists and craftspeople. northernterritory.com

Taste of Sydney 9-12 March Sydney, New South Wales

Some of Sydney’s hottest restaurants and culinary wunderkinder take over Centennial Parklands to whip up wallet-friendly grazing for the crowds. Dozens of artisan producers, tastings, masterclasses, pop-up bars, and live music round out four days of feasting.

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FILL your diary with lipsmacking events at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, 31 March to 9 April.

FIND inner zen in beautiful Ubud during the Bali Spirit Festival, 19-26 March.

TOAST Saint Patrick at your local Irish pub on 17 March.

sydney.tastefestivals.com

French Film Festival 1 March to 12 April Around New Zealand

One of the largest celebrations of French cinema outside France, the Alliance Française French Film Festival brings the best of Gallic film culture to 12 towns across New Zealand, kicking off in Wellington before hitting the road. frenchfilmfestival.co.nz

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Q&A with Bebel Gilberto WORDS JUSTINE COSTIGAN

For Australians travelling to Brazil, any great tips for what to eat and drink?

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Thanks for choosing to fly with us today – it’s great to have you on board.

As an airline, we’re in the business of connecting people, and we like to give back to communities that support us.

That’s why we’re proud to have awarded dozens of Flying Start grants to community groups across Australia and New Zealand.

If you know a deserving organisation, find out how we can help them out at jetstar.com/flyingstart.

We also created our charitable initiative StarKids so that customers like you can help us give children a brighter future in many of the destinations we fly to (more on page 145).

And we make an effort to support small Aussie and Kiwi businesses through our menu on-board, including unique social winery Kooks, where profits fund pwositive change.

In this month’s magazine we explore the broader trend of social enterprise dining, a business model where restaurants support their communities through hiring staff from disadvantaged backgrounds, and donate their own profits to do good.

Check out the article on page 111, and look out for restaurants like this in your destination, because nothing beats giving back.

Enjoy your flight today, and hope to see you again next time.

Dean Salter, CEO Jetstar Australia and New Zealand

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Bossa nova singer and songwriter Bebel Gilberto is Brazilian music royalty.

We spoke to her ahead of her Australian tour this month.

You’ll be travelling to Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. What are you looking forward to seeing most?

I have been to Australia several times, and I must say that every time is the best experience.

I always make new friends and have an amazing time. There are so many things to love about Australia that it’s hard to choose a favourite thing. I always love seeing Australia’s beautiful beaches and coastlines!

Anyone who comes to Brazil must try açai, a very powerful and healthy antioxidant fruit.

Also, having a caipirinha is a good place to start. That’s our national cocktail, made with cachaça, which is kind of like our version of rum, mixed with lime juice and sugar.

Do you have a favourite Australian musician?

Well Sia and Nick Cave, definitely, I think they’re great.

There’s also a lot of great electronic music coming from Australia now, like Flume, Chet Faker, Thomas Jack, and some cool labels like Future Classics.

What’s your favourite Brazilian music?

What are your favourite experiences on tour in Australia?

There are many good new artists in Brazil these days that it’s hard to keep up! I love Otto. Also Seu Jorge. And there are also some great DJs and electronic producers, like this young guy Spaniol, who is pretty new.

Byron Bay is amazing. When we got there I was wearing, well, it wasn’t a bikini, but you know us Brazilians, we sometimes wear outfits that are like lingerie. So even though I didn’t have my bikini, I looked around and said, ‘No one is really going to notice it’s lingerie, come on let’s go!’

I put my things down on the sand and went straight into the sea. Byron has the most beautiful beaches - if not the most beautiful beach I’ve ever been to. And that’s saying a lot coming from a Brazilian!

See Bebel Gilberto on 12 March at WOMADelaide, 15 March at Sydney’s State Theatre and 17 March at the Melbourne Recital Centre. womadelaide.com.au

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Experience I NEWS

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DESIGN STARS

Ikea has worked with a brood of talented designers from around the world to create the new PS collection, a range of modular furniture and decorating solutions aimed at young urban creatives. Representing Australia are designers Kate and Joel Booy, the Netherlands-based duo behind Truly Truly Studios. One of their contributions is the playful Corner Easy Chair ($299), which owners can personalise by strapping cushions however they choose to a metal frame. Ever the ally of the budget-conscious home decorator, Ikea’s limited-edition pieces are all easy on the wallet, and in stores now. ikea.com.au

OPENING SOON

Spotted in the vines WORDS LUCY SIEBERT

Wine may be associated with age-old traditions but in McLaren Vale, South Australia, the cellar door experience is undergoing a high-tech, sensory makeover at one of the region’s most well known wine destinations, d’Arenberg.

The Cube is the latest addition to the estate; the vision of chief winemaker Chester Osborn, who is known for his innovative approach to winemaking – and now design, too. The building is inspired by a Rubik’s cube, an object of lifelong obsession for Chester.

The five-storey glass building is due to open mid-year and has already clearly taken shape, appearing to float above the mourvedre vines. Once completed, it will house a top-floor cellar door along with new-age features such as a wine fog room to awaken the senses, while virtual reality technology and video will allow visitors to experience the entire winemaking experience, starting with the soils, through to the final product. darenberg.com.au

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Wild at heart

The UN has declared March 3 World Wildlife Day in recognition of the challenges faced by the natural world. It’s never been more important for us to look closely at the animals and plants we share this planet with, and wildlife photographers help put them in focus. See the work of some of the world’s best nature photographers at the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 photography exhibit, on now at Geelong’s National Wool Museum until 14 May.

Gotcha!

geelongaustralia.com.au/nwm

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Chocolate and wine become a match made in heaven at the scenic Hahndorf Hill Winery cellar door. The daily ChocoVino degustation pairs fine, single-origin chocolates from far and wide with cool-climate wines crafted from the vines visible through every window.

Hahndorf Hill Winery, 38 Pain Road, Hahndorf, hahndorfhillwinery.com.au

Wellington Chocolate Factory

Employing a bean-tobar ethos, this Te Aro boutique sources single-origin cocoa beans direct from the farmers to create premium chocolate in house. With one-off wrappers designed by local artists, the bars also make a beautiful gift (if you can bear to give them away).

5 Eva Street, Te Aro, Wellington, wcf.co.nz

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ISLAND DREAMS While having an island all to yourself may be the stuff of lottery-winning fantasies, a holiday on one is now just a little bit closer to reality. Cempedak Island, off the coast of Singapore in Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago, opens this month offering an exclusive private island experience in 20 secluded bamboo beach-side villas. With a sustainable ethos, plenty of natural beauty, no TVs and a journey involving ferry, car and speedboat, a visit to the island feels like a true escape to a remote and beautiful corner of the world. Only 40 guests are hosted at any one time, and it’s a child-free zone – perfect for parents needing some well-earned rest and rejuvenation. cempedak.com

A HEALTHIER TOMORROW TECH TREND STARTS TODAY

What’s app-ning Smartphones go with us wherever we go, making them the perfect tool for a healthy dayto-day lifestyle. Make fit Download fun withthe apps such Sumo App as RockMyRun, which curates playlists to match your heart rate or pace, or Zombies, Run!, a cult app that gets you running from the virtual undead while pounding real pavement. The MyFitnessPal database contains the skinny on the nutritional values of over five million foods,

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Pana Chocolate’s raw creations, free from dairy, soy and gluten, pack all of the indulgence with none of the guilt. In his new book, founder Pana Barbounis shares some of his favourite recipes – think matcha-filled chocolates with a hint of lime, or a chocolate chia pudding for a decadent breakfast.

Pana Chocolate, The Recipes by Pana Barbounis, RRP$38, hardiegrant.com.au

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WHERE THE Songstress Katie Noonan has the best of both worlds on the Sunshine Coast WORDS KRYSIA BONKOWSKI

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atie Noonan first caught Australia’s ear with her ethereal lead vocals in the band George, when their debut album Polyserena topped the charts in 2002. Since then, she has forged a genre-defying career as one of the country’s most respected performers, and this year helms the Queensland Music Festival (July 7-30) as artistic director. Brisbane-born and raised, Katie decided to leave the city behind when she had children.

“I wanted my kids to have a bit more freedom to run around … I wanted to move somewhere beautiful and in touch with nature but not too remote,” she says. During a gig in the small town of Eumundi with her band The Captains, Katie fell for the Sunshine Coast, and her family of four have lived there since. “There’s a great sense of community, a lot of us have chosen to move here from somewhere else,” Katie says.

“It’s still connected, but disconnected enough to have that escape from the busy hubbub of the world.” Katie shares some of the places that make her proud to call the Sunshine Coast home.

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Noosa Heads National Park.

RIGHT: Eumundi Markets, turmeric pannacotta at Spirit House.

PHOTOGRAPHY CYBELE MALINOWSKI, PAUL SMITH IMAGES, LEO WILES, SPIRIT HOUSE

It’s one of the most beautiful bushwalks you could ever do

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80 Memorial Drive, Eumundi eumundimarkets.com.au These are the oldest-running artists’ markets in Australia; they’ve been running since the 1970s. I love the feeling of all these people coming in with their beautiful handmade objects and their organic food … there’s a great feeling, and a strong sense of community. I think I bought almost all of my Christmas presents there last year. It’s great to support local businesses, farmers, producers and artists.

69 Memorial Drive, Eumundi bohemianbungalow.com.au It’s a gorgeous, quintessential Queenslander turned into a funky restaurant – just good fresh, local food. It comes back to that spirit of supporting local smaller businesses that I love. They have an awesome menu, interesting art and friendly staff … and it’s very kid-friendly.

THE BUTTER FACTORY ARTS CENTRE 11A Maple Street, Cooroy butterfactoryartscentre.com.au Cooroy is another lovely little town just up the hill from Noosa, and the Butter Factory is a great space to see interesting music and art, and exhibitions from local artists and local musicians.

CHENREZIG INSTITUTE 33 Johnsons Road, Eudlo chenrezig.com.au This is a beautiful space to go and have some quiet [time] and get some Zen in your life. The Dalai Lama came here on his last Australian trip. It’s a special space for meditation and tranquillity.

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THE MAJESTIC THEATRE 3 Factory Street, Pomona themajestictheatre.com.au I’ve played here quite a bit, and seen lots of people I admire such as Uncle Archie Roach, Josh Pyke and Lior; lots of wonderful artists.

It’s a gorgeous space that’s cared for and loved by the community, and a lovely place to see music and old films.

PEREGIAN SKATE PARK Kingfisher Drive, Peregian Beach My kids are avid skaters and BMXers, so as a skater mum I find myself here a lot. It’s an amazing skate park right next to the beach. They also have a thing called Peregian Originals every month, which is a free outdoor music festival, and lots of great cafés. It’s a nice place to hang out with the skater boys.

NOOSA HEADS COASTAL TRACK This is an amazing bush walk at Noosa Heads. When you’re at the Noosa main beach, it’s to the right up around the headland. It’s one of the most beautiful bushwalks you could ever do, and you come across all these tiny little beaches where you can set up for the day and have a surf and swim.

MOUNT COOLUM This is another wonderful natural highlight of the area.

You can climb Mount Coolum, it’s a relatively relaxed bush walk/mountain climb, and another wonderful vantage point to look at our gorgeous coastline.

Songs of the Latin Skies out now!

SPIRIT HOUSE 20 Ninderry Road, Yandina spirithouse.com.au Sprit House is an amazing restaurant in the hinterland.

It’s perfect for a special night out with friends. We’re spoilt for choice here for excellent restaurants in amazing locations. It’s a magic little spot that you wouldn’t expect to be there; you go in and kind of immerse yourself in this special world.

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IKATAN DAY SPA 46 Grays Road, Doonan ikatanspa.com I’m a big fan of a day-spa. I go when I can, and also go with my girlfriends. Being the only girl in an all-boy house – one big boy and two little boys – I like to have my girly time. And Ikatan is just down the road from us. It’s so beautiful. Set on acreage, it’s a place to pamper yourself and escape from the world for a few hours.

Travel info Jetstar has great low fares to the Sunshine Coast from across the network.

To book, visit JETSTAR.COM

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Nambung Desert, Western Australia visitpinnaclescountry.com.au One hour’s drive north of Perth, this unique desert landscape features thousands of limestone pinnacles, some up to several metres high, spread out over 17,489 hectares of yellow quartz sand. The eerie landscape is even more beautiful at dusk and dawn when these unique formations throw long shadows.

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New Zealand, bungy.co.nz Given that Bungy was invented in Queenstown, it’s no surprise that the city is home to the Southern Hemisphere’s biggest bungy jump. At 134 metres, the Nevis Highwire is the equivalent of a 45-storey building and the plunge over the Nevis River is a thrilling 8.5 second free-fall dive.

3. PINEAPPLE MAZE Wahiawa, Hawaii doleplantation.com It may have started as a simple fruit stand in 1950, but today the Dole Plantation on Oahu is home to the world’s biggest botanical maze, with just over four kilometres of paths and around 14,000 Hawaiian plants. It can take up to an hour to find your way out of the maze, although the record is claimed to be a lightning-fast seven minutes.

Reward yourself at the end of your adventure with fresh pineapple.

4. THE GIANT STAIRWAY Katoomba, New South Wales nationalparks.nsw.gov.au scenicworld.com.au With 800-plus steps constructed from steel and stone in 1909, The Giant Stairway descends 300 metres from the Echo Point Lookout to Scenic World in the Blue

Mountains National Park, with views of the iconic Three Sisters as you walk. If the stairs leave you huffing and puffing (or suffering from sore knees), give yourself a break with a ride on the steepest passenger railway in the world to the valley floor.

5. BOROBUDUR Central Java, Indonesia The largest Buddhist temple in the world, and one of Buddhism’s greatest monuments, Borobodur on the island of Java is one of Indonesia’s biggest tourist attractions. Built in the 8th and 9th centuries, the monument was thought to be abandoned in the 11th century.

It was rediscovered in 1814 by a team sent to the area by then-governor of Java, Sir Joseph Stamford Raffles.

After restoration, the temple became a World Heritage Site in 1991.

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How to make new friends while travelling Holidays are best when shared with interesting strangers, writes Jane D’Arcy ILLUSTRATION STUART HOLMES

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’ve done it again. My phone is buzzing with texts from people I met on a recent camping trip. It’s not just me. My 11-year-old son has now recovered from the broken heart he acquired on the same adventure.

I didn’t know what was wrong with him as we drove one way and the family we had become friends with at the campsite drove the other; he couldn’t stop crying.

I eventually put two and two together. Seems he’s great at making friends

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while travelling too, and is now familiar with that sad, pit-of-stomach, postgoodbye feeling.

It’s not new for me though, the meeting and the leaving. I’ll be in Paris this April to run the Paris Marathon, staying with a gorgeous French friend I met while backpacking in Sumatra in 1996.

While some of the people you meet when travelling will be less for life and more just for fun, making an effort to meet new folk while travelling can reap big rewards.

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Sometimes it can be hard to meet people in a hotel (it can be a struggle to even raise a smile in the lift), but hostels and camping sites with shared kitchens are bursting with opportunities. Hikes, group travel and organised day trips are also new-friend gold. A school friend met her partner of 20 years when they were on the same trek in Nepal.

Offer to share food, a link to a cool travel app, suggest restaurants and offer bar tips or even a real coffee in the morning (my AeroPress – a portable coffee brewer – starts many morning conversations).

My son’s heartbreak began with the sharing of olive oil spray at the camp barbecue.

Be selective Suss out who’s around and make sure you’re inviting the brightest and the best into your world. Happy/smiling/chilledout people – yes. Stressed/ shouty/freaked-out people – no.

Be positive in your first encounter “Wow, I can’t believe how quickly you put up your tent” is better than “Who needs a comedy on Netflix when I can watch you putting up your tent?”

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Add to your crew You can still meet new people if you’re travelling with friends or family. In fact, new faces/ thoughts/stories can do you all good.

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Goodness IN A GLASS YOU’VE HEARD OF CLEAN EATING, NOW IT’S TIME FOR CLEAN DRINKING WORDS KRYSIA BONKOWSKI

Green is good

Funky teas Fizzy, tart and containing the occasional floatie, kombucha tastes a little like sour cider. Lightly fermented sweetened tea, kombucha’s microbial hit is claimed to boost your immune system and have great probiotic benefits.

A fine powder made from Japanese green tea, matcha packs a super antioxidant dose. The tea plant is shaded during the last growing weeks

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to stimulate production of caffeine and amino acid L-theanine – a combination believed to improve alertness, making green matcha lattes a popular coffee substitute. Unsweetened matcha has an umamirich, vegetal taste.

Mylk it Made with nuts (such as almond, hazelnut, coconut, macadamia and cashew), as well as rice, oats and flax, plantbased ‘mylks’ have gone mainstream. Nutritional values vary – almond milk is low on saturated fat but also low on protein, while oat milk is higher on protein but also in carbs.

Always check the label for sweeteners and additives.

Midas touch Ginger’s bitter cousin turmeric has recently made the leap to bonafide superfood. ‘Golden

...we’re being treated to an array of new tastes and textures milk’ has been drunk in India for generations, but now can be found frothed into vivid yellow lattes at a café near you.

With claimed antiinflammatory properties and benefits for the digestive and immune system, early research indicating turmeric may decrease the risk of cancer is fuelling its popularity. Meanwhile, mushroom lattes are also making inroads for similar reasons.

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Low in calories and high in goodies including potassium, coconut water is at its best in its natural form, so look for unflavoured, unsweetened options.

Getting juicy Apparently not all juices are created equal. The theory goes that ‘pressed’ fruit and vegetables retain more of the nutritional value of their healthy pulp than those chopped by the centrifugal blades in a juice machine. Coldpressed juice bars’ bright green concoctions and wholesome smoothies attract a peppy crowd.

Humble H20 Zero calories, no added sugar and cost-effective; it’s not #instaworthy, but you can’t go wrong with water.

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Home comforts The best version of the Philippines’ national dish is the one made with love WORDS MAIDA PINEDA

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ix years ago at Hong Kong International Airport, I held my breath as a dog approached my suitcase. “May he not smell my mom’s adobo,” I silently prayed. I had packed a small container of my mother’s chicken and pork adobo, taking with me the most comforting flavours of home.

If you have a Filipino friend, you’ve probably tried this dish in their home. This stew cooked in garlic, bay leaf, vinegar and soy sauce is the Philippine’s most popular dish, and every household boasts their adobo is better than their neighbour’s.

For most Filipinos, adobo refers to the chicken and pork version, but it also applies to the method of cooking in vinegar. In an archipelago of 7107 islands, expect numerous variations of this dish.

The Adobo Book by Ronnie Alejandro and Nancy Reyes-Lumen features more than 150 adobo recipes including chicken, pork, duck, quail, frog, mole crickets, fish, eel, squid, balut (fertilised duck egg), and banana blossoms.

Although nothing compares to my mum’s home-cooked version, you can find creative takes on adobo in Manila restaurants, including Via Mare’s crispy adobo flakes – leftover adobo shredded and refried in oil – or

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Try it here LAMESA Located in the heart of Sydney’s CBD, LaMesa serves chicken, pork, and squid adobo. lamesa.com.au

nothing compares to my mum’s homecooked version Abé’s tender lamb adobo.

Many assume the Spanish introduced adobo to the Philippines, but according to food historian Raymond Sokolov, the Philippine adobo is Spanish in name only. When the Spanish arrived in the Philippines in the 16th century, they encountered the local tradition of stewing with vinegar. Recognising its similarity to their own adobo, they called it “adobo de los naturales”.

Filipinos used vinegar not just as seasoning, but also as a necessary preservative in a tropical climate devoid of refrigeration.

In the past, you needed an invitation into a Filipino home to eat adobo and other authentic dishes. But recently, Filipino cuisine has emerged as a global food trend with hip

PAMANA This restaurant in Sydney’s Chatswood, famous for its boodle feasts served in banana leaves, cooks up a wicked crispy pork belly adobo. pamanachatswood. weebly.com HILL OF GRACE RESTAURANT Adelaide chef Dennis Leslie’s posh version uses South Australian ingredients: adobo beef cheek, grilled local oyster mushroom, Outback Pride muntries and quondongs, with crispy pig ears hillofgracerestaurant. com.au

dedicated restaurants opening from New York to London. In Australia, you no longer need to go to Blacktown in Sydney’s west for adobo, kare-kare (stew with peanut sauce) and sisig (made from pig’s head and liver). You can now find Filipino cafés and restaurants popping up around the country.

In New Zealand, 2015 MasterChef finalist Leo Fernandez introduced viewers to Filipino cuisine. He says adobo is a good entry point. “It’s not too overwhelming for newbies. Adobo has evolved to use available

REYNALDO’S GRILLS & SIZZLES This Melbourne restaurant serves pato adobo, duck slow-cooked in fresh orange vinegar and soy sauce, and adobong manok sa gata, boneless chicken braised in coconut milk, soy sauce and vinegar. reynaldos.com.au AZON IN NEW ZEALAND Taste MasterChef NZ finalist Leo Fernandez’s versions of pork adobo, squid adobo, and his adobo-inspired sauces used in other dishes. azon.co.nz

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ingredients such as lamb, mullet fish, Kahawai, and even asparagus. It’s all about using what’s readily available.”

Leo opened Azon restaurant in Parnell, Auckland, last year.

“Its name is short for corazon, Spanish for heart,” he says. Cooking from the heart, he hopes to introduce more Filipino cuisine to New Zealand.

But when pressed on where to get the best adobo, this chef answers the same way any other Filipino would: “For me, a Filipino home is still the best place to eat adobo.”

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In this beautiful Victorian region find fine wines, gourmet food and stunning views WORDS JUSTINE COSTIGAN

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Yarra Valley views, treats from Harvest Cafe, sleepy residents at Healesville Sanctuary, a gentle walking trail at Maroondah Reservoir.

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There’s no shortage of great accommodation in the Yarra Valley, from Airbnb properties and gourmet pubs to luxury resorts. At Balgownie Estate Vineyard Resort and Spa in Yarra Glen, we wake from our spacious spa suite and pull the curtains to a view over rolling lawns and vine-covered hills.

It’s a pretty spectacular way to start the day. It would be easy to spend all day here (cue spa treatments, a cellar door and indoor pool with floor-toceiling windows overlooking the vines) but there’s too much to do to laze around. balgownieestate.com.au

If you’re in the valley on the third Sunday of the month (19 March this month) head to the Yarra Valley Farmers’ Market at Yering Station. You might find buffalo sausages on the barbecue, coffee, fresh bread, cheese, jams – all grown and produced locally. If you’re not visiting on market day, make a beeline to Healesville’s Harvest Cafe for bacon with eggs, Noisette pastries, muffins, smooth Genovese coffee, and healthy smoothies. Sit in the back garden in the sun at rustic timber tables while you plan your day. yarravalleyfood.com.au yarravalleyharvest.com.au

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OUTDOORS The Maroondah Reservoir, a short drive from Healesville, has lovely mountain views and gentle walks in a mix of European-style gardens and native bush. Look out for yellow-tailed black cockatoos.

A visit to Healesville Sanctuary is a ritual for every Victorian school student, but there are thrills here for any age. See native animals at home in a bush setting, and be sure to catch Spirits of the Sky, a daily demonstration of Australia’s majestic birds of prey in action. parkweb.vic.gov.au zoo.org.au

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Don’t miss the inaugural Yarra Valley Food and Wine Festival (visityarravalley.com.au) next month at Rochford Wines on the weekend 1-2 April.

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CLOCKWISE: Perfectly plated at Levantine Hill, TarraWarra cellar door, Maddens Rise, a Tim Peel ring from Silvermist Studio.

AFTERNOON The Besen family’s gift to the people of Australia is a Yarra Valley must-visit. The architect-designed rammed earth building housing the TarraWarra Museum of Art sits high on the hill at TarraWarra Estate, and its collection and temporary exhibitions are always worth seeking out.

This month, see the work of Australian painter Louise Hearman. After a browse through the museum, stop in for a wine tasting or a picnic under the trees. twma.com.au

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No visit to a country town is complete without a browse through the local op shop, boutiques and sweets stores.

Healesville has all three in spades. Drop into Morris et al for beautiful homewares, gardening accessories, clothing and cosmetics. Alchemy stocks Danish D.Co jeans and local and imported fashion, and Silvermist Studio is the place to find beautiful jewellery by local designer Tim Peel. If you’ve built up a thirst, check out the headquarters of Four Pillars Gin, where you can see the copper still at work and enjoy a tasting. morrisetal.com.au alchemyyarravalley.com.au silvermiststudio.com.au fourpillarsgin.com.au

The newly opened headquarters of Innocent Bystander in Healesville (behind Giant Steps) includes a swish retail area, wine-tasting bar and dining space. Drop in for woodfired pizza and paella, and if you don’t feel like wine, try a cider, local beer or an Allpress coffee. innocentbystander.com.au

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There are more than 160 wineries in the Yarra Valley, ranging from tiny, rustic cellar doors to family-friendly restaurants and luxury experiences. If you’re finding it difficult to choose, why not dip your toe with a wine tour such as A Day on the Vine, which offers a wide-ranging tour of distilleries, breweries and wineries in the region. For a truly memorable experience (complete with sexy red helicopter on the lawn) Levantine Hill offers superb cuisine by acclaimed Melbourne chef Teague Ezard. There’s nothing like drinking an awardwinning wine while gazing upon the vines where the grapes were sourced. Opt for a casual lunch on the deck (wagyu beef slider perhaps) or the showstopper five- or eight-course degustation with matched wines. For a completely different but equally delightful experience, nearby Maddens Rise winery has a small cellar door focusing exclusively on wine tastings, and the passionate staff will give you a personalised tasting that’s all about the love of wine. adayonthevine.com.au levantinehill.com.au maddensrise.com

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LUXE: Garbo & Kelly Gel, $38, garboandkelly.com LESS: Rimmel London Brow this Way Styling Gel, $12.95, rimmellondon.com.au 2. SWAP CREAM FOR OILS “Quality oils can prevent congestion and the skin receives anti-inflammatory and antioxidant benefits,” says Sally Gluckstern, founder of Refresh + Byron Bay. LUXE: Kora Organics by Miranda Kerr Luxurious Rosehip Oil, $49.95 koraorganics.com LESS: Refresh + Byron Bay #08 Face Oil Serum, $29.95, refreshbyronbay.com.au 3. AUTO SUNBLOCK Car windows can enhance the effects of UVA rays. Apply sunscreen as soon as you 29 hop in the driver’s seat.

LUXE: Invisible Zinc 4hr Water Resistant Sunscreen SPF50+, $21.95 invisiblezinc.com.au LESS: Natio Broad Spectrum Sunscreen SPF50+, $11.95 natio.com.au 4. CUT MORNING CLEANSING “Start each day with a clay-based mask instead,” advises Bali-based skin specialist Dee Davies.

LUXE: Decleor Clay and Herbal Cleansing Mask, $55, spauniverse.com.au LESS: Mint Skin Detox Mud, $21.95 for four sachets mintskin.com.au 5. USE EYE SERUM The delicate skin around the eyes needs a lighter product. “Be gentle with your application. Use a light, circular stroke around the eye socket,” says Dr Joseph Hkeik from All Saints Cosmedical in Sydney.

LUXE: Endota Spa Lip and Eye Power Serum, $50, endotaspa.com.au LESS: Palmer’s Illuminating brightening Eye Serum, $14.99, palmersaustralia.com

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DELIGHTING IN decluttering Is it time you took control of your closet, pantry, office or shed?

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Take control of your life

for some there’s a [positive] emotional link between feeling ‘lighter’ when they declutter

Top tips 1. What do you constantly move aside when reaching for something else in your closet/kitchen drawer/ garage? Seek and destroy it.

2. Start small. Do one cupboard or drawer and nail that.

3. Every object should earn its place in your life. Ask yourself how each object contributes to your health, wellbeing and happiness.

4. Keep a charity bag handy in a high-traffic areas.

Make regular, even weekly, donations.

5. Find ways to display mementoes squirreled away in shoeboxes; or, simply photograph them.

Coming out of the closet: my personal list of guilty hoarding • Shoes. Particularly runners. I still have a pair of Dunlop Volleys (blue) that I used to play tennis in, 25 years ago.

• Business shirts.

It’s been more than a decade since I’ve

worked in a formal office environment, but I still have a business shirt for every occasion.

• Cigars. My mates gave cigars to me as presents when my children were born years ago. I dutifully smoked one or two and have been unable to throw out the rest.

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A FRIEND I USED to live with once told me: “A messy room betrays a messy mind.” I didn’t take it as a compliment at the time, and I don’t think he meant it that way.

Tidying for me happens in fits and starts. But there’s no denying the pleasing sense of calm satisfaction that descends thereafter.

For plenty of people, that post-tidying buzz is addictive. A swag of decluttering and mindfulness books have hit the shelves recently, including those of Japanese tidying guru, Marie Kondo. So popular is Marie, her surname has become a verb. As in: “I was waiting for the kettle to boil, so I Kondoed the heck out of my pantry.”

Carol Martyn is an Australian professional organiser and founder of tidying-up business Dr DeClutter. She believes decluttering is all about giving yourself more time to do the things you want to do – and feeling better about the space you live in.

“There’s a huge link between the emotional wellbeing of people and for some there’s a [positive] emotional link between feeling ‘lighter’ when they declutter,” she says.

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LIVE THE GOOD LIFE A local experience with global style, Robina Town Centre has over 400 stores, including iconic Australian and international brands.

Explore a world of flavours at the lakeside promenade and our bustling urban marketplace, The Kitchens.

Entertain the whole family at Robina Town Centre — the most vibrant Gold Coast destination.

Enjoy our free shuttle service and book your seat online robinatowncentre.com.au

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BENDIGO, VICTORIA Bendigo’s Gold Rush history is writ large across the city with its grand old buildings and impressive parks and streetscapes. But it’s also home to a happening art gallery, great local chefs and boutique accommodation.

Don’t miss the Bendigo Easter Festival, when the city comes to life with a lively Dragon Awakening and live entertainment. bendigoeasterfestival.org.au

CITY BREAKS

BLUE MOUNTAINS, NEW SOUTH WALES The spectacular Blue Mountains World Heritage area offers hidden treasures, from charming mountain villages to luxury accommodation with a view.

Check out the thriving coffee culture, take in the spectacular scenery and indulge in a little spa therapy and fine food. visitbluemountains.com.au

A long weekend is the perfect length of time to explore a new city. Base yourself in the heart of things and you’ll have the cream of the city’s restaurants, theatres, sports stadiums and shopping on your doorstep.

NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND A short flight from Auckland, Napier is located on the stunning Hawke’s Bay in one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed wine regions. Enjoy this charming art deco-style town, then head into wine country for a tasting or two. hawkesbaynz.com

A long weekend is the perfect length of time to explore

FROM TOP: Spectacular views across the Blue Mountains, the charming city of Napier, jump on a ferry and see Sydney’s harbour in all its glory.

SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES Base yourself in this beautiful harbour city and explore, starting at Circular Quay (where you might decide to jump on a ferry) and the Opera House all the way to Barangaroo, Chinatown, Darling Harbour and the city’s harbourside parks and gardens. Then venture further afield to happening Chippendale or the deservedly famous Bondi Beach. sydney.com

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND Known for its coffee culture, great chefs, film community and allround creativity, Wellington turns on the charm no matter what the weather (there’s a reason it’s called ‘Windy Welly’). Don’t miss the Te Papa museum or the cable car to the lookout above the city for stunning views. wellingtonnz.com

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As the weather cools, it’s a great time to get out into the country. Embrace the Danish spirit of hygge and seek out roaring fires, cosy country pubs, natural hot springs and misty mountain walks. Visit a winery, brewery or distillery, regional museum or art gallery, and stock up on local produce at a farmers’ market or farmgate stall. Cycle trails are the perfect way to get out and explore – you’re sure to find the stunning Insta-worthy view you’ve been seeking.

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Oaks Oasis Resort On 10 acres of tropical gardens, our aptly named Sunshine Coast resort features fantastic family facilities including a puttputt golf course and exclusive Water Park; definitely a drawcard for the young and the young at heart!

Oaks Pacific Blue Resort Your daily dip could end up being the equivalent of swimming ten times the length of an Olympic-sized pool!

Weaving its way around our resort, the iconic facility is in fact the largest swimming pool in Australia!

Oaks Seaforth Resort The sand and the sea are just steps away from our refurbished waterfront resort, ranked No. #1 on Trip Advisor. Enjoy a laid-back holiday rhythm of leisurely beach strolls and Alexandra Headland’s great mix of cafes and boutiques.

Oaks Lure Nestled in Nelson Bay in NSW, our family-friendly resort is an easy stroll to the town centre where a host of water-based activities and attractions are on offer including dolphin and whale watching cruises from May to October.

Oaks Plaza Pier You are steps away from the sand here!

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Oaks Calypso Plaza Our newly refurbished beachfront resort features a heated pool with dual waterslides. An ideal choice for that holiday mix of lively and laid-back, from Gold Coast theme parks to the tranquillity of the Tweed Valley.

Port Douglas Oaks Lagoons Ideally located to experience two World Heritage listed sites: the Daintree Rainforest, the world’s oldest living rainforest and the iconic Great Barrier Reef. Enjoy the relaxing comfort of our resort which features not one, but six lagoon style pools.

Oaks Waterfront Resort Set on the edge of Tuggerah Lake on the Central Coast, ours is a truly scenic seaside escape with many of The Entrance’s key attractions close by; including the daily pelican feeding in a special pavilion in Memorial Park.

Hunter Valley Oaks Cypress Lakes Resort Recently refurbished, our 25 acre resort features self-contained villa style accommodation with a championship golf course. The scenic surroundings create ideal wedding ceremony and reception venues.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA Broome Oaks Cable Beach Sanctuary At the top of everyone’s list when in Broome is a sunset camel ride on Cable Beach. A 10 minute stroll from our resort and you will behold the 22 km stretch of sand set against a backdrop of ochre-coloured cliffs.

NORTHERN TERRITORY Darwin Oaks Elan Darwin Centrally located on Woods Street, Oaks Elan Darwin is the city’s hotel of choice, just minutes from the Darwin Waterfront Precinct and the city’s dining, entertainment and shopping hub, including Smith Street Mall.

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MELBOURNE, VICTORIA Base yourself at a city hotel Oaks on Collins offers studio apartments with views over Collins Street – and make sure you arrive hungry. Melbourne’s enviable food culture will leave you spoiled for choice. Check out the laneways and shopping centres, take in a football game and visit the National Gallery of Victoria in between checking out the bars and restaurants. minorhotels.com/en/oaks/ oaks-on-collins

BEACHSIDE BLISS Warm water, blue skies, white sand; there’s nothing more relaxing than a getaway to a beautiful beach. Pack your swimming costume and sunnies and prepare to soak up the sun.

WHITSUNDAYS, QUEENSLAND Book into Coral Sea Resort Airlie Beach and you’ll be in the best position to spend the long weekend exploring the famous Whitsundays. Don’t forget to bring your snorkel! coralsearesort.com

BYRON BAY, NEW SOUTH WALES It’s the beach with a side order of healthy food, laidback surf culture and coastal style. Check into the luxurious Elements of Byron Bay and start the day with yoga on the beach. elementsofbyron.com.au

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ROTTNEST ISLAND, WESTERN AUSTRALIA A short ferry ride from Fremantle is a pretty island paradise that’s home to cute quokkas and beautiful beaches.

Explore the island’s cycle trails (the island’s car-free) or Wadjemup Bidi – a series of walking paths – and discover why it’s Perth’s favourite weekend getaway. rottnestisland.com

GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND Paradise Resort Gold Coast in Surfers Paradise is right in the heart of the city and has a waterpark, ice-rink and kids club all under one roof, which means that parents can get a break too. The beach is a short walk away if you need some sand between your toes. paradiseresort.com.au

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IN FOR A PENNY Try an exercise craze that moves to a different beat, writes Annabel Ross

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and the idea for Pound was born.

My instructor, the experienced and passionate Joanne Ventura, hands out the Ripstix (drumsticks) at the beginning of the class. What follows is a full-body workout incorporating arms, legs and abs as Joanne guides our movements and drumming patterns. It’s harder than you would think. The drumming requires a surprising amount of co-ordination and proves to be more of a workout than I anticipated.

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The drumming requires a surprising amount of co-ordination and proves to be more of a workout than I anticipated 45-minute class I am sweating, panting and in a moderate amount of pain (the good kind; the muscular burn that lets you know you’ve worked hard). I’ve never managed

to get into traditional Pilates – it has always seemed a bit sterile and sedate – but Pound offers all of the benefits, with pumping tunes to motivate and help the minutes fly by.

It’s offered at Crunch Fitness, a gym chain that started in New York which now has centres across the US, in Puerto Rico and Australia. All Crunch classes, like Pound, are designed around fun, high-energy workouts – think street fighting, “nocturnal flow yoga” and stretching to the tune of electro music.

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TO SAY I FEEL awkward would be an understatement. I’m standing in front of a flamboyantly dressed fitness instructor and attempting to follow her movements as she taps the floor and beats the air with a pair of drumsticks, occasionally knocking them together like rhythm sticks.

Thank God it’s dark. Pound (which is essentially free-standing Pilates performed with lightly weighted plastic drumsticks) shifts the typically controlled, serene practice of Pilates into a setting that is part rock gig, part nightclub, with the soundtrack to match. My class included tracks by Beyonce, Rihanna, AC/DC, Florence + the Machine and Rage Against the Machine.

Pound’s origins are fittingly Rock ‘n’ Roll, too – American fitness entrepreneurs and “recreational drummers” Cristina Peerenboom and Kirsten Potenza attended a party in the Hollywood Hills, took over the drum kit from ex-Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum and realised they had chanced upon a vigorous corestrengthening workout that was fun. Add Cristina’s background in dance and choreography

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A KITSCHY SUBCULTURE inspired by the Polynesian Islands, Tiki started in the US in the ’30s and spread around the globe. Playful retro decor is a hallmark of a Tiki bar, and tropical cocktails of course. Here are a few of our favourites.

Tiki Beat Bar, The Newport Hotel, 2 South Terrace, Fremantle, WA The Newport Hotel’s retrochic bar (left) features hand-carved Tiki totems and a bar full of rum. thenewport.com Arnold’s Beach Bar 339 Saratoga Rd, Honolulu, Hawaii This beloved, no-frills Waikiki dive bar doles out iconic Tiki cocktails for bargain prices. arnoldswaikiki.com Motel Bar Forresters Lane, Te Aro, Wellington, NZ Climb the stairs for potent tropical cocktails with saucy names served in quirky Tiki mugs. motelbar.co.nz White Lightning Tiki Bar, Alfred & Constance Constance St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, QLD One of three bars under the roof of a restored Queenslander, White Lightning combines Hawaiian kitsch with signature Tiki cocktails. alfredandconstance. com.au Jacoby’s, 154 Enmore Rd, Enmore, Sydney, NSW Watch this space for this highly anticipated Tiki bar from the acclaimed team behind Earl’s Juke Joint.

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*What is it?

The nutritious lucuma fruit is adored in its native Peru (it’s one of the country’s favourite ice cream flavours). Used as a natural sweetener, lucuma is packed with antioxidants, calcium and healthy carbs. Lucuma powder can be found in organic and healthfood stores.

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yron Bay in northern New South Wales is the land of the early riser. As the sun climbs over the Australian mainland’s easternmost point, it reveals locals on their daily run up to the iconic lighthouse, catching the first wave of the day or saluting the sun at yoga. Afterwards you might find many of these early birds perched on the lawns and verandah of Folk.

Squatting under a blue corrugated roof surrounded by greenery, Folk café creates organic and vegetarian dishes plated up with aesthetic flair. Breakfast classics such as avocado smash, hot cakes and granola are made with fine produce, foraged greens and edible flora. If a turmeric or beetroot latte sprinkled with flower petals is a tad too new age for you, the coffee hails from Melbourne’s Dukes Coffee Roasters.

Founders Maggie Dylan and Jules Kelly came to Byron from Melbourne chasing the “original hippie dream” glimpsed on childhood holidays. “As we got older, we realised we were in love with the unique landscape – the magical hinterland flowing down to the picturesque coastline,” they explain.

The couple spotted a run-down little property in Byron’s industrial area.

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and felt like the perfect project, a space to express ourselves creatively that we could share with the local community.”

Decorated with indoor plants, warm wood and retro quirk, the feel is part hip inner-city café and part dream beach shack.

“We wanted to create a little utopia, a tangible space that represented the Byron of our dreams that [we felt] was perhaps becoming lost.” Folk was so well-embraced by the community that Maggie and Jules were able to open a sister café, Woods, in the hinterland town of Bangalow. As far as the choice to serve only plant-based sustenance: “There is no other option.

This is the way the food industry needs to be.”

Sourcing ingredients is not an issue in the fertile Northern Rivers. As well as tapping local suppliers, Maggie and Jules make use of foraging. “We love dandelion greens – they

we like to focus on local and accessible seasonal food

are highly nutritious and grow everywhere,” they say. “Use them in salads, smoothies or stir-fries. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can make a wine from the blossoms or roast the roots for a nourishing coffee-style tea –we use this for one of our house made chais. Elderflower is also abundant in this warm climate – we love using it as both a decorative element in our meals and infusing the blossoms into drinks.”

Folk’s lavender, blueberry and lucuma smoothie is a response to the changing weather.

“It’s still warm up here but we’re starting to get a chill in the air and the lavender is very comforting. It’s flowering at this time of year, and the blueberries will be coming to the end of their season so we are starting to freeze them in bulk.” The antioxidantrich blueberries and ‘superfruit’ lucuma help stave off winter colds, they say. “At Folk we like to focus on local and accessible seasonal food and add some special extras to amp up the nutrient content.”

LAVENDER, BLUEBERRY AND LUCUMA SMOOTHIE INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 frozen ripe banana • 1 cup frozen blueberries • 1 tsp lucuma powder* • 1/4 tsp lavender powder • 1 tbsp quinoa flakes • Pinch of vanilla • 400ml milk of choice (we use homemade organic coconut milk) • Sprinkle of cinnamon • Sprig of lavender

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Jules and Maggie’s perfect start to the day?

“A beautifully brewed filter coffee followed by a beach walk and a swim with our big hairy dog and then returning to one of the cafés to play with our team and chat to our regulars over a light breakfast!”

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PAMPERED IN PERTH Sarah Gamboni takes a VIP look at the newest luxury retreat in the West

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erth has a new home of pampering: the palatial Crown Towers resort in Burswood. Overlooking the Swan River and Perth skyline, this luxurious retreat is home to 500 guest rooms, lagoonstyle pools, fine dining and a state-of-the-art day spa. The jewel in Crown Towers is the spa.

Designed by interiors whiz Blainey North, this shimmering space of cobalt, gold and powder blue offers a sophisticated nod to the Roman baths of old. A treatment here grants you access to the Aqua Retreat, home to a hammam-style steam room and vitality pool with high-powered jets that pummel your

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muscles into submission.

After taking a dip, I head to the adjoining relaxation rooms to sip mint tea while I wait for my session. Just as I’m about to doze off on my day bed, my therapist Sonia softly pads into the lounge and ushers me into a sleek treatment room of ivory, bronze and grey. I’ve booked the Subtle Energies Mukha Chikitsa facial, an allnatural treatment based on Ayurvedic holistic health principles that’s designed to invigorate the skin and restore radiance.

My facial begins in an unexpected place – my feet – as Sonia cleanses each foot with fragrant oils before wrapping them in hot towels.

this shimmering space of cobalt, gold and powder blue offers a sophisticated nod to the Roman baths of old

Next, it’s time for that awkward spa dance of disrobing and clambering onto the massage table clad only in a flimsy paper g-string. Any awkwardness is forgotten as Sonia swaddles me in blankets and towels. With the touch of the button, the foot and head of the bed rise, gently curling

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me into a zero-gravity position.

With the swipe of another button, the sound system swings into action – forget about warbling birds or flute tunes.

Here, in keeping with the subtle energies’ aim to energise and stimulate, the soundtrack skips from trippy tribal beats to the kind of electronica usually reserved for raves.

You’ll either love it or find yourself craving Kenny G. Over the next 90 minutes, Sonia paints my face with perfumed jasmine oil, a saffron scrub, and a rich rose-scented cream that feels like liquid velvet as it’s brushed onto my skin. While the hydrating mask sets, Sonia treats me to a Mukha marma massage, gently kneading my face, neck and shoulders, and pulling my hair until she hits

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CROWN SPA PERTH Crown Towers, Great Eastern Highway, Burswood, WA crownhotels.com.au/ crown-spa-perth Subtle Energies Mukha Chikitsa Holistic Anti-Ageing Facial: 90 minutes, $250 Aqua Retreat: $65 (free with any spa treatment of an hour or longer)

that sweet spot between pleasure and pain.

After a final dab of jasmine, rose and sandalwood oil, I’m sent on my way with a renewed sense of vitality, a welcome change from the cloudy fug that normally follows a spa treatment.

Which is just as well, as the Crown team has plenty more in store. Over a poolside lunch of bento boxes and Aperol spritzes, our group debates the merits of venturing into Northbridge to visit Perth’s art galleries, or soaking up the sublime

weather here at the resort. For this sunstarved Melburnian, the lure of the pools proves too strong. Later, we’re invited into The Enclave, an exclusive retreat with a private infinity pool and chic cabanas with couches, minibars and TVs. Hours slip away as we sip Champagne and paddle in the riverview pool.

As the sun sets we emerge just in time for cocktails in The Waiting Room, the hotel’s Belle Époque-inspired bar adorned with copper accents, jade-green tiles and lavish peacock prints. Over dinner at Epicurean, we bemoan the lack of a suitable word to describe the globe-trotting food offering – neither

“buffet” or “smorgasbord” do justice to the string of cooking stations serving everything from sushi and dim sum to lipsmacking Indian curries.

The pièce de résistance is the dessert counter, an island of glass cases filled with petite sweets, whole cakes you can slice yourself, and the world’s largest chocolate fountain. It’s a fittingly decadent end to an indulgent stay.

Sarah Gamboni was a guest of Crown Towers Perth.

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These modern health entrepreneurs have changed their own lives and the lives of others WORDS ANNABEL ROSS

n this age of raw foods, green smoothies and Fitbits, it’s never been trendier to be on the health and fitness bandwagon. But for these three entrepreneurs, good health was a passion long before it was in fashion.

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Practice makes perfect

Duncan Peak, Power Living yoga studios After growing up in what he describes as a wild environment, Duncan Peak played first grade professional rugby and spent seven years in the Australian Army before being discharged due to injury. He started practising, then teaching, vinyasa yoga as part of his rehabilitation, and after reluctantly accepting an offer to run a studio in Neutral Bay, quickly changed his tune as he watched the business flourish.

Fast-forward 14 years and Duncan is the proud founder of Power Living, running 10 yoga studios (with 11 business partners) across Australia and New Zealand. As well as holding classes, Power Living provides teacher training courses

(Duncan estimates they’ve trained about 1500 teachers), offers retreats and workshops, and has just launched an online platform called Yogaholics.

“I feel we’ve contributed a lot to the expansion of modern yoga in Australia,” says Duncan, who launched his business back when yoga was the domain of “hippies and housewives”.

In spite of his success, Duncan says “the goal is more about raising

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I found I could indulge in sweet treats and still be on the journey to good health consciousness and helping and healing people rather than growing the business. The business owners sit down and go, ‘look what we’ve created’.” powerliving.com.au

Taline Gabrielian, Hippie Lane When diagnosed with a range of food intolerances five years ago, sweet tooth Taline Gabrielian was distraught. But it forced her to start making her own substitute treats, free of flour and refined sugar, and the results were surprisingly good. “I found I could indulge in sweet treats and still be on the journey to good health and not compromise what I was trying to do to get better,” says Taline.

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LEFT TO RIGHT: Duncan Peak of Power Living, treats by Hippie Lane, and Base Body Babes’ Felicia Oreb and Diana Johnson.

Aware that there would be others with similar sensitivities, she created a range of alternative snacks called Hippie Lane to sell in her husband’s Sydney café and was overwhelmed by the response.

“We sold out every week.

I had lots of wholesale enquiries at the time, the business began at that point,” Taline says.

At the end of 2014, she started an Instagram account documenting her photogenic creations, and the following year launched

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a Hippie Lane recipe app so her fans could make her snacks at home.

Taline has a cookbook due out in April. “My long-term vision is about inspiring other people to make it a lifestyle – through easily achievable recipes that are not only nice to eat but beautiful to look at.” hippielane.com.au

Felicia Oreb and Diana Johnson, Base Body Babes Base Body Babes started through word of mouth.

Diana Johnson was running a childcare centre and doing personal training on the side, and the mothers at childcare asked if she and her equally fit sister, Felicia Oreb (wife of renowned strength coach Sebastian Oreb), would train them.

What started as outdoor training sessions for women morphed into a booming online business when the sisters began sharing images of their toned physiques on Instagram in 2012.

“We started to get a good following on there and people from all over the world started asking us to train them,” says Felicia.

The sisters developed a four-week online training program, to be carried out at home or in the gym, and customise it to fit individual needs depending on medical history and goals.

Their biggest challenge came in late 2015 when their Instagram account was hacked and all their posts and 50,000 followers were wiped out. The posts and many of the followers were retrieved however, and with 626,000 followers and counting, plus two newly opened studios in Sydney, it’s fair to say they’ve made a strong recovery.

Felicia credits their clients for their inspiration and drive. “When we first started, it was about getting these mums into shape and feeling good about themselves, and feeling stronger and healthier,” she says. “It remains the same, it’s all we want for our girls.” basebodybabes.com

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Loving the island

The Tasman Peninsula is a favourite local spot nominated by wellknown Tasmanians in our feature on page 70.

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Making a stand: The Tuyu Buffaloes link arms in a show of solidarity against domestic violence before kick-off at the 2016 Tiwi Islands Football League Grand Final between the Tuyu Buffaloes and the Muluwurri Magpies at Wurrumiyanga, Bathurst Island.

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It seems that football is a way of life for the Tiwi Islanders. Many of the supporters I spoke with were either ex-coaches, ex-players, supporters since they were babies, budding players, children or close relatives of the players; everyone has a semi-spiritual connection.� Isabella Moore, photojournalist

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When I arrived at the oval, I saw that the spectators were mesmerised, looking on enraptured by the spectacle, as if it transcended a mere interest.� Isabella Moore, photojournalist

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The Muluwurri Magpies raise the premiership cup. LEFT: Former Tuyu Buffalo player Raymond Timaepatun watches the match.

Festival of footy Off the coast of Darwin, the Tiwi Islands Football League reaches a colourful crescendo at the Grand Final WORDS PETER BARRETT

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About the photographer

The small island community has produced some exciting players, too.

Think dual premiership Essendon All-Australian Michael Long; and the Rioli clan, including Dean, Richmond legend Maurice, Daniel (Richmond) and fourtime premiership gun, Cyril Junior (Hawthorn).

“Twenty years ago, you’d play barefoot,” says Dean. “It’s basically wet season and sometimes torrential, monsoonal rains, and trying to kick the football barefooted once it was waterlogged – it was very slippery, so the skill of hitting their targets barefooted was amazing to watch.”

Today, the players tend to wear flashy

fluorescent boots but the electric spirit of the game remains. “It’s getting better and better, really, every year,” says CEO of the Tiwi Land Council Brian Clancy, who has lived here for almost 30 years and played five seasons (as the “token whitefella”) in a club now known as the Walama Bulldogs.

“It’s like a cauldron of passion, everyone screaming for their team.

We get the odd dog that runs across the oval but they just play around them. Footy’s a pretty serious business but there’s a lot of fun and laughter as well. And of course, for the winning team, winners are grinners, as always.”

Isabella Moore is a Sydney-born, Stockholmbased photojournalist with an eye for untold stories.

She wound up in Darwin as a staff photographer for the infamous NT News and became intrigued with territory life. Follow Isabella on Instagram @isabellamelody

Travel info Jetstar has great low fares to Darwin from Adelaide, Cairns, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

To book, visit JETSTAR.COM

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IT’S FOOTBALL, BUT not as you know it.

Played lightning fast, end to end, with players too busy snapping goals to worry much about defence, this is Aussie Rules Tiwi Islands-style.

And this month is the islands’ biggest day on the calendar: the Wet Season Grand Final.

“The atmosphere is electric,” says Dean Rioli, a former Essendon AFL footballer who grew up here supporting his Imalu Tigers, one of the island league’s most successful clubs. “The women and the kids make all the noise, they’re so passionate about their football. You see a lot of oval invasions and somersaults, and just pure excitement in celebration.

It’s high quality, skilful, fast and attacking football.”

Australian Rules was first encouraged here by Catholic priest, Brother John Pye, who arrived on the twin islands, wedged between the Arafura and Timor Seas 80 kilometres north of Darwin, in 1941. Since those early games played on the local airstrip, footy has evolved into a passionate, identity-defining way of life for the islands’ 2500 inhabitants.

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From feasting on the beach, blending your own wine, indulging in the long table lunch on Hastings Street to lounging in The Noosa Woods, there is an experience for everyone.

To view the full Noosa Food & Wine Festival program and purchase tickets visit our website.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Street Eats @ Franko in Franklin Square, happy pigs at Fat Pig Farm, dining at Street Eats @ Franko.

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Paddock-to-plate experiences at Agrarian Kitchen Cooking School. BELOW: The Tasmanian Food and Wine Conservatory.

Beer, a handcrafted nonalcoholic brew made with fresh ginger and lemon.

Twenty minutes south of Devonport you’ll find Barringwood Estate and the Tuckshop Van, a vintage orange caravan in the vineyard. With a nostalgic, milk-bar inspired menu that serves classics such as jaffles, Aussie-style burgers and schmiko rolls (an updated version of the iconic Chiko Roll), all made in-house and showcasing the great local produce. Head outside with one of the impressive platters laden with local cured meats, terrines and seafood with a bottle of pinot gris and take in the views across Bass Strait.

Southern ways Head south east along the Bass Highway through lush green fields. Stop off

Maybe it’s the clean air, pure waters and temperate climate at Sassafras and check out the Tasmanian Food and Wine Conservatory, a sunny plantation-style room serving good coffee and a tempting menu featuring local produce.

The providore section does Tasmania proud

with its eye-popping range of local cheeses, butter, charcuterie and whiskies, vodka and gin.

Further south, take the turn-off to Launceston and, on Saturday mornings, head to Harvest Launceston Market.

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or a tiny island on the bottom of the world, Tasmania packs a mighty punch when it comes to delicious produce. Maybe it’s the clean air, pure waters and temperate climate that make it a dream foodie destination. But the best way to find out for sure is to hit the road and discover the tastes of Tasmania for yourself.

Let’s start in the north.

Devonport, one hour’s drive from Launceston airport, is the bustling gateway to the North West Coast, and the first stop on what’s known as The Cradle to Coast Trail. New kid on the distillery block Southern Wild is making an impact with its Dasher + Fisher gins that seem to have distilled the Tasmanian wilderness into a bottle.

The distillery produces three distinct gins, using botanicals from the forest, the sea and the fields. Its cocktail bar has a cool industrial feel.

Take the DIY approach and stop off at the city’s new Hill Street Grocer.

Fill your basket with Tasmanian cheeses, smoky free-range ham (look for Mount Gnomon), crusty Pigeon Whole Bread and Tasmanian Butter Co. butter. Add a couple of bottles of Henry’s Ginger

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Find your soul. Nourish your senses. Corinna has become a must do experience. Corinna is an historic town set in amongst one of the oldest temperate rainforests in the world, situated along the banks of the primitive Pieman River.

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Rejuvenate in our comfortable eco retreats, all with balconies backing onto the Tarkine rainforest. Cozy up to your own ďŹ re with a good book, or spend your evening with a nice glass of Tasmanian wine and complimentary cheeses.

Come and enjoy the quality local food & beverages at the Arhberg Bar & Tannin Restaurant. A place to sit, relax, enjoy the atmosphere and trade travelling stories with fellow guests and our friendly team.

Enjoy an intimate rainforest and river experience on the famous huon pine river cruiser, Arcadia II. Take canoes and kayaks from Corinna to further explore the Pieman and its tributaries.

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Rainforest Escape your busy schedule. Come and explore the unique Tarkine rainforest with many walks surrounding Corinna. Experience the mysterious wilderness as it was 60 million years ago.

Corinna HOBART

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Scenic roads near Kelvedon Beach along the Great Eastern Drive.

LEFT: Crowds at Street Eats @ Franko.

Vines and views Next, head through the golden hills of the Fingal Valley to The Great Eastern Drive. You’ll be pulling over regularly for selfies in front of breathtaking beaches and rugged coastline, but it’s also home to some of the state’s finest vineyards.

Get your bearings at The Farm Shed East Coast Wine Centre in Bicheno. Offering tastings and sales of 48 wines from vineyards between Triabunna to north of St Helens, it’s a sampler of Tasmania’s east-coast wine region. The Coffee + Wine Bar is open daily for breakfast and lunch, with wine-sipping snacks such as warm olives, spiced nuts and grazing plates.

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Enjoy the fruits of your labour, washed down with a Tassie wine or two Devil’s Corner Vineyard is perched high on a hill with stunning views over Moulting Lagoon, the majestic Hazards mountain range and the Freycinet Peninsula.

Slick, black shipping containers create a tasting room, oyster bar and a café offering wood-fired pizza and gelato. Pick up a glass, something to eat and climb the tower made

from a stack of upended shipping containers for an eagle-eye view.

Head inland down the Midlands Highway to the Derwent Valley and the tiny village of Lachlan for a paddock-toplate experience at The Agrarian Kitchen Cooking School. Grab a basket and secateurs and harvest fresh produce, perhaps milk a goat, or collect

eggs, then head back to the kitchen with your bounty. Enjoy the fruits of your labour, washed down with a Tassie wine or two.

Before you reach Hobart, take a drive along the hedge-lined roads of the Coal Valley, dotted with vineyards, orchards and convict-built villages.

Pick strawberries at the Coal Valley Farm, eat inside its modern, country restaurant and take home cheese and chocolate made on site.

The town mouse If you hit the bright lights of Hobart on a Friday night, follow your nose to Street Eats @ Franko in Franklin Square. The smell of charcoal wafts in the twilight air and people stretch out on the lawn listening to local bands.

Strictly Tasmanian-made produce is on offer here.

Try grandma’s Thai-style fishcakes or chargrilled spare ribs, then satisfy sugar cravings with loukoumades from

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It’s home to the freshest seasonal produce; think crisp apples, sweet berries, free-range pork, organic dairy, artisan breads and single-origin coffee.

Saint John Craft Beer Bar offers 14 taps pouring innovative beers, plus more than 170 bottled brews. BYO food for lunch or enjoy good nosh out of the food van around the back at night.

At Velo Wines on the Tamar Valley highway, chef and goat farmer Matt Adams’ Timbre restaurant feeds local punters, families and snack-seekers alike.

Enjoy simple, modern food while overlooking the pastoral views of the Tamar Valley.

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A leisurely drive to the Huon Valley, 30 minutes south of Hobart, takes you through orchards that follow the trout-filled Huon River to the quiet township of Cygnet, a highlight on any foodlover’s list. Head to Pagan Cider, set in an old cherry-packing shed, for an array of tasty ciders made from locally grown apples, raspberries, cherries, pears or quinces. There’s a food truck on site overlooking the orchard.

Locals queue out the door of Cygnet Woodfired Bakehouse for sourdough breads, chocolate-chip biscuits, salads and fruity gelato (try the white peach or the mulberry).

A visit to the Huon Valley should include Fat Pig Farm. Matthew Evans of TV’s Gourmet Farmer

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fame and his wife Sadie Chrestman run a mixed farm of Wessex saddleback pigs, a market garden, two dairy cows and assorted chickens. Their restaurant and cookery school hosts a long-table lunch on Fridays, made with ingredients sourced from the farm. Take a farm tour (gumboots provided) to see the impressive gardens and orchard, and feed the cute little piglets. Knock out sausages, pickles or pasta at the cooking classes, a full-day affair that includes hands-on experience, a tour and a massive lunch.

For more hands-on experience, head to the Tasman Peninsula for a gin-making workshop at McHenry, Australia’s southernmost whisky

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distillery. Bring your own botanicals if you like, learn the fascinating distilling process, then take home your bespoke bottle of gin.

The best advice for any Tasmanian tour is to carry plenty of coins; some of the best food discoveries might be found along the roadside. Look for humble roadside stalls with hastily painted signs peddling newseason apples, honey, bread, berries and gin.

Leave your money in the honesty box and drive away with the true taste of Tasmania.

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To book, visit JETSTAR.COM

Temptations from Cygnet Woodfired Bakehouse. INSET: Interior of Pagan Cider cellar door.

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Georgia’s Kuzina. The Spirit People serve cocktails with liquor from the state’s best distilleries, mixed with handmade bitters, syrups and tonics.

If you want to dig deeper and discover Hobart’s delicious secrets, book a walking tour with Gourmania Food Tours.

Bring your walking shoes (and stretchy pants) and eat your way through local cheeses, sensational cool-climate wines, fresh seafood, buttery pastries and more.

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Bob Brown Former leader of the Australian Greens party, Bob Brown is a passionate environmentalist and founder of the Bob Brown Foundation, an organisation fighting to protect Australia’s wilds.

Where did you grow up and where do you live now?

My childhood was in country NSW and I now live at Randalls Bay near Cygnet, an hour south of Hobart.

What do you love most about where you live?

My partner Paul’s ancestors moved here in 1840. His farm overlooks the ocean and we built our house in an old quarry by the Huon River. Every evening we feed bandicoots, quolls, golden possums, potoroos, or Tassie devils.

What’s the best event on the cultural calendar?

April’s Le Weekend, celebrating French scientists exploring Port Cygnet in 1792 and 1801, and their contact with the Palawa people.

Where do you take out-oftowners?

To the Styx Valley of the Giants: trees nearly 100 metres high, within easy reach of Hobart.

BEACH – New River Lagoon VIEW – Atop Frenchmans Cap in the World Heritage Wilderness Area.

WEEKEND ESCAPE – The fishfarm-free East coast FAMILY HOLIDAY – Strahan: wild river cruises, the Peoples’ Park waterfall, Ocean beach and the Henty sand dunes.

What’s your favourite Tasmanian historical place?

The Aboriginal people’s short Needwonnee Walk at Melaleuca on Bathurst harbour; to get there you fly over the spectacular World Heritage wilderness with Par Avion, before a cruise on the harbour.

What’s the most exciting development on the cards for Tasmania?

Besides keeping the wilderness free of developments, Graham Wood’s plan to turn the rusting Triabunna wood chip mill into a tourist resort.

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What is the one dish or drink that defines Tasmania for you?

Curried scallops with a glass of Jansz.

What’s the most common misconception about Tasmania?

That it’s cold. We have a sunny Mediterranean climate but, unlike Rome, it rarely snows in Hobart.

If you had to sum up Tasmania in one sentence, what would it be?

A wonderland of rivers, cathedral-like forests, unique wildlife and the freshest, cleanest air on Earth.

Where will we find you on a Saturday night?

Beside our external fireplace, with a Tasmanian sauvignon blanc and friends, as Paul prepares his lemon chicken dinner.

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What is the island’s bestkept secret?

The Tarkine wilderness with Australia’s largest temperate rainforest.

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Professional photographer Stu Gibson specialises in surf, kite boarding and aerial photography, shooting some of Tasmania’s most beautiful, untouched coastlines.

Where did you grow up and where do you live now?

I grew up in Lauderdale, on the southern beaches in Tasmania.

For the past seven years I’ve lived in Cremorne, a quiet little suburb with a spectacular sandy lagoon and beach on the opposite side.

What do you love most about where you live?

Friendly people, quiet neighbourhood, good fishing and close to surf – I can kite board straight behind my backyard!

What’s the best event on the cultural calendar?

It’s a tie between Falls Festival and Dark Mofo.

Where do you take out-of-towners?

A drive and hike down the Tasman Peninsula is always a crowd pleaser, with good food and sites the whole way.

Where would we find you on Sunday at lunchtime?

Hopefully at the beach, surfing or kiting.

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Where in Tassie will you find the best: BEACH – Flinders Island.

VIEW – Cape Pillar.

WEEKEND ESCAPE – Bicheno.

FAMILY HOLIDAY – King or Flinders Island.

What’s your favourite historical place in Tasmania?

Monument Bay.

What is the one dish or drink that defines Tasmania for you?

Garlic butter abalone on the barbecue and natural fish; my dad always caught us seafood so I grew up eating that on the reg’ (regular).

What’s the most common misconception about Tasmania?

I always get asked what I do in Tasmania, as if it’s a boring place or something… Tassie probably has a more diverse amount of activities than any other state, you just have to be prepared to chase it.

If you had to sum up Tasmania in one sentence, what would it be?

I love you.

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What is the one dish or drink that defines Tasmania for you?

Mussels. I’ll never forget camping on the beach as a kid and boiling some over the fire with my parents.

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Where would you take out-of-towners?

Tasmanian-born singersongwriter Asta Evelyn Binnie-Ireland might have left the island, but her hometown is still close to her heart.

Where in Tassie will you find the best:

Where did you grow up and where do you live now?

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I grew up in a very small, cold place called Cygnet in Tasmania and have now moved to a big, hot place called Sydney.

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What do you love about Tasmania?

I love the sense of community and the big mountains.

Everything’s cheaper and everyone seems to smile lots!

What’s the most common misconception about Tasmania?

That it’s cold and there’s nothing to do except some bush walking and star gazing. You will get burnt within five minutes and I guarantee you won’t have time to look up because you’ll be eating so much delicious food.

What’s the island’s biggest local secret?

There are mermaids down by the sea and UFOs that fly above, but we also grow the best berries!

What’s the best event on the cultural calendar?

Dark Mofo, an annual festival held every June, is a must.

I’d take them to Pilgrim Cafe for a coffee and meal, then down to the wharf for a stroll around Salamanca Markets.

BEACH – Cremorne.

VIEW – Mount Wellington.

WEEKEND ESCAPE – Bruny Island.

CHILDHOOD HOLIDAY – Richmond.

What’s your favourite historical place in Tasmania?

I love walking around Salamanca and Battery Point. There are so many beautiful old cottages to look at.

What’s the most exciting development on the cards for Tasmania?

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I think the food and wine industry is really going to take off!

It’s definitely an island full of incredible produce.

If you had to sum up Tasmania in one sentence, what would it be?

A less-tropical Ibiza. Grab a one-way ticket because you may never want to leave.

Asta is currently touring with her new EP Shine, visiting major and regional cities around Australia. For dates, see astaworld.com.au

What do you miss most about living in Tasmania?

The fresh air.

Dark Mofo is Asta’s highlight of Tasmania’s busy cultural calendar.

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While working full time at Bay of Fires wines, young Tasmanian winemaker Ricky Evans found time to start his own Tamar Valley winery Two Tonne Tasmania, taking out the People’s Choice award at last year’s Young Guns of Wine awards.

Where did you grow up and where do you live now?

On a small family farm on the east bank of the Tamar Valley.

I now live in Launceston, close to the centre of town.

What do you love most about where you live?

The opportunities that exist here.

Anything is possible; a great example is cruising through the Launceston farmers’ market on a Saturday morning. Everyone there has had an idea, and worked at it, and made it happen.

Its happening all over the place, and that’s pretty exciting.

Where do you take out-of-towners?

Always a lap of the Tamar Valley for an easy day trip … It can be as long or short as you make it, while always keeping a keen eye on the river.

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Festivale for the north. It’s a wonderful melting pot of all the good stuff you can find hidden around the place, great vibes and the city really gets on board.

Where will we find you on a Saturday night?

Saint John Craft Beer, for sure. In fact, could be any night, there’s always some movement here, such a friendly space run by great people. Tuesday night is meat tray night FYI.

Where would we find you on Sunday at lunchtime?

Stillwater, in the wine bar, a lovely airy and casual space overlooking the entrance to the Gorge and Home Point. A few plates to share with good friends, and a wonderful drinks list.

Wine tasting at Festivale.

ABOVE: Binalong Bay is one of Ricky Evans’ favourite spots.

What is the island’s bestkept secret?

Where in Tassie will you find the best:

The beaches. Although there are some pretty famous ones, that’s only the beginning. Being an island we have an endless supply, and most are essentially untouched.

BEACH/VIEW/WEEKEND ESCAPE/CHILDHOOD HOLIDAY Answer to all of these is the same; Binalong Bay on the East Coast. It has to be one of the most stunning beaches around, the views from every angle are ridiculous, and I have great memories of both weekend escapes and childhood holidays.

It’s the perfect spot.

What is the one dish or drink that defines Tasmania for you?

Pinot noir for sure. Made well, it epitomises the purity and beauty of the island, and there is no other wine that represents its own sense of place as dramatically as pinot noir.

What’s the most exciting development on the cards for Tasmania?

For me, the investment

happening in the wine industry.

We only make about 0.5 per cent of the wine in Australia, but our production accounts for 10 per cent of the premium market. That’s a really exciting stat, and tells us we have so much growth ahead of us.

If you had to sum up Tasmania in one sentence, what would it be?

It’s a place where every house seems to have a nice view...

Well that’s what some friends said once, and perhaps that’s true.

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Sisters Rachel and Hannah are the minds behind jewellery label Francesca. You can find their classic, versatile designs in their flagship store in central Hobart.

Where did you grow up and where do you live now?

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We grew up in a small beach town in NSW named Hawks Nest.

When we moved to Tasmania 10 years ago we were so excited to move to what was a big city for us!

What do you love about where you live?

H: I am absolutely obsessed with Tasmania! It has brought so much possibility to us. The more I travel, the more I realise how blessed we are…. You can be in the city in 10 minutes, on the beach in 10 minutes or up Mount Wellington looking over the whole cityscape. I also love Tasmanians! They are so friendly.

R: I absolutely love the ease of everything in Hobart as well as the abundant culture the place has to offer. We are constantly exposed to art, incredible food and amazing outdoor experiences.

The sunny deck at Frogmore Creek Winery. TOP RIGHT: Salamanca Markets in Hobart.

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What’s the best event on the cultural calendar?

H: We have always loved summer in Tasmania. The Taste of Tasmania is most definitely one of our favourite cultural events – spending our days sipping wine, tasting local produce and watching the yachts come in from the Sydney to Hobart.

R: I think the Winter Feast is definitely something everyone looks forward to. It adds a little excitement to the bitter cold winter months and brings people together out of hibernation.

What is the one dish or drink that defines Tasmania for you?

H: My ultimate Tasmanian dish is the ocean trout from Frogmore Creek Winery in Richmond.

Their world-class dishes are as beautiful-looking as they taste, and the setting looking out over their vineyard, without the crowds of the mainland, defines Tasmania perfectly for me.

R: There is so much incredible produce in Hobart, we are pretty spoilt for choice. But definitely fresh cherries and Franks cider in the summer for me.

Where will we find you on a Saturday night?

R & H: Glasshouse on Brooke Street Pier is one of our favourite hangouts. Their menu of light, Japanese-inspired dishes are perfect accompanied with their frequently changing cocktail menu. If we’re looking for a dance-filled night we will head to Jack Greene or Cargo in Salamanca.

a great unwind – especially when we had no phone reception there.

CHILDHOOD HOLIDAY – Cockle Creek, one of the southernmost points of Tasmania. We visited on our first trip to Tasmania and the clear blue water is still so vivid in our memory!

If you had to sum up Tasmania in one sentence, what would it be?

R & H: Tasmania is the secret little state jam-packed with cultural experiences second to none!

Where in Tassie will you find the best: R & H: BEACH – Binalong Bay and the Bay of Fires.

VIEW – Mount Wellington.

WEEKEND ESCAPE – Binalong Bay is an amazing weekend escape! We hired a five-bedroom house looking out onto the Bay of Fires. Stewarts Bay retreat is

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H: The main misconception I struggle with is that a lot of Tasmanian-born youth feel like they need to leave the island to make it in the ‘big world’. I found coming from a small beach town that the world was our oyster in Tasmania. If it weren’t for the Salamanca Markets our business would never have evolved to where it is now. Without the support of the Hobart community our business wouldn’t have made it to opening our second Melbourne store.

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Meet Masaaki Koyama. If he’s not tending his veggie garden or chasing the southern swell, you can visit him at Masaaki’s Sushi in the rustic town of Geeveston (Friday & Saturday) or at Hobart’s Farm Gate Market (Sunday). See why his traditional hand rolled masterpieces have turned a small country town into a sushi town.

The impact of the 2013 bushfires in Dunalley prompted local livestock farmer turned wine maker Matt Dunbabin to join forces with oyster farmer Tom Gray to create the Bangor Wine & Oyster Shed.

Drop by and indulge yourself in fresh oysters plucked straight from the stunning waters, while enjoying heavenly wines made from the vines growing just beyond the Bangor deck.

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Drink Tasmania allows you to sample the finest Tasmanian whisky, wine, beer and cider in one extraordinary day tour. Try some Lost Pippin cider, call into the Huon Valley’s Pagan Cider and Willie Smith’s Apple Shed for a cider tasting paddle, have a wee dram of whisky at Lark Cellar Door in Hobart or drop into Last Rites Brewery to taste some beer.

The Red Feather Inn, in Hadspen, a short drive from Launceston, is a 1844 coaching inn that combines Georgian beauty and a twist of French Provincial. The boutique accommodation, stunning surroundings, paddock-to-plate cooking school and unique dining experiences explains why guests never want to leave.

Meet Michael and John Bennett, two wily pioneers from humble beginnings who hail from five generations of dairy farmers. Together they have created a legacy called Ashgrove Cheese. Visit the farm store near Elizabeth Town and taste their award-winning fresh bottled milk, cream, butter and uniquely flavoured cheeses.

Meet Willie Simpson, the prize-winning brewer who clearly thinks way outside the barrel. He’s the proud owner of Seven Sheds Brewery, nestled in the gorgeous town of Railton, renowned for its many sculptured topiary gardens. The brewery has seven sheds, grows hops on-site using organic methods and brews hand-crafted beers in small batches.

Set off with Brock from taste.walk.talk on a gourmet walking tour through Launceston to learn about the local history and indulge in fine Tasmanian produce from salmon to wine, chocolate, whisky, cheese and cider.

Every stop has a unique Tasmanian story or product.

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Follow your tastebuds on Tasmania’s mouthwatering touring trails. Explore the Cradle to Coast Tasting Trail, or slowly meander the Wine, Whisky, Cider and Beer Trails.

Not every distillery lets you pour, wax and seal your own whisky to take with you. After finishing a Whisky Walk tour ending in the American Oak barrel room, sip single malts, vodka and whisky cream liqueurs at the tasting counter.

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At Hundred Acres go off-site and meet with producers, learn the microclimates of a vineyard, help out with winery duties, then head into the cooking school to turn your produce into something special. Sit down to a feast with your classmates at the end of the day.

Welcome to Brockley Estate, a 10,000-acre sheep and cattle farm run by Tassie-born Julian and Spanish coowner Chaxi. Together they have created an enchanting ‘old world’ destination that comes with a delicious surprise – Chaxi’s authentic Spanish cuisine, prepared with farm fresh produce to add a ‘Tassie’ twist.

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Did you know that eight of Tassie’s finest wineries are found within a stone’s throw of each other?

Locals and visitors alike will often be found soaking up the wines and breathtaking views along the picturesque Great Eastern Drive. Why not explore Tasmania’s east coast yourself, dropping into local cellar doors for a wine tasting along the way.

In a lush river valley favoured by dairy farmers, Pyengana Dairy Company has been making tasty, sturdy cheeses using traditional methods for more than 100 years. The cheese makers still use equipment from that time, with one exception, a robotic milking system that ‘good cows’ use to milk themselves and are rewarded with treats and a hearty back rub.

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wonderland Explore New Zealand’s smallest national park by kayak and discover a stunning pocket of natural beauty

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The still, turquoise waters of Abel Tasman National Park.

BELOW: A New Zealand fur seal.

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Just lazing about

The first fur seal we see provokes a shout of excitement We leave Abel Tasman Kayaks’ Marahau headquarters – an hour from Nelson – in a shuttle bus that takes us to the Totaranui camping spot at the top of the park. The trip is generally done via water taxi, but this is a busy time of year.

A spectacular 90-minute drive includes a heart-stoppingly steep stretch along switchbacks that drops us down into hippy hotspot, Takaka.

“A great place if you want to beat a drum or grow a dreadlock,” Darryl says.

Then we are shown to our two-person kayaks.

The gear – tents, sleeping bags, mats, food and cooking equipment – is divided up and put into waterproof compartments in our kayaks, along with our belongings.

Waterproof boxes are handed out for phones and cameras, and we get a quick lesson before setting off.

We move at a leisurely pace. You can go hellfor-leather if you want an upper-body workout, but mostly it’s more like walking with your arms.

There’s a half-hour patch into a headwind when my shoulders begin to

remind me they’re there, but otherwise I could keep going for hours.

We skirt close to the land, made up of huge granite boulders, tiny sandy coves and vegetation down to the water. The first fur seal we see provokes a shout of excitement. Lolling on a granite boulder, he regards us with disinterest before flopping into the sea to roll lazily over and over, barely bothering to check our progress. By the end of our trip we’ve seen so many of them they feel more like family pets than wild animals.

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e’re making the awkward, polite chit-chat of a group of strangers forced together. Is this your first time to New Zealand?

What do you do? How long are you staying? But our guide, cook, storyteller and unlikely Katy Perry fan, Darryl from Abel Tasman Kayaks, has a better idea.

He cuts up two lengths of cord, knots loops in each end, crosses them and shoves two guests’ wrists through.

“Get free without removing your hands from the loops,” he says, before disappearing into the camp kitchen to prepare an enormous pot of pasta for dinner.

An hour later and we are still puzzling it out, taking turns to attach ourselves to a stranger and shouting instructions involving twists, crouches and incidental hugs.

Eventually it’s Lucile the French doctor who solves the puzzle, and the mystery of how to create instant rapport between eight strangers.

It’s night one of our twonight, three-day kayaking trip in New Zealand’s Abel Tasman National Park. It’s the country’s smallest national park, but arguably its most perfectly formed and family-friendly.

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Four hours of paddling done, we spend our first night at Onetahuti campsite: shady, grassy and metres from the quiet beach.

The Kiwis treat their national parks as the great tourism assets they are. The camp kitchen is covered and has big stainless-steel sinks and benches, and running water. The camp toilets are portables with running water and excellent ventilation. It’s not glamping, but it makes camping much more pleasant.

Like most of Abel Tasman’s camp sites, this spot can only be reached by boat or on foot. By joining an organised tour, we didn’t need to worry about booking, but independent campers must book in advance. The park is strictly managed

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to ensure, even in peak season, it still feels remote and peaceful.

On day two, we paddle for four hours to our next camping spot, Anchorage at Torrent Bay. We take a long detour into the lagoon behind Bark Bay. The tide is in, so conditions are right for us to paddle deep into the lagoon and up the river that flows into it.

Dappled amber light hits the shallow water as the trees close in. There are suspension bridges in some spots, but in others hikers either have to wait for low tide, or make a long detour around the lagoon.

Back in the bay we stop at at a buoy, and Darryl reaches down to find a hose spewing fresh water from a nearby stream. We fill our bottles and move on for lunch – grilled

Paddling up the river.

ABOVE: Kayakers at Te Pukatea Bay.

Dappled amber light hits the shallow water as the trees close in

roti wraps with falafels, hummus and salad, followed by ginger cake.

Torrent Bay is busy, full of day-trippers who’ve arrived by kayak or water taxi from Marahau, but by 4pm the taxis have returned to collect them and the site is quiet.

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Te Pukatea Bay, a perfect teacup of white sand and greenery

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Quiet enough for me to sit on the beach while a weka – not to be mistaken for a kiwi bird although they look similar – spends 10 minutes pecking gently at my painted toenails in confusion.

From here, there’s a lovely one-hour side walk that rises up to Pitt Head, then drops down to one of New Zealand’s most photographed beaches, Te Pukatea Bay, a perfect teacup of white sand and greenery.

Afternoon tea on day three comes straight from the park. Darryl prises mussels off the rocks and

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boils them in seawater in a billy on the beach.

Then it’s time for our final push back to Marahau, and the winds are blowing our way.

We quickly form ourselves into a raft by holding on to the kayak next to us. Those on either end have a sail tied to their paddles, with the person in front holding the sail’s bottom.

Suddenly, impossibly, sadly, our teamwork and new-found friendships see us whipping across the bay towards home, faster than we could paddle.

The details Abel Tasman Kayaks’ Three Day Classic tour is $620 per person, including meals, equipment and transfers from Marahau. abeltasmankayaks. co.nz You can also explore the park by foot. The 60km Abel Tasman Coast Track takes between three and five days with both ends serviced by public transport and water taxis.

Bookings are essential year-round for the four huts and 19 campsites. doc.govt.nz

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NELSON: Gateway to Abel Tasman National Park PRETTY, COSMOPOLITAN NELSON IS AN HOUR’S DRIVE FROM MARAHAU, WHERE YOU CAN START YOUR ABEL TASMAN HIKE OR KAYAKING TRIP EAT

SHOP You’ll lose hours in the awardwinning Page and Blackmore bookshop in Trafalgar Street, either browsing their incredible range, or patting the shop dog, Friday.

Wine lovers should take the two-hour drive to Marlborough

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On Tasman Bay, Nelson is a haven for boat lovers. BELOW LEFT: It’s only a two-hour drive to the famous Marlborough wine region.

BELOW RIGHT: Magnificent views and pristine waters.

STAY You couldn’t beat ArrowRock, an Airbnb property located high on a cliff overlooking Nelson Harbour. At $149 a night it is both reasonable and luxurious.

IN THE AREA Aside from Abel Tasman National Park, there’s plenty of other hikes to do within easy reach of Nelson. One hour and 20 minutes from Nelson is the Flora carpark, gateway to the Mount Arthur region. The walk all the way to the Mount Arthur summit takes a strenuous three-and-a-half hours, but the views are worth the effort.

A shorter option is the walk to Flora Hut, which takes about half an hour.

Walking an hour and 20 minutes south will take you to Lake Rotoiti in Nelson Lakes National Park. A circuit of the lake takes seven to 10 hours with the option of taking a water taxi part of the way.

There are also many short walks ranging from 30 minutes to five hours; doc.govt.nz Wine lovers should take the two-hour drive to Marlborough, and its endless wineries.

So much to discover

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Don’t miss breakfast, lunch or dinner at The Boat Shed Café on Wakefield Quay. This rustic overwater spot combines casual atmosphere with fine dining; boatshedcafe.co.nz.

If you’re there in December, stop at one of the dozens of cherry and berry farms for a punnet of goodness.

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HEALING BALI From organic restaurants to luxury spas and zen-spirational retreats, the Island of the Gods is a wellness lover’s heaven on earth WORDS CHARLENE FANG

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OPPOSITE PAGE: Sunrise at Hotel Komune. CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Bliss Balls at the Chosen retreat, yoga at Hotel Komune, Grow Bali’s watercress and kale soup, Hotel Komune’s gym, the Bali Chosen Experiences villa, bathers at Tirta Empul.

If the body is a temple, the Indonesian island of Bali is its altar.

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n island blessed with a fertile environment of mineral-rich volcanic sand, lush valleys, hidden waterfalls and sacred waters, Bali’s unlimited healing powers make it a mecca for health and wellness devotees.

For anyone seeking a respite from modern life, there are myriad ways to restore one’s mind, body and soul in mystical Bali – whether it’s for a week, a day or an hour.

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Bali’s divine environment and spiritual richness make it the perfect setting to disconnect and reframe.

Whether seeking a holistic experience, a few days of emotional reflection and physical challenge, or just downtime to indulge, there’s a retreat to help make good on your personal goals.

CHOSEN EXPERIENCES’ weeklong retreat marries a beautiful destination (also in Guatemala, Iceland, New Zealand) with a tailored fitness and nutrition plan (meals are free from gluten and refined sugar). Designed with the help of award-winning coaches to push personal boundaries, the physically challenging activities include everything from waterfall rappelling and Olympic weightlifting to free diving.

The groups are kept to no more than eight and are housed in a luxury villa to ensure a good night’s rest.

KOMUNE, on Bali’s tranquil east coast, makes the most of its volcanic beach location overlooking the world-famous Keramas surf break. Offering four different packages, its five- or seven-day programs combine daily unlimited yoga sessions, spa treatments, the option to do some night surfing, and an activity day that might include a stand-up paddle session in Sanur, an elephant walk in Taro, or a brisk hike up Mount Batur.

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there’s a retreat to help make good on personal goals

COMO SHAMBHALA ESTATE’S yoga program (three- to 14-night stays) offers one-on-one yoga classes on the banks of the majestic Yang River. The 23-acre estate offers daily opportunities to focus and meditate in absolute silence. For a deeper journey of self-healing, the Panchakarma program (10 or 14 nights) calls upon ancient Ayurvedic detoxification treatments to strengthen the immune system and restore health through herbal oils and medicines.

A customised clean diet and tailored yoga practices are also offered.

FIVELEMENTS’ range of personal evolution programs all follow the Balinese philosophy of Tri Kaya Parisudha: clean mind, clean speech, clean action. Through authentic healing journeys, wellness retreats and signature programs such as Cuisine for Life, guests learn about livingfoods philosophy and depart equipped with the know-how to sprout, ferment, bake and dehydrate their way towards a healthier raw diet.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The luxurious Como Shambhala Estate, a Chosen Experiences beach workout, the Health Hub at Hotel Komune, the Fivelements spa.

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Checking in with one’s spiritual self is easier in Bali, where the people believe gods and goddesses exist in nature and offerings of rice and flowers are delivered daily.

TIRTA EMPUL (Holy Spring) is a sacred experience. The waters of Bali are believed to hold healing powers and bathing in the pools at the 9th century water temple is a traditional cleansing ritual. There are 13 ornate water spouts, each representing a different form of purification, addressing love, fertility and warding off evil spirits.

VILLAGE SPA JOURNEY AT AMANDARI offers a more conventional purification experience that encompasses a combination of the Balinese Melukat purification ceremony and holy water rituals with a full-body scrub, wrap and a therapeutic head massage.

Emerge feeling like a new being, with renewed skin.

VISITING A BALIAN (Balinese traditional healer) has become part of the tourist experience, thanks to the movie Eat Pray Love. Balians treat mental and physical imbalances via a variety of methods: massage, energy healings and intuitive readings. The process of locating the right healer can be complicated, and it is advisable to research etiquette and practices.

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Checking in with one’s spiritual self is easier in Bali YOGA BARN, in the heart of Ubud, offers daily classes, workshops and treatments in everything from yoga, meditation, detox, and meridian and chakra rebalancing. Of the many options, the Sound Healing class using vibrational sound created by Tibetan bowls, acoustic music and voices gives the harried the space to be quiet and reflect.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Dancers perform at Amandari, an Amandari pool suite, a class at Ubud’s Yoga Barn.

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Kokolato vegan gelato. RIGHT AND BELOW: A cocktail and panseared scallops at Grow Bali.

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Feeding the mind, body and soul goes beyond mantras and poses. What fuels the body is crucial, and Bali’s organic and sustainable food movement is ahead of the curve.

GROW BALI by chef Ryan Clift is one of the newest Bali restaurants to champion fresh and sustainable dining. Ryan’s “bistronomy” menu presents natural flavours, handmade pastas and closely guarded family recipes, created using only the freshest locally sourced produce and meats.

“It’s mostly the fresh local seafood caught only hours before it arrives in the kitchen, also our vegetable delivery from a farm up in Kintamani,” Ryan says.

“It’s such a microclimate up there (Kintamani) that we are able to grow Western berries and vegetables we would otherwise have to import. From a chef’s perspective, this is utter food heaven.”

LOCAVORE by Eelke Plasjmeijer and Ray Adriansyah in Ubud is another eatery flying the flag for chemical-free and locally grown food. Eelke and Ray pride themselves on the mantra of “go local or go home”. The result is ethically-fed meats (such as Baturiti duck from Central Bali) paired with organic and chemical-free produce from

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their own farms presented across five- or seven-course degustation menus that are mini works of art.

BALI BUDA is another fixture of the thriving Ubud café scene specialising in vegan, raw and organic. Its gluten-free dishes and raw cakes are handmade daily and it’s well known for its no-bake cheesecakes, spirulina balls and live food platters.

FRESH, a raw and vegan restaurant overlooking tranquil aquaponic gardens in Ubud, serves an Indonesian-inspired menu grounded in the eight directions of Hindu dharma.

Founder and chef Arif Springs conducts a weekly raw-food cooking class fusing local ingredients with raw-food methodology to produce items such as raw lumpia, a fresh take on the Indonesian spring roll.

KOKOLATO serves a range of coconut-based gelatos that are vegan, gluten-free and low glycemic. Stocked at health-conscious cafés, restaurants and retailers island-wide, flavours include Moringa mint chip and locally inspired varieties such as Jamu – an interpretation of a local herbal medicine made with

turmeric, ginger, black pepper and lime – and a sensual, heart-opening flavour called Anahata made from ginger, cardamom and rose.

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character, “Strauchanie”, called Bryan Strauchan my story: The rise and rise of a genuine superstar of Australian sport.

Meanwhile, he and his wife Bridget’s three boys Liam, 14, Aidan, 12, and Oscar, 8, were growing up before their eyes. A longstanding fan of stories about escaping to fantasy worlds, such as Enid Blyton’s classic The Faraway Tree, Peter realised that if he had any hope of contributing to the genre before his children became adults, it was now or never.

By coincidence, in the same week, two publishers contacted him, asking if he’d be interested exploring children’s literature.

“I thought, this is obviously a sign from somewhere, so I got back to both of them and away we went.”

Peter tested out early chapters on his boys but stopped short of revealing all 263 pages, preferring to wait until they could hold the finished book in their hands.

“Oscar’s review is the best I’ve had so far. After reading the first chapter, he said, ‘It’s awesome. It reminds me of David Walliams’,”

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eter Helliar, the popular standup comic, actor, director, producer, TV host and father of three, has added another title to his bulging list of job descriptors: children’s book author.

Written for eight- to 12-year-olds, Frankie Fish and the Sonic Suitcase follows the exploits of a young boy and his grumpy, hook-handed grandpa as they travel through time, encountering vain magicians, villainous racing car drivers and a host of other kooky characters.

Although this first book in a series of three is laced with plenty of fart jokes and pranks, at its heart, says the author, it’s about fitting in.

“I just wanted to have the hero be, kind of, not necessarily the popular kid,” says Peter, who took a year to complete the book, snatching time to write between various other commitments, including his role as a co-host of Network Ten’s The Project.

“I wanted him to have one true friend. Because I believe for the kids out there who are struggling to make friends, all you need is one good friend.”

Don’t be mistaken, though.

The characters in his book are not particularly autobiographical.

Peter says he grew up in suburban Melbourne with hard-working but supportive parents, sweet grandparents and a great group of friends.

“I had a pretty blissful childhood, playing footy in the streets, cricket on the beach in summer, so nothing to really rebel against,” he says.

So what inspired him to write a children’s title?

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Peter says. “That was great – I told the publisher that and she said we might put it on the cover.”

Despite his long list of job titles, Peter still identifies first and foremost as a stand-up comedian, a career he started in late 1996. By 1998 he had his first TV spot on C31’s The Loft Live, hosted by Rove McManus, appearing with other talented comedians such as Dave Hughes.

When Rove moved to the Nine Network in 1999 Peter moved with it, and then to Network Ten the following year, enjoying a decade in the national spotlight on football comedy panel show Before the Game. Peter has also worked in radio, written and co-starred in film (romantic comedy I Love You Too), as well as creating, writing, co-producing and codirecting his own eight-part, award-winning comedy series, It’s A Date, in 2013.

He joined The Project four years ago, but still enjoys the creative aspects of stand-up comedy and aims to perform in a stand-up tour every second year

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“It’s amazing to watch them grow and evolve – there are a couple of young men in my house now – I’m really proud of them, they’re really good kids. And they teach me some stuff. I like being a dad; my wife and I are a team and I really like it.”

Among other changes, fatherhood has made Peter more emotional when watching films, he says.

“Particularly if they involve kids. I’ve shed tears in some pretty embarrassing movies.”

Stay tuned – work is now well under way on the second book in Peter’s Frankie Fish time-travelling series.

“I love doing it – I really love the process,” he says.

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to keep himself fresh.

“I think with stand-up you’ve got amazing freedom,” he says.

“With The Project, I’ll have three meetings before the show starts and that happens every day. With standup, the only meeting I’ll have is with my manager to decide whether I’m going to do another show and how big it’s going to be and which cities we’re going to go to. But then there’s no more meetings. After that, I’m on my own and I can just develop material and succeed and fail on my own terms – it’s great.”

With all his different roles on the go it’s no surprise that something, eventually, had to give.

When Bridget was pregnant with their second child, Peter found himself particularly overstretched, spending half the week in Sydney and half the week in Melbourne.

“I really had to take stock and I left Before the Game,” he says.

“That was a really hard thing to do because I created that show; that show was my idea, and it was a really beloved show. But I needed to spend time with my family. People have asked me if I regretted doing that and the answer is no.”

Peter and Bridget were the first in their friendship circle to have children, which initially made the transition into parenthood more difficult. Now, though, most of his friends have children, too, and Peter is able to reflect a little more on what being a dad is all about.

“It’s just given me focus on what I want to do and what I need to do and I’ve loved it every step of the way. People say, ‘Four’s a good age’ or ‘Seven’s a good age’. For me, I haven’t come across a bad age yet.

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an you feel it? The rise in temperature.

Hearts racing. Sweat rolling off foreheads onto flushed cheeks.

It’s sweeping through Australia and New Zealand. Everyone from toddlers to grandmas are catching mountain-bike fever.

Don’t worry if you suspect you’ve got a dose. Mountain-bike destinations have been lovingly sculpting the landscape to get every rider grinning, from novices to seasoned pros.

But what started the spread of this bug? And why is it going viral now?

To truly understand the feverish ascent of this thrill-seeking fraternity, we need to pop back in time to the birth of mountain biking as a sport.

In the mid-1970s, a bunch of adventurous teens climbed a steep mountain outside San Francisco to race their pushbikes and “ballooners” (cruiser-style bikes) down a steep dirt trail littered with gullies, blind off-camber corners, and, as mountain-bike pioneer Joe Breeze recounts: “the occasional cluster of head-size rocks”.

What began as a few mates testing their mettle for kicks turned into a spectacle that hit the press.

“California bikies are mountainside surfing” was the sparky headline credited with igniting a new worldwide sport.

In Australia, Glen Jacobs was one of the first to catch the bug. “The trend really took off in Cairns in the 1980s with myself and a few friends taking our regular street bikes and looking for some old logging trails,” Glen says. “It was really about adventure and exploring.”

Exploring the wild tropics meant taking on anything in the remote rainforest: rocky outcrops, vertical drops, waterfalls and the risky

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This sport is for anyone with a bit of skill and fitness, who loves the outdoors business of crashes and crocodiles.

A film the fearless friends made of their exotic antics, Ice Cream Heads from Outer Space, attracted worldwide attention. “They’d never seen anything like it,” Glen says.

The Mountain Bike World Championships came to Australia in 1996. It was held on the steep jungle tracks that Glen and his

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mates forged behind Smithfield – the place they first ventured out with their childhood bikes.

Since then, the signwriterturned-professional-trail-builder has created hundreds of trails in 20 countries with his company, World Trail. Every world cup, world championship and Olympic course in Australia has been designed and constructed by Glen and his team.

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only three per cent of riders.

Glen has been a driving force behind creating fun and sustainable trails for the remaining 97 per cent.

“This sport is for anyone with a bit of skill and fitness, who loves the outdoors and enjoys the thrill of the wind rushing by,” Glen says.

In some cases, whole towns have grown into vibrant mountainbike destinations, with beginnerfriendly to advanced trails, colourgraded similar to skiing. On offer are skills lessons, guided trail runs, facilities for families and bikefriendly accommodation with wash and storage.

Moreover, Glen is a master of another creation that has the hardcore hooting with joy and beginners begging for more. The addictive “flow trail” is cunningly designed with multiple-choice lines and clever features that ramp up the thrill factor for the skilled – just add speed.

“No more forced risk or dangerous situations,” says Glen, who used to ride down waterfalls for fun. “Now mountain biking is a holiday activity that the whole family can do.”

And with trail destinations reporting year-on-year visitor growth, it seems the philosophy of ‘build it and they will come’ has worked.

The days of launching an old cruiser down a goat trail are long gone, too. Nowadays, bikes are designed to suit every style of trail.

If you don’t have the fitness to climb yet (or just don’t fancy it), summer ski resorts have lifts and year-round trail centres run vehicle shuttles to take you to the top.

Alternatively, electric bikes take the slog out of the job.

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High five: mountain biking for all CAIRNS, QUEENSLAND Mountain bike through World Heritagelisted rainforest, tackle trails designed to challenge pros or pedal along the edge of the Great Barrier Reef. Toddlers to world champions will find plenty to explore in a region that offers 700km of documented trails, including Smithfield mountain bike park, the world’s highest profile rainforest trail system. Trails sculpted out of volcanic clay twist their way through magnificent vine-wrapped jungles on jagged ridges overlooking the reef for 60km. ridecairns.com

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accommodation, spas, massage and gourmet grub. Or book a guided trip with a mountain bike company who will organise the bells and whistles.

Whether you have been mountain biking for days and pedal for the scenery, or enjoyed decades of kicks from whipping your bike in the air, there’s a high-five welcome for everyone in the towns of knobblytyred worship who hail nature, the gnarl and the flow.

And you might bump into Glen in Queensland on the world championship trails he carved into the mountains all those years ago.

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Mt Buller is among a select group of mountain-biking destinations around the world recognised by the International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA) for offering largescale mountain bike facilities and something for every rider. Just over three hours’ drive from Melbourne, you can ride 40km of single-track including the 10km Stonefly, regularly rated one of the country’s best.

Further into the High Country at Falls Creek, you can experience one of Glen Jacobs’ latest flow creations.

“Flowtown” is a 6km trail of rollercoaster laugh-out-loud fun. It forms part of a 40km network through a mesmerising ghost snowgum landscape created by a succession of fires. From the flames, a unique beauty of regeneration has risen. bikemtbuller.com.au fallscreek.com.au

DERBY, TASMANIA In north east Tasmania, 90 minutes east of Launceston, you’ll discover mountain-bike gold. Derby is the quintessential Aussie battler story.

Once a flourishing tin mining town, Derby suffered a slow economic decline. Locals who knew its

mountain biking potential developed a masterplan to create a world-class network of trails. Since the completion of 80km of single-track last year, the shuttles are packed with riders of all skill levels. Planned trails to the Bay of Fires and behind St Helens will complete a 200km network. Derby is overflowing with pride and, more importantly, people. ridebluederby.com.au

THREDBO, NEW SOUTH WALES Thredbo has long been a pilgrimage for summer mountain biking when ski racks are swapped for bike carriers and riders get lifted to the top of Australia. While Thredbo is most famous for its “cannonball” downhill track and star-studded festival of the same name, the resort has been expanding its trail network to compete for the trails-for-everyone crown.

Mount Kosciuszko’s classic flow trail has been pumped with new features and a new 11km trail from the peak connects with the Thredbo Valley Track. This non-technical trail undulates alongside the Thredbo River roughly 20km to Lake Crackenback Resort. There, you’ll find another network of beginner and familyfriendly trails making the snowy mountains supercharged for all. thredbo.com.au/biking lakecrackenback.com.au

ROTORUA, NEW ZEALAND Rotorua is one of only six “gold level” ride centres around the world awarded by the IMBA for “the best that mountain biking has to offer.” Its ancient Whakarewarewa Forest is one of the oldest mountain bike networks in New Zealand. Its 130km of dark volcanic-soil trails weave through giant redwoods. Skyline gravity park offers a year-round gondola-assisted bike lift to 8.5km of trail with views over Lake Rotorua. With natural thermal spas to soak the quads in, it’s no wonder Rotorua’s other name is ‘mountain bike heaven’. riderotorua.com

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the new space, which includes a catering arm that services 300 corporate clients, STREAT expects to be financially independent within three years.

But success isn’t easy. Melbourne not-for-profit bar Shebeen was forced to close last June after three years of failing to make ends meet or raise money for charity. In the same month, nine-year-old Perthbased social enterprise The Swan Friendship Club closed down.

“Other cafés don’t have psychologists, social workers and youth workers, or add 150 ‘unemployable’ young people to their businesses every year. Of course it’s harder to run these things,” Rebecca says.

Singapore’s Koh Seng Choon knows the financial challenge of funding a social enterprise. He founded Project Dignity, a food court that trains and employs physically, mentally and socially challenged people in the tradition of hawker food.

“I was losing 1000 Singapore dollars a day for the first two years,” Koh Seng says.

Project Dignity is now a nationally approved hawker-training course

TOP: STREAT co-founder Rebecca Scott in the courtyard of the Collingwood café. RIGHT: A dish from Sydney social enterprise café Gratia. ABOVE: Trainees of KOTO, in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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TREAT’s new flagship venue feels as though it’s been here for years. The architecturally designed Melbourne complex includes an on-trend café with exposed brick walls, a coffee roastery, commercial bakery and kitchen. Every window and door is floor-to-ceiling glass, and behind each one, lives are being changed.

STREAT provides hospitality training and work experience to disadvantaged Victorians aged 16 to 25. Since it launched in 2010, 12 interconnected social enterprise businesses – three of which have failed – have followed its lead.

Yet co-founder Rebecca Scott says they’re just getting started, supported by donated headquarters in the back streets of Collingwood.

“For us it was a deliberate decision to build a social enterprise model where you don’t have to take this leap of faith and imagine some beneficiary somewhere – you get to see kids, right now, having their lives changed,” she says.

A social enterprise is generally considered an organisation with a mission that benefits the wider community and supports trades to fulfil its mission. It derives a substantial portion of its income from trade and reinvests most of its profits back into the business and its mission.

“The big holy grail in social enterprise is achieving complete financial sustainability while doing social good,” Rebecca says. Flight Centre co-founder Geoff Harris recognised STREAT’s business smarts, and its social heart, and gifted it a 50-year, rent-free tenancy on the Collingwood site. With

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and has more than 400 disabled and disadvantaged graduates. It has also issued more than 3000 certificates to people without disability. Its Dignity Kitchen aims to achieve four things: teach skills, find people gainful employment, integrate them into society and teach society to accept them.

“Hawker can support a family; hawker can even send you overseas – it’s a living,” Koh Seng says. “A lot of restaurants don’t work because they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to open, but a hawker is just a few thousand dollars.”

Julien Wallet-Houget of Dining in the Dark in Bangkok and Phnom Penh avoids the term social enterprise, acknowledging that his aim is to earn a living while still doing good. After working for the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation and non-government organisations in Thailand, Julien questioned how to make a social organisation run more efficiently, instead of asking others for money.

Looking to the private sector for inspiration, he opened Dining in the Dark – a restaurant concept in which customers eat in the dark, served by the visually impaired.

At both restaurants, diners choose from an Asian, Western, vegetarian or surprise set menu in a stylish lobby, before being led into the dark. Like any good hospitality business, food comes first. “When you bite into a mint leaf in the dark, it’s like a flash of light. It’s really impressive. The same with passionfruit and lime,” Julien says.

In Sydney, Two Good launched in the middle of 2015 after trying to scale up its soup kitchen. Cofounder Rob Caslick also wanted to avoid asking others for money.

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some of the big chefs, who design soup and salad recipes for us.

For each jar that we sell, we give another to our soup kitchen or domestic violence refuges,” Rob says.

The chefs involved include Neil Perry, Matt Moran and Kylie Kwong. Two Good also employs women from the refuges to make the food. After asking around the refuges, Rob discovered a need for underwear, pyjamas and toiletries – the latter of which were part of a Mother’s Day campaign.

“The food is a really nice and an easy entry point into what we’re doing, but it’s certainly not a good business model – we’re competing with companies who are charging the same amount for a lunch jar (that we make for) two,” Rob says.

“With (other products), there’s a possibility to have some better margins so we can make sure we’re self-sustaining,” Rob says. Other campaigns have followed with beauty products and Christmas puddings.

Hannah Colman and Jess Moran launched Scarf pop-up dinners in Melbourne in 2010. Each year they run three, 10-week hospitality

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training seasons for those aged 18 to 28, partnering with a top restaurant that designs and cooks a $40 two-course menu. Eight Scarf trainees – many of whom are new migrants, asylum seekers or disengaged from education – serve the food and drink under the guidance of hospitality mentors.

“It’s really relevant work experience and being able to have that on their resumes, as well as references from Scarf mentors, is that foot in the door that is often

the biggest barrier to employment,” Hannah says.

Rosa Koua, a 22-year-old Scarf graduate and nursing student who had struggled to find employment in retail, says working with Scarf gave her the confidence, skills and experience to apply, successfully, for hospitality jobs. “I was doing VCE and with limited experience, it was hard to get a job,” she says.

“The first few weeks it was really nerve-racking, but it was also exciting and good money.”

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Learning on the job TREE ALLIANCE, MULTIPLE LOCATIONS The TREE restaurants provide on-the-job cooking and service training for a year to 18 months, helping graduates find employment.

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During its first three years of operation, Scarf organised dinners in cafés that were closed during the evening and paid caterers to look after the food. They soon realised it wasn’t a sustainable business model.

“Like every hospitality business we faced no-shows and overheads, so it wasn’t viable for us to continue that way,” Hannah says.

“That’s when we started talking to restaurants. We came up with a price, which is basically 50 per cent of what we charge our customers, and that’s just been accepted by all the restaurants we’ve partnered with.”

Social hospitality enterprises not only instil confidence and teach applicable life skills, they also connect the disadvantaged and marginalised with the community.

STREAT’s Rebecca Scott says it’s important that the social component is simply an added bonus – you can’t run a social enterprise without customers.

“People don’t come to STREAT every weekend because they feel bad, they come because it’s the most delicious food you can get in this part of the city – the bonus is that we’re creating substantial social change,” she says.

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GRATIA AND FOLONOMO, SYDNEY This bright little café (Gratia) and restaurant-cum-gallery (Folonomo) evenly split profits between its own Pure Foundation and charities nominated by diners. gratia.org.au FEAST OF MERIT, MELBOURNE Ordering from Feast of Merit’s sustainable Middle Eastern-inspired menu helps international organisation YGAP to support entrepreneurs improving the lives of people in poverty.

Check out its new rooftop bar. feastofmerit.com KERBSIDE GOURMET, SINGAPORE For every pulled-pork taco and bowl of noodles sold at this food truck, another is distributed to disadvantaged families. Kerby the truck also picks up almost 150 kilograms of food from hotels daily that would otherwise go to waste and redistributes it to service centres. kerbsidegourmet.com

STORIES ESPRESSO BAR, NEW ZEALAND This café in a shipping container in Wellington’s Cuba Street is all about coffee – served by high-school students seeking to build their resumes. After the 12- to 15-week program, they’re connected with potential employers.

Find Stories Espresso Bar on Facebook CABBAGES AND CONDOMS, BANGKOK With the tagline “our food is guaranteed not to cause pregnancy”, there’s a light side to this restaurant – but it’s no joke. It promotes family planning and financially supports the Population and Community Development Association. pda.or.th/restaurant

PHOTOGRAPHY STREAT, CREPES FOR CHANGE, PETER TARASIUK

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KOTO, HANOI Grab a seat on the fourthlevel terrace at KOTO’s multi-level flagship restaurant on Van Mieu. Trainees cook and serve food while you take in the view of the Temple of Literature. koto.com.au

CREPES FOR CHANGE, MELBOURNE This food truck and coffee car, a festival favourite, whips up crepes to combat youth homelessness and was the recipient of a $30,000 Jetstar Flying Start grant in 2015. crepesforchange.com

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A cultural melting pot Established in 1912 along the banks of the Chao Phraya River, where traders from both east and west entered old Siam on their ships, Bang Rak’s multicultural population is one of its most identifying features.

Europeans settled here in the early 1800s, and Indian, Arab and Chinese communities soon followed. Their legacy can be seen today, with Buddhists, Confucians, Hindus, Muslims and Christians all calling the neighbourhood home.

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PICTURED AND BELOW: Street food of every variety can be found around Bangkok.

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rool-inducing food, world-class hotels, legendary hospitality (they don’t call Thailand the land of smiles for nothing), a killer nightlife and one of the most unique cultures in the world are just some of the reasons scores of Aussies make the journey to the capital city of Bangkok every year.

Old-guard attractions are still luring tourists in droves, but there’s change afoot in the City of Angels.

Young-gun artists, restaurateurs, chefs and nightlife pioneers are out to prove there’s more to Bangkok than street food and temples. And there’s nowhere better to see this than Bang Rak. Nestled close to the Chao Phraya River, this colourful neighbourhood is one of 50 districts or khet. A medley of ethnicities and regions make Bang Rak as lively as it is diverse. Roughly translated as the “village of love”, the district is the most popular place to register marriage. Gay bars join artisan cocktail joints, street food vendors happily share space with pricey, hip restaurants, and visitors can have their pick of slick, contemporary hotels with river views to swoon over.

It’s a neighbourhood with bang.

mosques and churches, including Thailand’s most famous Hindu place of worship, Sri Mahamariamman, created by Tamil immigrants in the 1860s, and one of the city’s oldest cathedrals, the striking Assumption Cathedral.

The history-soaked area is also where Louis T. Leonowens, son of Anna of The King and I fame, founded a trading company, and where the city’s first paved road (Charoen Krung Road) was constructed.

To get further under the surface of Bang Rak’s history, culture vultures can get their fix at the Bangkok Folk Museum – also known as the Bangkokian Museum – which paints a picture of life here during World War II.

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The courtyard of The House on Sathorn. LEFT: Dining at Namsaah Bottling Trust.

Eat local Famous for its street food and shop-house restaurants, eating in Bangkok is akin to a national sport.

Brimming with eateries that have been serving the same recipes for, in some cases, more than a century, food in Bang Rak is as local as you can get. Veer down the narrow winding passageways, or trots, and take yourself on a walking degustation. Most shop houses or street vendors specialise in one dish, so create a hit-list and start sampling.

You can’t miss roast duck stall, Prachak, which has called the neighbourhood home since 1909. The great-grandchildren of the original owner still produce the signature duck, stuffed with lemongrass, galangal and lime leaves. Another must is pre-World War II traditional Thai dessert shop, Boon Sap, where the thirdgeneration proprietors make treats according to their grandmother’s recipes.

If you’d rather skip the itinerary planning, Bangkok Food Tours’ award-winning Bang Rak experience takes about half a day.

Beyond the established foodie fare, the regeneration of the area with a host of new eateries has brought a new generation of Thais to its streets.

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Eat Me, a recipient of last year’s Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants award, is a standout with a world menu that reflects the international team behind it – an Australian owner and a head chef from New York. Set over two floors, the lively restaurant has an in-house art gallery and is a firm favourite with the city’s bright, young things.

Distil at the Lebua State Tower.

ABOVE: The colourful interior of Namsaah Bottling Trust.

Drink up Bank Rak’s high-rise bars offer some of the best views in the city.

For sundowners paired with a 360-degree view, you can’t go past Distil bar at the Lebua State Tower, hundreds of metres above the Chao Phraya River. In Sathorn Soi 10 and 12 there’s a United Nations of drinking dens. Revolucion Cocktail channels Havana nights with a live DJ spinning Latin beats and bartenders getting their flair on.

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Bang Rak claims the western end of Silom Road in its borders.

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In the past few years, it has also become a nightlife hub.

At Asian gastro bar, Namsaah Bottling Trust, the colourfully painted walls match the ingenious drinks menu. Nearby, the speakeasy-like Maggie Choo’s offers late-night jazz, leather armchairs, and playful hidden rooms. Also riding the nostalgia-themed wagon is The House on Sathorn, a colonial mansion that’s more than 100 years old that juxtaposes old and new with progressive artisan cocktails and ad hoc performances.

And at Silom’s recently opened MahaNakhon skyscraper, the tallest building in Thailand, the world’s very first Vogue Lounge (as in the internationally known fashion bible) has opened its doors to much fanfare from local fashionistas.

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Dig deeper SOI NANA Over the past few years, Chinatown’s Soi Nana has gained momentum as a go-to for the inner-city urbanites.

Shabby-chic bars rub shoulders with hip galleries, including 23 Bar & Gallery – an exhibition and performance space that also doubles as a cheap bar – and Tep, a watering hole spearheading a new wave of bars making traditional Thai cool. Think cocktails made with local spirits and infusions, and live bands using traditional instruments.

RATTANAKOSIN Situated just north of Chinatown, Rattanakosin (also known as the Old City) is where you’ll find Bangkok’s most revered historical attractions, including The Grand Palace and Wat Pho. This cultural epicentre is undergoing a revival as cutting-edge eateries, bars and galleries open.

Seven Spoons restaurant recreates Western dishes using local ingredients (think cricket pasta) and serves local craft beer. And

Hazel’s, a contemporary ’50s-style ice cream parlour in a historic printing press, offers sundaes with martinis and other fine drinks on the side.

SUKHUMVIT Though something of a perennial when it comes to nightlife, Sukhumvit is constantly evolving.

The area is packed with shopping malls, restaurants and bars and, appropriately enough for the longest street in the city, at Long Table there’s the longest table in Thailand, if not the world. Another quirky offering is Dine in the Dark, a fine-dining eatery and social enterprise that trains and employs the visually impaired, and offers guests a unique dining experience.

One of the newest additions to the area is fantastical bar-cum-club, Sing Sing Theater. Split into two downstairs bars and a central dance floor, which doubles as a stage for performances, the Chinese brothel-inspired venue is the latest brainchild of

Aussie nightlife hotshot, Ashley Sutton, an expat who has been one of the main driving forces behind the transformation of the city’s bar scene over the past decade.

SUANPLU A haven of cool, laid-back bars and restaurants, peppered among some of the city’s leafiest sois, Suanplu boasts some of the city’s best cocktail bars.

Run by a local mixologist, Junker and Bar serves quality cocktail staples and limited-run drinks featuring home-infused liquors, with a side of cheap American comfort food. A few steps away, the moodily-lit and aptly named Smalls is the place to sip absinthe and take in live blues and jazz.

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In Bang Rak you can still see why Bangkok used to be known as the Venice of the East, via the Chao Phraya river on the west and its adjoining waterways. Luxury hotels, from the city’s original five-star hotel the Mandarin Oriental to relative newcomer W Bangkok, capitalise on the riverbank views.

Shangri-La Bangkok is the standout thanks to its stellar location and a recent refurbishment, plus the hotel’s design provides every room with a river view. Other features include the plush in-house CHI Spa, a picturesque palm-treedotted pool area (also overlooking the river) and several award-winning restaurants.

Wherever you decide to stay, getting to and from Bang Rak is easy. The area is serviced by both Skytrain and the Metro underground line and the Chao Phraya Express Boat operates along multiple piers.

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Kelly Irving follows the trail of Victoria’s Great Ocean Road from the world-famous surf beaches at Torquay to its pretty seaside towns and stunning hinterland

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hen I moved from Melbourne to the Great Ocean Road, one of Australia’s most renowned stretches of coast, it wasn’t just the promise of sun-drenched surf days that swept me away. That played its part, sure, but what really drew me in was the magic of the inland mountains and the little-known spots that only a local could know.

“The diversity of adventure is what makes me love where I live,” says Chris Ord, director of Tour de Trails, specialists in trail-running tours that take in sights such as Lorne’s fern-fringed Cora Lynn Cascades and the Phantom and Erskine Falls.

“I can walk, run or ride a mountain bike along the Surf Coast Walk (44km), right from my doorstep,” Chris explains.

“There’s a secret clifftop lookout between Point Addis and Anglesea where I stop and contemplate life, especially on a full moon. The view over the ocean is huge and it makes all your problems seem very small.”

The area from Anglesea to Point Roadknight and Aireys Inlet (marked by Split Point Lighthouse) hums with seachangers, six-metrelong camper vans and seriously fun festivals such as Kids Adventure Outdoors (April), which encourages families to walk, run, ride, paddle and fish together.

You can rent all kinds of water paraphernalia – surfboards, paddleboards, boats and kayaks – from any of the major towns, at any time. But overwhelmingly, the Great Ocean Road is known for its world-class surf.

“Bells Beach and Winki are famous,” Chris says. “But there are plenty of secret breaks and waves – suitable for anyone from beginners to surf professionals – all within ‘coo-ee’ of a decent latte.”

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There are a lot of other local products to admire – such as Regina Middleton’s jewellery, and Teak Candle Co.’s hand-poured soy candles.

You’re going to need some fuel for all that shopping.

Try Fisho’s in Torquay for seafood with a seaview, or newcomer Olè for tacos. For something sweet, try the Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie and Ice Creamery, or grab cake at 4Kings Coffee, Anglesea.

Another must is the Aireys Inlet Pub, which has a story as fantastic as the onsite brewery and big garden. After the pub closed in 2011, a group of townsfolk banded together to rescue the much-loved local from city developers and gave it a revamp. It’s an Aussie battler tale that says a lot about smalltown camaraderie.

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The glowing red cliffs and dark blue oceans inspired the strength behind our label

PHOTOGRAPHY KELLY IRVING, U&I

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Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze put Bells Beach on the map in the 1991 movie Point Break (even though the dramatic finale was really filmed at a standin beach in Oregon). At that time Bells’ closest town, Torquay, was best known for local success stories Rip Curl and Quicksilver. Now the town is synonymous with the annual Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach, Australia’s first professional surfing event that started in 1973 with little more than petrol and food money as prizes, and now draws surfers and spectators from around the world.

These days, Torquay pops with coffee caravans, taco trucks, beach bars and creative start-ups such as U&I – a surfwear brand for women who want to make the most of the ocean.

Founders Jodie Hayes and Emma Bäcklund started out at the back of a 1940s surf shack before moving to their shopcum-studio. Here, they dream and sketch designs (everything is handstitched in Melbourne) as shoppers browse the racks, often with Jodie’s dog Scout nosing around.

“Torquay isn’t known for year-round white sandy beaches and sun,” says Jodie. “It’s a lot more raw and rugged than that.

The glowing red cliffs and

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CLOCKWISE FROM FAR LEFT: Point Addis Beach, hiking in the forest near Lorne, beach cricket at Aireys Inlet, hard at work in the U&I studio, fishing on Fairhaven Beach.

Coast with the most Some of the most beautiful parts of the Great Ocean Road are found off the actual road. A favourite detour is The Farmer’s Place: a working farm and café in a converted shipping container, 15 minutes west of Torquay in Freshwater Creek.

A true paddock-to-plate experience at the start of the Otway Harvest Trail, ingredients are grown onsite or sourced locally.

Flip the menu to see where your pork belly or pumpkin came from.

“We promote sustainable practice and living to our customers and the wider community,” says James McLennan, Education Program manager. “Our programs cover many aspects of sustainability... and the impact food and waste choices have.”

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their goods to those in the know, with animals and plenty of space to keep the kids busy and often a musician playing mellow acoustic tunes.

Get even further into the heart of the Otway Ranges in Forrest, 40 minutes inland from Lorne. It’s hard to know what is this old timber town’s biggest claim to fame – its worldclass mountain bike trails or its beer.

The Forrest Brewing Company was once the old general store, overrun with blackberries and possums.

Now it’s the inviting meeting point for anyone on two wheels (or legs).

The cute cottage next door is perfect for overnight stays, so you won’t have to wobble too far home.

Otherwise, camp nearby at the otherworldly Lake Elizabeth, where you may be lucky enough to spot a platypus or two.

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Sleep on it After all that exploring you’ll need to unwind, and Lorne’s laidback holiday vibe is perfect. A longstanding favourite, the Lorne Sea Baths has a pool, steam room and, until April, a pop-up day spa from Hepburn Wellness.

Set up camp at one of the many local sites. “One of our favourite spots near Lorne is Cumberland River Holiday Park,” says Beth Brown from Twilight Glamping. “The setting

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is beautiful, with a flowing river against a cliff backdrop. It’s perfect for a spot of fishing or a quick dip. It’s directly opposite a stunning beach, near walking tracks into the Otway National Park and close to town.”

Not only will Beth give you the inside scoop on what to see and do around the region, she’ll even set up your bed for you, in a luxury bell-tent no less. The only struggle is choosing between the several sites from Torquay to Kennett River.

“We love that there are so many adventures to be had here. You can surf, paddleboard, kayak or hike to stunning waterfalls, bike or horse ride and indulge in local produce,” Beth says. “The surf coast is a special place.”

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Nikki Van Dijk Victorian pro-surfer Nikki Van Dijk explains why the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach is the highlight of her year.

Nikki Van Dijk has been playing in the waves along the Great Ocean Road ever since she could walk. It was there she had her first brush with surf royalty, when legend Layne Beachley plucked her out of the way of a dunking and granted the excited four-year-old an autograph. Fast-forward a decade or so, and Nikki found herself taking on her idol in a heat of the renowned Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach.

The world’s best surfers have been competing to ‘ring the Bell’ since 1973, making Bells the longest

running professional surfing event in the world. Rain, hail or shine, the crowds stream in to vie for a spot on the natural amphitheatre formed by Bells’ red cliffs to watch the next generation of legends and the who’s who of surf.

Since winning a wildcard entry in her mid teens, Nikki has surfed at the last seven Bells Beach Pros, and looks forward to the event every year.

“It’s my favourite time of the year. My whole family comes over and my friends. Victoria is such a good state to have grown up in and I just feel at home when that event is on.

“The fact that it’s the most prestigious event, it’s the longest (Championship Tour) running ever ... when I’m in a heat out there and turn around and look at the big rocks, and all the stands, I just have such a crazy feeling ... it’s such a pristine place.”

Surfing is in Nikki’s blood. When she was just a toddler, her family took off on a roundAustralia trip, stopping at every surf beach so her dad could catch waves. It was watching her father and older sister surf that got Nikki on the board.

Nikki’s little brother Joe is also a Bells veteran, having taken out top place in the Junior Challenge at Bells Beach for the past two years. “He rips, he’s such a freak, he teaches me everything,” Nikki says.

The family settled on Phillip Island but found themselves constantly back on the Surf Coast. “When you’re hunting for surf in Victoria you have to head out Torquay-way,” Nikki says. Along with Bells, Nikki frequents the Jan Juc and Winki breaks. “There’s so many hidden spots to surf as well,” she adds.

Nikki is enjoying a rare spell at home in the lead-up to the Pro. Spending nearly 10 months on the road each year, Nikki relishes a competition so close to home. “It’s only three hours from home, not three days on a plane,” she laughs.

“My heart is warm every time I surf out there because it’s my (home) state.”

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Beauty in bloom

PHOTO MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW

Green thumbs throng the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens for the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show, 29 March to 2 April.

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Vietnamese dancers at the Melbourne launch of the new direct route to Ho Chi Minh City.

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READY, SET, PHO: JETSTAR TAKES OFF TO VIETNAM

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ietnam is one of South East Asia’s fastest growing holiday destinations and budgetconscious holidaymakers can now tick it off their bucket list.

From May this year, Jetstar will become the only low-cost carrier to fly direct to the popular South

East Asian destination, with flights on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner operating four times weekly from Sydney and three times weekly from Melbourne.

From Ho Chi Minh City, travellers can fly on to 15 other destinations within Vietnam on Jetstar Pacific, which offers the same low fares they have come to expect from Jetstar.

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Wheels up Flights from Melbourne to Ho Chi Minh City will commence on 10 May, and flights from Sydney will commence on 11 May, subject to regulatory approval.

Flying loud with andBe proud pride

Midsumma Festival is Victoria’s premier queer arts and cultural festival. This year, Midsumma celebrated 30 years of championing diversity, cultivating queer perspectives and creating experiences that flip the status quo.

Jetstar is proud to celebrate the diversity of its team members by supporting the Midsumma Festival.

At this year’s opening event, the Midsumma Carnival, Jetstar invited the public to share stories of how travel has inspired inclusion in their world and pose for photos in the Jetstar booth. At Melbourne’s iconic march of solidarity, Jetstar team members were joined by friends and family to celebrate and champion diversity.

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CONGRATULATIONS

Love is in the air On a recent flight from Hobart to Melbourne, Cabin Manager Rui Revez was asked by passenger Daniel Muir for his help in facilitating a very special proposal to his partner of four years Ebony Marshall. After some careful planning and co-ordination from Rui and the rest of the crew, Daniel got down on one knee at the front of the aircraft and asked Ebony for her hand in marriage.

Congratulations Daniel and Ebony, we wish you a lifetime of happiness together.

BACKING New Zealand’s FUTURE SWIM STARS JETSTAR IS PROUD to support the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series; bringing families and communities together to celebrate being outdoors, being active and having fun. Each event in the series offers a range of distances, including a 200m OceanKids swim for children aged seven to 12 years.

To encourage the kids to get confident and build their fitness, Jetstar is giving the fastest OceanKids age group swimmers a spot in the Jetstar Super Swim Squad – a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to train with the country’s best swimmers over a weekend in May. To find out more about the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series and the Jetstar Super Swim Squad, visit oceanswim.co.nz

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Be awesome!

CLOSE YOUR EYES and imagine you’re eight years of age and back at school.

As you stare wistfully out of the classroom window, all of a sudden a giant transformer-style bus screeches to a halt on the oval and magically unpacks to form the most mind-blowing structure you have ever seen. This is the Be Awesome Festival!

The vision of Melbourne-based educator and social entrepreneur Christian Duell, the Be Awesome Festival is a full-on, energy-packed day of excitement and play, where participants explore a network of physical challenges and magical spaces. All with a purpose.

Challenges are designed to allow each

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child to experience powerful life lessons (like resilience, self-love and empathy) they’ll need to help meet the challenges of adolescence and adulthood.

While they inch evercloser to building the transformer bus, the Be Awesome Festival ‘Dream Team’ have been busy hosting successful pilot events across Australia, with the most recent in Melbourne in January.

Kooks is a proud supporter of the Be Awesome Festival.

If you’d like to get involved or learn more head to beawesome.org.au

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• Over 60,000 visitors to the festival each year • Vibrant street parades through the beautiful historical streets

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Essentials Explore I CHANGING I INTERVIEW LIVES

SYDNEY I STARKIDS

INDIGENOUS YOUTH LEAD THE WAY With the support of StarKids, Indigenous youth are gaining leadership skills WORDS JO MALONEY

You can help!

Raymond on a Young Mob cultural exchange trip to Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

PHOTO DAVE WELLS

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hen 15-yearold Sydney student Raymond Sarich joined the StarKids-supported Young Mob program he was no different from many teenagers; he lacked self-confidence and didn’t see many options for his future.

A year on, his story has changed dramatically.

The Dharawal student demonstrates improved confidence, feels more connected, is learning more about his culture and stepping up to take on leadership roles to positively influence others.

Donations from Jetstar customers through StarKids are helping Young Mob to equip

young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with the skills and opportunities to build brighter futures for themselves, supporting them to connect to culture, strengthen leadership skills and improve self-confidence.

In a recent speech to a room of more than 100 government staff for NAIDOC celebrations, Raymond spoke about how the program had helped him.

“I like the feeling that I am accepted for who I am.

It’s about the good things; the strong things and what the culture still has today.

[Young Mob] allows young people like me to be at events like this. It creates opportunities that might not exist,” he said.

MAKE YOUR DESTINATION A BETTER PLACE FOR CHILDREN Through StarKids, Jetstar and World Vision Australia are partnering to improve the lives of children and communities in need.

Your donations to StarKids help support communitybased development projects across south-east Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

These projects cover a range of activities including education and leadership development in Australia and New Zealand, child protection in Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, improving health in Indonesia, and increasing incomes in Cambodia.

By supporting StarKids, you can help transform communities living in poverty and give children a brighter future.

A proportion of inflight donations are used to pay for their collation and transfer to World Vision Australia.

Donate your loose change on-board today, when booking your next flight with Jetstar, or online at STARKIDS.JETSTAR.COM where you’ll find more information.

Your small change today could change a life tomorrow!

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“I like the way the Martu people live, they knew the land off by heart. Songlines* connect us. They connect all Aboriginal people. That’s what culture means to me. To be with family.

To be connected. To be myself,” he said. *Songlines carry significant spiritual and cultural connection to knowledge, customs, ceremony and Lore of many Aboriginal nations and Torres Strait Islander language groups.

They can be recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance and art.

Raymond also attended a cultural exchange trip with the desert Martu in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. It was *Funds raised in financial year to date since July 2016. Total raised since 2007.

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YOUR FLIGHT I TIPS & FACTS

BEND & STRETCH

Try these simple inflight tips and exercises, and you’ll arrive at your destination feeling great

JET LAG

Ouchy ears

If you’re crossing time zones, mimimise jet lag by getting a good night’s rest before your flight, getting out into the sun when you arrive, and doing some light exercise.

Cabin pressure changes can cause mild discomfort in babies and adults with congestion.

Clear your ears by swallowing, yawning or pinching your nose and gently blowing against it. A dummy or a bottle will help babies equalise the pressure in their ears.

DID you KNOW?

Crossing your legs can inhibit circulation. Stretch and move your feet and legs regularly, and rotate your ankles to keep them loose. If you need extra legroom, you can book an exit row seat (subject to availability and additional passenger requirements).

See Jetstar.com for details.

Roll with it Give your shoulders a roll, and drop and roll your neck at regular intervals to stretch out any stiffness.

Knee lifts, foot pumps and forward stretching can also help alleviate stiffness.

TAKE A WANDER

On a longer flight, get up (only when the seatbelt sign is switched off ) and move around the cabin every now and then to give your legs a stretch.

GO WITH THE FLOW

THE RIGHT MOVES

FASHION FORWARD

Avoid headaches and dry skin by drinking plenty of water during and after your flight. Keep tea, coffee and alcohol to a minimum.

Don’t attempt any inflight exercises that cause pain or can’t be done with ease.

And make sure you avoid disturbing any other passengers as you move.

Wear comfortable and light-fitting clothes to avoid constricting any part of your body as you sit. Loose cotton shirts and pants are ideal.

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Route maps I WHERE WE FLY

INTERNATIONAL Operated by Jetstar Airways Operated by Jetstar Asia Operated by Jetstar Pacific Operated by Jetstar Japan

Flights are operated by Jetstar Airways and commence 10 May (Melbourne-Ho Chi Minh City) and 11 May (Sydney-Ho Chi Minh City), subject to government and regulatory approval

Tokyo (Narita) Nagoya (Chubu)

Osaka (Kansai) Guiyang Shantou Guangzhou Hanoi

Taipei

Hong Kong Haikou Sanya

Yangon Da Nang Siem Reap Bangkok Phnom Penh

Hawaii (Honolulu)

Manila

Ho Chi Minh City

Phuket Penang 148 Medan

Kuala Lumpur

Pekanbaru

Singapore

Palembang Jakarta Surabaya Bali (Denpasar)

Darwin Fiji (Nadi)

Cairns Townsville

Cook Islands (Rarotonga)

Brisbane Gold Coast Perth Adelaide

Sydney Melbourne (Tullamarine)

Auckland Wellington Christchurch

Queenstown

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Route maps I WHERE WE FLY

DOMESTIC VIETNAM

DOMESTIC JAPAN

Hanoi Hai Phong

Sapporo

Thanh Hoa Vinh Dong Hoi Hue Da Nang Chu Lai Pleiku Quy Nhon

Phu Quoc

Tokyo (Narita) Nagoya (Chubu)

Tuy Hoa Buon Ma Thuot

Matsuyama Osaka (Kansai) Fukuoka Takamatsu Oita Kumamoto

Nha Trang Da Lat

Kagoshima

Ho Chi Minh City

Operated by Jetstar Pacific Flights are operated by Jetstar Pacific and commence 9 March, subject to government and regulatory approval

Okinawa Operated by Jetstar Japan

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Auckland New Plymouth Nelson

Darwin

Cairns Townsville Hamilton Island Whitsunday Coast Mackay

Queenstown

Napier Palmerston North Wellington Christchurch Dunedin

Operated by Jetstar Airways Operated by Eastern Australia Airlines for Jetstar Airways

Sunshine Coast

Ayers Rock (Uluru)

Brisbane

Gold Coast

Ballina Byron Perth

Newcastle

Sydney

Adelaide Melbourne (Avalon) Operated by Jetstar Airways Flights are operated by Jetstar Airways and commence 4 April, subject to regulatory approval

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Melbourne (Tullamarine)

Wellington Christchurch

Launceston Hobart

Auckland

Queenstown

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Explore Australian I INTERVIEW & New Zealand airports

ARRIVING AT OUR DESTINATIONS How to get from the airport to town Adelaide 9km 20 mins Approx $20-30 Route J1 or J2 every 15-30 mins. Route J1X every hour.

Tickets from $3.20-$5.10.

Auckland 22km 30 mins Approx NZ$75-90 SkyBus. Every 10-30 mins. Adult NZ$16, child NZ$6; return: adult NZ$28, child NZ$12. Takes 40-60 mins 380 Airporter bus service to Manukau City Centre.

Every 20-30 mins, NZ$5.

Ayers Rock/Uluru 150

6km (Ayers Rock Resort) 10 mins Complimentary shuttle buses to Ayers Rock Resort meet every flight. Taxis not available.

Ballina/Byron Blanch’s Bus route 640 connects to Ballina, Lennox Head, Byron Bay and Mullumbimby.

From $3.80 adult.

TO BYRON BAY 31km 30 mins Approx $80-90 Various shuttle buses available. Prices start at $20.

Enquire at airport information desk.

TO BALLINA 5km 7 mins Approx $15-20

Brisbane 16km 25 mins Approx $40-50 Con-x-ion Bus.

Every 40 mins.

Adult $20, return $36. $10 for additional passengers.

Airtrain. Every 15 mins approx. Adult $17; return $32.

Cairns 6km 10 mins Approx $20-30 Sun Palm Shuttle.

Adult $15, child $7.50. Also operates to Port Douglas: adult $44, child $23.50.

Christchurch 12km 20 mins Approx NZ$45-$65 Super Shuttle. NZ$24 for one person, NZ$5 for additional passengers.

Metro Bus Purple line or 29: Every 30 mins. Adult NZ$8, child NZ$5; return: adult NZ$14, child NZ$8.50.

Darwin 13km 15 mins Approx $20-30 Darwin Airport Shuttle.

Meets all flights. Adult $18, child $8; return: adult $30, child $14. Group discounts available.

Dunedin 30km 30 mins Approx NZ$90-100 Super Shuttle, NZ$30 for one person, NZ$10 for additional passengers.

Gold Coast 23km (Surfers Paradise) 40 mins $59 flat rate to Surfers Paradise. $49 flat rate to Broadbeach. See rank supervisor.

Con-x-ion Bus.

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Every 15-30 mins. Adult $22, child $13; return: adult $41, child $22 (bookings essential).

Gold Coast Tourist Shuttle.

Adult $21, child $13; return: adult $41, child $21.

Bus 777 and 760. Every 30 mins. Tickets from $8.60.

Hamilton Island 5 mins Free airport transfers offered to guests of selected hotels and holiday homes.

Hobart 19km 20 mins Approx $40-50 Redline Airporter meets every flight. Adult $18, child $14; return: adult $32, child $25.

Launceston 15km 15 mins Approx $30-40 Redline Airporter meets every flight. Adult $18, child $14; return: adult $32, child $25.

Mackay TO MACKAY 7km 15 mins Approx $15-25 TO AIRLIE BEACH 160km 2 hours Whitsunday Transfers.

Adult $69, child (4-15 yrs) $35; return: adult $120, child $60.

Melbourne (Avalon) TO GEELONG 20km 25 mins Approx $50 Airport Shuttle. Adult $22,

child $15; return: $34. Also operates to Bellarine, adult $30, child $16, return: $60; and Great Ocean Rd: Adult $32, child $26, return: $64.

TO MELBOURNE CBD 55km 45 mins Approx $130 Sita Coaches to Melbourne. Adult $22, child $10; return: $42.

Melbourne (Tullamarine) 25km 25 mins Approx $60-70 SkyBus. Every 10 mins.

Adult $18, child $9; return: adult $36, child $18.

Skybus operates Express to Southern Cross Station with free city hotel shuttle connections and services to St Kilda and Frankston.

Present your Jetstar boarding pass for a discount on any of these services.

Napier/Hawke’s Bay 6km 10 mins Approx NZ$20-30 Super Shuttle to Napier, NZ$20 for one person, NZ$7 for additional passengers.

To Hastings, NZ$43, and Havelock North NZ$45.

Village Shuttle to Hastings, NZ$38, and Havelock North NZ$40, NZ$5 for additional passengers.

Nelson 8km 15 mins Approx NZ$20-30 Nelson Shuttle NZ$18 for one person, NZ$4 for additional passengers; Super Shuttle NZ$19 for one person, NZ$4 for additional passengers.

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Newcastle 27km 40 mins Approx $70-80 Shuttle Bus, $40 for one person; $10 for additional passengers. Enquire at airport information desk.

Port Stephens Coach route 130. Adult $4.60, child $2.30.

New Plymouth 12km 15 mins Approx NZ$40 Scotts Airport Shuttle (bookings preferred). From NZ$18, NZ$4 for additional passengers.

Palmerston North 5km 10 mins Approx NZ$20 Super Shuttles. Adult NZ$18, NZ$4 for additional passengers.

Perth 12km (domestic terminal); 19km (international terminal) 40 mins Approx $35-45 Perth Airport Connect.

Tickets $15; return: $30.

Transperth Bus 40 from T3/T4. Route 380 from T1/T2.

Tickets from $4.50.

Queenstown 8km 10 mins Approx NZ$30-40 Super Shuttle. NZ$20 for one person, NZ$6 for additional passengers.

Connectabus. Every 15 mins. Adult NZ$12; child NZ$5.50.

Sunshine Coast TO NOOSA 30km 30 mins Approx $80 Henry’s Airporter shuttle

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bus. Adult $30, child $16; return: adult $60, child $32 Translink Bus 622, adult $9.70, child $4.80.

TO MAROOCHYDORE 9km 12 mins Approx $23 Con-x-ion buses. Adult $20, child $12, return: adult $40, child $22.

TransLink Bus 622.

Adult $5.60, child $2.80.

Sydney 8km 20 mins Approx $45-55 Airport Link train from domestic and international terminals. Every 10 mins approx (weekdays). Gate Pass: Adult $13.80, child $12.40, plus cost of rail component.

Townsville 6km 10 mins Approx $20-30 Airport shuttle. Adult $10, child $5.

Wellington 8km 25 mins Approx NZ$30-40 Super Shuttle. NZ$20 for one person, NZ$5 for additional passengers.

Airport Flyer route 91 bus. Every 10-20 mins.

Adult NZ$6-$12, child NZ$4-$7.

Whitsunday Coast/Proserpine Airlie Beach 40km 35 mins Approx $90 Whitsunday Transit.

Adult $18, child $13.

Whitsunday Transfers.

Adult $18, child $13; return: adult $34, child $18. Bookings not required.

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Movies, TV, music and more I MARCH 2017 I Entertainment

Inflight

Entertainment EXCITING CONTENT, GREAT VALUE! Be entertained en route to your destination – we’ve got a great selection of movies, top TV comedy and drama series, plenty of kids’ favourites, plus hit music and games to choose from. Follow the guide to see what’s available

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Not suitable for people under 15. Under 15s must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian

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Restricted to 18 and over 18歳以上観覧可

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Entertainment I MOVIES I Available on 787 seatback screens

Queen of Katwe

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| 115 mins LANGUAGE: ENG, JPN, ENGCC DIRECTOR: Scott Derrickson CAST: Rachel McAdams, Benedict Cumberbatch

| 124 mins LANGUAGE: ENG & ENGCC DIRECTOR: Mira Nair CAST: Lupita Nyong’o, David Oyelowo

The world of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess.

Follows surgeon Stephen Strange after an injury leads him to discover powerful magic in a far-off mysterious place.

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As 16-year-old Max McGrath adjusts to his new school, things get complicated when his body starts to generate strange energy flare-ups that he can’t control.

Keeping Up with the Joneses

The Birth of a Nation

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| 105 mins LANGUAGE: ENG & CHS DIRECTOR: Greg Mottola CAST: Isla Fisher, Zach Galifianakis

| 119 mins LANGUAGE: ENG, JPN & CHS DIRECTOR: Nate Parker CAST: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer

Scrat accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that threaten the Ice Age world.

Literate slave Nat uses his preaching to subdue unruly slaves.

| 127 mins LANGUAGE: ENG, JPN & ENGCC DIRECTOR: Tim Burton CAST: Eva Green, Asa Butterfield

Jake uncovers a secret refuge known as Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. の

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Before the end of April 20, 2010, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in US history.

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

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The story of Edward Snowden, an American computer professional who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA).

A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life.

© 2016 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

| 134 mins LANGUAGE: ENG & CHS DIRECTOR: Oliver Stone CAST: Joseph GordonLevitt, Shailene Woodley

| 112 mins LANGUAGE: ENG, JPN & CHS DIRECTOR: Tate Taylor CAST: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett

| 92 mins LANGUAGE: ENG & CHS DIRECTOR: Stewart Hendler CAST: Ben Winchell, Josh Brener

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do The Time Warp Again ロッキー・ホラー・ クチャ ー・ショー：レッツ・ド ・ザ

| 88 mins LANGUAGE: ENG DIRECTOR: Kenny Ortega CAST: Reeve Carney, Victoria Justice

Sweethearts Janet and Brad stumble upon a bizarre abode. ドクター・フランクン・フーター の な が ジ ネット ブラッドの

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Entertainment I MOVIES I Available on 787 seatback screens

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

| 92 mins LANGUAGE: ENG, JPN & ENS DIRECTOR: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn CAST: Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake

| 126 mins LANGUAGE: ENG, JPN & CHS DIRECTOR: Gavin O’Connor CAST: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick

| 87 mins LANGUAGE: ENG, JPN & CHS DIRECTOR: Katie Crown CAST: Andy Samberg, Jennifer Aniston

Math savant Christian Wolff works as a freelance accountant for some of the world’s most dangerous criminal organisations.

Storks deliver babies... or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for global internet giant Cornerstore.com.

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I Am Bolt

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| 107 mins LANGUAGE: ENG DIRECTOR: Benjamin Turner, Gabe Turner CAST: Pele, Neymar

Superhuman on his feet, and life of the party off the track, this is the fully authorised feature documentary on the globally adored Usain Bolt. の ウサイン・ ボルトのドキュ ンタ ー

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Storks

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Trolls

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The Good Dinosaur

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In an alternate universe where dinosaurs survived, young dinosaur Arlo develops an unlikely friendship with a boy. の

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Your Lie in April | 120 mins LANGUAGE: CAN & ENS DIRECTOR: Takehiko Shinjo CAST: Kento Yamazaki, Suzu Hirose

Piano prodigy Kosei Arima lost his ability to play after he lost his mother. When he meets violinist Kaori, she forces him to face his painful memories. が が

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Thirteen years after high school, a former geek realises he’s still in love with his crush. オタク ー が

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Lincoln

Mulan

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| 135 mins LANGUAGE: ENG & JPN DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg CAST: Sally Field, David Strathairn

| 99 mins LANGUAGE: ENG & JPN DIRECTOR: Jingle Ma CAST: Zhao Wei, Chen Kun

Focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office, when the nation is divided by war and the strong winds of change. の

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An ex-Marine is thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds.

Medical engineer Dr Stone and astronaut Matt work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.

In a world where one can enter the human mind through dream invasion, a skilled thief is given his toughest job to date. なスキル の ンスが た

が た する

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Tangled

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78-year-old Carl sets out to fulfil his wife’s dream with an inadvertent stowaway. な

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To protect her father, a young girl poses as a boy to serve in his stead. Her courage leads the nation to victory, but romance proves to be a tougher battlefield. も

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Gravity

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There’s Something About Mary

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Calls of Heroes

© 2009 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

© 1998 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

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| 100 mins LANGUAGE: ENG & CHS DIRECTOR: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard CAST: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi

After Princess Rapunzel escapes the hidden tower she was locked in with the help of a dashing bandit, they find adventure, heart and hair…lots of hair. ン ェル

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Beautiful Creatures

ビューティフルクリー チャーズ し

| 105 mins LANGUAGE: ENG DIRECTOR: Richard LaGravenese CAST: Alice Englert, Viola Davis

Ethan and mysterious Lena uncover dark secrets about their respective families. イーサン レナ の する

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Modern Family

The Grinder

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ザ・グラインダー

プラ ット・アース

22 mins per episode, Season 7

22 mins per episode, Season 1

60 mins per episode

Follow the comical exploits of three families as they work out what it means to be a ‘modern family’. Phil and Claire struggle to keep up with their three kids, Claire’s dad is married to a feisty Latina woman while Jay’s gay son and his partner adopt a little girl.

After eight years playing a famous lawyer on TV, an actor thinks he can return to his hometown and join his family’s law firm, despite having no degree and no actual experience in a real courtroom.

David Attenborough returns in this breathtaking documentary showcasing life on Earth.

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It’s the ’90s and 12-year-old, hip-hop loving Eddie just moved to suburban Orlando from Washington DC’s Chinatown with his parents and brothers. It’s culture shock for his immigrant family in this comedy about pursuing the American Dream. た

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American Dad

The Big Bang Theory 22 mins per episode, Season 10

Season 12, 30 mins per episode

Misadventures of a gung-ho CIA agent trying to keep a leash on his hippie daughter and his odd suburban family, which includes an outer space alien and a pet goldfish who used to be an East German spy. する

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ビッグバン セオリー

アメリカン・ダッド

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Heery’s World

ヒーリーズ・ワールド

60 mins per episode

Heery’s World is a fascinating and compelling journey into the creative life and mind of Gary Heery, one of Australia’s most renowned portrait photographers.

Penny moves in across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon, two gifted but socially awkward best friends. She befriends the brainy duo and teaches them about life outside the science lab.

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Mumford & Sons - Live In South Africa: Dust & Thunder

60 mins per episode

Street-wise Max doesn’t expect much from the new waitress at her night job, a rich girl who has reluctantly joined the food service industry after a string of bad luck. But to her surprise, Caroline is a woman of substance and just may be her ticket to success.

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シドニー・ハー ー・ トロー ル する ームの

マムフ ード・アンド・サンズ

22 mins per episode, Season 6

22 mins per episode, Season 2

follows the elite team who work day and night to keep the world-famous waterfront running.

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Fresh Off the Boat

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する た ドキュ ンタ ー デイ ッド・アッテンボローが

2 Broke Girls

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Planet Earth II

This concert film chronicles British band Mumford & Sons’ visit to South Africa. Filmed live against the beautiful Pretorian outback, the band performs classic hits such as ‘I Will Wait’, ‘Little Lion Man’ and ‘Believe’ as well as showcasing their new Johannesburg EP for the first time in front of an exhilarated crowd. アフ

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Sydney Harbour Patrol

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60 mins per episode

Sydney Harbour Patrol

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DRAMA SERIES

KIDS

Get Ace

Sofia the First

ヘイ・ダッグジー

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45 mins per episode, Season 2

8 mins per episode, Season 1

30 mins per episode

23 mins per episode, Season 2

A woman is discovered in Times Square covered in mysterious tattoos.

Get set for laughter, learning and exciting activities in the adventure club that every child will want to join. Meet Duggee, a big lovable dog who runs a club for preschoolers.

Ace McDougal is the kid proving you’re never too nerdy to be cool.

A girl learns what it takes to be a princess when her mother marries a king.

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Blindspot

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Hey Duggee

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Barracuda

バラクーダ

アド ェン

60 mins per episode

A look at Australia’s national obsession with sporting heroes.

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Legends

レジェンズ

45 mins per episode, Season 2

A chameleon-like FBI Deep Cover Operations agent feeling the loss of his real identity begins to question his own past. る

Westworld

K.C. Undercover

バス ー ス ー・バ

60 mins per episode, Season 1

21 mins per episode, Season 1

In an Old West theme park things occasionally go wrong.

A fugitive princess from another dimension takes refuge on Earth.

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45 mins per episode, Season 4

A former playboy returns to his hometown and decides to use his new skills. スキル

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Star vs. the Forces of Evil

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Disney Shorts ディズニー

4 mins per episode

A selection of Disney shorts. ディ ニー

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Join Emma for an adventure in her special bow room.

Every day is a different adventure, so grab your tutu and get ready to sing, dance and wiggle with Emma. マの

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Lego DC Comics Super Heroes レゴ D

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23 mins per episode, Season 1

44 mins per episode

A high school expert in math and karate learns that her parents are spies.

It’s up to the Justice League to stop Darkseid and save the galaxy.

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Emma

12 mins per episode, Season 1

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Arrow

Go Jetters

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のテーマ ーク が なる

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These superhero Go Jetters live high in the sky above Earth and just love to explore new places. The Go Jetters are all students of the Go Jet Academy and are undertaking the final part of their geographical training.

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22 mins per episode

The gang tries to enjoy a final summer vacation after high school graduation. も

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The Slow Home ポッドキ

The weeknd ft Daft Punk Starboy

Chill out to these favourites.

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最新ヒット曲をお届けします。

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シグマ フィーチャリング バーディ

NOVA

Rove & Sam ローヴ＆サム

Sigma Ft. Birdy Find Me

House ザ・マクリモンツ ハウス

What do you Love ジャコブ・バ

ザ・グリ

Hear the freshest hits on NOVA, hosted by Smallzy.

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Kinderling Conversation

The McClymonts

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The Grill Team

トケイ・マイザ シミュレーション

ファインド・ミー

ザ・ウィークエンド フィーチャリン

RADIO

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Hughsey & Kate ヒュージ

ー＆ケイト

Tetris

テトリス

Chess

チェス

Bejeweled 2 ルド２

Blackjack ック

ビジュエ

ブラックジャ

Disney’s Classic Games ディズニークラシッ

クゲーム

Golf Open

ゴルフゲーム

Hangman

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MemoPics

メモリーゲーム

S.U.D.O.K.U. (SUDOKU)

Solitaire

数独

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Taught a lesson A quest for meaningful travel leads to a classroom in Vietnam and unexpected results WORDS PETER BARRETT

MY MELBOURNE FAMILY and I were headed to Vietnam for three months, but I wanted more than beaches, banh mi and a tailormade suit. I wanted the immersive experience. To make connections with locals. To lose myself in another way of life. To understand somewhere else, not just visit.

I wanted to feel Vietnamese.

What could possibly go wrong?

After a night’s acclimatisation in a budget hotel in Can Tho, Vietnam’s fourth-largest city, I was let loose on my first class: a room full of respectful (if perhaps a bit shy) 18 to 30-year-olds. It went well.

Feeling cocky after my first

after my first successful day on the job I was completely unprepared for what was to follow successful day on the job I was completely unprepared for what was to follow: a class of children aged between 11 and 14. In hindsight, I should have known what to expect. Don’t get me wrong, the kids were great – curious souls and (mostly) all excited to be there – but after two hours of spontaneous dancing, laughter, paper-plane flying, back-seat lolly eating, misunderstandings and other hijinks, I was completely exhausted.

The week wore on and the pattern continued. I resorted to using my

own children as props in an effort to distract my students and eat up some class time. One day, my son brought in an AFL football and conducted some indoor kicking drills. Out of sheer desperation we later sang ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ followed by all three verses of ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’.

By the time my six days of teaching were over I was a dribbling mess. At the first opportunity, we booked a flight to a beach resort on the central coast, ordered a banh mi and made a date with a local suit maker.

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So, when the tenuous connection came along of a colleague’s Vietnamese hairdresser’s niece who ran an English language school on the Mekong River, I fired an email off straight away. What better way, I thought, to experience life in Vietnam, than by becoming a local teacher for a while?

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