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Words Dan & James Hutton, Publishers Welcome to the November 2019 edition of The Beast, the monthly magazine for Sydney’s overcrowded Beaches of the East. It’s really starting to warm up around here and the soothing waters of the Pacific are calling once again.

Bondi’s wonderful Jane Turner graces our cover this month. Jane opened Gertrude & Alice café and bookstore nearly two decades ago and is one of the area’s most likeable and well-known personalities.

She’s also been a great supporter of this publication since the early days, so we’re stoked to finally have her on the cover!

Co-publisher of The Beast Dan Hutton has written a piece outlining his ongoing battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

We’re grateful for all the support we’ve been given over the last two and a bit years from so many people and we hope this brings you up to speed with where we’re at.

Siriol Dafydd has written about the outcome of the recent local government elections, which delivered new mayors and deputy mayors for all three of our local councils. Siri has also written about the annual Kingsford Noodle Markets, which is fast becoming one of the most popular events on the local calendar, and Bronte’s Duncan Horscroft has written a piece about local butcher Bonnie Corban taking out the Australian Meat Industry 2019 Apprentice of the Year for NSW. Happy reading, Beasts.

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CONTENTS Nove mbe r 201 9 Issue 178

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Welcome Note Table of Contents A Note from Dan Monthly Mailbag Thumbs Local Bloke Local News Satire

Morning meander, by Oliver Pether.

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Calendar Local Tradies Interview Unreliable Guide Tide Chart Sporting Life Headnoise Enviro News

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Album Reviews Marj's Musings Recipe Food Review Local Photos Brainteasers Beardy from Hell Trivia Solutions

Plenty to live for.

Relapse Words Dan Hutton Photo Georgie Gavaghan I didn’t plan on writing this article. I genuinely thought I was in the clear. A survivor. Cured. Life back on track. Wishful thinking?

Maybe.

As a cancer sufferer/fighter, there are a few words you really don’t want to hear from your haematologist/oncologist, and while the term ‘relapse’ isn’t as hard to hear as ‘terminal’ or ‘palliative care’, it’s still a confronting and heartbreaking couple of syllables.

It’s been nearly six months since I received the devastating news that my lymphoma had relapsed. After experiencing some concerning symptoms in early March, I contacted my haematologist and let him know that I had a bad feeling about things and that I thought I should undergo a PET scan, just in case.

I was, after all, only about two months off having my one-year PET scan anyway.

While he doubted that I’d have relapsed, having seen how well things had been progressing for me and given that I’d been doing everything right in terms of my treatment and my general health, he understood my desire for peace of mind and booked me in, noting that if I was feeling better in the fortnight between booking and appointment he’d be happy for me to cancel. By the

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time the PET scan appointment came around I was feeling a lot better, but I decided it was worth doing regardless.

The phone call came through around lunchtime on a sunny Thursday in early March. I knew immediately from the tone of the doctor’s voice that the result was not going to be what I wanted to hear. I had indeed relapsed, with a couple of significant masses taking up residence in my stomach and pancreas. After about nine months of relatively normal life everything was about to be thrown into turmoil. Again.

I was told that I’d need to go into hospital (St Vincent’s, Darlinghurst) on the Monday to begin a new chemo regime and that my stay would most likely be a long one. Having established a life down at Austinmer in the Illawarra, this was extremely uprooting. My little boy had only just started kindergarten six weeks earlier and had forged friendships with a fantastic little crew down the coast, as had my partner Georgie and I. I spent around eight of the next nine weeks in hospital, a 30-day stint followed by a 25day stint, with a nine-day break in between. I actually handled the chemotherapy drugs reasonably well and only felt nauseous for a few days after each cycle,

but it took quite a long time for my blood counts to recover to normal levels and I was also struck down by three significant infections while those counts were low, which meant a heap of tests and some heavy doses of antibiotics, as well as having to endure hours of rigors, vomiting, sweats and generally feeling terrible for a couple of days at a time until the medication got on top of the infection.

After the second round of chemo I was discharged from hospital and told to plan a family holiday in a couple of weeks’ time, before shit got ‘real’ (or even more real, I guess). Assuming I’d gone into remission, which was looking likely after a CT scan showed significant reduction in the existing masses, I’d be going in for a bone marrow transplant in about six or seven weeks, depending on the availability of my closely matched German donor.

Another PET scan revealed that I was in fact in remission and the past couple of months of treatment had done the trick.

The German donor was locked in to donate bone marrow in early July and everything, it seemed, was back on track. Good news.

Finally. Worthy of an 11am Bloody Mary from Bill’s for the delighted/relieved missus!

We booked a family holiday to Port Douglas and Cape Tribulation in order to escape the cold of winter for a couple of weeks and to enjoy some quality family time while I was in reasonably good health, before the impending shit storm that I’d heard a bone marrow transplant unleashes upon your body - four to six weeks in hospital, followed by a long, tough recovery that lasts in excess of six months, if you’re lucky. Some people still feel the effects years after their transplants.

Needless to say, the holiday was a blast, though not without its share of drama. My daughter ended up in a remote medical centre with croup and, a day later, Georgie pulled the car boot down onto her head, with

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After our North Queensland sojourn I still had a few weeks to wait until I’d be admitted for my bone marrow transplant, time I used to catch up with friends, tick off all of those life admin tasks, hang out with my family and do my best to stay out of harm’s way (read: influenza, viral infections, etc.), which is easier said than done during winter in Sydney.

Everything seemed to be going along smoothly until my nose started to run a little. A bit of green phlegm built up in my throat and, just a day or two short of transplant commencement and one day after receiving a perfectly clear PET scan, everything got put on hold.

The week-long preparation for transplant, known as ‘conditioning’, is simply too brutal on the immune system to go into with any viruses or bacteria lurking in your body, so it was a case of just having to wait. I was in complete remission, what would an extra couple of weeks waiting matter?

Well, matter it did. That couple of weeks extended to a month, thanks to a second virus, and then some even more worrying symptoms emerged - pain in the abdomen, sweats and just a general feeling that something wasn’t right. I put it to my doctors who all thought the likelihood of another relapse so soon after my last PET scan was exceptionally low, bordering on impossible, but we decided to have another scan regardless.

I was right. I know my body too well, it seems. The lymphoma had returned and in a rather aggressive fashion, with two masses around my pancreas and another in my stomach. A huge setback.

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So what was the next plan?

Radiation. 18 hits of the stuff to the pancreas and stomach region over a four-week period with the aim of another remission then back to the transplant drawing board.

The whole radiation thing sounded pretty scary, and the potential side effects rather unpleasant, but it turned out to be a breeze. It was actually one of the more enjoyable parts of my treatment, thanks to the staff at Genesis Radiation (particularly the soothing/attentive/caring vibes of Dr Raj Jagavkar, the radiation oncologist tasked with fixing me), the routine surrounding my treatments (which only went for about 20-30 minutes each day) and the absence of side effects. A coffee and crossword at Son of Frank in Darlinghurst with my brother and a varying cycle of mates were an essential part of the radiation ritual.

The intent of the radiation was to knock off the existing masses while hoping that no other disease showed up in the meantime, then head straight back into transplant land. The effectiveness of the radiation (and the chance of transplant proceeding) was all to be revealed via another PET scan a week post treatment.

It should be noted here that some of the details of the pencilled in transplant had also changed significantly. Looking at all the odds, the effectiveness of the closely matched German donor transplant was really no different statistically to using a haploidentical (half-matched) sibling, which I have available in my brother James. His stem cells would not only be as effective in potentially granting me a cure, but gaining access to them on short notice would be logistically far superior (he lives in Clovelly, not Cologne, after all).

The radiation seemed to have done its job with aplomb, but the PET scan still revealed what we hoped it wouldn’t - a two centimetre mass had popped up on my pericardium, the sack that lines one’s heart. Another bloody setback.

With disease in my system, a stem cell transplant is not an option, so the quest for remission continues, but I still have a couple of cards up my sleeve.

At the time of writing I am a couple of weeks into a trial of an immunological treatment with a drug called Daratumumab, an antibody that is able to locate a specific protein present on my malignant T cells and destroy them. I hope it’s working but I really don’t know. I’ll find out on October 15, just after this fine publication has gone to print.

Cancer is a real prick of a thing, regardless of the variety you are dealt. The lymphoma I have been handed has been particularly difficult to deal with, mainly due to its rarity, but I will keep soldiering on and keep fighting until it has effed off for good. My family needs me to do as much.

Despite all the crap I’ve been through, since March I’ve been lucky enough to celebrate the birthdays of my partner, my son (six) and my daughter (three), I’ve become engaged to the love of my life, Georgie, after 11 years, two months and four days (we may even be married by the time you read this) and I’ve done countless crosswords (and sipped far too many coffees) with my brother, who has fed me, entertained me, sat beside me and nearly mastered the cryptic crossword with me, all the while pushing out an edition of The Beast each month. My little boy has learnt to ride a bike without training wheels, he’s caught his first fish, we’ve read some great books together and he and my daughter are forging a great little (at times hostile) friendship together, which I have been able to witness so closely. In many ways I’m the luckiest man on the planet and I still see their future with me in it.

I’ve heard the word ‘relapse’ far too many times this year, but I’m yet to hear ‘terminal’ or ‘palliative care’, and I’m still clinging to that with all my strength. If all goes according to plan, my next instalment in The Beast will be titled ‘Cured’. Wish me luck!

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The Beast's Monthly Mailbag Words The People of the Eastern Suburbs BONDI’S AUSTRALIA DAY AN EVENT TO BE PROUD OF As a Bondi/Eastern Suburbs resident since 1980, I’ve had the annual pleasure of experiencing Festival of the Winds for 39 of its 42 years. The day rightly starts with the acknowledgement of the Gadigal people and Eora Nation, and a traditional smoking ceremony. From that point on, Bondi really turns it on with clear blue skies, light southwest winds and, just to set the perfect backdrop, a solid 4-5 foot swell pumps into the bay.

Many stages around our town hall, Bondi Pavilion, feature such diverse performances from electric sitar to Morris dancers, local kids’ bands, hip hop and contemporary dance, African drumming, etc. and down on the promenade Bondi Beach Radio keeps the tens of thousands of people getting a groove on and smiling as they check out the sky full of kites.

What strikes me as so undeniably great about this event is the Australian people, from literally everywhere on the globe, all enjoying the shared experience of spending the day at our beautiful Bondi Beach.

Given the 100,000 plus crowd, the patience, tolerance and good vibes all round are something we can all be genuinely proud of, proving beyond any doubt that as a community and society we are capable of unity and inclusion, and also proving that to be proud Australians we don’t need to wear a Chinese-made Aussie flag beach towel as a cape!

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Us locals are sometimes critical of Waverley Council, but serious credit and a big thumbs up must be given to the organisers and massive team of workers who create and make this huge event the jewel in Bondi and Waverley’s crown.

Dave Clark Bronte THE STORY OF BOSS AND BILLY Boss and Billy were my beautiful hand-raised roosters, who were living happily in my backyard, and had been for the past two years. Boss and Billy were characters of the neighbourhood, providing the community with a daytime chorus of serenades. Locals often commented how comforting and back to nature it made them feel.

Until I was told by Council that there had been a complaint and I had to re-home my beautiful boys. With great sadness we had to find another home for our pets, members of our family.

Boss and Billy spent their days peacefully in my backyard, but from 7.30pm to 7.30am they slept indoors.

To the complaining neighbour: you have taken away an asset to the community and left a void in our neighbourhood. We hope that you are happy that you no longer hear the occasional crowing of our roosters during the day. It's a pity it isn't as easy to remove the noise from buses, trucks, planes and construction work from our neighbourhood.

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THE JOYS OF PEARL Hi Pearl - As per usual, an excellent insight into society (Has Australia Reached Peak Commission and Inquiry?, The Beast, October 2019). Can we add to your request for Royal Commissions a Royal Commission into petrol prices? Really, what is going on? For those of us who travel across ANZAC Parade it is really noticeable.

Reading your contribution to The Beast is an absolute joy.

Melissa Randwick OVERFUNDING SCHOOLS Suzanne Dundord’s article on “Capturing Climate Opportunities” (The Beast, October 2019) starts with Albert Einstein. Like the children at Bronte Public School and my own children at South Coogee Public School, little Albert attended a state school. Young Albert’s school - Luitpold Gymnasium - was a state school like any other school in Germany.

Unlike in Australia, it was generously funded by the state.

Today, things are different in Australia. Under the Liberal Party’s rule - Abbott, Turnbull, ScoMo - state schools are systematically underfunded while private schools are overfunded.

As Trevor Cobbold wrote recently, “Australia’s four richest schools spend more on new facilities than the poorest 1,800 schools combined… fuelled by big increases in government funding.” (The Guardian, August 14). In other words, ScoMo and his Liberal mates give to those who already have.

It is Robin Hood in reverse - taking from the average Australian to give to the rich.

This looks like socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. Good to know that our hard-earned tax money goes to the elite in so-called “private” schools, generously overfunded by the state. Perhaps there is a reason why our children sit on plastic chairs while others have lavish leather sofas, huge swimming pools, tennis courts, etc.

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One should not believe that this has anything to do with education. Overfunding the elite will not lead to better educational outcomes. More tennis courts will not move Australia anywhere close to Finland, the recognised world leader in education. ScoMo will not do what Finland does. Finland’s teachers are well educated and well paid, Finnish schools are well-funded and funding is spread out to all schools. Overfunded “private” elite schools do not exist in Finland and they did not exist in Albert Einstein’s time. Perhaps they should not exist here either.

Thomas Coogee THE DENIGRATION OF SOUTH AFRICANS CONTINUES The satirical, tongue in cheek tone of your magazine is mostly entertaining and generally innocuous, however your editorial comment (Welcome Note, The Beast, October 2019) relating to the response of “irate South Africans” to Dan Wyllie’s comments in the September edition of The Beast have just added insult to injury.

In the October edition welcome note, your frivolous dismissal of readers’ comments by referring to Dan’s statements as “lighthearted banter”, and implying his comments shouldn’t be taken seriously as “political correctness is on hold”, is a cop out and a further denigration of those readers who wrote in.

Feeling offended by comments pertaining to race, religion, ethnicity, etc. has nothing to do with political correctness or not having a sense of humour.

To diminish the significance of the insidious dangers of allowing your publication to be a platform where it is okay to be offensive to a particular group of people is contrary to the spirit of a ‘fair go’, multiculturalism and non-discrimination - the bedrock values of our country.

I would have anticipated at least an acknowledgement of poor editorial judgement, if not a mea culpa regarding publishing

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Dan Wyllie’s insulting and damaging comments about his dislike of South Africans. Instead you have minimised the issue.

This is a serious matter and hopefully your sloppy editing doesn’t indicate a slippery slide into providing carte blanche for expressions of bigotry in The Beast. One of the reasons why I left South Africa was to escape this type of bigotry.

It wouldn’t surprise me if we next hear from Dan Wyllie that he didn’t mean any harm as “some of my best friends are...”

Charmaine Randwick NOT THE REAL DEAL Dan Wyllie suggested that he may get some payback for his comments about his hatred of South Africans and the “cultural seepage” caused by South Africans moving in to Randwick. He certainly deserves it.

I find these Trumpian comments abhorrent in the extreme.

Yes, I am a South African who emigrated to Australia in 1986. I love the country and what it has given me. Some of my ex-countrymen have come to this country with an entitled attitude and alienated locals like Mr Wyllie.

Many others, white, brown and black, are wonderful people who left the country because of their hatred of apartheid. They have integrated well in Australian society and their contributions to Australia are way in advance of their relatively small numbers here.

How disappointing and indeed offensive that this gentleman has dumped on an entire nation. How does he think Mexicans in the US felt when Donald Trump made similar comments about them?

As much as Mr Wyllie hates all South Africans I would venture to say that many locally born people would find his comments insufferably smug and arrogant and exemplifying the worst traits of the privileged class in this country.

In general, most residents of the Eastern Suburbs have

a lifestyle which cannot be emulated anywhere. We really need to accompany that with humility, tolerance and a lack of discrimination to other nations, religions and races. If this gentleman would care to meet with me I would be only too happy to discuss this matter further.

Geoff Mymin Vaucluse STOP YOUR WHINGING Hello James and Dan (and good health to you) - I have just been reading the October issue of The Beast... Wah, wah, wah! So much crying! From South Africans, I see, and also comments about poor dear Pearl’s lurid little articles.

May I just send some comments to all these lovely people who write irate letters: Please, relax, grow up and accept the opinions from letters and articles in The Beast sent by all the friendly readers in the Eastern Suburbs. If you disapprove, well, you can move on.

In our Eastern Suburbs we love everybody, even the creeps (bless them). I seem to recall an old adage that says something like, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” It is, simply, a matter of attitude. An easy and open mind. Or not.

Probably Mr Dan Wyllie (Dan Wyllie - The Real Deal, The Beast, September 2019) has met, regrettably, only unpleasant people from South Africa, like the whingers who cried in. The spate of letters which The Beast so honorably published in full demonstrate their unbiased honesty and rectitude to journalism.

That's why The Beast is such a lovely little winner in our midst.

I find political correctness to be narrow-minded and boring!

It is the curtain behind which insecure people hide. Come on! Let's celebrate, in the right frame, the freedom of words.

Hugs to all colour, creed, cooks and contributors reading The Beast.

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gestion around our popular beaches and the lack of a real nightlife. Everything is so heavily monitored and we’re unable to just enjoy being out in the evening like you can in most of the best European cities .

Do you have a favourite sporting team? I only follow the league and my team is the Roosters. I love union and soccer but I don’t watch it as often.

What music are you into at the moment? I’m into many beats so it’s hard to choose a favourite. It all depends on the mood and venue. I’m enjoying lounge music and reggaeton at the moment.

Who is your favourite person?

My godfather, who lives in Portugal, has always been a big part of my life and a great role model for me.

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Diogo Ferreira from Clovelly Interview and Photo James Hutton Clovelly’s Diogo Ferreira is the friendly face behind Village on Cloey and Tuga Pastries. He shares his local favourites with The Beast…

How long have you lived here?

I’ve lived in Clovelly for 14 years now, in the same apartment.

Why do you live here? I've got everything right on my doorstep. The best beach, the best café and the best pastry shop.

It’s like my own little village.

What's your favourite beach?

In the local area, Clovelly is my definite go-to. I love the fact that you can immerse yourself in deep water and not get covered in sand when you get out.

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What's your favourite eatery?

I’d love to be biased and say Village on Cloey, but that’s because I’d be cooking for myself.

Room Ten in Potts Point is a favourite for sure.

Where do you like to have a drink? I'm a simpleton so I love going to the Duke of Gloucester.

Best thing about the Eastern Suburbs? The best thing about Clovelly is that it’s not like any other suburb. It’s very much a locals’ area with a reasonable influx of tourists. The best thing about the east is the variety of beaches right on our doorstep.

Worst thing about the Eastern Suburbs? The summer con-

What do you get up to on the weekends? Unfortunately weekends are my busiest days with my business so I’m usually working. When I can escape I enjoy going out for a relaxing evening at a mate’s place or a quiet restaurant.

What do you do for work? I own two businesses, Village on Cloey and Tuga Pastries, both in the same building on Clovelly Road.

What's your favourite thing about work? I love to make and create, and I also enjoy having a chat with all the locals that come in to the café and the bakery.

Do you have a favourite quote?

“You only live once.”

Any other words of wisdom for readers of The Beast? Always smell the roses and remember what’s most important. Oh, and make sure to always eat cake!

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Newly appointed Protectors of the Realm.

A Changing of the Guard Words Siriol Dafydd Photo Elle Lection Buckle up kids, there’s a new Sheriff in town. Actually, there are three. A few weeks ago, our local councils saw new mayors and deputies elected across the board. Of course, you may have missed all of this for lack of ceremonial pomp. While a simple shift change in England requires obnoxiously large hats, a marching band and a load of regal tomfoolery, here in Australia we just prefer to get on with it.

Although we may not indulge in outlandish ceremonies, these are important changes that affect locals. So who are these mayors and deputies, what do they stand for and what can we expect from them?

At Waverley, Labor Councillor Paula Masselos was voted in as mayor and Greens Councillor Elaine Keenan was voted deputy. After serving seven years as a councillor, Mayor Masselos is the first woman of Greek heritage to be elected mayor of Waverley.

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five female mayors, and my election makes me the sixth, so I pay tribute to the women who have gone before me,” Mayor Masselos told The Beast.

“In the next 12 months we will continue to beautify our public places, protect our local neighbourhood centres and villages and fully engage in continuing to make our suburbs liveable and walkable.

I will continue to advocate for high quality and reliable public transport to help address the increasing congestion on our roads and streets.”

“People who know me can attest to my track record of fighting monstrous overdevelopment. I also have a commitment to support our businesses, and in particular our small, local neighbourhood businesses,” said Mayor Masselos.

Waverley Deputy Mayor Elaine Keenan has lived in Waverley for over 30 years.

“I am excited to be part of a progressive council team that has both the capacity and resources to make our community more liveable through increased action on climate change,” she said.

Over in Randwick, Labor Councillor Danny Said and Greens Councillor Philipa Veitch were elected mayor and deputy mayor respectively.

“I’ve lived in Randwick City for most of my life and raised my family here. I have a great passion for the area and am incredibly honoured to serve as mayor,” Mayor Said explained to The Beast.

“We’re facing some significant challenges over the next 12 months that we will need to address as a council, including the proposal to build a cruise ship terminal in Yarra Bay.” “We’re continuing to roll out our Smart City strategy too, which will make things like planning a trip to Coogee Beach and finding a park a little easier.”

Meanwhile, in Woollahra, Liberal Councillor Susan Wynne was elected as mayor with Councillor Richard Shields, also of the Liberal Party, as deputy.

“As a Woollahra resident for more than 20 years and a Councillor for the past 11, I’m honoured to have been elected as Mayor,” Mayor Wynne told The Beast.

“Striking the right balance for residents and locals and visitors who wish to enjoy a night out and ensuring our commercial hubs continue to thrive will be areas of focus over the next 12 months, and I am also looking forward to working alongside local groups to create deeper community connections.”

As we welcome the new kids on the block we would also like to take a minute to thank the previous mayors, John Wakefield, Kathy Neilson and Peter M Cavanagh, for their service to the local area. They have all been a pleasure to work with and we wish them all the very best for the future.

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Oodles of noodles.

Delightful Delicacies from Countless Countries Words Siriol Dafydd Photo Aku Lapar Great news for Asian food lovers, or indeed lovers of food in general, the Kingsford Noodle Markets are back again this year. On Saturday, November 16, Kingsford’s Meeks Street will be transformed into a lantern garden and bustling marketplace filled to the brim with sensational cuisine from Indonesia, Japan, China, Malaysia, Vietnam and more.

Along with delightful delicacies from countless countries, this year Randwick Council and Kingsford Chamber of Commerce have joined forces to bring you a fabulous mix of performers and entertainment. From lion dancers and cultural performances to free workshops and karaoke, there will be no shortage of things to see and do. There will also be a few competitions throughout the day for those who want to get involved and test some skills they never even knew they had.

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you always dreamed about taking on your friends, and strangers, in a serious chopstick competition? Well, this is your chance.

But of course, nobody goes to a noodle market purely for the entertainment, so let’s get down to the real business of food. The event is designed to showcase the best that Kingsford has to offer. Many local restaurants will take part and their super talented chefs will be delighted to cook their signature dishes from scratch right in front of you. Walking past endless stalls of fresh produce exuding truly fabulous aromas will be enough to make your mouth water and your tummy grumble. Satay, sushi, noodles, dumplings, pancakes and ice-cream... a selection of delicacies from Kingsford’s best restaurants.

Seriously, are you dribbling yet?

For those of you who are tempted to try something from every stall, you’re in luck, because this year’s event will

run from 12 noon until 9pm.

If you’re smart about it, you could probably spread your ginormous food-binge over two (or maybe even three) meals to make it seem a bit more socially acceptable. With so much entertainment on offer and a fantastic atmosphere all-round, it’s a perfect day out for the whole family, not just you and your bursting belly.

Last year’s event drew some solid crowds, so the organisers recommend catching public transport where possible. There are bus stops along Rainbow Street and Anzac Parade that are just a short walk from Meeks Street.

We’ve given you plenty of notice here, so there’s still ample time to hit up the gym, trot up and down the coastal path or do whatever you need to do to make room for an endless supply of fresh, delicious and authentic Asian delights at the Kingsford Noodle Markets on Saturday, November 16.

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Trackwork.

Bits and Pieces from Around the Beaches Words Dan Hutton Photo Juan A. Rojas WONDERLAND ART FESTIVAL Presented by Tamarama Surf Club, the Wonderland Art Festival is Sydney’s newest art event.

The event will be showcased in the main hall of the club, right on the doorstep of Tamarama Beach, so come and browse great art direct from some of the very best emerging artists. The festival will run concurrently with Sculpture by the Sea from Wednesday, November 6 until Friday, November 8 and funds raised during the event will help the club’s renovation campaign.

Artists are warmly encouraged to apply and can do so by calling Tracy on 0405 156 538 or emailing tracyrockwell@iinet.net.au.

GET IN THE OCEAN Interested in rough water swimming? Bondi Amateur Swimming Club is the best place to start. Join the club this summer for some much-needed fitness, a bit of community spirit and, if your ego can handle it, bring

along the kids and learn how to accept the embarrassment of being whipped in the handicapped races. Social racing and a free Learn to Swim program kick off in November and you can join the crew at Bondi Icebergs any Saturday morning from 9.15am or come and have a chat and a trial. For more information, please visit www.bondiASC.org or email bondiASC@gmail.com.

FESTIVILION Friends of Bondi Pavilion are proud to present FESTIVILION: A Community and Cultural Arts Festival at Bondi Pavilion on Saturday, November 16 from midday until late. Supported by Waverley Council, the festival will feature live music from Rose Bay Rocks, Bondi Wave bands, Bondi Choirs and an open microphone session, plus performances and demonstrations from Bondi Dance Company, Capoeira and Patio de Tango. There will also be visual art workshops, a

chai chill tent, a fantastic feast of food and drinks, local community culture and much more. For more information, please visit www.friendsofbondipavilion. org.au.

BONDI BLOCKBUSTER Award-winning local author Libby Sommer’s much awaited Stories from Bondi was recently released by Ginninderra Press.

The book features 19 contemporary stories set mostly in and around Bondi. Author Susanne Gervay, OAM, sings the book’s praises. “From the opening story, Art and the Mermaid, to a moving piece set in a health retreat that closes the collection, these stories beautifully capture the intimacies of women,” she explained. “Like My Year With Sammy and The Crystal Ballroom, this is classic Sommer.”

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Carving up the competition.

Award Sharpens Bonnie’s Butcher Skills Words Duncan Horscroft Photo Dave Lucas After beginning her career as a trainee chef, Bonnie Corban soon discovered she had a flair for butchery and has moved on to become an apprentice at the family-owned Lucas Meats in Bronte.

Many would think that a female couldn’t make the cut in such a male-dominated industry, but Bonnie has proved the sceptics wrong by becoming the Australian Meat Industry 2019 Apprentice of the Year for NSW. During her seven years in the kitchen, Bonnie said she had a flair for butchery and scored her highest cookery test results in that department, so it was a natural transition from the stove to the butcher’s block.

“Having the previous knife skills and cooking knowledge helped me tremendously when making the switch,” Bonnie told The Beast.

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“Going from one maledominated industry to another wasn’t that much of a jump. I didn’t feel out of place, but I had to prove to myself that I was able to do it.”

“My skills were hand-inhand perfect to begin a career in butchery. After I completed my three-month trial, I eagerly signed the apprenticeship papers.”

The Apprentice of the Year competition was a full-day event held at Granville TAFE and Bonnie was one of 16 top apprentices from NSW, comprising six young women and ten men.

“Our criteria was very strict.

They expected excellence within a tight time limit,” she said.

“My TAFE teacher John and (Lucas) store manager Chris really helped me refine my skills for the competition.”

“We had to complete a twohour mystery-box challenge, a theory test and another twohour practical test. It was all marked and assessed by industry professionals and judges.”

“I am very proud of winning first place, I feel like it’s an amazing way to start out my career as a qualified butcher holding that title.”

Bonnie grew up with the smell of blood and bone. Both of her parents worked in the meat industry and her father still works as a butcher on the Central Coast.

“From the age of five I took a real interest in my dad’s work,” she explained.

“One of my favourite memories as a child was visiting his workplaces. I would insist on seeing the full bodies of animals in the cool rooms.”

“I’m yet to work a full day in a shop with my dad. Maybe one day we can have a little competition between ourselves. It’s definitely brought us closer together having the same career.”

She said the boys at Lucas Meats have been very supportive and she was lucky to learn some trade secrets and methods from old hands Rex and Graeme, and 30-year-old store manager Chris.

“The Lucas Meats staff are like my family, they have always taken care of me and the level of respect between us all is what I admire most,” she said.

Away from the cool room, Bonnie’s other passion is creating special-effects makeup and she has also received recognition in that field.

“I’ve had my body paint and prosthetic work published, I’ve assisted on many movie sets in the makeup department such as Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge and I’ve also competed in national competitions over the past couple of years for specialised makeup,” she said.

It’s racing season and they’re under starters orders, whether it’s a live sports entertainment venue to watch all the race action or just a place to have a celebratory drink and a meal after a win it’s all on the parade.

A great entertainment venue with plenty to see and do The Juniors Kingsford offers a variety of options for everyone to enjoy. With big screens, live shows and three restaurants there’s so much to choose from throughout the year.

The club prides itself on bringing people together.

stroll from Royal Randwick race course, The Doncaster Hotel still retains beautiful heritage-listed features within its spacious modern interiors spanning several levels including an outdoor dining terrace. Drop in after the races and experience the party atmosphere as the DJ plays on.

Named after one of Australia’s most famous horse races and a short

Offering live sporting events on the big screens Churchills Sports Bar satisfies locals and

sports mad fans alike. The bistro provides a selection of quality pub meals such as steaks, pizza, burgers and schnitzels. There’s also free customer parking available for up to 40 vehicles.

Relax in the beer garden, play pool or board games and enjoy the live sports.

These are just some of the options at The Regent Hotel, a friendly local pub with deals on throughout the week.

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Potential recruits.

International Crime Syndicates to Target Your Children During Halloween Satire Kieran Blake, kieranblake13@yahoo.com.au Photo Stan Doverman Eastern Suburbs parents have reacted with horror to news that international crime syndicates will use this year’s Halloween festivities to recruit local children into their organisations.

Parent chat groups and school pick up zones transformed into hotbeds of gossip as parents learned that members of criminal gangs will attempt to lure their children into their organisations during the annual Trick or Treat.

“Trick or Treat teaches children extortion,” read a statement from an anonymous gang member on an encrypted site on the dark web.

“Children learn to threaten people by saying ‘Give me what I want or I will harm you and your family,’ and this is exactly the kind of behaviour we look for in our organisations.”

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as diverse as the Triads, the Yakuza, the Sinaloa Cartel, the Italian Mafia, the New York Mafia, the Russian Mafia and every person who has ever featured on an episode of Underbelly.

Talent scouts from all corners of the globe will descend upon the region and disguise themselves as supportive parents during the supposedly innocent activity, dressed as anything from Barney Rubble to Elsa.

The gang members and their associates will seek out the children with the largest haul of treats and will pay particular attention to kids with sugary pills, pops or white powder.

They will also take a close interest in the methods children use to secure their prize.

“Threats, blackmail, physical force and violence are effective methods in the conduct of our business, as is the ability to ‘negotiate’ an increase in the amount of goods offered. Don’t forget, charm and cuteness also get results, and never underestimate the power of a wailing

child in full sugar-induced tantrum - these are the kids we want.”

The anonymous ‘businessman’ also reminded his associates to assess the child’s ability to endure the sight of blood, guts and dead bodies, and to defend their territory at all costs.

“If two kids arrive as Owlette or Buzz Lightyear, we want the one who forces the other to run home crying to mummy.”

Recruitment officers are also being ordered to approach children whose faces are not covered in food dye or white powder.

“Smart businesspeople don’t sample the merchandise, they on-sell it in the playground or the park a few weeks later.

It’s simple business: acquire the goods through any means necessary (for free), then onsell the product for 100 per cent profit and pay no tax - just like the multinational companies which paid for the mansions that house these little Halloween monsters.”

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More Bits and Pieces from Around the Beaches Words Dan Hutton Photo Christina Butler DAD AND DAUGHTER DUO RIDING WAVES FOR DEMENTIA Peter Clemesha and his daughter Ali have teamed up to surf in the 10th Wipeout Dementia event alongside 1978 World Surfing Champion Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew at Bondi Beach on November 22. The pair will be surfing in honour of Peter’s uncle Allan, who passed away from Alzheimer’s disease. Peter and Ali have shared a love of surfing since Ali could walk and are dedicated to raising funds for dementia research at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA). If you’d like to support their cause, please donate at cheba2.everydayhero.com/au/ ali-clemesha-1.

WIN WITH WASTE-ART Turning litter into art could earn Eastern Suburbs high school art and design classes a share in a $5,000 prize being offered by TOMRA, the recycling people, as part of the Bondi Ocean Lovers Festival ‘Litterarty’ competition.

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Registration is now open and entries are due by December 5.

Environmental award-winning artist John Dahlsen will provide a free presentation on November 1 for registered schools and finalists will be exhibited in March as part of the festival from March 19 to 22 at Bondi Pavilion. Visit www.oceanloversfestival.com.

BAYSIDE WOMEN'S SHELTER SEEKS RENTAL PARTNER Bayside Women’s Shelter, a best practice establishment in SouthEast Sydney providing shortterm accommodation for women and children leaving domestic violence, is seeking a rental partner for 2020. The house provides shelter for six women and their children for up to three months.

During their stay, women are given access to counselling and casework services including legal, financial and employment support. Commercial rent of $49,500 is paid on the property and the shelter is looking for a generous sponsor to come

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MAROUBRA MAN ACHIEVES ULTRAMARATHON FIRST Imagine running 555 kilometres through the Himalayas of northern India in temperatures ranging from -25 to 40 degrees over five and a half days with an average elevation of 4,400 metres and including five mountain peaks with an elevation of 5,500 metres above sea level.

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High Society Photographic and video artist Leila Jeffreys' first major exhibition in Australia for five years, High Society, will be showing until November 10 at Olsen Gallery, 63 Jersey Road, Woollahra. To check out Leila's incredible work, please visit www.leilajeffreys.com.

Melbourne Cup Day Get down to your favourite pub and gamble away as much of your hard-earned cash as possible on 'the race that stops a nation'. The Melbourne Cup is our most famous thoroughbred horse race and Racing NSW's feeble attempts to outdo it are an embarrassment to the sport.

Wonderland Art Festival Sydney's newest art event, the Wonderland Art Festival, will be held at Tamarama Surf Club from today until November 8.

Come and browse great art direct from some of the very best emerging artists. Funds raised during the event will help the club's renovation campaign.

Resilience in a Changing World Join Integrative and Transformational Coach Saulan Yin-Lo for a practical and interactive talk discussing ways to take new challenges in your stride with less stress and more confidence. It's on today from 10.30am-12pm at Lionel Bowen Library, Maroubra.

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 food is bloody delicious! For more information and other specials, visit www.clovellyhotel.com.au.

Learn Something New Based in the Eastern Suburbs, City East Community College offers a huge range of courses for people wishing to learn a new skill or try something different. For the course list and more information, please visit cec.edu.au and use discount code 'BEAST' for 10% off.

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, visit randwick.nsw.gov.au.

A Bit of Cricket History On this day in 1936, Don Bradman scored 192 runs for South Australia against Victoria before a piddly crowd of 21,000 at the MCG. And, in 1981, Australia bowled Pakistan out for just 62 runs at the WACA, with paceman Dennis Lillee bowling an incredible 5-18.

Mates and Dates Make your way down to Beach Burrito Co. in Coogee and treat yourself and a mate to any two burritos plus chips and guac for only $25 on Mondays.

There's no longer any excuse to neglect your better half. For more information, please visit beachburritocompany.com.

I Am Someone This stunning series of emotive portraits of farmed animals by photographer Gary Sheppard aims to challenge and reconstruct society’s perception of farmed animals. It's on from today until December 1 at Bondi Pavilion Gallery. Proceeds go to Where Pigs Fly Farm Sanctuary.

Food Addicts Meetings This evening, 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.

Please call 1800 717 446 or visit www.foodaddicts.org.

Culture and Conversation Join YARN Australia for an evening of stories, songs and conversation around the theme 'Caring for Country' at the Margaret Whitlam Centre from 7pm. Hosted by Transition Bondi, the event will include a three-course plant-based feast.

Visit www.transitionbondi.org.

Queens Park Specials The generous folk at Queens Park Kitchen are offering free regular coffees with your bacon and egg roll each morning from 8-10am, as well as a lunch special that includes a beer, burger and chips for only $19 every Thursday to Saturday from 124pm. Bloody excellent!

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.

Interactive Science Expo Experience the wonders of scientific discovery through tactile models and hands-on activities.

This event is accessible to audiences with visual or hearing impairments. Sign in begins at 9.30am in the Wallace Wurth Building at UNSW. Register at www.eventbrite.com.au.

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Sculpture by the Sea Sculpture by the Sea is back again on the stretch of coastal walk between Bondi and Tamarama, with a better line-up of artists and sculptures than ever before. The exhibition runs from October 24-November 10.

For more information, please visit sculpturebythesea.com.

Conquer Cryptic Crosswords Join cryptic lord Ralph Penglis in this workshop designed for beginners, as well as those who have some prior experience and would like to sharpen their skills, today from 1-3pm at Margaret Martin Library in Royal Randwick Shopping Centre, Randwick.

Australia v Pakistan Get down to the SCG today from 2.30pm to watch the Aussie men in action in the Gillette T20 INTL series versus Pakistan. As people's attention spans have gotten shorter, cricket has adapted better than any other sport. Get your tickets at sydneycricketground.com.au.

H.M.S. Pinafore Maverick director Kate Gaul makes her Hayes Theatre Co debut with this re-imagined, gender-bending, hypertheatrical and kinky take on this Gilbert & Sullivan classic.

Performances will kick off from this evening. To buy tickets, visit www.hayestheatre.com.au.

UNTHINKABLE The UNSW Centre for Ideas and Carriageworks are proud to announce UNTHINKABLE, a new series of talks exploring the questions we haven’t asked, the futures we can avoid, and the inevitability of unexpected realities, from November 7-9. Visit centreforideas.com/unthinkable.

Return to Rio Del Rio Riverside Resort at Wisemans Ferry will host this annual gathering of magic, mischief and mayhem from November 8-10. The Martinez Brothers will be headlining the weekend’s festivities with three massive stages of music. Book at www.returntorio.com.

Rosé in the Garden The Golden Sheaf and Veuve Clicquot present Rosé RendezVous every evening from 4-6pm throughout November.

There's never been a better excuse to enjoy a glass of Veuve in Double Bay's finest establishment. For more information, visit thegoldensheaf.com.au.

Kingsford Noodle Markets Restaurants from Kenso and Kingsford put their best dishes on show from midday until 9pm today at Meeks Street, Kingsford. Expect a day filled with entertainment, tradition and great food presented by Randwick Council and the Kingsford Chamber of Commerce.

Best Gift Market Randwick Council's Best Gift Market will be taking place today at Coogee Beach from 9am-3pm. This year there will be over a hundred local artisans, creatives, homecrafters and designers selling handmade, sustainable and ethical Christmas gifts.

The Joshua Tree Tour Don't miss your chance to see U2 live at the Sydney Cricket Ground tonight and tomorrow as part of their The Joshua Tree tour. It's a while since the Irishmen have visited our shores and they're not getting any younger. Tickets are available online through Ticketek.

Learn French Cooking Learn how to cook French classics at a new cooking school in Bondi Junction. Join Alison at Williams-Sonoma and master a filet mignon with peppercorn sauce and a pear tart tatin today from 2-5pm or November 28 from 5.30-7.30pm. Visit www.frenchfoodcoach.com.au.

Elecronic Waste Drop-Off Day You can drop off your e-waste for free today from 9am-3pm at Waverley Council's Alexandria Integrated Facility, 67a Bourke Road, Alexandria and they willl make sure it's recycled safely and responsibly. For more information, please visit www.waverley.nsw.gov.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 information, visit www.waverley.nsw.gov.au.

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BONDI BORN AND BRED Interview James Hutton Pictures Paul McMillan Instagram @paulmcmillanphoto

Many of our readers would know Jane Turner as the friendly face behind Bondi's iconic bookshop and café, Gertrude & Alice, which she has been running now for nearly two decades. We've always thought the world of Jane, so we decided to interview her for the cover of this month's magazine. We're glad we did...

How are you this morning Jane?

Fine thank you, having survived the photo shoot.

What are your favourite childhood memories? I was born and bred here in Bondi. I went to Bondi Public School on Wellington Street and then on to Sydney Girls High School. We grew up on Bondi Road, opposite Waverley Council in the big terrace houses there. Some early memories were learning to swim at Bondi Baths.

Some days the waves would be crashing wildly over the edge and they’d still throw you in to the deep end to sink or swim. I loved summer days at the beach bodysurfing on my dad's back and weekends with my cousins and grandparents at Bundanoon milking cows and riding on the hay bale tractor.

When we used to walk home from school up Bondi Road there was a little lolly shop on the corner of Penkivil Street. It was owned by this lovely old lady named Miss Turner and I used to tell all the kids that she was my grandmother. That white lie came unstuck when they’d pressure me to get free lollies. Around our area at home there was a little gang of kids and we’d meet up every afternoon. My best friend Mary had the shop next door and we used to get cardboard from the drink boxes and scoot down

the hills at Waverley Park. We would get into trouble from the rangers for leaving the cardboard behind. There were about ten of us and we just had to make our own fun. The only rule was to be home before the lights went on.

Are those kids still around? You know, I am still great friends with half a dozen people I went to kindergarten with and we catch up as often as we can, even though only three of us are still around Bondi. Mary is still my best friend and we see each other often. She lives in Cronulla and is godmother to my son Jordan.

Mary's family is Greek and I feel so lucky to have grown up with her family and so many other cultural influences in my life. I love how they have such a rich history and life revolves around family, entertaining and food. I'm so lucky to have had those friends in my life and for the many gifts that their friendships have brought me. They really made me who I am.

What did your parents do for a crust? I think my mum had a lot of different jobs but she was a personal assistant to a handbag designer as we got older. Dad was the general manager of the Glebe Island Wheat Terminal, so we used to visit there a lot. Driving over that bridge now always makes me think of him because when he had to work weekends we'd go and visit him quite often.

I don't know that parents were too involved in the school but I can remember my mum doing tuck shop and things like that.

I don't think they were born in Bondi but they went to Wellington Street School as well, both of them.

Most people would know you from your shop, Gertrude & Alice; were you interested in business from a young age? No, not really.

I was always fascinated by Mary’s shop and I loved working behind the counter with her in the afternoons, so maybe that had more influence on me than I realised at the time. When I left school I actually did nursing for a couple of years and ended up on some tough wards, for a young girl just out of school. I went to work for a newspaper, book and magazine distribution company called T.B Clarke and they distributed around the world. We used to sell the Australian Women's Weekly cookbooks overseas, which was a huge market share back in the late '80s. I looked after the Asia and Pacific Islands market. As my daughter Kate was only very little at the time, it meant short trips away if I had to travel.

Sometimes in the school holidays she would travel with me. We ended up having big growth in Fiji and we ended up living there for nearly nine years.

Where abouts? We lived in Lautoka and Nadi and travelled around the islands a lot. I got married while I was there and my son Jordan is half Fijian. Our time there was a huge part of our lives. We started children's book clubs in schools, put good quality books into school libraries and stopped Fiji being used as a dumping ground for low quality, crappy books. I believe that we really made a huge difference and I'm very proud of the changes that we were able to make. My brother Stephen lived there too and ran one of the earliest surf companies, Surf Fiji, but that was maybe 35 years ago now.

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What gave you the idea to start Gertrude & Alice, and how did that all unfold? When I got back from Fiji I went back to T.B. Clark for a while. Jordan was only about one when we came back, so I was pretty burnt out.

We'd worked really hard so I took a redundancy package from T.B. Clark and went to work in a little second hand bookshop in Glebe and met my friend Katerina, who had said she wanted to go and do her own bookshop cafĂŠ and asked whether I'd be interested in doing it with her. I said, "Well, I really don't know anything about the cafĂŠ side of things but I definitely could have a go at setting up a bookshop," so she put the cafĂŠ together and I put the bookshop together and we opened at 40 Hall Street in 2001.

It was a surf shop beforehand?

It was a surf shop before. I don't know what his name was but I remember he wanted to go and we just paid him, I don't know, maybe a thousand dollars for all the fittings. The counter that we had was a beautiful old wooden surf counter with the old... it had a logo on there, whatever it was, Quicksilver I think.

Was it always the plan to open the shop in Bondi, or could it have been anywhere? No, we were actually trying to do one in Darlinghurst. We had all the shelving and everything made for this one but then the deal fell through. We'd given up our jobs and we wanted to get it happening so we could have an income.

We'd put all the money that we had into the shop and we really needed to find somewhere. When the Darlinghurst one fell through, one of my girlfriends who owned some property around here said, "Oh, I heard that this guy wants to get out and maybe you can, you know, go and have a chat to him," so we sat around on Hall Street just watching the foot traffic and thinking, "Oh yeah, that person might come in and buy a book," and then we just sort of thought that this might be the go. It was kind of busy then

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like it still is now, in terms of foot traffic. Of course, for me, living in Bondi, it was heaven to be able to live and work in my local area.

And Katerina, your business partner, she only stayed for seven months? She did. I think both of us, when we opened the shop, we were married and about six weeks after opening the shop our marriages fell apart around the same time.

The shop's fault? Yeah, we do blame the shop, but she ended up working on her marriage and she also wanted to concentrate more on her writing. She was a very talented writer, she's published three books now I think, so it was a bit different for her. She went back to work on her marriage and I was a single mum with two kids so I had to make it work. I had a great belief in the shop at the time. I thought we had only just touched the surface. We used to get a lot offers all the time about buying the shop but I just wasn't ready to do it, I wanted to see what it could do.

"Even though you have ever-changing faces among the locals, in amongst that there are some people who care very deeply about what happens here."

Can you reflect on the changes that have taken place in Bondi since you were a little girl? Look, I think it goes through cycles. I think that sometimes it sort of loses its way a little bit and we go away from the things that are important to us as a community. But somehow it sort of seems to right itself at certain times. It's pretty tough out there at the moment, there's a lot of businesses doing it harder than we ever have before because, you know, the changes to online buying, we no longer use

grocery stores to do our shopping, we don't go to the butchers, everyone delivers now, so it definitely is going through some changes and I think Bondi needs to diversify a little bit more so we get that sense of community back. Because that's what rights us, when we all work as a community.

Is that sense of community still strong? I think it is still strong.

Even though you have everchanging faces among the locals, in amongst that there are some people who care very deeply about what happens here. If you look at what's happening with the post office, there's just always a small group of people that fight for what they believe in, things like not having huge developments in Bondi, not changing the whole look and feel of the place. You don't want it to be like the Gold Coast with high-rise everywhere. You want it to retain its sense of localness and community because that's what it is.

I think I get really upset about things when, you know, as a local, James, you get to have Bondi to yourself in winter time and it's just lovely. You can park, you can eat, you don't have to queue for anything, and then for around six months of the year we have to give all that up. We pay to live here as locals and yet you only can fully enjoy your area for part of the year and that sort of gets my goat a bit.

Do you think Airbnb has had a massive impact? A lot of places that would have previously had families living in them are now just being let year-round to holiday renters... I don't know too much about it. I know that it probably benefits us in some way because those people will eat out, it's just a base for them. They like to explore the local community, so in some way that works for local businesses. Because Bondi has become so expensive to live it's moved a lot of the families west. I think that's where you find a big difference, when the families sort of have to move out because they can't afford to

live here. Families with young children tend to care a lot about where they live and what happens in their community. I think that's what rights us sometimes, when the families sort of find their way back and we work as a team.

You're still happy in Bondi?

You would happily stay here forever? Yes I am happy here. It's mine and my children's home.

However, I no longer think that I will stay here forever. Hopefully my daughter Kate will take over the day-to-day running of the business, which she almost does solely now anyway, and while Jordan helps me manage the bookshop he also has his own business. He's a fashion blogger and his Instagram is @mrturner.

He is definitely the creative side of our family. I think a tree change is what I'm seeking and I think I might head to the country. Good air, slower pace. Slow it down a little maybe.

"I'd have to say that the key to success is the support from your local community, because you're only as good as your last coffee, James."

How has the Adina development on Hall Street impacted businesses and local residents? I think it's been positive, although a lot of the locals probably won't say that, but it has been of a benefit to us because people will venture out of their rooms and have that connection in coffee shops or in restaurants.

Obviously a lot of people from overseas come in. We get a lot of people from Hong Kong that say books are so expensive in Hong Kong, they just come and buy so many books to take back, so that's been a huge benefit to us. We also supply morning teas to the conference room, always

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trying to keep it local. It's been great to have Harris Farm there and some of the restaurants are great too.

Those sort of days get my goat a little bit when you're stuck in traffic for an hour and it's normally a five-minute trip.

Do you have any favourite local haunts, other than Gertrude & Alice of course? I try not to spend time there when I'm not working.

I'm not a big drinker, James, although my children make up for my non-drinking. I treat myself nowadays with things like getting my hair done or having a facial up at Sage in North Bondi.

I love Junia and her team, they are lovely up there. I miss being able to grab a salmon on the way home from Fishmonger's. It's moved up to Beach Road now.

I love Totti's. I love eating at Peppe's on Bondi Road, owned

by Joe and Grace who used to work with us. I think Botanica restaurant at Vaucluse is the whole package, and for weekend coffee when I don’t want to go to Gertrude & Alice I’ll head to Ruby's Diner in Charing Cross for a dingo coffee.

How would you feel about a train to Bondi Beach? I haven't given it very much thought.

Did Kelly do your hair? Yeah, Kelly from Toni&Guy did it, and helped me because I don't even own any lipstick! She said I had to give it back but I said I quite liked it so I might just keep it.

Swap it for a coffee... Yeah. I love the Icebergs, we had a beautiful dinner at the Icebergs when I won that Businesswoman of the Year award and they gave me a $400 voucher, so we had a lovely meal, the four of us, it was really nice.

You can have a bloody good afternoon there for 400 bucks!

Does anything annoy you about the area? Maybe just back to the fact that it's only available to us at winter time, as a true home, you know? That you sort of have to compete with things over the summer. While I get that the beach is very advantageous in it's way, I just think there has to be some sort of balance. Not being able to drive in here during Sculpture by the Sea and Festival of the Winds can be frustrating but that's only one day I suppose.

I'm scared to even ask that question because people are so staunchly against it... You know, James, having grown up on Bondi Road, it was always bumper to bumper.

Even when you were little? Even when I was little.

That's interesting... But there were trams when I was little, I think, because I remember seeing the tramlines there for a long time. My mum and dad used to speak quite fondly about the trams. I need to know more about it before I have an opinion, but we do have to do something.

The Bondi Road monorail? Good god.

How challenging were the early years at Gertrude & Alice?

Katerina had run a café, but we had never done a café bookstore. Back when we opened in the beginning of 2001 there was nothing like it. Back in that day we were very unique. It was definitely Katerina's vision more than mine, I was just happy to go along for the ride and happy that she gave me the opportunity to be involved because I certainly didn't have the money to put in that she did.

Does she still come in to the shop sometimes? They live on the Sunshine Coast now, she does her writing and they live off the grid. They just bought a new property and it looks amazing. I'll be visiting very soon.

Is it true that you both had over 40,000 books in each of your houses at one stage? We did, yes. I think there's somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000 in the shop now.

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That's a lot of books... We had to work because we were both still working full-time. I trawled many charity shops on my way home and then I'd do garage sales on the weekends, so every bit of spare money we had was put into stocking the shop.

The business is a great success story, especially considering the way businesses come and go on this street; how have you been able to survive when so many other businesses, particularly bookstores, have disappeared?

I'd have to say that the key to success is the support from your local community, because you're only as good as your last coffee, James.

You're still bloody good then...

You have to constantly try new things and be innovative - adding alcohol licences, for example and not assume that the books that sold well ten years ago are going to sell nowadays. I also think it's just the way we've looked after people. Some of the customers have been there since the beginning and we're 19 years old now. Young Ella, who works for us now, she used to come in to the shop in a stroller and now she does Saturdays and Sundays with us and is doing her HSC. She's been a customer right back from early on, as has Zak, who also works for us on the weekends.

Dan and I used to sit in that little window seat in the original shop fifteen years ago when we were working out how we were going to start this bloody magazine... I still remember the day I met you guys. I remember that very, very well. I remember you asking me and I just remember saying, "Do your research, there's definitely a market for something."

How would you describe the current business climate? We speak with a lot of small businesses each month and I feel like it's a challenging time for small businesses... Yeah, I talk about this a lot to businesspeo-

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ple and I think, for us, we really noticed the change around the elections in May. People will always tighten their belts around election time, and then straight after the election we had financial year end, which is another belt tightening time. And then there was something else after that too.

I think people just got used to not spending. This is the first time in 19 years that we've really noticed people are not spending as much as they used to, they're just being a lot more careful with their money. People say, "Oh, maybe it's Kindles or online businesses," but I don't think that's what it is because we're selling more books than we ever have before. I don't think that the hardcopy book will ever go away. I mean, what can you do with $4 coffees, James?

It's very hard to keep putting prices up in line with what happens in the market. I talk to lots of local cafĂŠs about this. The cost of wages is a huge thing. Insurance costs as well. I mean, all the extra parts of the business, the extras are just really hurting.

" I wish I could, James, but I just accept that it's not one of my strengths.

Being a good reader doesn't make you a good writer."

How do you feel about penalty rates? Well, it's so hard, you know, we're a service business so we like to open every day of the year except Christmas Day, that's how we look after our customers.

It's getting harder and harder to open on public holidays and it means the kids and I have to work every single public holiday to avoid losing money. Lots of cafĂŠ owners have said to me recently that they're going to close on public holidays and we may be close to doing that too. I think that the public will be disadvantaged by that. Something has to change.

You'd have to have one of the lowest staff turnovers of any cafĂŠ in the area; is there a secret to that, other than just being nice to them? I don't think I'm that nice really.

They're scared to leave? I always tell Dan that it's like the Hotel California: 'You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.'

How long has Dan been working there for now? Dan's been there ten years now. He's very well loved by the locals, he's like the king of the kids. The kids just love Dan, they sit up with him and turn the coffee grinder on and pretend they're making coffee. That's the fun part of what we do, to watch the kids grow up, start school...

And start working for you...

That's right, put them to work.

Do you think franchise businesses, as opposed to independently owned businesses, detract from the character of the shopping strip? I think too many of them can. I've always had this vision that you'd like Bondi to be a lot more of a 'village' type area. You know, where there's little markets and different types of shops.

But there's hardly any shops now, they've all been driven out because of high rents. I think that at some point, with commercial leases, the landlords are going to have to have a look at the situation and just say, "Listen, we have to cut these guys a bit of a break." It's happened in Paddington and there's still a lot of empty shops, yet Double Bay has somehow resurrected itself.

Can you tell us your favourite five books of all time? Oh, yes, I can. I think A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is my very favourite, and I don't know how many hundreds and hundreds of this book we've sold, because obviously when I talk about it so much all of the staff have read it, and they loved it too. We were so lucky because she was shortlisted

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for the Booker Prize. She didn't win it but quite often I think the shortlist are better than the winner, in my opinion. When my children and I went on a holiday in Tasmania, my son, who's an Instagram influencer, whatever they do, took photos everywhere of him reading her book, and she was replying to him. He said, "If you ever come to Bondi, would you come to the bookshop and do a signing?" She said, "Yeah, of course." Lots of people say that but they never do, but then when she did come and did a tour here she came and told her publicist, "I'm going to Gertrude & Alice," and they went, "Oh, that's just a little bookshop, you can't go there. You need to go to these big ones," like Dymocks and everything. And she said, "I'm going there." She went for a swim at Icebergs, she spent the whole day here, signed a few hundred books. We were like, fangirling over her. She was here to speak at the Sydney Writer's Festival and we went to all of her talks. She ran out of the line and came and talked with us and met my son, who was the one who ultimately brought her here. It's an amazing book and that's my favourite.

One of my other favourites is A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. It's about India and the class system and I just loved all the characters and those people stayed with me. I still worry about them. A book I read in high school and I'm too scared to read again, but I have to say it's my favourite book of all time, it's called The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. It changed me as a person at the time. I'm a Tim Winton fan, a big Tim Winton fan, and I really loved The Shepherd's Hut. This one was one of my favourite reads. And I think I'll throw in a classic and say In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

Do you write? I can't write. I am in awe of people who can write.

I have a lot of helpers in the café that help me write. I wish I could, James, but I just accept that it's not one of my strengths. Being a good reader doesn't make you

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a good writer. If I have to write something I'll get Katerina or Lucy or someone in the shop to help me. Maybe when I retire I'll have a bit of a go at it.

Any up and coming local authors that we need to keep an eye out for? We have started a book club at the shop, it's call The Bondi Literary Salon. We try to have local authors as well as wellknown authors. We've got Kate McClymont coming up later in October but this magazine won't be out by then. I just finished her book, Dead Man Walking, and there's just something about the way she writes and does her research. I started the Eddie Obeid book straight after that because I'm fascinated with Kate and how brave and fearless she is as an investigative journalist.

We also have Tom Cronin, who runs The Stillness Project, and his new book, The Portal. I finally got Markus Zusak, who is the author of Bridge of Clay and The Book Thief. I've been trying to get Markus to talk at the shop for two years now, he will be talking on November 20. I'm very, very excited about that.

"I don't know that I would call myself a leader but I try to get involved in the things that matter."

Where do most of your book donations come from? We've been so fortunate in the last six months that most of the books that have come into the shop have been from people who are happy to donate them, and those donations have helped us through tougher times in the last six months, James. I'm really grateful, it's made such a difference to our bottom line in tough times.

You've been described as a "community leader"; what qualities have earned you this descrip-

tion? I do have a huge care factor about my local community and the people in it. I don't know that I would call myself a leader but I try to get involved in the things that matter. I try to support other people's initiatives. I try to follow things that are important to me, you know, some of the projects like Tim with Take 3 for the Sea and Sarah Wilson's zero waste philosophy. Our café has taken a very strong stance on single-use take away coffee cups and we encourage the use of reusable keep cups. When we tried to initiate this a few years ago customers were completely resistant.

Now they’re totally on board and supportive of it and have fully embraced it.

Technology has had a massive impact on the way we write and consume writing; how do you feel about these changes that have occurred? Ultimately, I think they are changes for the better because it means we can have information at our fingertips all the time, but the downside to it is that we're an instant gratification society, and I don't particularly like that. There's no anticipation anymore in waiting for something. We can get books delivered to our iPads, we can make things happen instantly, and I think there was something in the wait, in that anticipation, before.

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What advice do you have for young entrepreneurs keen to follow in your footsteps? No matter how clever you are, or how your spreadsheet looks, you're still in for a lot of hard work. You have to be prepared to sort of... who would want to follow in my footsteps, James, honestly?! Maybe you find a point of difference, find something that you can do better or differently to the way that other people do it, just find a little gap in the market, a little niche, something that people aren't doing. While we're doing away with all these other things that we no longer need, people need connection and they need people contact as we all sit in our homes and type away and have these very... I don't want to say 'anti-social', that's not the right word, but you know what I mean.

People sit at home watching Netflix and order Deliveroo...

Human connection is the essence of who we all are. I think that's why cafés and meeting places are

important. Gertrude & Alice is a very safe place. It's a comfortable space. I mean, our customers are predominately women, but they can sit there on their way home, have something to eat, have a glass of wine, do a little bit of work or talk to someone at the community table if that's what they feel like they want to do. I just don't ever want to lose that connection, that human connection, and I think that the café is a bit of a community hub for that.

about it now. I hope that my daughter Kate will take over the running of the book shop and I can head off to the country.

I think I just want to get away from the noise and the hustle and bustle. I've got my eye on a place called Grenfell. It's sort of out past Young and Cowra. I have family there and I love spending time there. I could find myself a nice little place, have a veggie garden, do some reading in the sunroom...

"I could find myself a nice little place, have a veggie garden, do some reading in the sunroom..."

You don't need to be near the beach? I would definitely miss the beach. Being in the water and even just seeing the water grounds me. Sometimes, on crazy, busy, hectic days if we don’t have time to swim I’ll say to the kids, "Let's just drive past the water on the way home and breathe it all in." Even looking at the water is therapeutic, it really calms me. I’ve never lived away from the coast before but I just may be up for the challenge. Who knows? ●

In an ideal world, what does the future hold for Jane Turner? I never used to think very much about this but, you know, approaching 60, I sort of do spend a little bit more time thinking

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that allowed them to “search, alter and delete” journalists’ emails, handwritten notes, files, etc. Did this remind anyone else of Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth” in 1984? While ScoMo and co. long to privatise Aunty ABC and force them to propagate the Party line (Hello, Mr Murdoch) it’s worth remembering that it was a Liberal, Menzies, who encouraged the establishment of an independent broadcasting company back in 1932. Could it be that our Liberals aren’t as liberal as the ones of old?

But we’re still free online, right?

Well, no. The immense, anarchic freedom of the net frightens those in power and for the last few years there’s been a massive attempt to suppress that freedom. According to a report by ‘Freedom on the Net’, “Governments around the world are tightening control over citizens’ data and using claims of ‘fake news’ to suppress dissent.” And that’s not all. China, who score 11 per cent on the democracy scale, are exporting their agenda of surveillance and comprehensive internet censorship all over the world, “offering... advanced equipment that takes advantage of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technologies.” The Black Mirror TV series is no longer a dystopian fantasy - it’s a bona fide docudrama. As Orwell warned, technology has the ability to enable a totalitarian mode of social control. But don’t worry, The Block is on TV and we can’t wait to see what colour they paint that bedroom wall.

Can we trust the USA to be ‘leader of the free world’?

It may interest you to know that Hitler was considered a silly little fool with a daft moustache until everyone realised quite how dangerous he was. Trump may seem like a joke with his tiny hands and mad hair, but in living memory no president

Finally, The Unreliable Guide suggests you don’t take your eye off this ball. Democracy is nothing less than the freedom to choose and live out our destiny. The Diggers know that, look at their motto: “The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance.”

Freedom is a privilege, not a right, let’s look after it.

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Democracy Words Nat Shepherd Photo Volodymyr Zelensky Our Government’s recent attacks on the ABC and the protest group ‘Getup’ have got The Unreliable Guide wondering about political freedom.

Australia is politically defined as a representative democracy, so when did political commentary stop being a right? Is our current, so-called democratic government actually sticking to the brief? Let’s see.

Is Australia democratic?

In the 2019 ‘Freedom in the World’ report, which calculates the degree of civil liberties and political rights within nations, Australia scored a respectable 98 per cent, compared to the US’s 86 per cent (howdy, Trump!).

Can we relax? The Unreliable Guide suggests not. A major tenet of democracy is the freedom of the press and in June this year Australian Federal Police raided the ABC with a warrant 48 The Beast November 2019

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Eyes on the prize.

Tennis people really care about this.

The Davis Cup 2.0 Words Alasdair McClintock Photo Evonne Goolagong This month we get to tear open a shiny new box that is the updated format of the Davis Cup, “The World Cup of tennis!” Taking place in Madrid over one week, from November 18-24, shoes will melt and hearts will break on the hard, unforgiving surface of the wonderfully named La Caja Magica (The Magic Box).

To tennis non-tragics, by which I mean most people who only watch the odd grand slam, the Davis Cup has always been a head scratcher. It brings to mind such glittering rivalries as Costa Rica versus New Zealand, Slovenia versus Belarus and Kazakhstan versus Bosnia and Herzegovina - heavyweights of international sport, glistening gem mines of irresistible talent.

It used to pop up on our calendar every few months, as we played some random Eastern European country, who we may never have heard of but strangely knew all their best tennis players, and it would be the Lleyton Hewitt show for a 50 The Beast November 2019

while. Then it would disappear again until we were suddenly in some sort of final.

Now there is a structure the everyday hero can follow.

Eighteen countries, one week, winner takes all. Basically, what every other sport has been smart enough to do for years.

Traditionalists, like John Newcombe, might have been blowing up about it, but should we really be paying any attention to our former tennis greats? I think Margaret Court put paid to any of that.

Tennis has a bit of a cricket complex now - there is so much of it, it’s hard to care about anything - and given kids are groomed from a young age to be superstars, there are very few rags to riches stories anymore, so the romance is dead. I can see some candlelight dinners flaring up for the casual fan in Madrid though. Some magica.

There will be upsets (hopefully).

It will be great (hopefully).

Australia are in Group D, with Belgium and Colombia.

While I honestly couldn’t tell you a good player from either of those countries, curiously there is a Robert Farah playing for Columbia. I can’t say definitively that it’s the former West Tigers’ rake, but I can’t confirm it’s not either.

We will of course have our hopes resting on the capable shoulders of Alex ‘The Demon’ de Minaur and those of the man main-stream sports commentators love to hate, Nick Kyrgios.

He is a divisive figure, but how can one love Hewitt and dismiss Kyrgios? Are you forgetting something? Yes, you are, but that’s the wonder of sport.

Memories are short. About two weeks, according to Chris Judd, which is a good thing for him, considering his attempts to render opposition players unconscious via pressure point.

But come the Davis Cup, we will not be cheering Nick Kyrgios or The Demon, we will be cheering Australia, and we are a very patriotic bunch. Especially if we’re winning.

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"You're the one thing I can't get enough of."

Young, Dumb and Full of ASPD Words Jeremy Ireland Photo Johnny Utah Last month you may have noticed the photo featuring Keanu Reeves and the late Patrick Swayze from the 1991 movie, Point Break.

Keanu and Swayze are punching on in true Hollywood style trying to settle who’s the real alpha.

The photo inspired me to watch the film again. It’s a fullon, overblown action extravaganza, where our hero, Johnny Utah (Reeves), takes on a dastardly team of bank robbers lead

by Bodhi (Swayze). Our robbers, of course, are avid thrill seekers, stealing cash to fund their quest for the ultimate high through big wave surfing and other extreme sports. It’s full of clichés and stereotypes and features my alltime favourite one-liner, “Young, dumb and full of come”.

Swayze brings plenty of swagger to his villainous character.

His gang doesn’t comply with social norms and they do things and perform actions that most of us would consider unacceptable.

They tend to be irresponsible, deceitful and highly compulsive.

Bodhi comes across as quite charming yet highly manipulative, leaving a trail of destruction as he ruthlessly ploughs his way

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through life. They lack conscience and empathy, doing as they please and taking what they want without any sense of guilt or regret.

These are all the ingredients for a great film, but if Bodhi and his gang were to sit on the psychologist’s couch there would be a fair chance they’d all get slapped with a diagnosis of ‘antisocial personality disorder’ (ASPD).

“But it’s only a movie,” I hear you argue, and that’s fair enough, but take out the artistic license of filmmaking and you have an entirely different picture. But before we go there it’s worth looking at two other personality types that fall under the umbrella of ASPD, those being the psychopath and the sociopath. These terms are often used synonymously but there are subtle differences. The psychopath, among other things, has zero conscience or guilt (think Hannibal Lecter). The sociopath is usually antisocial, lawless and often prone to follow the norms of a particular subculture.

So, is our mate Bodhi a psychopath or a sociopath? Well, if

we take him out of the movie and put him in the real world there is every possibility that he would fit either bill. Over time, researchers have come forward with various checklists that can help define such a person. Indeed, Professor Robert Hare developed such a checklist, with 20 items to help assess for psychopathy. The top traits listed include glibness or superficial charm, a grandiose sense of worth, proneness to boredom, pathological lying, manipulative behaviour and a lack of remorse. It’s important to recognise that not everyone who’s a psychopath is a criminal or has ASPD, or vice versa. It is certain, however, that there are people out there who have all three, making them highly dangerous.

It’s also worth considering whether Bodhi was born this way or if he has come to be a product of his own environment.

Current thinking suggests it’s both. Biological, cognitive and environmental factors aside, it is the developmental nature of antisocial behaviour that grabs my attention. I would bet my left kidney that Bodhi as a young grom would have shown all the same traits, otherwise known as ‘conduct disorder’. The relationship between conduct disorder and ASPD is clear and any adult with ASPD would have most probably had conduct disorder as a kid.

Regardless, it is easy to understand the fascination that filmmakers have with characters with such disorders. Hollywood loves a psychopath as they represent danger. The more educated, intelligent and attractive they are, the higher the appeal. Oh, if you’re still not sure who Bodhi is, forget the 2015 remake of Point Break and go straight to the 1991 original. If you can get through the entire film without singing ‘(I've Had) The Time of my Life’ I’ll give you $100.

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real connections to food and a community within which it is shared.”

“Enter Grow it Local. One of the most important things that we have to share is not just food but knowledge and skills.

There is also potential for local growers to make some pocket money by listing their growing services, which could be mentoring aspiring growers or growing food for a local family, posting unused space for rent, making locally grown produce available for restaurants via ‘crowdfarming’, selling seeds and no-doubt more.”

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Be a Rockstar in Your Garden Words The 3-Council Environment Program and Grow it Local Savage Garden, Plant Life and D.I.G aren’t just musical acts, they’re also the names given to some of the edible gardens in the Eastern Suburbs as part of an urban farming movement in our backyards and on balconies.

Grow it Local is a new initiative to showcase local growers and create and build connections with edibles within our communities.

It’s the brainchild of the team who brought you Garage Sale Trail and is a community-led idea supported by founding partners Woollahra, Waverley and Randwick City Councils.

Grow it Local co-founder Darryl Nichols said an increasing number of local residents, schools, community groups and businesses were embracing edible gardening as a means to nourish, reconnect, improve wellbeing, reduce food to landfill and have fun too.

“We believe that if everyone grew their own food, life would 54 The Beast November 2019

be juicer and more delicious,” Darryl said.

“Research shows that growing your own food is better for your health and fitness, promotes learning for young and old and helps to tackle social isolation.”

With food gardens on the rise, we took a peep around the neighbourhood to see what’s ‘growing on’.

Meet local grower Oliver Brown Oliver Brown of Maroubra is a local grower, beekeeper and salt-maker who runs the Fat of the Land and Sea initiative. For three months each year, Oliver eats only what he can grow, forage or fish.

“For most of human history, almost everyone was directly involved in where their own food came from, whether that was picking, fishing, foraging or hunting,” Oliver said.

“What always remains, ticking away in the core of human nature, is the desire for

Joining Grow it Local • Register your patch on the map at www.growitlocal.com.

• Join Oliver and others at the Grow It Local Festival (November 18-24), aiming to inspire and encourage edible gardening through a series of communityled talks, workshops, garden tours, seed swaps and events.

Festival Highlights • Growers like Oliver will be opening their patches for an edible garden tour and tasting.

• The first ever Picklenic, featuring a live ABC Radio Sydney broadcast.

• Crowdfarmed dinners and cocktails.

• Jamming with the Country Womens Association.

• A workshop with Costa Georgiadis from Gardening Australia.

• Can You Dig It Art Show.

• Edible gardening with Paul West from River Cottage Australia.

• Seed exchange with The Diggers Club.

• A G&T with Australia’s godfather of growing, Clive Blazey.

For more info, and to curate your own contribution, visit www.growitlocal.com.

Blink 182 Nine Label Columbia Records Reviewer Alasdair McClintock Rating  Blink 182 are done with dick jokes, for this album at least. Considering they’re nine albums in, that is quite a commitment to juvenile humour. I tip my hat to them. What’s a Blink 182 album like without a dick joke? Surprisingly good. It took me back to parties in my teens when everyone got irresponsibly drunk and raced down hills on wheelie bins.

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That’s a band that’s never quite clicked with me, but I think I’ll give them another crack after wrapping my ears around Jaime. It has a bit of everything - funk, jazz, pop, rock - all unevenly jammed into deeply introspective, soulful jams that somehow work. There is a restless energy that gets under your skin and makes you want to pick yourself up and join Howard’s artistic crusade against American social injustice. I won’t, of course, but I do want to.

sir Was Holding on to a Dream Label Memphis Industries Reviewer Alasdair McClintock Rating  sir Was is defying that old joke, ‘What do you call dudes who hang out with musicians? Drummers!’

The former Jose Gonzalez skin-licker has outgrown his old frontman and I daresay Holding on to a Dream is far more engaging than anything Gonzalez has done. Similarly restrained, but pulsing with a more atmospheric heart, you need to properly listen to it, rather than just popping it on in the background. My little one loves it, and I challenge you to find something cuter than an 18-monthold human dancing to low-fi, Swedish synth.

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Summer sunsets at Clovelly.

Seeing the Light Words Dr Marjorie O'Neill, Member for Coogee Photo Al Fresco It’s no wonder that so many of us are feeling just a little chirpier today than we did a month ago.

The days are both longer and warmer and soon those October winds will settle down. Already, the football finals are done (and were they not the best ever for most of us in the Eastern Suburbs?), the surf club patrols have begun, the gardeners are out and there are noticeably more people walking and exercising into the evenings. Indeed, this is the magical time of year when our local area comes back to life.

Of course, not everyone across Australia is happy with daylight savings. The difficulties facing rural workers are pretty obvious with the cows waking up at the same time regardless of our clocks. Then there are those who need to rise early to get to work, not only waking to darkness but also having to deal with increased outside activity and noise if they are trying to get an early sleep. Parents with small kids also find it more difficult to get the young ones off to bed early.

On balance though, for most of us at least, daylight savings provides us with the opportunity to enjoy an extra hour of 56 The Beast November 2019

sunlight after work. Combined with a naturally lengthening day through the summer period, this results in some real opportunity for outside activities in the evening. Add to this the warmer weather and we can begin our daily or weekly migration to the beach.

When my mother was a child, and the eldest of five siblings, her mum would grab the older ones from school and, together with the pre-schoolers, head straight to Clovelly Beach. Prepacked sandwiches and a jug of cordial would provide some evening nourishment. Finally, a cold shower before heading home to bed. Homework could be forgotten for a few months.

By the time I was born, with both my parents working, the ritual of eating at the beach no longer seemed viable but my habit of spending every evening outdoors still continues as far as possible.

With all the passionate discussion in recent times about environmental impacts of our everyday lives, a friend recently asked me, “Is daylight savings good for the environment?”

On first thought, the answer appears to be overwhelmingly

positive: stay outdoors and use less electricity. But what if longer, lighter days were simply used by some to stay indoors but watch more TV or use the PlayStation for longer?

Obviously there would not be environmental benefits flowing.

It seems to me that while many of us in the local area do get out and about in these fantastic lighter evenings, we could do more to encourage even more people to get out.

The benefits are not just environmental, they are there for all to see in terms of both physical and mental health.

The negative consequences of not seeing enough light are also there to see, so to speak, based on evidence from parts of the world less blessed by sunlight than we are. We hear the stories from places such as the UK or Scandinavia where people go to work and come home in the dark and end up suffering from ‘seasonal affective disorder’, a real condition impacting mental health. We don’t realise how lucky we are.

Daylight savings, combined with our longer and warmer days, provide us with a fabulous opportunity to get outside, get some exercise, enjoy our natural surroundings, get healthy, talk with neighbours and create social capital, turn off the lights and eat healthy cold cuts and salads. There’s no excuse to use the clothes dryer, every reason to eat with your hands, less need to blow-dry that hair and it’s good taste to tie it up in a ponytail. It’s an ideal time to get walking, give the car a break or join an afternoon social sports team. It’s a time to be happy and a time for us to use less of everything so that those who follow us also get to enjoy what we have taken for granted. Daylight savings - saving daylight, saving our health and saving the environment, all in one!

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A handful of rocket leaves, with a drizzle of olive oil A few mint leaves for garnish Vegetable oil 1 tablespoon olive oil Salt Freshly ground pepper

Not a bad way to start the day.

Zucchini, Pea and Mint Fritters with Haloumi, Avocado, Chilli, Lemon, Toasted Seeds and Rocket Words and Picture Dana Sims Insta @stone_and_twine You can get really creative with brunch, and it seems people love to incorporate vegetables into breakfast and brunch dishes nowadays more than ever, so what better way to celebrate spring than with some delicious fresh greens.

A stack for brunch always looks great on the plate, and who doesn’t love haloumi? Add to that some avocado smash - a staple of every respectable brunch menu - with a hit of chilli and lemon and it will be bursting with flavour and freshness. Complete the dish with a handful of rocket leaves and toasted seeds and, if you’re looking to add some protein, place a poached egg on top.

The zucchini, pea and mint fritter is the highlight of the dish and it’s a good way of creating a nice texture with zuc60 The Beast November 2019

chini. This recipe serves a large portion for one person and makes two fritters.

Ingredients 1 zucchini, coarsely grated (squeeze out moisture) ⅓ cup of peas, fresh or frozen ¼ cup fresh mint leaves, chopped Half a spring onion, finely chopped 1 egg lightly beaten (only use half) ¼ tsp baking powder ¼ cup plain flour 80g haloumi (cut into 2 slices) 1 small chilli, finely diced (seeds removed if you wish) Juice of ¼ lemon 1 small avocado, skin and seed removed A small handful of sesame seeds, pepitas and sunflower seeds, toasted in a dry pan

Method 1. In a bowl, combine zucchini, spring onion, peas, mint, flour and baking powder. Add half the beaten egg and season with salt and pepper. Gently stir through; 2. Over medium heat, add a thin spread of vegetable oil to lightly coat the fry pan. When hot, spoon 2-3 tablespoons of the batter into the pan to create one fritter and gently flatten with a spatula. Repeat to make the second one. Cook for 3 minutes on each side and, when golden brown and cooked through, remove from the pan onto paper towel; 3. In a separate small pan, heat a tablespoon of olive oil and lightly fry the haloumi for a few minutes either side until golden brown. Drain on paper towel; 4. With a fork, roughly smash the avocado, combine with the lemon and chilli, then season with salt and pepper; 5. On a plate, stack the zucchini fritters with some rocket inbetween, add the smashed avocado and slices of haloumi, sprinkle with the toasted seeds and a pile of fresh rocket and a few mint leaves.

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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.

Just in time for summer.

Location, Location, Location Words Joel Bevilacqua Photo Skye Hennessey With a green bowl that could win over even the most stubborn of carnivores and a view that would make other café owners green with envy, Sea Salt at Clovelly Beach is a brunch spot with a lot to boast about.

There is something about Clovelly. It can often feel like a calm oasis between the hustle of Bondi and Coogee. Perhaps this is what attracted Shaun and Skye Hennessey to the area and motivated them to purchase Sea Salt, their first venture into the industry.

Perched on the south side of Clovelly Beach, Sea Salt would have to be in one of the best locations in Sydney. A sandstone stair entrance leads directly off the famous Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk and into the spacious café. Sea Salt’s northeast aspect means the café’s open layout is bathed in sun throughout the year and a cool nor’easter puffs gently through during summer. Watching snorkelers kicking along in search of fish from Sea Salt’s

beachfront terrace, one feels like they are somewhere down the South Coast, rather than ten minutes from the CBD. Shaun is an old-school Sydney fine-dining chef and has developed the menu specifically for the venue and location. It’s full of fresh, light and healthy options, such as the wokcooked Queensland spanner crab omelette, filled with a fragrant herb salad and topped with Sriracha and oyster sauce.

Other tantalising breakfast options include parmesan-topped, truffled scrambled eggs and a spicy quesadilla.

When I visited Sea Salt for lunch, Shaun and Skye insisted I try their famous green bowl.

As I cast my eyes over the traditionally more alluring lunch options on offer, such as the classic fish and chips, beef burger and crispy fish burger with blackened jalapeno and lemon tartare, I admit I was feeling a bit hesitant. After all, how good can a green bowl really be?

Bloody good apparently. Sea Salt’s green bowl is a generous serving of charred tumeric cauliflower, crispy Brussels sprouts, kale slaw, house hummus, toasted soy seeds and nuts, avocado and pomegranate - so generous in fact that it has to be served on a dinner plate. There is so much happening, yet somehow the dish remains balanced. The charred cauliflower is probably the main reason the green bowl has become Sea Salt’s signature dish. The golden cauliflower is crunchy yet moist on the inside and I reckon they could make a mint selling buckets of it from their take-way kiosk.

Other standout lunch options include a crispy-skin miso salmon dish served with shiitake mushrooms, a pumpkin and pea risotto with Grana Padano and sage brown butter, and the spanner crab makes another appearance in a hearty linguine.

As mentioned, Sea Salt has a take-away kiosk, meaning you can grab some fish and chips to eat on the beach or in the park.

During summer, Sea Salt will also be opening for dinner on Friday and Saturday nights, so watch this space.

Clovelly’s natural beauty, combined with Sea Salt’s high quality, healthy and creative menu, means you would be hard pressed to find a better spot to spend your day.

Sea Salt Clovelly www.seasaltclovelly.com.au Address Clovelly Beach Instagram seasaltclovelly Phone 9664 5344 Open 7 days 8am-4pm; Breakfast 8-11.30am, Lunch 12-2.30/3.00pm Prices Green bowl $22, Spanner crab omelette $28, Miso salmon $33, Classic fish and chips $26.50 Cards Mastercard, Visa Licensed Yes November 2019 The Beast 61

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19. Luxuriously self-indulgent; state of cultural decline (8) 20. Square cloth worn around the neck (12) DOWN 1. Internal skeleton (12) 2. Third planet from the Sun (5) 3. Make more beautiful (5) 4. Necessary foods (12) 5. Strongly infatuated (8) 6. Most premature (8) 10. Penn Badgley show about a stalker (3) 11. Your grandfather’s daughter (3) 17. Mother-ofpearl (5) 18. Language of Prague (5)

Trivial Trivia Words Cameron Anderson Photo Simon Bridge 1. Spaghetti comes from the Italian word ‘spago’ which means what?

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5. What type of pasta did Kramer use to make a sculpture of Jerry in Seinfeld?

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Capricorn Dec 22-Jan 20 Beware the mate who always shouts when it’s only a few bucks but is nowhere to be seen when a massive bill arrives at the table.

Gemini May 22-Jun 21 People don’t bitch about you anywhere near as much as you think, in fact you’ve fallen off the radar and it’s a real concern.

Aquarius Jan 21-Feb 19 Stop looking to others for approval. You’ve done the hard yards so step up, take charge and the people will follow.

Cancer Jun 22-Jul 22 Spend time planning before a big event. You’re good at winging it but this time it’s different and things will fall apart.

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Pisces Feb 20-Mar 20 An old injury will resurface and drive you mad for a few weeks but it will disappear just as quickly as it arrived.

Leo Jul 23-Aug 22 Time spent talking about people you’ve rooted is perfectly negatively correlated with how much they enjoyed being rooted by you.

Scorpio Oct 24-Nov 22 You’ve had an up and down year but you’re going to end 2019 on a huge high, so make the most of your amazing form.

Aries Mar 21-Apr 20 Choose your words carefully, because your judgement has been way off lately and you’re upsetting too many people.

Virgo Aug 23-Sep 23 You’ll find yourself totally unmotivated to get jiggy with your partner. It only gets worse, so either spice it up or give it up.

Sagittarius Nov 23-Dec 21 A rather solid stool will somehow end up sideways in your colon and result in quite a painful breech birth.

Taurus Apr 21-May 21 Scrolling aimlessly through Instagram won’t make your life better. Delete it off your phone, then reinstall it the next day.

Libra Sep 24-Oct 23 Consider learning a new skill, preferably something challenging, in order to keep your brain from switching off completely.

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