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GRAPHITE GOLD Channel your inner French chef with Staub’s new range of cast-iron cocottes in oh-so-stylish graphite grey. The range has all the features of traditional cast-iron cookware – distributing heat evenly and retaining moisture – to help ensure your dishes come out perfectly cooked. What’s more, they’re designed to last a lifetime. ● » Staub Graphite cocottes $179.95-$779.95 Available from Peter’s of Kensington petersofkensington.com.au

TIME FOR A SPLASH Whether you’re a denizen of the deep or dazzling on deck, this watch will tell you the time in style. Rolex’s latest iteration of the Oyster Perpetual Sea-Dweller is its most sophisticated yet; it’s waterproof to a depth of 1220 metres and allows divers to monitor dive and decompression times. ● » Rolex Oyster Perpetual Sea-Dweller. $14,400 rolex.com

SPICE UP YOUR WINE Mulled wine is surely one of the best things about winter. Bars across the city are breaking out the spice rack and getting creative, adding aromatics to some of the best red wines around. We love cocktail bar 1806’s take – spiking Heathcote shiraz with Ron Zacapa 23 rum, Grand Marnier liqueur, nutmeg and cinnamon ($19). ● » 169 Exhibition Street, Melbourne 1806.com.au

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EDITOR’S DESK Each week at The Weekly Review, we aim to bring you stories that inspire. We strive to shine a light on the best and brightest artistic talents, entrepreneurs, sportspeople and community leaders – those who set a shining example of the very best of humanity. But, every now and again, we come across a story that stands out above the pack. This week’s cover star, Dylan Alcott, has never known what it feels like to walk or run. Confined to a wheelchair since infancy, he has not let his condition define or limit him. Instead, he has become an international champion in wheelchair basketball and tennis, has crowd-surfed at music festivals, travelled the world as a sought-after motivational speaker and is now embarking on a new career as a radio DJ. For a revealing glimpse into what drives Australia’s coolest Paralympian, read Peter Wilmoth’s interview inside. ●

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“Events don’t dictate what happens in your life, it’s how you perceive them.” PETER WILMOTH MEETS PARALYMPIAN, DJ & AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPION DYLAN ALCOTT

ylan Alcott’s interest in music started when he sang in the Australian Boys’ Choir, although his time as a choirboy was short-lived. “I started playing sport, my voice broke, and I forgot how to sing,” he says. But his love of music was never far away, which is why he is so happy with his latest gig presenting on triple j. His passion for music has taken him to music festivals around the world, including Coachella in California, and Meredith and Splendour in the Grass in Australia. “I love them all,” Dylan says. “That’s how I got discovered by triple j. I made a bit of a name for myself six years ago when I crowd-surfed at a music festival at Soundwave. People grab the chair and get you up. I’ve only fallen a couple of times.” Dylan has had plenty of remarkable festival experiences. “I got on stage with my favourite hip hop group, the Wu-Tang Clan, and rapped with them at Meredith in 2014,” he says. “I got on stage with Queens of the Stone Age at Soundwave and went cruising around with them. It was cool, mate.” The 26-year-old started at triple j in January, hosting weekend afternoon music shows and doing guest spots in the breakfast timeslot on Mondays and Fridays. “I’ve been a big triple j fan for a long time,” he says. For Dylan, the role isn’t only about music. “It’s been a goal of mine since I was a little kid to change the perceptions of people with disabilities, and the best way to do that is through the mainstream media,” he says. “How many people do you know with disabilities in the mainstream media? We need to break down those barriers and I’d love to be that guy.” Dylan was born with a tumor wrapped around his spinal cord, which was cut out when he was two days old. The operation saved his life but damaged his spinal cord, leaving him a paraplegic. He has been in a wheelchair all his life. He spent his first three years in and out of hospital, having 15 operations. “Touch and go,” he says. “Pretty sick, yeah.” They were tough years for his parents, 8 THE WEEKLY REVIEW \ JULY 19, 2017

Martin and Resie, and his older brother Zack. “My whole family has been incredible.” “When I was a kid … imagine how hard that was for Mum and Dad. They never wrapped me in cotton wool like most kids with disabilities. When I said to my mum and dad I wanted to get the train to school when I was 15, I’m sure they were thinking ‘s--- no’ but they let me do it because my mates were. I’m sure mum was freaking out. But that’s how I got friends and became normal. I really appreciate that they did that. “I was travelling the world playing tennis when I was 15. I’m sure they were scared of that as well. For them to do that – good on ’em.” Dylan attended Brighton Grammar, where he and another boy were the only ones in wheelchairs. The school adapted to be wheelchair friendly. “We were, I guess, the test dummies,” he says. “They ramped everything, put elevators in the new buildings. They were great for me.” Apart from the occasional comment, Dylan was surrounded by a great community of kids. “I’ve got the best group of mates in the whole world,” he says. “There was a bit of stuff when I was 12 or 13. Some kids say some dumb things that hurt your feelings a bit. Some kids would call me a cripple. It was tough. But once you realise that for every d---head that gives you a hard time there are hundreds of other legends worth hanging out with, I was fine.”

t 11 he took up wheelchair tennis and at 15 started playing wheelchair basketball. In year 12 he won gold at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing. “To win a gold medal while you are at school … not many get to do that.” He is the youngest wheelchair gold medallist, and went on to win gold for tennis at last year’s Rio Paralympics. In January, he won his third consecutive Australian Open title in wheelchair tennis, at Rod Laver Arena. Dylan says it’s a great time to be a Paralympian. “Ten years ago you had to pay to play, to travel around the world and play tennis. Now I’m fully funded by Tennis

Australia. But it’s still got a long way to go. Australian Open winners get $3.6 million. I won this year and got $12,000.” He says there’s more interest in the sport now, and notes that 5000-6000 people bought tickets to watch his match at Rod Laver Arena. “It used to be no one gave a crap. Now the sponsors are getting a return on investment because people want to watch us – they know not only do we have good stories, but we are elite athletes who are training our arses off, putting on a show for crowds. It’s a beautiful time to be involved and I don’t sit here and complain because I know that generations past got nothing.” While travelling the world playing sport, he achieved high marks at school and completed a commerce degree at University

Open winner: Dylan after winning his quad wheelchair singles’ Australian Open final against the UK’s Andy Lapthorne. (ROBERT PREZIOSO \ GETTY IMAGES)

Dylan’s Top 5 B a n d s t o Wat c h Wu-Tang Clan

My favourite hip-hop group of all time. It was an honour to get to share the stage and rap with members of the group, twice.

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I saw them for the first time at Coachella in 2009 and have been hooked ever since.

Queens of the Stone Age I got caught in the mosh pit at Soundwave watching QOTSA – incredibly sweaty, incredible fun.

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PICTURE \ MICHAEL RAYNER of Melbourne. “I’m a closet nerd as well, so I made sure I gave academics a good run.” Away from music and sport, Dylan is busy. He is also a motivational speaker, doing gigs in Hong Kong, Fiji and across Australia. “I’m a pretty light-hearted guy who takes the piss out of himself and people respond to that,” he says. “When you get messages saying ‘Your outlook on life helped change my life’, that’s amazing.” He says there’s a long way to go in awareness of disability. “I was getting a coffee the other day and a lady came up and congratulated me on getting my own coffee. Her expectation of me was that I sat at home and had a carer and couldn’t leave the house. She’d never been exposed to someone with a disability. It’s not her fault. We need to expose more people so they realise we’re

normal people, too. I just happen to be in a wheelchair.” In March he launched Get Skilled Access, a training organisation working with Paralympians to train business and government employees how to treat customers with disabilities. “We want to make people proactive rather than reactive,” he says. “At the moment, if you travel and you go into a supermarket or a bank there’s that freak-out moment when they don’t know what to do because they either don’t want to offend us or don’t know how to approach us.” He has also launched the Dylan Alcott Foundation to help young people with disabilities to fund and mentor and “eliminate the barriers to get involved”. “Everything I do is about what I like

to call normalising disability,” he says. “People think people with disabilities are unemployable, undateable, don’t travel, don’t go out, don’t have a life, and that puts limitations on what people with disabilities can do. You can have a girlfriend, you can have a job, you can travel, you can do everything that an able-bodied person does, except maybe walk up stairs.”

e says his positive outlook is “part innate, part learned”. “You’ve got to have that inner drive to do things,” he says. “At 13, 14, I had two years when I sat at home and I was really embarrassed by my disability. I didn’t tell too many people [how I was thinking], I just got over that and thought I need to be more proactive; I need to be the catalyst

Two of the biggest legends (above) and the most fun DJs to see live. Period.

for change in my own life, get out there and meet friends, girls … “Events don’t dictate what happens in your life, it’s how you perceive those events. Whether it’s a break-up, somebody passing away, losing a job, being in a wheelchair, it’s not the event itself, it’s how you bounce back and perceive it and move on. “I was able to look at that part of my life and say, ‘It’s a part of me, it doesn’t define who I am’. So I’m going to go out there and see what I can do with it, and I realised that I can do anything.” ● pwilmoth@theweeklyreview.com.au LISTEN » Dylan Alcott presents sports on triple j Breakfast on Monday and Friday, and hosts Weekend Arvos, from 2pm on Saturdays & Sundays.

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balance between fruit flavour and sugar sweetness, the fermentation is stopped by fortification (the addition of a spirit). It’s then aged in oak and bottled to make a vintage wine, or left in the barrel to age and become a tawny. Vintage fortifieds smell and taste like grapes but tawny has caramel and nutty characters from the evaporation in the barrels that concentrates and oxidises the wine and changes the colour from red to tawny. ● GOT A QUESTION? EMAIL \

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Bleasdale (Langhorne Creek) $69; 18.5% Bleasdale has maked fortified wines in Langhorne Creek since the 1850s. Its tawny is aged in the rafters of the winery and is made from grenache and shiraz. The components in here are at least 18 years old. It smells and tastes like brandy snap biscuit, raisins and nutty rancio, with a thick, almost oily texture that delivers a wine of balance that is sweet and vibrant. ● Enjoy with \ Stilton cheese

Woodstock Vintage Fortified Grenache 2013 (McLaren Vale) $25; 18.5%

Chapel Hill Fortified Shiraz 2015 (McLaren Vale) $25; 18%

With raspberry, earth and cherry aromas, this is clearly a wine that’s grenache first, fortified second. It’s smooth and viscous in the mouth, with flavours of raisin, spice, berries and a hint of plum. Along with the texture, there’s tannin – quite a bit of it – adding structure that balances an underlying sweetness. ●

The smell of McLaren Vale shiraz hits immediately – blackberry, spice, dark chocolate and dark cherry – and the aromas are dialled up to 11. It’s similar on the palate, as bold blackberry, aniseed, prune and earth flavours hit with intensity before tannins take over, wrestling this hedonistic wine back into balance. ●

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JO BARRETT has worked at Movida and Tivoli Road Bakery, Bar Nacional, Long Shot, Sydney’s Stanley Street Merchants and Melbourne’s trail-blazing Brothl. These days, she’s head chef alongside Matt Stone at Oakridge Winery in the Yarra Valley. As head of pastry, she strives to minimise waste and draws inspiration from native Aussie ingredients.

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JO LOVES … CHOCOLATE HAUPIA

THE YARRA VALLEY \ A gin and tonic at Four Pillars Distillery and lunch at Meletos.

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BRUNCH \ The food at Babajan in Carlton is really tasty and colourful. The service is always welcoming and coffee is great. I’m scared to tell because I want it all to myself.

ana is not just a poke restaurant. Opened by Matteo Bruno of Meatball & Wine Bar, it’s the sort of place I’d celebrate a birthday or kick-start a Saturday night with some girlfriends. Besides, Hawaiian chef Mario Manabe is doing a lot more than raw fish rice bowls. Moreish tapioca crisps with sashimi salmon, a hint of yuzu and avocado cream are a good place to start, along with picked crab and tempura apple canapes. Tender octopus terrine resembles thinly sliced charcuterie, while cubes of tuna and watermelon mimic each other, brightened with coconut and lime. Another standout is sea asparagus, a succulent served with charred vegetables and optional Wagyu. I’d go back just for haupia, a traditional Hawaiian dessert made from coconut milk, in this case a silky chocolate version with coconut lime crumb for extra crunch. Hana is downright fun. There’s an exaggerated tropical theme, with ferns, pineapple bag hooks and neon signs that paint the room fluorescent pink. Pun lovers are also in for a treat: the cover of the drinks menu reads: “How to get Lei’d”. And with such good-looking waiters … actually, it’s probably best I stop there. ● slevin@theweeklyreview.com.au

GO-TO RESTAURANT \ Lee Ho Fook. It’s interesting and delicious. Always a crowd-pleaser. Great wines, too. INDUSTRY IDOL \ Michael James (Tivoli Road Bakery) is one of the hardest-working chefs I have worked with. He is amazing under pressure, creative, cares about the environment and treats people with respect. NATIVE AUSTRALIAN INGREDIENTS \ They are all so interesting, but I love Davidson plums. They are incredibly sour. AVOIDING FOOD WASTE \ ● Use paper mushroom bags (instead of plastic) at the supermarket when getting fruit and veg; ● Try to plan a few meals in your week. Then you don’t end up with half-onions and carrots lying around; ● Have a good dry store filled with sauces, grains, ferments and spices. Then you can always jazz up sad-looking veg into killer meals. ●

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EATING \ A $42 burger from brand new Bosozoku off Chapel Street in South Yarra. Y It’s called the Big Lobster BLT, but other Japanese-inspired burgers start at $10. There’s also sake, karaoke and Nintendo rooms in the 200-seater. It’s weird, and I like it. ● DRINKING \ I feel self-righteous drinking Remedy Kombucha. I like how it counters the way I treat my stomach. The company has just released streamlined cans and I have a pile of empties on my desk – it’s the perfect drink for Dry July. ●

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WATCHING \ I stumbled across Mr. Church on an international flight. It’s a recent film about Henry Joseph Church (Eddie Murphy), who is hired to help a single mother diagnosed with cancer. He wins over little Charlie with his food, but becomes so much more than a cook. I might, or might not, have cried. ●

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SAYI A NG GOODBYE, SORT OF \ From next AYI week my regular The Feed column will be no more. However, I’ll still be bringing you the latest local and international food news, reviews and general deliciousness in print and online on a regular basis. Keep an eye on what I’m up to via my Instagram and soon-to-be-launched website. ●

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Demitri’s emitri’s Feast \ Take a peek inside a cosy cafe that offers plenty of interior style and delicious dishes – from classic brunch offerings to Greek mains. ● 141 Swan Street, Richmond ● 9428 8659 Melina on the R Rooftop ooftop \ With a relaxed atmosphere and fantastic

city views, this rooftop hideaway is the perfect spot to enjoy scrumptious seafood, barbecued meats and Greek desserts. ● 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne ● 9662 2629

The Greek Spot \ Come for the homemade dips, seafood and grilled meats and stay for the warm vibes in this vividly decorated, family-run restaurant. ● 559 Burwood Road, Hawthorn ● 9818 3312 JULY 19, 2017 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 11

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The Block returns to Channel 9 on July 30 at 7pm.

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ulian Cress puts aside his hard hat and looks at the activity unfolding around him. This is the 13th season of The Block, the television phenomenon he co-created – and it’s the biggest project yet. Five dilapidated period homes have been trucked in from suburbs across Melbourne to a 3000-square-metre site in Elsternwick. Contestants will transform each building from a tangle of gaping holes, wires and outdated decor into stylish family homes. Julian, the show’s co-creator and executive producer, sips a lemon and ginger tea at the on-site McCafe while an army of fluoro-vested tradies dig, hammer and drill around him. “We’ve never done family houses but most of our audience is families, so it feels right,” he says. “Years ago there was a Presbyterian girls’ school here and as soon as I saw this site I wanted to do something like this. I drove around Melbourne looking for these old properties. One was a 1920s dairy farm in Brighton. It was going to be bulldozed. Now it will survive for another 100 years as a family home – that’s special.” The site was bought in November and the houses were found over summer and trucked in by March. Filming began in April. Julian is on site seven days a week for 12 hours a day. In 2002, Julian was working as a producer

at 60 Minutes when he developed the idea that would become The Block. Along with co-creator David Barbour, he persuaded Channel 9 to commission the show. “There were a lot of shows about renovating but they were always professional designers showing people how to do something. We thought, ‘why not watch real people renovating?’. That led to the idea of buying a block of apartments, putting real people in there, and following them. I’m told we’re the longest-running reality TV series in Australian history – I never expected that.” The Housing Industry Association estimates The Block has generated more than $3 billion in home-renovation-related sales. With contestants spending countless hours on site for three months, the McCafe has been a popular addition. Made from a shipping container, it has seating and a professional barista. “A show like this runs on adrenalin – and coffee. The contestants … use Portaloos and camp showers, so this is an oasis.” Next stop for The Block is Gatwick Hotel in St Kilda. “A highlight for me is the legacy we leave behind,” says Julian. “When MasterChef is all over, you are left with a bunch of dirty dishes, but we leave beautiful homes.” ● SARAH MARINOS smarinos@theweeklyreview.com.au

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long with coffee and smashed avocado, street art-lined laneways are one of Melbourne’s biggest drawcards – just ask the crowds of tourists, bridal parties and locals snapping selfies with the latest stencils and paste-ups. Once a male-dominated scene – perhaps due to the risk involved in putting up unsanctioned work at night – street art is drawing more and more women, here and overseas. We caught up with three female street artists making a name for themselves. ● editorial@theweeklyreview.com.au

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Ask just about any female street artist for her early inspirations, and most likely Vexta will be on the list. The street art veteran started out in her mid-20s, about 12 years ago, stencilling and tagging with friends. A Fitzroy/Collingwood local for 10 years, Vexta made street art her career about seven years ago. She moved to New York in 2012, but continues to work in Melbourne. Several of her works can still be seen around town, including a City of Melbourne commission on the Meat Market in North Melbourne and the piece Vexta and New York street artist, Elle, painted for a resident in Prahran’s Hornby Street. Last summer, Vexta and Elle collaborated on a piece to showcase the Pace of Collingwood development. “Sub-atomic particles” and native birds with visible skeletons are Vexta’s contribution. They continue her exploration into how things connect. Freedom is another long-running theme. “Freedom of expression, human rights … always comes through in my work somehow, through birds, flying people, fractures of light,” she says. Activism is one of the reasons Vexta started – and continues – to paint: “I wanted a voice to protest against war, environmental issues, refugee issues.” She also delights in bringing people together. “Success to me is when a six-year-old and an 80-year-old can understand my work or get something out of it,” she says. “That’s what public work is.” ●

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Lucy Desbordes A lover of drawing and painting since childhood, Lucy got involved in street art after moving to Melbourne from her native Paris in 2007 to study a master’s degree in international business. She befriended several street artists and began joining them on nocturnal painting jaunts, honing her skills away from the public eye. Post-study, Lucy returned to Paris for a few years, but returned to Melbourne about six years ago. “I answered an ad for a roommate and, when I went to visit the house, there were paintings everywhere,” she says. “It turned out that [street artist] Li-Hill was living there, and he was friends with Slicer, Adnate and Deams – the whole AWOL crew. Meeting them definitely changed a lot of things for me.” Lucy says the guys – with whom she formed AWOL, one of Melbourne’s best-known street art collectives – were very supportive. She also started working on solo projects. Now known as Lucy Lucy, she depicts “different aspects of the feminine” in murals of archetypal women. They’re on show in Melbourne – on the Box Hill town hall and Preston library – and there are two in Benalla, home to the Wall to Wall street art festival. ●

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Jessica Kease is used to surprising people. “Before they meet me, people see my art and think I’m a guy a lot of the time,” she says. “I do wonder if I’d have been more successful if I were a man, especially because my work is not demure.” Ladylike they are not, but the stencilled pieces Jess – aka 23rd Key – creates are definitely impressive, winning the Ringwood resident accolades, including the world Stencil Art Prize in 2014. The “accidental full-time artist” was inspired as a teenager in the 2000s by big paste-ups and stencil art going up in Melbourne’s CBD and surrounds. She learnt the basics of stencilling from her brother, who was into the street art scene. Nowadays, it’s Jess’s own pieces inspiring the next generation. There are four at a space adjoining Eastland, one in the CBD depicting superstar architect Zaha Hadid and a mural at Preston’s The Hood Market, to name a few. Jess also creates work – usually slightly smaller pieces and often about artists and their egos – for gallery shows that she puts on every few years. Keezus, held in 2014 at Fitzroy’s Juddy Roller Studios, and its follow-up, Keezus: The Second Coming Coming, held in February at The Stockroom in Ringwood, both made humorous reference to Kanye West’s album Yeezus. When she’s not painstakingly cutting out each layer of her paper stencils by hand and travelling to complete commissions, the 28-year-old works for a road authority a few days a week. In her downtime, she still finds time to run stencil workshops. “Sometimes people ask me how to do a mural,” she says. “My advice is always, ‘just get out and paint one’.” ●

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t 18, Miles Gregory was studying to become a lawyer. A night at the theatre changed all that, kickstarting a lifelong career as an actor, director and diehard Shakespeare fan. Now he’s hoping to spread the Bard love by bringing to Melbourne a working, historically accurate replica of the famous Globe Theatre where Will’s plays were first performed. “A lot of people find Shakespeare boring and I think a lot of the time we’re taught at school that Shakespeare is boring,” Miles says. “But everyone who attends the Globe will understand for the first time why Shakespeare is the greatest writer in the Western literary canon. They’ll understand the magic of the shows.” His Pop-Up Globe theatre has already enjoyed two tremendously successful seasons in Auckland. Melbourne marks its first international appearance, with a three-month residency planned in the park beside Sidney Myer Music Bowl – a patch rechristened Shakespeare Gardens for the occasion. At three storeys high and 27 metres wide,

the Globe can accommodate 900 punters, a large chunk of whom will stand for the length of each performance. Dubbed groundlings, these brave souls will be able to interact with the players on stage and even run the risk of being splashed by the buckets of fake (machine-washable) blood. “There’s something very exciting about being so close to the action, and the action being so visceral, bloody and spectacular,” Miles says. The Melbourne season – which involves productions of four plays – doesn’t start until September, but tickets are selling fast. In an attempt to appeal to Shakespeare sceptics, a third of all tickets will cost a modest $20 a pop. But while organisers have a 21st-century audience in mind, Miles says there’s no dumbing down the text to make it more accessible. “I think people are surprised by how easily and quickly they grasp what is happening, how much pleasure they’re having and how much laughter there is in the theatre.” ● mbartlett@theweeklyreview.com.au

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to pay for beach maintenance, environmental studies and education programs. Beaches further along the coastline are just as beautiful, albeit without the reef. A trip to the island wouldn’t be complete without checking out North Shore, known for its laid-back vibe and massive swells only the likes of Kelly Slater can conquer. To get there from Waikiki, head towards Pearl City (H1), then take the H2, and then follow the signs towards Haleiwa, North Shore’s shopping hub. This little town is lined with plantation-era timber buildings painted in bright colours. It’s a good stop for lunch – people line up for a plate of garlic and butter-sauteed shrimp from trucks parked on the south side of town, or for a shaved-ice dessert at Matsumoto. To see the swells, keep heading north to the famed Banzai Pipeline, where the average wave is about three metres. Turtle Bay Resort has a reputation as one of Oahu’s best hotels. It sits on prime real estate, with direct access to bay and surf beaches. There are two golf courses on site,

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echnology in classrooms is nothing new, but the exponential growth of digital devices – especially in the past decade – has made it a much more common part of the learning experience in Australia. As technology has progressed in leaps and bounds, the curriculum, schools and teachers have all had to keep pace. Joanne Blannin, a digital learning leader with the University of Melbourne’s graduate school of education, says Australian students in years 2-10 have a new digital technology curriculum to work from. “We used to have the ICT (information communication technology) curriculum that, in the past, if you were in year 3 you could put together a PowerPoint presentation about your favourite insect and you would have achieved a successful outcome,” she says. “The difference now is students are learning about how digital systems like how a Wi-Fi router works, and how it connects to the internet.” Students also use apps to – for example – track their favourite insects, learn more about them and share the information online with classmates. Joanne says the curriculum aims to prepare students for the future workforce – for jobs that will likely involve technologies and require the types of skills that are being taught alongside how technology is used. They include problem solving; how to think critically, creatively and entrepreneurially; and collaborating with other students online.

Teachers are also having to study to keep up with the latest ways to use technology. “Some schools are already working with the new curriculum easily,” Joanne says. “For others, this is brand new, with new outcomes that [many] teachers were never taught. It was not a part of their teacher education.” Technology can be part of any STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) class, but Joanne says schools are also integrating technology throughout their curriculums. “Schools can connect it to other parts of the curriculum,” she says. “If they’re learning English or history or geography, then they can connect with the idea of digital systems.” As well as devices such as laptops and smartphones, coding is becoming part of the school vernacular. In Melbourne, some schools have started coding clubs in recent years. Many such clubs run outside normal school hours. “In the past couple of years I’ve worked with about 600 schools across Australia – remote, private and Catholic,” Joanne says. “There are pockets of excellence … where the school and teachers are really ahead of the game.”

Does technology help learning? of studies has shown the effectiveness, or lack A range thereof, of learning when technology is used in classrooms.

Joanne says its benefit for students comes down to how individual teachers use technology as part of lessons. “A laptop is an inanimate object – it is what the teacher and the student do with that object that supports student learning or not,” she says. “For a teacher who has a real ability to teach and exciting ways to teach, [devices] seem to work really well because they’re just another tool in the teaching toolkit. “If you are a very traditional type of teacher, who relies mainly on speaking at the students rather than working with the students, you might find teaching with technology more challenging. “Blaming the technology [for not providing effective learning] just doesn’t seem very useful to me because the effectiveness of it really comes down to the user,” she says. Beyond making classes more immersive and fun, technology also makes learning more connected across the world. That means it is more purposeful, Joanne says. Innovations include websites such as Skype in the Classroom, which has a list of scientists or experts from all around the world that teachers can ask questions or book to talk to classes. “I had a scientist in Antarctica talk to a class on Skype and he turned the camera around to show the students the penguins out of the window,” she says. Another time, a scientist in Arizona talked to a class in Darwin about the desert. “Those things offer so much more than a textbook and an

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atlas,” Joanne says. “It’s the kind of learning they’re going to need when they leave school and enter the workforce.”

The future of schools he future of eduction is already here, experts say. Joanne T says a lot of schools that got money under the Building the Education Revolution scheme in the past 10 years built

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open-plan classroom buildings. That followed a push towards non-traditional classrooms: rooms designed for more than a teacher at the front, speaking to students. “We know, particularly in primary school, [traditional] is not the only way that students can work in a classroom,” Joanne says. “My doctoral research is looking at teachers who do use technology and what factors help them do that. One of the factors that’s coming out very strongly is that teachers are going to have to work far more closely together.” She says a shared understanding of technology is necessary, because there’s no way for an individual to keep up with everything that is happening. “Teachers need to be able to say ‘I don’t know how to do this but if someone in our team does, then we can all do it’,” she says. More collaboration is also needed between year levels and schools, as well as work to teach to students’ skill levels and understanding, rather than age groups. “Open-plan spaces (classrooms), if they’re used well, they can really help teachers do that,” Joanne says. ● MELISSA HEAGNEY melissa.heagney@theweeklyreview.com.au

Australia is one of many countries to introduce a digital curriculum. Ours is a national curriculum, interpreted individually by each state. Britain introduced a specific coding curriculum in 2013. The US also offers web-based learning in coding and training in computer science.

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econdary schools and students across Melbourne have embraced the use of technology, especially since devices became transportable and internet-connected across classrooms thanks to Wi-Fi. This portability has added a complexity and ease to learning, allowing students to use digital devices during lessons and letting them explore the world of coding and robotics. These are skills that will prepare students for a future workforce where online literacy will be a must and creative and entrepreneurial thinking compulsory. At Kilvington Grammar School in Ormond, in Melbourne’s inner south-east, students use a podcast to communicate to the school and wider community. Kilvington Grammar’s academic dean of technology, Kirsty Watts, says the school’s podcast – K-POD – has had great feedback since its launch two months ago. Kilvington’s year 9 media studies students work on the podcasts as part of their classes. Content includes information about what is going on at the school, almost like a newsletter. “They developed the jingle, designed the logo, write the scripts, create the content, act as hosts and interviewers, and edit all the audio into the final edition,” Kirsty says. Year 9 students helped start the podcast, but Kirsty says many other students are keen to be involved. They have been exploring other ways K-POD might be used. “Now the podcast is established, we are recruiting from

other year groups and interest areas, like the debating team,” she says. “This ongoing project can give budding journalists, broadcasters, writers, editors and producers the opportunity to be part of a team, who in the past have published a printed publication.” Kirsty says students are not only learning the technical skills behind podcasting, but are also learning creativity, writing, collaboration and teamwork, and an appreciation of what makes engaging content. “As a school, we are progressive when it comes to technology and digital communication,” she says. “We are committed to ensuring our students have the tools in order to flourish in the 21st-century workforce, which is why K-POD is owned by our students.” She says Kilvington has been a leader in the use of technology in education, not only in Melbourne, but in Australia. “We were one of the first laptop schools in Australia, a beta-testing site for the program dedicated to integrating the internet into schools, and we were Australia’s first wireless school,” Kirsty says. While creating online content has been a focus at Kilvington, St Catherine’s School in Toorak is using augmented and virtual reality as part of its classes. Head of digital learning and practice Alex Borlenghi says year 7 and 8 students are taking “virtual field trips” to see the

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Centre and left: Virtual reality tours are an engaging and informative part of the curriculum at St Catherine’s. (SUPPLIED)

pyramids in Egypt and visit Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii via VR headsets. “It allows students to explore street by street, without having to physically leave the classroom,” Alex says. Year 10 students learn history through augmented reality posters, which include embedded videos (in augmented reality, an image can be scanned with a mobile phone and information, video and/or links to websites will appear). Just weeks ago, St Catherine’s also introduced a new elective for year 9 and 10 students – “the augmented and virtual world”. Alex says it is the first of its kind in Australia. “It not only teaches our students to understand and use

AR and VR, but to create in both media,” he says. As well as learning about how the technology works, virtual and augmented reality offer opportunities for students to learn in more hands-on ways. “Using VR to virtually transport students to locations on the other side of the world opens up a huge variety of experiential learning possibilities. We can visit ancient monuments, some of the world’s great museums and natural environments,” Alex says. “Students can look around them in all directions and even virtually ‘walk’ through the streets of a European city, hiking trail in the Rocky Mountains or a Moroccan souk.

“Augmented reality provides different opportunities. Teachers can add digital information to real-world objects and link them to online resources. Then students themselves can add a layer of digital information to an image, poster or object. “When a World War II poster in a classroom can come alive and discuss the war with onlookers … it’s likely students are going to be pretty engaged with their learning,” Alex says. ● MELISSA HEAGNEY melissa.heagney@theweeklyreview.com.au

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There are many reasons why: • Being together throughout the day, feelings of comradeship and friendships develop in a natural way between girls and boys • Breaks down sexist attitudes in both genders • Boys and girls learn in a natural classroom environment, not sheltered away from each other • In a classroom setting, both female and male perspectives are explored • Coeducation reflects 100% the diversity of society. Coeducation, in other words, IS the real world • Humans live in a coeducational world and consequently enjoying the coeducation experience in school years should form a holistic person, confident and wise Enrolments for Year 7, 2019 close on Friday 25 August, 2017. For further information about enrolment please contact the College Registrar on 9409 8444. 16 Davisson Street, Epping VIC 3076 Phone: 9409 8800 • Fax: 9408 7531 Email: admin@stmonicas-epping.com Web: www.stmonicas-epping.com JULY 19, 2017 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 23

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martphones, tablets, phablets, laptops, gaming consoles and smart TVs – students have seemingly endless ways to look at screens as part of study or during their downtime. The average Australian household has six internetconnected devices, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Surveys also show we’re spending between 46 and 65 hours a week staring at our screens. The time children aged 5-16 spend in front of screens has doubled since 1995, up from three hours a day to more than six. This growing amount of screen time for students worries many experts, including those in the field of health. They are concerned about the possible impacts on children’s physical, social and mental wellbeing. But the reality is that technology is so interwoven into today’s schools and classrooms that it is not as simple as telling young people to “switch off”. How can parents and students navigate screen use in healthy and productive ways?

what the experts say The Department of Health has similar recommendations to the American Academy of Pediatrics about screen time. The AAP recommends: ● Babies from birth to 18 months avoid screen time altogether (apart from occasional video chatting).

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But Joanne Blannin, a digital learning leader with the University of Melbourne’s graduate school of education says it’s not as simple as just enforcing time limits. “The thing that I would ask is, ‘How do you define screen time?,” she says. “Is it watching TV, is it doing maths homework, is it programming a robot, or coding or Facetiming with grandma? Because there’s not one clear definition, it’s hard to say, ‘OK, in grade six you should only have two hours of screen time’, because these are all very different activities. Joanne says research supports students being actively engaged with technology. “Passively watching YouTube videos, that’s fine, we all need down time,” she says. “But there are many other ways to be creative and collaborative with technology, and that’s the kind of learning we want to see for our students.” Allowing students to use technology such as laptops and tablets enables them to be involved in online projects and collaborate with other children in games such as Minecraft, in which players can build and create together. This encourages creativity and teaches students to work with

others to solve problems – which will be necessary skills for the future workforce. But the downside of too much screen time can include not getting enough physical activity, leading to obesity and other health-related issues, such as poor mental health or interrupted sleep. “To avoid difficulties with sleep, we need to manage the use of devices in the bedroom,” Joanne says. “If your 15-year-old is sleeping with a phone in their bedroom, that’s probably not a great idea.” Setting boundaries Joanne says setting boundaries for children and teenagers is one of the best ways to allow them to use their devices but also get the sleep and physical activity they require to stay healthy. Parents already set boundaries for such things as what their children wear and eat. Screen time should be part of that. “Parents tend to think they’re in control of the technology their children are using, but children can figure out how to do what they want to do,” Joanne says. “[Parents] need to come up with a family media plan for how and when their children use devices at home – and stick to it.” ● MELISSA HEAGNEY melissa.heagney@theweeklyreview.com.au

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like a $90,000 proposition than it should. It ultimately feels more like a $75,000 one – or where an M240i is positioned. Either way, Infiniti has created a tasty driver’s car here and all in its own style. Only that pricing (and poor forecast resale values) could halt it from joining Australia’s sports car sales surge. ● DANIEL DEGASPERI editorial@theweeklyreview.com.au

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SHOES My wedding shoes were classic Tom Ford open sandals with a locket on the ankle strap. I got them from Net-A-Porter and chose them in this stone colour so I could wear them on other occasions. I wear them a lot.

This silver bowl by Georg Jensen was a wedding present. People knew what the style of the house was like, so they knew what kind of things to get for us.

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he mid-century origins of this attractive weatherboard house are obvious, even from the street. Striking pastel colours on its facade and front fence place it squarely in the ’50s. Of course, the paintwork is not original – there have been many renovations here in the past half-century or so. But the retro pastel theme of the exterior is certainly repeated inside as well. Shades of pink and blue define the facade, which is set behind a neat garden – yukkas and cypresses, in keeping with the ’50s theme – and a broad brick-paved path. To one side, there’s a single carport (with an automatic door and driveway parking for further vehicles). Step across the broad verandah and enter into a hallway with high ceilings. There are bedrooms either side (the main on the left, with walk-in wardrobe and doors to its own private deck and garden). Next along is the dark-tiled central bathroom. It also has its fair share of the retro feel, thanks to a turquoise feature wall that is reflected in the vanity mirror along one wall. At the rear of the house, the open kitchen, dining and living area has a mix of vinyl flooring and polished boards.

In the kitchen, sand-coloured cabinetry maintains the mid-century vibe (although stainless-steel appliances put it firmly, and practically, in the 21st century). East-facing french doors off the meals area make this an appealing spot for breakfast. But it is the semicircular glass wall in the living area that is the hero of the house. Through its almost-full-height windows, there’s a lovely view of the backyard, including a striking studio and shed with angled roof. Stepped decking leads from french doors in the living room down to the studio, which could be a home office, playroom or teenage retreat. Most of the rest of the back garden is a green swathe of neat lawn. To one side of the living area, there’s a bathroom, powder room and the laundry; on the opposite side, there’s a door to another bedroom. Ceiling fans and airconditioning are among the extra features. On a 530-square-metre block, this remarkable house with an individual style is likely to appeal to many. ● CHARLIE BRAITHWAITE property@domain.com.au

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Two entrances, two kitchens, six bedrooms and a rooftop terrace give this splendid Victorian scope to become one of a kind among family homes, or possibly two dwellings. Built in 1870, the two-storey Georgian-style house has a 19-metre frontage and was once a medical clinic. Modern kitchens and bathrooms and sunny, updated living areas and bedrooms will appeal to people who want to enjoy it now and renovate later. Storage is good, and exposed-brick feature walls give it a rugged charm. The ground floor has a hall with street and courtyard access, living room, dining room (with second street entrance), a single and four double bedrooms, two white bathrooms with showers, a laundry and a kitchen. Upstairs, via the original staircase, the spacious living and dining rooms are lightly divided by a former fireplace and open to stairs down to the huge terrace and its city view. The kitchen, laundry, double bedroom and semi en suite bathroom complete a self-contained apartment. ● ALISON BARCLAY AGENT \ Nelson Alexander 9417 3455 PRICE \ $2.3 million – $2.5 million AUCTION \ July 22 at noon

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An opportunity for first-home buyers, this house benefits from the best of period aesthetics and modern conveniences. From the street, its double-gabled roof gives it the slight air of a chapel. Inside, the floor plan is definitely all house. The bedrooms are at the front, the main with en suite access to the central bathroom. At the rear the open-plan kitchen, living and dining area leads out to the rear entertainment area and garden. In the kitchen, a stone-topped island bench provides a casual dining spot, or simply a place to perch and chat to the resident cook. There is driveway parking for one car. ● CHARLIE BRAITHWAITE AGENT\ Woodards 9480 1277 PRICE \ $700,000 – 750,000 AUCTION \ July 22 at 11am

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