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culture shock Civilised experiences in Oz – they do exist

meals on wheels We chase down Sydney’s food trucks

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shine Coast n u S l fu r e d won e wacky but th n o d n e k long wee We spend a + news & sport what’s on film reviews travellers’ tIPS

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EDITOR’S LETTER It’s an age-old joke, that the only culture you’ll find in Australia is in a tub of Yoplait. But we reckon Oz is brimming with the stuff. From the Indigenous culture (the oldest culture in the world) to the newest, found in Melbourne’s laneways, we bring you our top 10 ways to get high-brow. Then we get drunk and chase down some latenight Sydney food trucks, just to even it out. Happy travels!

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main event Light in Winter Festival Federation Square, Melbourne

This festival brings together local and international artists, designers, architects, filmmakers and multi-cultural groups. This is a totally free, month-long program involving sculpture, presentations, talks, events and workshops – aiming to shed a little light on chilly Federation Square. One of the highlights of this year’s festival is set to be Bruce Ramus’ Helix Tree, twin 13 meter long beams filled with LED lights entwined, which are designed to respond to sound volume and speech. We can’t let Sydney’s Vivid Festival get all the good press now can we? 1 – 30 June, Melbourne

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Adelaide Cabaret 2013

The beauty and brutality of life, religion and war in the Middle East are vividly brought to life in the 10th annual Arab Film Festival. With six feature and five short films being showcased from 10 different countries it’s sure to be exciting.

This award provides an opportunity for established and emerging artists Australia-wide to showcase their work in a public forum. This is the richest regional art award in Australia, attracting high calibre entrants to the Pilbara region every year.

This festival has the reputation of showcasing the best local and international cabaret acts. It’s not just all Liza and bowler hats though, there are wild and fabulous performances that will leave the audience wanting more. Ticket info from website.

June 27 - July 14 Sydney, Canberra and Melb arabfilmfestival.com.au

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It was once an overpriced (by Newtown standards) Thai restaurant but the Bank Hotel has returned to its beer garden roots to serve up modern pub food with locally sourced produce. The Hotel hasn’t taken the same route as other renovated Newtown pubs, there are no coloured fairy lights, no astro turf and not a single piece of Tiki themed paraphernalia in sight. The revamp is purely for the foodies. The grub Sticky lamb ribs $13 are messy (and sticky) and don’t look like dinosaur bones. They’re small and incredibly tasty with their lemon yoghurt dipping sauce. Pizzas are huge, try the roasted prawn with harissa $19. With the chopped black cabbage on top it almost has a Japanese flavour to it. If you’re feeling dusty, or you’ve just happened to sleep all day, try the baked eggs with Tuscan beans $14; coupled with a schooner of Young Henry’s Real Ale, consider your hangover cured – or your breakfast made. Behind the bar Young Henry’s on the taps, a locally brewed craft beer, but you should also give the cocktails a shake. In particular the Whiskaretto $14, a whiskey and amaretto sour. I can’t work out if it’s a ladies’ drink or a blokes, so let’s just say it’s for the androgynous Newtown-folk and be done with it. Bill please Grab some mates and share everything for a reasonably priced affair. verdict Finally some respite from all the Thai. A great place to start your afternoon, or end your night, or make like the Hotel California and never leave. THE SCENE

324 King St, Newtown

bankhotel.com.au

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Panama House

Bondi Hardware

Nth Bondi Italian

This little SoBo (South Bondi, it’s what all the kids call it) gem opens from 7am. Bringing influences from all of the Americas to its menu, a Panama House breakfast is quite unique. For example, instead of getting a boring old Eggs Benedict why not have a poached egg with chipotle hollandaise and corn beef hash browns? Dios mio!

Lunch finds us in the heart of Bondi at what used to be an old hardware store, hence the name. Hardware specialises in cocktails, pizzas and sliders. During July they’re doing a great lunch special. Bring your partner or a mate and choose three dishes from a selection of five share plates, and a glass of wine each, for only $60.

This restaurant not only serves inventive and delicious Italian fare but also matches it with one of the best views of Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach. The arancini balls are amongst some of the best I’ve ever eaten and the veal schnitzel main, while a bit dear ($33), is delicious and comes with some good sides.

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Neon Bayou The Big Easy has come to Sydney’s inner west in the form of cocktail bar/grits ’n’ gumbo eatery Miss Peaches. While it might share a little space with Newtown’s Marlborough Hotel it is its own, separate venue and thank heavens for that. The food is very much a Southern American/Creole inspired mixture; charred catfish and crawfish pies for example. The cocktail menu also has a certain New Orleans style too it. Yes we’re talking rum here, and lots of it. misspeaches.com.au

boroughs of Bagels The Mexican era is over dudes, it’s all about New York City’s boiled bread – bagels! Brooklyn Hide in Surry Hills will open their doors this week to roll out the finest deli produce this side of New Yawk. We’re excited about the ’Harlem Bagel’ stuffed with gumbo chicken – that’s right, soul food is the new stoner food. Coupled with Little Marionette coffee and a cool warehouse-style layout, I dare say it’ll be a popular little haunt. Expect a new wave to sweep Sydney. brooklynhide.com.au

On the record Nestled away on York Street near Wynyard, Mojo Record Store might not serve food, but if you’re nice (and knocking back a few Lemon Cohens) they’ll order you a pizza. I’ve heard this place described as a “dirty little den of iniquity” and while that’s hard to argue with, it’s not a bad thing. mojorecordbar.com

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Jon English, The Foster Brothers $40 + bf The Corner Hotel, Melbourne cornerhotel.com East Coast Rampage $34.70 Adelaide Unibar, Adelaide oztix.com.au

friday 21 The Beards $27.50 The Hi-Fi, Brisbane thehifi.com.au

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Frenzel Rhomb $28.60 Adelaide Unibar, Adelaide moshtix.com.au

FEAR FACTORY Australia tour, July 2013.$73.70 For the first time ever Fear Factory will be performing their classic 90’s metal album Demanufacture in its entirety.

National tour

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monday 17 Frankies World Famous House Band Free Frankies Pizza, Sydney eventfinder.com.au Motown Mondays Free The White Horse, Sydney whitehorsesurryhills.com

tuesday 18 Toys $36 + bf The Corner Hotel, Melbourne cornerhotel.com

cornerhotel.com Kora $40.20 Amplifier and Capitol Bar, Perth oztix.com.au Dave Graney From $23 The Butterfly Club, Melbourne seatadvisor.com

thursday 20 Something for Kate $44.90 Discovery Nightclub, Darwin oztix.com.au

Kooyeh Free The Evelyn, Melbourne evelynhotel.com.au

The Wolfe Brothers, Lee Kernaghan From $30 Royal Thatre, Canberra ticketek.com.au

Damon Wallace $74 RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane ticketleap.com

Municipal Waste $43.70 Fowlers Live, Adelaide facethewaste.com

wednesday 19 Boris $45 + bf The Corner Hotel, Melbourne

Gay Paris Door entry Port Macquarie Hotel, Port Macquarie portmacquariehotel.com.au

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Ash Grunwald $30 Metro Theatre, Sydney metrotheatre.com.au Horrorshow $23.50 The Annandale Hotel, Sydney oztix.com

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DON’T MISS! BON JOVI Australia Wide. December. From $35 Treat yourself to an unforgettable night of Bon Jovi’s huge arsenal of hits, as well as new tracks from the band’s latest album.

National tour

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Hallam Hotel, Melbourne ticketmaster.com.au

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The Break $25 The Standard, Sydney wearethestandard.com.au

Coolio $38.30 Republic Bar, Hobart moshtix.com.au

Baby Animals $35.50 The Hi-Fi, Melbourne thehifi.com.au

Eskimo Joe From $44.90 Uniting Church Paddington, Sydney oxtix.com.au

Silver Sneakerz TBA Platinum Nightclub, Gold Coast platinumnightclub.com.au The Janoskians $39.90 The Tivoli Theatre, Brisbane livenation.com.au Obie Trice $45 The Gov, Adelaide moshtix.com.au

sunday 23 Christine Anu From $76 including meal Lizotte’s Restaurannt, Central Coast lizottes.com.au

thursday 27 You Am I $67.50 The Tivoli Theatre, Brisbane premier.ticketek.com.au Owen Campbell $10 presale Republic Bar, Hobart owencampbell.com.au

friday 28 Young Gifted And Broke TBA Laundry Bar, Melbourne younggiftedandbroke.com

A$AP Rocky $69.90 Hordern Pavilion, Sydney ticketek.com.au

saturday 29 La Dispute $39.80 Trinity Hall, Brisbane oztix.com.au Dream On Dreamer $12 + bf The Corner Hotel, Melbourne ticketscout.com.au The Stafford Brothers TBA Platinum Nightclub, Gold Coast platinumnightclub.com.au Something With Numbers $20 Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor fitzroyhotel.com.au

sunday 30 Dave Cooke Free Salt House, Cairns salthouse.com.au

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The Mick Pealing Band Free Ivy Bar, Syndey theivyrestaurant.com.au Broni Free Wesley Anne Bandroom, Melbourne bronimusic.com

monday 24 Morning Melodies Free Pilbeam Theare, Rockhampton pilbeamtheatre.com.au

THE NORTH WEST FESTIVAL 2013 Port Headland, WA. August 24. $146.20 Lock out the diaries for an awesome day of fun times, free camping facilities and an absolutely huge line-up including Grinspoon. Port Headland

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Foster and Allen $59 Wrest Point Show Room, Hobart tixtas.com.au

tuesday 25 Paul Thorn $30.95

HOMEGROWN 2013 Luna Park, Sydney. June 29. $39 Bringing together over 60 of Australia’s best producers, DJs and MCs to showcase their talent – for one night only.

Sydney

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follow us on New Brighton Hotel 71 The Corso, Manly newbrighton.com.au In Situ 34/18 Sydney Rd, Manly insitumanly.com.au Four Pines 29/43-45 East Esplanade, Manly 4pines.com.au Marlborough Hotel 145 King St, Newtown marlboroughhotel.com.au

HAPPY HOUR! Trivia and $10 pizzas The Rose, Redfern. Tuesday 1pm–7pm. The Rose has had a fairly recent makeover and the kitchen pumps out quality food too. Play a round or two of trivia and get $10 pizzas. Sydney

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sydney pubs Trinity Bar 505 Crown St, Surry Hills trinitybar.com.au DOME Bar Level 1 589 Crown Street, Surry Hills domebar.com.au Tea Garden’s 2-4 Bronte Rd, Bondi Junction teagardenshotel.com.au Scary Canary 469 Kent St, Sydney scarycanarybar.com.au Side Bar 509 Pitt St, Sydney wakeup.com.au/side-bar Scubar 4/11-23 Rawson Place, Sydney scubar.com.au Bar Century Lvl 4 640, George St Sydney barcentury.com.au 3 Wise Monkeys 555 George St, Sydney 3wisemonkeys.com.au

Candy’s Apartment 22 Bayswater Road, Potts Point candys.com.au World Bar 24 Bayswater Road, Potts Point theworldbar.com.au Ryan’s Paragon Hotel Cnr Loftus & Alfred St, Sydney hotelparagon.com.au

The Imperial 35 Erskineville Road, Erskineville theimperialhotel.com.au

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The Norfolk 305 Cleveland St, Redfern thenorfolk.co

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The Vanguard 42 King St, Newtown thevanguard.com.au Coogee Palace 169 Dolphin St, Coogee beachpalacehotel.com.au Beach Road Hotel 71 Beach Road, Bondi Beach beachroadbondi.com.au The Bondi Hotel 178 Campbell Parade, Bondi hotelbondi.com.au Kinsela’s 383 Bourke St, Darlinghurst kniselas.com.au

The Beresford 345 Bourke St, Surry Hills Flinders Hotel merivale.com.au/theberesfordhotel 63 – 65 Flinders St, Surry Hills theflindershotel.com.au Oxford Art Factory 38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst White Horse Hotel oxfordartfactory.com 381 Crown St, Surry Hills thewhitehorse.com.au White Revolver Cnr Curlewis + Campbell Parade Bondi Beach melbournepubs whiterevolver.com Central Lion Hotel 3/221 La Trobe St, Melbourne Pontoon acemelbourne.com.au/mclion/ Cockle Bay Wharf 201, Darling Harbour The Nite Cat pontoonbar.com 137-141 Johnston St, Fitzroy thenightcat.com.au Hotel Steyne 75 The Corso, Manly Shamiana hotelsteyne.com.au 420 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

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HAPPY HOUR

Star Bar Hotel Melbourne 160 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne starbarhotel.com.au

The Pig N Whistle, Brisbane. Saturday June 22, from 12pm Catch the first Test match between the Lions and the Wallabies on the big screen with a menu that is said to make any Brit/Irish fan feel right at home. 123 Eagle Street, Brisbane

Palace Theatre palace.com.au

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The Hi-Fi 125 Swanston Street Melbourne thehifi.com.au The Tote 67-71 Johnston Street, Collingwood thetotehotel.com Eden Bar and Nightclub 163 Russell Street, Melbourne edenbar.com.au Turf Bar 131 Queen St Melbourne turfbar.com.au Fluid Oz Bar 450 Elizabeth Street Melbourne yelp.com.au Bar Humbug 586 Little Bourke St Melbourne barhumbug.com.au

adelaide pubs Grace Emily Hotel 232 Waymouth St, Adelaide yourbars.com.au Electric Circus 17 Crippen Place, Adelaide electriccircus.com.au Crown and Sceptre Hotel 308 King William Street, Adelaide sceptre.com.au The Promethean 116 Grote St, Adelaide theprom.com Club 58 58 Hindley St, Adelaide club58.com.au

perth pubs

Eurotrash Bar 18 Corrs Lane Melbourne eurotrashbar.com.au

The Subiaco Hotel 465 Hay Street, Subiaco subiacohotel.com.au

The Night Owl 35 Elizabeth Street Melbourne

Voodoo Lounge 174 James St, Northbridge

HAPPY HOUR

The Apartment Nightclub 401 Little Bourke Street Melbourne theapartment.com.au Cherry Bar 103 Flinders Lane Melbourne myspace.com/cherrybarmelbourne Corner Hotel 57 Swan Street Richmond cornerhotel.com

Friday Happy Drinks Katuk, Brunswick. $12 cocktails between 5–9pm on Fridays. Get your weekend started right with some cheap cocktails or a nice jug of Boags at this super chic Brunswick bar. Melbourne

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East Brunswick Club 280 Lygon St Brunswick East eastbrunswickclub.com Esplanade Hotel 11 The Esplanade, St Kilda espy.com.au Northcote Social Club 301 High Street Northcote northcotesocialclub.com

$15 Cocktail Pitchers P.J O’Reilly’s Canberra. Cocktail pitchers on Saturday night. One of the best nightspots in Canberra has just got even better. Cheap pitchers of cocktails to help you celebrate your Saturday night.

Canberra

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pUBLISTINGS voodoolounge.com.au The Shed 69-71 Aberdeen St Northbridge, the-shed.com.au Mint Nightclub Cnr Lake and James St, Northbridge mintnightclub.com Leederville Hotel 742 Newcastle St, Leederville East Perth leedervillehotel.com.au

brisbane pubs Hotel LA 68 Petrie Terrace, Brisbane hotella.com.au GPO Hotel 740 Anne St, Fort Valley gpohotel.com.au Canvas Club 16b Logan St, Woolloongabba canvasclub.com.au The Fringe Bar Cnr Ann and Constance St fringebar.com.au Pig ‘N’ Whistle Riverside 123 Eagle Street, Brisbane pignwhistle.com.au Sky Room 2/234 Wickham St, Fort Valley skyroom.com.au Bravo Bar Brunswick Central, 455 Brunswick St Fortitude Valley hotelbravo.com.au The Met Nightclub 256 Wickham St, Fortitude Valley themet.com.au

Rattle N Hum 65-67 Esplanade rattlenhumbar.com Gilligan’s Backpacker Hostel 57-89 Grafton St gilligansbackpackerhostel.com. au

hobart pubs Syrup Nightclub 39 Salamanca Pl, Battery Point syrupclub.com.au Republic Bar 299 Elizabeth St, Hobart republicbar.com.au Isobar 11 Franklin Wharf Hobart isobar.com.au Knopwood’s Retreat 39 Salamanca Pl Hobart (03)6223 5808 The Duke 192 Macquarie Street Hobart theduke.com.au

newcastle pubs

Oriental Hotel 53 Bull St, Cooks Hill wotif.com.au Royal Inn Hotel Waratah 61/69 Station St, Waratah truelocal.com.au

byron bay pubs Cheeky Monkey’s 115 Jonson St, Byron Bay cheekymonkeys.com.au The Northern 35-43 Jonson St, Byron Bay thenorthern.com.au The Owl & The Pussycat 85 Jonson St, Byron Bay opcbyron.com.au

Mary Ellen Hotel 57 Railway St, Mereweather maryellenhotel.com.au

Treehouse on Belongil 25 Childe St, Byron Bay treehouseonbelongil.com

Hamilton Station Hotel 2-6 Beaumont St, Islington hamiltonstation.com.au

gold coast pubs

Hotel Delany 134 Darby St, Newcastle hoteldelany.com.au

Blush Nightclub 21 Orchid Avenue Surfers Paradise blushnightclub.com.au

Sunyside Tavern 20 Broadmeadow Rd, Broadmeadow sunnysidetavern.com.au

Benowa Tavern 117 Ashmore Rd, Benowa surfersbeergarden.com

Premier Hotel 1 Brunker Rd, Broadmeadow hotelpremier.com.au

Coolangatta Sands Hotel 3 Griffith St, Coolangatta coolangattasandshotel.com.au

Isobar 1 Honeysuckle Drive Newcastle thelanding.com

Fabric Cnr Shields and Esplanade St

Cricketers Arms 61 Bruce St, Cooks Hill tab.com.au

Woody’s Surf Shack 90-96 Jonson St, Byron Bay woodysbyronbay.com

Iceworks Cnr Given Tce & Dowse St, Paddington iceworks.com.au

P.J. O’brien’s 87 Lake St, Cairns pjobriens.com.au

Wickham Park Hotel 61 Maitland Rd, Islington thewicko.com.au

Kings Street Hotel 15 Steel St, Newcastle West kingsstreethotel.com.au

Bar Petite 5 King St, Newcastle barpetite.com.au

Cambridge Hotel 789 Hunter St, Newcastle yourcambridge.com Lass O’Gowrie Hotel 14 Railway St, Wickham lassogowriehotel.com.au Albion Hotel 72 Hannell St, Wickham thealbion.com.au Hamilton Hotel

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Beaumont Exchange Hotel Cnr Beaumont and Denison Street, Hamilton theexchangehotel.com.com.au

Beach Hotel Bay Ln, Byron Bay beachhotel.com.au

The Northern Star 112 Beaumont St, Hamilton northernstarhotel.com.au

cairns pubs

71 Tudor St, Hamilton hamiltonhotel.com.au

Kent Hotel 59-61 Beaumont St, Hamilton thekenthotel.com.au

The Exchange Hotel 131 Edward St, Brisbane theexchange.com.au

Shooters Superclub Shop 46 The Mark Orchid Avenue Surfers Paradise shooterssuperclub.com

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canberra pubs

Troppo Lounge Nirvana Bar and Restaurant. 7.30pm until late, Saturday. Darwin’s premier jazz and blues night is on at Nirvana every Saturday. Pop your head in for some sweet tunes and a few beers. Darwin

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wollongongnightlife.com.au Harp Hotel 234 Corrimal Street Wollongong wollongongnightlife.com.au Questions Unit 5 123-125 Corrimal Street Wollongong wollongongnightlife.com.au Castros 5 Victoria Street Wollongong wollongongnightlife.com.au

darwin pubs

Transit Bar 7 Akuna St, Canberra transitbar.com.au

Squires Tavern 3 Edmunds St Darwin squirestavern.com.au

Cube Nightclub 33 Petrie Plaza, City cubenightclub.com.au

The Deck Bar 22 Mitchell St, Darwin thedeckbar.com.au

ICBM 50 Northbourne Ave, Canberra icbmbar.com

The Tap Bar 58 Mitchell St, Darwin thetap.com.au

Mooseheads 105 London Circuit, Canberra mooseheads.com.au

alice springs pubs Todd Tavern Todd Mall, Alice Springs toddtavern.com.au The Rock Bar 2/78 Todd St, Alice Springs therockbar.com.au The Barra Bar 34 Stott Tce, Alice Springs chifleyhotels.com.au Firkin n Hound 21 Hartely St, Alice Springs (08) 8953 3033 The Juicy Rump Lasseters Hotel Casino, Alice Springs juicyrump.com.au Bojangles Saloon 80 Todd St, Alice Springs yourbars.com.au

HAPPY HOUR

Academy Club 15 Bunda St, Canberra academyclub.com.au

Wollongong pubs OneFiveOne 150 Keira Street Wollongong wollongongnightlife.com.au Grand Hotel 124 Keira Street Wollongong wollongongnightlife.com.au Glasshouse + Su Casa 90 Crown Street Wollongong wollongongnightlife.com.au Ivory 77 – 79 Crown Street Wollongong wollongongnightlife.com.au Alibi 76 Crown Street Wollongong

The knock off Beach House Bar and Grill, Brisbane. Mon–Fri, 4–6pm. What better way to celebrate the end of a hard day’s work than with a cold beer or two at the Beach House Bar and Grill, am I right? Brisbane

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It seems it's a phenomenon oddly unique to dance music; that the best way to get yourself noticed is by trying to maintain a sense of mystique around your identity, a sort of anonymity that – however fleeting – leaves the public needing, even wanting, more. To say that Jimmy and Hugo, the two producers who make up the wildly successful Sydney duo Flight Facilities, jealously guarded their identities when they first burst onto the scene would be unfair. The fake back-stories and mysterious alter-egos were a tool to generate hype. And also, as Jimmy tells me, “to have a little fun.” One 2010 article on music blog Mixed Tape put it best when they wrote; “It’s not easy to find out where Flight Facilities actually come from. Some people say they hail from Trinidad and Tobago, others say they in fact are from Sydney, Australia. Some people say the duo consists of Captain Earnest Bon-Huffington and Madame Francois de Lundenkopf, Esquire Winston Humphries III or Fred. Others that they are just a DJ duo who want to stay anonymous.” It never lasts of course – anonymity that is – not in the age of the internet. Even so, it doesn’t hurt to try. The internet is an omnipresent force, a relentless information machine and the more it gives, the more people want. Just look at how successful Daft Punk are. Of course, making effortlessly catchy music doesn’t really hurt either. Something Flight Facilities specialise in. “We really want to make things that matter in our catalogue,” says Jimmy. “If you keep people wanting more when a song comes out then when you release another thing it becomes like a special event, so we get that extra hype around it. It probably puts more pressure on us though, because each song has to be pretty damn good.” Flight Facilities are one of those rare beasts in the Australian musical landscape; a group whose music is just as at home on the airwaves of an independent, community radio station as it is being played on high rotation at a major commercial station. Their music is extremely ‘cool’ and yet your mother would enjoy it too. It’s disco, after all. (Up to a point, anyway.)

So why not make an album, I wonder? “It’s definitely something we want to do. It’s just most albums that get made have filler tracks,” he says. “ We want to get rid of the filler tracks. When, or if, Flight

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It is disco, after all. Up to a point, anyway

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Facilities become really big, like a household name or something, then we would make a full-length album.” It’s hard to find fault with that argument and yet, a part of me wants to tell Jimmy that they’re already at that point, very nearly anyway. Still, the way they go about their business at the moment certainly seems to be working for them.

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Pre-flight checks: Jimmy and Hugo are ready for take off Take the moody, eight minute, Claude Debussy-inspired slow burner Clare de Lune. It’s an exquisite, broody, epic track that somehow manages to capture all the beauty of the original classical piece of music and yet still manages to infuse a modern, disco inspired beat into it effortlessly. “We both loved the original by Debussy,” says Jimmy when I ask him how he and Hugo ever managed to write such an incredible piece of music. “We really wanted to do something with the original chords. It’s such an amazing chord progression. So we kind of grabbed a few chords from the original and built the song off that. It kind of just grew itself,” he laughs. “Although, to be fair, it did take us a year or so to finish.” When so many of their colleagues in EDM (Electronic Dance Music, a term I hate but am forced to use, because I can’t really think of anything better) seem to crank out a new track every few weeks, Flight Facilities are just the opposite. In over three years they’ve released just a handful of singles. “We’re just slow as they come, but there is method in the madness,” reveals Jimmy. You only need to look at the short, but oh-so-sweet back catalogue of Flight Facilities since smash hit Crave You to see that Jimmy’s right. It’s all been pretty much solid gold. Flight Facilities’ latest track I Didn’t Believe, featuring young Sydney singer/songwriter Elizabeth Rose, is a perfect example. Effortlessly soulful with a languid 70's funk bass line, washy synthesizer leads and a killer vocal hook. It would be just at home on the dance floor at Studio 54 in 1978 as it is now in Kings Cross or Fitzroy in 2013. While Jimmy and I are speaking, his other [musical] half, Hugo, is driving him around. The interview is occasionally interrupted as the two grumble to one another about other people’s terrible driving and the lack of spots in a shopping centre carpark. It is an odd phone interview to

say the least; yet, it’s also kind of fun. Jimmy has just signed the lease on a new rental property and yet his happiness is tempered by the fact that, upon moving in, he left the front door of the new place open and his roommate’s dog escaped and was run over. Agony and ecstasy, or in his own words, “Yeah, it’s a pretty heavy scene. It was an old dog, though, and I think it had had a pretty shitty life. It just kind of hid under his [the roommate’s] bed the whole time.” “Maybe you did it a favour?” I suggest, taken aback at the direction the interview has taken, just when it seems to be going so well. “I wouldn’t say that just yet, man,” he replies, yet he doesn’t seem too shaken up about it. He seems to actually be enjoying himself. Flight Facilities will be playing at this year’s massive Splendour in the Grass festival in Byron Bay and while Jimmy and Hugo have played the festival before, they’re on at a much better time slot this time around. “It’s going to be pretty exciting I think. We played the last Harbourlife with 10,000 people on one stage, but Splendour is so big, so important. It’s going to be great, obviously.” The two of them will also have had plenty of practice playing live, having completed a tour around the country at the end of May which included a trip to Jimmy’s old hometown of the Sunshine Coast. “It was interesting,” he says. “I don’t think a lot of gigs get put on there.” There is a time and a place for hiding one's light under a bushel, but that time has passed. For Flight Facilities, anonymity served a purpose and served it well, but now, much like the aviation company where they lifted their name, the sky is truly the limit for these two. ❚

Flight Facilities' newest single I Didn't Believe is out now on Bang Gang. Catch them at Splendour in the Grass flightfacilities.com

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We chat to drummer Ulrich Lenffer about their new album Dream Cave, Splendour and zombies... INTERVIEW Hugh radojev

“We actually got a little bit obsessed with caves”

What’s it like being back in Australia after being in the UK for two years? Yeah we’ve been back three or four days. It’s always great to be back in Australia. It’s just so beautiful, you know? Especially compared to London. Not that London isn’t beautiful, in a different way it is. You know what it’s like, though? There’s just something special about Australia, when you come back from overseas.

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Have you had a chance to go back to the Blue Mountains yet? Yeah, last couple of days actually. I was feeling a bit sick when I flew in so I’ve just been letting mum look after me.

You guys had a bit of a tough time getting back into Sydney didn’t you? Yeah, because of the fog in Sydney we got diverted to Brisbane and hung around the airport for 12 hours, which wasn’t fun. The worst part of it was just this Chinese whispers where they’d say, “Oh we’ll be leaving in two hours,” and then “we’ll be leaving in one hour,” and then that

hour would pass and it would just keep going for 12 hours. Why did you guys move to the UK to begin with? Yeah we had a label over in the UK who were willing to support us financially. Yeah it’s been really excellent, they’ve covered everything so we could focus on music and writing playing, just being a band, which is pretty rare. What’s it like being in a band with your sister? It’s good. We get on well. It’s much less interesting than everybody thinks. We look after each other; it’s all very familiar and boring. It helps in some situations because I know that I can say something to her and she won’t get offended.

Dream Cave, is it true parts of it were recorded in an actual cave? Yeah, man. We actually got a little bit obsessed with caves. It was just a kind of fun thing to do on the weekends but we thought it’d sound

really cool on the record. So we drove around to four different caves and hung out, played a bit of music. It became pretty obvious after that that we wouldn’t be able to record the whole album in a cave, that it was kind of a stupid idea. But we found a quarry in Essex, recorded some vocals and stuff in there, reamped some stuff. Was that a band decision or the producer’s? No, we’d been doing this before a producer got on board. I remember us telling a few of the producers about it and they were like ‘Oh yeah? That’s weird’. Do you like small, confined, dark spaces? (Laughs.) Well I have done a fair share of caving in my time... Was the recording experience quite a manic experience? Yeah, we were kind shut up in a house. Some things went really, really smoothly and other

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things tended to drag out. It was a bit all over the shop. How did it compare to the process for the first album, Bliss Release? It was similar in many regards. This time it was just much more confined. We were working every day for a month. I mean everybody had time to chill out, but it got done pretty quickly, whereas the first album got dragged out over nine months.. What was it like working with producer Barney Barnicott? It was interesting because it was the first time we’ve worked with someone we’ve hired as a producer. He had a lot of good ideas. Some of the songs on there are Barney, he polished them and bought out aspects we wouldn’t have thought of. Al [lead singer] also took the wheel on some songs, because he had a pretty clear vision. It was a good, healthy collaboration. You hadn’t had a chance to play a lot of the new stuff live. How’d the crowd take to the new songs at Vivid Festival? I don’t think it could have gone better in terms of the reception. Everything we’ve read and what we’ve been told has just made us even more excited than we were before we came out here. It is daunting, playing new stuff but if something is good people identify with it – that we’ve branched out a bit, taken some risks. We didn’t even play half the songs, because we haven’t really worked out how to play them live yet, so yeah it’s exciting. You guys hanging in the country now until Splendour in the Grass? Half of us are going back to the UK and half of us are staying here. So yeah, then we’ll play the show at Splendour and then after that we’ve got a tour of Australia lined up. There’s a little scoop for you. We’ll be doing a big tour after Splendour, at some point. . Anyone at Splendour you’re looking forward to seeing? To be honest, I haven’t looked at the lineup in recent times. There’s a secret artist, which I’m not allowed to say, that I’m really looking forward to. The National as well, Frank Ocean, people like that. We’re going to be staying there for all three days, so we’re going to catch a whole heap of music. Do you prefer playing the big festival shows or the smaller indoor venues? They offer different things. Clubs you can really explore the space of your songs and stuff. But at the festivals you can just kind of have fun. Your sister said on an interview with Triple J that you’d be the first to die in a zombie apocalypse, how do you feel about that? Pissed off, actually. I don’t know what she was thinking. I’ve killed a fair share of computer game zombies in my time! I love her, but I think she’d die first. Catch Cloud Control at the Splendour in the Grass Festival on July 26–28. Dream Cave set for release on August 9 through Ivy League. cloudcontrolband.com

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Only God Forgives FILM review by Hugh Radojev. Out July 18th Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kristen Scott Thomas and Vithaya Pansringram | MA | 90mins

Man of Steel Preview Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon and Diane Lane | MA | 143 mins

Zach Snyder’s new imagining of the famous Superman story has a huge, $225 million budget and an A-List cast. Henry Cavill steps into the lead role, a big task for any actor surely, but from what I’ve seen of the trailer he certainly looks the part. We all know the origin story of the world’s greatest superhero but I’m also particularly looking forward to Russell Crowe playing Clark Kent’s alien father. HR 22

Nicholas Winding Refn’s new crime drama Only God Forgives sees him join forces once again with Canadian actor Ryan Gosling. But, if you were expecting Drive II, you’re going to be very disappointed, not to mention a little disturbed. I loved 2011’s Drive and was excited when I heard that the Danish filmmaker would be working with Ryan Gosling again. But Only God Forgives’ tale of an American drug dealer trying to get revenge for the murder of his rapist brother in Thailand is as unsettling as Drive was enthralling. Don’t get me wrong, this movie is, if anything, even more beautifully shot than Drive. Every frame of this film is beautifully lit and stylishly composed. Refn manages to capture the lurid neon cityscape of Bangkok perfectly. It’s just so fucking violent! Refn has always used violence in his films, but it usually serves a purpose. In Only God Forgives, however, the violence isn’t so much a vehicle of the narrative as it is the narrative itself. There’s one particular scene which was so full-on that the woman in the seat next to me was screaming almost as loudly as the guy on screen who was having his eyeballs and eardrums cut out... I’m not even joking. In terms of acting, Gosling is good as protagonist Julian, considering he spends 98 per cent of the film staring blankly at the camera. Kristen Scott Thomas does a great job too as his foul-mouthed crime boss mother with a serious Oedipus complex. I can’t decide whether this film is a masterpiece or a self-indulgent piece of shit. It is a very brave film, though, and it will definitely stay with you, for good or ill. Good for: Sadomasochists. This is definitely not a first date film!

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Keep on truckin’ We’re rejoicing because Sydney’s food trucks are here to stay! We track them down to find the city’s best meals on wheels Words alex harmon, Hugh radojev + lisa robinson

Conventional restaurants are usually pretty good and yet, haven’t you ever wished that one would come to you, instead of the other way around? Well, last year super mayor Clover Moore and the City of Sydney Council answered your prayers and let nine food trucks loose to roam the streets on a one year trial. They were so successful that the Council said they could stay. So, when you’re hungry, jump on Twitter, find out where they are and chase them down. Here are our top picks. Eat Art Truck The grub: American BBQ Providing delicious street food and promoting street art – that’s the philosophy behind the Eat Art Truck. The menu is American BBQ with a Japanese influence. Think slowcooked meats with crispy, creamy salads and chilli sauce, served in a bun that fits perfectly in your eager hands. The guys designing the menu are Brenton Balicko, a former chef at Quay, and Stuart McGill, a former sous chef at Tetsuya’s. Expect to be impressed. Be sure to try the chicken wings ($8) dusted with shichimi peppers and mayo, followed by the pulled pork served in a bun with mustard cabbage and a choice of sauces ($12). The black truck gets a street art style makeover every month. The truck’s current artwork, a black and white portrait of rapper Biggie Smalls, was painted by artist LINZ. Previously the truck has showcased works from other renowned Australian artists including Beastman and Ears. You can count on the truck to be at Sydney’s favourite attractions and festivals. Its recent appearance at events like 24

Vivid Sydney and the Sydney Writers’ Festival means you can quickly refuel without leaving these events. LR How to track it down: @EatArtTruck

Cantina Mobil The grub: Mexican You all know that the best Mexican food is Mexican street food and these guys have taken this concept quite literally as they whizz around the streets of Sydney in their bright orange van. When the Cantina Mobil light is flashing and their shutters are open there’s usually a long line forming filled with Sydneysiders keen to get their taco or burrito fix. Because, let’s face it, Sydney bars have turned us all into Tex-Mex addicts. These guys were actually the first company to get on the food truck, er, train in 2011 when they started their engines on the Northern Beaches. The soft shell tacos are your best bet, for $5 they’ll load them up with chipotle beef, chicken or pinto beans and smother them in hot cheese sauce, tomato salsa and chilli corn. The burritos follow much of the same in terms of flavour, but pack more of a punch with their tortilla filled girth. Our advice? Ask for guac on everything. And BYO hooch for their nonalcoholic Sangria – we’re not sure that Clover will ever allow the trucks to serve booze. Cantina shows up at most Sydney festivals (like Vivid where we caught them) so they’re usually bombarded from the moment they set up shop. Get there early to avoid missing out on a taco, or one of the four lonely stools they provide for al fresco dining. AH How to track it down: @CantinaMobil

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Let’s Eat Yum Cha

Urban Pasta The grub: Italian I’ve always loved pasta. There’s something very comforting about a big bowl of spaghetti bolognaise or carbonara. Of course the naysayers out there will have their two-cents worth. It’s full of carbohydrates and stuff that makes you fat. I know, but it doesn’t stop me enjoying it. The truck itself is ingeniously set out and equipped. There’s a full pasta cooker in one corner where fusilli, penne, potato gnocchi or spinach and ricotta ravioli are all made to order for you. Alongside that are steaming vats full of the various sauces: which include bolognaise, pesto, Italian sausage and amatriciana, to name just a few. I ordered the gnocchi with the amatriciana, which is a kind of spicy tomato sauce complete with finely chopped Spanish onion, chorizo and bacon ($11.50). While my friend had the Italian sausage with the ravioli, which worked out to be a little bit more expensive ($13.50). The amatriciana sauce was nice and sharp while the onion, chorizo and bacon beautifully complemented the already delicate and hearty gnocchi. The Italian sausage ravioli came in a light pink sauce that went well with the rich, creamy filling of the ravioli. While the price might seem a little steep, the servings were very generous and on a crisp autumn day in Victoria Park the pasta went down a treat. HR How to track it down: @UrbanPasta

Let’s Eat Yum Cha The grub: Chinese yum cha Everyone loves yum cha, but it’s hard work sometimes. If you get stuck at the back of the football field-sized restaurant in between a folding screen and the toilet, you never quite get the trolley you want to stroll by. Or you end up with a plate full of chicken feet because you weren’t quite listening. Well, not anymore! Chinese morning tea comes to you with Let’s Eat Yum Cha. It’s simple, friendly and best of all, fresh out of the bamboo box. You’ll find BBQ pork buns, prawn and chive dumplings, chicken dim

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sims, prawn gow gees and vegetarian gow gees on the menu. They make it even easier for you to try everything with their six for $10 special, so grab a plate, pour your soy and chilli sauces and find a spot in the sun. The truck is usually found looming around parks near Central Station and Surry Hills at lunch time. Apparently, the truck folds out like a transformer into a yum cha-style trolley, although when we were there it looked very truck-like. Still, it’s all about the fresh Chinese steamed goodness and, as of yet, no chicken feet in sight. AH How to track it down: @YumChaTruckSYD

Veggie Patch The grub: Vegetarian/vegan I was apprehensive about approaching the Veggie Patch, which is Sydney’s chief vegetarian and vegan food truck. I am a committed carnivore and while I had eaten vegetarian food before and rather enjoyed it, I always felt something (meat) was missing. However the Veggie Patch’s truck has a huge amount of character. From side on it actually looks like a garden shed, with pot plants hanging from old weatherboard walls that look as though they were lifted from a cottage somewhere in the countryside. As to the food, I put myself in the lovely woman serving’s capable hands. She recommended the zucchini burger ($10) and a side of sweet potato chips ($5). The burger was certainly very filling; the zucchini patty was thick and juicy and was beautifully complimented by caramelised onions, beetroot, homemade mayonnaise and a beautifully tangy sauce. Not only did it taste great, it looked amazing. Reds, oranges, whites and purples all blending together with each bite. The little styrofoam container ended up looking so much like a Jackson Pollack painting that I was loathe to throw it away. The sweet potato fries were a nice accompaniment to it all, crunchy, crisp and yet somehow still good for you. While it’s fair to say that I’m not planning on going vegetarian anytime soon, I will definitely go back to the Veggie Patch. HR How to track it down: @veggiepatchvan tntdownunder.com

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Five pupils were suspended from a Melbourne school after it was discovered they had baked weed cookies in a home economics class. The Education Department said: ”The school has confirmed the amount added into the cookie batter was very small and that none of the cookies were consumed by students.” It is understood that two of the pupils baked the cookies and the remaining three sampled the treats but spat them out. Way to make your home ec class dope

MAN SUES Doc OVER LONG-term ERECTION

Silly Joel: Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden got into hot water Down Under when a police raid on his Sydney hotel penthouse uncovered a stash of marijuana. Australia’s The Voice judge apologised: “Sydney is my adopted home and I appreciate the way the NSW police handled the situation. I hope this didn’t cause too much drama for anyone.”

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A truck driver from Newark is suing a doctor after penile implant surgery left him with an erection that lasted for eight months. Daniel Metzgar, 44, underwent the procedure in 2009. A medical malpractice lawsuit last week heard claims that the surgery had been botched, with Metzgar also professing that his scrotum swelled to the size of a volleyball. Colleen D Shields, acting for Dr Thomas J Desperito, told the court that Metzgar complained of infection and a constant erection four months after the implant was fitted, and that her client advised the patient to have the prosthesis removed. However, it is claimed Metzgar failed to act on this advice for four more months,

only seeking further surgery when tubing from the device punctured his scrotum during a family trip to Niagara Falls. Metzgar is now seeking unspecified damages for his ordeal. He told the court of the woes of a permanent hard-on, saying: “I could hardly dance, with an erection poking my partner.”

DOG SHIT MAILED BACK TO OWNERS

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A Spanish town has come up with a unique way of stopping residents from letting their dogs

poo on the pavements – by mailing any offending turds straight back to them. According to The Telegraph, a team of volunteers policed the streets of Brunete, a small town west of Madrid, over the course of a week back in February. After striking up conversations with offending owners, the volunteers found out enough info to track them down using a registered pet database at the town hall. During the week, 147 poos were couriered back to owners. Though a publicity stunt, violations have since dropped by 70 per cent.

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Number of miles Aussie Chloe McCardel tried to swim between Cuba and Florida. She gave up after a jellyfish sting

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‘Sexist’ menu: the pic uploaded to Facebook

JULIA GILLARD FRIED CHICKEN FURORE

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Julia Gillard has called for Coalition candidate Mal Brough to be disendorsed after he apologised for a menu at a party fundraiser that listed ‘Julia Gillard Kentucky Fried Quail – small breasts, huge thighs and a big red box’. ABC News reported that Brough called the menu “deeply regrettable, offensive and sexist”, but added he did not recall seeing the menu at the event for 20 people held on March 28. Tony Abbott has since claimed that the restaurant owner, Joe Richards, admitted to authoring the menu. Richards confirmed: “I created a mock menu myself as a light-hearted joke ... unfortunately, a staff member saw the mock menu and ... posted it on their Facebook.” Both Abbott and Richards insist the menu never made it out of the kitchen and was not seen by anyone else at the event. Before Richards’ admission, Gillard railed: “Mr Abbott personally has gone and stood next to signs that described me in a sexist way. We’ve had the Young Liberals hosting a function where jokes were cracked about the death of my father. And now, we have Mr Brough at a function with this grossly sexist and offensive menu on display.” Sucks to be you, eh Jules?

AUNT CHEATS NEPHEW OUT OF INHERITANCE

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A primary school teacher has been found guilty of faking a will to cheat her nephew out of an inheritance at Auckland District Court. Ena Croft, 48, was ordered to repay

Rock hard: Rocky NZ$120,000 that she spent on herself. Her brother, Jim Croft, drowned in 2008 and left more than NZ$426,000 in life insurance to his son, but Ena forged an alternative will and spent the money on paying off credit cards, her mother’s mortgage and a new lounge suite. Ena’s lawyer Heeni Phillips said her client was truly sorry for the offence.

WOMAN BASE JUMPS ON 102ND BIRTHDAY UNITED STATES

A 102-year-old woman celebrated her birthday with a base jump off a bridge into Idaho’s Snake River Canyon. But Dorothy Custer complained that her 486ft tandem leap was “too short” – “I don’t know why it went down so quickly. It was alright,” she shrugged when asked about the leap afterwards. The badass centenarian had zip-lined across the canyon for her 101st birthday. An appearance on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno revealed that Custer’s primary joys in life are extreme sports, playing harmonica and sewing. “Nothing much left to do except live now,” she said. Catch the video on tntmagazine.com.

Debt, in pence, that meant 10-year-old Jacob Lynn was refused a school dinner until he topped up his lunch account

Amount, in pounds, that Basildon Council in Essex spent on a project to measure how much grass it needs to mow

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK He has a fundamental right to sunbathe Ecuador’s foreign minister Ricardo Patino expresses his concern for Julian Assange’s rights/ complexion as the WikiLeaks founder remains holed up in the country’s London embassy over summer

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This week in football What’s in a name?? The transfer merry go round is spinning nicely. One of the first signings of the summer is complete. Norwich City’s record signing will join them on July 1st from Sporting Lisbon. Their new buy is a Dutch striker who recently gained his first full international caps. Of course manager Chris Hughton will expect goals from him and expectation at Carrow Road will be high. What exactly has inspired such levels of anticipation in East Anglia? He’s only 24, he’s skillful and he scores goals… but there’s more. Norwich City’s new signing is the gloriously named Ricky van Wolfswinkel. The greatest footballers name since Willo Flood broke onto the scene. Good luck Mr Van Wolfswinkel!

Barry Town going down? Formed in 1892, Welsh Premier League outfit Barry Town are one of the oldest football clubs in the world. Owner Stuart Lovering, frustrated at his inability to find a buyer for the club, withdrew his club from, the Welsh premier League with only two games of the season left. As a result their results were deleted from the season’s records affecting other teams in the league too. Thankfully, the Welsh Football Association is assisting the Barry Town Supporters Committee to arrange a takeover. If successful the club will still play at their Jenner Park home but will be relegated to the third division. As ever, those who suffer are the supporters. Stuart Lovering left his club, and it’s loyal fans in the lurch. The supporters show admirable tenacity by rallying around top keep their club afloat yet their reward, if the WFA approve their new model is to get relegated two divisions. Good luck to Barry Town and their supporters.

Marriage malarkey John Aves is a fanatical supporter of Cambridge City who currently play in the amusingly titled Evo Stik Southern league. Aves recently got 28

Dwarf boxing arrived in New Zealand on Thursday last week as Matthew Wood (in blue) defeated Colin Lane. The pair were fighting on the undercard of the heavyweight bout between Joseph Parker and Francois Botha at Trusts Stadium, Auckland. Botha was the colourful character beaten on points by Sonny Bill Williams. Parker knocked him out. married. For a wedding gift his mates bought him one of the dugouts from their Milton Road stadium! The club were selling off parts of the ground and it was a once in a lifetime opportunity… an opportunity well seized. This may start a trend. If, at the next wedding you attend, you enter the reception through a rickety old turnstile, and the meal consists of a stale old pie, and champagne is replaced by lukewarm beef drink, remember where the fashion began and propose a toast to the mates of John Aves! By Joe Byatt, Football Fans Downunder (ffdu.com.au)

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Taking a little attention away from the All Blacks third Test against France on Saturday is news that their spiritual and forward pack leader Richie McCaw is plotting his return to rugby. The flanker plans to come back from his six-month sabbatical through club rugby, with the ultimate goal to be ready for the

first match of the Rugby Championship against the Wallabies in August. Depending on the needs of his Super Rugby club the Crusaders, he could also appear in the play-offs. “I want to start playing after I have done 11 or 12 weeks of pre-season and after that I will be ready to play,” he said.

BIG WEEK FOR ... While he’s no Black Caviar for glamour, Danny O’Brien’s Down Under charge Shamexpress is on his own historybreaking mission starting Tuesday in the King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot. Newmarket Handicap winner Shamexpress will attempt to win the 1000m sprint before preparing to take on the July Cup, a race never won by an Australian horse. He won’t run in Saturday’s Golden Jubilee Stakes, as previously planned, to be ready for the Cup.

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QUOTEs OF THE WEEK Blake has earned his right to compete in the 100 metres by winning the title at the last World Championships. I was always going to run the 100 Double-triple gold medalist Usain Bolt on news he has to go through full qualifying to get to the World Champs in Moscow. He false-started in Korea two years ago

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It’s finally here, the first of three Tests for the Lions against the Wallabies. The once every 12 years clash kicks off on Saturday with the tourists sure to be well steeled after Wallabies coach Robbie Deans released several of his squad to play for the NSW Waratahs at the weekend and ACT Brumbies on Tuesday, after early complaints they weren’t getting challenged by domestic sides. But, as always, characters have taken the

headlines rather than the game itself. Quade Cooper was left out of the final Wallabies squad but Kurtley Beale appears to be a changed man on his return. ”Obviously there were some tough times there I had to get through,” Beale told Fox Sports Rugby HQ’s Nathan Sharpe. “There were some issues I had to sort out … but I’m just thankful for the support of my close friends and family, and my teammates. I’m just very grateful to have the opportunity to be back as part of this (Wallabies) group.” Time will tell if the Lions are happy about it as well.

I honestly think if [James O’Connor] started the first Test then the Lions will definitely win … a massive weak link Former England playmaker Stuart Barnes doesn’t rate the possible Wallabies no.10

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History buffs and cultural snobs alike usually snigger and sniff haughtily when the words ‘culture’ and ‘Australia’ get used in the same sentence. They think that because the Australian landscape isn’t dotted with standing Roman aqueducts, medieval fortresses or Renaissance cathedrals it has no cultural significance. Some will even go so far as to say that Australia is too ‘young’ to be intellectually nourishing, too full of the spawn of the great unwashed from the England of a Hanoverian King – bought here bound in chains and stuffed into the rotting, creaking hulls of wooden tall ships – to be in any way culturally relevant. It seems almost pointless arguing

with these sorts of people. One could point out that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies represent a continuance of the oldest surviving human culture in the world. In places like Uluru and Kakadu you can see tens of thousands of years of human history daubed in ocher on the living rock. Or that, despite the relatively short history of European settled Australia, many major cities and townships alike have developed entirely unique cultural aspects that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Colonial centres like Fremantle outside of Perth or the Rocks in Sydney are perfect examples of this synthesis of history and modernity.

Why not just forget history entirely and think in terms of modern culture. Melbourne’s laneway and café culture is the envy of many countries, while the privately funded MONA in Hobart is one of the southern hemisphere’s biggest modern art museums, with works from well renowned artists from around the world. In other words, we reckon that Australian culture gets a bit of a bad rap. You need only scratch the surface of a place: walk a cobblestone street, stand in the shadow of Mt Olga or take a trip to the seaside to realise what this country has to offer culturally. You won’t find anything like it anywhere else on Earth.

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Australia’s oddest museum: MONA in Hobart

Adelaide Fringe Festival, SA South Australia is known as the Festival State and nowhere is that more apparent than in the picturesque capital of Adelaide. With its wide, tree lined boulevards and abundance of beautiful parks, Adelaide is one of the more laid back, easy going cities in Australia. The Adelaide Fringe Festival, held annually in February and March, is one of the biggest and best known of Adelaide’s events. Started in 1960 in response to the exclusion of many artists from the heavily curated Adelaide Festival of Arts, this egalitarian beginning has continued through to the present day, with anyone able to take part as an act. The festival usually features more than 4,000 local and international artists, singers, actors and comedians and has become the largest festival of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. The Fringe also usually runs concurrently with WOMAdelaide, an internationally renowned world music festival that runs over a weekend of the Fringe and attracts thousands of spectators every year. Combine all this with the stunning local food and wine and you’ve got yourself a cultural experience that won’t just be nourishing for the mind but for the body as well. HR

One of many Art Galleries: Alice Springs

Hobart is Australia’s second oldest city, founded in 1804 as a penal colony. Hobart is a beautiful example of colonial architecture being blended seamlessly into a modern city, particularly in Salamanca Place down by what used to be the old whaling port. Hobart is much the smallest of Australia’s capital cities and as a result is best discovered on foot. A wonderful walk will take in one of the best cultural experiences on offer in the old part of town, taking in the historic Battery Point as well as Salamanca and its famous markets. Battery Point was once the sight of an old artillery battery that was put in place there in 1818 to protect the entrance to what, at the time, was one of the best deepwater ports in Australia. A leisurely two-hour walk will take you from Salamanca Place to the point itself, rambling past the beautiful sandstone, colonial era buildings. It will also offer some beautiful sights over the water. Also, a short (if somewhat expensive) ferry ride from Hobart, across the Derwent River from the capital is the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), which opened in 2011 and is fast becoming one of the biggest and best modern art museums in the world. MONA has drawn favourable comparisons to places like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao as being a major tourism attraction in a small city. While it stopped being free entry in 2011 (unless you’re Tasmanian), the $20 ticket price is well worth the paying. For more culture, the newly refurbished Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is also definitely worth a look. HR

Alice Springs, NT Alice Springs is one of Australia’s oddest towns. It’s also a place that everyone should visit. If it’s quintessentially unique cultural experiences you’re after, you need look no further than Alice. Named for a woman who never visited and a water source that never actually existed, Alice has a number of claims to fame, perhaps most interesting of which is holding an annual boat race in a dry creek bed. Yes, the Henley-on-Todd Regatta holds an official Guiness World Record for being the only boat race in history to ever have to be cancelled due to water flooding the course. Teams of “rowers” run their bottomless boats across the often scorching desert sands. Races are also held in washtubs, human hamster wheels and even modified trucks complete with flour bombs and water cannons, which take part in a mock battle between ‘Pirates’ and ‘Vikings’. Also during the slightly more temperate winter months, the Lasseters Camel Cup is run, with nine different races run. The humpbacked ‘ships of the desert’ are ridden rough shod across the red desert sands of Blatherskite Park in a competition that is described as ‘temperamental, terrible unpredictable and very entertaining.’ The locals also get into it, treating the event as Alice’s equivalent of a horse racing carnival, dressing up in highly eccentric costumes and generally having a lot of laughs. It’s Australian larrikin culture at its best. HR

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Art, culture and history come together at the Cossack Art Award. Experience this enriching Pilbara showcase.

The Cossack Art Award is the richest acquisitive art award in regional Australia with a combined prize pool of over $100,000. Each July the historic buildings in the remote town of Cossack come alive with artwork from emerging and established artists Australia-wide. For the past 21 years, the Award has been a destination for art enthusiasts to invest in quality Australian art, displayed in a beautiful setting.

EXHIBITION DATES 21 JULY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11 AUGUST 2013 FAMILY OPEN DAY 21 JULY 2013 For more information visit www.roebourne.wa.gov.au or check out the Cossack Art Award on Facebook. Enquiries can be directed to the Shire of Roebourne E. cossack.art@roebourne.wa.gov.au | M. 0417 805 128 | T. (08) 9186 8555

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The Rocks – Sydney, NSW The oldest part of Sydney has come a long way since Australia’s colonisation and is really the only place in the city that doesn’t look like it emerged in the 70s. First stop should be The Rocks Discovery Museum, where you can learn about Sydney before, during and after the infamous Cook landed here. With your newly acquired historical knowledge you can go forth and explore the more recent culture on show in The Rocks. There are a variety of pop-up stores in vacant buildings presenting the best of Sydney’s independent artists for your casual enjoyment. If it’s a weekend, the setting sun will instigate a drastic change in the cobbled streets as the market stalls begin to appear. Other than being a great place to snatch up some hand-made souvenirs and taste test every variety of jam under the sun, there are also other seasonal events that tie in with the markets. Depending on the time of year, the markets also become a live music venue, a village fair or an extravagant display of aromatic delights. RP

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Australia’s oldest city: The Rocks

Canberra, ACT The nation’s capital might not be one of the most beautiful cities in Australia, but it is home to the National Art Gallery and the War Memorial, both of which are important cultural institutions. Australia’s long military history is both a source of great pride for veterans and their families as well as some consternation from those of a different political/ideological persuasion. Regardless of your feelings towards the ANZAC legend or the history of 20th Century warfare, the War Memorial is a beautiful and poignant tribute to the Australian men and women who have fought and died in all the great-armed conflicts since the Boer War. The National Art Gallery is another must visit location in the suburb of Parkes in Canberra. Established in 1967 by the then Prime Minister Harold Holt, the gallery now displays over 160,000 works of art by both Australian and International artists, including Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles which cost $1million in 1973 but is now estimated to be worth almost a hundred times that much in 2013. Good investment, Gough! HR

Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, NT In the remote, arid heart of Australia lies one of the country’s most culturally significant locations as well as one of its most naturally beautiful. The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park covers over 1,300 square kilometers of rugged, desert scrub and, of course, the two monolithic stone structures for which the park is named. The indigenous people of the region, the Anangu have lived in the shadow of Uluru for thousands of years and many of the local people will, with the help of an interpreter fluent in the local Pitjantjatjara language, conduct guided walks of some of the sites which were of particular importance to their culture. The guides will also tell snippets of the local creation stories, which refer to specific formations and areas along the base of Uluru and an ancient race of people known as the Mala who inhabited the area at the beginning of time. While the climbing of Uluru is discouraged the nearby Valley of the Winds walk at Kata Tjuta is a wonderful alternative. A number of lookouts on the 7km walking track provide beautiful views of the mind-boggling sandstone domes that erupt out of the red desert floor. HR

The Red Centre’s shining star: Uluru

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gem Mining, Queensland Queensland’s gem mining history stretches back to the 1880s and, despite some slumps, is still an active industry today. There are different ways that you can enjoy the cultural landscape of a precious gem-mining town, but don’t be surprised if the most authentic way to do so is to pitch a tent, grab a tinny and start digging. On the other hand, you could head on out to Sapphire, about 50km west of Emerald, and check out the fossicking parks. For $10 you can fossick through a bag of sapphire wash, and get a bit of help learning the difference between a gem and a small rock. With your tiny precious gems weighing you down the next logical step is to hit the pub and celebrate your meagre, or monstrous, discoveries. The New Royal Hotel in Rubyvale is a gem miners delight; hot food, XXXX and free advice for would-be fossickers. You can find gem shops in town where you can take a good look at what you could be finding in the ground, and also hear some local gossip about the lucky bugger who stubbed his toe on 2019-carat sapphire. RP

Meet a real-life stockman at the Flinders Ranges

Port Augusta/Flinders Ranges, SA A tourist information centre is like an oasis to most travellers – friendly staff, clean toilets, and free knowledge of the region. The Wadlata Outback Centre in Port Augusta is a particularly special tourist info centre thanks to their million dollar upgrade. Home to the “Tunnel of Time”, a walk-through museum that takes you back through Australia’s history. As far back as when dinosaurs roamed the outback, pre-European Aboriginal culture, up to more recent ventures like mining. The museum can be whisked through in 10 minutes, or slowly pondered over a period of several hours. Port Augusta is also the preferred jump off point for Flinders Ranges, where you can tag along on one of huge variety of Aboriginal cultural experience tours. Visit unique painting sites dated at 35,000 years old, learn to make Aboriginal artefacts like the boomerang, or hear stories around the campfire. Flinders Ranges are open to be explored at your own whim as well, and there are plenty of caves accessible to the public where you can discover Aboriginal art sites for yourself. The region is positively brimming with natural beauty as well, so that’s a bonus. RP

Culture down every alley: Melbourne

Melbourne’s Laneways, VIC Cultural experiences don’t get much more contemporary than those found in Melbourne’s colourful laneways. Adorned with fresh graffiti from local street artists, these laneways snake inside and out through Melbourne, giving visitors a glimpse of an underground scene existing and growing behind every door. You can find a map of the laneways and wander the trail at your own speed, ducking in and out of cafés as and when you need a good hit. The walk should take about an hour and half, passing Federation Square, Majorca Building, Royal Arcade and more. It’s the places in between the landmark sites that should grab your attention though. If you’re concerned that you might miss something, there are a whole host of tours through the laneways that will make sure you see the best on offer. Melbourne’s heartbeat can be most appropriately felt sitting in a laneway, with a flat white, watching a graffiti artist laying down a fresh mural on the wall. RP

Fremantle /Rottnest Island, WA The streets of Fremantle are alive with buskers, musicians, magicians, and visual artists, giving the town a distinctly hippie-vibe. John Butler Trio had their humble beginnings right here on the streets of Freo, so you never know if that busker you tossed a $2 coin at is going to be famous some day. Wander into the Freo markets to gander at over 150 stalls displaying goods ranging from farm fresh food to boomerangs. Other than souvenirs you can grab yourself a bite to eat from a variety of international cuisine stalls, or just fill up on taste testers. From Fremantle you can also jump on the ferry over to the popular holiday island of Rottnest (Rotto to the locals). Between visits to the many gorgeous beaches you should take the tram up to Olivers Hill and see the massive battery gun installed to defend the coast during WWII. The thing to do in Rotto is to hire a bike and enjoy cruising across the 11km island on car free roads. Make sure you look out for the resident quokkas, described as “a kind of rat as big as a common cat.” Photos with koalas are boring, cosy up to a quokka for a truly unique shot. RP

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Stranger than fiction The Sunshine Coast might sound idyllic but there are some weird and wonderful creatures lurking in the waters, and some interesting characters to be found on the land Words alex harmon

“Off to play dinosaur golf, are you?” enquires the barista at the boarding gate café. Where the hell am I going, I wonder? I’m tired, bewildered and, as of yet, decaffeinated. I’m about to embark on a three day assignment to the Sunshine Coast. I thought the region, which is made up of Caloundra, Mooloolaba, Coolum and Noosa sounded like a peaceful seaside town, the kind you’d find in a film. Porpoise Spit in Muriel’s Wedding, or Amity Island in Jaws (pre-bludgeoned children). But when I mention the town of Coolum, my eager coffee maker is convinced I’m on route for a recreational adventure with creatures of the Jurassic-age. Normally I wouldn’t bite back, but I am intrigued. “Clive Palmer?” suggests the barista. Yes, I say. “He built his very own dinosaur park at his Coolum resort and golf course.” Ah, the fat mining magnate with more money than sense. I check my itinerary. No mention of cruising around in golf buggies chased by T-Rex. I board the plane a little perplexed, but excited for what the south-east Queensland region will throw at me.

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Prehistoric beasts of a different kind My first port of call on the Sunshine Coast is UnderWater World Aquarium in Molloollaba where I am to go tête-àtête with some sharks. No cage, just me in a tank with eight species of sharks, some stingrays and a heavy tank of air on my back for what is sure to be panicked breathing. A lot of things run through your mind when you’re about to swim into a tank full of sharks and rays. You’re thinking about that documentary you watched about victims of shark attacks and how you don’t want to be the next member of Bite Club. For some reason I am also thinking about the trainer at Sea World who was pulled to her death by an angry killer whale, even though there are no whales in sight. And I’m wishing I didn’t eat such a big breakfast at the airport. I wonder... if I vomit into my mouthpiece, where does it go? But then I emerge into the aquarium tank and amazement takes over. The sharks glide past you, so chilled

and cool, like a Cadillac on a summer’s day. You’re in their world but they don’t mind, they just roll on by, look you in the eye and think “yeah whatever”. I look up and a stingray floats above my head, hovering over me like a magic carpet. Then there’s the turtle, seemingly asleep on the ocean floor, looking like a big camouflaged rock. I have to admit, the eight toothy sharks in the tank didn’t scare me, but the 250kg turtle floating towards me like a sloth at a free buffet did a little. If you’ve never been intimate with sharks, or even scuba dived before, then OceanWorld is your big kids’ playground. Within an hour they have you trained in basic diving and pumped with equal measures of fear and excitement. While you’re down there playing with the “Labradors of the sea”, as the guys call them, there is so much else to look at: the fish, the coral and, of course, the camera. This will most likely be the one and only time you’re swimming with sharks, and goddamit, you’ll make sure that camera is on you, waving it down with your awkward arm-not-stretched-out-too-much wave. As the pictures prove, my arms are stunted like a T-Rex’s. I look like I’m on the set of one of Clive Palmer’s wet dreams. But that’s not all that the aquarium has to offer. After a year of refurbs, the place is looking rather fancy with Aztec artefacts

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in the tank, tunnels and tunnels of viewing pleasure, things to touch, and the good old fashioned seal show. Although I am the only one sans family in tow, the show is a delight, especially for the star of the show, a one-eyed New Zealand fur seal (sounds like he should be in a Tarantino film) who is trained in Scooby-snacks to perform some pretty sweet aquatic tricks. The term ‘animal husbandry’ has always made me feel a little uneasy but the good folks at the aquarium make you feel right at ease. You almost feel envious of these animals as they twist and turn, proudly performing on stage. The thespians of the sea.

Dizzying new heights After a quick lunch at a nearby bakery, I move onto my next adventure – something that the Sunshine Coast is famous for – kite surfing. The area has produced some world-class kite surfers like the young Andy Yates, and while I’ve only got a couple of hours, Kite Surf Australia, based in Noosa, are going to give me a one-on-one lesson with one of their professional instructors. The charismatic George tells me that he has kite surfed all around the world and Noosa is the best place to do it. Kite surfing combines the aspects of wakeboarding, windsurfing, surfing, paragliding and you could say, gymnastics into one extreme sport. Or, as George tells me, “it’s like surfing without the hassle of paddling. Or snowboarding without the lift pass.” He has taught everyone from backpackers to Richard Branson and reckons anyone, of any age, can do it. The biggest misconception is in thinking that you need a lot of strength in your arms. You don’t – it’s all in the hips. The harness is strapped to your waist and the kite literally drags you along from your centre of gravity. The biggest challenge, in fact, is “driving” the kite. My natural reaction is the turn the ropes like a steering wheel. “It’s not like driving a car,” explains George. “It’s more like riding a bike.” A-ha, now I 48

get it! I tilt my arms left to right, moving the ropes as the kite performs a figure-eight in the sky, slowly dragging me along the soft sand. While I don’t get to take to the water (you need about eight hours of lessons) I do get enough of a taste to know that I one day I can take to the surf without needing arms the size of Tarzan.

The Festival of Surfing The beauty queen of the Sunshine Coast has to be the aesthetically pleasing Noosa. Pulling up in the narrow, boutique-filled streets I can’t help but feel relaxed. Even the backpackers look cleaner here as they roam the streets with their surfboards and cases of beer. I happen to be in town for the annual Festival of Surfing, so the town is buzzing with contestants who have come from as far as California to compete in the amateur surfing competition. It’s not the most serious of competitions, I’m pretty sure extra points are given for effort in crowdpleasing, but the longboarding heats are spectacular as contestants perform tricks on their boards. Moves like the “cockroach,” which involves lying on your back with your feet kicking in the air like a roach in missionary position. The tandem events are Cirque du Solei on surfboards as the men gracefully lift their female partners in the air and the soft, rolling right-handers that Noosa’s main beach pumps out makes for the perfect stage setting. If the aquarium was slapstick theatre, then this is more like an avant-garde stage show.

Barrels of laughs The next day, probably somewhat inspired by the tandemdog surfing skills, I sign up for a lesson with Coolum Surfing School. That’s right, I’m in Coolum, home of one of Australia’s richest idiots, but I’m not playing putt-putt with Plateosaurus. I’ve got 90 minutes with Ben, a surf instructor who used to work in finance but traded it in when the GFC

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hit. Now, instead of crunching numbers he’s shredding waves in the green room. He’s also fluent in surf lingo. Ben teaches me about ‘rails’ and how to perfect a ‘backhander’. It’s not my first surfing lesson, and, probably because of this, I have some bad habits that Ben needs to iron out. He teaches the three-step method of getting up on the board, as opposed for the one ‘jump in the air and hope for the best’ move that I am accustomed to. In the ocean on my soft mini-mal he pushes me onto my first wave and lo-and-behold I am on my feet and carving up a 2ft wave. Well, that is how the surf school makes you feel anyway. With their friendliness and expertise, you feel as though you’re riding unbroken 6ft waves, even if the photos suggest you are ankle deep in white wash. It’s all about the feeling, and that’s what Ben conveys during the 90 minute sesh. Surfing isn’t just a sport, it’s a way of life. It’s about becoming one with the ocean. Ben talks for the whole lesson about how surfing is an ethos that only a true surfer can understand. If it makes you feel nauseous just reading that, then you need to get up to the Sunshine Coast, where animal husbandry is cute, ocean husbandry is sexy and dinosaur golf, well, who really knows what that is. ❚ Damage and details: 90 min surfing lesson with Coolum Surfing School costs $110. coolumsurfschool.com.au. 2.5 hour introduction to kite-surfing with Kite Surf Australia will cost you $250. kitesurfaustralia.com.au. Shark Dive Xtreme at UnderWater World starts at $175 depending on diving experience underwaterworld.com.au. Stay: Halse Lodge, Noosa Heads, beds from $29/night halselodge.com.au

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Van Wegens Continental Bakery, Mooloolaba: Beef bourguignon pie, $5.50. It’s more like a meal than a pie with chunks of beef, vegetables and a tasty gravy but lacks a little a certain ‘joie de vivre’. Tries too hard. 2/5 Dough Fusion, Coolum: Caramilsed onion and steak pie, $4.90. Very nice balance of sweetness in the onion and spice in the peppery steak filling. Overlooking the beach, it makes a great post-surf breakfast. 4/5 Mt Coolum Hot Bread, Coolum: Curry pie, $4. Soft and oozing with flavour. Be careful not to blow-out your filling into the bag, but if you do, suck it up anyway. Best pie I’ve had in years. Located in a remote shopping centre with Mt Coolum looking over you. Eat it in the carpark in the air-conditioned comfort of your car. 5/5

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Outside the box This is the Mornington Peninsula in 72 hours Words Alex harmon

DAY 1: When you've had enough of the hipsters in Melbourne, get day trippin'! You've got plenty of options, and while the Great Ocean Road may be calling your name, you'd be mad to bypass the Mornington Peninsula. And it's only an hour out of the hustle and bustle of the city. The boot-shaped peninsula is nestled between Port Phillip Bay to the west, Western Port to the east and Bass Strait to the south, giving it the best of all worlds. Rugged coastline and surf on one side, and beautiful, peaceful bays on the other. 8:00: Pick up your wheels in Melbourne and hit the road. After a brief cruise along the highway you'll arrive in Mornington where you can check out some of the 1,300 bathing boxes and boatsheds that are dotted along the coast. You've probably seen these colourful bathing boxes (for ensuring public decorum in the1800s) on postcards, but now you can take photos for yourself. While you smile to yourself about the social modesty of the 19th century. 10:00: You have probably experienced the historic trams in Melbourne's CBD (the oldest in the world) but now you can check out the Mornington Railway (morningtonrailway. org.au) and ride one of the steam or diesel heritage broadgauge locomotives and heritage passenger cars. If you're lucky you might be able to check out some live jazz on the platform. 12:00: Off the rails and on the road again, head to Tree Surfing (treesurfing.com.au) for a surfing adventure of a different kind. This high-ropes course will offer you sweeping

views of the valley and an adrenalin fix as you traverse the 50 aerial obstacles. Test your skill on rope bridges, strength challenges and fly like a bird on the zip-lines. 15:00: Slow the mood and unwind with a late and boozy lunch at Cups Estate Winery (thecupsestate.com.au). Here you can sit overlooking the beautiful vineyards with an antipasto plate and a bottle of award-winning wine. Or try them all on one of their free wine-tastings. Spend your afternoon basking in the gloriousness of this estate. 18:00: Hopefully you've got a designated driver to make your way to Sorrento YHA (3.yha.com.au). This hostel has a great BBQ area and deck for rounding the night off with fellow travellers. Or take a stroll down to the beach and have a Tina Arena moment (ask the staff to play Sweet Sorrento Moon if you're unfamiliar). DAY 2: 8:00: Get up early and work that wine-hangover off with the latest craze â&#x20AC;&#x201C; stand-up paddleboarding. Peninsula Stand Up Paddle (psups.com.au) provides SUP lessons at a variety of locations. People of all levels can partake, they'll even give you a lesson if you've never set foot on a board. 12:00: Pack up a picnic and head to Portsea Beach. It's probably the peninsula's most famous beach, and a regular part of the Ironman contests. It also has a dark history as it was the last site Prime Minister Harold Holt was seen before he (allegedly) drowned in 1967. Be careful of those rips. 14:00: If you really want to lose yourself in the Peninsula, head to Ashcombe Maze (ashcombemaze.com.au) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it

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is Australia's oldest hedge maze which stands over three metres high and two metres thick. It's harder than it sounds to traverse around so take someone who isn't directionally challenged (or claustrophobic) with you. While you're there you can also check out the beautiful lavender labyrinth. DAY 3: 9:00: There's no better way to start the day than with a trip to the Peninsula Hot Springs (peninsulahotsprings.com). The all natural thermal mineral hot springs cater to people of all budgets, $30 gets you a dip in all 25 pools, access to the sauna and also the Turkish steam rooms. Make sure you immerse yourself in the pool on top of the hill, for a truly serene experience. If you're feeling really indulgent, there are also spa treatments and massages by exceptionally trained staff and private pools for you couples out there who need some 'alone time'. 12:00: After a kinky shared bath experience, it's only fitting that you lunch at Fish Fetish, Sorrento's finest fish and chip joint. The burgers are the best in town, so don't be surprised if there's a long line out the door. Well worth the wait. 15:00: After lunch make your way to the Cape Schanck Lighthouse (it's what Freud would have wanted). The lighthouse has been sitting at the top of the cliff overlooking Bass Strait since 1859. This working lighthouse keeps the shipping lanes safe for boats of all types as they pass the Mornington Peninsula to and from Melbourne. Check out the views of the rugged coast and soak up your final hours of R&R in the Peninsula. Bliss.

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Growing up in what people refer to as a small sleepy town calls for frequent road trips, from Adelaide to the ‘bigger smoke’ of Melbourne. Rather than trekking through the flat desolate outback, heading towards The Great Ocean Road offers a more lengthy and more beautiful hike between the two cities. The 243 kilometre scenic stretch is also all too easily accessible from Melbourne, running between Victoria’s Torquay and Warrnambool, with an easy fast-track back through Mortlake or Colac. On my first Great Ocean Road encounter, my roadie companion and I took to the rugged south-eastern coast with no real idea of what we were in for. People speak of the Twelve Apostles and London Arch, but until you are in the presence of the magnificent limestone formations, you don’t fully appreciate the remarkable process of erosion. The harsh southern ocean weather conditions generate rough seas that batter the rocks, leaving behind these magnificent natural works of art. The Great Ocean Road is not only Australian Heritage Listed, it is one of the worlds most scenic drives. It will see you pass through various charming towns, including the fishing village of Apollo Bay and Victorian-era Queenscliff, and travel on outlandish freestanding sections of road, built metres from the cliff’s edge. We grabbed an ice cream in each little village and strolled the streets marvelling the serenity, before deciding to make a lengthy stop at beautiful Lorne, where the alfresco dining strip imitates a Mediterranean-style playground for the wealthy. Stopping at famous surf beach ‘Bells’ where Patrick Swayze took his life in the 90’s film Point Break was a unanimous decision, and timing your trip well may see witnessing a world-class surf comp. Just off the beaten track are some spectacular National Parks riddled with rainforest and waterfalls and well worth the detour. Finishing off in Torquay, many would opt for a few nights stay to relish in the sun and sand, alas, we were straight back on the road to hit up the Melbourne nightlife.

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Pick a paradise Whether you want a wild night raving on the sands, beach sports galore or just a swaying hammock, head to Thailand’s islands Words helen Elfer

Many backpackers associate Thailand primarily with mountains of piping hot pad Thai, ridiculously cheap Chang beer and the odd ping-pong show – and, well, they’re not far wrong. But after a few nights in the chaos of Bangkok there are an infinite number of ways to spend the rest of your time in Thailand, namely by heading to one of the many idyllic islands dotted around the coast. Here you’ll find everything from specialist diving sites, golden Buddhas, extreme beach sports, snorkeling and secluded beaches to spots to swim with sharks. Oh, and naturally, plenty more places to party very, very hard indeed. So sling your flip flops into your bag and head to one of these perfect island paradises. You can hop between them, stay for a month on your favourite or just arrive and see how you feel once you’re there with hot sand underneath your toes – you might decide to never leave ... The Similan Islands BEST FOR: Diving Practically every list of the world’s top diving locations rates the Similan Islands near the top, and that’s because they have some of the most jaw-dropping underwater sights. The archipelago of nine islands is a National Marine Park with calm, clear waters (up to 30m visibility) that are just ideal for underwater explorations. The west coast is famous for its huge granite boulders that peek above the water’s surface and drop up to 50m underwater, creating tunnels and swim-throughs for divers to investigate. Keep an eye out for the clown triggerfish and the whitetip reef sharks here, along with rare oriental sweetlips and harlequin sweetlips (both psychedelic-looking creatures). On the east coast of the island there are lush coral gardens with sea anemones and a wide variety of reef fish, and if you’re lucky you might catch a glimpse of ghost pipefish, sea moths, frogfish and ribbon eels. Of the many famous dive sites here, Elephant Head, East of Eden and Christmas Point are three of the most popular. WHAT ELSE? The best beach in Thailand is, naturally, hotly disputed, but many agree that Donald Duck Bay on Koh Similan, the most developed of the nine islands, is a strong contender. It’s so named because you can see a huge boulder

out to sea that is bizarrely shaped a lot like the cartoon character. If you want a few hours’ break from diving, this is a great place to lay down your towel and enjoy the scenery. MORE: kohsimilan.net Koh Pha Ngan BEST FOR: Full moon parties Haad Rin, the beach on the far south of Koh Pha Ngan, is notorious for having the wildest, most debauched full moon parties in Thailand. Long-standing traditions for a night out here include tripping out on magic mushroom shakes (not that we’d recommend it), drinking buckets (yes, actual buckets) of Sang Som rum with Thailand’s lethal Red Bull, painting faces with fluorescent squiggles, jumping through burning skipping ropes and watching fire poi … in no particular order, but always followed by a rave on the beach that lasts until the sun comes up. WHAT ELSE? If you’re feeling a little toxic after a few days of partying here, give the boozing a break and make the most of all the sports. There are two Muay Thai boxing schools on the island where you can sign up for lessons (kobramuaythai. com) or you can join in games of beach football, table tennis or volleyball at sundown on most of the bigger beaches. MORE: kohphangan.com Koh Tarutao BEST FOR: Wildlife Once upon a time, the Thai government used to send its crooks to the island of Tarutao – to look at it now, this seems like the last thing that would put anyone off a life of crime. The island is full of dense forest that’s teeming with wildlife: on the land and in the surrounding waters you can see sea turtles, whales, monitor lizards, crab-eating macaques, mouse deer and countless species of birds. Some of the island is signposted in English, making it easy to follow wildlife trails, either on foot or by mountain bike (it’s easy to hire these on the island). Just be sure to ask the island’s rangers before planning a lengthy trek, as parts of the island are more difficult to navigate than others. WHAT ELSE? There is plenty of budget guesthouse

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Peace: scuba-diving the Similan Islands

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accommodation on Tarutao, but it’s also very popular with campers, because while there are decent facilities, it rarely gets too crowded. It only costs 65p per night to camp if you have you own tent and other roughing it equipment. MORE: kotarutaothailand.com

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BEST FOR: Swimming with sharks Ko Phi Phi is probably best known for a combo of diving and partying, but the most exciting activity on the island is The Adventure Club’s Shark Watch tour (phi-phi-adventures.com). This is an early-morning, three-hour trip on which you’re guaranteed to get to swim with black tip reef sharks. You’re taken out on a long-tail boat to an area of shallows where the sharks like to swim, then you’re given the opportunity to do some snorkeling and swimming in the water with them. The company is known for being environmentally conscious and promoting sustainable tourism. Plus, they’re so confident that the sharks will be there that if you don’t see any you get a full refund. WHAT ELSE? Toughen up those muscles by scaling the limestone cliffs at one of Ko Phi Phi’s top rock climbing spots, such as Hin Taak Climbing Area or Ton Sai Tower. MORE: phi-phi.com

BEST FOR: Watersports This island isn’t for everyone, particularly not if what you’re after is an unspoilt, serenely beautiful corner of the world to relax in. But if you don’t mind your tropical paradises filled with blaring night clubs, crowds of tourists, international fast food chains and a bit of a seedy underbelly, then there is actually plenty of fun to be had on Samui – especially in the form of watersports. Since the island is so developed this is the place to get stuck into activities, as there are heaps of established facilities. There’s sailing, snorkeling, kayaking and kiteboarding for starters, as well as a few more extreme options – ever fancied a go on a Jetlev-Flyer? This uses powerful jets of water to blast you into the air, Iron Man-style. Book yourself a session with Wateredge Sports (wateredgesports.com). WHAT ELSE? Always wanted to tick ‘bungee jump’ off your 56

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Koh Kood BEST FOR: Deserted beaches Well there certainly aren’t many of these left in Thailand, but there is one sandy spot left that you could genuinely call secluded. Koh Kood is an absolute pain to get to (from Bangkok it’s a flight to Trat airport, then an hour’s boat ride from the mainland), which puts off lots of tourists but explains its serenity. But once you get there ... no landlines, virtually no internet access or electricity, just clean white sands, the odd hammock tied to a palm tree and plenty of blue waters if you fancy a dip. Aow Pharo, Bang Bao and Siam Beach are some of the most pristine stretches, perfect for a lazy day sunbathing, while Tapao Beach is also known for being a top swimming and snorkeling spot. WHAT ELSE: If you can be bothered to climb out of your hammock, Koh Kood island has lots of pretty waterfalls to visit. Klong Chao Waterfall is a top spot for splashing about and has the royal seal of approval, as it was once visited by Thailand’s King Mongkut in the 1850s. MORE: kohkood.com Koh Sirey BEST FOR: Temples It wouldn’t be right to visit Thailand without checking out at least some of the country’s fabulous monuments to 58

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VICLISTINGS Habitat HQ 333 St Kilda Rd, thehabitathq.com.au

ngv.vic.gov.au Old Melbourne Gaol 377 Russell St. 03 8663 7228, oldmelbournegaol.com.au

Oslo Hotel 38 Grey St oslohotel.com.au The Ritz for Backpackers 109 Barkly St stkildabeachhouse.com.au St Kilda Beach House 169B Fitzroy St ritzbackpackers.com

Official Neighbours Tours 570 Flinders St. 03 9629 5866, neighbourstour.com.au Skydive the Beach Melbourne 1300 798 843 skydivethebeachmelbourne.com

melbourne do Australian Centre for the Moving Image Federation Square. 03 8663 2200, acmi.net.au Melbourne Aquarium Cnr of Flinders St & King St. 03 9923 5999, melbourneaquarium.com.au Melbourne Cricket Ground Brunton Av. 03 9657 8888 mcg.org.au Melbourne Museum 11 Nicholson St, Carlton. 13 11 02 melbourne.museum.vic.gov.au National Gallery of Victoria Federation Square.

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Port Campbell Hostel 18 Tregea St, Port Campbell. 03 5598 6305, portcampbellhostel.com.au Surfside Backpackers Cnr Great Ocean Rd & Gambier St, Apollo Bay. 1800 357 263, surfsidebackpacker.com

mornington Bayplay Lodge 46 Canterbury Jetty Rd, Blairgowrie. 03 5988 0188, bayplay.com.au

Wildlife Tours Australia Specialising in Victorian tours +61 3 9314 2225 wildlifetours.com.au

Sorrento Foreshore Reserve Nepean Hwy. 1800 850 600, mornpen.vic.gov.au

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croajingolong national park If you’re desperate to escape the bright lights and explore some real wilderness without having to travel too far, then you’d struggle to beat this national park. Just a half-day drive (about 430km) from the city, Croajingolong is one of only 12 Unesco World Biosphere Reserves in Australia. It also has a couple of designated “wilderness areas”, which mean no vehicles are allowed in, just walkers. Make sure to try and spot a giant goanna, surprisingly at Goanna Bay, and find your own deserted beach along the park’s 100km of coastline. If you’re there at Easter, visit Mallacoota for its music festival.

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Port Elliot Beach House YHA 13 The Strand, Port Elliot. 08 8554 2785 yha.com.au

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Hostel 109 109 Carrington St. 1800 099 318, hostel109.com

Haigh’s Chocolates Factory tours. 153 Greenhill Rd, Parkside 1800 819 757, haighschocolates.com.au

My Place 257 Waymouth St. 1800 221 529, adelaidehostel.com.au Shakespeare Hostel 123 Waymouth St. 1800 556 889, shakeys.com.au

adelaide do Adelaide Oval Home to the Donald Bradman collection. War Memorial Drive. 08 8300 3800 cricketsa.com.au

Calypso Star Charters Great white shark cage diving. 08 8682 3939, sharkcagediving.com.au

144 Wakefield St, Adelaide. Beds from $26 A modern, clean and comfortable hostel with great ratings on Hostel World and located right in the heart of beautiful Adelaide.

Temptation Sailing Dolphin swimming, Glenelg. 04 1281 1838 dolphinboat.com.au

barossa val Barossa Backpackers 9 Basedow Road Tanunda. 08 8563 0198, barossabackpackers.com.au

coober pedy Opal Cave Coober Pedy Hutchinson St. 08 8672 5028, opalcavecooberpedy.com.au

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Radeka Down Under 1 Oliver St. 1800 633 891, radekadownunder.com.au

Berri Backpackers Sturt Highway, Berri. 08 8582 3144, berribackpackers.com.au

Riba’s Underground 1811 William Creek Rd. 08 8672 5614, camp-underground.com.au

Harvest Trail Lodge Loxton. 08 8584 5646, harvesttrail.com.au

kangaroo is Kangaroo Island YHA 33 Middle Terrace, Penneshaw. 08 8553 1344 yha.com.au Vivonne Bay Lodge

Nullarbor Traveller Tours across to Perth. 1800 816 858 the-traveller.com.au Port Lincoln Tourist Park 11 Hindmarsh St. 08 8621 4444, portlincolntouristpark.com.au Rodney Fox Shark Expeditions Great white shark cage diving. 08 8363 1788 rodneyfox.com.au

flinders ranges Angorichina Tourist Village 08 8648 4842, angorichinavillage.com.au

Nomads on Murray Sturt Highway, Kingston on Murray. 1800 665 166, nomadsworld.com Riverland Backpackers Labour Hire Services 08 8583 0211

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Britannia on William 253 William St, Northbridge. 08 9227 6000, perthbrittania.com

The Witch’s Hat 148 Palmerston St. 08 9228 4228, Witchs-hat.com

Emperor’s Crown 85 Stirling St, Northbridge. 1800 991 553, emperorscrown.com.au Globe Backpackers & City Oasis Resort 561 Wellington St. 08 9321 4080, globebackpackers.com.au Ocean Beach Backpackers 1 Eric St, Cottlesloe. 08 9384 5111, oceanbeachbackpackers.com.au One World Backpackers 162 Aberdeen St, Northbridge. 1800 188 100, oneworldbackpackers.com.au Perth City YHA 300 Wellington St. 08 9287 3333, yha.com.au The Old Swan Barracks 6 Francis St.

Underground Backpackers 268 Newcastle St, Northbridge. 08 9228 3755, undergroundbackpackers.com.au

Western Beach Lodge 6 Westborough St, Perth. Dorms from $32 Located walking distance from Scarborough Beach, shops, restaurants and nightlife, is the Western Beach Lodge. Clean, secure and friendly.

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Backpack City and Surf 41-43 Money St backpacker.com.au

Perth Beach YHA & Indigo Net Cafe 256 West Coast Hwy, Scarbrough indigonet.com.au

Beatty Lodge 235 Vincent St beattylodge.com.au

Planet Inn Backpackers 496 Newcastle St planetinn.com.au

Cheviot Lodge 30 Bulwer St cheviotlodge.com

The Shiralee Hostel 107 Brisbane St, Northbridge planetinn.com.au

Coolibah Lodge 194 Brisbane St coolibahlodge.com.au

Underground Backpackers 268 Newcastle St, shiralee.com.au

Easy Perth Backpackers 4 Francis Street, Northbridge easyperthbackpackers.com.au

Wickham Retreat Backpackers 25-27 Wickham St East Perth (08) 9325 6398

Grand Central Hotel Backpackers 379 Wellington St (08) 9421 1123

YMCA Jewell House 180 Goderich St ymcajewellhouse.com.au

Hay Street Backpackers 266-268 Hay St haystbackpackers.com

1201 East Backpackers 195 Hay St 1201east.com.au

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kalbarri national park If you’re fond of a spot of bushwalking, but don’t want to rule out a quick escape to the beach, then Kalbarri is the place for you. This rugged coastal park covers a massive 1,000 sq km and is packed with both wildlife and wild flowers. It’s centred around a dramatic gorge through which the Murchison River winds, presenting plenty of opportunities for spectacular lookouts, such as Nature’s Window (pictured). There’s even the chance to feed some pelicans. Just make sure you avoid the school holidays. You’ll find it about 600km north of Perth.

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WALISTINGS perth do Aquarium of Western Australia 91 Southside Drive, Hillarys. 08 9447 7500, aqwa.com.au

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Surfpoint 12 Riedle Drive Prevally 08 9757 1777 surfpoint.com.au

Kings Park & Botanic Garden bgpa.wa.gov.au

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Perth Mint 310 Hay St. 08 9421 7223, perthmint.com.au Perth Zoo 20 Labouchere Road, South Perth. 08 9474 3551, perthzoo.wa.gov.au

perth music Amplifier amplifiercapitol.com.au Astor liveattheastor.com.au Mojoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar mojosbar.com.au

Pirates Backpackers 11 Essex Street, Fremantle. Dorms from $24.

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Backpackers Inn Freo 11 Pakenham St. 08 9431 7065, backpackersinnfreo.com.au Old Firestation Backpackers 18 Phillimore St. 08 9430 5454, fremantleprison.com.au Sundancer Backpackers Resort 80 High St. 08 9336 6080, sundancerbackpackers.com.au

The Bakery nowbaking.com.au The Rosemount Hotel rosemounthotel.com.au

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freo do Fremantle Markets Henderson Street Fremantle 08 9335 2515, fremantlemarkets.com.au

Fremantle Prison 1 The Terrace. 08 9336 9200, backpackersinnfreo.com.au

rottnest isl Rottnest Island YHA Kingstown Barracks. 08 9372 9780, yha.com.au Rottnest Express 1 Emma Place North Fremantle 1300 Go Rotto rottnestexpress.com.au

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Albany Bayview Backpackers YHA 49 Duke St 08 9842 3388, yha.com.au

Cable Beach Backpackers 12 Sanctuary Road. 1800 655 011, cablebeachbackpackers.com

Cruize-Inn 122 Middleton Rd. 08 9842 9599, cruizeinn.com

Kimberley Club 62 Fredrick St 08 9192 3233, kimberleyklub.com

monkey mia Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort Monkey Mia Road Monkey Mia 1800 653 611, monkeymia.com.au

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Blue Reef Backpackers 3 Truscott Crescent, Exmouth 1800 621 101, aspenparks.com.au

Margaret River Lodge YHA 220 Railway Tce. 08 9757 9532,

Ningaloo Club Coral Bay 08 9948 5100,

CORAL BAY Ningaloo Club Robinson St ningalooclub.com

ESPERANCE Blue Waters Lodge YHA 299 Goldfields Rd, yha.com.au

EXMOUTH Peteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Exmouth Backpackers YHA Cnr Truscott Cres & Murat Rd yha.com.au

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darwin stay Banyan View Lodge Darwin 119 Mitchell St. 08 8981 8644, banyanviewlodge.com.au

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BIG4 Katherine Holiday Park 20 Shadforth Road. 1800 501 984, big4.com.au

Darwin YHA 97 Mitchell St. 08 8981 5385, yha.com.au

Airborne Solutions Scenic helicopter flights. 08 8972 2345 airbornesolutions.com.au

Gecko Lodge 146 Mitchell St. 1800 811 250, geckolodge.com.au

Youth Shack 69 Mitchell St. 1300 793 302, youthshack.com.au

darwin do Crocosaurus Cove Crocodile park and cage of death. 58 Mitchell St. 08 8981 7522, crocosauruscove.com Deckchair Cinema Jervois Rd, Darwin Waterfront. 08 8981 0700, deckchaircinema.com.au

alice do Alice Springs Desert Park Larapinta Drive. 08 8951 8788, alicespringsdesertpark.com.au

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Frogshollow Backpackers 27 Lindsay St. 1800 068 686, frogs-hollow.com.au

Melaleuca on Mitchell 52 Mitchell St. 1300 723 437, momdarwin.com

Toddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resort 41 Gap Rd. 1800 027 027, toddys.com.au

Palm Court Kookaburra Backpackers Giles St. 1800 626 722

Elkes Backpackers 112 Mitchell St. 1800 808 365, elkesbackpackers.com.au

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Fannie Bay Gaol Heritage prison. East Point Road, Fannie Bay. 08 8941 2260, nt.gov.au Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 19 Conacher St, Bullocky Point. 08 8999 8264, magnt.nt.gov.au

Oz Jet Boating Stokes Hill Wharf. 1300 135 595, ozjetboating.com.au Spectacular Jumping Crocodile Cruise Adelaide River. 08 8978 9077, jumpingcrocodile.com.au Wave Lagoon Waterfront Precinct. waterfront.nt.gov.au

Alice Springs Reptile Centre Meet and hold lizards. 9 Stuart Terrace. 08 8952 8900, reptilecentre.com.au

Nitmiluk Tours Gorge cruises and kayak hire. 1300 146 743 nitmiluktours.com.au

tennant creek Tourist Rest Leichardt St. 08 8962 2719, touristrest.com.au

Outback Ballooning Hot air balloon rides. 1800 809 790, outbackballooning.com.au Royal Flying Doctor Service Base Museum and operations room. Stuart Terrace. 08 8952 1129, flyingdoctor.net

alice springs Alice Lodge 4 Mueller St. 08 8953 1975, alicelodge.com.au Alice Springs YHA Cnr Parsons St & Leichhardt Tce. 08 8952 8855, yha.com.au Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place 4 Traeger Ave. 1800 359 089, anniesplace.com.au

Haven Resort 3 Larapinta Drive. 1800 794 663, alicehaven.com.au

School of the Air Long-distance schooling museum. 80 Head St. 08 8951 6834, assoa.nt.edu.au The Rock Tour Uluru tours. 78 Todd St. 1800 246 345, therocktour.com.au

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EDITH FALLS Nestled amongst sandstone escarpments and eucalypt wooodland, these often missed waterfalls, also known as Leliyn Falls, are part of the Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge) National Park. Sometimes inaccessible during the wet season (October to April), the impressive falls drop to a forest-encircled lower pool, which makes a great spot for a cooling swim. Keep your eyes peeled for some of the local protected animals, such as the black wallaroo. There is a campsite nearby. The falls are a 20km drive from the Stuart Highway. The more adventurous can try the three-day hike from Katherine Gorge.

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TASLISTINGS hobart stay Central City Backpackers 138 Collins St. 1800 811 507, centralbackpackers.com.au

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Cataract Gorge launcestoncataractgorge.com.au Centre for Beer Lovers Boag’s Brewery, 39 William St. 03 6332 6300, boags.com.au

Hobart Hostel 41 Barrack St. 1300 252 192, hobarthostel.com Montgomery’s YHA 9 Argyle St. 03 6231 2660, yha.com.au

Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery 2 Invermay Rd & 2 Wellington St. 03 6323 3777, qvmag.tas.gov.au

Narrara Backpackers 88 Goulburn St. 03 6234 8801, narrarabackpackers.com

Tasmania Zoo 1166 Ecclestone Rd. 03 6396 6100, tasmaniazoo.com.au

Pickled Frog 281 Liverpool St. 03 6234 7977, thepickledfrog.com

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Transit Backpackers 251 Liverpool St. 03 6231 2400, transitbackpackers.com

Transit backpackers 251 Liverpool St, Hobart. Dorms from $19 This hostel provides twin, double and a full range of share rooms, large guest lounge, games area and kitchen amenities.

hobart do Cascade Brewery 140 Cascade Rd. 03 6224 1117 cascadebreweryco.com.au Mt Wellington Descent Bike tours. 03 6274 1880 mtwellingtondescent.com.au

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port arthur Port Arthur Historic Ghost Tours 1800 659 101, portarthur.org.au

Salamanca Markets Every Saturday, Salamanca Place. salamanca.com.au Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery 5 Argyle St. tmag.com.au

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launceston Arthouse Backpacker Hostel 20 Lindsay St. 1800 041 135, arthousehostel.com.au

Launceston Backpackers 103 Canning St. 03 6334 2327, launcestonbackpackers.com.au Lloyds Hotel 23 George St. 03 6331 9906, backpackersaccommodation.com.au

Tasman Backpackers 114 Tasman St. 03 6423 2335, tasmanbackpackers.com.au

bicheno Bicheno Backpackers 11 Morrison St. 03 6375 1651, bichenobackpackers.com Bicheno Penguin Tours 03 6375 1333, bichenopenguintours.com.au

cradle mtn Discovery Holiday Parks Cradle Mountain Rd. 1800 068 574 discoveryholidayparks.com.au

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Mt Roland Budget Backpacker Rooms 1447 Claude Rd, Gowrie Park. 03 6491 1385

cradle do Devils at Cradle Tassie devil sanctuary. 3950 Cradle Mountain Rd. 03 6492 1491. devilsatcradle.com Overland Track Six-day walk parks.tas.gov.au

freycinet Iluka Backpackers YHA Reserve Rd. 03 6257 0115, yha.com.au Freycinet National Park Brewery, Wineglass Bay camping. 03 6256 7000 wineglassbay.com

strahan, Strahan YHA 43 Harvey St. 03 6471 7255, yha.com

strahan do Four Wheelers Henty Sand Dunes quadbike tours. 04 1950 8175 4wheelers.com.au Water by Nature Extreme multiday whitewater rafting. 1800 111 142, franklinrivertasmania.com

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Ship Stern Bluff The fabled monster wave of Tasmania is found off the Tasman Peninsula between Cape Raoul and Tunnel Bay. Even if you have no intention of getting in the water you should make a point of witnessing the behemoth. Weather conditions have to be just right for the wave to even appear so if your visit coincides with this bi-monthly event, don’t miss it. Asking the locals in the area is the best way to find it, not only that, but they’ll also tell you if the conditions are even right. It’s a four-hour hike there and back, so make sure you pack a lunch. The wave itself is not recommended for beginner or even intermediate surfers, so don’t even think about getting in the water unless you know what you’re doing, as you’re likely to hurt yourself and possibly others.

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huka falls The Huka Falls are said to be more of a huge swarm of rapids as opposed to a waterfall, but regardless, they are still an absolutely unmissable natural attraction in NZ. Huka comes from the word foam, and you’ll be seeing a lot of it as 220,000 litres/second pour off the volcanic cliff face and under the pedestrian bridge. Located in Wairakei Park, there are riverside walks and trails to take to reach this impressive sight, or it is a short 5min drive from Lake Taupo. If adrenaline interests you, check out the Eruptor cruise that can reach up to 95km/ph down the river. You’ll also go through Lake Taupos Bays and to spots covered in Maori Carvings.

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NZLISTINGS auckland Airport Skyway Lodge Backpackers (BBH) 30 Kirkbride Road, Mangere. +64 9275 4443, skywaylodge.co.nz Auckland International The Fat Camel (Nomads) 38 Fort St. +64 9307 0181, nomadshostels.com Nomads Auckland 16-20 Fort St. +64 9300 9999, nomadshostels.com

stayatbase.com Downtown Wellington Backpackers (BBH) 1 Bunny St. +64 4473 8482 db@downtownbackpackers.co.nz Lodge in the City (VIP) 152 Taranaki St. +64 4385 8560 lodgeinthecity.co.nz Nomads Capital 118 Wakefield St. 0508 666 237, nomadscapital.com

Oaklands Lodge (BBH) St. +64 5A Oaklands Rd, Mt Eden. +64 9638 6545, oaklands.co.nz

Rosemere Backpackers (BBH) 6 McDonald Cres. +64 4384 3041, backpackerswellington.co.nz

Queen Street Backpackers (VIP) 4 Fort St. +64 9373 3471, enquiries@qsb.co.nz

Rowena’s Backpackers (VIP) 115 Brougham St. 0800 80 1414

Surf ‘n’ Snow Backpackers 102 Albert St. +64 9363 8889, surfandsnow.co.nz

YHA Wellington City 292 Wakefield St. +64 4801 7280

YHA Auckland City Cnr City Rd & Liverpool St. yha.co.nz +64 9309 2802, YHA Auckland International 5 Turner St. +64 9302 8200, yha.co.nz

christchurch Chester Street Backpackers (BBH) 148 Chester St East. +64 3377 1897, chesterst.co.nz

Foley Towers (BBH) wellington 208 Kilmore St. TNT-OZ-halfpage-Oct11.pdf 6/10/2011 +6413366 9720, 8:36:04 p.m. Base Wellington 21-23 backpack.co.nz/foley Cambridge Tce. +64 4801 5666

follow us on Jailhouse Accommodation (BBH) 338 Lincoln Rd. 0800 524 546, stay@kiwibasecamp.com The Old Countryhouse (BBH) 437 Gloucester St. +64 3381 5504, oldcountryhousenz.com Tranquil Lodge (BBH) 440 Manchester St. +64 3366 6500, tranquil-lodge.co.nz Rucksacker Backpacker Hostel (BBH) 70 Bealey Ave. +64 3377 7931, rucksacker.com

queenstown Base Discovery Lodge Queenstown 49 Shotover St. +64 3441 1185, stayatbase.com Bungi Backpackers (VIP, BBH) 15 Sydney St. 0800 728 286, bungibackpackers.co.nz Cardrona Alpine Resort Between Queenstown and Wanaka. +64 3443 7341, cardrona.com Flaming Kiwi Backpackers (BBH) 39 Robins Rd. +64 3442 5494, flamingkiwi@xtra.co.nz Hippo Lodge (BBH)

4 Anderson Hts. +64 3442 5785, hippolodge.co.nz Nomads Queenstown 5-11 Church St. +64 3441 3922, nomadshostels.com Peterpans Adventure Travel 27 Shotover St Queenstown. peterpans.com.au Pinewood Lodge (VIP) 48 Hamilton Rd. 0800 7463 9663, rgrieg@xtra.co.nz Southern Laughter (BBH, VIP) 4 Isle St. 0800 728 448, southernlaughter.co.nz YHA Queenstown Central 48A Shotover Street. +64 3442 7400, yha.co.nz YHA Queenstown Lakefront 88- 90 Lake Esplanade. +64 3442 8413 yha.co.nz bus tours

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rental firms Ace Rental Cars 1800 140 026, acerentalcars.com.nz Backpacker Campervan & Car Rentals +800 200 80 801, backpackercampervans.com Bargain Rental Cars 0800 001 122, bargainrentals.com.nz Darn Cheap Rentals 0800 447 363, exploremore.co.nz Econo Campers +64 9275 9919, econocampers.co.nz Escape Rentals 1800 456 272 escaperentals.co.nz Explore More 1800 800 327 dcrentals.com.nz Jucy Rentals 0800 399 736, jucy.com.nz Rent-A-Dent 0800 736 823, rentadent.co.nz

Kiwi Experience +64 9366 9830 kiwiexperience.com

Rental Car Village +64 9376 9935, hire-vehicles.co.nz

Magic Travellers Network +64 9358 5600, magicbus.co.nz

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Happy campers Escape your dreary 9-5 and spend your days tearing around the great outdoors at a summer camp in Canada Words caroline garnar

So you’ve probably been here for a while and grown accustomed to the laidback lifestyle. Chances are, you aren’t ready to go home just yet and face the real world. So why not escape on a holiday that you get paid to take and adds to your CV, too? Summer camps are a great option, giving you the chance to travel, get active outdoors, and earn money for the privilege. But we’re not just talking about the usual Camp America. TNT checks out their friendly neighbours for something a little different... Why Canada? As well as being seriously stunning, the Canadian landscape is a giant playground for adventure-seekers, with activities such as horseriding, canoeing, climbing and trekking on offer. “Canada has a huge amount of untouched wilderness that you get to explore,” says Jonathan Nyquist, founder of NYQuest, which helps place applicants in 55 camps across North America. “Our participants get a chance to travel before and/or after their work experience and there is no shortage of amazing places to visit.”

What are the camps like? It depends what experience you want: NYQuest matches your needs and preferences with the camps it has on its books, so it’s worth filling out your application form with the camp you want in mind. Some examples are Camp Summit in British Columbia, which is the rock climbing capital of Canada; you can sleep in tipis at YMCA Camp Chief Hector in Alberta; Camp Timberlane in Ontario has tennis, hockey and baseball, and Camp White Pine has drama and a ‘School of Rock’. Or, for a really rewarding experience, there are camps such as the Tim Horton Children’s Ranch in Alberta. Belinda Brand, an Australian who spent three months in the latter camp, tells us: “There is now a time in my life that I refer to as ‘BC’ – before camp. Before camp, I had never been to Canada. Before camp, I’d never interacted with children who essentially have nothing, and I’d never been able to be an agent for change in those same children’s lives. Before camp, I was a different person.” What jobs are there? Counsellors are the most hands-on of the staff: they work tntdownunder.com

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What’s the pay? You do this for the experience, not the money, as camp counsellors earn up to CA$1600 (AU$1635) for an 8-10 week summer placement, while support staff earn up to CA$1700 ($1760). On the plus side, your accommodation and

meals are all covered, plus health insurance, transportation, training and phone and internet. The costs you have to cover include your return flight, application fee, programme fee, Canadian work permit fee and background and medical check fees. With NYQuest, your application fee and programme fee totals CA$600 (£385), although if you return to the same camp the following year, the programme fee for that season is waived. The company also offers a flight assist programme, where it pays for your flight upfront and then deducts it from your camp salary. How do I apply? NYQuest has closed its official applications for the season, but it’s worth getting in touch with the camp you want, just in case they are looking for someone with your skill set. To start planning for summer 2014, sign up at go-nyquest.com so that you receive an email alert when applications re-open in October this year.

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directly with the campers, take them on trips and join in with all the activities. Then there are specialists, who will have a particular activity skill, and so they will regularly host that activity session for all the camp’s groups. Support staff do the hard graft, such as kitchen duties and general maintenance. If you have a skill that you think could be useful at a summer camp, it’s always worth getting in touch. While many Canadian summer camps start their recruitment drives between eight and nine months prior to the season, there’s often need for “top-up” staff. Still, to be in with the best chance, you want to be making your applications as early as the previous September.

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All our staff are international traveler and speak various languages

a local Whitsundays government accredited operator. Our license is 3001478 and we have been proudly caring for our visitors for almost 20 years. Head to our facebook page (airliebeach.com) for a chance to WIN A TRIP FOR 2 to Whitehaven Beach aboard the sensational Camira.

Kayak over the fringing coral reefs and explore tropical islands. For beginners to experienced we provide all snorkel gear including fruit and cheese platter.

FREE internet with all bookings - FREE bag storage - FREE upgrades to private double cabins on some boats For more recommendations and discount prices of overnight sailing adventures www.sailingwhitsundays.com 259 Shute Harbour Rd, Top end of main street in Airlie, next door to Hog’s Breath Cafe

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