Bay bayside 20130612 iss

NEWS & VIEWS EDUCATION STATE SCHOOLS SPECTACULAR

PLUS + BARISTA + FOOD + WINE + MOTORING + SPORT + CLASSIFIEDS

THE VOICE OF REASON

GERALDINE

DOOGUE

BY PETER WILMOTH

reviewproperty.com.au DownloaD our free app!

June 12-18, 2013

BAYSIDE & PORT PHILLIP

+ MELBOURNE’S BEST PROPERTY

mouthing off

Virginia trioli \ WHAT’S YOUR BEEF? HERE’S MINE ...

M

any years ago, in another time and life, I keep a little something back when they write their presented a little radio program on a well-loved bestselling cookbooks: how else to keep alive the allure public radio station in this Victorian city. As of their revered businesses? In these conversations I was the bloke who presents it now knows well (hello, Rafael always sure those generous chefs gave away everything: I Epstein!), apart from the obvious daily news and current wasn’t going to let them out of the studio without it. affairs obligations, having your own show is an excellent It would have made a great book. Recipes from and almost unimpeachable excuse to get people on Shannon Bennett and Robert Marchetti, to talk about stuff that you love. Yes, of course Brigitte Haffner and Andrew McConnell. it has to be relevant and interesting and worth Very funny tales of recipes gone wrong, and cook it ... the air time, but that’s not hard. Often, it’s a even the odd treasured tip of a long-gone for less terribly selfish act that, happily, can lead to a grandmother or aunt. All lost now somewhere time than wonderfully inclusive moment. In my case, it in the ionosphere. you think was cooking – one of the great passions of my But the tips and tricks must have lodged life – and damn if I didn’t get as many of the somewhere in my mind, because there I was city’s best chefs as I could on 774 Drive, all for the on Saturday afternoon with a beautiful piece of completely selfish purpose of stealing their expertise Tasmanian beef on the bench, and a half-dozen voices and pilfering a recipe or two. clamouring in my mind about the best way to prepare These conversations became a hugely enjoyable it. I know we apparently are all going to end up living segment called “The Knack”, in which culinary greats off insects and plants, but while the going is still good, shared the key, the secret to a particular dish: how to this household is a fan of traditional Australian protein, make a perfect mayonnaise, the perfect gnocchi; the and so were the chefs. I think at some point, every one trick to a great pavlova, a classic chicken sandwich, or of them came in with their version of the perfect piece a more exotic beurre blanc or red wine reduction. The of roast beef. The book may be a forlorn hope now, but conversations were specific, detailed, and I swear I could the least I can do is share with you what I remember hear pens right across Melbourne madly scratching out Melbourne’s finest telling me. the secret hints.

Set the oven to 170⁰. Let the beef come to room I have always suspected that chefs, even the greats, temperature. Season liberally (I smear some French

mustard all over as well). Fire up a pan and seal for about three minutes on each side – you may need to hold the piece upright in the pan with tongs to do this.

You don’t just want colour, you want a thick crust, which will seal beautifully and be delicious later.

Place the meat in the oven … but how long to cook it? Ah, this was the discussion every time, with every chef who came past. Always less than you think, and mostly always at a lower temperature than you would imagine (so as not to “shock the meat” apparently … I always thought that had probably been achieved a long time before it arrived home with you …). But who was it who told me what I now regard as the golden rule?

Was it Marchetti? Jeremy Strode of Pomme? That British blowhard Gordon Ramsay, who, for all his many faults, knows his way around a piece of meat?

I can’t recall – but the rule is this: reduce the cooking time and double the resting time, and the meat will be juicy and beautifully rare.

I did all this, and it was. And as we carved the meat into perfect, thick slices I felt all those great cooks crowd around me – my very own MasterChef moment of the imagination – nodding approvingly. And asking for the scraps. \

Virginia Trioli is co-host of ABC News Breakfast on ABC1 and ABC News 24, 6-9am weekdays.

Follow Virginia on Twitter @ latrioli

We Welcome your feedback @

www.theweeklyreview.com.au/mouthing-off

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 3

ANNOUNCING AUSTRALIA’S BEST PROJECT HOME LUBELSO BY CANNY’S CONCEPT HOME IN MALVERN HAS RECENTLY BEEN AWARDED THE AUSTRALIAN HIA PROJECT HOME OF THE YEAR. THIS LUXURIOUS DESIGN AND METICULOUSLY CONSTRUCTED HOME IS AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING. AND NOW, A NEW LUBELSO DESIGN IS AVAILABLE FROM UNDER $1M. TO ARRANGE AN INSPECTION, CONTACT CATE ON 0407 911 458.

03 8532 4400 LUBELSO.COM.AU

THE NEW LUBELSO DESIGN IS THOUGHTFULLY CONSIDERED, CARRYING THE SAME REFINED FEATURES, FIXTURES AND FITTINGS AS THE CONCEPT HOME.

FEATURING 4 BEDROOMS, 2 BATH, 2 POWDER, 2 LIVING AND 2-CAR GARAGE – CALL CATE TO SEE FLOOR PLANS AND ARRANGE A CONCEPT HOME INSPECTION.

IMAGES ARE INDICATIVE ONLY

www.theweeklyreviewbayside.com.au

Editor \ EilEEn BErry editorial@theweeklyreview.com.au 9249 5350 WritErs \ tErEsA Murphy tmurphy@theweeklyreview.com.au 0417 195 920 lAurA BAnks \ lbanks@theweeklyreview.com.au 9249 5234 rEAl EstAtE sAlEs dirECtor \ John ioAnnou jioannou@theweeklyreview.com.au 9249 5319 GEnErAl MAnAGEr \ EditoriAl, sAlEs & MArkEtinG \ trEnt CAsson tcasson@theweeklyreview.com.au puBlishEr \ Antony CAtAlAno acatalano@theweeklyreview.com.au tWr distriBution \ 68,000 copies

Freebies \

For your chance to win any of these freebies, go to www.theweeklyreview.com.au/competitions and answer the questions before midnight on Sunday, June 16.

WiN

Agent 284 in Collingwood is celebrating Put Victoria On Your Table until June 30 with a winter roast menu created by new chef Roger Andre Beu. Enjoy Greek-roasted lamb, slow-roasted duck risotto, and slow-cooked pork belly with Victorian wine and beer plus sampler “flights”. A TWR reader could win a $100 dinner voucher for two, valid Thursday-Saturday. www.agent284.com.au Q. What street is Agent284 situated?

WiN

To celebrate the Australian release of the Canadian-American adventure comedy-drama Cloudburst, Momo Films is giving away five double passes to a special preview screening at Cinema Nova on Wednesday, July 3, at 6.30pm. The film has won 30 best-picture awards and stars Academy Award winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker Screening at Cinema Nova, July 11. www.cloudburstmovie.com.au.

Q. Who directed Cloudburst?

WiN

Vass Arvanitis, the high-end fashion stylist of choice for discerning designers such as Alex Perry, is giving away a two-hour one-on-one styling session to one lucky TWR reader. Vass will bring an element of elegance and grace to your mode, inspired by her long-standing obsession with the Bond girls.

Valued at $2000, it includes insights into new looks for the season. www.unsignedmanagement.co Q. What is unsigned Management?

distriBution \ 1800 032 472 distribution@theweeklyreview.com.au

Worth

bayside & port phillip Published by Metro Media Publishing Pty Ltd (ACN 141 396 741).

All material is copyright and The Weekly Review endorses the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance’s “Code of Conduct”.

Responsibility for election comment is accepted

by Antony Catalano, 214-220 Park Street, South Melbourne, 3205. All significant errors will be corrected as quickly as possible. Distribution numbers, areas and coverage are estimates only.

For our terms and conditions, please visit www.theweeklyreview.com.au

our cover \ Geraldine Doogue photographed by John Donegan Like us on Facebook @theweeklyreview

$36

WiNNer

Congratulations, kate simunic! the Bentleigh resident has won an eye-catching ken done painting, valued at more than $2500.

Full of colour and teeming with life, Coral Head II, 2012 is drawn from done’s diving expeditions over the past two years. simunic also walks away with a copy of The Art of Ken Done, by Janet Mckenzie, signed by the artist, valued at $85.

Worth

$2000

Worth

$100

Congratulations to the following winners from May 29: Alicia de le Pena, Jasmine Budisa, Stephanie Hynes, Shannon Hansen, Brian Boyce, Amanda Bartlett, Stephen Day, Veronique Yatsin, Gi Gi Leung, Michael Yatsin, Debbie Simpson, Tony Grant, Lauren Hunter, Frank Costa, Jodie Farnsworth, Sandra Gill, Mark Aitken, Colette Goodliffe, Michael Hallyburton, Katrina Bradfield, Shannon Regan, Anthony Angerame, Driss Fatih, Craig Little, Marcus Fitzgerald, Brenda Belsham, Kathy Soumprou, Vicki Hocking, Kirsty Harkness, Emmi Kollias, Alex Mackenzie, Angela Poole, Dana Cassidy Entrants must be over 18 years old and reside in Victoria. See our competition T&Cs for more details. All winners must contact: freebies@theweeklyreview.com.au within seven days of notification regarding collection of their prize. Prizes other than ticketed events will need to be collected from The Weekly Review, 214-220 Park Street, South Melbourne.

2014 Year 10 – 12 Scholarships Now Open Kilvington Grammar School invites applications for the 2014 Caroline Barrett Scholarships from talented girls and boys eager to participate in all aspects of school life. These General Excellence Scholarships are for students entering Years 10 – 12 in 2014. Applications close Friday 5 July 2013.

For more information, call the Registrar on 9578 6231, email registrar@kilvington.vic.edu.au, go to kilvington.vic.edu.au or visit us at 2 Leila Road, Ormond.

Open Morning Tuesday 18 June at 9.15am.

Join us for Open Morning to learn more about Kilvington’s outstanding academic results.

Please go to kilvington.vic.edu.au to register your interest in attending.

confident | compassionate | coeducational

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 5

News www.theweeklyreviewbayside.com.au

queen’s honours a nod to community believers awards

baysiders iN liNe FOr the Medal of the Order of australia (OaM) include: Joan Daniels \ Beaumaris For community work, notably with Rotary, where Daniels was one of the first female members almost 25 years ago.

The Beaumaris resident chairs the South Melbourne community chest and volunteers at Sandringham Hospital’s kiosk.

Jennifer raper \ Brighton east For service to the community, particularly in mental health.

Dr Jonathan nathan \ Brighton For service to medical education, particularly in optometry.

of the Melbourne Rebels in 2010-11.

Lindsay is honoured for services to the arts, particularly as a curator and administrator in galleries and museums. She was deputy director of the National Gallery of Victoria for a decade and played a key role in the redevelopment of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at Melbourne University and the NGV’s Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square.

Jan harper \ port melBourne For promoting equal opportunity for women. A founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby.

Joan nicholas \ alBert park For involvement in drug education and support, and services to the aged and homeless.

Bryan roBerts \ Brighton For service to the community and to rural education.

DaviD Whitney \ Brighton east For service to town planning.

Sandringham’s Professor Euan Wallace is also awarded an AM in recognition of his work in obstetrics and gynaecology.

Professor Wallace is the head of department and the Carl Wood Professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Monash University, as well as being director of obstetric services at Monash Health, the state’s largest health service. \ Teresa Murphy

(WAynE TAyLoR)

(TERESA MuRpHy)

Mike Brady, of Up There Cazaly fame, has goalled in the Queen’s Birthday honours awards. Brady has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to the community and to music as a composer and performer. ‘‘I’m absolutely blown away,’’ he said. ‘‘I’m very proud but also very humbled because I know there are many, many unsung heroes out there who do so much.’’

Raised in Port Melbourne, where he still lives, Brady is involved with many causes, including Variety Victoria, Yooralla, Prostate Cancer Foundation, Huntington’s Disease Association, Bluearth Foundation and the Bali Children’s Foundation.

The Pies supporter wrote his signature songs Up There Cazaly — one of the biggest-selling singles in Australia — in 1979 and One Day in September in 1981.

Fellow Port Melbourne resident Ross Oakley will also add AM to his name, as will South Melbourne’s Frances Lindsay.

Oakley has been recognised for services to football and rugby union.

The former Saints player and VFL/AFL chief is now chief executive of the Victorian Rugby Union. He was chief executive

‘‘I’m very proud but also very humbled because I know there are many, many unsung heroes out there who do so much.’’ mike brady

An Open Morning…with open dialogue.

At St Michael’s, we embrace and celebrate difference. Our coeducational, diverse and creative environment offers students a rich, rewarding educational experience.

For an authentic taste of St Michael’s, join the conversation with staff and students at the next Open Morning.

îs.27211

Wednesday 19 June 2013 at 9:15am – Bookings are essential.

stmichaels.vic.edu.au admissions@stmichaels.vic.edu.au Admissions – 03 8530 3200 Coeducational, K – 12

6 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

News www.theweeklyreviewbayside.com.au

street ‘greening’ under fire albert Park

Residents of an Albert Park street that has been ripped up by council and embedded with gardens claim it is hazardous and likely to become an accident hot-spot.

They are calling on Port Phillip Council to revisit the design of the Young Street works, which were completed last week. Port Phillip mayor Amanda Stevens said the works were carried out in order to calm traffic, increase parking and improve drainage.

But residents say that the upgrades, which involved changing the angle of street parking and making a garden bed for natives, have decreased visibility for drivers and increased safety concerns.

Residents say that trees have been planted directly under powerlines, there is a lack of drainage, line marking is not straight and, in some parts, has already started to lift.

Jervis Ward said he had never seen any works of this kind on a residential street.

“I’m astounded; whilst the works may have increased parking marginally, it’s very unsafe,” Mr Ward said. “The poles jut out, you can’t see traffic clearly and it’s only a matter of time before there is an accident.”

Claudette D’Cruz, who has lived in Young Street for 21 years, said the works had created

a “very dangerous street”. “I don’t think it’s added any value to the street, I find it a problem to reverse now — I can’t see,” Mrs D’Cruz said.

She said drivers could no longer youNg street U-turn safely and was fearful of children playing on the street with the increased lack of visibility.

Cr Stevens said the works were carried out as part of the Greening Port Phillip Strategy, which is intended to increase the amount of trees and vegetation across the municipality.

She said that the design and construction was in line with Australian design standards and safety requirements. \ LAURA BANKS

sandringham marina judged best in the country

GOT A STORY FOR US? NEWS Editor \ Gordon Farrer gfarrer@theweeklyreview.com.au 9249 5279 tErESa Murphy \ tmurphy@theweeklyreview.com.au 0417195920 Laura BaNkS \ lbanks@theweeklyreview.com.au 9249 5234

Sandringham Yacht Club has been judged best marina in Australia. The Marine Industries Association named it Australian Club Marina of the Year (2013-14) for its facilities, services and operations. Club chief executive Richard Hewett said the national win capped its Victorian Club of the Year gongs in 2010 and 2007, and other awards, especially for environmental practices. Founded in 1911, the club counts among its members former Queenslander Jessica Watson, OAM, and 2011 Young Australian of the Year, who sailed solo around the world in 2009-2010, when she was 16. \ tM

SUPERBLY CRAFTED AWARDED HOMES

VISIT OUR MONDRIAN DISPLAY 1495 Burke Road, Kew East (Mel. Ref. 46 A1) Sat-Sun & Wed 1-5pm or by appointment ph. 0411 110 399

03 9329 9611 www.enterpriseconstructions.com.au june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 7

local Views www.theweeklyreViewbayside.com.au SEDDON WEST MELBOURNE

street level

MELBOURNE

BALWYN

EAST MELBOURNE

DOCKLANDS RICHMOND

SOUTH WHARF

SOUTH YARRA

Gardiners Creek

PRAHRAN

ST KILDA WEST

WINDSORARMADALE

ST KILDA

GLEN IRIS

MALVERN

ST KILDA EAST

BALACLAVA

ASHBURTON

CAULFIELD NORTH

RIPPONLEA

MALVERN EAST

ELWOOD

CAULFIELD

ELSTERNWICK

CAULFIELD EAST

Melb Water Reservoir

GLEN HUNTLY

CARNEGIE MURRUMBEENA

CAULFIELD SOUTH C er ek re

ORMOND

ain Dr

BRIGHTON

BRIGHTON EAST BENTLEIGH

HAMPTON

HUGHESDALE

BENTLEIGH EAST

Basin

MIDDLE PARK

briGhtON \ A 20-year-old Prahran man who is thought to have run across the Nepean Highway in Brighton was struck by a taxi travelling towards the city about 2.40am on June 2. The collision happened near the intersection of Martin Street as the man attempted to cross from the western side of the road. The man died at the scene. The taxi driver was uninjured. \

CAMBERWELL

KOOYONG

ALBERT PARK

Albert Park Lake

HAWTHORN EAST

t Els

sOUth melbOUrNe \ A 66-year-old man had his licence suspended after he was involved in a collision in South Melbourne on June 3.

The driver of a Nissan sedan rear-ended another car at the intersection of City Road and Clarendon Street about 5pm. He exchanged details with the other driver and left the scene before police arrived.

Police intercepted the Nissan in Kings Way about 7.30pm after noticing the extensively damaged vehicle. The male driver was taken to a police station, where he returned an evidentiary reading of 0.237.

The man, from Truganina, had his licence immediately suspended and is expected to be charged on summons with drink-driving and other traffic-related offences. \

PORT MELBOURNE SOUTH MELBOURNE

Lake / Waterhole

HAMPTON EAST MOORABBIN

SANDRINGHAM

Retardin g

SPOTSWOOD

CANTERBURY HAWTHORN BURNLEY

CREMORNE

HIGHETT

CHELTENHAM

BLACK ROCK

BEAUMARIS

st kilda \ The St Kilda Crime Investigation Unit seized several pictures allegedly depicting sexual acts with children’s faces superimposed on to them after executing a warrant at a St Kilda business in Acland Street on June 1. A 25-year-old Footscray man was interviewed by detectives on June 3 and was released pending a court summons. A police spokeswoman said the man was likely to be charged with producing and possessing child pornography. \ elwOOd \ A cyclist riding with a group on Marine Parade was allegedly hit by a car after the driver abused the group on June 3, police said. Police were told that a silver sedan was driving north near Dickens Street about 1pm when the argument occurred. It is believed the car then turned left into the St Kilda Marine car park when it collided with the 32-year-old male cyclist. The man’s bike was badly damaged and he sustained bruising to his leg. The car did not stop. Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers. \ elsterNwiCk \ Police arrested a 53-year-old man after discovering a large quantity of stolen women’s underwear at an Elsternwick property on May 31.

Police from the Caulfield Divisional Response Unit executed a warrant at a house in Kooyong Road where it is alleged the stolen underwear was found about 7am. An Elsternwick man has been interviewed and released pending summons. He is expected to be charged with theft at a later date. Police would like to hear from anyone whose underwear has gone missing in the Caulfield, Elsternwick or St Kilda East area. \

PARKDALE

G6080564AA-a12Jun©FCNVIC

repOrt Crime » Call Crime stOppers 1800 333 000

PORT PHILLIP BUSINESS TRAINING

Great Low Cost Workshops to Grow Your Business

VISUAL MERCHANDISING WORKSHOP

In just 30 minutes the HYDRACLEAN deep cleansing facial treatment attacks all the steps for CLEAR and RADIANT skin.

Proven Results:

18 June 2013, 4 – 7pm Cost: $30 St Kilda Town Hall, Carlisle Street, St Kilda

A 93% decrease of the number of sebum spots on the skin after 1 treatment.

Active ingredients more effectively penetrate perfectly cleansed skin after 1 treatment.

Attract, engage and inspire your customers!

Your store’s look and feel is critical to drawing customers in.

This workshop will help you to develop a visual merchandising plan to optimise your trading.

Learn from a specialist:  How to use merchandising to convert browsers to buyers  Cost effective tips to improve your merchandising and store’s presentation  New trends in retail presentation and how to apply these to your visual merchandising Assist your business to thrive, not just survive!

BOOK YOUR PLACE ONLINE: www.portphillipbusiness.com.au or call ASSIST 9209 6777 8 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

With Sheree’s 30 years experience and working with a premium professional product like Guinot for 25 years, you will encounter a specialized approach and solution for your skin needs giving you the best possible results.

Hydradermie is Guinot’s flagship facial treatment and Guinot Paris has pioneered in facial care through ionization with the Hydradermie - the penetration of positive ions in the skin through micro currents. Active ingredients penetrate the skin faster and their transformation into positive ions enhances their effectiveness. It deep cleanses the skin, re-hydrates the deeper layers & speeds up cellular regeneration.

Now Guinot has developed “Double Ionisation” - unique to Guinot, this advanced procedure increases the penetration of both positive and negative ions - enabling the penetration of active ingredients with negative polarity for twice as effective skin treatment.

Open Monday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday and Saturday with flexible hours for all appointments to suit your busy life style 591 Hampton St. Hampton

|

Phone: 9598 8011 (By appointment only)

News www.theweeklyreviewbayside.com.au

upgrade FiNally UNder way

playwright tells story of soon-forgotten gatekeepers Playwright Kieran Carroll, pictured far left, was fascinated as a boy by the manned railway gates at Brighton Beach. So powerful was the memory that it formed the foundation for his play, The Last Manned Gates at Brighton Beach, which is part of the upcoming Bayside Literary Festival. The comedy-drama is a work of fact and fiction based on three gatekeepers facing redundancy. ‘‘Since 2007, when the gates closed, there’s been a lot of political toing and froing,’’ he said. ‘‘Now the decision has been made and the gates are to reopen, but will be automated, so the old gatekeeper’s job will soon be redundant.’’ (Gatekeepers remained at the historic hut on Beach Road after 2007 to operate the pedestrian gates.) “In my play, the men aren’t going to give up without a fight – there’s humour and sadness, and plenty of high-jinx.”

The Last Manned Gates at Brighton Beach runs June 17-20 at Brighton Theatre, corner of Wilson and Carpenter streets. Bookings 9773 1210. Tickets $15-$20. \ TM

The refurbishment of Balaclava Station is under way, almost three months after the slated early March start date.

The delay was caused by a hold-up in finalising the construction contract.

The $13.3 million redevelopment of the station will upgrade it to a staffed premium station with ramp access for wheelchairs and prams. The station will also provide better information, shelter and lighting for the 3000 passengers who use it every day.

Port Phillip mayor Amanda Stevens said the upgrade highlighted the importance of Balaclava Station as a transport hub.

“Improved station amenities will ensure that the Carlisle Street precinct is easy to access, which will hopefully boost business for local traders,” Cr Stevens said.

“We understand the importance of this station to locals and commuters and look forward to seeing this facility updated and improved.”

Minister for Public Transport Terry Mulder said feedback from the Port Phillip community played a key role in shaping the station’s design.

“These vital works will improve the station for commuters ... importantly, new station

(EddIE MoRToN)

balaclava

carlisle street

canopies will be installed to improve weather protection and ramps will be changed so that the station is DDA compliant,” Mr Mulder said.

“The works will also ensure a safer station for commuters with a new booking office to be staffed from first to last train, improved CCTV cameras and facilities for protective services officers (PSOs) to patrol from 6pm until the last train.’’

Works are due to be completed by early next year. \ LAURA BANKS » Project information: http://ptv.vic.gov.au/balaclavaupgrade

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 9

ONLY AVAILABLE IN STORE AT MELBOURNE QV

TOP VALUE

15

$

TOP VALUE

25

27

69

$

$

$

Tuscany 2-in-1 Salt & Pepper Mill. KDL524

PACKAGE DEAL

AWESOME

Russel Hobbs Toasted Sandwich Maker. RHTSM2D

Breville 8-Cup Rice Cooker. BRC200

Cooking Essentials Kettle & Toaster Pack. BP204

GRE AT VALUE

99

$

Panasonic Rice Cooker.

SRDF181WST

GRE AT PRICE

299

99

$

$

Russell Hobbs 18L Convection Oven. RHTOV18

GRE AT DEAL

89

$

Tefal Intelligent ‘Cook4Me’ Multi-Cooker. CY7018

99

$

Airflo Bagless Vacuum Cleaner.

349

$

Tefal ‘Actifry’ 2-in-1 Health Cooker. YV9601

Philips ‘Azur’ Auto-Off Iron. GC4865

19

$

Heller 2000W Fan Heater. FHH15

DéLonghi Nespresso ‘Citiz’ Capsule Coffee Machine. EN266BAE

HOT DEAL

129

$ HOT PRICE

379

$

HOT DEAL

TOP BUY!

OP2011S

BUY NOW, PAY LATER!

HOT PRICE

DELICIOUS

Dimplex ‘Eco’ 1500W Column Heater. OFRC15TIB

NO BLADES

549

$

ea

Dyson Hot+Cool™ Air Multiplier. AM05WS, AM05NN, AM05BN, AM05IB

24 MONTHS INTEREST FREE On Technology & Entertainment and Home Appliances

*1

• NO DEPOSIT • NO INTEREST • NO REPAYMENTS until May 2015

Now also available

ONLINE ENDS 30TH JUNE

SHOP with CONFIDENCE. Accessories shown are not included. Ends 16/06/13.

Harvey Norman® stores are operated by independent franchisees.

HARVEY NORMAN @ DOMAYNE MELBOURNE CITY QV

HARVEY NORMAN QV MELBOURNE CITY

Level 4, Shop 9-13, QV Upper Terrace, Cnr Swanston & Lonsdale Streets 8664 4300 (Computers/Electrical only)

254259_MQV

EASY PARKING ACCESS. $10 flat rate Saturday and Sunday. Spend over $60 during the week and get all day parking for $17.

Shop online or mobile: harveynorman.com.au Pick up in store or have it delivered.

*1. Conditions of No Deposit, No Interest, No Repayments until May 2015: Available to approved customers on single or multiple transactions where the amount financed is $300 or more, on GO MasterCard, GO Business MasterCard, Buyer’s Edge, Gem Visa and GE CreditLine (Credit Products) between 31/05/13 and 30/06/13. Offer available on purchases from Harvey Norman franchisees (excludes Apple and Miele products, and Microsoft Surface models). Offer available on advertised or ticketed price. This notice is given under each of the Credit Products’ Conditions of Use (as applicable), which specify all other conditions for this offer. A $25.00 Establishment Fee for GO MasterCard applies to new applications. The GO Business MasterCard attracts a $40 Annual Fee. Account Service fee of $4.95 per month applies for GO MasterCard, GE CreditLine and Buyer’s Edge, and $2.95 per month for GO Business MasterCard, and other fees and charges are payable. Credit is provided by GE Capital Finance Australia (ABN 42 008 583 588), trading as GE Money. Australian Credit Licence number 392145.

News www.theweeklyreviewbayside.com.au

Peeping on tom st kilda

“i’m not against pets in the apartment.

I have a dog myself” edwina Green & monty (SCoTT McNAuGhToN)

A St Kilda woman has taken the extraordinary measure of installing a surveillance camera at her front door to capture her neighbour’s cats roaming the stairwell and breaking body corporate rules.

Edwina Green, 71, is warring with her neighbour, who she alleges lets her cats wander in the common area for exercise during the day.

Ms Green, who has lived in her apartment on The Esplanade for 21 years, said it was a safety issue, with security doors being left open for the cats to go in and out as they pleased.

She said the cats also defecated and messed the carpet in the common area. ‘‘I’m not against pets in the apartment, I have a dog myself, but keep them inside your apartment where they can’t cause a hazard to other residents,’’ Ms Green said.

Ace Body Corporate, the building’s strata management company, would not comment. \ LAURA BANKS

it’s summer over there

» Details: afmelbourne.com.au.

burglaries, car thefts up port phillip

Burglaries and car thefts continue to plague Port Phillip, with overall crime slightly up, new figures reveal.

Statistics released by Victoria Police last week showed that 10,337 offences were recorded in the police service area between April 1, 2012 and March 31 this year – a slight jump on the 10,263 offences recorded in the previous 12-month period.

Residential burglaries have jumped 21 per cent from 544 offences to 659, with theft from and of motor cars continuing to be an issue in the area with a jump of 22.2 per cent and 15.4 per cent respectively.

Assaults have also increased, with 1017 offences recorded compared with 944 for the same period last year.

Drug offences dropped 6.4 per cent from 369 offences to 360.

(IAIN ANdERSoN)

Port Phillip is taking part in the largest free music event in the world – the Fete de la Musique, held each year on the first day of European summer. Launched in Paris in 1982, the celebration of music and performance is now held in 450 cities in more than 100 countries.

Melbourne’s main gig – sponsored by Port Phillip Council and St Kilda-based Alliance Francaise – will be at the Espy in St Kilda on Friday, June 21 from 7pm until 3am with gypsy band Woohoo Revue (right), songstress Kylie Auldist and blues and folk singer Suzie Stapleton, accompanied by Melbourne cellist and film composer Gareth Skinner.

There’ll be a warm-up event featuring upcoming performers at the Local Taphouse in St Kilda the night before, 6.30-8.45pm. \ TM

Port Phillip PSA manager Inspector Paul Breen said burglaries and thefts were “heavily” on the policing radar.

“We really are targeting the recidivist offenders targeting burglaries and thefts,” Inspector Breen said.

“We’ve had some really good success with a lot of these figures in the past few months but obviously the figures are for the 12-month period.”

Inspector Breen said police had also made an impact on assault figures in the past three months and attributed the rise to an increase in family violence reports.

“And we have had some significant impact in reducing drug offences through a number of covert operations that we will continue to carry out,” he said.

Inspector Breen encouraged residents to report any suspicious behaviour to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. \ LB

andrews to meet challenge one step at a time saNdriNGhaM It’s exhausting just watching Sandringham’s Sally Andrews run up and down her local beach stairs, let alone be in her sandshoes.

The 54-year-old mother of three is training hard for the inaugural Stadium Stomp at the MCG on Sunday, June 16, to raise money for her chosen charity, Reclink, which provides sports and arts programs for the disadvantaged. ‘‘I’ve always enjoyed being fit and love these slightly different charity events,’’ said

Ms Andrews, a professional gardener and garden designer. ‘‘I’ve done Eureka Tower, the 24-hour oxfam, the Cradle Mountain overland track and many other charity event runs and half-marathons.’’ her weekly training involves gym workouts and running up and down the 110 steps near Royal Avenue – up to 40 times in one go.

The Stadium Stomp is set to become Australia’s longest consecutive stair climb – 7343 steps on the top and bottom seating levels of the MCG. There are two courses –

1890 steps (taking around 20 minutes) or the full course that could last up to two hours.

Start times will be staggered from 8am and 3pm to avoid congestion. ‘‘It’s not a race but a personal test of stamina,’’ Ms Andrews said. ‘‘Climbing 10 steps is the equivalent calorie burn of taking 38 steps on level ground, so it’s almost four times as beneficial to take the stairs – it’s hard work, I assure you!’’ \ TERESA MURPHY

» Ms Andrews can be sponsored at stadiumstomp.com.au june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 11

Cover Story

Voice oF

Reason Geraldine Doogue has been a civilised – and civilising – voice on television and radio for more than 30 years.

PETER WILMOTH meets her at home

12 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

I

t’s a great radio voice, and it’s a voice of reason and civility. We’re sitting in the Sydney sunshine in Geraldine Doogue’s back garden. Some budgies in a cage are chirping away, her 19-year-old son is dispatched to look for the family dog, who hasn’t been sighted for a while, and it’s a chance for me to grill the griller, the journalist whose warmth has exuded from television screens and radio speakers for 30 years.

She’s the reasonable voice amid lots of shouting and shrillness and I ask if that’s been a deliberate stance.

“I have thought about how I wanted to interview people,” she says. “In a way the cross-examiners are lionised in our profession, they ‘get’ somebody. I like a bit of that, but I have always preferred to get to motive, what’s making this person tick, why are they thinking like they’re thinking. I’m more interested in that than the ‘gotcha!’.

“I tend to think that you don’t get the same applause from within my profession, but you may well get it from the broader public. I’m very impressed with people who can drive home that final nail in the coffin, but I know that what I really respect is the people who can follow through and do a forensic interview that gives the person a bit of dignity at the end of it. I think the essence of good journalism is genuine, deep-seated curiosity.

Sometimes I get frustrated because I don’t see enough curiosity, I see people try to make headlines.”

Doogue herself has never made headlines. She’s been a steady presence, presenting the religion-based Compass on ABC TV and Life Matters on Radio National. She now hosts a Saturday morning show on Radio National called Saturday Extra (from 7.30).

“That’s my pride and joy, really,” she says. “It’s designed to be your broadsheet newspaper that you read with a cup of coffee, on radio. A lot of people, particularly Melbourne people, have this habit ... where you go in and sit with your friends and you scan the articles while you’re having a coffee. I think that’s really got a place on radio.

“At 7.30-8 it’s the front pages, after 8am it’s features, and you finish going light, travel, quirky things.”

She aims to weave all manner of life into the show, including business. “Not just the statistics but, ‘How does it fit into the world of ideas?’ Not to be afraid of that. I think these days, with all the voices that are around, there’s a tremendous fear of any perceived depth, and I think depth can be very sexy. I don’t think you have to be terrified of putting people off ... Give people a chance to pause and reflect and try to make sense of things. I think that can be immensely attractive.”

Doogue grew up in Perth wanting to be a teacher.

“Something safe,” she says. “I ended up doing very unsafe things. The media is not a safe world.”

At the University of Western Australia, she befriended Kim Beazley, who was a couple of years ahead of her. Doogue was bridesmaid at both of his weddings. She almost launched into teaching but was offered a cadetship by The West Australian.

“Something propelled me to give it a go and I just knew I was home.” She started her cadetship in 1972.

“Fantastic time to be in journalism,” she says. “Gough Whitlam was elected at the end of the year. Loads of stories. It was just such fun.”

She travelled to London for Beazley’s marriage to his first wife, Mary, and stayed for a few years. In 1981 she moved to Sydney with her first husband, journalist Tim Blue.

A few years later she was offered the job of Perth-based compere of the ABC’s current affairs program, Nationwide. It was her first role outside newspapers. “I lost about a stone and a half [9.5 kilos] from nervous energy,” she says. “It was hard. Daily live television is tough. Coming after TDT [This Day Tonight], a great era was ending, and a new one beginning. There’s very different instincts involved in newspaper and television fronting, but fantastic

Picture \ John Donegan opportunities. Once you get over the terror you think, ‘Oh well, I’ll just bat on’.”

She was soon back in Sydney fronting Nationwide’s NSW edition. After a stint in commercial radio and television, she returned to ABC TV, where she garnered multiple awards, including the United Nations Media Peace Prize for her coverage of the Gulf War. In 1998, she began presenting Compass and became standard bearer for religious faith and spirituality on television. I ask how much her own beliefs as a Catholic have informed that program.

“Because I have been exposed to belief all my life, I’m not afraid of going there. When I watch a lot of people in straight news and current affairs, I watch them interview people and get close to the issue of belief and then they back off, observably frightened, that they’ll be accused of being believers. There’s a real image that if you’re perceived to be a believer, in news and current affairs, there’s a perceived risk that you lose your objectivity. I think it’s a load of absolute rubbish.”

She says people learn to keep their beliefs quiet.

“In a way, I learnt years ago. I thought, ‘Look, I either worry about this or I don’t’. And because I believed you could do very good journalism in this space – in fact I think it’s a greatly underdone area – I decided I wasn’t going to let it bother me.”

I ask whether her faith helps her understand some of the issues we’re facing, such as child abuse and paedophile priests. “Definitely,” she says. “I think it’s

helped some of the children, didn’t help others.”

There were four children in the Doogue and Carroll household, from different marriages. I suggest that talking about the issues of the day could be a great gift for children.

“Yes, but we’ve all got a certain cup of energy and you do wonder in retrospect whether you had enough for the little things. We certainly tried, and I think we did.

“I know people who forbade all phone calls after six o’clock at night just so they could give total time to their children. These are people in very busy careers. And I sometimes wish we’d done a bit more of that. I hope we modelled our utter enjoyment of our working life, which I think is a lovely thing to model too.”

How did being a journalist interlace with her role as a parent? “It used to be a [family] joke, we’d yell at the television news. ‘Oh what rubbish is this!’ Because we’d been absorbed in it all day or I had to do an interview about it or Ian had to commission something, because he was running things all our married life.”

Now Doogue is a grandmother to Taya, who is 18 months old, and she’s loving her role.

“She was born only three weeks after Ian died. There was something remarkable about life and death in that.

I wish he could have held her in his arms. It was his daughter’s child. But it’s wonderful. I try to see her as much as I can and be a reliable grandmother.

“I really want to be reliable to my stepdaughter, Genevieve ... On Tuesday afternoon she can do whatever she likes and I’m there. I feel, with young mothers, the best thing you can give them is to say, ‘Look I’ll be available Tuesday and Thursday, if you want to sit and look at the television, just have a cup of coffee, do the

“i know people who forbade all phone calls after six at night so they could give total time to their children. i sometimes wish we’d done a bit more of that.” allowed me to understand issues inside Islam. And issues inside Buddhism. And issues inside Judaism. I think that if you are not afraid of having a belief system you then are open to a whole lot of other belief systems, belief systems generally.

“People know it about you. They will agree to an interview. You ask questions differently if you are not afraid of admitting you are some form of believer.”

I

n a sphere where having faith has been so unfashionable, Compass has been an island.

“Radio National, my network, has always maintained quite a strong religion unit, but there’s nothing like that on local radio, nothing on commercial radio or TV ... That went right out 25 years ago.”

In 2011, Doogue’s second husband, television executive Ian Carroll, died from pancreatic cancer, aged 64. He was pivotal to the creation of many ABC programs, such as Nationwide, Lateline, The 7.30 Report and Four Corners.

Doogue and Carroll were what Doogue would probably be appalled to hear described as a media power couple. It was an epic love story, a 27-year relationship.

“It was a big, emotional connection, a relationship that transforms you. Big relationships that change you can’t be easily repeated. You’ve just got to accept that they don’t come along that much.”

It helped that they were in the same industry. “We talked immensely about it all. It was wonderful.”

Did she ever a worry there was too much journalism talk in the house? “I’ve thought about whether we, in retrospect, both thought, ‘Did we just have too much of that around us, the kids hearing so much?’ It probably

washing, have a facial, do whatever you want to do, I’ll be there. If you want to talk to me, I’ll be there’. Just to be reliable. And to just enjoy the baby and hopefully let her enjoy me. I’m learning. I’ve got training wheels on.”

Was parenthood her greatest achievement?

“Definitely. It’s highly creative, both to you and to them.

It’s forming a person, watching them, facilitating them on their terms. That’s the big thing you learn. You have to allow them to be who they are going to be, not who you want them to be.”

I ask about her children’s reaction to having famous parents. “I don’t think kids like being in the public eye.

And I think they get drawn in whether or not they like it ... I think most people in the public eye say, ‘I don’t think this has been ideal for my kids’.”

Doogue has no plans to retire. “I’d certainly like to be on the ABC for a few more years, to find out what you can do and what you can say out loud, what venue you can give other people to speak at a deep level when they’re not invited to elsewhere.”

She speaks often to young people and offers some words on career. “I say, ‘Meet your deadlines, be gracious to people and do well enough to be invited back’.”

For 30 years, as she entered our homes on radio and television, the gracious Geraldine Doogue has been invited back, many times. \ pwilmoth@theweeklyreview.com.au PS: The missing dog was taken by two French people to a local café for a latte and later returned safe and sound.

We Welcome your feeDback @

www.theweeklyreview.com.au/cover-story

listen » Geraldine Doogue hosts Saturday Extra on Radio National each Saturday from 7.30am june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 13

W , is it e i v asks lY? y m E l iC al at k \

a r in

h

nD O Y BE

tO s U

Yn a Pl

(iSTOCKPHOTO / THINKSTOCK)

T

his week my friend was riding her bike along the A friend faced a really troubling backlash recently when she Swanston Street bike path and, when she swerved a made a quip online about the Anzacs. Sensitive topic for some, little, a big guy on a bike behind her said a “get out of yes, but they were her ideas, she had a right to express them.

And it wasn’t that people voiced their disagreement so the way, you stupid ...[I will leave the next two words to your vehemently that shocked me the most, because of course it’s imagination]”. It’s amazing what some people think they can a free country, it’s OK to disagree. say behind the veil of a bike helmet.

What was horrifying was that so many of the responses And what I’ve noticed lately is this: if people have described a range of things the Facebookers hoped something nice to say, they say it. They say, “Oh, I loved would happen to my friend for saying such things, that post”, or “Nice jumper, coffee, photo or world Why many of them violent and absolutely criminal. you live in”. is such a Should it be that frightening to have an opinion But if people have something negative to say, or that differs from someone else? Even when I they don’t agree with you, they’ll tell you about nasty beast went to find a new hairdresser last week, so it and then they follow up with the suggestion lurking many online reviews of local salons were horrid of a possible outcome for you. Like you within? and blasphemous. The things people say they’re should be sacked, or you should be prepared to do because they had a bad haircut. ashamed or you should be physically hurt People make mistakes, I know I do, and I’m OK in some generally horrible way. admitting an error if I have to.

And then they’ll top it all off with an But I sure as anything don’t want to be insulted or almighty insult ... frequently in the threatened with rape and torture for begging to differ or feminine, of course. And sadly, the reverse swerving on a bike path. situation doesn’t apply. People don’t tend We live in a country that’s been voted one of the most to say, “Oh, good reverse park you just liveable in the world. We are economically viable, we have did, you should get a medal for that, the lowest interest rates in years, lovely autumnal skies, hell, you’re amazingly talented”. But they there are even rules about picking up dog poo here (and will say, “Sh-- park, go back to school, anyone who has ever lived in a country that doesn’t have where did you get your licence from –out this rule will know that walking to work can be sometimes of a cereal packet?”. quite hazardous).

They don’t say, “Hey, you only have a Why is such a nasty beast lurking within the anonymous couple of things, please jump in front of me in Facebooker, or talkback caller, or bike rider? the queue”, but they will say, “Hey, don’t you realise Have we forgotten how to play nicely with each other? \ there’s a queue, wait your turn”. khall@theweeklyreview.com.au I’m not talking about people who have a relationship with each other – god help all of us if we spoke like this to We Welcome your feedback @ people we actually knew. I’m talking about casual exchanges www.theweeklyreview.com.au/my-view between strangers, people out in the world sharing bike paths and roads and shopping centres and cyberspace.

In fact, Facebook is the worst for this kind of behaviour.

Leisure and Lifestyles Winter Program 2013

FREE 2013 Winter Leisure and Lifestyles Program Classes start the week beginning Monday 15 July and run for six – eight weeks.

These are FREE for all City of Port Phillip residents.

Registrations are essential - limited places available!

Yoga - Teaching the fundamentals of yoga. Suitable for all ages and abilities.

Tuesday 10.30 am at Betty Day Community Centre, St Kilda East Children’s Dance, Gymnastics and Yoga - A fun mix of activities in one great class for ages two – three years old.

Wednesday 9.30 am at South Melbourne Community Centre Tai Chi - Teaching the fundamentals of tai chi. Suitable for all ages and abilities.

Wednesday 6.30 pm at Sol Green Community Centre, South Melbourne Junior Beginner Golf Clinics - A great introduction to the game of golf for children aged six – thirteen years old.

Thursday 6 pm at Albert Park Driving Range Functional Flexibility with Freestyler - A hybrid class of floor pilates and yoga. Suitable for all abilities.

Thursday 6.30 pm at MSAC, Albert Park Melbourne Sports Hub: Kids Club - A fun, safe and active indoor multi-sport program for kids aged five – twelve years old.

Saturday 9 am at MSAC, Albert Park For further information and to obtain a registration form, visit the website at www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/programs_activities_community.htm or contact Council’s Sport and Recreation Team on 03 9209 6677.

She

Q Scholarships 2014

Shelford Girls’ Grammar is delighted to announce the introduction ntroduction of Q Scholarships for entry to Years 3 and 4 in 2014. Please contact Ms Marie e De Sousa on 9524 7413 or refer to the website for further details about Q Scholarships arships and our innovative Quaerite Program.

Shelford

ELC - Year 12 3 Hood Crescent, Caulfield.

www.shelford.vic.edu.au 14 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

will shine

BARIstA \ LEANNE TOLRA REVIEWS JOHN GORILLA says makes for an interesting playlist and some fascinating people-watching.

JOHN GORILLA 49 PeARsON stReet, BRuNswIck west

bAristA

Tom Kendall says his human interaction within a workplace and career is on an “upward social hub. She has a degree in anthropology trajectory”. He’s worked at Aquarium Bakery and philosophy and is an astute observer of Café in Northcote, at the Brunswick Food human nature, explaining the unusual name Store and for The Coffee Club chain – and of her 10-month-old café. in “some pretty ordinary places”. He entered John Gorilla was a young male ape the hospitality industry while at school and famously kept in a New York apartment and worked at restaurant sinks and raised as a human during the 1920s. stoves before experimenting with “I have had three children and two “paying espresso machines. cafés, but I found the cafés much attention “I can nominate my own harder to name,” says Wilson to each shot hours now and I really like the whose first café, Mart 130, was in environment,” says the amateur the former stationmaster’s office at is critical” musician. He’s a solo acoustic tram stop 130 in Middle Park. guitarist and a pianist who enjoys Wilson and her family moved to comping. “I am equally passionate about Brunswick about three years ago and she music and hospitality and everything has sold Mart in late 2011. She had her eye on the come together.” derelict building at the base of a legal office, The café uses Padre’s seasonal espresso just near her home. “According to urban blend, plus a selection of single origins. “We legend its first incarnation was as a general have a three-group Synesso Cyncra that’s the store, but it later became a fish and chip shop, best machine I’ve ever worked on,” Kendall and at one time was apparently a doctor’s says. “We make manual shots and paying surgery,” she says. attention to each shot is critical. If your Mart’s chef, Shane Beazley, came to attentiveness drops, so does the quality of the Brunswick with her, but Wilson recognised coffee. I think this is a great approach and that specialty coffee was now in demand results in the best possible coffee.” \ across Melbourne and selected local roaster ltolra@theweeklyreview.com.au Padre Coffee to supply premium beans.

There are up to a dozen floor staff at the tO ReAd mORe RevIews café and three chefs supporting Beazley. www.theweeklyreview.com.au/coffee Many of them are musicians, which Wilson

Phone \ 9005 8680 Barista \ Tom Kendall Coffee \ Padre Barista’s choice \ Espresso Open \ Daily 7.30am-4pm

» www.johngorilla.com

tOm keNdALL

(Darrian Traynor)

Joanna Wilson wonders CAfé whether her real interest in running cafés lies in the opportunity to study

Mismatched, preloved furniture from a cross-section of decades has found its way into John Gorilla’s nooks, as have coloured cushions, graphic images and ebullient terrariums. Pots, vases and glasses are filled with blooms, and collectibles decorate shelves and window ledges. Lampshade frames host bare globes, retro wallpaper lines one wall, and colourful yardsticks serve as panelling around the front counter. There is also a cosy rear courtyard. \

G6042394AA-a29May©FCNVIC

GWB

Open 4pm Weekdays and 12pm Sat & Sun @ The Graham Hotel - Esplande West, Port Melbourne • 96762566 june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 15

Arthur G Factory Furniture Sale Australian Designed, Australian Manufactured Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th June 9.00am to 5.00pm Exclusive furniture manufacturer are having their annual stocktake clearance sale. Up to 70% off Sofas, Modulars, Tables, Ottomans & Chairs.

1 Stafford Street Huntingdale 3166 Telephone (03) 9543 4633 sales@arthurg.com.au - arthurg.com.au

Food \ LEANNE TOLRA REVIEWS SAIGON SALLY

BAnh knoT

rArE WAGYu sTrip

H

ere’s a dare: leave your electronic devices in the car, or at home. Give your thumbs a rest and forgo the social ties for an hour or two. That sixth sense we are developing, let’s call it “connectedness”, isn’t needed here.

Your original five senses will be used to their full potential in this sultry, clubby space. Dramatic lighting and people watching, and the din of voices and music will occupy two. The menu should keep the other three alert.

Saigon Sally is the sophisticated sister of popular Vietnamese hawker bar Hanoi Hannah, a suburb away.

Hannah opened in February 2012 and Sally arrived 12 months later. Ownership team Nick Coulter, Paul Nguyen, Simon Blacher and Will Newton (the first three met while working at The Saint Hotel in Fitzroy) knew their new girl had to stand on her own, but that there was still room for a another taste of Vietnamese executed with Victoria Street devotion south of the river.

Sally is more about home-style Vietnamese food and sharing dishes; less about pho and rice paper rolls. It’s a little pricier, too. But the offering from pans wielded by Adrian Li (ex Donovans) is still well-priced for a damn good, smack-of-the-senses feed.

Li combines his Vietnamese/Chinese upbringing with the traditional and modern cooking techniques he learnt in the kitchens on Jacka Boulevard. The result is a judicious balance of the five elements integral to Vietnamese cuisine – sour, bitter, sweet, spicy and salty.

Smell and taste are put through their paces with the ingredients used in Li’s cooking. Touch gets its

A damn good, smack-ofthe-senses feed

first awakening with prawn pandanus parcels. There’s nothing especially Vietnamese about these plump packages of minced prawn meat. They are Asian fusion cuisine at its best, with the addition of garlic, galangal, sriracha (Thai chilli sauce) and lemongrass. Pandan leaves aren’t native to Vietnam, but they smell fantastic.

Get your fingers messy stripping the coarse roasted leaves from the meat and dunk in the sticky, sweet sesame caramel sauce. Chopsticks are optional, but slower and less inclined to challenge your sense of touch.

Fingers are required too for banh khot – a trio of rice flour and smoked coconut cream blinis, shaped into cute little bowls. The just-crisp dishes hold tiny cubes of silken tofu, fried shallots, chilli, spring onions and a few soft mung beans in a broth of smoked coconut milk.

Add a little red wine vinegar and devour in two bites.

Saigon Sally’s menu offers six small dishes, six medium-sized dishes, a few sides and nine larger dishes.

Most are suited to sharing. There’s a “feed me” option for $59 a person, minimum of two people. It offers good value and broad menu coverage.

The winter cocktail list offers some cracking combinations. There’s the boom boom mojito, made with white rum, chilli, Vietnamese mint, kaffir lime, lemongrass, ginger syrup and soda, or the spiced pumpkin and maple mule, with pumpkin liquor, vodka, apple brandy and ginger and maple syrup.

The wine and beer lists are sophisticated and well suited to the food.

Vietnamese chicken coleslaw is another sensory delight. Tender slices of chicken breast that have been

ViETnAmEsE chickEn coLEsLAW

poached in black bean sauce are tossed with bean shoots, shredded carrot, Asian basil, peanuts and pickles, and sit on a bed of crisp vermicelli.

All five elements are in harmony in a generous brick of rare wagyu dressed in Li’s own zesty ponzu, made with soy sauce and pomegranate molasses. The thin slices of meat are topped with shallots, nasturtium petals, lemongrass, crisp pieces of garlic and ginger, and a scattering of pomegranate seeds.

But the broken bim bim bap – Li’s take on a traditional Korean dish – is the ultimate comfort food.

The crushed rice hosts salty, spicy pulled pork, shredded carrots and lemongrass and is topped with an egg poached at 63 degrees.

Salads are sensory. There’s the savoury morning glory tossed with garlic, lemon and sesame oil and the chilli-heavy astringent papaya salad.

Happy endings are prepared at the bar. Watch as grapes are sliced and popcorn is added to the che bap – a hit-and-miss combo of tapioca and corn pudding and zesty lime granita. Order it for the divine vacuum-treated, airy honeycomb (thanks Donovans).

The house specialty, a tira-mi-Sally, is a quirky finisher that says much about this bold, adventurous food. Layers of macaron are filled with a Vietnamese coffee parfait, condensed milk and peanut brittle.

It looks like a school lunch, there’s nothing very Vietnamese about it, and it’s fabulous. \ ltolra@theweeklyreview.com.au To rEAd morE rEViEWs

Eat this sAiGon sALLY, 2 dukE sTrEET, Windsor

ThE insidE

Cuisine \ Vietnamese

it’s the lighting that gives Sally her seductive ambience; from the red glow on the street to the cables along the floor, the candlelit tables and the golden glow on pale-green pressed-metal panels around the bar.

Creative cocktails and dramatic desserts are shaken, stirred and created under the gaze of appreciative duos atop high stools around this central station. Drama is added by exposed concrete beams and a striking wall and ceiling mural. noisy groups fill tables front and rear, while quiet couples line the side walls away from the fray. \

Chef \ adrian Li

Open \ Wednesday to Sunday 6pm to late Phone \ 9939 5181 The verdict \ Somewhere special

» www.saigonsally.com.au

(Darrian Traynor)

Prices \ Small to medium dishes $8-$20; large dishes $18-$32; desserts $10-$12

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 17

Decanter \ BEN THOMAS STudiES THE clASSicS

D

(iStockph oto / thiN kStock)

aggy brands, fluoro clothing and bushranger beards have been reinvented in these retro times we’re living in. It seems a shame that, when it comes to wine, it’s obscure grapes and biodynamics that capture much of our attention rather than the classics.

I’ve been daggy on the wine front lately and reckon some of our older brands – ones that I grew up with on the dining table and in TV and print adverts – are well worth a revisit.

I grew up with brands such as Hardy’s Nottage Hill, Jacob’s Creek and Deakin Estate, and was aware that they were wine before I was old enough to drink.

Thanks largely, I’m sure, to those Nottage Hill ads of the 1980s: “It’s not ah … Nottage Hill”.

These wines used to be staples in the wine rack but, as the range of wine varieties and labels available to us has increased, many of us have moved on.

Maybe it’s a little bit of wine snobbery, but friends of mine would happily spend a similar amount of money on an obscure brand or variety rather than buy what could be considered a daggy wine from the past.

I had a mate over recently who’s a million miles from being a wine snob and knows a lot about wine. He has an excellent cellar, too. I poured him a glass of $10 Deakin Estate shiraz alongside a few more expensive, cutting-edge wines he was keen to try. It more than held its own and he went back for a second glass.

It wasn’t the quality that surprised, but the savoury style of the wine. Popular wine styles are constantly changing – 10 years ago

unwooded chardonnay was the buzz in white wine and now it’s sav blanc from the islands across the ditch – and the longevity of these brands lies with the fact that they move with the times, too.

I’m constantly amazed by the lengths to which the bigger wine companies go They’re in market research (and the budgets they allocate towards it) when launching often ahead a new wine or changing the style of an of the existing one. curve They’re often ahead of the curve and I’ve found their insights into future drinking styles to be proven accurate more often than not.

While these older brands are well-known and often fondly remembered, they still sell in huge quantities. Technology in the vineyard and winery has changed dramatically over the past decade, too, which has kept the long-established wine brands keenly priced – many can be found on the shelves at the big wine barns for about $10.

One thing I’ve noticed with the better-known, established brands is that each year there will be one or two standout wines in the range. One year shiraz will be the star and the next it may be chardonnay or pinot noir. These wines can present some of the best bargains around and I take great pleasure in finding these gems.

Deakin Estate is a notable exception – its entire range of wines seem to get better and better each year. \ bthomas@theweeklyreview.com.au to reaD more reviews

www.theweeklyreview.com.au/wine

ADVERTISEMENT

STATE BUDGET AT A GLANCE

Strengthening Health Care Additional $426 million to Victoria’s hospitals and health system.

The Coalition Government’s commitment to quality and efficiency will build an affordable health system for the long term, through: q $421 million over four years to see more patients treated sooner for elective surgery. q Delivering the new Bendigo, Monash Children’s and redeveloped Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospitals. q $238 million over four years to help prevent a projected future shortage of health professionals in the future. q $772 million over four years to treat more patients including critical care and enhancing maternity and neonatal care. q $78 million to build and improve hospitals and health services in rural and regional areas.

The Coalition Government is investing in high quality, modern hospitals and health care for the benefit of all Victorians.

Your Upper House MPs: Georgie Crozier, David Davis and Andrea Coote Members for Southern Metropolitan Region

For full details visit www.budget.vic.gov.au Authorised by Georgie Crozier, 1/667-669 Glenhuntly Rd, Caulfield 3162.

18 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

TasTe This Lindeman’s Bin 65 Chardonnay 2012

De Bortoli Sacred Hill Shiraz 2012

(South-eastern Australia) $9.99; 13% ★★★ ½

A decade ago, when living in London, Bin 65 was regularly found in our fridge. Consistent quality and always good value were the keys. It was a slice of sunshine during cold winters. Cantaloupe, peach and citrus flavours are clean and tasty – drink it too cold and it’s easy to miss its citrus zest and pith notes that add some complexity. Smooth and slightly creamy, with a line of zippy lemon-flavoured acid, it flows nicely along the tongue before finishing with ripe stonefruit flavours.

Food match \ BBQ chicken

COMPLeX

Jacob’s Creek Reserve Riesling 2012

Seppelt The Victorians Shiraz 2011

(Barossa) $17.99; 12.2% ★★★★ DeLiCaTe

De Bortoli has a knack of producing wines of great value. Here’s its latest. The more of this I drank, the more I got into it – a good sign when it comes to any wine. It smells of cherries, blackberries, plums, vanilla and wet stones – a complex and interesting mix of aromas – and tastes similar. There’s depth to the fleshy flavours that means it will stand up well to rich food on cold nights, but it’s by no means heavy. In fact, bright acid keeps this quite light on its feet, while fine tannins and a lengthy finish add polish.

Food match \ Cassoulet

(Victoria) $14.99; 13.5% ★★★★

From a great vintage and sourced from the Barossa and Eden valleys, this spends 10 months on yeast lees, which adds complexity to its texture and aromas. Perfumed and pretty, it’s full of lovely petals, talc, apples, pears and citrus. There are tangerine citrus notes in the mouth with delicate lemon and lime flavours plus a mineral, saline note, while slightly chalky acid adds depth and interest.

This is a good 10-year cellar prospect for not a lot of money.

Food match \ Pan-fried blue-eye cod

JUiCY

At full price, this is a bargain, but I bet you’ll find this even cheaper at the chains. If you do, snap it up by the dozen. It’s sourced from Heathcote, Bendigo and Great Western and, importantly, it tastes Victorian – from the cherry, blackberry, earthy and spicy aromas to the plum, blackberry, dark cherry and pepper flavours. Juicy acid and fine tannins offer a light grip, plus a lengthy finish.

What more does one need? It should drink nicely for a few years, too.

Food match \ Grilled rump steak

BIG TILE & BATHROOM SALE SUNDAY 16th June at Moorabbin 23rd June at Blackburn from 9.30am - 1.30pm ONLY

TOILETS from $99 each Porcelain Tiles priced from $9.99 / sqm TAPWARE & OTHER BATHROOM FITTINGS also at Sale prices

10% off all Ardex Tiling Products BLACKBURN STORE only

www.vision-direct.com.au i i di Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:00pm Sat 9:30am-3.30pm

(Discount applies till 31st July 2013)

55 Cochranes Rd., Moorabbin VIC. 3189 Ph: 03 9555 1633 Fax: 03 9555 4122

G5915917AA-a12Jun©FCNVIC

CReaMY

(South-eastern Australia) $7.50; 13.5% ★★★ ½

Love a bargain?

Deakin Estate Merlot 2012

(Murray Darling) $9.99; 13.5% ★★★★ Deakin Estate is owned by the Ferrer family, who are behind Freixenet – one of the world’s great sparkling bargains. Simply, this is a good, varietal drink that’s far more enjoyable than most merlots that cost twice the price. It smells of rose petals, dark berries, redcurrants, mocha and a little spice. It’s not overly complex, but pure redcurrant, raspberry, cherry and pepper flavours are pretty tasty. Bright acid and grippy tannins sit nicely within the wine and it’s this seamless structure that lifts it above the average $10 wine.

Food match \ Roast lamb

5 ★ Outstanding 4 ★ Really good 3★ Good

2★ OK ★ Not worth it

Follow Ben @senorthomas

Expressions of Interest

Office Space at Betty Day Community Centre Temporary 12 month licence The City of Port Phillip is seeking expressions of interest from Not-for-Profit or Non-Government Organisations to utilise vacant administration space at the Betty Day Community Centre, 67 Argyle Street, St Kilda. The total available area is 18.5 square metres, suitable for up to four work stations.

General terms: •

standard licence agreement and annual fee ($104 - $520)

•

temporary 12 months

For further information and an application form, visit Council’s website www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/public_notices.htm or contact Luiza Yudko, Community Facilities Officer on 03 9209 6371 or comfacil@portphillip.vic.gov.au Expressions of Interest will be accepted until 4 pm on Tuesday 18 June 2013.

176 Whitehorse Rd.,Blackburn, VIC 3130 Ph: 03 9877 0026 Fax: 03 9877 0036 june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 19

Now available at iPhone is a registered trade mark of Apple Inc, registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple, Inc.

Fashion \ JANE ROCCA iNvEstigAtEs thE EthiCs Of stylE we hope that they will influence people to appreciate good craftsmanship and high-quality materials,” says McCarthy. “After all, this is key to reducing our world’s unbelievable consumption rates.”

Cassar says her pieces explore the notion of upcycling.

She is up to her ninth collection this year.

“The pieces I have chosen to exhibit portray my signature style,” Cassar says. “Each design has been hand sewn by myself using the deconstruction process whereby preloved garments have been deconstructed and reconstructed to create something new.”

Cassar says being sustainable shouldn’t be a choice, it should be a given. “We are all aware of the state of our environment,” she says. “To me, fashion design should reflect our time, so it should reflect our social responsibility towards our natural environment.”

McCarthy agrees and says the aim of the the look exhibition is to show consumers the perks of being fashionable Sustainable fashion and ethical. meets art at The Light “Beauty can be found in Factory’s The Ethics of seemingly redundant Style exhibition.

(supplied)

T

he relationship between sustainability and wearable art is the essence that holds The Ethics of Style exhibition together. Curated by Sigrid McCarthy and showing at The Light Factory Gallery in Eltham, the event looks at how fashion and sustainable design can live in unison. “I didn’t want to merely recreate something that had essentially been done many times before,” McCarthy says.

“With this in mind, I decided to approach talented local designers that in my opinion were approaching sustainability in interesting and unique ways.”

In The Ethics Of Style, a handful of aspiring designers strut their talent – outfits that have been made with sustainable practice in mind. This is teamed with the works of established fashion illustrators to provide an integrated approach. From illustrator Kerrie Hess to designer Rachael Cassar’s dresses made from recycled materials, the exhibition is designed to challenge perceptions about what is sustainable fashion and offers two- and three-dimensional experiences.

“I want to alter people’s perceptions of sustainable fashion by showcasing beautiful design that wouldn’t necessarily be expected,” McCarthy says. “I don’t believe a garment should scream, ‘I’m sustainable’. It should be functional, stylish and aesthetically pleasing, while also being ethical.”

Kerrie Hess, who recently moved back to Brisbane after a long stint overseas, including in London, Hong Kong and Paris, has made a name for herself as a talented illustrator. If the surname rings a bell, it’s because her sister, Megan, is in the same field. Inspired by Paris, vintage fashion magazines and street fashion, Hess has scored some great gigs over the years, from her first job with Vogue at 19, to publishing a stylebook called Shoestring Chic and working on a capsule collection with Kate Spade New York. Her illustrations appear on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar’s 15th anniversary edition with Collette Dinnigan, a coup for the artist.

“I jumped at the chance to be involved in this exhibition,” says Hess, whose illustrations are on show in the Printemps department store in Paris right now – yes, on 13-metre billboards.

“I love that The Light Factory is celebrating fashion illustration with a focus on sustainability. I think fashion illustration is finally making it back onto magazine covers, into frames in people’s homes and in fashion windows again, which is lovely.”

The exhibition also features the designs of Gemma Anastasiou and Joseph Jang. “They all invest a lot of time and energy into their pieces, and

joseph jang

items of clothing, simply through refashioning them.

Joseph Jang’s avant-garde pieces – which are made from recycled denim jeans found in op shops – are testament to this notion,” McCarthy says.

Accompanying the exhibition is a refashioning workshop hosted by local fashion writer, and TWR journalist, Leeyong Soo. “We hope that all these components of the exhibition will help consumers re-evaluate the lifespan of their garments,” McCarthy says. \ jrocca@theweeklyreview.com.au

kerrie hess

“fashion illustration is finally making it back onto magazine covers and into fashion windows again.”

» The Ethics of Style opens June 20 at The Light Factory, Eltham, and runs to July 21. Opening drinks are on Sunday, June 23, 2-4pm. thelightfactorygallery.com.au/

style file designer

trend

must-have

Katie Brannaghan and Bec Cunnington are childhood friends who started Hipkin – an online destination for children’s denim and streetwear clothing, which has been handpicked from Europe and the US to sell a unique story. They stock Cheap Monday for kids, Mini Rodini from Sweden and Baby Version Rock from France coming soon. www.hipkin.com.au

Square it off with this Sophie Hulme tote in tan. We love this London designer’s angular mission.

When she’s not making bags, keep an eye out for her outerwear, dresses and leather accessories, too.

Available at Filly’s Stable, Albert Park.

Phone 9686 1061

Combat the winter $229 blues with this woollen number by local Melbourne label Honor Among Thieves. The V-neck keeps it old school and the military tones are hot for winter. Available from Filly’s Stable. www.fillysstable.com.au / Phone 9686 1061

$839

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 21

Rimini Chocolate 4 Piece Queen Suite $1,599

YOU SAVE

33%

YOU SAVE

45% ON ALL SIZES

Luzern Queen Mattress $2,449 Ensemble pictured for illustration purposes only.

HUGE REDUCTIONS! YOU SAVE

Benton Choc

Vogue^

UP TO

UP TO

25% Kids’ beds and bedroom suites

30% Beds and bedroom suites

See your local store for more savings or visit bedshed.com.au

EXLEY RD N PEA NE

ST RY PER

AY HW HIG

RARE_BED21267D_VIC_BAY

Sleep Now. Pay Later.

YOU SAVE

Mercedes Benz

Savings are off recommended retail price (RRP). Some items may have been sold at some Bedshed stores at less than RRP as Bedshed encourages its stores to offer its products at competitive prices. Sale prices available from 25 May 2013 until 30 June 2013, or while stocks last. Prices may be higher in country areas due to freight. Not all products available to order or on display in all stores. Mattresses and accessories are not included unless stated. 4 piece Queen Suite includes Queen Bed, Tallboy and 2 x Bedsides unless stated otherwise. Bedshed attempts to accurately represent furniture however there may be colour variation to in-store product on occasions. Ensembles are pictured for illustration purposes only. Finance and lay-by not available on selected sale stock. *Clearance lines may vary from store to store. ^30% applies to Vogue Queen bed only, bedsides and tallboy not included. Sleep Now. Pay Later: Approved applicants only. Conditions, fees and charges apply. http://www.gemvisa.com.au/features/rates-fees.html. Gem Visa is a credit facility provided by GE Capital Finance Australia (ABN 42 008 583 588), trading as GE Money. Australian Credit License number 392145.

Beauty scriBe

\ Dhav NaiDu goes multicultural

(SuPPlieD \ BeCCA COSMeTiCS)

A

re our beauty aisles multicultural? Just think about it for a few moments. As Australians we pride ourselves as the poster children of multiculturalism. We embrace all and sundry, it is in our DNA or at least that is what I took for granted.

I was speechless when the question was put to me recently by several people. It got me thinking.

Foundations and concealers are the cornerstone of any women’s make-up arsenal and sadly not all brands cater to all. Many a time I have sat through a complexion product launch to be stunned by the narrowness of the imported colour range.

Our cousins in America and Britain have their pick from the same brands available here. The most popular and widely available brands have the colours, but they are just not offered in their full line-up here.

One industry insider, says “dark complexion products are not as easy to formulate as it is difficult to get the recipe right to cover tonal variations in the skin. In Australia we also do not have the population to sustain a large colour range but this I can assure you will change”.

That is perfect for the future, but what about those who need darker shades now. I agree with the comment about tonal variations in darker skin. I know of make-up artists working with the likes of Naomi Campbell, Azealia Banks and Zoe Saldana who mix at least two to three shades to get the balance right.

We all have tonal variations in our skin, but in darker skin the difference is more obvious. Darker tones also need products that give depth; if not they will look one-dimensional and ashy. Experienced make-up artists mix a bit of red to the skin to give it warmth but it can also be easily overcome by adding a smidgen of gold-hued liquid luminiser to the foundation before application.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I found no budget-priced brand that offers a colour range suited to someone darker than your average tanned olive-skinned person.

Thankfully not all is lost. If you look you will find and these brands not only carry darker skin shades they will also willingly find the right products and give you tips on how to perfect your complexion. dnaidu@theweeklyreview.com.au

Illamasqua Skin Base $41, is just beautiful on the skin and the colours are a perfect match.

Clinique, Lancôme, Giorgio Armani and YSL have certain product lines that have the perfect colour match for darker skin tones

Stila All Day Foundation ($72), a great duo of concealer and foundation, which is oil-free and stays put without any heaviness, also comes with its own foundation brush.

a blow-by-blow guide

to read more reviews

www.theweeklyreview.com.au/beauty

Becca Cosmetics complexion product range ($45-$70) / this home-grown genius of a brand covers the gamut of skin tones in various formulations and intensities, just brilliant – go buy now. wortH

win!

$450

To win a beauty stash worth $450, go to www.theweeklyreview.com.au/ beauty and post a comment – Are our beauty aisles multicultural? What should or shouldn’t change?

Bobbi Brown, MAC Cosmetics and Make Up For Ever have carried products for all skin tones from their inception.

Nars complexion product range ($35-$99) / Naomi Campbell swears by it and so do myriad celebrated women of colour. The secret is the golden hue.

Stockists » Becca Cosmetics www.beccacosmetics.com.au, Myer & David Jones \ Bobbi Brown, Clinique, Lancôme, Giorgio Armani and YSL Myer & David Jones \ Illamasqua Myer \ MAC Cosmetics Myer & David Jones and their Pro Store in Chapel Street \ Nars, Stila www.meccacosmetics.com.au \ David Babaii www.davidbabaii.com.au \ Make Up For Ever www.pmstudio.com.au

Well blow-dried hair is always on trend and David Babaii, the master of Hollywood red carpets, imparts his secret for a perfect blow dry or as the Americans call it a “blow-out”.

• Rinse your hair thoroughly – nothing spoils a blow-out like having residual conditioner in your hair – it will leave hair heavy and flat.

• Spritz David Babaii Blow Out Spray ($24.50) onto damp hair. The ingredients in this miracle product speed up drying amazingly. Dry hair with a hairdryer using fingertips to tousle through sections. To give hair added bounce, try flipping your hair upside down when drying.

• Once hair is 75 per cent dry, use a round boar bristle brush. Wrap a 5-10cm section around the brush and blow-dry downwards. Once each section is completed, roll the piece into a loose curl and secure with a clip.

• With blow-drying complete and clips removed, tap David Babaii Instant Miracle Hair Voluminising Powder ($19.95) into the roots for extra lift. Apply a small amount of serum to your hair to seal the cuticles and give that healthy glow. \ june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 23

Why clean your Gutters again?

G6071178AA-a12Jun©FCNVIC

MAS SIVE WINTER SALE! Four Seasons Gutter Guards are guaranteed for 20 years and provides protection all year round! No leaves in Autumn, No more overflow in Winter, No weeds or birds in Spring and a CSIRO fire rating 1 for fire protection in Denise’s Gutter Before Summer!

Denise’s Gutter After

Ecluded E R i F lean n nly

rc ko gutttehis wee

17.5% OFF NOW* Call us today at

1300 30 25 23 - Offer expires 22/6/13

*Valid on the day of quote only. Not to be used with any other special.

®

www.fourseasonsgutterpro.com.au

AUSTRALIAN MADE AND OWNED

UNdER tHE RAdAR \ Myke bartlett reviews the latest Mud \ Cinema Nova Exclusive Opens June 13 » www.cinemanova.com.au

(SUPPLIeD)

This beautifully crafted film feels much like a great American novel, in exactly the same way that Baz’s Gatsby didn’t.

Rather than relying on brash colours and cg trickery, Mud’s vivid world is defined by real landscapes and salty, nuanced characters. Leaving Gatsby was like crashing down from a sugar high, whereas Mud still had me in its net days later.

From the director of last year’s Take Shelter, this tale of two boys on the edge of adulthood evokes classic rites-of-passage adventures such as Huckleberry Finn, Something Wicked This Way Comes and Stand By Me. ellis (Tye Sheridan) and neckbone (Jacob Lofland) are river folk, subsisting on a stretch of the Mississippi and sneaking off to explore forbidden estuaries. On one such jaunt, they encounter Mud (Matthew Mcconaughey), a mysterious figure inhabiting a boat stranded up a tree. Soon, our young heroes become involved in a quest to reunite Mud with his lost love.

As the charismatic Mud, Mcconaughey provides an illusion of adulthood, which the boys keenly chase. ellis’ parents are on the verge of divorce, so he needs to believe in the purity of romance and the immutability of love. Love, however, proves to be a more complex and dangerous beast than he hopes. Sheridan is extraordinary, balancing a child’s fragile innocence against a man’s hot anger. Mcconaughey has probably never been better, but the real heart of the film lies with the unflappable neckbone, whose quiet love for his friend sees him follow ellis into a world we sense he’s not quite ready for.

Moving, unsentimental and quietly gripping, Mud will sit high on end-of-year best film lists. \

Group Exhibition \ Obscura Gallery, Opens Thursday, June 13, Free » www.obscuragallery.com

tv

Follow Myke on Twitter @mykebartlett

mYkE’S S pAC E

mUSIC

(SUPPLIED)

JOHNNY CRENNAN / BISON

(SUPPLIED)

Three very different young Melbourne artists rub shoulders as part of a new exhibition at St Kilda’s Obscura Gallery. Collingwood’s Hayley Miro is a young photographer, whose shadowy work draws on the styles of some of her favourite painters and filmmakers. Carly Michael’s photographs look for spirituality in the harsh landscape of central Australia, documenting the usually barren Lake Eyre after a record rainfall. Finally, painter Jonny Crennan’s Animal Crackers series is bright and surrealistic – if you detect a hint of gelati to the textures, that’s because Crennan honed his skill designing elaborate cakes for an upmarket boutique. \

Olympia \ Austra (Domino) » www.austramusic.com

Canadian pop group Austra’s debut was dance music for people who don’t like dancing. Drawing on the electro-pop of the early ’80s, Feel It Break clothed its bright, synth-led tracks in gothic shades. Record No.2 shows some sign of the group leaving the black, witchy garb on the hanger. Annie has mumbled hints of happy house, while opening track What We Done? is built on a pulsing bass line that sounds like the ebb and throb of a distant rave. Sure, it takes a while for that party to arrive (the first three minutes are little more than bass and singer Katie Stelmanis’ glassy, European vocals), and when it does, the beat is more of a shuffle than a freakout. The main leap forward is a sound in which the human element is as important as the programming. Two years of touring seem to have transformed the band into a more collaborative, experimental beast. The usual electro-pop synth swerves and bleeps are augmented by a range of instruments – horns, piano, organ and woodwind – and Stelmanis’ lyrics seem to have become more frank and her singing more vulnerable. The group’s icy cool remains intact, but there’s a new, appealing sense of warmth. \ tO REAd mORE REvIEwS

www.theweeklyreview.com.au/under-the-radar

(COLIN HUTTON)

ExHIBItION

Funny As: Simon Amstell \ ABC2, Saturday, June 15, 9.30pm » abc.net.au/abc2

British comedian Simon Amstell’s material isn’t typical stand-up fodder. At the beginning of this recording of last year’s Numb tour, he warns the audience that his inspirations were anxiety, disconnection and depression. Fans of his sitcom, Grandma’s House, should be familiar with his frank, often uncomfortable approach to comedy. Amstell has twin gifts for sharpening mundane absurdities and for one-liners of which Woody Allen would be proud. Indeed, it’s Allen’s comedy that Amstell’s most resembles.

There’s a similarly neurotic quality, as Amstell relentlessly deconstructs his own existence for his pain and our pleasure. As such, Numb is part therapy session, with the comedian attempting to understand himself and his issues with his friends, father and lovers.

Thankfully, his despair is our gain. \

WATchIng \ RocKwiz (SBS, Saturdays). Perennial sticky-floored pub quiz without the bother of going to the pub. This week’s stars are Deborah Conway and the ubiquitous Passenger.

LISTenIng \ Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs, Clarietta. Thoroughly listenable retread of some hallowed ground, with nods to Television and The Velvet Underground.

RevISITIng \ The Weatherwoman. (Madman DVD). Having vaguely remembered this arty flick from late-night SBS showings in the ’90s, I’ve been shocked to discover it’s actually kitsch erotica. june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 25

Ear On Arm Performance, Lorne Sculpture, 2011, Stelarc (NiNa SeLLarS)

A new lorne order

art \ The Lorne Sculpture Biennale has grown into a true community event, writes ASHLEY CRAWFORD

26 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

I

n 2011, beach wanderers down Lorne way may well have been confronted by a colossal four-metre-long arm, evidently washed up on the beach and made all the more peculiar by an all-listening ear, perching like a perfectly formed fungal growth on its forearm.

This already peculiar entity was made stranger still by the appearance of a naked man who mounted the arm and embraced it in some kind of bizarre lover’s clinch, and was then somewhat ritualistically coated in a layer of white clay. One soon realised the naked man also had a fully formed human ear protruding from his left arm.

This was the renowned sculptor and performance artist, Stelarc, and the arm and performance were part of an event that has galvanised increasing numbers since its inception in 1997: the Lorne Sculpture Biennale.

“The Lorne performance was aesthetically about counterpointing the scale of the body with the scale of a large fragment of the body that was the sculpture,” Stelarc explains.

The performance lasted about 45 minutes. “It took about 15 minutes to smear the body with white clay (which cracked from my body heat). After 30 minutes people were asked to leave. It was very cold ...”

Stelarc never does things by halves. The four-metre sculpture and accompanying performance was arguably the highlight of the Lorne Sculpture Biennale in 2011.

“Stelarc was my highlight, too,” says Julie Collins, who curated the selection of artists.

“It was great to have his giant arm within the trail and then have Stelarc create a performance piece around it.

He lay across the arm, naked and had two people smear white clay over his body completely covering him. It was simple and beautiful, and the audience was captivated.”

Collins is now an established figure in the Sculpture Biennale, having exhibited in the first fledgling event in 2007. She was then asked to undertake the curator’s job for the 2011 exhibition.

“As an artist and curator I’m always looking at how an exhibition, which I’ve been a part of, can develop, so this was a real opportunity to get some of those ideas out.”

She has been asked to put the event together for next year, and Collins knows her realm. She has been a professional sculptor and exhibiting since 1987, and was one of the founding members of the Yarra Sculpture Gallery and the group that runs it, the Contemporary Sculptors Association (CSA).

“My passion is sculpture,” she says. “My definition of sculpture is wide, encompassing sound, installation, performance, happenings, multimedia – basically anything that occupies the 3D. Sculpture is the most exciting form of contemporary art and the most interesting artists of our time are sculptors.”

Collins is similarly passionate about the site of the event. “The location is beautiful; a small coastal town that can accommodate large numbers of visitors, the beach, restaurants and something is always going on in Lorne. It is really becoming the cultural heart of the coastline; Qdos gallery has been a trailblazer.

“The Lorne Sculpture committee are all volunteers and are totally professional and committed, and this makes for a great event.”

Collins sees considerable differences between the Lorne event and Sydney’s now well-known Sculpture by the Sea (SxS).

“Lorne is a curated exhibition, one vision,” she says.

“I look for artists who have something to say; sculpture is a powerful medium and artists are great social commentators.

“SxS is selected via a panel with a lot of the emphasis on sales. Lorne is a different model and aimed at reflecting the diversity of contemporary sculpture in Australia art.”

Collins has expanded Lorne to include Sculpturscape and performance art commissions. Sculpturscape

involves artists creating a sculpture on site, “a kind of a sculpture blitz where audiences are able to see real-time creativity”, she says.

The performance-art commissions will also spread across the four weekends with the likes of multimedia artist Domenico de Clario doing an all-night performance piece on the pier.

The exhibition is selected via a mix of invitation and expressions of interest. “For me this is the most exciting part of curating,” says Collins. “No curator can be on top of everything that is going on and by no means get to every exhibition. In my opinion an exhibition selected without an expressions of interest process is cutting itself short.

“I am looking for artists whose practice occupies or utilises the 3D, achieves high levels of artistic integrity, quality and, above all, innovation.”

Another Lorne innovation is the Collectors Project of small sculptures, Collins says.

“One of the anomalies of the sculpture world is that on average 20,000-50,000 people visit this type of regional-based outdoors sculpture exhibition. They are tremendously interested in the art form and are developing into a sophisticated audience. Yet still only a handful of sculptors can make a living from their practice and continue to spend far more on creation than what they get in return.

“Although we do have some significant private collectors in Victoria leading the way, we need more. I asked myself what makes someone buy a mass-produced garden ornament costing $600 rather than seeking out an original art work by an Australian sculptor. It all comes back to knowledge, education, access and, above all, courage.

“The collectors’ project will be a series of tours, workshops, kits and presentations that will help artists and potential collectors to delve into this mysterious world. People will be encouraged to take the leap and start a collection, even if it is a collection of one. It is

Innovative art: Curator Julie Collins. (supplIed)

“I look for artists who have something to say”

aimed at educating the audiences to take more risks in buying art to think about commissioning an artist.”

Another initiative for Lorne Sculpture will be The Scarlett Award aimed at developing critical writing about contemporary sculpture. The award is named after Ken Scarlett, a curator and writer on Australian sculpture, who has actively worked to promote Australian sculpture for more than 40 years.

The Scarlett Award will be a nationwide competition for Australian professional and non-professional critics, artists and writers. A cash award of $5000 will be presented to the best-written review, judged by well-known art figures Ken Scarlett, Maudie Palmer and Jason Smith.

“I was the first curator when we had limited finances and tentative support,” recalls Scarlett. “But the event has grown in diversity and in significance over the years. As an innovative and imaginative curator, Julie Collins has exploited the diverse environment of river, ocean beaches and shop windows. Not only has she displayed sculpture, she has also included performances and installations, as well as initiating programs involving children.”

Scarlett notes that while there aren’t major corporations based in Lorne that may have become sponsors, “the local community has been remarkably supportive in offering financial support and providing innumerable volunteers”.

As with Scarlett, community is tantamount for Collins. “We are offering children’s and adults’ workshops where anybody can give making sculpture a go; these will be held each weekend. Also we are planning to develop an artist to lead a major project to which the community and visitors can contribute.

“Funding these events is always challenging, but we have a great team working on it and it comes from a mix of personal donations, philanthropic trusts, the Surf Coast Shire, corporate support and hopefully the state and federal governments this year. The Lorne

community is an important part of the funding and they have been generous by sponsoring sites and artists, which helps with our artists’ fees. Lorne is committed to paying artist fees and this is a large section of our budget. People can support us in a variety of ways, not only with cash; just becoming a volunteer is like cash in the bank to an event like this.”

Several works have already been commissioned.

“Dom de Clario’s performance will involve a static sculpture as Stelarc did,” says Collins. “He will create a sculpture as part of the Sculpture Trail that will be a stand alone piece and, for one night only, create a performance around the sculpture, becoming a part of the sculpture and the sculpture becoming a part of the performance.”

Another award will give an unrepresented artist the opportunity to hold a solo exhibition at the Melbourne Art Rooms (MARS) in Port Melbourne. “MARS became involved due to my passion for sculpture,” says the gallery’s director, Andy Dinan, who will select the winning artist. “I studied sculpture part time for years and was committed to helping sculptors in this country.

I also want to see more great sculpture shown.”

For Dinan the event is “all about the setting – the seascape – the amazing stunning backdrop of Lorne that sculptors and the everyday punter and art lover alike respond to. Everyone feels something when they are on that landscape, and the sculptors capture that something and take it further still”.

“I also really love the way there is such a community feel for the sculpture show there – the whole town comes to life in a new way.

“I love Lorne, I love the pub, the sea, the trampolines and swing-bridge, and I love seeing my favourites and some new sculptors I hadn’t met exhibiting in such an amazing setting … bring on the next one!” \ editorial@theweeklyreview.com.au » www.lornesculpture.com/

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 27

UP FOR THE

CHALLENGE

Education \ Devon Campbell is striking a balance, writes jo Davy

W

hen it comes to naming her preferred style of dance, Sandringham College student Devon Campbell says it’s like picking a favourite child.

“One minute I’m convinced contemporary is my favourite [style], and then I’ll take a really fun tap class and it’ll completely change my mind,” she says.

The 18-year-old Dingley resident is over the moon to be performing for the first time as a principal dancer in the 2013 Victorian State Schools Spectacular at Hisense Arena on July 27.

Campbell is one of 47 principal cast members who will sing, dance and beatbox their way through 47 songs, with a support cast of more than 3000 students from about 130 government schools around Victoria.

Fifteen years of dance lessons in tap, jazz, contemporary and classical ballet meant she was a standout during the audition process, and Campbell

says Spectacular’s 10,000-strong audience across two shows will be her largest to date.

Last year, Campbell moved to Sandringham College, where she could pursue performing arts at a VCE level. The year 12 student excelled in her studies, but not everything has gone her way since changing schools.

“My dream role is Charity Hope Valentine … I’ve been trying to convince Sandringham [College] to [perform] Sweet Charity for ages, but it’s probably a bit inappropriate for the year 7s,” she says, laughing.

Campbell says that while juggling school with rehearsals and a social life can be a challenge, she’s not about to sit at home.

“I think it’s all about balance,” she says of her jam-packed schedule. “You can still go out and have a good time, you just have to be really smart about it.”

The cast has been rehearsing since the start of the year under the guidance of the Spectacular team, headed

Temporary carers needed!

Take care of a Seeing Eye Dog and assist someone who is blind to live their life to the full.

Seeing Eye Dogs Australia is urgently in need of temporary carers in your area to care for our special dogs while they undergo the final six months of their advanced training.

iPhone app is now available!

While receiving training, dogs need to be dropped off at the Seeing Eye Dog training facilities in Kensington each morning, and then collected each afternoon – Monday to Friday.

Experience the joy of looking after one of our dogs without any of the associated costs.

a division of vision australia 28 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

For more information please contact Seeing Eye Dogs Australia on 1800 037 773 or visit www.seda.org.au

iPhone is a registered trade mark of apple Inc, registered in the U. S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple, Inc.

SPECIAL EDUCATION ISSUE, JULY 19: THE YEAR 9 DILEMMA

“My dream role is Charity Hope Valentine … I’ve been trying to convince my school to perform Sweet Charity for ages, but it’s probably a bit inappropriate for the year 7s.” by creative director Neill Gladwin, music director Chong Lim and dance director Troy Phillips. Education Minister Martin Dixon says Spectacular is “a rite of passage for Victoria’s top young performers” – a notion that certainly isn’t lost on Campbell, who says it’s inspiring to see what participants have gone on to do.

As for her own future, she wants to pursue dance at pretty much any tertiary institution that will take her.

Just don’t ask her to decide which style. \ jdavy@theweeklyreview.com.au

First steps: For Devon Campbell (centre page), this year’s Schools Spectacular is a great opportunity.

(SupplieD)

» The Victorian State Schools Spectacular will be held at Hisense Arena on July 27.

Tickets available at www.ticketek.com

FriDAy 14 + SAturDAy 15

JuNe 2013 9Am – 4pm D i r e c t

t o

p u b l i c

Massive Furniture Warehouse ClearanCe

sale globe West indoor & outdoor furniture & accessories ~ Discontinued, samples, damaged & ex showroom products ~ Massive discounts off wholesale prices Many items below cost, all must go ~ Well known quality branded product ~ available for immediate pickup or delivery by arrangement

20-22 parsons Avenue Springvale Vic 3171

EXPERT PICTU

RE

FRAMING

RESTORE Old & New Photos

PRINT on Canvas & Paper

All types of FRAMING

G5902261AA-a1May©FCNVIC

g in at rs r b a le ye Ce 25

Shop 1, 277 Centre Road Bentleigh 3204 Ph: 9557 7576 www.fastframe.net.au frame@fastframe.net.au june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 29

Motoring \ appearances can be deceiving writes rod easdown

R

Mitsubishi Mirage What is it? A small car at a small price.

What’s in it? A 57-kilowatt 1.2-litre three-cylinder with a continuously variable auto. is it thirsty? i used 7.5 litres per 100 kilometres in the city, 5.5 in the country.

The official combined figure is 4.6.

(Supplied)

esearch indicates that the number of car buyers taking test drives is steadily declining. And with so many cars now being pretty generic, a bit like fridges and microwaves, that’s entirely understandable.

But driving can still make a big difference.

Let me present the Mitsubishi Mirage. It’s a terrific showroom car.

It looks good. The interior is well finished with pleasant surfaces and no bare metal. The front seats are OK, roominess is good for a car of this size and the cargo space is usable with a 60/40 folding rear seat.

The controls are clear, the instruments are fine. It has everything you need, including Bluetooth and USB, and the LS ($21,099 auto) gets automatic headlights and wipers, a proximity key and climate control.

Sitting in the showroom, you’d happily consider it a proposition.

Now drive it. The first thing you discover is how noisy it is. The little 1.2-litre sounds like a diesel, partly because it has three-cylinders and partly because corners have been cut with soundproofing. It’s all mechanical noise but by the time you reach freeway speeds there’s a heap of road noise in the equation too.

Another corner has been cut with the audio, which is pretty crook. Rip out and replace the speakers because I doubt they cost Mitsubishi much.

On the road you learn what 57 kilowatts can do and more importantly what they can’t.

They can’t beat the work truck beside you

Drive away

$18,527

Five-speeD manual

$16,205

thumbs up Economy, a good interior, undeniable value

rip out and replace the speakers because i doubt they cost mitsubishi much to the lane merge and they don’t overtake smartly. In traffic your foot is not infrequently on the floor.

The body integrity is less reassuring than, say, a Mazda 2 or a Hyundai i20, and the Mirage lacks their refinement. You’ll note that the rear brakes are drums, while the Mazda and Hyundai get discs.

The Mirage leans in tight corners and doesn’t like being hurried, and the ride

is firmish, about what you expect from something of this size and weight.

But the economy is sensational. I also tried a five-speed manual (a bit quicker, even noisier) and its economy is similar to the auto.

And the Mirage is a bargain. Don’t go by the official prices here, ask for a deal. At time of writing they started at $12,990 with $1000 cash back. \ reasdown@theweeklyreview.com.au

thumbs DoWn noisy and lacks refinement. Limited power. rear seat is a flat bench. * These are manufacturer’s list prices.

things you DiDn’t knoW about motoring...

Jaguar C-types were the first racecars in the world with disc brakes, giving them a huge advantage over all other competitors. in the 1953 leMans they finished first, second and fourth, all because they spent less time slowing down.

THE MAIN EVENT ™ $5,800 EXTRA VALUE FOR NO EXTRA

2 Year Extended Warranty* and Genuine Land Rover Accessories When you purchase your new Range Rover Sport, Range Rover Evoque, Land Rover Discovery 4 or Freelander 2 you will receive an additional 2 years extended warranty plus genuine Land Rover accessories to the total value of $5,800.

Brighton Land Rover Sales: 227 Nepean Hwy, Brighton. Ph 9595 9999 www.brightonlandrover.com.au Service: 328 New St, Brighton. Ph 9595 9900 * Warranty protection comprises of 3 year/100,000km factory warranty plus 2 year/50,000km extended warranty insurance (policy) issued by Allianz Australia Insurance Limited (Allianz) through Land Rover as its agent. See policy documentation for full details available from your retailer. Terms and conditions apply. Contact your retailer or go to www.landrover.com.au for further details of accessories on offer. Offers apply to new vehicles ordered between 1 - 30 June and delivered by 31 July 2013. Land Rover reserves the right to extend any offer.

LMCT9984 30 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

Sport \ resurgent rovers turn fortunes around

Y

key reasons for the turnaround. He says ou will struggle to find a football club that has turned things around as quickly the Rovers largely went through their own backyard to change the vibe. as Hampton Rovers.

The Rovers have had a tough few years.

They appointed former junior and senior player Guy Martyn as coach for 2013, and After spending three years in Victoria Amateur Football Association’s B Grade managed to recruit “six to eight” former players back to the club, including Daniel section, the club was relegated to C Grade at the end of 2011 after winning just two games.

Corp, who is also coaching the under 16s.

“The whole process started late last year In 2012 came the annus horribilis; many players left the club — VAFA rules stipulate when I came on board,” Gray says. “To turn it around we didn’t do any heavy recruiting, we players cannot be paid — they didn’t win a game and were again relegated. really just went back over our tracks and got guys who had left back at the club.

But after eight rounds of the 2013 “we really season in division one, there are “As a result there was a lot of hype and excitement at the start nothing but smiles. The Rovers have just went a new president, a new coach and of the year and a real expectation over our that we’d improve. There is an air a new lease on life, undefeated and tracks” three games clear on top of of enthusiasm about the place on a Tuesday, Thursday and, of course, on the ladder.

Old players have returned, they have a Saturday.”

Gray says juniors such as the four who three senior teams once again, and the juniors are flying — Harry Reynolds, David Seager, played in inter-league are an important part of the club’s future. “We wanted to strengthen Ben Branson and Hamish Dick represented the Rovers in the under-13 South Metro the connection between juniors and seniors,” he says. “We get the older junior players Junior Football League inter-league squads that took on the might of the Northern training with the seniors so that they’ve had a taste of it by the time they get to senior level.” \ Football League and Yarra Valley Junior Daniel PaProth Football League. dpaproth@theweeklyreview.com.au “To have four juniors playing interleague was absolutely sensational,” says president Pumped: Hampton Rovers’ senior team being Matthew Gray. “We were rapt they made it.” addressed at three quarter time. They were Gray has a background in sports down, but kicked 4 goals to 2 in the last to win management — “Warwick Capper is new and remain undefeated (8-0). (supplied) to the books” — and has been one of the ZO350640

Not getting a fair go at work?

Age disability race religion sex parent or carer status sexual harassment pregnancy sexual orientation breastfeeding Discrimination is against the law. Call the Victoria Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission. We can help. It’s free, fair and flexible.

Know your rights humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au

      

1300 292 153

Specialize cialize in Audi & VW only Complete Vehicle Maintenance Warranty Compliant Service Up To Date Diagnostic Software Free Loan Cars New, Used Parts & Reconditioned Parts All work Guaranteed

15-17 Edward Street, Oakleigh Vic 3166 PH: 9563 2011

a u d s e r v i c e . c o m . a u MELBOURNE’S No:1 AUDI & VW SERVICE SPECIALIST

PICK-U

P&D

ABL Y AVAIL ELIVER *

E*

conditions apply

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 31

56 ABBOTT STREET SANDRINGHAM CAPTURE THE VERY BEST OF BEACHSIDE LIVING IN THE PREMIER BAYSIDE SUBURB OF SANDRINGHAM. A LIMITED SELECTION OF SUPERBLY DESIGNED TOWNHOUSES, SET AMONG ESTABLISHED GARDENS BENEATH THE MAJESTIC GREEN CANOPY OF AN ANCIENT AFRICAN OLIVE TREE. 2 & 3 BEDROOMS PRICED FROM $750,000

DISPLAY CENTRE OPEN SAT 1-2PM, WED 5-6PM OR BY APPOINTMENT 56 ABBOTT ST SANDRINGHAM BEN SMACZNY 0408 070 863 OR JAMES PAYNTER 0418 390 133 BEACHHOUSESANDRINGHAM.COM.AU

a pa rtm e n t s \ d e s i g n \ a rch i t e c t u r e \ su s ta i n a b i l i t y

developing our city

34

ironic iconic

All I need is the air that I breathe And to love you.

– The Hollies

34 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

(SUPPLIED)

A

ctually all I need is someone who knows how to steady a spirit level so that I can get my doors to hang properly! Call me a breaker of men’s constitutions, but I’m not romantic. Romance is cheap.

There’s romance aplenty everywhere; on the telly, plastered on billboards, dripping off song lyrics, fuelling poetry, toilet paper ads, car ads and a while back V/Line was offering “romantic weekends on V/Line”.

Glossy magazines are chock-full of articles giving advice on how to keep our relationships romantic. My favourite is: “Keep the mystery in the relationship”.

What does that mean? Should you abruptly wake your spouse of 25 years, glare at them disdainfully and ask, “I’m sorry what was your name again?”

This sort of conduct is about as romantic as discovering a little-bitty pile of toenail clippings on your coffee table.

The truth is, it’s not romance – that feeling of listing starboard then portside on the swells of a new love affair – that I have a problem with, but the way ROMANCE has been commodified, homogenised and corporatised.

Buying a new car might give you better mileage, more safety features and connectivity, but it’s not going to make you more desirable or inspire romance – despite all the soft-focused advertising.

I don’t want to smell romantic, drive romantic or paint my nails romantic.

This sort of romance is artificial, like the art-directed photographs in expensive cookbooks where everything has a shiny coating; all the food seems to be buried under a layer of something creamy or sticky.

If I were committing to a romantic tryst, my first

IRONIC ICONIC

\ RACHEL BERGER GEts A Bit RomAntiC

Follow Rachel on Twitter @boom_berger

NEW 1 BED APARTMENTS JUST RELEASED

places in the heart

(SUPPLIED)

(EDDIE JIM)

(PENNY STEPHENS)

priority would be location – surely location has to strike the spark got an and fan the flame of romance. ironic iconic Melbourne is a romantic idea? city, but nowhere else does the email me changing light, the riverbank and unpredictable weather blend into a romantic potion better than at Studley Park Boathouse.

Even with my dyspeptic view of romance, I’m overwhelmed by the urge to cuddle when I hear the sounds of native bird calls and the flow of the Yarra in the middle of this expansive bushland.

You can hire a rowboat and paddle down the river.

But don’t try this if you’re a klutz with oars and can’t steer; slamming into the wharf is not romantic.

However, if you can steer an oar with one hand while playing the banjo with the other, then you’re a serious contender for the ecstasy stakes.

Studley Park is Melbourne’s first and most important indigenous parkland area, named after settler John Hodgson’s house.

The area has been popular for picnicking and walking since the 1830s.

In 1863, when boating and swimming became popular, the Burn family established the Studley Park Boathouse, originally calling it “Riversdale”.

Significantly it is the oldest public boathouse on the Yarra River and has been in continuous use since its construction. \ boomboom@rachelberger.com

Point ormond beacon

Southbank footbridge

Venice on the yarra

If watching sunsets floats your boat, this hill at Elwood Beach is your ideal rendezvous location. The point is infused with history and passion; a prominent landmark for shipping, by the 1850s it was a popular summer picnic spot and since 1985 it’s been the spot for reunions of descendants of the Glen Huntley fever ship.

Sparks of all varieties have ignited here – traditional owners burnt cooking fires over thousands of years, beacons were lit in 1851 to celebrate separation from NSW and, in 1863, 70 tons of firewood, barrels of tar and oil casks were lit to celebrate the marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and Princess Alexandra of Denmark. \

Bridges are a symbol of connection, from one shore to another, or indeed from being alone to being accompanied by a friend. This pedestrian bridge connecting Southbank to Flinders Street station has been the site of many marriage proposals. How could you not give an affirmative response as black swans float by and the cold breeze forces you to snuggle up and notice how perfectly your partner’s ears are joined to their head? At twilight in the middle of the Yarra River with the Arts Centre tower glowing like a sequinned wand on one side and the city skyline shimmering on the other, you’d have to be a bona fide sourpuss not to feel the romance. \

The combination of a pair of pigeons cooing, a white disc of moon and the fire displays along the Yarra River at Southbank is heady stuff that could produce an effect in your glands much like the interior of a blast furnace. But there’s more; now couples can float along the water in gondolas just like the ones in Venice. These gondolas, created and designed in Melbourne, offer soft plush interiors, luscious velvet seats and warm blankets to snuggle under if the weather turns. Oh, and a bottle of Champagne is provided so you can toast the fickle demands of modern relationships. I’d be struggling to recover my land legs after this much romance. \

We Welcome your feedback @ www.theweeklyreview.com.au/ironic-iconic

ESSENDON

APARTMENTS FROM

$299,500

40 COLLINS STREET ESSENDON DISPLAY SUITE OPEN 10AM - 4PM MONDAY - FRIDAY 11AM - 2PM SATURDAY - SUNDAY JEMMA BAYLISS 0404 364 718 GLENN PAWSEY 0404 364 904

COLLINSANDQUEEN.COM.AU CREATED BY

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 35

LAUNCHING THIS WEEKEND THE FIRST COMPLETED APARTMENT FOR YOUR EXCLUSIVE VIP INSPECTION CALL MATT BRACKEN 0402 098 888 YOURS WITH ON LY

5% DEPOSIT

SALES OFFICE 369 BAY STREET, BRIGHTON NOW OPEN WED, THURS SAT, SUN 11 -2

thewarleighbrighton.com.au MATT BRACKEN 0402 098 888

A clever spark Developing our city \ One bright idea might just change how we live, writes JOSHUA S. HILL

Phil bosua

The hue is set to hit Australian and New Zealand shores soon, according to Philips. The expansion is driven by successful sales in North America and Europe.

Using LED technology to create its efficient bulbs, Philips expects the hue to save 80 per cent of the energy of traditional bulbs and last 15 times longer.

But the new bulbs don’t come cheap. The hue starter pack costs $199 in the US, compared to $79 for the LIFX bulbs and $50 each for RoboSmart’s version. When might these clever lightbulbs come down in price?

“It’s a good question,” says Birt. “All technology tends to go through this classic diffusion of the

(courtesy Lifx)

P

hil Bosua’s lightbulb moment came while he was chatting to a friend who was renovating.

“Knowing I’m a bit of the inventive type, he asked if there was a way to wire lighting without running copper wires through to the switch, as he had a solid brick wall that couldn’t take a normal switch. I started to think we can control everything with our smartphone now, so why not our lights?” he says.

“The idea for Wi-Fi lighting hit me, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I started prototyping the idea with my dad and a friend of ours, Andy, and realised that it was not only a great idea but technically feasible.”

That bright idea eventually grew into LIFX: a Wi-Fi-enabled, multicoloured, energy-efficient LED bulb that can be controlled from an app on any Android or Apple device.

It was launched through crowd-funding website Kickstarter last November. The developers aimed to raise $100,000 – they got more than $1.3 million.

Team member Andrew Birt said 23,500 LIFX bulbs were pre-ordered through Kickstarter at $US79 ($A82) each. Since then, a further 10,000 have been sold through the LIFX website and to “selected partners”.

Wi-Fi-enabled lightbulbs are the new darlings of the “clean technology” industry. Crowd-funding websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo are littered with them. What appears to be a regular lightbulb can be controlled from a smartphone, computer, or tablet – choose your level of lighting or switch it on or off.

Imagine being able to set your bedroom light to slowly come on in the morning, creating a new way to wake up – one that doesn’t involve flailing your arms in a vain attempt to find the alarm clock’s snooze button.

Or how about being able to turn on your lights while you’re away on holiday? No need for new light switches or wiring, all that’s required is a bulb and your smartphone.

But what good is all this? For most of us, getting up and turning off the light switch is easy enough.

Consider, however, you’re stuck late at work and you haven’t left the lights on. Ten minutes away from home, you’re on the bus, you pull out your phone and turn on your outdoor lights.

The LIFX is not the only bulb on the market offering these sorts of advantages. Philips released its ‘hue’ bulb to critical acclaim last year. It is sold exclusively in Apple shops across the US and Europe.

Smart Home Labs revealed its RoboSmart wireless LED lighting system in December – although its crowd-funding campaign was not a huge success.

innovation-type curve, where the early-adopters do tend to pay more for electronics … As the price of our components comes down and we start to get efficiencies of scale, it’s reasonable to assume we’d pass these savings on.”

Wi-Fi lightbulbs might sound like expensive and unnecessary gadgets, fit only for tech nerds, but the technology means your lights don’t need to be on as long, or as brightly.

You might even manage to get your kids to remember to turn off the lights in their room – they’re on their smartphones already, right? \ editorial@theweeklyreview.com.au » www.store.lifx.co

turn on your lights when you’re on holiday

lifx bulbs

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 37

WELCOME TO THE LANDMARK Platinum brings a new level of luxury to life in Southbank.

Boasting the city’s first world class sky lounge, highest pool and gourmet eateries.

1, 2 & 3 bedroom apartments from $428,000 Visit the display suite 245 City Road, Southbank Mon - Fri 10 - 7pm & Sat - Sun 11 - 4pm platinumtower.com.au | 1300 769 881

40

cover story

43

inside + we love it + agents’ choice + market news + property listings saturday’s auction results online @

theweeklyreview.com.au

44

best bayside

pRopeRties agents index Biggin & Scott

80-82

Bonaccorde

75

Buxton

60-71

cayzer

56

chiSholm & gamon

79

gary Peer

58

greg hocking

76-78

groSS Waddell

74

hocking Stuart

71-73

hodgeS

52-56

iProPerty melBourne

56

kay & Burton

57

lucaS real eState

50

marShall White

46-50

nick JohnStone

59

Pride

75

ray White rural

50-51

rt edgar

82

We love it \ 42

editorial SuBmiSSionS ProPerty editor \ maria harriS property@theweeklyreview.com.au M \ 0409 009 766 dePuty ProPerty editor \ Jo davy \ 0411 388 365 advertiSing inQuirieS regional SaleS manager \ mattheW maaSdiJk

A nAturAl leAder 2 Hunter Avenue, BlAck rock, 3193

T

his house has recently undergone an extensive renovation and extension, yet it successfully has retained many of the ideas introduced by the architects of the 1950s – big light-filled spaces, a rustic material palette, wide eaves and garden views at every turn.

Although this house has a strong street presence, there is something pleasingly understated about its façade. Unlike many of the revivalist mansions usually found in the bayside suburbs, this house is neither brash nor extravagant. Instead it possesses a natural quality and blends in an honest material palette of timber, stone and concrete. The use of such unadorned materials ensures that the house masterfully connects to its surrounding landscape.

Like many houses of the period, it sits in the centre of the block. This ensures every room has green outlooks, further cementing the connection to nature.

A massive front door swings open to a series of living spaces that flow from one to the other. Wide American oak floorboards provide texture and richness. The house has an L-shaped floor plan that cleverly makes the most of its northern orientation. The main body is set along the southern side of the block, ensuring full winter sun into the garden and most of the family areas.

To the right of the entrance is a generous bedroom, which has a walk-in wardrobe and a large en suite. A second bedroom, bathroom and laundry are also along this southern side of the house.

The open dining room has windows and doors that look onto the pool and paved courtyard. The practical kitchen has a material and colour palette found in all the bathrooms, providing a satisfying sense of all the forms echoing one another. This includes black-steel window frames, marble benchtops and timber cabinetry. There are also two windows incorporated into the design – one serves as a splashback, infusing the space with colour, while the other looks out to the backyard. From this vantage point, parents can supervise children’s pool activities.

The breakfast bar has considerable depth, allowing

mmaasdijk@mmpgroup.com.au

final word

M \ 0417 307 710

“Built with exceptional quality, this is a great family home that has panoramic views of the bay and beyond.” Richard slade – agent

The real estate cover story (right), We Love It property reviews on the following pages have been visited by TWR journalists.

Agents’ Choices and Out of Town are promotions provided by the selling agent.

Buxton \ 9598 8222

Free!

DownloaD our app!

reviewproperty.com.au search for properties to buy, rent & share. available from itunes 40 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

children to spread out their homework. A generous pantry hides all the clutter and mess, while Miele appliances and a VinoVault wine fridge will entice even a reticent cook.

All the bathrooms have been redone, and achieve a contemporary aesthetic with voguish tapware and natural-coloured tiles. The provision of light and air to these spaces is paramount.

The living area features a gas fireplace that is encased within a textured ribbon wall. Dramatic silver pendant lighting adds a sense of theatre and visual charm.

The staircase is subtle and runs along a textured brick wall, which is perhaps the only evidence of the original bones of the house. The steps are open tread, creating a feeling of lightness. Positioned underneath is a bay of plants, continuing the philosophy of green outlooks.

Mirroring the L-shaped floor plan below, the upper level is divided by a gigantic void. To the right are two bedrooms each with built-in wardrobes and desks. They share a bathroom, which has a separate powder room. There is also a second laundry, which is handy for growing families, and a study with a desk running the length of the room.

Like most modernist houses, the main bedroom looks out to the street. Heroically spare, the room is anchored with floor-to-ceiling glass doors. From the balcony you realise the considerable height of the ceilings below. A second living room has a fixed picture window that frames the surrounding suburbs beautifully.

A second set of stairs leads to an unexpected delight: perched high above the ground is a rooftop terrace that cannot be detected from the street. It has panoramic views of the bay, Arthurs Seat and the You Yangs.

Although this house is considerably larger than its original ’50s footprint, it doesn’t possess big, flashy architectural statements. Instead, every single design element has been carefully considered and executed to perfection, ensuring a house that is seamlessly tied to its site. \ Francesca carter property@theweeklyreview.com.au

Price \ $1.85 million – $1.95 millon

auction \ June 15 at 11.30am

Fast facts \ A complete remodel and rebuild of a ’50s house; built by iRenovate with interiors by White Chalk; five bedrooms; four bathrooms; large open-plan kitchen; VinoVault wine fridge; marble benchtops and custom fittings; bespoke lighting; American oak floorboards; fully tiled pool; surround-sound wiring in all the living areas; reverse-cycle climate-control units; video intercom entry; huge double garage and carport; rooftop deck with bay views.

Black rock \ 18kms from the city

5

4

2

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 41

BEaUMaRis \ 19 Beach road

wE LOvE iT

With the beach across the road and a pool, spa and sauna creating a personal resort in the backyard, this three-level house is designed to capitalise on its location. The floor plan features semiopen-plan social areas flowing from one to another, and finishes are of the highest quality.

The lower level has a huge workshop, storeroom, cellar, laundry and rumpus room adjoining a private terrace. The crowning first-floor presents two bedrooms with built-in

wardrobes, a bathroom and the massive main bedroom suite with walk-in wardrobe and en suite individualised by a bidet, two-headed shower and handcrafted basins. All bedrooms have double doors to the rear balcony, and the main adds a bay-oriented balcony.

Ground level comprises of a study/fourth bedroom, bathroom, sauna (with external access) and voluminous living, dining and kitchen areas. Tiled floors in the long living room mean sand can be swept away, and the open fireplace provides a winter

4

Hocking Stuart \ 9521 9800

postcode

3193

3

2

gathering point. With walnut timber cabinetry, pearlescent granite surfaces and double Ilve oven sporting several cooktop options, the dream kitchen also offers the chef sea vistas. Dining room dinner parties should see two dozen people accommodated without over-crowding.

There’s an elevated outdoor room at one end of the covered terrace. Sandstone paving, neat lawn and tropically landscaped gardens frame the tiled and solar-heated pool. \ kAy kEIgHEry

Price \ $2 million – $2.2 million

PORT MELBOURNE \ 6/103a StokeS Street

Auction \ June 15 at 2.30pm

agENTs’ chO i cE POSTCODE

3186

Buxton Brighton 9592 8000 4

3

POSTCODE

2

3187

Hodges Brighton 9596 1111 3

1

1

9 Maher Street, Brighton .................................................................

Price: $1.85 million .................................................................

Private sale .................................................................

OFI Weds 11-11.30am .................................................................

50 Cummins Road, Brighton East .................................................................

Price: $750,000 - $800,000 .................................................................

Auction Saturday June 22 at 2pm .................................................................

OFI Weds 1.15-1.45pm, Sat as advertised .................................................................

Near Brighton Beach Primary School, this house features a huge open fire, solar- & gas-heated pool & spa, formal rooms & family living/dining flowing out to a patio.

Enjoy the lifestyle by Dendy Park, or step up & build on the view, or expand your horizons with a new home (or two, STCA) on this approx 618-sqm property.

Let's eat lunch @ Café Florentine, 22-24 Church Street Let's eat dinner @ Indian Palace, 131 Church Street Let's drink coffee @ The Beanery, 69 Church Street

Let's eat lunch @ Zest in Food, 59 Landox Street Let's eat dinner @ Ta Wee Wan Thai, 770 Hawthorn Road Let's drink coffee @ Marmalade Café, 763 Hawthorn Road

Biggin Scott \ 8671 3777 Price \ $1.3 million + Private sale Stokes Street is filled with quirky townhouses and converted factory spaces, making it an interesting place to live. This townhouse, spread over three levels, is part of a relatively new development and is fitted with high-quality trimmings. A simple design scheme of polished timber floors and white walls carries throughout.

On the ground floor, there is a bedroom with en suite, walk-in wardrobe and a courtyard. This shares the space with a double garage. The theme of the second storey is spacious family living, with an open-plan meals, lounge and kitchen. There are CaesarStone benchtops and Miele appliances in the kitchen as well as a built-in breakfast bench. Meals can be eaten outside on the large balcony overlooking the street. Three more bedrooms are on the top floor, including the main bedroom, where there is a large walk-in wardrobe and en suite. The other two bedrooms have built-in wardrobes and share a bathroom and balcony. Bay Street, Port Melbourne Beach and public transport are all within easy walking distance. \ ELIZABETH ANILE

postcode

3207

4

3

2

42 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

Brighton \ 40 north road As far as houses go, big and bold is definitely best along this prestigious Brighton boulevard, and this residence does nothing to defy the rule. Looking to the house from the tree-lined street, sparkling white walls and clean architectural lines make a memorable first impression.

Stepping inside the opulent entrance hall – filled with natural light thanks to a dazzlingly high glass ceiling – the space feels bright and airy. In a quiet corner at the front of the house, a home office overlooks a lush, private garden.

Aside from this discrete section, it is clear from the outset that this house is built with entertaining in mind. An L-shaped floor plan ensures formal and informal living and dining areas all overlook the sparkling swimming pool, which takes pride of place in the rear garden.

The well-equipped kitchen, with granite bench tops and European appliances, separates the two distinct zones. A carpeted family room toward the rear of the house provides a more intimate space, and has an open fireplace and bar. Upstairs, three double bedrooms with built-in wardrobes share a sizeable central bathroom with double vanity, freestanding bath and separate shower. The lavish main quarters include an enormous en suite with spa bath and double shower, as well as matching walk-in wardrobes. The bedroom has private access to a sweeping, north-facing balcony. \ DANIEL McCULLOCH

postcode

3186

4

3

2

Nick Johnstone \ 9553 8300

Price \ $4 million +

Expressions of Interest \ closing June 17 at 5pm

Brighton \ 7 EsplanadE avEnuE POSTCODE

3186

Marshall White Brighton 9822 9999 3

2

2

POSTCODE

3188

RT Edgar Brighton 9592 9299 3

2

1

4 Iona Avenue, Brighton .................................................................

Price: $1.1 million + .................................................................

Auction Saturday June 22 at 11.30am .................................................................

OFI Thurs 11.45-12.15pm & Sat 1.45-2.15pm .................................................................

320 Hampton Street, Hampton .................................................................

Price: $1.69 million + .................................................................

Auction Saturday June 15 at 10.30am .................................................................

OFI Weds 12.30-1pm & Sat 10-10.30am .................................................................

Cherish the chic new look of this singlelevel family hideaway, near Bay Street and Martin Street shops and cafés, schools and public transport.

A three-bedroom, two-bathroom period house updated into a fabulous family environment with formal and informal zones, granite kitchen, study and views.

Let's eat lunch @ Foodnv, 162 Martin St Let's eat dinner @ Safi Bar & Bistro, 146 Martin St Let's drink coffee @ Omar & the Marvellous Coffee Bird, 124 Gardenvale Rd

Let's eat lunch @ Urchin Bar, 424 Hampton Street Let's eat dinner @ A Taste of Siam, 485a Hampton Street Let's drink coffee @ Espresso Elements, 305 Hampton Street

Metres from Brighton beach is this spectacular residence with refined architectural style. Enter the Nicholas Wright-designed house through a sleek, glass doorway to find the ultra-modern entrance hall perfectly complements the façade. A multi-tiered ceiling and asymmetrical windows give it a nautical edge. A commercial-grade privacy transfer fitted to an internal glass wall conceals the two-car garage, and a hardwood feature wall immediately catches the eye. Heated porcelain slab flooring extends to an open-plan kitchen, living and dining area. With a surprisingly large laundry located nearby, Miele appliances, abundant storage space and a breakfast bar are standout kitchen features. The room transitions seamlessly to a decked outdoor entertainment zone, with an undercover dining area. At the property’s rear, a deep swimming pool is bordered by raised garden beds. Upstairs, the main bedroom has a walk-in wardrobe, en suite with double vanity, and views of Port Phillip. Two more double bedrooms share a luxurious bathroom. Alucobond walls around a rooftop deck complete this beachside beauty. \ DANIEL McCULLOCH

postcode

3186

Marshall White \ 9822 9999

3

2

Price \ $1.3 million +

Auction \ June 20 at 6.30pm

2 june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 43

PoRt MeLBoURne \ B812/55 BAy STREET

eLWooD \ 21 FOAM STREET

We Love it RT Edgar \ 9699 7222

Price \ $780,000 – $820,000

Auction \ June 15 at 11.30am

Chisholm & Gamon \ 9531 1245

Price \ $1.4 million – $1.5 million

Auction \ June 15 at noon

This luxurious and contemporary apartment on bustling Bay Street was built just six years ago, and ticks all the boxes for ideal apartment living. Situated on the top floor, the balcony has a view of the city skyline on one side and bay views on the other; this combination is a rare find. The apartment opens to the combined living, dining and kitchen area, where there are timber floors, granite benchtops and Omega appliances. High ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows make Bay Street to feel a part of the living room and allow natural light to fill the space. One of the bedrooms is just off to the side and has a built-in wardrobe, private balcony and a bathroom next door. The main bedroom is upstairs and has an en suite with a marble vanity, walk-in wardrobe and balcony. It shares the level with a study area. The apartment has full use of the complex’s gymnasium and pool, in addition to two underground car spaces. The many cafés and boutiques on Bay Street are on the doorstep, and Port Melbourne Beach is a short walk away. \ ELIZABETH ANILE

Just when you thought you could no longer be shocked or surprised, along comes this unassuming single-level house in Elwood. Designed by BKK architects and known as the “two parts house”, this three-bedroom residence is literally that, half-classic, half-modern. The entrance reaches through to the dining room and is flanked by all three bedrooms. The main bedroom has an en suite, while the other bedrooms have built-in wardrobes. The recent renovation has updated the rooms with a contrasting colour scheme of grey and white, but it is the back end of the house that has really been overhauled. Walls are no longer square-set and huge windows let in the natural light while timber beams run across the angled ceilings and down the walls. There is a large lounge with a fireplace and a study tucked in behind, and the central kitchen has stainless-steel appliances.

From the backyard, the unpainted timber-clad exterior could be a separate house altogether from the white-painted front, and dramatically blends with its leafy surrounds. \ EDDIE MORTON

2

3

postcode

3207

2

2

soUth MeLBoURne \ 268 MORAy STREET

postcode

3184

agents’ cho i ce POSTCODE

3191

Cayzer \ 9699 5999

Price \ $1.35 million +

2

Buxton Brighton 9592 8000 1

1

POSTCODE

1

3186

RT Edgar Brighton 9592 9299 4

2

1

232/18-34 Station Street, Sandringham .................................................................

Price: $315,000 .................................................................

Private sale .................................................................

OFI By appointment .................................................................

60 Well Street, Brighton .................................................................

Price: $1.7 million + .................................................................

Auction Saturday June 15 at 2pm .................................................................

OFI Weds 2.30-3pm & Sat 1.30-2pm .................................................................

This affordable property comes with a fridge, washer, dryer, dishwasher & plasma TV. An open-plan living room leads out to a good-sized balcony.

This four-bedroom house offers scope for renovation or redevelopment (STCA) on a magnificent block of 1026sqm (approx) near Church Street, the bay and schools.

Let's eat lunch @ Finz, 1 Melrose Street Let's eat dinner @ Hobsons, 19-24 Melrose Street Let's drink coffee @ Limoncello, 54 Station Street

Let's eat lunch @ Chloe's Café on Church, 90 Church Street Let's eat dinner @ White Rabbit, 118 Church Street Let's drink coffee @ Laurent Patisserie, 73 Church Street

Auction \ June 15 at 2pm

The façade of this residence gives little insight into the size of the house inside.

Three expansive storeys spiral up and culminate with panoramic views of the city skyline. High ceilings and period features such as an archway in the hall reflect the house’s past. A simple design scheme of polished timber floorboards and white walls looks stylish and is carried throughout. Two bedrooms, each with a fireplace, are on the ground floor and share a bathroom; meanwhile, two more bedrooms, a bathroom and a study are on the first floor, all with built-in wardrobes. A second steep staircase leads to the open-plan meals, kitchen and living area, where floor-to-ceiling windows show off the city skyline.

Sunlight floods the space and CaesarStone is the material of choice for the kitchen benchtops.

The balcony wraps around two sides and provides unobstructed views across South Melbourne.

Clarendon Street, with its many cafés, restaurants and boutiques, is just a short walk away.

Albert Park Lake is nearby, as is public transport to St Kilda and the city. \ ELIZABETH ANILE

postcode

3205

4

2

1

44 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

BrIghTon \ 3/4 Glyndon avenue

ST KILDA WEST \ 278 Canterbury road

WE LovE IT Hodges \ 9596 1111

Price \ about $4 million

Private Sale

Hocking Stuart \ 8644 5500

Price \ $980,000 – $1.05 million

Auction \ June 22 at 2.30pm

Every aspect of this outstanding Jon Friedrich-designed apartment reflects meticulous attention to detail. The architect has become synonymous with the suburb, and this breathtaking penthouse is no exception. Whether you approach by lift or stairs, the grandeur is evident from the moment you step inside its entrance hall. Lining the path to the northern end are a handsome dining room with butler’s pantry and a library with dark timber detailing and twin desks. Here, an open-plan kitchen, meals and living area is filled with sunlight. Outside, an impressive travertine-tiled terrace has a stunning water feature. Three generously proportioned bedrooms at the southern end have terrace access, as well as en suite bathrooms. However, a walk-through wardrobe, sauna and steam room and a mini-gymnasium elevate the main bedroom to a class of its own. Above the penthouse is a rooftop deck, taking in panoramic views from the idyllic location in the heart of Brighton’s Golden Mile. You’ll soon realise it does not get much better than this. \ DANIEL McCULLOCH

A leisurely stroll from the beach and practically on Albert Park, this contemporary, two-storey townhouse is an exercise in thoughtful design. Downstairs is given over to an open-plan living zone with individual areas cleverly delineated. A fantastic lounge or study area up front features a wall of bookshelves. A powder room divides this from the sprawling living room with direct access to the garage and a meals area next to the ample kitchen. The walk-in pantry incorporates laundry facilities.

Japanese-influenced sliding glass walls lead out to the large decked courtyard. Climb the stairs, skylight overhead, and a rumpus room or possible bedroom sits behind plantation shutters, while a bank of storage cupboards line the opposite wall. Two bedrooms on the Canterbury Road side have built-in wardrobes. The main bedroom is a serene escape, with a walk-in wardrobe and open-plan en suite. Japanese-style windows with park views stretch from floor to ceiling, so you’ll feel a bit daring in the shower, but relax, they’re mirrored on the outside. \ STEPHEN A. RUSSELL

3

4

postcode

3186

3

3

mAL JAmES \

Y

ou can tell we’re coming into winter because the supply of good properties is drying up. It’s not that we haven’t had strong clearance rates – last week it was 77 per cent on the 39 million-dollar-plus auctions we covered in inner Melbourne and Bayside. Our bidder-per-auction rate, Bidderman, was 1.9.

But those strong numbers were partly because the pickings for good properties were so thin, so the few exciting properties on offer had multiple bidders.

The 1920s French provincial-style home in Hawthorn’s prized Scotch Hill area, at 3 Crossakiel Court (Andrew Hayne, Marshall White), had seven bidders. We liked this house and gave it a rating of 738 out of 1000. It was in great street, had excellent street presence and façade and excellent natural light orientation.

Clearly, plenty of others liked it too, and it sold under the hammer for $2.76 million.

In Middle Park, the house at 113 Erskine Street (Michael Szulc, Cayzer) had five bidders. It will probably be knocked down for a new build, so this was a land sale – a rare commodity in this area. It was also in a great location, near Armstrong Street village, the beach and Albert Park Reserve. It sold under the hammer for $2.21 million, or nearly $6000 a square metre for land. The last land sale in

postcode

3182

2

1

Would-be buyers eager to stay out of the dry zone the area – in August last year – valued land at $5300 a square metre, so we see where the market is going for well-located land.

But the big story this week, and part of the growing trend we talked about last week, is the number of properties being bought before auction. Of the 112 properties scheduled for auction last weekend, 12 had already sold before. That’s nearly 10 per cent.

Among these were 19 Wellington Avenue, Beaumaris (Rob Strickland, Marshall White), 50 Deepdene Road, Balwyn (Helen Yan, Hocking Stuart) and 70 Downshire Road, Elsternwick (Bill Stavrakis, Biggin & Scott).

This trend seems to be driven by buyers’ fear of missing out on a good property in a rising market. Rather than attending a hot auction and missing out because someone else has more money on the day, buyers are preferring to try to secure a property beforehand.

Buyers who do this need to understand there’s no guarantee they will pay less this way. You are negotiating directly with the vendor – and their agent – rather than against the direct competition of other buyers, as in an auction, and you can be sure the vendor is not going to accept any less than the very best they would have hoped to get at auction.

You may also find yourself thrust into a boardroom-style auction with other buyers.

That can be quite a confronting experience. If you have never attended a “private” auction

before, it can be quite daunting to be standing in such close proximity to other buyers. In an ordinary auction when you’re out on the street, buyers can gain confidence in their anonymity. A private auction is a very upfront-and-personal experience and it takes a brave buyer to show their cards.

Possibly worse is when you are asked by the agent to submit your best offer in a sealed envelope, without knowing how many other “bidders” are doing the same or how much they are offering. You may end up missing out by a few thousand dollars, or overpay by bidding against yourself.

We still think the auction system is the most open and transparent market you can get.

It might be a pressure-cooker situation, but you can see your competition, and the price you end up paying is often a reflection of the market on the day.

However, the high number of bought-befores confirms that this is still a strong market. Anything of good quality is clearly being hard fought for by buyers frustrated at an otherwise fairly ordinary choice of stock. \ Mal James Principal Buyer Advocate 0408 107 988 \ 9804 3133 We Only Buy Homes www.james.net.au

AucTIon

cLEArAncE rATES mAy 2013 SUbURb

AUCTIONS

ALbERT PARK

%

10 100%

bEAUMARIS

9

89%

bLACK ROCK

12

83%

bRIGHTON

44

61%

bRIGHTON EAST

32

81%

CHELTENHAM

28

79%

ELWOOD

42

60%

HAMPTON

27

59%

HIGHETT

19

74%

MIDDLE PARK PORT MELbOURNE SANDRINGHAM

6

67%

22

68%

9

89%

SOUTH MELbOURNE

13

62%

ST KILDA

39

59%

9

56%

ST KILDA WEST

SOuRCE \ REIV *Due to the very low volume of auctions in some suburbs the clearance rates are likely to show a high degree of volatility.

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 45

ELWOOD 12 Normandy Road One of the finest homes ever offered for sale in Elwood can be yours. This is beachside magnificence on 1,073sqm (approx), with 1920s elegance and a contemporary revival. 4 living areas, 4 bedrooms and a study, deluxe gourmet kitchen, and impeccable design. Outstanding features include superb landscaping by Eckersley Garden Architecture, hydronic heating, big deck, dual street access, and a no-expense-spared fitout. A superb home in a firstclass street, with bay views from the front gate and Ormond Rd cafes metres away.

Auction

Saturday 22nd June at 3.30pm

Inspect

Wednesday 11-11.30am & Saturday 11.30-12pm

-----------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------

Contact

James Redfern 0412 360 667 Kaine Lanyon 0411 875 478

-----------------------------------------

Office

1111 High Street Armadale 9822 9999

Web

www.12normandyroadelwood.com

-----------------------------------------

46 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

BLAIRGOWRIE 19 Montfort Close Experience the best in coastal indulgence, created by Inform and hidden away in an exclusive enclave. Be the first to own this luxe new home designed by Pleysier Perkins Architects.

Large living areas take in views of the 12.5-metre pool, vast deck and undercover outdoor areas. Boasting 4 large bedrooms, marble kitchen, the finest fit-out and fire-safe designed. Prestige address adjacent to Mornington Peninsula National Park, with private path for easy access to Central Avenue surf break.

Auction

Sunday 30th June at 1pm

Inspect

Thursday by appointment, Saturday & Sunday 12-12.45pm

-----------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------

Contact

Robin Parker 0409 336 282

Office

312 New Street Brighton 9822 9999

Web

www.6-19montfortcloseblairgowrie.com

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Conj

RT Edgar Lloyd Robinson 0414 441 880

BRIGHTON 4 Iona Avenue Cherish the chic new look of this single-level hideaway, near Bay St and Martin St´s shops, schools and trains. Stylish transformation reveals contemporary essentials, with a family room and lounge-dining room, renovated Bosch and Blanco stone kitchen, 3 bedrooms and a study. Impressive street appeal, excellent landscaping with an awning-covered deck, and easy car access with a remote-control gate.

Feature-rich design reveals HRV air filtration, remote-control gas fire, ducted climate control and many more quality features.

Auction

Saturday 22nd June at 11.30am

Inspect

Thursday 11.45-12.15pm & Saturday 1.45-2.15pm

-----------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------

Contact

Kate Strickland 0400 125 946 Rob Strickland 0437 076 069

-----------------------------------------

Office

312 New Street Brighton 9822 9999

Web

www.4ionaavenuebrighton.com

-----------------------------------------

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 47

BRIGHTON EAST 16 Camperdown Street What could be better than coming home to this as-new large and luxurious home. Every family indulgence is at the heart of this magnificent home, featuring 5 bedrooms, 3 big living zones, fantastic Miele kitchen, heated pool, and an extensive list of the latest designer features. Central location close to Dendy Village, schools, Church St and Bay St. Land: 850 square metres (approx).

Expressions of Interest Close Tuesday 25th June Close 5pm

-----------------------------------------

Inspect

Thursday 2.30-3pm & Saturday 11.15-11.45am

-----------------------------------------

Contact

Barb Gregory 0419 568 370 Ian Whiteside 0419 591 761

-----------------------------------------

Office

312 New Street Brighton 9822 9999

Web

www.16camperdownstreetbrightoneast.com

-----------------------------------------

BRIGHTON EAST 179A Thomas Street Delight in the character and elegant renovation that makes this single-level residence excellent for easy living. Art Deco features are always in style, and add a stylish dimension to this cared-for residence. One of a solid-brick pair, there´s 2 bedrooms and 2 living areas, hydronic heating, a study nook, solar power, roof storage, garage, storage shed, and a deep rear garden. 1930s features, beautiful timber floors, and space to extend (STCA). Ideally located close to Hawthorn Road´s shops, Landcox Park, cafes and trams.

Auction

Saturday 22nd June at 10.30am

Inspect

Thursday 12.30-1pm & Saturday 12.15-12.45pm

-----------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------

Contact

Gerry Gordon 0418 144 000 Kate Strickland 0400 125 946

-----------------------------------------

Office

312 New Street Brighton 9822 9999

Web

www.179athomasstreetbrightoneast.com

-----------------------------------------

48 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

BRIGHTON EAST 44 Binnie Street The best of both worlds is here; lifestyle and location.

Prestige 5-bedroom home is a private world of indulgence with 4 living areas, study, fantastic outdoor living with a pool and separate games room, gourmet kitchen, and smart zoning. The whole family will love this feature-packed and pristine home near South Road schools, Were St cafes, beach and public transport.

Auction

Saturday 22nd June at 2.30pm

Inspect

Thursday 1.15-1.45pm & Saturday 1-1.30pm

-----------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------

Contact

Jason Collie 0403 191 453 Kate Strickland 0400 125 946

-----------------------------------------

Office

312 New Street Brighton 9822 9999

Web

www.44binniestreetbrightoneast.com

-----------------------------------------

HAMPTON 27 Imbros Street Lovingly restored and extended "Camberley" is metres from Castlefield Reserve and full of classic and contemporary flair.

It´s a light-filled home in a glorious garden setting, with a generous family room and kitchen opening onto a huge deck, lounge, 3-4 bedrooms, and a newly renovated bathroom.

Single-level style at its finest, close to South Rd schools, Hampton St and local shops.

Auction

Saturday 22nd June at 1.30pm

Inspect

Thursday 2-2.30pm & Saturday 3.15-3.45pm

-----------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------

Contact

Rob Strickland 0437 076 069 Kate Strickland 0400 125 946

-----------------------------------------

Office

312 New Street Brighton 9822 9999

Web

www.27imbrosstreethampton.com

-----------------------------------------

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 49

YOU CAN’T BE A LEADER FROM THE BACK OF THE PACK If you’re stuck in an office that has more shortcomings than market share, or being prevented from achieving all that you could, here’s an opportunity to make a serious impact in a property market that is undeniably on the move.

We lead the market in one of Melbourne’s most desirable and central locations; We are an established, independent brand with fantastic market awareness; We have a generous commission structure; We provide first class training with Australia’s top real estate trainer; We have a seriously good culture with terrific people at all levels; and We have the lion’s share of the available stock for you to sell.

6/1 Hughenden Road St Kilda East

2

1

1

Enchanting older-style boutique apartment highlights excellent lightfilled proportions & original charm through sun-drenched living/dining room, well-appointed kitchen with gas cooking & dining area, 2 bedrooms & bathroom. Features gas heater & car-space.

INSPECT Sat 2-2.30pm & Sun 10-10.30am

AUCTION Sunday 30th June at 11am

For a totally confidential discussion on the opportunities available, call:

Chris Henson on 9091 1400 or 0417 999 070

NewQuay Office 03 9091 1400

Brendan Allen 0499 229 007 Stuart Rooke 0402 747 939

mwone.com.au

In return…

You will have current real estate sale experience; You will have ambitions to be a genuine Top Gun given the right support; You will be keen to join a market leader; and You will enjoy working in an area with the best coffee and cafes in Melbourne!

9822 9999

1/401 Docklands Drive, Docklands 3008

lucasre.com.au

An Inspiring Fusion of Past & Present Elwood, 11 Clarke Street

3

2

1

Behind this pretty Victorian façade lives a remarkably spacious family-sized home. Enhanced with a captivating combination of period character & designer style this magnificent home has been skillfully modernised & extended both upwards & outwards without detracting from its original charm to accommodate three bedrooms, two bathrooms plus an additional nursery/study.

Beneath lofty ceilings, the quality-filled interior showcases open-plan living/dining, gourmet Miele kitchen appliances with breakfast bar & concealed fridge/freezer. Separate laundry & peaceful upstairs parents’ retreat with dressing room & en-suite bathroom through to a nursery/study.

Perfect to entertain family & friends, the open plan living/ dining area opens to a covered deck with open fireplace & adjoining private courtyard. Adding to the appeal are hydronic heating, air conditioning, Bose surround-sound, under-stair storage, ceiling roses, chocolate-toned floorboards & Plantation shutters.

Saturday 29th June 2013 at 11am – On-Site Matt White 0428 722 769 Michael Lillywhite 0423 548 994 8530 9900 raywhitestkilda.com

Ray White St Kilda 50 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

BMRSTK0003

Auction

Port Melbourne, 164 Station Street

Located in the historical precinct of Port Melbourne amongst impressive period terraces, “Ulster House” is one of Melbourne’s iconic exhibits of grand Victorian architecture.

Beautifully updated internally, this family home proudly displays all the charm typical of its era including high ceilings with roses, wrought-iron lacework, timber floorboards & open fireplaces.

The expansive master bedroom features a walk in dressing room, ensuite and uninterrupted views over Smith Reserve and the city skyline.

5

3

2

Auction

Saturday 22nd June 12.00pm Matt White 0428 722 769 Micheal Lillywhite 0423 548 994 03 8530 9900 raywhitestkilda.com

Ray White St Kilda

BMRSTK0002

A Port Melbourne Icon Ulster House 1893

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 51

Brighton East 13 Letchworth Avenue Private Sale Price Contact Agent Inspect Wed at 12.30-1.00pm, Sat as advertised Office 251 Bay Street Brighton 9596 1111 Contact Jason Gill 0411 801 831 Kate Schuster 0410 587 286

52 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

5 Luxury family home in the park precinct Just 250m from Dendy Park, this expansive up to 5 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home goes above & beyond with formal, family & 1st floor zones plus al fresco & theatre rooms, a state of the art Miele kitchen plus BBQ kitchen, 2 ensuites (including double main), a plus size dressing room, even pool facilities. With every

3.5

2

luxury (Brushbox floors & CaesarStone), all the extras (including double auto garage & dual heated pool) & easy access to St Leonards & Haileybury, this is beyond prestige in the park precinct. www.13letchworthavenuebrightoneast.com

AUCTION SATURDAY

Hampton 16 Edinburgh Street Auction Price Inspect Office Contact

3 A magnificent Hampton opportunity This lovely timber original provides an empty canvas with multiple possibilities and is well positioned for parks, transport and Hampton Street. Comfortable and clean, move in and contemplate, polish it up to take it back to former glory, extend out and bring it into today or on land approx. 673sqm, build a

Sat 15th June at 1pm $890K - $970K Wed at 12.00-12.30pm, Sat from 12.30pm 10 Bay Road Sandringham 9598 1111 Paul Bond 0419 519 311 Sam Paynter 0413 531 888

Beaumaris 57 Haldane Street

3

2

2

1

2

brand new home or dual occupancy (all STCA). Highlights include a promising, large, open, grassed and secure back garden full of north/west sun, plenty of off-street parking and a sought after Bayside address. www.16edinburghstreethampton.com

Bonbeach 1/599a Nepean Hwy

4

3.5

2

Private Sale Price $1.2M - $1.29M Inspect Wed at 12.45-1.15pm, Sat at 2.00-2.30pm Office 12 East Concourse 9589 6077 Contact Paul Bond 0419 519 311 Craig Cox 0432 446 622

Private Sale Inspect As advertised or by appointment Office 44 Florence Street 9584 6500 Contact Jason Swift 0417 055 702 Lauren Cleasby-Jones 0410 258 915

Designer flair for family entertaining This fabulous home offers great entertaining for a modern family life with vast open places angled to maximise space and north/west sun, designer flair and quality craftsmanship evident throughout. The huge open living and dining area steps out to a wraparound deck and garden. www.57haldanestreetbeaumaris.com

Family luxury with bay panaroma This imposing home of consummate quality offers exceptional living on a magnificent beach front with sweeping bay views. Lounge opening to alfresco, dining & living with ´beach side´ balcony, kitchen, bar & servery overlooking a poolside courtyard, d´ble garage, rear yard, beach entry. www.1-599anepeanhwybonbeach.com

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 53

AUCTION SATURDAY

Brighton 13 Oakwood Avenue Auction Price Inspect Office Contact

AUCTION SATURDAY

3/4

2.5

2

Auction Price Inspect Office Contact

Sat 15th June at 1pm Contact Agent Wed at 11.30-12noon, Sat from 12.30pm 251 Bay Street 9596 1111 Julian Augustini 0418 558 408 Romana Preston 0401 066 909

Dual frontages, multiple possibilities Just 150m to Bay St from a 2nd frontage to Hillcrest Ave, this versatile approx 7900sqft/734sqm property comes with a solid-brick 3 bedrm & study, 2.5 bathrm, dual zone period home (with Euro app kitchen, r/c air-con & alarm), a heated pool, auto-gated double carport & multiple possibilities. www.13oakwoodavenuebrighton.com AUCTION SATURDAY

Brighton East 20 Binnie Street Auction Price Inspect Office Contact

4

2.5

2

Sat 15th June at 12.30pm Contact Agent Wed at 5.00-5.30pm, Sat from 12.00pm 251 Bay Street 9596 1111 Jason Gill 0411 801 831 Kate Schuster 0410 587 286

Style, Quality & Convenience Just one block from Bay St, this impressive residence offers an accommodating & adaptable floorplan. Starring a CaesarStone & Miele kitchen and stone finished bathrooms, this clever home has many extras (ducted heating/cooling, surround sound wiring & DLUG). www.3warristonstreetbrighton.com AUCTION SATURDAY

3

2.5

2

Sat 15th June at 11am $950K - $1.080M Wed at 12.00-12.30pm, Sat from 10.30am 251 Bay Street 9596 1111 Jason Gill 0411 801 831 Kate Schuster 0410 587 286

1st Class quality at an easy to love address Spacious residence with high corniced ceilings, polished porcelain floors & fine marble benchtops.

Featuring a Miele kitchen & spectacular Master suite, this elegant home has alarm, heating, cooling, ducted vacuum & DG all within easy reach of Church St, Hampton St, transport & schools. www.20binniestreetbrightoneast.com

54 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

Brighton 3 Warriston Street

Brighton East 4a Janet Street Auction Price Inspect Office Contact

3

2.5

2

Sat 15th June at 1pm $750K - $825K Wed at 2.45-3.15pm, Sat from 12.30pm 251 Bay Street 9596 1111 Campbell Cooney 0418 337 055 Simone Chin 0403 857 266

Very appealing and affordable This beautifully maintained 3 bedrm t/house features abundant natural light, excellent design and an o/plan living that leads to a paved entertaining area & private rear gdn. Add a granite kitchen, separate study, 2.5 bathrms and a low maintenance allotment only a stroll from Dendy Park. www.4ajanetstreetbrightoneast.com

AUCTION SUNDAY

Brighton East 50 Cummins Road Auction Price Inspect Office Contact

3

1

1

Caulfield South 34 Poplar Street Auction Inspect Office Contact

Sat 22nd June at 2pm Contact Agent Wed at 1.15-1.45pm, Sat as advertised 251 Bay Street 9596 1111 Julian Augustini 0418 558 408 Romana Preston 0401 066 909

Late-period beauty on a park-view corner Combining the peace of a corner position with wide park views, this 3 bedroom late-period corner home stars a st-st app kitchen, elegant bathroom, lounge & dining plus a rear family area & side garage access from Carr St. Enjoy, or re-think this corner site. www.50cumminsroadbrightoneast.com

2

1

Sun 16th June at 11am Sat at 2.00-2.30pm & Sun at 10.30-11.00am prior to Auction 312-314 Hawthorn Road 9533 0999 Simone Chin 0403 857 266 Oren Flamm 0407 750 438

Period Charm with Modern Conveniences 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, generous living area. High ceilings, original lead-lighting. Modern kitchen with island, ample cupboards. Adjacent family and deck areas for indoor/outdoor entertaining.

Close to tram & amenities. www.34poplarstreetcaulfieldsouth.com AUCTION SATURDAY

Highett 22 Haynes Street Auction Price Inspect Office Contact

5

2

2

Sat 22nd June at 11am $760K - $830K Sat & Sun at 12.30-1.00pm 10 Bay Road 9598 1111 Greg Downes 0413 592 905 Paul Bond 0419 519 311

Five bedrooms, retro form and function Zoned for a functional family life and designed for entertaining in out, this substantial 5 bedroom home with 3 living areas & 2 bathrooms has been upgraded by design professionals with a passion for mid 20th Century architecture. Highett Village, station, schools and parks nearby. www.22haynesstreethighett.com

Mckinnon 26 Capitol Avenue Auction Price Inspect Office Contact

3

1

2

Sat 15th June at 11am $750K - $820K Wed at 12.00-12.30pm, Sat from 10.30am 361 Centre Road 9557 7891 Frank Ruffo 0412 112 223 Julian Augustini 0418 558 408

Zone in on a premier Hill address One of the last unrenovated, under-capitalised opportunities left in this McKinnon Hill, College Zone street, this solid brick late-period 3 bedroom home is ready to upgrade & extend ...or rebuild on this approx 6,050sqft/562sqm site. www.26capitolavenuemckinnon.com

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 55

Sandringham 86 Sandringham Road 4 Auction Price Inspect Office Contact

2

2

4904/1 Queensbridge sQuare SOUTHBANK

Sat 22nd June at 2.30pm $1.125M - $1.225M Wed at 11.45-12.15pm, Sat as advertised 10 Bay Road 9598 1111 Stephen Wigley 0411 115 736 Angus Graham 0401 505 259

Epitome of Luxury, Ultimate Skyhome

Style, space & the park at the door Almost opposite Allambee Park, this rendered & renovated 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home has living extending to a BBQ deck, vast 1st-flr living, a Euro app kitchen, heating, r/c air-con, intercom, digital entry & auto-gated carport in professionally landscaped & lit gardens. www.86sandringhamroadsandringham.com

With only the finest quality finishes throughout, this luxurious home provides unrivalled living space and undeniable elegance, as well as offering extraordinary panoramic views that stretch over City, Port Melbourne, Docklands and beyond.

The apartment boasts 2 large bedrooms, open plan living, dining and undercover terrace with fabulous views, separate laundry and guest powder room. All fitting and fixtures are of the highest quality, featuring marble bench tops and Miele appliances including temperature controlled wine cabinets.

PRICE: INSPECT: CONTACT:

$1,750,000 to $1,890,000 Wednesday 5:30 to 6:00pm, Saturday 12:00 to 12:30pm Gus Kosasih 0430 888 838, gus@ipropertymelbourne.com.au

2A 2.5 B 2 E

9639 9280

307/227 Collins Street, Melbourne

aLbErT Park

85 St Vincent Place

6A5B2C1D

LYNTON circa 1892 - GraND PEriOD rESiDENcE

• Allotment: 20m x 37m / 740sqm (approx.)

• A unique district landmark • Two street frontages Set amongst magnificent leafy surrounds directly opposite St Vincent Gardens. This illustrious balconied residence with established picturesque front gardens boasts spectacular grand entrance foyer, six bedrooms, five bathrooms, formal sitting & dining rooms, well-appointed kitchen, huge conservatory meals area, family room, and basement billiard/rumpus recreational area with substantial wine cellar. Further features self-contained cottage with studio accommodation set above lock-up garage (access via Merton Street), outbuilding and private entertaining gardens. aUcTiON Saturday 22nd June at 2pm Geoff cayzer 9690 9782

330 Montague Street Albert Park 9699 5999 56 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

cayzer.com.au

ViSiT: 85stvincentplacealbertpark.com Michael Szulc 0417 122 809

310 Bay Street Port Melbourne 9646 0812

37 Martin Street Brighton

AUCTION Saturday 22nd June at 2pm

3/3 Loller Street Brighton

AUCTION Saturday 22nd June at 12.30pm

The Land, The Location, The Lifestyle Between Brighton Beach and Martin Street Village, this substantial two-storey residence resides on an illustrious 961sqm/10,344sqft north-facing block with an in-ground swimming pool and spa. Compatible with today’s family demands, the four bedroom, three bathroom residence offers a functional layout for family living and entertaining with formal and casual living rooms, a study, and a granite kitchen ensuring long-term appeal in a sought-after address near schools.

VIEW Thursday 12.45 - 1.15pm & 5 - 5.30pm, Saturday 11.45 - 12.15pm

Single Level Rob Mills Luxury Offering the ease and accessibility of single level living, this brand new three bedroom, three bathroom home steps into the future with intelligent architect design and absolute privacy. Features include lofty 3.2m ceilings and walls of full height glass, showpiece kitchen with Miele appliances, integrated fridge/freezer, American Oak ooring, private lift access from 3 car basement garaging, store room, separate media/ family room plus low maintenance garden courtyard. Located moments to Church Street shopping and transport.

VIEW Wednesday 12 - 12.30pm & 5 - 5.30pm, Saturday 12.30 - 1pm

CALL Justin Follett David Curtis

0405 996 822 0417 122 352

kayburton.com.au

CALL Justin Follett 0405 996 822 Andrew Sahhar 0417 363 358 Alex Schiavo 0419 239 549 WEB luxurytownhousebrighton.com.au

kayburton.com.au june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 57

348 Orrong Road Caulfield 9526 1999 55 Inkerman Street St Kilda 9066 4688 garypeer.com.au

������� ���� ������ ����

� �������� ������ ��������� �����

���

� ������������ ���������� �� ������ ���������� ����������� ������� �� ��� ��������������������� �������� � ���� ���������� ��������� �������������� ��������� �� � ������������ ������� ���� ������ ��� �� �� ������������ ��� ����������� ������ ���� ��� ���� �������� �������� �� �������� ��� ������������ ������ ���� � ������� ������������������� ���� � ����� �������� �������� � ������ ������ ���� ���� �������� � �������� ������ ��� �� �������� ������� ���� � �������������� ����� ������ ������� �� ������� ����� �������� ���� �������� ������� �������� ����� ��������� ������ ���� �������� ����� ���� ���������� ����� � ������� ������������������� ����� ��������� ����� ������������� ��� � ��� � ����� ������������ ������

���� ���� ������ �� ����� ���� ����� ����� ��� ���������� ��� �� ���� ���������� ��������� �� ������� �������� � ����� �� �� ����� ����� ��������� ������ � ������� ������ ����� �������� ������������� ����� ��������� ���� �������� ����������� � ������� ����� ���� ��������� ����� � ��������� ������ ��� ��������� ������ ��������� ���� ��� ����� � ������� ������� 58 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

�

A

���

B

������� �������� �� ��� ������� ������� ��� ����������� � ��� ����������� ����� �������� � �������� ������� ���� ������� ���� ��� ��� ������ ������ ���� ��� ���

�

C

A �B

��

C

�

C

������� ������ �� ���� ������ ������� ����� ������������ ��� ����������� � ��� ���� ������ ������� ���� ������ ���� ��� ��� ����� ���������� ���� ��� ���

���� ������� ������ ������ ��������� ������� � ����������� ������� ���� ���� �� �� ������ �� ���� ���� ��������� ��������� �� ���� ����� ����� � �������� ������������� ����� ������� �������� ������ ������� ���� ���� ��������� ���� ������� � ������ ������ �� ��� ��� ����� �� � ����� �� ������ ���� ��� ������� ����������� �� ��������� � �������� ������ ���� ������� ����

�

A �B

������� �������� �� ��� ������ ������� ��� ����������� � ��� ������������ ����� �������� � �������� ������� ����� ���������� ���� ��� ��� ������ ��������� ���� ��� ���

NICK JOHNSTONE $4m+ Buyers Must inspect

Brighton 40 North Road Modernist Masterpiece, steps froM the Beachfront Just 20 doors from the Golden Mile beachfront, this 4 bedroom & study, 3.5 bathroom International-style residence steps back beyond a sweeping semi-circle drive & double garage to offer intensely private multi-zone living – with formal, family, games & 1st-flr zones around approx 13,840sqft/1,286sqm pool-gardens, a glamorous balconied master domain & every luxury including an elite granite kitchen & in-flr hydronic heating on 2 levels. A Modernist masterpiece on an iconic boulevard.

4

A

3

B

ExpREssioNs of iNtEREst Closing Monday 17th June at 5pm CoNtACt: Chris Carrington Nick Johnstone

nickjohnstone.com.au ph: 9553 8300

2

C

0418 588 148 0414 276 871

117/3 Male Street, Brighton 2/544 Hampton Street, Hampton june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 59

Albert Park 77 Beaconsfield Parade Oceans of space and exceptional detailing Triple levels with every luxury, from the top floor master bedroom suite with views to sea and city, down past the Gagganeau/Maytag/Qasair equipped kitchen, formal and informal living and dining areas, then to the outdoor entertaining area with spa pool and bbq. The high-ceilinged ground floor comprises of two more bedrooms, living area, bathroom and easily accessed double garage. Superb inclusions such as Cbus wiring, Foxtel throughout, Ethernet, security alarm, and sound systems inside and out. www.77.beaconsfieldparadealbertpark.com

60 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

Auction Price Inspect Mel Ref Contact Office

Sat 22 June 1.30pm POA Wed & Sat as Advertised or

By Appointment 57 D5 Karl Gillon 0411 746 746 Eva Cumming 0400 955 184 Albert Park 9699 5155 3+ B 2+ b 2 C s

buxton.com.au june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 61

Auction this Saturday

Beaumaris 8 Point Avenue The Ultimate Entertainer!

Set on a sweeping corner, this 4 bedroom, 4 bathroom home invites you to lounge, dine or relax by the fire...then throw back the bi-fold walls of the Calacatta marble & Gaggenau kitchen & entertain in a central pool garden with sauna. With a marble bathroom for every bedroom, an angled balconied master-domain, this climate controlled & C-Bus automated home is the Ultimate Entertainer with the Ultimate Beaumaris address - near Concourse, schools & Rickett´s Point. www.8.pointavenuebeaumaris.com

Auction Price Inspect Mel Ref Contact Office

Sat 15 June 1.30pm Contact Agent Sat 1-1.30pm 86 C8 Eleisha Pawelek 0434 029 128 Mark Earle 0419 310 707 Sandringham 9598 8222 4

4

2

buxton.com.au 62 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

Brighton 34A Head Street A Golden Mile exclusive Just homes from the beach with a parkside perspective, this 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom Golden Mile residence designed by renowned architect, Jon Friedrich is graced with outward-focused formal & family zones & a balconied 1st-flr with central atrium. Showcasing luxury finishes (granite, Travertine, Emporite) & every appointments (including in-flr heating, r/c air-con, alarm, vac, intercom, double garage), it´s the clever touches (dual dressing-rooms, spa & BBQ kitchen) that take this property from elite ...to pure Gold! www.34a.headstreetbrighton.com

Auction Inspect Contact Office

Sat 22 June 12.30pm Wed & Sat 11-11.30am Andrew Campbell 0419 366 545 Stefan Whiting 0411 473 153 Brighton 9592 8000 4

2

2

buxton.com.au june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 63

Brighton East 11 Clive Street Architectural Aesthetic in Brilliant Brighton East Just completed to an elite standard of quality & design, this ground-breaking 4 bedroom + study, 3.5 bathroom home (land 465m2 approx) combines organic finishes (timber, stone & tiles), sleek forms (walls of glass, 2-Pac cabinetry) & high-tech appointments (theatre-wiring, clim-control, vid-intercom, vac, alarm, auto-blinds) across an innovative design featuring formal & sun-bathed northfacing family living, a study-fitted 1st-flr zone & suites on 2 levels ... close to shops, cafes & tram. www.11.clivestreetbrightoneast.com

Auction Price Inspect Mel Ref Contact Office

Sun 23 June 12.30pm $1,200,000-$1,300,000 Wed 12.15-12.45pm & Thu 5.15-5.45pm 68 A11 Lambros Bollas 0413 861 979 Craig Williamson 0410 464 860 Brighton 9592 8000 4+

3+

2

buxton.com.au 64 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

Beaumaris 27 Gareth Avenue Bayside style with a bushland outlook!

Facing Long Hollow Reserve, this impressive 5 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom corner home offers oversized 3-zone living with a formal, family & 1st-flr living plus an al fresco area beside the heated pool. Starring a spectacular master-domain, a C´Stone & AEG app kitchen, double auto-garage & tank watering, this is exceptional family living- a walk to schools, Concourse & parks. www.27.garethavenuebeaumaris.com

Auction Price Inspect Mel Ref Contact Office

Sat 29 June 12.30pm $1,250,000 - $1,300,000 Wed 1.45-2.15pm & Sat 11.45-12.15pm 86 C5 Mark Earle 0419 310 707 Rebecca Beacall 0421 664 027 Sandringham 9598 8222 5

2+

2

Black Rock 61 Iona Street The Perfect Blue Chip Site!

Is this the perfect beachside, hilltop block? With a sunfilled northerly rear, a wide approx 60´/18m frontage & a highset location, there´s simply no premium site more perfect than this! Just up the hill from the Village, the bay & the bus, at a blue-chip address, this approx 8,428sqft/ 783sqm unique site has every ingredient for a family dream home. Build tall for 2nd storey outlooks, build wide for presence...maybe even build more than one home across this broad frontage (subject to Council Approval) to capitalise on this premier address. You can even take your time to decide how to build & let the existing 2 bedroom weatherboard home with garage pay your way until commencement. www.61.ionastreetblackrock.com

Auction Price Inspect Mel Ref Contact Office

Sat 22 June 11.30am $1,000,000 - $1,100,000 Wed 1-1.30pm & Sat 2.30-3pm 85 K3 Mark Earle 0419 310 707 Rebecca Beacall 0421 664 027 Sandringham 9598 8222 2

1

1

buxton.com.au june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 65

Brighton 4A Kinane Street

Auction this Saturday

Prestigious corner position... amazing new home site Secure one of the beachside´s most dramatic sites... & 2 of Brighton´s best addresses! A rare undercapitalised corner at the meeting of Tennyson & Kinane Sts, this approx 649.4sqm property streches out from a wide corner with a slight elevation along Tennyson St. Pace out the distance to the sand (less than 200 steps) & give this outstanding site the high-impact home it deserves.

Maybe even take a second look at the existing 3 bedroom & study, 3 bathroom, dual zone home with double garage. With the solid-brick construction & atticstyle charm of another era, this enchanting home may be more than just a rentable option while you plan. www.4a.kinanestreetbrighton.com

Auction Inspect Contact Office

Sat 15 June 11.00am Wed 12.30-1pm & Sat 10.30-11am David Hart 0417 541 933 Stefan Whiting 0411 473 153 Brighton 9592 8000 3

3

2

Brighton 42 Meek Street Make Your Mark on Meek Impressive wide street frontage (23.47 mt approx) reveals a perfect new home site basked in northerly sunlight. Approx 524 sqmt´s of exciting redevelopment potential located minutes from the beach, cosmopolitan Bay Street, schools & public transport. Currently home to a 1980´s, 3 bdroom, 2 bthroom brick architect built home with vaulted ceilings, large living zone & brick paved entertainers area. www.42.meekstreetbrighton.com

Auction Inspect Contact Office

Sat 22 June 11.00am Wed 1.15-1.45pm Stefan Whiting 0411 473 153 Bert Stewart 0418 350 199 Brighton 9592 8000 3

2

2

buxton.com.au 66 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

Brighton East 20 Welwyn Avenue Presence, prestige ...& the park!

A fine example of the prestige housing that has transformed the Dendy Park precinct, this impressive 4 bedroom & study area, 2 bathroom home features formal, family & 1st-flr retreat, a Miele & Stone kitchen...& bi-folds to a kids´ paradise gardens with trampoline, glass-fenced pool & double auto-garaging behind auto-gates - all just 250m to the park & a couple of bus-stops to the South Rd schools. www.20.welwynavenuebrightoneast.com

Auction Inspect Contact Office

Sat 22 June 11.30am Wed & Sat 11.45-12.15pm Andrew Campbell 0419 366 545 Stefan Whiting 0411 473 153 Brighton 9592 8000 4

2

2

Brighton East 211 Were Street Classic beauty with a first class address High-gabled in gorgeous gardens, this timeless Cape-Cod 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom attic-style home features a fine formal lounge, north-facing family zone & 2 expansive 1st-flr suites. Classically styled with a pool-view Smeg kitchen, pol-porcelain bathrooms & CaesarStone, there´s every appointment & a tiled pool & double garage in auto-gated gardens. A timeless beauty close to the schools! www.211.werestreetbrightoneast.com

Auction Price Inspect Mel Ref Contact Office

Sat 22 June 2.30pm $1,500,000-$1,650,000 Wed 6-6.30pm 76 H3 Ivan Blow 0413 163 914 Tom Davidson 0488 017 500 Brighton 9592 8000 4

3

2

buxton.com.au june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 67

Hampton East 1/21 Leonard Street Benchmark parkside prestige Facing the park above basement garaging (with storage), this brand new breath-taking 3 bedrm & 2 study-nooks, 2.5 bathrm home sets a new benchmark with a Smeg & stone kitchen, Travertine bathrms, Oak floors & a gas-fire in an innovative design with 3 free-flowing ground-floor living areas opening to a walled courtyard, a 1st-floor retreat & balconied master! www.1-21.leonardstreethamptoneast.com

Auction Price Inspect Contact Office

Sat 29 June 11.30am $820,000 - $880,000 Wed 1.15-1.45pm & Sat 1.30-2pm & Sun 12.30-1pm Alex Spanidis 0409 116 929 Sharon Quick 0417 553 893 Hampton East 9555 0622 3

2

2

St Kilda 1A West Beach Road Prominent Position, Pure Pleasure A distinctive corner profile complements this designer contemporary home, positioned for instant access to the vibrancy that defines Fitzroy Street. A ground level bedroom with its own bathroom sets the scene. Above, natural light, polished floors and a gleaming granite kitchen accompany separate living and dining zones, each opening to a generous terrace. Two top floor bedrooms surrounding a central spa bathroom complete a story of space, style and sights, enhanced by heating and cooling options and a secure garage. www.1a.westbeachroadstkilda.com

Auction Price Inspect Contact Office

Sat 29 June 12.00pm $710,000 - $770,000 Sat 11.45 - 12.15pm Matthew Young 0403 313 839 Arthur Apostoleros 0411 515 015 St Kilda 9536 7222 3

2

1

buxton.com.au 68 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

Black Rock 10 Third Street A rare beachside find!

With its own street address, a wraparound garden & impressive presence, this up to 3 bedrm, 2 bathrm single-level home has north-facing lounge, dining beside a granite Euro app kitchen & sitting-rm /3rd bedrm, r/c air-con, alarm, dble auto-garage ...& the bay & Village within blocks. www.10.thirdstreetblackrock.com

Brighton 54 Asling Street Auction Price Inspect Mel Ref Contact Office

Sat 6 July 12.30pm $720,000 - $790,000 Wed 11-11.30am & Sat 10.30-11am 85 K5 Romana Altman 0414 804 270 Eleisha Pawelek 0434 029 128 Sandringham 9598 8222 3 2 2

Single Level Low Maintenance Period Home Elegant 3 BR, 2 bthrm single level low maintenance period home on 531sqm with brand new interior. 2 light filled living zones including an expansive open plan kitchen (Smeg & C´Stone) & living stepping out to a private, sunny landscaped courtyard. Fine period details complete the grace & style of this centrally situated residence. www.54.aslingstreetbrighton.com

Auction Inspect Contact Office

Sat 22 June 1.30pm Wed 2-2.30pm Stefan Whiting 0411 473 153 Leigh Hallamore 0418 310 724 Brighton 9592 8000 3 2 2

Executor’s Auction

Brighton 6 Higinbotham Street Blue Chip Location by the Bay Located in the exclusive beachside pocket, this approx 7,356sqft/683sqm property with 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom solid-brick home offers an increasingly rare opportunity to build between the schools & the Golden Mile beachfront within a walk of Church St. www.6.higinbothamstreetbrighton.com

Brighton East 21 Gleniffer Avenue Auction Inspect Contact Office

Sat 22 June 3.30pm Wed 11.45-12.15pm Halli Moore 0403 777 661 David Hart 0417 541 933 Brighton 9592 8000 4 2 2

Solid potential with a wide frontage In a low-traffic Dendy Park precinct crescent, this approx 8,754sqft/813sqm property is ready to host a new home (or 2 - subject to Council Approval) across its wide approx 62ft front.

Alternatively, renovate this cent-heated 2 bedroom home on the St Leonards & Haileybury bus-route. www.21.glenifferavenuebrightoneast.com

Auction Price Inspect Contact Office

Sat 22 June 2.30pm $800,000 - $880,000 Wed 12.30-1pm Halli Moore 0403 777 661 David Hart 0417 541 933 Brighton 9592 8000 2 1 2

buxton.com.au june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 69

Hampton 32 Kingston Street Brick beauty with brilliant land!

The park & kinder are across the road, schools & the strip are within a walk & the land & potential you’re looking for are here. On approx 7,280sqft/ 676sqm, this 2 bedrm brick beauty with sleep-out & garage is ready to polish & upgrade ...or add a new home or 2 (Subject to Council Approval)! www.32.kingstonstreethampton.com

Hampton 4 May Street Auction Price Inspect Mel Ref Contact Office

Sat 22 June 11.30am $830,000 - $890,000 Wed 2.30-3pm & Sat 1.45-2.15pm 76 J5 Richard Slade 0419 588 873 Bill Jowett 0421 052 150 Sandringham 9598 8222 3 1 2

Highett 26 Rose Street Prestige living in a blooming locale!

A walk to Highett Rd´s new shopping precinct, this 3 bedroom & study, 2.5 bathroom front home stands tall with north-facing living/dining & deck, a prestige C´Stone kitchen, air-con, solar-panels & alarm, a fenced garden out front & a rear double garage...all in a fast-blooming locale. www.26.rosestreethighett.com

Soaring space, Californian grace!

Just 2 doors to the park & 2 blocks to Hampton St & the school, this 4 bedrm, 3 bathrm Cal Bungalow offers classic coastal cool with a formal lounge plus a spectacular family zone with a soaring skylit roofline & C´Stone & Euro app kitchen, 2 ensuites, r/c air-con & double carport! www.4.maystreethampton.com

Auction Price Inspect Mel Ref Contact Office

Sat 22 June 1.30pm $1,075,000 - $1,175,000 Wed 2.30-3pm & Sat 2.15-2.45pm 76 J5 Andrew Campbell 0419 366 545 Christian Hegarty 0409 449 948 Sandringham 9598 8222 4 3 2

Sandringham 2/18 Collingwood Street Auction Price Inspect Mel Ref Contact Office

Sat 22 June 10.30am $620,000 - $680,000 Wed 12.30-1pm & Sat 1.30-2pm 77 D9 Andrew Campbell 0419 366 545 Adam Gillon 0418 313 354 Hampton East 9555 0622 3 2+ 2

Ideal entry primed for perfection Centred in a boutique group of 3, this rendered & freshly-painted 2 bedrm unit features a reno´d eatin kitchen, neutral bathrm, sun-filled living with aircon´r, ready-to-polish timber floors, a northerly courtyard, parking & garage - 5 blocks from station, Village & bay. www.2-18.collingwoodstreetsandringham.com

Auction Inspect Contact Office

Sat 29 June 12.30pm Wed 2-2.30pm Tom Davidson 0488 017 500 Bill Jowett 0421 052 150 Sandringham 9598 8222 2 1 1

buxton.com.au 70 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

Sandringham 2/31 Sims Street Buy in a boutique beachside group!

Count the blocks to the Village (1), count the steps to the beach & see the value in this boutique group of just 3! Features a blue & white kitchen with banquette dining & a huge & flexible bathroom area, this immaculate 2 bedroom unit has a rev-cyc air-con´r, robes, a courtyard & garage. Add a tenant, makeover or enjoy as is! www.2-31.simsstreetsandringham.com

Sandringham 3/64 Victoria Street Auction Price Inspect Mel Ref Contact Office

Sat 29 June 3.30pm $450,000 - $490,000 Wed 1.45-2.15pm & Sat 9.15-9.45am 76 H10 Richard Slade 0419 588 873 John Crouch 0407 819 074 Sandringham 9598 8222 2 1 1

3 beds, 2 baths, 1 blue-chip address!

Soaring spaces & airy graces are not the only surprise here ...this single-level townhouse with courtyard & carport will surprise with its 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom accommodation, its soaring vaulted ceilings for lounge/dining & Blanco kitchen/dining & its ensuited main bedroom. www.3-64.victoriastreetsandringham.com

Auction Price Inspect

Sat 22 June 12.30pm $590,000 - $650,000 Wed 1-1.30pm & Sat 10-10.30am 76 J11 Richard Slade 0419 588 873 Bill Jowett 0421 052 150 Sandringham 9598 8222 3 2 2

Mel Ref Contact Office

buxton.com.au

St Kilda 56A Havelock Street On Lifestyle´s Doorstep On a one way street in the heart of St Kilda, this brilliant 3 bedroom townhouse offers a stylish inner urban sanctuary just steps from Acland Street, The Esplanade and St Kilda Beach.

Includes open plan living/ dining, smeg kitchen, full bathroom, powder room, northern courtyard, breakfast balcony, intercom entry, secure carport. www.56a.havelockstreetstkilda.com

Private Sale Price $839,000 Inspect Sat 1.15 - 1.45pm Contact Matthew Young 0403 313 839 David Seeber 0421 796 350 Office St Kilda 9536 7222 3 1 1

buxton.com.au

St Kilda East 104 Hotham Street This corner-sited Edwardian is ready to move onto the next chapter. Occupying almost 1000sqm, it’s a virtual blank canvas with graciously proportioned accommodation & period detail. Near trams, schools & shops.

4

1

2

Sun 7th July - 1.30pm 58 / F11 Please contact agent St Kilda 204-212 Barkly Street 3182 > TEL 9593 8733 > CONTACT Sam Inan 0433 076 999 Thomas Lund 0419 770 340 > AUCTION > MEL REF > PRICE > OFFICE

hockingstuart.com.au june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 71

Beaumaris 19 Beach Road A beachside luxury lifestyle in a class of its own.

Set back to enjoy calming bay views through the tea tree, this imposing 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom resortstyle residence defines a new style of luxury. Enjoying magnificent picture windows, this exquisite renovation showcases 3 north facing living areas (OFP) with bi-fold doors/windows to an elevated verandah overlooking the fully tiled pool/spa, granite/Walnut kitchen with 1500mm Ilve stove, upstairs verandah, studio/TV room, wine cellar, workshop & 3 car accommodation.

Complete with ducted heating/air cond, beautiful landscaped gardens & auto gates for security, it’s lifestyle living at its best, opposite the new bike paths, moments to the beach, schools, cafes & train.

4

3

3

789 (approx)

Wed 2.00 - 2.30pm, Thurs 5.00 - 5.30pm & Sat from 2.00pm > AUCTION Sat 15th June - 2.30pm > MEL REF 86 / G7 > EPR $2,000,000 - $2,200,000 > OFFICE Sandringham 62-64 Station Street 3191 > TEL 9521 9800 > CONTACT Warren Smith 0408 738 664 Stephen Tickell 0418 177 565 > VIEW

Hampton 20 Deakin Street North Designed to delight in the heart of Hampton.

Beautifully enhanced and ready for relaxed living, this four-bedroom home is brilliantly located metres from the heart of Hampton Street. One of the area’s original homes, it’s now filled with contemporary features and family-focussed spaces. Living areas are inviting and stylish, with an integrated open plan work station, main bedroom with walk-in wardrobe and ensuite, study, and a surprisingly deep rear garden (61 metres) accessed through bifold doors from the family room. Impressive enhancements include plantation shutters, open fireplaces, inverter air conditioner, and oak flooring. Exciting opportunity to be in one of Hampton’s best streets near shops, transport, cafes and the beach.

4

2

> VIEW > AUCTION > MEL REF > EPR > OFFICE > TEL > CONTACT

1

650 (approx)

Wed 1.00 - 1.30pm & Sat 3.00 - 3.30pm Sat 29th June - 11.00am 76 / G6 $1,150,000 - $1,250,000 Sandringham 62-64 Station Street 3191 9521 9800 Jenny Dwyer 0418 528 988 Stephen Tickell 0418 177 565

hockingstuart.com.au 72 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

Hampton 57 Crisp Street The luxury of large-scale indulgence.

One of Hampton’s finest homes is too good to miss, infused with style and superb design. Impeccably renovated, classic origins are matched with every contemporary indulgence. A vast north facing family room opens onto a deck and expansive garden with a pool, and with 3 more living spaces, you’ll never outgrow this deluxe retreat. There’s a parents’ suite downstairs, up to 5 bedrooms, and the finest array of family-friendly features. A huge kids’ zone, 3 stylish bathrooms, lofty ceilings, plantation shutters, remotecontrol gates and impressive landscaping can be yours. Admire the location in one of the area’s best streets and imagine living near the beach, Hampton Street shops and transport.

5

3

2

859 (approx)

Wed 12.00 - 12.30pm & 5.45 - 6.15pm & Sat from 12.00pm > AUCTION Sat 15th June - 12.30pm > MEL REF 76 / H7 > PRICE Please contact agent > OFFICE Sandringham 62-64 Station Street 3191 > TEL 9521 9800 > CONTACT Jenny Dwyer 0418 528 988 Stephen Tickell 0418 177 565 > VIEW

Brighton East 19A Camperdown Street Sophisticated and private, stylish and well-located - this is the townhouse that ticks all the boxes.

2 beautiful living zones, 3 bedrooms, sundrenched outdoor living, and many quality features. Excellent address near Dendy Village and Church St.

3

2

2

Sat from 1.30pm Sat 15th June - 2.00pm 67 / H12 $790,000 - $870,000 > OFFICE Brighton 307 Bay Street 3186 > TEL 9596 7055 > CONTACT John Clarkson 0408 153 045 > VIEW > AUCTION > MEL REF > EPR

St Kilda 21/12 Acland Street Huge, 2 bedroom penthouse-style apartment features Melbourne’s finest bay & CBD views as well as 2 secure parking spaces, 2.5 bathrooms, stone benches, robes, elevator, central heat, a/c & intercom entry.

2

2

2

Sat 22nd June - 11.30am 57 / K9 $660,000 - $710,000 St Kilda 204-212 Barkly Street 3182 > TEL 9593 8733 > CONTACT John Manning 0416 101 201 Kehren Eade 0419 395 614 > AUCTION > MEL REF > EPR > OFFICE

hockingstuart.com.au june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 73

St KildA, 54 Acland Street dogS bAr - St KildA iCon outstanding freehold opportunity in “one line” Auction Contact

Thursday 4th July 1pm

Tony Pride 0417 300 056 Margaret Duncan 0417 382 686

Andrew Waddell 0419 400 991

9593 6222 18 belford Street, St Kilda 3182 74 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

Suit investor / developer / boutique Hotel operator • • • • • • • • •

First time whole building offered Location – First Class Dogs Bar restaurant and wine bar on separate title General Liquor Licence Indoor/outdoor seating 8 Strata apartments Outstanding rooftop terrace Future development potential (STCA) Offered with short term lease to January 2014

*approx

priderealestate.com.au

Elwood 81 Spray Street Charm, Character & Enviable Space & location.

Opportunities like this are very rare and are definitely not to be missed, this imposing Californian bungalow has all the space and character as well as the potential to become a stunning family home in one of Elwood’s most sort after positions.

Features include inviting entry, 3 bedrooms, BIR’s, formal living/4th bed, updated central bathroom, informal living, spacious family kitchen/dining area whichs overlooks an impressive sized rear garden, separate studio & OSP for two.

4A

2B

Auction Contact

Sat 22nd June at 1:30pm James Meldrum 0411 304 060 Tony Pride 0417 300 056 Nicole Prime 0418 940 962

9593 6222 18 Belford Street, St Kilda 3182 9531 1254 59 Glen Huntly Road, Elwood 3184

m

uc

A

ea

un

2J

y2 da r tu Sa

Mt Martha

priderealestate.com.au

r ve on o g lli Ne 7 mi .2 $1

0p

n :3 tio t 12

2C

212 Marine Drive

Mt Martha

9 Stanley Crescent

“SUNNYDALE” HAS GOT THE WOW FACTOR!

PICTURESQUE PARADISE!

Beautifully designed & presented 3-4 bedroom home with stunning views over Martha Cove, Safety Beach, Arthur’s Seat around to The Heads & Point Lonsdale.

Superb indoor/outdoor entertaining area, allowing you a lifestyle to be envied.

• Designed & built to encompass the 270 degree view from Rye to The Heads, across Port Phillip 3 3 1 2 Bay to The You Yangs, the city skyline & the Mornington coastline & the Dandenong Ranges • Polished floorboards a feature throughout the home & a stunning limestone open fire • Marble kitchen, dining, family, living room, rumpus room, study with full library wall, wine cellar • Ducted heating/air-conditioning, high square set ceilings, ducted vacuum, workshop • 3 bedrooms with private terraces, 3 bathrooms Open for Inspection • Double remote garage & OSP for 6 vehicles.

Secluded modern family home with R/C aircon, high ceilings, massive garage/ workshop, wine cellar, 3 living areas, 2 kitchens, 2 bathrooms, home office area, glazed conservatory off street visitor parking for 5 vehicles plus many more splendid features.

Take a video tour of this prestigious home at bonaccorde.com.au Inspect a must through sole selling agents Saturday 12-12:30pm or by appointment

Contact Peter Nicholls 0403 271 215 Bonaccorde Property Services 4-42 Lochiel Avenue, Mount Martha VIC 3934

Saturday 3-3:30pm

A lifestyle to be envied.

Contact Peter Nicholls 0403 271 215 T: 03 5974 8900

www.bonaccorde.com.au

Bonaccorde Property Services 4-42 Lochiel Avenue, Mount Martha VIC 3934

T: 03 5974 8900

www.bonaccorde.com.au

june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 75

HOLDSWORTH AUCTION Saturday 22 June 3:30pm

Albert Park 178 Richardson Street

An Exercise In Sublime Design

3

A personal expression of all the skill, precision, expertise and flair for which SJB Interiors is so highly regarded, this landmark residence reveals a series of stunning contemporary spaces behind a unique c1920s façade. American Oak floorboards and high ceilings frame dramatic dimensions for entertaining, matched by equally impressive everyday living/dining areas that surround an open planned kitchen featuring timber, Corian and stainless steel, complemented by a commercial quality cool room. A refined study appreciates its own zone, distinct from three luxurious bedrooms, one downstairs, each with its own sublime ensuite. Lift access to first floor, separate heating and air-conditioning to both floors, C-BUS home automation and double garage lead the comprehensive luxury list that distinguishes this exquisite Albert Park property.

PRICE INSPECT

Albert Park 8644 5500 Williamstown 8387 0000 76 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

3

2

1

Contact agent Wednesday & Saturday 3:00pm – 3:30 pm By prior appointment PPTYWEB 178richardsonstreetalbertpark.com.au CONTACT John Holdsworth 0417 318 271 Greg Hocking 0418 329 961

greghocking.com.au

HOLDSWORTH AUCTION Saturday 6 July

Port Melbourne 296 Esplanade East

Why Even Try To Resist?!

3

Impressively renovated and intelligently extended, this luxurious, larger than anticipated Victorian´s three bedroom, two bathroom desirability enhances a floor-plan with a fabulous indoor-outdoor focus. Living/dining areas of surprising, outstanding, size capture northern light and include an open plan kitchen fitted with stainless steel smeg appliances before linking through bi-fold doors to a landscaped courtyard. Two downstairs bedrooms and a beautiful contemporary bathroom are complemented upstairs by a main bedroom with walk-in robe and ensuite that adds an extra dimension to this superb inner city home, with ducted heating, ducted vacuum, reverse cycle cooling and off street parking. One of Port Melbourne´s most highly regarded addresses, moments from Bay Street, completes an irresistible picture.

Albert Park 61 Kerferd Road

AUCTION Saturday 22 June 11:00am

Agelessly Attractive An elegant period profile introduces this previously updated three bedroom two storey terrace between the beach and the lake. Gracious living room, central dining and separate modern living/meals framed by a slate floored kitchen conclude with courtyard car parking accessed from Herbert Street.

1

1

PRICE

Contact Agent

INSPECT

Wednesday 10:45am - 11:15am Saturday & Sunday as advertised

PPTY WEB 61kerferdroadalbertpark.com.au CONTACT John Holdsworth Shane Siemers

Albert Park South Yarra

8644 5500 9804 7336

0417 318 271 0418 501 941

1

PRICE

$1,080,000 - $1,180,000

INSPECT

Saturday & Sunday as advertised

PPTY WEB 296esplanadeeastportmelbourne.com.au CONTACT Brett Hallam 0418 318 283 Warwick Gardiner 0438 308 555

St Kilda West 278 Canterbury Road

Fresh, Free-Flowing & Family Friendly

3

2

A stylish renovation has refreshed the family-sized comfort of this 4-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom townhouse. Enhanced with park aspects in almost every room, the low-maintenance layout offers a living room, modern kitchen, family/dining, alfresco deck, single garage, carport, heating, air conditioning, floorboards, alarm, ample storage & double-glazed windows.

Walk to Albert Park, the beach, Cowderoy Dairy, MSAC, schools, trams & Fitzroy St.

AUCTION Sat 22 Jun

4

2

2

PRICE

Contact Agent

INSPECT

Wednesday 12:00pm - 12.30pm Saturday & Sunday as advertised

PPTY WEB 278canterburyroadstkildawest.com.au CONTACT Brett Hallam 0418 318 283 Warwick Gardiner 0438 308 555

greghocking.com.au june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 77

HOLDSWORTH AUCTION Sat 22 Jun

South Melbourne 12 Bridport Street

The Essence Of Terrace Excellence Defined by its elegance, distinguished by its four large upstairs bedrooms, this refined Victorian terrace residence enjoys a leafy, tightly held setting that puts MSAC, Albert Park Lake and Clarendon Street literally moments away. An inviting sitting room and a central dining area that give classical character a modern edge lead to separate living/dining spaces which incorporate a contemporary kitchen and surround sound before opening to a north facing rear courtyard. Upstairs and downstairs bathrooms complement the generous accommodation, including a main bedroom with marble fire place and windows onto its traditional balcony. Ducted heating. A highly desirable home in a renowned terrace row.

4

2

PRICE

Contact Agent

INSPECT

Wednesday 5:30pm - 6:00pm Saturday & Sunday as advertised

PPTY WEB 12bridportstreetsouthmelbourne.com.au CONTACT Greg Hocking John Holdsworth

South Melbourne 3 Emerald Way

AUCTION Sat 15 Jun

Brighton 2B Rothesay Avenue

2

2

Spacious, Versatile & Bayside Privacy

PRICE

Contact Agent

INSPECT

Wednesday 5:00pm - 5:30pm Saturday 12:00pm - 12:30 pm

0418 329 961 0417 318 271

AUCTION Sat 29 Jun

AUCTION SATURDAY

Inspired Ideas, Brilliantly Expressed Central to every Sth Melbourne attraction, less than 2km from the CBD, this architect designed t/house delivers comfort over 3 levels. A garage, flexible as a home office/entertaining space sets the style agenda. Upstairs, bright living & dining areas & a stainless steel kitchen adopt an in/outdoor approach. 2 top floor bedrooms (2 x ensuites), contribute seductive accom.

Heat/cool, integrated Bang & Olufsen TV/sound systems, atrium & ready made lift well lead an exceptional luxury list.

Albert Park

8644 5500

78 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

1

PPTY WEB 3emeraldwaysouthmelbourne.com.au CONTACT Greg Hocking Brett Hallam

0418 329 961 0418 318 283

This impressive French Provincial style home offers a versatile multi-zone floorplan within 500m of the Golden Mile beachfront. Take your choice of living, formal & family zones (gas-log fireplace) or enjoy a fully-wired basement cinema room. With 4 bdrms (2 with WIR/ens), retreat & 2 studies, this clever home lets you choose how you want to work & play. A Calacatta marble (Miele appliances) & stone-finished kitchen + American Oak flooring are included in the list of luxury features.

4

3

4

PRICE

Contact Agent

INSPECT

Wednesday 12:00pm - 12:30pm Saturday & Sunday as advertised

PPTY WEB 2b-rothesayavenuebrighton.com.au CONTACT Shane Siemers Michele Whelan

0418 501 941 0412 407 551

greghocking.com.au

Elwood | 1/79 Marine Parade

3

2

2

Boutique & Beachfront The best of urban luxury and bayside sophistication. Arguably Elwood’s most prestigious near new boutique building, approx 5 years old. Architecturally designed contemporary 3 bedroom plus study, 2 bathroom plus powder room & 2 secure car space apartment offering a large open plan living/dining area with abundant natural light and double glazed sliding doors that lead out to an entertainers wrap around courtyard complete with spa. The highest in quality fixtures and fittings abound with the finest attention to detail throughout this ground floor luxury apartment.

• Elegant security entrance with video intercom • Expansive open plan lounge and dining area flowing onto landscaped L shaped outdoor area with picturesque glimpses of iconic Elwood landmarks and the bay. Living room blinds are automated • State of the art kitchen with 2 integrated Liebherr fridge/freezers, 5 burner Ilve gas stainless steel stove, Integrated dishwasher, instant hot/chilled water unit, Walk in pantry, stone bench tops & breakfast bar • Direct internal access from the car park to the apartment or lift access (2 car spaces) • Fully air-conditioned with alarm system & generous basement storage room • Nuvo home entertainment sound system with ceiling speakers to 6 separate zones including surround sound system to the living room Auction: Contact:

Saturday 15th June 1.30pm Andrew Vandermeer 0403 193 007 Brett Gamon 0419 505 634

Scan this QR code for the property Video.

Always Alwaysreliable. reliable.Always Always accurate. accurate. Always Always striving. striving.

Chisholm Chisholm&&Gamon’s Gamon’sregarded regardedreputation reputationisisbuilt builtaround around our ourlong-standing long-standingteam teamofofBayside Baysideproperty propertyexperts. experts.Whether Whether buying buyingororselling… selling…call callususfor foryour yournext nextproperty propertyenquiry. enquiry.

597 Balcombe Rd, Black Rock 9589 3133

90 Ormond Rd, Elwood 9531 1245

325 Bay St, Port Melbourne 9646 4444

REIV Marketing Winner and Finalist 2004 – 2012 june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 79

WE DELIVER...

BRIGHTON 64 HANBY STREET

LUXURIOUS GRAND RESIDENCE Proudly positioned in Brighton´s Dendy Precinct.

• Exceeding all expectations, this 6 bedroom contemporary home is built and designed to the highest possible standards • 70 squares of family living/entertaining plus 6 car basement and stunning wrap around pool • Magnificent floorplan catering for separate living spaces for family, friends and guests • With expansive ground floor living/dining area opening to northern garden and poolside alfresco area; travertine kitchen

ID and contact details are required at all open for inspections 80 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

• • • •

and butlers pantry, billiard/games room, guest wing, home office, sitting/home theatre.

Upstairs 2 master bed suites, 3 further beds, 5 bathrooms, study and large rumpus room opening to huge front balcony C-bus, hydronic heat/cooling, gym, 3 phase power, security Land 890 sq.m. with beautiful landscaped gardens Enviable location minutes to Church St, schools, beaches.

6

FOR SALE VIEW CONTACT OFFICE

5

6

Wed 12-12:30 Trudy Biggin 0417 127 528 142 Church Street, Brighton 9592 4300

bigginscott.com.au

WE DELIVER...

BRIGHTON 44 FOOTE STREET HOLLYWOOD SPANISH STYLE Classic 3 bedroom home with refurbish/redevelopment options Located in this highly desirable and popular beachside area close to Elsternwick Park • Fabulous wide frontage (18.5m) offers terrific potential to renovate, extend or build new. Land 622sqm approx • Decorative detail including arched windows, extensive leadlighting, timber paneling, ornate high ceilings, timber floorboards, open fire places with marble mantels

• Comprising huge entrance foyer, large master bedroom (full length

BIR´s), lounge, separate dining, updated functional kitchen, 2 further bedrooms, modern central bathroom, sep 2nd WC, bright sunroom with full height windows overlooking the timber entertaining deck and gorgeous landscaped garden • Heating/cooling, security, proper lined attic storage, garage/storage • Offering a fabulous lifestyle, moments to Elsternwick Park, Head St Oval, Elwood and Martin St Villages, cafes, trains, buses, schools and nearby bike and walking paths along the beach.

3

AUCTION VIEW CONTACT OFFICE

1

2

Saturday 22nd June at 11:00am Wed 11-11:30 Trudy Biggin 0417 127 528 142 Church Street, Brighton 9592 4300

IS TH N AY IO D CT UR AU SAT

PORT MELBOURNE 105/2 ROUSE STREET

PORT MELBOURNE 6/103A STOKES STREET A GREAT STARTER! Generously-proportioned 1 bedroom warehousestyle apartment in popular ID development.

• Open plan living/dining opens to balcony • Galley kitchen with s/s Blanco appliances • Good size bedroom with built-in robes • Modern bathroom with Euro laundry • Split system heating/air conditioning • Secure undercover car space • Amazing resort-like facilities - tropical gardens, heated pool and gym

1

AUCTION VIEW CONTACT OFFICE

ID and contact details are required at all open for inspections

1

1

Saturday 15th June at 12:30pm Wed 5.30-6, Sat 12-12:30 David Lack 0418 996 265 Will Jonas 0419 335 519 100 Bay Street, Port Melbourne 8671 3777

SIMPLY STUNNING! Built to exacting standards with magnificent detail throughout, this beautifully finished luxury town residence over 3 levels, offers the ultimate innercity beachside lifestyle and low maintenance living.

• Main bedroom with ensuite & WIR • 2nd large BR with ensuite, BIR & private courtyard • Further 2 bedrooms with BIRs • Kitchen with s/s apps, open plan living, sep dining • Modern bathroom, laundry, powder room • Terrace with city glimpses & double garage

4

3

FOR SALE VIEW CONTACT OFFICE

2

Wed 12.45-1:15, Sat 2.30-3 David Lack 0418 996 265 Will Jonas 0419 335 519 Guy St Leger 0411 861 666 100 Bay Street, Port Melbourne 8671 3777

bigginscott.com.au june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 81

WE DELIVER...

SOUTH MELBOURNE 3/177-181 MORAY STREET FLEXIBLE WAY TO WORK, LIVE & PLAY! 3 levels including a modern, ground floor studio space set up as a hairdressing salon, w toilet kitchen facilities & storage Upstairs spacious 2-level haven Large open plan living & kitchen w timber floors + full-width balcony Kitchen features granite benches Separate laundry & powder room 2 double-sized bedrooms with BIR, master leads to balcony

2

AUCTION ESR VIEW CONTACT OFFICE

ID and contact details are required at all open for inspections

82 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

2

2

Saturday 15th June at 1:30pm $1,000,000-$1,100,000 Sat 12:45-1:15pm Sun 2:00-2:30pm Maarten Bruin 0418 365 410 Marcus Peters 0418 337 051 448 St Kilda Road, Melbourne 9867 1444

bigginscott.com.au

thehomedirectory

winter ‘13

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS

GLASS INSULATION

LANDSCAPING

Pioneering Bathroom Designs - Melbourne Design Awards 2011 Winner and 2012 Melbourne Design Awards Shortlisted.

Let us transform your tired/outdated bathroom into a modern and innovative design. With over 20 years experience, we specialise in all aspects of bathroom renovations. HIA 984704.

Contact Sam on 0439 115 225. Email: pbd@live.com.au www.pioneeringbathroomdesigns.com.au

Solartech Glass Tinting - New “Low e” window film is a new cost effective solution to reduce energy consumption in your home and office. In Winter, it reduces heat loss up to 25% through your windows and in Summer it rejects up to 57% of sun’s heat. Other benefits includes tinted appearance, glare reduction, UV reduction by 99% to reduce fading and sun damage to furnishings. One-way films will give you privacy so you can have your blinds up to enjoy the open view and light.

Frosted and etched films will give you day and night privacy.

Call for a free onsite consultation.

Contact Kim: 9521 1339. www.solartechglass.com.au

Northcote Landscaping - Our services include complete landscape design and construction, renovate existing paving, decking, retaining walls, irrigation and planting. Call our qualified professionals, to receive personalised service and quality workmanship. For your free consultation and quotation Contact : Michael 0412 300 712. www.northcotelandscaping.com.au

Smarter Bathrooms - Escape to a beautiful bathroom with a complete design, build and project management from Melbourne’s smartest bathroom renovator. Guaranteed start and finish dates, or we pay you. Call now for an award winning interior designer to visit you. Contact: 1300 662 838.

Showroom: 77 Salmon St, Port Melbourne or visit our website online: www.smarterbathrooms.com.au

BUILDING CONTRACTORS Unique Homes Pty Ltd - Unique Homes provide a complete home construction and project management service.

Incorporating such aspects as planning, engineering and architectural support. We have designed and constructed everything from small extensions to second storey additions and new homes of all sizes. No job too difficult. Call now for a free onsite consultation. Contact 9576 8444.

HIGH PRESSURE CLEANING Wet N Jet High Pressure Cleaning - Leave all your dirty work to us. For all your high pressure cleaning needs!

Residential and commercial. Pavers, driveways, any concrete surface, any moss or algae removal, swimming pools, blocked sewers, rendered walls and weather boards.

Contact Rowan for an immediate quote: 0411 640 494, info@wetnjet.com.au www.wetnjet.com.au

KITCHEN RENOVATIONS

DECKING DeckSealRevival Pty Ltd - Low Season Rates, call today!

Melbourne’s deck care & maintenance professional’s.

Residential & commercial; Deck sanding, cleaning & sealing.

Interior floor sanding, concrete & paving cleaning & sealing available. Continually delivering a beautiful & long lasting deck surface. We will beat any genuine quote. Contact Brian on: 0410 537 164 or visit us at www.decksealrevival.com.au

Smarter Kitchens - Live in the kitchen you love with a complete design, build and project management from Melbourne’s smartest kitchen renovator. Guaranteed start and finish dates, or we pay you. Call now for an award winning interior designer to visit you. Contact 1300 662 838. Showroom 77 Salmon St, Port Melbourne. www.smarterkitchens.com.au

BLINDS

OVEN CLEANING Ovenu - At Ovenu, the oven cleaning and detailing specialists, we provide you with the ultimate professional domestic oven cleaning and detailing service that will leave your oven and other associated cooking appliances in near showroom condition. Our oven cleaners are the best in the business. Return your oven to new using non caustic, biodegradable solutions. No fumes, no mess, safe for you and your family. Introductory $10 discount.

Contact 1300 683 681. www.ovenu.com.au

SHUTTERS AP Shutters – Highest quality, timber plantation shutters at Melbourne’s best prices guaranteed. Also specialising in all other window furnishings. For a free, no obligation quote, Contact 9818 1133. info@ap-shutters.com www.ap-shutters.com

WARDROBES Almara Cabinets - Winners of the Australian Achievers’ Award. Customer-designed wardrobes, wall units, bookshelves, guaranteed quality. Renovations, our specialty. Visit our showroom. Contact 9793 8233 www.almara.com.au

CONTACT 9818 1133 AP SHUTTERS AND BLINDS Highest quality blinds & timber plantation shutters at Melbourne’s best prices.

Specializing in all window furnishings; holland blinds, sun screens, shutters, venetians, romans & curtains. www.ap-shutters.com

DECKING CONTACT Brian: 0410 537 164 DECKSEALREVIVAL P/L Melbourne’s deck care & maintenance professional’s.

Deck sanding, cleaning & sealing. Concrete & paving cleaning & sealing. Delivering a beautiful & long lasting deck surface. We will beat any genuine quote. www.decksealrevival.com.au

GLASS TINTING CONTACT Kim: 9521 1339 SOLARTECH GLASS New window film is a cost effective way to insulate windows in your home/office.

Reduce solar heat in summer & reduce heat loss in winter.

Reduce glare, fading & block 99% UV radiation. Call for a FREE quote. www.solartechglass.com.au

ALMARA CABINETS

Guaranteed quality. Renovations our speciality.

Winner of the Australian Achievers Award.

Local Favourite for Great Food in a comfortable inviting atmosphere Custom designed: • wardrobes • wall units

Open: Tuesday to Sunday 4.30pm to Late • bookshelves • garage storage

• study/office fit outs • entertainment units

Visit our showroom: www.almara.com.au

P: 9793 8233 F: 9793 8243 info@almara.com.au

A perfect choice for your function needs

PH: 9578 8576 Dine In, Takeaway and Free Delivery

www.remezzo.com.au T O A D V E R T I S E C O N TA C T A M A N D A O N 9 2 3 8 7 7 2 5 june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 83

REVIEW CLASSIFIEDS 13 24 25 Floor Services

Trades & Services

Roofing Services

INTERIOR • EXTERIOR • DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL • SMALL PLASTERING JOBS ✆ ARTHUR H: 03 8707 2376 M: 0419 147 020

Cleaning Services

E: arthurmasterpainter@gmail.com

Kanklean Cleaning Regular Cleaning One off cleans Carpet cleaning Security checked Trained Insured Equipped

Plasterers Empire Plaster ■ Heritage Home Specialist ■ Building Maintenance ■ Laser Level Ceilings■ Over 25 Yrs Exp ■ All Flood and Water Damage Repairs

WINDOW CLEANING

Please call John on 0418 301 825 empireplasterlinings@live.com

Fully Insured. Free Quote Credit Cards & EFTPOS Accepted

�

Andrew 0404 977 869

G6048355AA-dc29May

Reach & wash system (pure water) up to 65ft off the ground Also specialise in: Builders Cleans, Cafe/Shop Cleans & Office Cleans

★ SLIDING DOOR STUCK? ★ Wheels ~ Tracks ~ Locks Repaired & Replaced ~ Remeshing security doors 30 Years Exp, No Fix No Pay, Warranties All Work

Adult Phone Talk

Plumbing For all your Classified advertising contact us on

13 24 25

G6032498

www.adcentre.com.au/vic

Electrical Services

CLEAN & EFFICIENT ELECTRICIANS

No Callout Fee on Jobs Big or Small

Installation & Repairs to Homes, Offices & Factories Wiring for Renovations & Extensions Experienced in fault finding & switchboard faults Factory 11/10 Advantage Road, Highett Ring Ray King Direct 0407 380 980

2 BAYSIDE REVIEW LOCAL >> JUNE 12, 2013 84 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

G5996974AA-dc8May

RAYLEC

G6033173AA-dc20May

Adult Services Specialising in all electrical installations • Extensions/Refurbishments • Stove/Oven/Hot water repair • Switchboard upgrades • TV/Phone/Data G6048727AA-dc28May Free Quotes • House Rewires • Safety switches Lic 17824

APN Plumbing

Lic. 48953

Reliable, Fast & Friendly Service Specialising in Older homes: Maintenance and Renovations Water Tanks, H.W.S, Roofing, Gutters & Blockages.

Home Maintenance through to New homes

Call Adam: 0415 456 563

Peter’s Plumbing Reg #36352

General Plumbing Tap Repairs Gas Fitting Hot water Water Filters Water Tanks Call Peter 0419 306 866 or 9570 2747 G5349549AA-dc29Aug

AFFORDABLE ESCORTS 18–48yo, great ladies, great prices.

Open 24 hours. To your door in 30 mins. 9416 6221 swa4281be.

Anya - adventurous escort.

21yo, tight sz 8, Raven black hair, ex-dancer. Avail most daytimes call 9495 2768 swa4281be.

Adult Services IMOGEN - Hot, hot, hot.

Ex swimsuit model. 32yo size 8.

Tall, toned, busty and blonde.

I visit you. 9495 2723 swa4281be

Cougar Ladies The best of 30's, 40's & 50yo.

We're eager to please & a total tease. Ph: 9495 2738 swa4281be

SWA3161XB

9369 0600.

Join us on facebook, swa6318be.

LOTUS EXOTIC ESCORT I Luv you longtime. Tiny size 8 figure, pleasurable. I can do body rubs too. 9935 7738 swa4281be.

PH - 1300 ESCORT

24hrs/7 days

swa4281be

Body Rubs

9696 9199 45-47 Tope Street, South Melbourne SWA5109BE

47 Glendale Ave, Hastings Prices Discounted

7 days till late

WHISPERS STUDIO

G6051455AA-dc29May G5685904AA-dc30Jan

(03) 9696 4666

466 City Rd, South Melbourne

THET! BES

Paradise

5979 3066

Looking for naughty and nicey, saucy but spicy, busty and lusty, visit our lovely ladies at

Busty Voluptuous Blonde Plus size model size 18-20.

To visit you. swa6406xe.

Sam 0403 262 341.

Open 7 Days 10am to late 142 Bridge Rd, Keysborough SWA8127BE SWA8128BE

KIM - Mature 40yo escort.

Stunning DD fullness.

Always happy to please...

9935 7653. swa4281be

Colin 0431 835 813 All Hours

www.jlhuttelectrical.com.au

General A FREE Local chat for a limited time. Call Melbourne Ladies 9825 3436. Guys 9825 3437.

Local/mobile rates apply.

NEW OWNER

Tel: 9798 8615

G6033156

G6034041AA-dc20May

Doors and Screens

131 546

www.jimsantennas.com.au

Masquerades

G6082164AA-dc12Jun

Obligation free quote 1800 21 24 28 9569 4737 www.kanklean.com.au

G6034204AA-dc20May

G6013396

Same Day Response Local Technicians All 100% Guaranteed Home Theatre Installations FREE on-site Signal Test and Quote Government Endorsed Installers

SWA 4215BE

Reg DBU-11103

3 3 3 3 3 3

G6076848AA-dc12Jun

G6065500AA-dc4Jun

Call Brad 0408 446 887

Arthur Master Painting Service FREE QUOTES

9314 8294

DIGITAL TV SPECIALISTS G5347050AA-dc29Aug

All Building, Carpentry and Renovation Works • Extensions • Renovations • Decks • Pergolas • Repairs

G5876075AA-dc20Mar

Building and Carpentr y

Mel 95 E3, 7days

HANDS EN 83B GOLDPCA 11.00am till late 482 GEELONG RD, WEST FOOTSCRAY

TV and Home Entertainment Services

Painters and Decorators

Ji Li

FAR EASTERN RELAXATION Now With More Young, Beautiful, Exotic, Friendly Ladies

Affordable Prices From $65

Discreet Rear Parking (via lane way) CREDIT CARD & EFTPOS WELCOME Ladies Warmly Welcomed Mel ref P43 B1 / Tram 57 Stop 22 77 Race Course Road, North Melbourne

9326 8388

Undercover Parking 44A Winterton Road Clayton

9543 8820 9543 8837

Now open till 4am

pca5531b

THE ROSE NEW GIRLS EVERY WEEK Beautiful Girls From 18+ Private Car park Available Full Service Start From $70

Ask for Our Tuesday Special

MANHATTAN TERRACE 24 HOUR BROTHEL This week’s new girls

Red Light Centre Sexy Ladies 18+

LAYLA - Tall & Busty ROSE - 21yo Exotic ZOE - Classy Model Nikki - Fun, Fun, Fun GINA - is BACK. Yeah

10 Fulton St, Oakleigh South Open From 10am - Late Escort Available

9543 5901

swa5532be

Carpenters

0432 774 645

red17.com.au

17 Nicole Way Dandenong South

G5875439AA-dc20Mar

info.handyhelp@gmail.com

9793 2988 9793 2986

G5942960AA-dc17Apr

Ph Mark 0411 860 973

swa7023b

More new ladies

G6081881

Over 30 Years Experience Specialising In: • Floor & Wall Tiles • Old & New Homes • Kitchen & Bathroom Renovation Free Measure & Quote.

JOHN 0408 194 858

Full Service from $80

SWA6143B SWA6144B G6082794AA-dc12Jun

Free Quotes

Mention this ad for $10 discount www.escortsrus.com.au ☎ 9775 3210

AARON’S TILING

Cabinetry Repairs Odd Jobs Painting Decking Tiling Flatpak All home & commercial Hourly or fixed rate Recommendations aplenty

Red Lantern

Ladies Welcome.

SWA4281be

HANDY HELP

ESCORTS R US

Tilers

G5960985AA-dc24Apr

G6034282AA-dc21May

Pensioner Discount

Handy Person Services

30 0 St Kilda Rd St Kild Kilda Open 24/7 SWA7885BE

swa224e

JIMA002r

Carpentry, plastering, tiling, electrical, painting and plumbing.

• Unblock drains

• 7 day service • Free Quote • Also specialising in Demolitions

0437 357 030

G5 G5995996AA-dc4Jun

Total Bathroom Renovations Total quality bathrooms at an affordable cost. st.

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED

G5878712AA-dc20Mar

Rubbish Removal SAM BEATTIE BIG BLUEY’S RUBBISH REMOVAL 0413 353 021 • Cheaper than a bin and we load it for you G6068785AA-dc4Jun

Low Day Rates 9am to 9pm Relax from $70 Service: 20min $100, 30min $1 $ $110 10 0

G6047400AA-dc28May

G6033404AA-dc29May

Garden Services

G6033857AA-dc5Jun

Ph 0423 676 555 / 9530 0422 Email: yosi1@netspace.net.au

G6033335AA-dc22May©FCNVIC

“We D “W Doo IItt Al All” l” F Free ree q quotes uotes t -2 24/7 4/7 4/ 7

• Renovations • Waterproofing • Plastering • Remodelling • Plumbing & Electrical • Tiling

G6082662AA-dc10Jun

WE USE DUSTLESS MACHINERY

Bathroom Renovations

BATHROOMS ‘R’ US

Adult Services SWA6646B

G6069217AA-dc12Jun

and many more new girls.

554-556 Swanston St, 554 - 556 Swanston Carlton St, Carlton

Ph: 9347 9347G6082541AA-dc12Jun 6000 Ph: 6000

Review your favorite property

REVIEW CLASSIFIEDS 13 24 25 Massage Therapy

9650 1516

HEAVENLY ~ MASSAGE

HONEST RATES HONEST TIME QUOTES

Massage Therapy

$49. 10am-11pm.

Basement, CBD. 0457 121 820.

Relaxation. 305 Queensberry St, North Melbourne. 7 days.

Telephone: 9077 7620.

G5963772AA-dc24Apr

Ladies for Gentlemen

MIDDLE PARK Massage. 7 days.

From $40. Qualified, experienced, caring and thorough. Full body massage. Matt: 0412 045 585.

OUR WEEKLY SPECIALS !

Ladies welcomed

9429 8242

339 Punt Road, Richmond www.ladiesforgentlemen.com.au

With great people & the best facilities.

Swedish Massage

Relaxation & deep tissue therapy, shower facilities, appt necessary.

New staff. Phone 0408 900 717.

BODYLINE

Deluxe Thai Massage

21 Thomas St,Yarraville

Ph:

• Traditional Thai • Deep tissue • Foot • Relaxation • Remedial Qualified Thai Females 7 days, 10am - 10pm

9315 2922

Ladies Welcome Non-sexual www.bodyline.net.au

122

13 Chapel Street, Windsor

9510 6768

Dynon Rd West Melbourne

Thai Massage & Spa

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

Relaxation 30mins Full Service 20mins

$70 $80

623 Hawthorn Road, Brighton East

9576 9100

G6035303AA-dc22May

Ultimate Magic w w w. u l t i m a t e b ro t h e l . c o m swa618be

Hot Gossip Hot H

Hot

The Competition and Consumer Act provides that advertised prices for goods and services which attract GST should be GST inclusive.

Prices should not be quoted as being 'excluding GST' or 'plus GST' or by the use of words or phrases conveying similar meaning.

Readers are entitled to expect that the advertised prices are the actual prices at which they can purchase the particular goods and services.

Metro Media Publishing will not knowingly accept for publication any advertisement which may be in breach of the Competition and Consumer Act or any other relevant law.

Hot www.hotgossipmelbourne.com.au Hot

Public Notices

CLASSIFIED DEADLINES For The Weekly Review Bayside & Port Phillip are as follows:

Proof deadline: All Classifieds:

Thursday 1.00pm Thursday 3.00pm

Phone 13 24 25

8.30am-5.00pm, Monday - Friday.

All major credit cards accepted.

G5351417

Classifieds

13 24 25

142-144 Frankston-Dandenong Rd, Dandenong 3175

CLASSIFIEDS

13 24 25

SOLD!

Combination Thai Massage Hydrotherapy Spa Waxing & Beauty Male & Female Welcome 7 Days, 10am 10pm 37 Flemington Rd, North Melbourne

Mention this Ad.

9328 5581

ADVERTISERS PLEASE NOTE Much hardship and difficulty is caused to job-seekers by misleading advertising placed in employment columns.

SAV%E

15

All employment advertisements must state clearly the type of job offered and remuneration offered. (i.e. salary package, retainer plus commission or commission only).

"Commission only'' jobs are only accepted in these columns PROVIDED that this is clearly stated in the ad AND the employer is paying Workcover and Superannuation. If not, then these advertisements MUST be placed in an alternate classification such as Self Employment Opportunities.

Situations Vacant CUSTOMER SERVICE!!

Start now. PC and mail order work from home. $2K - $5K / month.

Phone (03) 8671 2990.

POSTIES

www.ezipost.net.au Casual & Permanent Contractors required for morning PO Box Clearance, Parcel Deliveries & afternoon Mail Collection. eziPOST is looking for friendly, reliable people to service our clients in a number of areas.

Must have vehicle.

Call 1300 Postie (767 843)

Placing misleading advertisements is an offence against the Competition and Consumer Act and all advertisements are subject to the publisher's approval. For further advice contact the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on 9290 1800.

Whilst Metro Media Publishing make every attempt to screen job advertisements, WE DO NOT ACCEPT LIABILIT Y FOR ADVERTISERS WHO FAIL TO C O M P LY W I T H T H E S E REGULATIONS.

Review the latest property trends

Celebrations

Health and Wellbeing EUROPEAN MASSAGE CBD, Flinders Lane (btw Elizabeth & Queen St) ☎ Julia: 0417 506 582. www.melbournecitymassage.com

Relaxation Massage

7 days, 10am to 8pm.

204 Barkley Street, Footscray.

Phone 9689 0360.

AWESOME THAI MASSAGE Traditional Thai, relaxation with oil, foot massage and deep tissue.

Qualified Thai females.

Open 7 days. 10am-10pm 221 Clarendon Street South Melbourne

G5878296AA-dc20Mar

42 Cromer Avenue, Sunshine North

G6083654AA-dc12Jun

swa7218be

$105 1/2 hr FULL Service!!! $

Hot Open 10am till late Hot PH: 9366 6444 NOW!

TUITION In your home. Grade 1 to Year 12, most subjects and suburbs. Also online tuition from $10ph all suburbs. ✆ 9028 2060.

G6027004AA-dc20May

24 HRS Friday & Saturday 10am-6am Sunday to Thursday G5874378AA-dc20Mar

swa217be

Education and Tuition

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL ADVERTISERS

To advertise in the Celebrations section please contact us on

13 24 25

9690 4888

B Qualified By Qualif Qua l ied Thai Th female fem e staff staff 7 days 10am - 10pm

G5964111AA-dc24Apr

9376 2666

Are you offering

"genuine employment?''

Our Professional Employment and Situations Vacant columns are reserved for advertisements which carry a SPECIFIC and GENUINE offer of employment.

6/180 Commercial Rd, (enter Izett St) Prahran.

Appt only. Ph 9533 8877.

G6052177AA-dc29May

SWA4141BE/SWA4142B

Relaxation Full Body Care

OIL FULL BODY

G6082891AA-dc12Jun

swa1061be

TASTY THURSDAYS 1 hr $200!! MANIC MONDAYS 20 mins $100!!

Professional

G5876007AA-dc20Mar

S W A 1 1 3 E

Public Notices

G6065469AB-dc5Jun

Adult Services

313A Bay St Port Melbourne (Plentiful parking)

9645 3323

www.samuisunset.com.au

Photo courtesy of:

www.harviephotography.com.au

Review all the latest property june 12, 2013 \ The weekly review 85

Enjoy

ADVERTISING FEATURE To advertise in this page call Anna on 9238 7529

Yar Restaurant

Craft Markets Australia

Tiny Polkadots

Korean and Japanese food that really hits the spot, like Yar’s

Flemington Racecourse Market, Epsom Road, Flemington

A gorgeous toy store is just around the corner! Tiny Polkadots

famous soft shell crab sushi roll, or one of our sizzling hot stone

Racecourse. Sunday 23rd June, 9am - 2pm (Mel 42 F1). VRC

specialises in perfect gifts for babies, boys and girls with all the

bowls. You can try a little bit of everything with our fantastic “all

Parking $4. Event fee $3. Enjoy the very best of Victorias arts, craft

brands you love as well as the ones that are hard to find. For

you can eat” sharing banquet. Prawn tempura, crab sushi rolls,

and produce markets. Everything sold at Craft Markets is fresh,

quality toys, beautiful clothes and the service you deserve come

dumplings and much more, for $35pp. Perfect for families, friends

homemade, good value and above all, great quality. Dogs strictly in and say hello at a Tiny Polkadots near you. 293 Bay Street Port

and large group bookings.

prohibited. For more information, please visit the website.

Melbourne, 132 Balcombe Road Mentone or online at:

www.yarrestaurant.com.au

www.craftmarkets.com.au

www.tinypolkadots.com.au

Warwick Jones

Evans Leather Restoration

room296

Warwick Jones is ‘Fashion for a Real Woman’; a mature woman, who knows who she is and where she is going. She appreciates our quality and unique comfortable fit. We offer free personal styling sessions. We stock NYDJ jeans. Mention ad in store and receive a $25 gift voucher towards any full priced stock over $49 or use code “25WRAPR” to claim your gift online. 403 Hampton St, Hampton - 9598 5230. DFO Moorabbin - 9583 9356. 125 Mentone Pde, Mentone - 9585 4166.

At Evans, we specialise in all types of leather restoration services.

www.warwickjones.com.au

www.evans.com.au

www.room296.com.au

The Brighton Buttonshop

Red Door Restaurant

Gerard Butterss Landscapes

Generations of families have visited The Brighton Buttonshop. This is an iconic landmark and shops like these are a rare find. The locals proudly boast that “They can still buy a button in Brighton!”.

Stocking a huge range of buttons, haberdashery items and various embellishment. We also have on offer seasonal wool and accessories, hats, gloves and brollies and the fancy millinery items arrive in Spring, just in time for the races.

Happy hour offer: 2 course meal (choose from 2 entrées + 1 main) with complimentary house wine for $35. At Red Door, we specialise in Malaysian and authentic Sichuan cuisine. Also a large range of seafood dishes including oyster, scallops, dumplings etc. Party function room available. Main course includes: Steamed Barramundi, Red Curry Duck, Gongbao Chicken, Maopo Beancurd and many more delicious dishes. Vegetarian meals available. Gluten free meals.

Winter special. Contact us to organise an initial garden consultation free of charge. We have been designing and building gardens in Victoria for over 30 years and provide the complete service - from garden consultation and landscape design through to construction.

We aim for a perfect match between lifestyle, budget and property aesthetics to create the right garden for each project. For more information, call or visit website:

www.thebrightonbuttonshop.com.au

Red Door Restaurant

www.gerardbuttersslandscape.com.au

Shop 1, 2 Queensbridge Square, Southbank. (03) 9699 3556

Fashion isn’t a size, it’s an attitude.

405 Bay Street, Brighton. (03) 9596 2308

86 The weekly review \ june 12, 2013

Flemington. (03) 5976 3266

15 Morrice Street, Caulfield North. (03) 9525 9400

Port Melbourne, (03) 9077 2833 or Mentone, (03) 8555 0315

296 Carlisle Street, Balaclava. (03) 9527 8424

Boundaries in style are limitless with locally custom made products, our own importing and well over 100 importers working closely with us, allows our customers an infinite choice in furnishing their homes and re-sizing made to fit, shoe recovering, shoe dyeing and colour not simply filling a house. As a room296 customer there are no choice matching and more. So if you have that special pair of shoes or boots restrictions. Its your pass to access all areas of design and style. that you absolutely love and would like to keep in pristine condition, Mention this ad to receive 10% off floor stock. Furniture warehouse: give us a call now or visit our website to find out more.

27 Williams Street, Balaclava; phone: (03) 9527 5116.

Our services include (but not limited to) unique shoe restoration, shoe

a254 Park Street, South Melbourne. (03) 9699 1900

www.facebook.com/room296

Melbourne. 0411 609 566

55 Church St, Brighton Ph: 9592 5221

ST. KILDA ARMY AND NAVY CLUB

(next door to existing shop)

Your Community Club

- Your Community Club All Welcome, great facilities including exceptional Function Room for hire.

88 Acland Street St. Kilda Phone: 9534 2348

CLEARANCE SALE 2 WEEKS ONLY Evening Dresses Jumpers Jackets Pants Suits

WAS

$199 $139 $209 $139 $399

NOW FROM $29 $10 $29 $10 $49

G6061417AA-dc12Jun

G6080570AA-dc12Jun

LIVE BANDS MOST FRIDAY NIGHTS

Melbourne’s Oldest Indian Restaurant Celebrating 32 years Present this Voucher and receive 20% off the total bill value up to $25.00* Open Tuesday to Sunday - Dinner 5.30pm to Late / Lunch Wednesday to Friday 12pm to 2pm Shalimar Indian Restaurant 343 Bay Street North Brighton PH 03 9596 3422 www.shalimar.com.au *Conditions Apply. 1 Voucher per table. Not in conjunction with any other offer.

G6084086AA-dc12Jun

G6084358AA-dc12Jun

Flower Temple floristry wokshops are fun and interactive, and crammed with great ideas and inspiration and suitable for beginners through to advanced floral decorators. Class sizes are limited so it is essential to make a reservation.

At the workshops you will be provided with all the tools, flowers and other accessories required to complete your floral arrangement. Light snack and refreshments will be provided, and most importantly you will be able to take your work of art home to impress your family and friends with your talent.

marine grill func�on room Ideal for christenings, engagements, birthdays, corporate informa�on dinners

redBAR Ideal for engagements, 21st, work break ups, birthdays & reunions

To view workshop dates and sessions times visit www.flowertemple.com.au or call on 9663 3022

Are you looking for the perfect venue for your special occasion?

We offer free hire on our Func�on rooms For any func�on booked and conrmed then we will give you a dozen bo�les of wine as a gi� from us to you Come and try our A La Carte menu in our beau�ful Restaurant for lunch or dinner 7 days a week

Artemis Lane, QV Precinct. Melbourne CBD Phone: 03 9663 3022 G6084344AA-dc12Jun

Please note: Wine will be given a�er the func�on and is not to be used as part of the func�on package

G6083585AA-dc12Jun

Ph: 9592 1687 Email: admin@marinehotel.com.au www.marinehotel.com.au