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Words Dan & James Hutton, Publishers Welcome to the June 2019 edition of The Beast, the monthly magazine for Sydney’s glorious Beaches of the East.

We’re stoked to bring you our cover interview with the new state member for Coogee, Dr Marjorie O’Neill, a long-term Bronte resident who has been writing a column in The Beast for a number of years now. Dr O’Neill is a passionate woman with plenty of positive energy and a deep connection to the Eastern Beaches.

In local news, Siriol Dafydd fills us in on the planned South Bronte amenities upgrade that will be on public exhibition until June 6, and Isabella Puentes has written about a talented young lad named Hal Cumpston who has just released

his debut feature film, Bilched.

Of course The Beast wouldn't be complete without a yarn from Duncan Horscroft, and this month ‘Horse’ has written about another enterprising young local named Jackson Harrigan, who has developed an electronic sign board to help keep people safe at the beach.

Rounding things off, Siriol has penned a piece on the introduction of roadside cocaine testing, which will probably send a nervous shiver down the spines of many Bondi residents.

We should also mention that there have been some ongoing challenges for us personally, so apologies if we’ve been difficult to get in touch with or a bit hopeless replying to emails.

We hope you enjoy the read.

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CONTENTS June 201 9 Issue 173

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Welcome Note Contents Pearls of Wisdom Monthly Mailbag Beastpops Local Chick Thumbs and Dogs Local News

Elder statesmen, by Poppy Wolanski.

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Calendar Local Tradies Interview Tide Chart Headnoise Unreliable Guide Satire Enviro News

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Sporting Life Local History Local Photos Food & Wine Reviews Trivial Trivia Beardy From Hell Trivia Solutions

Not leaving much to the imagination.

The Power of Pearl Words Pearl Bullivant Photo Lucy Flappington Pearl is not normally swayed by the evils of advertising, but I will admit to one guilty pleasure that would warm the cockles of a marketer’s heart: junk mail.

You won’t find a “No Junk Mail” sign on my letter box, especially when one of my favourite pieces of glossy woodchip is the Aldi catalogue. Solar meerkat statues touted alongside cheap bulk buys of Himalayan salt - what is there not to love?

So, when the Aldi catalogue appeared in my letter box over Easter, imagine my dismay when I discovered amongst the pork kiev and turmeric latte a glossy photo of a velour tracksuit.

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Granted it was the season of resurrection, but there it was in all its former Yummy Mummy glory, taunting me on page four.

“Only $24.99 with improved luxury fabric and satin drawstring waist,” and available in Penrith Pink (rather than Clovelly Charcoal), which eased my mind somewhat as the vision of Yummy Mummies blocking the carpark with their lifestyle vehicles at my favourite Aldi store just didn’t ring true.

For readers new to the Eastern Suburbs or too young to remember the years circa 2008, the black velour tracksuit was the mandatory uniform of any Yummy Mummy worthy of her

matching black Range Rover and Bugaboo pram. It was one of the many items of gentrified clothing rallied against in my column and I thought I’d seen the last of this fashion-fail when it was superseded by the Lululemon legging. But, despite my horror that this white elephant might return as a retro musthave, Pearl is on an even more urgent mission: to vanquish the micro bikini.

With winter now upon us, Pearl has exactly six months to rid the Eastern Suburbs of the vile micro bikini trend. I appreciate that “everyone wants to show off side boobs, butts and hips”, but the micro is nothing but a male marketer’s wet-dream sold as “a flattering and supportive source of bodily empowerment and selfexpression”, when the reality is that not only is it impractical to swim in, it is a total time waster - imagine what women could be doing with their time instead of devoting precious energy to maintaining a bikini line to accommodate what resembles an antiquated belted sanitary pad!

Since everyone wants to show off their boobs and bum, Pearl and her friends want in on the action. As feminists, we crave the empowerment that comes from wearing something that a man would never be seen in. We will be discarding the Speedo for unflattering ‘cheeky’ bottoms and tops for our winter swims (and we won’t be waxing). Selfies of aged women with pouting thin lips, attired in tiny bikinis holding up what now defies gravity will be infecting Instagram like fake news and baby photos. And, by summer, “the Kardashian Shape that is part of Australia’s culture” will no longer be, and the micro bikini will be relegated as an afterthought in an Aldi catalogue.

That, darlings, is the power of Pearl.

The Beast's Monthly Mailbag Words The People of the Eastern Suburbs BARKING BLOODY DOGS I love dogs as much as anyone, but I’m sick of the selfish owners around Boundary, Arden and Pacific Streets, Clovelly. Who lets their dogs start barking from 6.30am?

This then causes a domino effect as they are joined by other maniacal barkers.

Sometimes there is a lull and it starts again at 7.30am.

Please, keep your dogs inside until a reasonable hour and be a bit more considerate of sleeping children and your neighbours.

What’s worse, one of these animals lives in conditions you wouldn’t even want your, um, dog to live in!

E Richardson Clovelly SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENZAS Pearl’s valiant attempt to characterise so-called influenzas - oops, I mean influencers - as “wannabes” (her word) and “puerile” (my word) struck a chord with those of us who care less about these social underperformers than we do about the turds their fashionable dogs leave on the footpath while on their daily strut (Under the Influence, The Beast, April 2019).

I mean, who are these selfproclaimed nobodies? More to the point, who are the mindless

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morass who “follow” them, whatever that means?

Seriously Pearl, if I were you I’d just keep setting a good example as you go about your daily life in the real world, unlike the self-absorbed online twats you write about whose one claim to fame is their ability to post carefully scripted clips doing something that inspires only themselves and their gullible followers.

Name and suburb withheld PEARL'S VIEW ON TREE HATERS Hi Pearl - I’d appreciate your view on a woman who was walking along Fern Street and nearby streets in Randwick, ripping huge branches from trees in public streets and from shrubs in private properties.

I love your down to earth take on life in the East. I wish I had been using my hose at the time and could have ‘accidentally’ dampened her lust. This has been going on for months and is not a rare occurrence.

Tree Hugger Clovelly THE NANNY STATE Hi The Beast - I enjoyed reading Duncan Horscroft’s article on the Bronte Cutting and local parking issues (Locals Want

Car Spots Back in Cutting, The Beast, May 2019). All so very true.

Waverley Council do what they want, when they want. As The Beast rightly pointed out when the parking spots were first removed, there was zero consultation from the council with locals.

Eighteen months ago a group of residents wanted to plant out a traffic calming device on Evans Street, Bronte, at our cost. Wanting to do to the right thing by the council, I contacted them and put in a request to plant a small garden with site safe, low growing, zero-to-low maintenance Council approved native plants.

Twelve months later I got a “yes”, we could go ahead with the garden. Then, two weeks later, I suddenly got an email saying, “No, you can’t plant the garden.”

My request had apparently gone through multiple council departments. There had also been several on-site meetings by numerous council staff, some of which I attended. Apparently no one was sure which council department could make the decision, which is apparently why it took twelve months to make a decision.

How can a request to beautify the area, a tiny 8m2 garden, paid for and maintained by locals, take over twelve months to get a decision from the council?

The reason for the reversal of the decision was extremely vague. “It’s too dangerous for our staff to maintain,” one council worker said to me.

Another council worker told me that they didn’t want the costs of the maintenance (but the locals would maintain the garden!).

Had we put the garden in without asking the council, no one would have blinked an eye and it would look wonderful by now. Following a council process ended up turning into

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over a year of pain and came at a huge cost to the ratepayer, all over a tiny garden.

It is time for a major review of the council’s processes and inefficiencies. It is also time for some fresh young blood on Waverley Council. Bring on the next council elections. They should be every two to three years, not every four years as they currently are for local government.

Keep up the great work.

Charles Hunter Bronte (Passionate about our local community, former winner of Waverley Council Best Street Garden Award) BRONTE PRIMARY SCHOOL Hello James and Dan - Perhaps you or your readers can help me understand why a state primary school has to fundraise for toilets for its pupils? When did toilets become an optional extra? Maybe fundraising for desks or chairs - children could probably do without them - but toilets?!

It seems New South Wales can build stadia, with excellent facilities no doubt, but not toilet facilities for Bronte Primary School pupils.

MW Bronte ORGANIC FOOD AND LK PART 2 To The Beast - Lenore Kulakauskas puts a different spin on her own letters from many years ago, which is understandable, but I stand by my recollection. There was/is no such thing as a 24-hour takeaway liquor license, so I suggest her own recollection may be hazy.

It would be interesting to do the research for a tragic like myself but trawling through 15 years of Waverley Council records just isn’t practical.

Re organic food, Anastasia Beaverton is just repeating the misinformation spread by

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the organic industry and its well-intentioned supporters.

It’s important that this kind of misinformation doesn’t permeate through our educational system. To her credit Anastasia did qualify many statements with the term “may”.

Re GMOs, the verdict is in: the scientific consensus states that GMOs are safe. Every approved GMO has to go through years of arduous testing and regulatory hurdles. Even the Greens recently modified their GMO policy by deleting a call for a moratorium and any inference to question their safety.

Put simply, the majority of every cropping plant has had their genes altered from their wild ancestors through traditional breeding methods.

GMOs are just a high tech, more precise version of that process, whether it be RNA interference, transgenics or gene editing (official forms of GMOs).

GMO crops in the US aren’t damaging the environment or bees as claimed. Yes, native bees are under threat, mainly due to habitat destruction, but despite the media hype the European honey bee is fine.

Numbers have recovered in the US after the Colony Collapse Disorder waves in 2007 (varroa mite being the primary cause) and numbers in Australia have always been climbing.

With the oncoming effects of climate change, in order to adapt we will need every tool possible. There are GMOs (Bt eggplant, for example) that have built-in genetic pest control, so no pesticide spraying is necessary. There are also GMOs around, and in the pipeline, that require less water and less fertiliser than organic and conventional crops.

The Roundup Ready GMO crops help with no-till farming, which saves top soil, prevents land degradation and stops carbon being released from the soil and machinery. Roundup itself

is a whole different debate, but I’ll just state that courts don’t decide science, so have faith in our regulatory authority looking after pesticides, the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority.

If you really care about the environment then you should support any practice that minimises land use in food production. As the ABC show The Checkout said in an expose on organic food: “Which rainforest shall we cut down so we can grow organic food?”

Anthony Bosch Bondi LIMITING SURVEY As a local and regular user of the Bronte Cutting, myself and many others have been left out of the recent survey circulated by the Bronte Surf Club on March 12. As the survey did not include many of us, the result represented a view which was not shared by the majority.

I do not like to think that this survey will be used as an example of the general public’s ideas, ignoring the original paid survey of December last year, which was extensive and all encompassing.

I disagree with the article in The Beast (Locals Want Car Spots Back in Cutting, The Beast, May 2019), as at the council community workshop in February, the option of excavating and building a pedestrian path was not well received and those attending realised the huge cost of such an unnecessary measure. The mammoth cost of an elevated pathway belies any benefit gained by an option which would cause drastic damage to the rock face.

Leaving the current situation with the new speed-quietening road measures and a portion of the roadway made for walking is the most cost-effective option which does not damage our precious heritage coast line.

Alternatively, just have a 10km

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speed limit! Do we have money to spend on preserving some car spaces at the risk of damaging our natural heritage? Are these car spaces used throughout the year?

I am concerned that specific limited surveys may be used to indicate public attitude instead of considering the interests of the majority of pedestrians who use the cutting.

Georgie Bronte BRONTE CUTTING I see that, according to a survey, 500 residents have demanded the return of 22 parking spaces in Bronte Cutting (that was originally a valuable public transport resource). Please forgive my mathematics, but if 500 residents want those spots back that is only about one spot for each 25 residents. How will these be rationed out? By a lottery system? By taking turns?

I suspect that the survey was not overly unbiased in nature and produced the desired results rather than something accurate. It should be remembered, in that light, that there will never be enough parking in Bronte (or anywhere near the beaches) to meet full demand at all times. If Waverley Council was somehow able to provide an extra 220 places somewhere, there would still not be enough parking.

Get used to it! There is no obligation on Council to provide parking for everyone within what they think is a convenient distance from a beach. 22 spots will make no difference.

Doug Richards Tamarama NOT ALL SURVEYS ARE CREATED EQUAL Dear Editor - Today, with Survey Monkey software, anyone can put together a survey without accountability or quality control. Duncan Horscroft refers to the “Bronte Cutting Pilot

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Project Draft Survey, conducted by the Bronte Surf Club” in his piece in the May issue of The Beast (Locals Want Car Spots Back in Cutting, The Beast, May 2019). He writes that the Surf Club’s one-week survey in March 2019 “received better results” than the two-month Waverley Council survey conducted with on-site interviews and a questionnaire on their Have Your Say homepage.

But the two surveys were very different. Whereas Council’s explained the whole context using diagrams and user-friendly facts, the surf club’s survey provided no overview and seemed to skew the questions to elicit a certain response.

I also wondered if one person could respond to the surf club’s survey multiple times. To test this, my daughter and I used the same computer to complete the survey and there seemed to be no algorithm to stop us doing that.

With all due respect, caution needs to be exercised when making comparisons between surveys, especially when those comparisons are used as the basis of the public’s position on such important amenities as the Bronte Cutting.

Council should be congratulated for a consultation that acknowledged the amenity of the millions of pedestrians who walk through the Cutting and provided a forum for other considerations to be aired including the significant heritage, aesthetic and environmental values of the Cutting and its context.

Josephine Bronte BRONTE CUTTING SURVEY Re: Locals Want Car Spots Back in Cutting (The Beast, May 2019). To state that Waverley Council’s Bronte Cutting Pedestrian Link Survey was not properly instigated is incorrect.

Council’s independent survey was conducted by an industry expert (Micromex) and reached more than 500 people across all users of the Cutting car park.

It included appropriate sampling design and the sample size achieved statistical reliability to industry standards as per an independent peer review of the survey.

The survey found that 85 per cent of respondents supported the temporary footpath that Council installed. By comparison, only 7 per cent of respondents preferred a return of the 20 car parking spaces removed for the project, making it the least preferred option.

While I very much respect the opinion of the surf club and its members, more than one million people use the Coastal Walk from Bronte to Bondi every year, and the missing link in the footpath means that during peak times, as many as 500 pedestrians per hour are forced to walk along the road creating conflict between pedestrians and vehicles.

Pedestrian safety is our top priority and we will continue to work closely with the surf club and other key stakeholders to try and reach a fair and balanced outcome.

John Wakefield Mayor of Waverley FIVE THINGS YOU CAN DO ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY World Environment Day is on June 5, as it is every year. It is an opportunity to focus on the impacts of human behaviours on the natural environment and challenge ourselves to work a little harder at conserving natural resources for the year ahead.

1. Unlike New Year’s resolutions, when it comes to World Environment Day you can switch your behaviour a little bit at a time. You don’t necessarily need to totally turn your life or your family’s around in a single step.

2. Over one fifth of food purchased from supermarkets gets wasted and ends up in the rubbish bin. Shop with a list you prepared earlier, check what’s in your fridge or cupboard before you buy, and plan ahead that leftovers will be eaten the following night or at lunchtime.

3. Carry a bag, take your own coffee cup and refill your drink bottle. Even if you just start with some of your takeaways or lunches, picnics or visits to the park or beach, try to create a new habit for yourself that helps cut down waste and disposal of re-usable resources.

4. Talk to friends, family, workmates. Equip yourself with just one tantalising piece of environmental information that you can bring up and plant the seed that anybody, anywhere can do something small (or large) to look after our environment.

5. Appreciate nature. Enjoy a sunrise, stare at the stars at night, observe spiders in their webs in the park or your neighbour’s garden, tree canopies, branches or flowering plants anywhere.

6. Live by example. Pick up that little bit of plastic you’re walking over and place it in the bin; you may feel a little awkward but others looking at you may get motivated to do the same thing after seeing you bend down to intercept the rubbish washing down the drain toward the beach and into the stomachs of marine animals or birds.

What can you do this World Environment Day? Ima Watt (stallholder) Randwick THE MESSIAH I just wanted to let you know that the Tim Minchin interview you guys did last month was bloody incredible. What an amazing human being he is!

Some of your interviews are shithouse, but not this one.

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What's Your Favourite Thing About Winter in the Eastern Suburbs?

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Yannick RANDWICK I arrived from Belgium six months ago so I’m yet to experience a Sydney winter. My favourite thing about winter at home is the snow, but there’s no snow in Randwick.

I don’t mind the weather, as long as I’m not too hot or cold; it’s a moderate cold in Sydney so I don’t need to wear too much. In Belgium it gets to minus ten, so fifteen degree days will be fine.

Mary CLOVELLY I love layering up and going for a morning bike ride to La Perouse or Watson’s Bay with the Sydney Cycling Club. I get up at 5.15am and cycle three times a week - or more if I can get a leave pass (we share the dog walking duties). And snuggling up with my beautiful hubby and two kelpies in front of the fire with a nice glass of red. Having said all that, I still prefer summer.

Joe BONDI JUNCTION To tell the truth, I like that you don’t get the heavy humidity that you get during summer in Sydney. It gets so hot in my barber shop but in winter, even when it’s cold outside, the sun shines through the window and it’s perfect. I sometimes get the train to work and it can be pretty cold but once I’m at work it’s fine. I’ve been doing that for over 30 years now.

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What music are you into at the moment? Anything classical, played loudly. Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Chopin, Ravel, Arvo Part, Dvorak... I wrote a lot of The Barefoot Surgeon to Beethoven. The power of his symphonies seemed to match the story.

Who is your favourite person?

My son. He is all muscle and bone at the moment, and happiest running about with a pack of other boys. He’s so beautiful that he’s told me to stop staring at him.

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Local Chick...

Ali Gripper from Maroubra Interview and Photo James Hutton Maroubra’s Ali Gripper has just released her first book, The Barefoot Surgeon, the inspirational story of eye surgeon Dr Sanduk Ruit. She shares her local favourites with The Beast…

How long have you lived here?

Almost ten years in Maroubra, and about twenty years in the Eastern Suburbs.

Why do you live here? The northeasterly wind and the salt water make me feel so alive. I pinch myself that I live surrounded by such natural beauty. A dip at Wylie’s or McIver’s Ladies Baths, or a walk around the coastal track from South Maroubra to Malabar makes me feel like the luckiest woman in the world.

What's your favourite beach?

Maroubra, for its vast, wild beauty. My favourite time of the day is just after sundown. The wind drops, the water goes still and glassy, and a kind of hush falls over the bay.

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What's your favourite eatery?

Barzura. I love the corn fritters with crispy bacon and avocado, especially after a yoga class upstairs at The Living Room.

Where do you like to have a drink? Bat Country or Del Punto at The Spot before enjoying a movie at The Ritz Cinema.

Best thing about the Eastern Suburbs? You can go on glorious walks and swims in nature just by stepping out your front door. Within minutes you are surrounded by currawongs or black cockatoos wheeling above in the salty air while the Pacific breakers crash onto the cliffs below.

Worst thing about the Eastern Suburbs? Weekend parking and property prices.

Do you have a favourite sporting team? UNSW Junior Hockey Under 13s. My son gets such a buzz being part of it all.

What do you get up to on the weekends? Shepherding my son to South Maroubra Nippers, Maroubra United soccer and UNSW Junior Hockey.

We love seeing movies at The Ritz and tucking into crepes at The Four Frogs at The Spot afterwards.

What do you do for work? I’m the communications manager for The Royal Hospital for Women Foundation, Randwick.

I also write freelance stories about artists for Spectrum.

What's your favourite thing about work? I love the daily chit chat with my team at The Foundation. I like finding, writing and pitching stories to the media about the extraordinary people who work at The Royal Hospital for Women - they are the beating heart of the public health system. For Spectrum, it is a privilege to interview artists and write up their stories in the most compelling way possible.

I love making connections with people by writing about them.

Do you have a favourite quote?

“Make haste slowly.”

Any other words of wisdom for readers of The Beast? A little kindness goes a long way.

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THUMBS UP CHRIS LILLEY The guy is a bloody genius! If you haven’t watched Lunatics yet, do yourself a favour.

WINTER As long as the wind stays offshore and the ocean temperature continues to hover around 20 degrees, we’ll cop the cold air any day.

ROYAL BABIES Nothing gets the girls (and boys) as excited as a new addition to the royal family, especially when it’s been sired by Prince Harry.

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY Get involved in World Environment Day 2019 with Randwick Council’s packed calendar of events.

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THUMBS DOWN EQUINOR The Norwegian company planning to drill for oil in the Great Australia Bite, despite virtually unanimous public opposition.

INFLUENCERS Talentless Gen Y sellouts shamelessly promoting just about anything for a quick buck.

TAX HAVENS When companies like Facebook pay $11.8 million company tax on Australian sales of $598 million, you know the system is completely broken.

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DONALD Age 10 years Sex Male Breed Mini Foxy X Corgi Weight 6.5kg Donald is an easygoing boy with a quiet demeanour. He can be quite possessive of food around other dogs. He does not like having his rear end tampered with but once you earn his trust you can pick him up. He is a keen ball player. Donald comes desexed, C5 vaccinated, heartworm free and microchipped. Also included for the love and wellbeing of Donald is a free health and wellness voucher with the Doggie Rescue vet. For more details, please call Doggie Rescue on 9486 3133, or email monika@doggierescue.com.

ACE Age 10 years Sex Male Breed Shihtzu X Weight 5.6kg Ace is a sweet, attentive boy. He loves being around people and getting cuddles, but can also be left alone during working hours. He is social with other dogs and has a friendly disposition. He has a non-shedding coat that is easy to manage.

Ace comes desexed, C5 vaccinated, heartworm free and microchipped. Also included for the love and wellbeing of Ace is a free health and wellness voucher with the Doggie Rescue vet. For more details, please call Doggie Rescue on 9486 3133, or email monika@doggierescue.com.

The view from the beach.

South Bronte Amenities Upgrade: Have Your Say Words Siriol Dafydd Photo Panovscott Architects Sometimes there’s really nothing better than a refreshing dip in the ocean, especially when you need to give yourself a break from sweating profusely in the sweltering summer heat.

From keen-bean surfers and muscle-bound swimmers up at the crack of dawn year-round, to volleyball enthusiasts, casual beach bums and fair-weather paddlers, having a beach as a backyard is the stuff of dreams for many of us. And with so many beaches and outdoor pools to choose from, it’s no wonder thousands of visitors and locals alike flock to the Eastern Suburbs beaches.

One downside to beach life of course is the messy aftermath.

That smug feeling you get from being enveloped by salty waves can quickly be replaced by sand lodged in less than ideal places the moment you step out on to the beach. And that’s where having top notch amenities nearby is absolutely essential, 22 The Beast June 2019

not only for your convenience but for the welfare of your intimate regions too.

The good folks at Waverley Council (presumably beach dwellers themselves) have long noted the need for better amenities at Bronte and have been working with the community to create an upgrade project.

Having already completed two rounds of community consultation, Council has now placed the final concept designs on public exhibition from May 6 until June 6, 2019.

The new plans include additional outdoor showers, another shower in the female section, more wash basins in the male and female areas, as well as larger accessible amenities for females, males and families overall. The amenities block will also serve as a community hub with functional and accessible interiors, light and airy internal spaces and a roof terrace for socialising and such.

“The community told us during consultation for the Bronte Park and Beach Plan of Management (POM) 2017 that the upgrade of the area, particularly the amenity building, is a top priority, and we listened,” Waverley Mayor John Wakefield told The Beast.

Mayor Wakefield believes that the project will not only improve the quality of the amenities but will also enhance the facilities to support the growing needs of residents and visitors. To ensure this, he’s keen to receive further feedback from local residents.

“We want to know the community’s thoughts about the concept design which the community and key stakeholders including local swim clubs and Bronte Surf Lifesaving Club have helped inform,” Mayor Wakefield said.

“Architects Panovscott used the results of the previous consultation findings, along with feedback received during our community consultation workshops to develop a hybrid option of the most preferred options, which is now on public exhibition.”

“This will be an opportunity for wider community contribution, and feedback will be provided to architects to review for inclusion in the Development Application and detailed design stage,” said Mayor Wakefield.

If you have something that you’d like to get off your chest about the latest concept design, now’s your chance. You can view the updated plans on Council’s website and add your two cents’ worth by completing the survey at haveyoursay. waverley.nsw.gov.au. Go forth, have your say and enjoy your sand-free nether regions for evermore!

RANDWICK COMMUNITY RACE DAY // SAT 6 JULY Join us at the track for a fun filled family day with FREE children’s entertainment and activities including: // Stage Shows from your favourite characters (announcement coming soon!) // Pony Rides // Jumping Castle // Petting Zoo Plus much more!

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Hal Cumpston and co-star Mitzi Ruhlmann.

Bilched: A New Coming-Of-Age Words Isabella Puentes Photo Jay Dykes Straight out of school, Hal Cumpston was set on entering the world of comedy. He had an interest in acting and even considered doing stand-up, but he knew it would take more than just being funny to stand out from the crowd. So, he wrote a film.

Bilched, Mr Cumpston’s upcoming debut, is a comingof-age feature film that captures growing up on of one Australia’s most iconic coastlines Sydney’s Eastern Beaches.

The audience follows Mr Cumpston, played by himself, and his friends as they navigate their way through the angsts of teenage life on the brink of graduating high school. While the film is loosely based on Mr Cumpston’s own experiences, the chaos of being a teenager is relatable to all viewers in its honest portrayal of family and relationships.

Upon watching the film, it’s hard to believe this charismatic 19 year-old has had no previous experience in the film industry.

Initially trying his luck in writing short films, Mr Cumpston came to realise that writing about things closer to home was more accessible to his audiences.

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“It wasn’t until I sat down to write a script for a short film that I realised I had no idea how to do this,” Mr Cumpston told The Beast. “It’s just that 17 and 18 year-old boys don’t watch short films.”

“So, I decided to write a feature film instead; it carried more weight in getting my name out there.”

Inspired by the likes of Seth Rogan and his film Superbad, and American comedies such as Dazed and Confused, Mr Cumpston gained momentum with his own writing. The first draft, which took just ten days to write, received a positive reception from his father Jeremy and fellow industry professionals. A month later it was picked up and production began.

“Before I knew it I was working six or seven days a week with five hours of sleep a night,” Mr Cumpston said. “I still can’t believe I actually did this.”

Mr Cumpston’s father took on the role of director, having his own experience in the film and TV industry. He was joined by friends and acclaimed Australian actors Rhys Muldoon and Jeremy Sims on the credit list.

The film is familiar in its location, humour and depiction of an Australian lifestyle, however viewing this through the eyes of an Australian teenage boy is a perspective often untouched.

“I think there is a lack of Australian coming-of-age films, particularly male coming-ofage,” Mr Cumpston explained.

“We are in an interesting climate where I can explore, but not necessarily glorify, masculinity. It’s hard to say something’s not right to a 17 year-old when, for the most part, a lot of teenagers are not a finished product or are a product of their surroundings.”

Mr Cumpston spoke about the popularity surrounding Puberty Blues and its success in exploring the universal experiences of being a teenager. However, he notes that very little in the entertainment industry focuses on the Australian teenage male of today.

“There’s a lot of things about society that didn’t exist then or was not touched on because it was American.”

Location was also vital to Mr Cumpston’s film in featuring a world not often portrayed in Australian entertainment.

“Everyone loves being a ‘culture vulture’ at the moment,” he said. “There is so much consuming going on, with people watching one show to another.

I wanted to make sure it was a key element of the film, to show it’s Australian.”

When asked what the future held, Mr Cumpston described his goal of directing his own films.

“The chance to have my voice about the world heard through film - that would be unreal!”

Bilched will be screening at The Clovelly Hotel on Sunday, May 26 and The Ritz on May 24, 25 and 27. Purchase tickets at www.bilched.com.

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Get Involved Sat 1 June Native plant sale at Randwick Community Nursery Join our Bushcare Volunteer Groups Sat 1 June Malabar Beach Sun 2 June McIver’s Ladies Pool Thu 6 June Maroubra Dunes Sat 8 June Prince Henry Centre Sun 9 June Gordons Bay Reserve Enter our Best GReen INovation (GRIN) competition opens Wed 5 June

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Fri 7 June PermaBee garden working bee at Randwick Community Centre

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Sat 15 June Speed date a Sustainability expert at Randwick Community Centre

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Bits and Pieces from Around the Beaches Words Dan Hutton Photo Milos Masar Instagram @milosmasarphotography NIB LITERARY AWARD NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN Nominations are now open for the 2019 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award. This national literary award with a generous prize pool of $30,000 is the only one of its type presented by a local council. Books

by Australian authors published between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019 are eligible and will be judged on the quality of research, literary merit, readability and value to the community.

Nominations close on Monday, June 3. For more information, visit www.waverley.nsw.gov.au.

RANDWICK COUNCIL BUDGET ON EXHIBITION Randwick residents are invited to view and provide feedback on Council’s draft 2019-20 Operational Plan and Budget and Fees and Charges documents, which will be on display until Thursday, May 30. The documents can be accessed online via Council’s website and in person at Council’s administration centre and three libraries. Council’s $165 million budget includes a range of new and continuing projects and programs, including investing in environmental programs and smart technology.

DOLPHINS HEAD HOME The Coogee Dolphins rugby league club is stoked to announce that it will be calling

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the Coogee Pavilion home once again. The iconic building looks out over Dolphin Point, the location of the Bali Memorial. “For us to be back at our spiritual home, where we can reflect and honour our people while looking out at the memorial in such a beautiful place, is just fantastic,” Dolphins committee member Paul Vanni said.

LOFT CLOVELLY IS CLOSING We are sad to report that high rents and online competition has forced yet another business out of their bricks and mortar location and onto the web. Loft will still continue to sell their furniture and homewares online at www.loftfurniture.com.au and via their warehouse showroom in Kogarah. “It’s been an enjoyable 8-year long journey and I’ll miss all the great people I’ve met in store,” Loft owner Mark Lewinsohn told The Beast.

MAKING A POSITIVE IMPACT Bondi lads Heath, Jonathan and Andy have recently launched a free military-inspired boot camp down at Bondi Beach every Tuesday and Saturday morning at 6.00am. Between them the boys have over 25 years of service in the ADF and multiple deployments across the globe, and decided to start Impact 42 as a way of giving back to the local community. The group meets at the beach ramp

in front of the outdoor gym at North Bondi. Please call Heath Jones on 0499 117 146 or join the Impact 42 Facebook group.

CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? The Junction Neighbourhood Centre at Maroubra Junction has recently undertaken a project with some local amateur writers to produce a book of short stories themed SECRETS. The stories were created and produced by the writers with the assistance and guidance of local author Berwyn Lewis. The launch of the book will be at the Lionel Bowen Library at 6pm on Thursday, June 6 in the Vonnie Young Room. A light supper and refreshments will be offered.

For more information, please email Josh at info@jnc.org.au.

ARE YOU RECYCLING SMART? RecycleSmart, a new smartphone app, aims to help people recycle more consciously and become more environmentallyfriendly. The free app helps people manage their waste correctly by providing specific and localised information on how to correctly dispose of over 250 waste items. Users can also add their home address to the app and check when their next street collection day is. If you’re ever thinking, “How do I recycle this?” just download the RecycleSmart app and Bob’s your uncle!

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Danger, danger... high voltage!

Sign Shines Light on Surf Dangers Words Duncan Horscroft Photo Jason McCormack What started as a final year school project is now being touted as a potential life saving warning device that alerts people to the dangers of swimming in the surf and other unpatrolled waterways.

19 year-old local Jackson Harrigan submitted the project in his final year at Cranbrook in 2018 and is now focusing full time on his Ocean Live electronic sign board.

As a regular surfer at Bondi Beach, Mr Harrigan became concerned at how many beachgoers were getting into difficulty in the surf simply by ignoring the warning signs.

His initial design features a traffic light-style board with red and amber lights highlighting the dangers of rips, sharks, sand banks and UV intensity.

“Rips are the most challenging warning,” Mr Harrigan told The Beast. “Consulting with Dr Rob Brander we know that the majority of rips will occur on the outgoing tide three hours prior to low tide and two hours after.”

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“So the live warning for rips is on a high probability that rips will occur at that time and during that time our light is flashing red.”

“Post data analysis shows that the Ocean Live system would have been flashing red for rips for the last eight drownings in every state.”

Mr Harrigan explained that the data can be transferred to LED message boards and websites, and that they were in talks with Waverley and Ballina Councils about uploading data to their websites.

Prior to the initial launch of Ocean Live at Bronte Beach in late April, Mr Harrigan took the system to beaches on the NSW far north coast and Queensland and has only just returned from giving demonstrations in Coffs Harbour.

Mr Harrigan said that one of the main objectives of the electronic signage was to gain beachgoers’ attention.

“It had to be simple but effective, and also have an international understanding,” he said.

“In the trials we conducted, one in three people stopped and looked at the display, and in just over an hour we noticed no one stopped and took notice of the current beach signage.”

“We have had feedback from councils around individual stand-alone warnings for rips or sharks, whether the beach is open or closed, and a bluebottle warning with a single light flashing was also mentioned.”

The device uses new technology that runs on 12-volt power and can also be solar charged. It requires an internet connection.

Mr Harrigan said the advantages of the low-power system are its mobility and ease of positioning in remote areas.

“We envisage that the system can be placed on concrete, sand, installed on a trailer or mounted on lifeguard huts,” he said.

As well as working on a multi-lingual display, Mr Harrigan said there will be a phone app available that will allow lifeguards and lifesavers to update conditions regularly.

This is going to make a few people nervous.

Roadside Cocaine Testing Necessary or Nanny Statism?

Words Siriol Dafydd Photo Richard Buttrose Between lockouts and complicated drinking restrictions, NSW has become a bit of a nanny state. This is hardly breaking news. But when you reach the point where festival goers, despite having no drugs whatsoever on their person, are being denied entry because a sniffer dog gave them the wrong look, one could argue that our state nanny is so intoxicated with power she’s got us gagged, bubble-wrapped and swaddled in bed every night by 7pm.

So when cocaine was added to the list of drugs to be swabbed for in roadside Mobile Drug Testing, the collective eye-roll was inevitable. But, as far as rules and regulations in NSW go, at least this one has some genuine substance (no pun intended) because driving under the influence of any illicit drug is dangerous and unnecessary. And if you’ve just snorted a line and immediately gotten behind the wheel, you deserve everything you’ve got coming to you.

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jiklian governments have made plenty of pointless changes that have all but destroyed our social lives, the Road Safety Plan 2021 is designed to reduce road fatalities by 30 per cent.

According to Transport for NSW’s statistical statement for calendar year 2017, there were 16,801 casualty crashes that year. Of these, 16,450 were injury crashes and 351 were fatal.

389 people were killed during this time and a further 21,140 injured. The cost of these accidents was an estimated $7.5 billion, according to the report.

Furthermore, according to Transport’s Drug Driving Trauma Trends report published in February 2017, crashes involving at least one motor vehicle controller with an illicit drug present in their system accounted for over 20 per cent of roadside fatalities in 2015/2016. And that’s before they began testing for cocaine.

Roadside drug testing may be just as necessary as random breath testing, and police already swab for cannabis, speed

and ecstasy, so why has the idea of cocaine testing got so many knickers in a twist? Perhaps the latest in a long line of rules and restrictions was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Or it could be because Sydneysiders just bloody love their cocaine.

A few months back we brought you some fascinating stats from the good folk who sift through our shit at the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program. In an article aptly titled “Sydney: The Cokehead Capital of Australia” we revealed that Sydneysiders consumed more of the white stuff than anyone else in the country. And as of December 6, 2018 the latest report from the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission confirmed that we’re still on top. Sydney clearly loves its coke Roadside tests can now be performed at random, day or night. Apparently, regular consumers of the party powder can take longer than others to flush it out of their system, so if you’re racking up on the regular you may need to consider this before operating a vehicle. Some experts have been reported as saying that a high dose of cocaine could be detected by a saliva test up to 24 hours after you’ve taken it, so there’s a significant chance that users could test positive for cocaine while no longer feeling its effects.

There’s a big difference between casually dabbling in drugs and getting behind the wheel under the influence.

Whether you like it or not, these laws are here to prevent fatalities. If you simply must get your kicks from an overpriced bag of unknown powder, don’t be a tit about it; catch public transport to work the next day or spend the foreseeable future hiding under a duvet of regret like any normal person.

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More Bits and Pieces from Around the Beaches Words Dan Hutton Photo Adib khalessi COURTYARD CARES Every year Dave Martin and the caring crew from Coogee’s Courtyard Cafe collect ‘all things warm’ to help the homeless and those in need around the Eastern Suburbs. If you have any spare doonas, blankets, pillows, coats or jumpers in good condition that could help make winter more bearable for those in need, please drop them into Dave at Courtyard any day up until June 17 and he’ll make sure they get put to good use.

Nice work, Dave!

WHALE ENGRAVING INSPIRES NEW NOVEL Former local journalist and writer Diana Plater was inspired by the whale engraving - a significant example of Aboriginal art - between Bondi and Tamarama for her new novel Whale Rock. It’s a place of solace for Shannon, Colin, Rafael and the other characters in the book, who must confront their pasts when a worker plunges to his death on the building site opposite Shannon’s Tamarama café. Whale Rock is available at Smashwords, the MoshShop, Amazon, Apple Books and various other sites.

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PLENTY OF PLANTS FOR ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN Mums, dads and their newborns will enjoy a peaceful respite in the soon-to-be upgraded and landscaped post-natal outdoor area of the Royal Hospital for Women, which will feature plants donated by Randwick Council. The post-natal wards can accommodate up to 43 mums with their bubs and families. The areas provide a place for people to enjoy some peace and fresh air. The donated plants will add to the amenity of the space and promote relaxation.

A STROKE OF GENIUS A new club, supporting stroke survivors and their carers who live in the Eastern Suburbs, is now meeting fortnightly at Easts Leagues Club, Bondi Junction. The stroke club is one of 45 clubs affiliated with the Stroke Recovery Association NSW, where people who have been affected by a stroke and their carers meet to share experiences, providing mutual support and promoting social inclusion. Club activities include therapeutic exercises, outings, guest speakers and opportunities for survivors to support one

another within a safe environment while making new friends.

If you would like to know more, please call the Stroke Recovery Association on 1300 650 594.

LOOKING AFTER THE BIRDS Waverley Council is providing more than 5,000 free plants to 250 properties in Bronte and Tamarama to attract native wildlife back to the area. The Living Connections program aims to link habitat corridors so that bird species such as the Superb Fairy-wren and New Holland honeyeater can move more freely and have access to shelter and food. To register your interest, visit www.waverley.nsw.gov. au/livingconnections.

FREE DOG WALKING A lovely elderly fellow who recently retired with plenty of time on his hands is available to take care of dog walking duties for a willing local family. He’s a lovely, reliable man and we promise he won't do anything weird to your pooch.

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Kids Eat Free at The Cloey Mouths to feed? Sick to death of slaving away in front of a hot stove? Well, you’ll be happy to hear that kids eat free every Monday from 5-6pm at the Clovelly Hotel. And the chocolate machine is back! For more information and other specials, visit www.clovellyhotel.com.au.

The Nib Presents Tonight from 6.30-8pm in the Waverley Library Theatrette, join The Australian newspaper’s arts editor, Ashleigh Wilson, in conversation with The Australian newspaper’s literary editor, Stephen Romei, to discuss his new work, On Artists. Visit www.eventbrite.com.au.

World Environment Day It’s time to save the planet, starting in our own back yard.

Randwick Council has put together a stack of cool events to help you do your part, including a Best GReen INovation (GRIN) competition and a PermaBee garden working bee on June 7.

Please visit randwick.nsw.gov.au.

Join Randwick Bushcare Keen to do something positive for your local environment? You should join a bushcare group!

There’s a group for Malabar Beach, McIver's Ladies Pool, Maroubra Dunes, the Prince Henry Centre and Gordons Bay Reserve. For meeting times, please visit randwick.nsw.gov.au.

Queen's Birthday Holiday Put your feet up and knock the lid off a few frothy ones to celebrate the Queen’s birthday today. This public holiday falls on the second Monday in June every year, so it’s not actually the day the Queen was born. Happy birthday anyway, Queeny!

The Perfect Pork Roast Rosebery’s finest establishment, Stanton & Co., will be serving a pork roast for dinner each Tuesday evening. Warm up with crispy pork knuckle served with seasonal veggies and velvety mash. It’s only $40 for two people. Please visit parlourgroup.com.au/stantonandco.

Bambi's Bondi Beach Tour British-based street artist Bambi, also known as ‘the female Banksy’, will be holding her first Australian exhibition at the Bondi Pavilion Galleries from today until June 23. The exhibition will be open from 10am-5pm daily. Please visit waverley.nsw.gov.au.

World Class Stand-Up Enjoy killer comedy with drinks delivered direct to your seat every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night at the Comedy Store Showcase in the Entertainment Quarter. For more information and to purchase your tickets, please phone 9550 3666 or visit www.comedystore.com.au.

Maloneys Home Delivery Too lazy to do your grocery shopping? Maloneys offers a complete home delivery service, so there’s no excuse for living on Domino’s and Deliveroo. Get your order in by 7pm and it’ll be delivered fresh to your door the next day. To order, please visit www.maloneysgrocer.com.au.

$1.50 Oyster Hour The legends at Stanton & Co. Bar & Dining in Rosebery are offering readers of The Beast $1.50 oysters every Tuesday to Friday from 5-6pm. Everyone knows what oysters do to the libido so get in there and get amongst it! Visit parlourgroup. com.au/stantonandco.

Curry or Pie? Get down to the Robin Hood Hotel on Wednesday nights from 5pm for $20 specials on the bistro’s delicious curries and pies. Apparently Andrew Bogut prefers the curry, but each to their own. For more information, please visit www.robinhoodhotel.com.au.

$14 Schnittys at The Cloey The Eastern Suburbs’ favourite local haunt is excited to announce $14 schnittys every Thursday in the bistro. The pool tables are free as well, so you can enjoy a game while you digest the goodness. For more information and other specials, visit www.clovellyhotel.com.au.

Join Waverley Bushcare Join like-minded locals and help make a difference to one of Waverley’s special green spaces.

You’ll learn about native plants and wildlife and enjoy the benefits of time spent in nature.

No experience is necessary. For more information, please visit www.waverley.nsw.gov.au.

Randwick Council Meeting All residents are welcome to attend the Ordinary Council Meeting from 6-9pm on the 4th Tuesday of each month at the Council Chambers on the 1st floor of Randwick Town Hall.

The agenda for each meeting is available on Council’s website at www.randwick.nsw.gov.au.

Woollahra VIEW Club Meeting Woollahra VIEW Club meets at 10am at Woollahra’s Gaden Community Cafe on the 4th Wednesday of every month, with a guest speaker followed by an optional lunch. If you’d like to come along, please call Jan on 0422 922 095 or email nettiet@bigpond.com.

Randwick Recycling Tour Join us on the 4th Thursday of every month from 9.45-11am for a tour of the Randwick Recycling Centre. You’ll find out what happens to your recyclables and learn why it’s so important to recycle right. For more information, please visit www.randwick.nsw.gov.au.

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Native Plant Sale Drop in to Randwick Community Nursery at 2B Barker Street, Kingsford today from 9am to 4pm to take advantage of their Winter Saturday Sale. There’s a huge variety of native plants on offer at amazing prices. Please call 9093 6250 or email nursery@randwick.nsw.gov.au.

Stadium Stomp at the SCG Get involved in this unique and fun fitness challenge where participants are sent on courses of varying difficulty to climb up and down the thousands of stairs within the Sydney Cricket Ground. For more information and to sign up, please visit www.stadiumstomp.com.

Work Hard, Play Harder The Golden Sheaf proudly presents Out of Office, every Friday evening from 4pm. Handshake Happy Hour will run from 4-6pm, with DJs until late.

Clock off the 9 to 5 week with a well deserved drink at The Sheaf. For more information, visit thegoldensheaf.com.au.

World Oceans Day Dinner To celebrate World Oceans Day, Sydney’s Sofitel Darling Harbour will be hosting an exciting social food experience with chef and sustainable food entrepreneur Ben McMenamin from 6.30pm. Tickets can be purchased from 50villages.org/ sydney-launch-8-june.

Swans vs Eagles The Sydney Swans take on the West Coast Eagles this afternoon at the SCG from 3.20pm.

Hopefully the westies will be jet lagged from the trip over and we can dominate them. To purchase tickets and for more information, please visit sydneycricketground.com.au.

Food Addicts Meetings Today, Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) is hosting one of its twice-weekly meetings, which are held every Wednesday at 7pm and Friday at 10am at Salvation Army Hall, 100 Boyce Road, Maroubra. For more information, please visit www.foodaddicts.org.

Sustainability Speed Dating Join us at the Randwick Community Centre today from 2-4pm to receive free personalised advice from leading sustainable architects, designers and sustainability experts.

For more information, please call Helen on 9093 6223 or visit randwick.nsw.gov.au.

Roosters vs Bulldogs The mighty Sydney Roosters will battle it out with the Doggies this afternoon at the SCG from 4.05pm. The Chooks have been bloody awesome this year so it should be an entertaining encounter. For tickets and information, please visit sydneycricketground.com.au.

Swans vs Hawks The Sydney Swans will take on Hawthorn tonight at the SCG from 7.50pm. It’s been a pretty tough start to the season for our boys but the Hawks game usually delivers the goods. To purchase tickets and for more information, please visit sydneycricketground.com.au.

Bondi Farmers Markets Choose from a huge range of fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables, organic meat and poultry, fresh flowers, breads, jams, cheeses, seafood, herbs, spices and more at Bondi Beach Public School every Saturday morning from 9am. Please visit www.bondimarkets.com.au.

Sven's Viking Pizza Deal We eat a shitload of Sven’s Viking Pizza here at The Beast, so we’re stoked to announce that they’re offering our readers 30% off their first order until the end of June. All you have to do is jump on to svens.com.au and use the code ‘BEAST’ when you order. Wood fired tastes better!

Bondi Winter Magic Begins Celebrate ten years of Bondi Winter Magic as Bondi is transformed into Sydney’s winter playground by the sea from today until July 28. Go for a twirl on the beachside ice rink or check out the view from the Bondi Vista ferris wheel. Please visit bondiwintermagic.org.au.

Swans vs Suns The Sydney Swans will take on the Gold Coast Suns today at the SCG from 4.35pm. There’s no better place to be than the Sydney Cricket Ground on a balmy winter’s afternoon! To purchase tickets and for more information, please visit sydneycricketground.com.au.

Functions at The Bucket List The Bucket List Bondi is offering readers of The Beast a special functions package during winter, with no minimum spends or hire fees. If you’re planning a special event and looking for the perfect location, call 9365 4122 or email info@thebucketlistbondi.com.

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DR MARJORIE O'NEILL LABOR'S SHINING LIGHT

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On March 23, 2019 the voters of New South Wales headed to the polls to elect their state government. Despite the Liberal Party holding onto power for a third successive term, Labor's candidate for the seat of Coogee, Dr Marjorie O'Neill, managed a swing of 4.6 per cent to wrestle control of the marginal seat from popular Liberal Bruce NotleySmith. The Beast caught up with Labor's shining light at Bronte Surf Club as the dust was still settling...

G'day Marjorie, how have the last few weeks been since you won the state election? To be honest, it's been an incredibly mixed time for me. Losing my father the day after the election was probably the hardest thing I've had to deal with. Can we come back to that?

Yeah, of course, maybe you can tell us a bit about your dad later in the interview. He was aware that you had won the election?

Yeah, he was. At about three or four o'clock on the Sunday we knew the count had gotten far enough ahead, that I was going to win. It was pretty much confirmed at about four o'clock, and then he passed away at 7.30.

That evening? Yes, that same evening. So, at four o'clock on the Sunday the last counts were coming in from the big polls and the i-votes and I had gotten ahead enough in the votes for it to be quite comfortable, enough to be able to know that I had won.

What did he say? He was over the moon. My father moved

here 41 years ago with my mum.

He had lived in Bexley and he loved the Eastern Suburbs more than anyone else. He's been a really big part of the Eastern Suburbs community and we've been involved in a number of big community activist movements for a very long time. Being a part of a movement where we really want to rebuild communities and stand up for people, these are the things that he always valued.

When we started our campaign in June last year he was there with us. He was out on the street stalls up until December. January was really when he took a turn but he was out there doing everything he could.

He was over the moon I think.

I don’t like to sound corny, but me winning probably allowed him to relax a little bit. He'd been in quite a bit of pain those last few days, but knowing that I had won, I think it made him happy.

But, as was said in his obituary, I think the disappointment of Labor losing statewide, I think that was probably a bit soul destroying for him.

When you were growing up around here did you guys speak about politics around the dinner table? Was it his interest in politics that got you interested? The conversations around our dinner table where often around politics, but not just politics, more around your role in a community, about being involved in your community, about standing up for people, standing up for issues that you think are important and about the importance of always getting involved. “Don't stand back and

idly watch things happen,” I suppose. “If you think that something is wrong, don't sit there and complain. Put your hand up and try and fix it.” Around the dinner table it was always like, “What have you done today? How do you get involved,” or the types of things that you can do. My parents always taught us have a crack. Don't sit there and have a whinge; if you think that something's wrong, get up and have a crack and do something about it.

Do you think that communities are falling apart around here and more generally across Australia?

Is that something that you're concerned about? It is. Particularly with younger generations and screen addiction as well.

Youth suicide is continuing to rise and there’s the increasing prevalence of cyberbullying, where people are connected to technology and they’re not out there talking to people. All you have to do is look around in the park now, everyone's got their head in their phone. Whenever I've been involved in community activities or community activism, people make real connections with each other and that's what they love about it. They finally meet their neighbours. They have things to talk about. I think people are actually really craving it.

One of the difficulties for a lot of younger people is working out how to make time for this when you're also working a 40-hour week trying to pay your mortgage off. It's becoming quite difficult for people to stay connected to their communities, possibly even more so in rural communities.

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We interviewed Tim Minchin for our last edition and he questioned whether there should even be private schools at all.

The setup we have now where rich people send their kids to a private school and the people that can't afford it send their kids to public school divides people from a very young age; do you think that is contributing to the breakdown in communities? I think, when you're talking about education, the fact that public schools are not fully funded up to the Gonski recommendations is a major factor which is causing these numerous tiers. You've got schools like Randwick Girls, Randwick Boys and Rose Bay and these are amazing schools.

They're punching so much above their weight, but you go inside and look at their facilities compared to what your private schools have. You look at what P&Cs are having to raise money for because the state government isn't forking out money for it.

Every single person has a right to a decent education. I believe that education and healthcare are two things that people should have access to. I'm very happy to pay my taxes to ensure that other people who don't earn as much as me have access to those services, it's incredibly important. It's through education and healthcare that you really have social change. So this situation where we're really getting these tiers here in New South Wales is in part due to inadequate funding of public schools.

I think people deserve a choice when it comes to education.

They have a choice of whether to send their kids to single sex or co-ed schools, a choice to send their kids to religious or private schools. But I very much believe in needs-based funding. The fact that public schools in New South Wales are not fully funded up to the Gonski recommendations is a major reason why you're getting these multiple social tiers and growing disparity between the rich and poor.

You just have a look at the

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standard of the facilities. I would ask anyone to go and have a look through their schools. You've got schools like a Rose Bay Secondary College, they have a marine science lab that the teachers built themselves with no funding from the state. Those students are lucky that they have teachers like that. But what happens if you don't have teachers like that?

Having the option to do marine science is important. These are basic requirements that the state government should be providing.

As the state member, when the rest of your government isn't in power, can you get things done?

How do you go about getting things done when the Liberals are in power but you're a Labor politician? There are a number of things you can be doing. One is holding the government to account for the things that they have promised. There are two infrastructure upgrades for Randwick Girls and Randwick Boys but the process has stagnated and stalled. These are upgrades that are overdue. My job is to get onto the minister and see where this is going, and continue to make sure that the minister knows that these are important issues that need to be addressed. There is also a need for a new co-educational public high school and the fact that our local governments have recognised it, like Waverley and Woollahra in this area...

Is Randwick Council on board?

The issue isn't necessarily at that end of the electorate, it's more up this end of the electorate where the need is. Our federal member Kerryn Phelps knows that it's an issue and Labor recognises that it's an issue. The only people that haven't come to the table about this is the current Liberal government.

State or federal? State. This is an important issue, and it's about priorities, unfortunately. I think one of the core services for the state is education, and healthcare of course.

A good publicly funded education system would contribute more to equality of opportunity than anything else, right?

Absolutely, but also healthcare.

Making sure that people have access to free healthcare so that when they are sick, they're not having to find $30,000 to go and have surgery, they will go to the doctor to check that lump out on their back rather than leaving it too late because they can't find that cash. You're now getting into federal issues and why it's important that we unfreeze Medicare so that you don't have to pay a gap on that, but they're the two big tools that really have the ability to change people's lives.

You're settled in now and ready to hit the ground running? There are a couple of letters I'm writing at the moment to ministers around particular issues. Actually, education is one, around Randwick Girls and Randwick Boys High Schools. The Coogee stormwater is another one. Until I've got an electoral office up and running and I have a phone that people can call me on, it's actually really difficult.

What were your fondest memories of growing up in Bronte? The area has changed so much. I was born on Hewlett Street, Bronte and lived there until I was 11. My memories of living in Hewlett Street were Friday nights at China Moon on Bondi Road, going to Dr. What at Bondi Junction and picking a video for the weekend with my brothers and sisters, or going to the Pizza Hut restaurant that was across the road and having the all you can eat ice cream.

That's what I remember, until I was about 11. Then when we moved to Yanko Avenue our life moved a little bit further south and we started being around Charing Cross more and going to Charing Cross Pizza for dinner.

Bronte RSL became a big part of our life and a big community hub for us. I'm fifth generation Bronte, and we live two streets away from where my great grand-

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Not only do we need to ban it and transition to things that are biodegradable, we also need to figure out what we're going to do with every piece of single-use plastic that already exists. UNSW has some really great stuff in terms of what we can turn our waste into, but we need government support and funding to be able to really push these things.

mother grew up and they all lived around here. I've got uncles and cousins who all live around here, so it's much more than just the beach or the school or the restaurant. This place runs through my veins and it's really rare for me to meet someone who doesn't know someone from my family.

It wasn't that long ago - probably only a decade - I was sitting on a bus and this old woman turned around and said, "Are you a Favell?" I was like, "Oh no, I'm not a Favell, I'm an O'Neill. My mum was a Spooner and Favell is my grandmother's name. I'm named after her, her maiden name was Marjorie Favell and she married Tom Spooner." And that was a random person on the bus! Having memories like that, where your family has had such a long connection to a place that you have those kinds of conversations with people, there's probably not many people left whose families have lived around here for as long and it's an honour now to be able to represent them at a place that I love so much.

Can you tell us your favourite things about this area? The beaches, definitely the beaches.

Even though I grew up at Bronte, I've spent most of my life swimming at Clovelly and I like the fact that you can go and get in the ocean without touching sand.

A very 'Sydney' question: which schools did you go to? I went to Saint Charles and St Vincent's.

What do you think the area needs to improve on? Overall, and it's not just this area, I think there's a level of civility and respect for the earth that is missing. If I go for a walk or run in the morning the amount of rubbish that people have left on the ground, I just find it remarkable.

I go for walks with my niece and we started bringing garbage bags with us to pick stuff up because there's so much of it. It's quite upsetting and distressing that people think it's okay to do that when it's going to end up in the gutter and then in the ocean. We really need to start respecting the environment more, not just in terms of where we put our waste and our rubbish, but really reducing single-use plastics.

What was your thesis on? My thesis was looking at older worker career choices and the social and economic factors that influenced their career choices.

One of the biggest things that came out of it was the impact of care and responsibilities for older Australians on their decisions around work, and the increased number of older Australians having to care for their grandchildren. This is important because, particularly when you have a look at the lives of women, who do the vast majority of caring, over their entire career trajectory they're the ones that have been required to care. And older Australians having to care for even older parents. People who are in their 50s and 60s are actually caring for their parents who are in their 80s and 90s. Over a career trajectory, particularly for women, they're having to withdraw from work to engage in unpaid caring, which is great but the impact that has on their superannuation is really devastating. The reality is that people's superannuation is an incredibly important part to be feeding into that, to ensure that in later life they have that financial security.

Why can't we just ban single-use plastics? We need to transition, you can't just do it right away.

There's a whole bunch of changes coming, but it's about more than just banning it. For example,

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Have you got any favourite local haunts? One of my favourite places to have dinner is the Italian place in Charing Cross, Charing Cross Pizza. It's one of the few places you can walk into after nine o'clock at night and actually get a decent meal. The Garden Court Café too.

The Garden Café Deli? Amen...

The Cosmopolitan Cafe at Bondi Junction is also a really great little café. They're the parts of the Eastern Suburbs that really remind me of my parents and my grandparents and they're the few things that haven't changed that much. And they are really affordable. I'm not a very big bells and whistles kind of person.

The birds that work at the Garden Café Deli are characters... They're lovely.

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You can do that at Bronte if you risk your life and jump off the back of the pool... I love it, and I do a run swim there in the morning, which I really enjoy. I think the diversity too. This area has changed a lot and the character of this place has changed a lot as well. When I'm door knocking, quite often I'll door knock a grassroots family that have lived in the house for multiple generations and the house was bought for $20,000 and they're now living next to someone who bought a similar house for $12 million. So you have these really diverse socioeconomics, which has only really changed in the last 15 years. I think it's that diversity that makes a really beautiful community.

Your formal title is actually Dr Marjorie O'Neill, so you're a doctor of philosophy, right? Yeah, in management and economics.

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never understood why they're generalised as being hopeless... I think the other thing is, when you talk about how much they love work, the impact that technology is having on the way people's work is changing. We started the conversation talking about access to education and how that changes people's lives.

As technology is making people's jobs obsolete it's really important that we allow people to be able to retrain so that they can keep working.

And how do you do that? TAFE is a really important part of that, particularly when the government is not doing anything to stop the destruction of jobs. We need to ensure that people can contribute to the economy where they want to and where they can, and TAFE used to be the world's leading training facility; it's meant to be there to give people skills at a low cost so that they can contribute to the workforce.

It's not low cost anymore though, it's been run into the ground.

Courses are now in the thousands, whereas they used to be in the hundreds. It's nowhere near as accessible, and in rural communities it's even worse. The lack of access to education for youth in rural communities is really devastating. Youth suicide out in rural communities is much higher than what it is around here, and I think that lack of opportunity has a big impact. If you're not working, what is your sense of worth? The first thing people ask you when you meet them is, "What do you do?" If you take away work and you take away education, what have you got left?

You started off as a Waverley Councillor in 2017; now that you're the member for the state seat of Coogee, are you still a Waverley Councillor? How does that work? Yeah, you can do both. I can't re-elect, but I will see out my time until September 2020. It's pretty common.

Stephen Bali is the mayor out at

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Blacktown and he's also a state politician. Paul Pierce and Ernie Paige, they were also on local council. And don't forget Clover Moore served as the state member for the city of Sydney, as well as the mayor of Sydney for a very long time.

Is it hard juggling the two? They compliment each other, there are similar issues. One big issue for a lot of people on a day to day basis around here is parking, so being involved in state and local government is beneficial to working on improving that.

Do you have any ideas to improve the parking situation? We need to start with better public transport...

Could you let people park right to the end of the street after a certain time as long as they move before a certain time in the morning? I think the solution is better public transport, as well as encouraging people to be more active, like riding bikes and walking more.

Can you make it easier to get a scooter licence? I had to go to bloody Tuggerrah to get my L's and St Ives for my P's. It's a massive pain in the arse, especially when you can go to Bali and drive with no licence... I also think there needs to be regulation. If you've also been to Bali and Thailand and seen the hoons that are on scooters and motorbikes there. I've got a motorbike licence.

Is the light rail going to help the transport situation at all? There are people that live very close to the light rail and go into specific parts of the city, I think it'll work for them. However, unlike buses that have 80 per cent sitting and 20 per cent standing, light rail is the reverse. The reality is we have an aging population. How many people over the age of 70 will feel comfortable standing for 45 minutes? The light rail stops aren't very close to residential

areas and the gaps are quite long between them, so unless you live very close to a stop... I think it's really important that we ensure that our bus services remain, particularly those buses that are going nowhere near where the light rail is, and that people aren't fed onto the light rail.

The electorate of Coogee would've copped the inconvenience of the light rail construction more than any other electorate; do you think that contributed to your win? I don't think it was just the inconvenience of the light rail, I think it's the incompetence of the planning process around it.

We're stuck with it now and we need to figure out how to make it work, so I don't think there's really much benefit in harping on about how bad it is - we need to learn from the process. When Infrastructure New South Wales and Nick Greiner, the former Liberal Premier, said, "Don't build this," why didn't the premier listen?

Was there corruption involved?

I don't know that, but you need to think about why didn't they listen to their own department on this. When they said, "Don't build this," why did they go ahead with it?

Because they want to be project managers... I don't know. This is why we wanted to have a judicial inquiry into it, to figure out why these decisions were being made.

Does the racing lobby in New South Wales pull all the strings with politicians? I have no idea.

I can't comment on that. I don't know what relationship the Liberal Party has with it, but when you have a look at where the stops are, for me it's very clear that the light rail isn't about helping us to get to work, it's about bringing other people into the electorate.

The stop near the hospital is a good one... I think it could have been a great idea, if not for the

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way the Liberals managed the project.

Why all the opaqueness? Why is there no Federal ICAC? One of the big things during the campaign was the distrust that people were having with politicians.

Ensuring that ICAC is properly funded and that a federal ICAC is established will help restore trust because it makes people more accountable.

Does the fact that there is not a federal ICAC mean that a federal politician is beyond any kind of prosecution for anything? Does that mean they just do whatever they want? No, they do have a criminal act.

But is corruption criminal? Is selling off a public asset to one of your mates for lower than market value, for example, actually illegal? Yeah, so you saw that in the state with Eddie Obeid. I think it's how they are held to account that is the problem. If there is no federal ICAC, whose job it is to investigate it? That's the issue.

On a similar note, do you think Australia's democracy would be healthier if political donations were totally banned? I think there needs to be regulation around political donations. In the state, we don't take money from tobacco or gambling companies, or developers. That's Labor Party rules and I think they're good rules to follow.

Why do big companies and wealthy individuals donate money to political parties? It's to get what they want, right? Yeah, but why do small, everyday individuals donate money? Because they're supporting a cause or an issue.

But should anyone be able to donate at all though? An individual who doesn't have as much money as the big companies has less influence, right? Well, with the state regulations there are rules around how much you can accept

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from a donation. So, in a state as an individual in the ALP I can't accept more than $2,600 from a single person. So it's capping it.

And I think putting caps around donations is a good way of being able to even that out.

What happens with that money?

It just gets used to campaign?

Yeah, it gets used to campaign, buy the posters, pay for advertising, etc.

Why couldn't they just ban political donations? It would solve so many problems... Yeah, I guess, but then the other side of it is if you're not getting any donations at all...

You'd have to sell fairy bread and chocolate crackles at the street stall... Well, you'd have to be self funded, right? So if you then have to be self funded, that would then push out a whole other demographic of people to be able to participate.

What about the other option: publicly funded? Just all publicly funded? I don't know how taxpayers really feel about that though.

If they got their democracy back I'd say they'd be happy to; I'd be happy to pay for that... That could result in something like the US system where people are financially pushed out of participating in campaigns and you get really wealthy individuals rolling in with a whole bunch of money.

People who can fund their own campaigns? Yeah, they can fund themselves. Someone like Gina Rinehart, for example.

What were your main achievements during your time as a Waverley Councillor? Our big achievements, as a Labor team, include getting the new DA for Bondi Pavilion - I think it's really important - and committing to restoring that. I think changing the parking is a really, really big thing. Turning off the meters

after six o'clock and taking the pressure off those side streets has been a good way of giving something back to people and taking some of those pressures off, particularly around Bondi Beach and Bondi Junction - places where you've got lots of visitors coming in and they push into the side streets where there's no meters.

Turning the meters off means that those residential side streets are now freed up for residents.

Also a lot of little achievements that have made people's lives easier. I've been able to get in a couple of refuge walkways, which I'm pretty proud of, so it's easier for parents to walk the kids to school. These are small problems, but problems that people face on a daily basis nonetheless.

These are things that local government is supposed to do...

Yeah, they are. If you can solve problems like that for people, I think that's a massive win.

Do you have a view on population size in Sydney and New South Wales, or Australia more broadly? I think the issues with population in New South Wales are quite restricted to Sydney, and a big part of what's happening in Sydney is because we have this vortex of infrastructure that is actually sucking jobs into Sydney and taking jobs and opportunity away from our regions.

So when you talk about population growth, I think our regions are actually crying out for people to come there and they want growth. If Sydney is full, we really should be looking at properly decentralising New South Wales.

There's been quite a bit of interest in your sporting career, particularly your success as a rugby union player... Yeah, I played for Sydney University for more than a decade. I played a year of representative rugby too. I mainly played blindside flanker. I moved to the States, I was playing there for a while, in California. That's when I also got into refereeing rugby.

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Do you still ref or play now? I try and play. It's a little bit difficult though because I'm also renowned for getting black eyes.

It's a bit hard sometimes turning up to events with those, a lot of foundation is required! But I also played soccer for a period here as well, for Waverley Old Boys. I grew up in a family that just loves sport. All through high school I played cricket and water polo as well. I was the head women's coach at UNSW as well. I've coached men in the US and I've only refereed men's games. When you're refereeing high school boys you learn very quickly to show the cheese early and then no one gives you cheek.

What is your party doing to reduce the deficit of women in politics? Affirmative action is a big thing that we're looking at, ensuring that we have equal representation, which I'm 100 per cent supportive of. The reality is if women were being hired on merit alone, we'd already have that. There are many barriers that women face in politics, and just generally in work life. During my campaign, it was actually really alarming to me the number of people who asked whether I was married or had kids.

Do people really care about that? Some people do. I'd say, "No," and they'd go, "Oh, thank goodness, because I don't know how you'd do both." I then had another guy come up and say to one of my volunteers and to me, "I can't support you because you're not married and you don't have children," and I said, "You are aware that Bruce is also not married and does not have children?" and his response was, "Yeah, but it's different." Why? Why is it different?

Maybe just don't worry about those people... But the reality is it still exists, people still have these assumptions around women. A man is never asked those questions. The fact that these questions are being asked

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of women but not men shows this inequality still exists, in terms of what women need to achieve in order to get a seat at the table.

I have lived in this area my entire life, I am a local who is well connected in the community and I have a track record of community activism for a long time. I am a Waverley Councillor and I have a track record of standing up for the community and advocating for what they want. Is that not enough?

You've got a PHD! Yet I continuously get told that I'm not qualified, so what do I need to do to be qualified? What does anyone need to do to be qualified to represent the community?

The first thing would be that you should live in the area. I think the first thing is being a true blue local with connections; people that walk the streets, who understand the issues. That's the number one thing that I want to see in my community representative; that they understand the issues we're facing and what it's like to live here, the struggles that a diverse group of people have.

Do you have any interest in going to federal politics? No, not at this stage, not at all. I don't know why anyone would want to live in Canberra when this is your backyard. Sorry, I love this place.

You were described in The Sydney Morning Herald as "Labor's only shining light"; what do you think were the main factors in your victory? I think the importance of a grassroots campaign that started with a listening exercise. We got out there nine months before the election, we were just asking people, "What are the things that matter to you?" And understanding from people, what are the things on a day to day basis that are impacting their lives? Running a campaign that was grassroots, being out there talking to people, listening to them, and then trying to come up with solutions to solve those problems.

You were out there every day, I felt like there was ten of you...

Someone called me and said, "You're like Coca Cola, we see you everywhere!"

What are your thoughts on pill testing? Look I'm not a doctor, so I don't want to be...

You are a doctor... I'm not a medical doctor. In principal I'm very supportive. I think we need to have a drug summit similar to the one that we had in the '90s, that doesn't take any practice off the table. I think we need to be looking at best practice to solve this, and if pill testing is best practice that's going to solve the problem, then let's do it. We had another two people die at the last festival. Just saying "No" is not working, we have to be looking at other things.

Do you think recreational drugs like ecstasy, cocaine and weed should just be totally decriminalised? I think we should really be looking at medicinal marijuana, and most of the developed world has much easier access to medicinal marijuana, particularly around later life. My father was diagnosed with terminal cancer and one of the things we looked at was access to medicinal marijuana for him to help manage the pain but it was so difficult for him to access it. So I think we should start with medicinal marijuana.

That's something that I have first hand experience in and I was shocked at how hard it was to access it. Even if it's just for people with terminal illnesses, for pain management.

You can get access to fentanyl, which is bloody hardcore, but you can't legally get access to a joint... I think medicinal marijuana is something that the state can be looking at in terms of sector and economic growth opportunities as well, which is something that's getting incredibly important for New South Wales.

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economically underwrote a lot of things before no longer exist.

Land titles, for example, were one of the few assets that we had that actually made money for New South Wales. They now no longer exist. So what are the things that we can be actually investing in, and sectors that we can be investing in and nurturing growth in that will actually then ensure economic sustainability for the state so that we can continue to provide education and healthcare.

Speaking of government revenue, would you support taxing the church and making them pay land tax, for example, on some of their commercial land holdings?

I haven't really thought about that as an issue. So, in terms of charities?

Why doesn't the church get taxed? I don't think that any not-for-profit charities get taxed currently.

But what about all the commercial activities that the church engages in and all the property that they own? I think it's complicated. I think that these are things that maybe we should have discussions about, but when you're talking about institutions that do a lot for the communities in terms of homelessness, trying to tackle domestic violence, etc., you've got joint community groups between religious groups like the Sydney Alliance, which are doing really great work in terms of homelessness, housing affordability, climate change, domestic violence... so they're doing these as not-for-profit charities, as well. I think you need to also recognise the work that these groups are doing that maybe goes unnoticed.

If the church was taxed like any other business, then the government would have that revenue and could provide those services. Anything that the church provided could be deducted as a charity, like any other big

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business or individual can... I guess the church isn't a business though, that's not their model.

Aren't they? Well, many good people in the churches would argue that they are not a business.

The Beast is actually a religious organisation... They're not giving money back to shareholders, they're not giving dividends back to shareholders.

Bronte Surf Club, the most publicly accessible surf club in Sydney, are building a new clubhouse; will you shower them with money? Surf clubs are certainly great local institutions for the work they do, and I'll be fighting for funds for all of our clubs including Tamarama, Bronte, Clovelly and Coogee Surf Clubs.

I will also be advocating for our Council lifeguards and Surf Life Saving Australia to ensure they have the resources they need to help keep our beaches safe across NSW. In an ideal world, what does the future hold for Marjorie O'Neill?

The future holds that we can solve the Coogee storm water problem in an environmentally sustainable way, where we can potentially capture more water and use it for water recycling.

Will you work with Randwick Council on that? Absolutely. I was able to secure a commitment of $7 million, the Libs only put in $2.5 million and what they wanted to do was push it out to Malabar. What I would like to do is secure that money from the Libs. $2.5 will not solve the problem, it's a much, much bigger problem. I also really hope that we can build a new co-educational public high school, in addition to the infrastructure upgrades for Randwick Girls and Randwick Boys. If I can achieve those things in the next four years I'd be really happy.

Can you tell us about your dad and the influence he's had on

your life, not just in politics?

My dad and I were really close.

Dad's influence and my mum's influence - you can't separate my parents, they're that close - has been huge. He and I would pretty much spend our winters going to rugby league and rugby union games together and summers watching cricket. We've even travelled to Auckland a couple of times to go and watch rugby. I'm very happy that I've been able to share things like that with my dad. His sense of social justice and standing up for people that were less fortunate is something that he instilled in all of us. He taught us how important it is to help other people if you're in a position where you can.

Was he ever in politics? My dad was a trade union official for the Shop Distributors Association.

He always thought it was incredibly important to stand up for people like that, who were some of the lowest paid people in our communities, and advocate for them and their rights. He went on to be the New South Wales Industrial Relations Commissioner.

Following that, he became an academic out at Western Sydney and taught out there. Even up until his last weeks where he was really sick he started teaching at a private college, Wentworth Institute, and he was still talking about trying to get in there and do a class. That's the kind of person he was, he had a really strong work ethic and understood the importance of contributing to a community and helping people.

He placed a huge emphasis on education and that's probably one of the biggest things that I've learned from him; that access to education changes people's lives.

Nothing contributes more to equality of opportunity... I have a private school education but people shouldn't have to find that level of money to be able to get a decent education. Education is what changes people's lives, it's so important.

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Go Ahead, Make My Day...

Words Jeremy Ireland Photo Clint Eastwood It’s rare to consume news these days without it containing some kind of disaster or violence. Media outlets are presenting more news than ever, especially video content, and it seems to be a case of ‘the more disastrous, the better’, as it gives the consumer a sense of being lucky that it didn’t happen to them.

It’s no secret that bad news sells, but what effect is it having on us? Violence on our screens and in other forms of media has been an area of concern for governments and consumers for some time, but does violence promote real world aggression?

Let’s look at what violence actually is. According to the Australian Council on Children and the Media, violence is a “credible threat of physical force, or the application of physical force intended to cause physical harm to an animate being”.

In 2013 the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that school kids spent over two hours per day on some sort of screen, with a large part of that containing some act of violence. Television, whether live or on demand, is the winner, accounting for 65 per cent of all screen time.

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As we get older and our ability to rationalise what we watch increases, the level and type of violence tends to intensify.

Think back to good old Bugs Bunny, which pretty much revolved around some sort of violent mishap. We also have other popular television shows like Game of Thrones where the violence can be even more extreme. Even sport, like the UFC for example, can be extremely violent and has now become mainstream.

Violence in any media format is becoming more difficult to avoid. It’s often glamorised and marketed in such a way that the consumer sees violence as the way to be powerful and heroic.

“Hang on,” I hear you say, “I’m a rational person and I can distinguish between the imaginary world and the real one!” The problem is that it’s the amount of time watching this stuff that creates the problem. Over time we are being conditioned to accept that the level of violence we currently see is normal - the more we see, the more we tend to tolerate and accept it. Once normalised, the higher up the extreme ladder it tends to go.

Compare the classic war film From Here to Eternity, made in 1953, to Saving Private Ryan, made in 1998. The former seems like Bambi compared to the first 25 minutes of the Spielberg classic. I’m sure Steven was just trying to make us feel the brutality of being a soldier but I think we got the point after the first five minutes.

Twenty years on from Saving Private Ryan and we have Deadpool, incredibly violent in a black comedy kind of way and not that different from Road Runner’s run-ins with Coyote.

After much research, the magnitude of the relationship between violence in the media and the real world is much stronger than people realise.

For the die-hard, nappywearing gamer who loves the extreme violence of Hotline Miami 2, the more time spent playing, the more prone they are to aggressive and antisocial behaviour, aggressive thoughts and a lack of empathy. Perhaps the same can be said for those bingeing on Game of Thrones or playing Grand Theft Auto.

Sure, it’s a choice whether to watch or not, but in a world where practically any form of media content can be accessed anywhere and anytime, it should be remembered that once you see something it’s very hard to ‘unsee’ it, especially for young kids who tend to interpret visual imagery in a literal way. Although much of this violence may initially come across as benign, the bottom line is that the correlation between media violence and aggression is clear. By restricting screen time and adhering to recommended ratings, perhaps this effect can be managed.

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Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away...

The Unreliable Guide To... Flying Words Nat Shepherd Photo Frank Abagnale Jr. The Unreliable Guide is going on a long-haul flight soon and we are already having nightmares about it. Quite apart from the fact it’s unnatural and you might plummet from the sky like a stone, flying is claustrophobic. Sartre’s statement that “Hell is other people” anticipated the experience of flying economy. Forced into close proximity with hundreds of strangers, you must endure their fidgeting, farting and disease-laden bad breath as best you can. If that wasn’t bad enough, the food is awful and the seats so cunningly uncomfortable that they must have been designed by a conspiracy of chiropractors. Bearing all this in mind it’s amazing we travel at all. But fear not, The Unreliable Guide has some tips and tricks to reduce the strain and stress of flying...

Get relaxed Many doctors will happily prescribe a little something to get you through the horrors of 24 hours in the fart tube from Hell.

Just be aware that what goes up must come down - consider dealing with a confusing foreign 52 The Beast June 2019

airport when you are ‘tranked’ off your tits. Research also suggests that even booze is not helpful on long-haul. Yes, you’ll pass out, but you’ll wake up much sooner than you would if you fell asleep naturally and you’ll be extra dehydrated and cranky.

As on terra firma, it’s better to use your body’s own chemicals.

Prepare for a flight by doing some exercise before you leave for the airport. If your body is nicely tired and full of endorphins nothing will faze you.

Book ahead It is a truth universally acknowledged by frequent flyers that not all airlines or all seats are made equal. If you can afford first or business class, great - and f*ck you, by the way - but for the rest of us in cattle class a nicer seat can make all the difference in the world.

The website seatguru.com has annotated maps of almost every aircraft in the air and it will help you avoid those windowless seat at the back with a view of the bogs, no recline and an electrical box where your legs should go. Some airlines will charge a fee for booking a spe-

Pack a survival kit On most long haul flights you’re given a little survival kit - blanket, pillow, some sweat socks and a toothbrush - but they’re often crap quality and you can’t rely on them. Bring your own kit. This is my long-researched list of flying essentials: necksupporting folding travel pillow, anti-overhead-light baseball cap, adjustable eye mask, quality noise-cancelling headphones (with airplane jack adaptor), iPad pre-loaded with your fave TV shows, folding plastic water bottle (it won’t be confiscated and you can refill on the plane), lightweight pashmina (multiple uses) and an iPod full of spoken word stories for when you can’t sleep but your eyes are too sore to read or watch TV. The kit takes up very little room and makes all the difference.

Remember, it’s not forever I’ve had flights where the weather was so bad I found the pilot praying, flights that had to circle the airport for two hours before we were allowed to land, flights where the man in front was so obese that when he leaned back the seat collapsed and he landed in my lap, flights where the poor old man behind us had such bad breath the woman next to him vomited in the aisle. Next time you are in what seems to be an impossible situation on a plane just rock back and forth in your seat muttering, “This too shall pass”.

Finally, The Unreliable Guide suggests that we remember we chose to fritter the world’s resources and increase the carbon overload all for the sake of two weeks’ holiday, so shut up, buckle up and enjoy your privileged life.

The dog days aren't over.

Dog Owners Kicked Off Clovelly Dog Park Satire Kieran Blake, kieranblake13@yahoo.com.au Photo Florence Welch Dog owners no longer have access to the off-leash dog area at northern Clovelly Beach following a Randwick Council decision to punish owners for continued flouting of council rules.

Council announced the bold move after dog owners were seen to be continually taking their pets to restricted areas surrounding the dog park, such as the football fields, rock pools, fitness equipment and the beach itself.

“The off-leash dog area between Burrows Park and Clovelly Beach is now off limits to dogs and will be converted into a community space for everyone to enjoy,” announced a council spokesperson.

“Dog owners enjoyed the privilege of having a designated space to exercise their dogs.

They abused this privilege by taking their dogs to off-limit areas. As a result of their misbehaviour, they have had that privilege removed.”

Council cited reports from

rangers in defending the contentious decision.

“Our dedicated, highly visible and highly efficient rangers issued numerous warnings and fines on a daily basis to dog owners, and yet they persisted in walking their dogs in places that are off limits. It has come to our attention that the ‘no dogs’ sign at the entrance to the rock pools was also blacked out on numerous occasions, and was replaced on numerous occasions, at rate-payers’ expense.”

The space will be returned to the general public and a number of options for its long-term use are still being discussed.

The proposals include the revegetation of the site to create a haven for native wildlife, and a wild play area similar to the enormously popular area in Centennial Park.

Another option is a community garden, while other suggestions include the construction of a BMX/Pump track and skills park for cyclists who can enjoy riding without the threat

of traffic. The area may also be converted into another playing field to complement the football fields at Burrows Park, or an open space to host food vans in summer as well as outdoor entertainment such as concerts, mini festivals and movie events.

Owners will still be able to walk their dogs on the coastal walk, provided the dogs remain on a leash.

Randwick Council also issued this warning to dog owners planning to disobey the rules in the future.

“Any dog found in an offlimit area near Clovelly Beach will be impounded and held in a well-maintained, modern care facility until payment of the appropriate fine.”

The conversion of this valuable patch of real estate is still being discussed, and Randwick Council has invited all residents to take advantage of the community consultation process to provide feedback and to have their say on the best use of the space.

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Families that compost together, stay together.

The Local War on Food Waste Words and Photo JP Williamson, Regional Organic Waste Officer Did you know over 24,000 of your neighbours in the Eastern Suburbs are now recycling their food scraps at home? These local everyday heroes are kicking some serious goals in the ‘war on waste’. They’ve kept well over 3 million kilograms of food waste out of the tip (think 18 million bananas), plus almost 6 kilotons of carbon emissions out of the atmosphere.

Nice one! So why is everyone composting?

since they can be kept indoors.

To keep a compost going, just stir in your food and garden scraps each time you add them.

With a worm farm, just rotate the trays once each season or so. Kids love helping so it can be a great family activity too.

With easy options for everyone, it’s simple to keep going. Over 90 per cent of people who started through Compost Revolution were still composting when surveyed by Council a year later!

1. It’s quick and cheap to start It’s easy to get started, especially with Council’s Compost Revolution program. In just 10 minutes, you can complete an online tutorial at compostrevolution.com.au and order your worm farm or compost bin for 80 per cent off RRP. Council will deliver it to you for FREE, along with everything you need to get started. Bingo!

3. It’s good for the ‘hood “Composting and worm farming are the easiest and most cost-effective ways to change the game for organic waste, while also addressing climate change,” says JP Williamson, Regional Organic Waste Officer at Randwick, Waverley and Woollahra councils. “People love the program, especially the sense of community and huge feel-good factor around it.”

With 50 per cent of the average household rubbish bin made up of compostable materials, food waste accounts

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for some 16.5 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent annually in Australia[1] which is equivalent to Australia’s entire civil aviation sector[2].

“Food waste is the single biggest contributor to landfills.

These [landfills] are filling up at unprecedented rates, releasing harmful acids and greenhouse gases like methane which is driving climate change 25 times faster than CO2,” says Jeff Angel, Executive Director of the Total Environment Centre.

“Composting is something all of us can do to turn a problem into a valuable resource, while making a difference for ourselves and the planet.”

4. Free food for your plants Compost is black gold for your garden, and worm farms make a great liquid fertiliser that’s easy to water onto gardens and pot plants alike. Plants will love you for it!

[1] http://ageis.climatechange. gov.au; http://www.compostweek.com.au/core/aboutcomposting.

[2] https://infrastructure.gov. au/aviation/environmental/ emissions.

Originally developed by Randwick, Waverley and Woollahra councils in 2010, Compost Revolution was so successful locally that it has since gone national through a partnership with local businessman Dave Gravina.

Over 10 kilotons (think 56 million bananas) of food waste across Australia has been saved from the tip, by 43,000 households composting across 31 councils that now run the program.

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Childhood memories.

State of Origin Fever Words Alasdair McClintock Photo David Manson When the months get colder, our blood gets warmer, and State of Origin fever descends upon Australia’s two greatest states (piss off, Victoria).

Symptoms may include: a vibrant blue or maroon rash, Tourette-like profanity directed at television screens, and/or increased levels of aggression towards your work colleagues and neighbours. There is no cause for alarm. It will pass. It is merely the annual Purge. Civility will resume come August.

It’s a strange feeling going into a State of Origin series with New South Wales as the defending champions and a good chance to take it out again. It’s kind of refreshing though. As a Queenslander, I struggled to get into it last year. Not because Queensland lost, but because the New South Wales team was too bloody likeable and I felt like they deserved to win after all their years of toil. Blokes like Boyd Cordner and Damien Cook seem like wonderful young men,

not the brutish grubs of years gone by. If it weren’t for Latrell Mitchell and his on-field carryon, I may have been compelled to send them all a congratulatory hamper of delicacies from the Sunshine Coast region.

But now that Freddy Fittler and his band of barefoot merry men have a series win under their belt, I’ve spent the off-season building up some irrational hatred and I’m raring to go.

Because Origin, like most local rivalries, is largely about an absurd hatred of someone almost exactly like yourself, they just live on the other side of the street. Does its success hinge on a dark truth that we all truly hate ourselves? Possibly, but I don’t really hate myself, I just have a mild mistrust.

But now my hatred knows no bounds once again. I look forward to raging at the injustice of 50/50 calls, as if the referee has insulted my mother and dragged her off to jail. I quiver in anticipation at the creative

abuse I can hurl at young men who are just trying to earn a living by entertaining me (the hide of them!). I drool with glee at the banter I can direct at strangers on the bus, who may or may not know what the hell I’m talking about.

The one thing that does fill me with trepidation, however, is the commentary team. Can someone please ask them to retire? A decade ago I had a lot of time for them, but now I want to mute the volume five minutes into the pre-match. I did, in fact, turn a game off last year because I couldn’t stand it anymore (my wife contests it was sour grapes because of the score line, but in truth it was probably 50/50). They say great athletes can ruin their legacies by going a few years too many, well, so can commentators.

Regardless, with or without the banal bias of men past their best, I approach this series with a joy long forgotten. It feels good to care again.

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Before the boom.

A Hidden Delight... Schneider's Gully Words and Photos Andrew Worssam The Bondi area once featured several creeks and waterfalls, which would occasionally turn into raging torrents, sweeping away roads and property.

Nowadays these waterways are tamed, unseen, buried beneath the ground. Adolph Schneider, a noted German landscape gardener, fought a constant battle with these floodwaters. From 1876, he created a large garden between Martins Avenue, Penkivil Street and Old South Head Road, variously named as Schneider’s Glen or Schneider’s Gully. A waterfall ran right into the garden. It was later described by writer Major William ‘Plugshell’ Johnston as “the loveliest natural gully in the district”*. According to Johnston, Schneider’s “scientific and bold treatment” transformed the gully into “a picture”. Schneider built the garden whilst the area was still largely unoccupied and 56 The Beast June 2019

undeveloped (there was a dairy to the east of the garden and then sand dunes to the beach).

The land where the garden would be created was originally purchased by Michael Woolley of T & M Woolley Ironmongers in 1839. The Dickson family (after whom Dickson Park and Dickson Street are named and whose descendants still live in the area) subsequently purchased the land and sold it to Schneider in 1876. In 1882 a large parcel of the land around the reserve was subdivided and sold off. The advertising copy provided by Hardie and Gorman real estate agents is revealing.

Schneider’s Gully became the Bondi Glen. It was envisaged that a tramline would pass right by the subdivision (down Martins Avenue, then Glen Street) to the beach. The “New Recreation Reserve” was touted as a major attraction, as were the “Splendid

Views” from “Bondi Heights” (this early example of real estate speak didn’t catch on!).

In 1885, Mr Alfred Lee purchased a newly built house called Glen Roona (since replaced by the apartment block at 2A Penkivil Street) overlooking the glen. It was a truly grand Bondi residence, featuring a reception room capable of holding 200 people and encompassing most of the Bondi Glen. Lee set about building two tennis courts on the flat land at the bottom of the glen and planting many of the exotic palms that exist there to this day. Alfred Lee was a businessman and book collector (his extensive collection later went to the Mitchell Library). His wife Minnie was prominent in social and philanthropic circles and held many events at Glen Roona.

Australia’s prime minister was entertained there in 1939.

Alfred Lee’s granddaughter, Mrs Norah St George Butter, recorded her recollections of visiting the garden when she was a child: “… Anyway I was delighted to get away from the house and into grandfather’s garden.

Grandfather as well as collecting books, collected palm trees.

His garden wandered from a top lawn down the sides of the hill under huge trees by a winding path and under the huge trees grew a profusion of palm trees. Tall palms reaching the sky down to tiny walking stick palms edged the path and formed romantic clumps of ghostly green. On the corners the path had a few stops and here and there a statue or an urn. About halfway down were several bush houses and even a glass house. The smell was delicious of rotting moulding things and there seemed to be hundreds of pots full of chry-

santhemums, orchids and other odd things while over the sheds sprawled a wisteria vine. It was enchanting. At the bottom the garden opened out onto two tennis courts and with sweet peas growing up the vine and trees surrounding them but at a distance...”**

The glen was eventually purchased by Waverley Council for £7,000 and renamed Thomas Hogan Reserve in memory of the former Mayor of Waverley,

who lived nearby and died in 1958. In 1924, Johnston had written that Schneider’s Gully “retains much of its peaceful solitude, natural beauty and native timber”. Johnston’s words ring true nearly 100 years later; Thomas Hogan Reserve still provides a quiet, natural respite from the chaos of Bondi.

If you look around the slopes on the western side of Thomas Hogan Reserve you can still find remnants of the old winding paths that led from the tennis courts up to the Glen Roona house above.

With thanks to John Ruffels and Peggy Dickson. *Waverley Library Local History Collection, Major Johnston’s Scrapbook pages 20 & 21. ** Notes in the family album Alfred Lee m. Minnie Dodds, State Library Collection.

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Our new favourite restaurant.

Clove Lane...

A Home Away From Home Words Joel Bevilacqua Photo Bonnie Coumbe After an Easter weekend getaway filled with copious quantities of chocolate and emergency missions to McDonald’s, I needed to satisfy my finer tastes. To do so, I made my way to the reputable and oft-recommended Clove Lane in Randwick.

This modern bistro is located somewhat incongruously on a corner towards the top of Clovelly Road. With its relaxed vibe and wholesome menu, chef and owner Emile Avramides has created a home away from home for local foodies.

The bistro takes sourcing local produce to a whole new level. The beer is provided by Pat who lives in the building directly opposite the restaurant.

‘Someday Ale’ is the name of the current brew, as Pat hopes he will “someday” make a good brewer. Don’t let his modesty fool you though, the schooners served on arrival garnered two earnest nods of approval.

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my lovely girlfriend Grace usually comes along as my plus one. However, circumstances meant that my better half could not make it to Clove Lane on this occasion so my trusty roommate Jackson ‘Jacko’ Doolan was bestowed with the honour of being my date. As it turned out, Grace would live to regret her absence as our first wave of dishes consisted of three of her favourite things in the world: warm sourdough with a whipped burnt butter, burrata, and kingfish ceviche with salmon roe (I like to think that I come in at a close fourth). The sourdough is locally sourced from Iggy’s just up the road and the burrata is supplied by Vannella Cheese in Marrickville.

Clove Lane’s ever-changing menu is a mix of tantalising vegetable dishes like the charred broccoli with labne and duck crackle and seeded butternut pumpkin with chickpea miso and holy goat fromage frais, as well as larger carnivorous options such as the prized

Mooloolaba swordfish, braised ox cheek and wagyu sirloin. The fine dining background of chef Avramides and his team shines through in each of these dishes.

Despite the food sitting somewhere towards the fine dining end of the spectrum, there is a relaxed and welcoming feel about Clove Lane. It’s not pretentious - quite the opposite. An open kitchen and laid-back, friendly staff set the tone - these guys enjoy working here and it shines through in the service. If you like you can sit up at the kitchen bench, chat with towering chef Big Willy and watch him work his magic. You might even like to shout him a drink at the end of the night to say thankyou. The friendly neighbourhood setting continues outside, with hanging plants above the tables and a small courtyard that houses a herb garden. Put simply, you won’t get to experience food of this high standard in a more friendly and relaxed setting.

I should also mention that, with copper pendant lighting bathing the white rendered walls and dark timbre furniture in a warm golden light, Clove Lane would be the perfect spot for a date, something my very single roommate Jacko was quick to point out!

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More than your average roast.

Roast Chicken with Chorizo, Sourdough and Sage Stuffing Words and Picture Dana Sims Insta @stone_and_twine Chicken and chorizo are just so good together. If you’re looking for a change from your classic roast, this recipe will give you some robust flavours to try.

You can really get creative with the stuffing. Herbs are lovely to use, as well as onion, which you can rely on to boost the flavour as it bakes. I tend to leave the bread component of the stuffing a little chunky to give it more texture. This stuffing injects so much flavour into the dish and is a perfect match for chicken, which is still the main feature of the dish so it’s important to get the cooking spot-on.

To avoid dryness and get some colour on the skin, basting the chicken with the pan juices a couple of times during the cook always works for me, especially if you’re not making a gravy out of it. Don’t let these tasty bits go to waste!

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Ingredients (serves 4) 1.8kg fresh free range chicken, (adjust cooking time according to the weight of the chicken) 250gms sourdough bread, roughly torn into small pieces Zest of 1 lemon 2 chorizo, diced into small pieces 1 small bunch of fresh sage, approx. 12 leaves, finely chopped 3 sprigs of rosemary, finely chopped 1 onion, peeled and finely diced Salt Freshly ground pepper 1½ tablespoons olive oil Baby spinach, sautéed, and roast potatoes (optional) Method 1. Take your chicken out of the fridge 30 minutes before cooking to bring to room temperature. Pat the skin dry with paper towel; 2. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees fan forced;

3. To make the stuffing, heat a drizzle of olive oil in a pan on medium heat and sauté the chorizo. You don’t need much oil as the chorizo will release some oil as it cooks. After 3-4 minutes you will get good colour on the chorizo; 4. Turn down to a low heat and add the onions. Sauté until they are softened but not browned.

Add the sage, rosemary and sourdough and further sauté for 2 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and allow to cool slightly. Add a tablespoon of olive oil to help combine ingredients together, as well as seasoning it with salt and pepper; 5. Spoon the stuffing into the chicken cavity firmly and place the chicken in a roasting tin.

Drizzle a little olive oil over the skin of the chicken and sprinkle with some salt and pepper; 6. Place in the oven and roast for 45 minutes per kilo plus 20 minutes, or until cooked, basting occasionally. To check whether the chicken is fully cooked, stick a skewer into the thigh, the juices should run clear; 7. When cooked, transfer the chicken to a board and allow to rest for 10-15 minutes, covered firmly with foil; 8. Carve the chicken as desired and spoon the stuffing out of the chicken into a serving bowl.

Add the roast potatoes, sautéed spinach and the carved chicken onto a platter and serve.

Dana Sims is a Sydneybased food and prop stylist who has grown up in the Eastern Suburbs and loves to create delicious food for entertaining and family.

She is inspired by the fresh produce we have access to here in Sydney. For ideas, recipes and styling inspiration, check out her Instagram, @stone_and_twine.

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NICK MURPHY Run Fast Sleep Naked Label Future Classic Reviewer Alasdair McClintock Rating  I’m still not entirely sure why Nick Murphy (formerly Chet Faker) decided to change his stage name back to his real name. It was apparently to signify a “new direction”, but Run Fast Sleep Naked is exactly what I would have expected from a Chet Faker album. I reckon he was just sick of people calling him ‘Chet’. Anyway, that confusion aside, this is all quite pleasant. It’s got that same soulful vibe you’d expect, with a bit more energy.

Was that the new direction? Energy? We could all use a bit more of it, I guess.

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Film Review Title 2040 Genre Documentary Reviewer Linda Heller-Salvador Fortunately award-winning director/writer/ actor Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film, Balibo), has chosen to not use a hard-line sledge-hammer approach with his latest and timely documentary, 2040.

In this playful and uplifting audio-visual letter to his four year-old daughter, Damon shows what could be possible by 2040 if we are all prepared to embrace the knowledge, skills and technology we have available today to help reduce the environmental impact we are having on the planet now and prevent ecological disaster for future generations.

Describing it as “an experiment in fact-based dreaming”, Damon, using his quirky yet informative manner, utilises creative CGI visual effects, documentary material, interviews with experts in technology, economics, agriculture and climate, as well as children’s opinions on how they want their future to be, to convey his heartfelt message of hope for the future.

In this age of doom, gloom and greed 2040 is a must-see film for everyone, whether it is for an inspirational family film day or a much needed reality check for the unaware.

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Label Loma Vista Recordings Reviewer Alasdair McClintock Rating  Indie-pop has been average for a few years now.

A bunch of bands peaked a while back and then all went off, married celebrities and Belgian princesses, and left us trudging through a slew of mediocrity. Local Natives almost stopped the rot, but couldn’t quite nail the landing. Violet Street is a fine volley of toe-tapping dance floor fillers, plus some slower songs and enough original flair to keep us interested, but it lacks that certain je ne sais quoi to really set it apart. Some things you just can’t teach… like how to marry a Belgian princess.

EZRA COLLECTIVE You Can’t Steal My Joy Label Enter The Jungle Reviewer Alasdair McClintock Rating  It’s hard to review a jazz album when you are by no means a jazz connoisseur, but I thought I’d give it a crack. About two songs in, I realised I’d made a terrible mistake. I was out of my depth here. I’ve been looking for a smooth go-to while expanding my home-cooking repertoire and this is not it. Some tracks are surprisingly hectic and I couldn’t help but think of Ron Burgundy playing the jazz flute and stamping all over tables at times. If you can’t dance, relax or sing along to it, is it really music?

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LEO JUL 23-AUG 22 An unflushable log will cause much stress prior to a visit from a friend. Just lock the dunny door and tell them it’s broken.

CAPRICORN DEC 22-JAN 20 Sitting on your arse all day is not going to make it any smaller. Take advantage of the cooler weather and run it off.

VIRGO AUG 23-SEP 23 Lifestyle changes won’t solve your health issues. You’ve ruined your body with drugs, you’ll need drugs to repair the damage.

AQUARIUS JAN 21-FEB 19 Invest in your intellectual development rather than your appearance. Having a six pack isn’t much good if you can’t count to ten.

Visions Beardy from Hell

LIBRA SEP 24-OCT 23 If you hate going on holidays, having plenty of spare time and getting on well with your neighbours, go and buy a dog.

PISCES FEB 20-MAR 20 An idea you have this month could change your life forever, but you’ll need to actually put it into action to reap the rewards.

GEMINI MAY 22-JUN 21 There’s nothing like a new hairstyle to reinvent yourself, but you need to focus more on your personality for lasting change.

SCORPIO OCT 24-NOV 22 Your greenhouse gas emissions are about to breach the nation’s reductions target. Go easy on the onions, for Christ’s sake.

ARIES MAR 21-APR 20 Don’t feel bad for hating your mate’s kids. They inherited the worst of both parents’ personalities and you can’t fight genetics.

CANCER JUN 22-JUL 22 You’re going to be too busy to exercise this winter, so just hang around fatter people and worry about your love handles later.

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You can’t compete on a level playing field, it’s time to get dirty.

TAURUS APR 21-MAY 21 Never trust the care of your eyebrows to another person; they are pretty much guaranteed to make you look ridiculous.

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