Hugh and Nan Nicholson in a fire-stricken area of Terania Creek in November. (Photo by Terri Nicholson) The extent and ferociousness of recent bushfires in Australia has been devastating. It’s taken lives, destroyed homes and […]
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Rebooting Picnic at Hanging rock is a missed opportunity
If, like me, you marvelled while your school bus rolled the wrong way up a hill and you then spent the day exploring the spooky, 6.25-million-year-old lava terrain of Hanging Rock in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges, […]
How good is Australian olive oil?
Sui Tham at her Olive oil grove, Cape Schanck Olive Estate which has won gold and best-in-class medals at this year’s New York International Olive Oil Competition. Photo: Joe Armao. By Peter Barrett When most people […]
Anzac Day behind the lines
Curator Jenny Long at the “Somewhere In France” exhibition with a Moët & Chandon champagne cork from 1918, collected by Signaller Ray Jones. Photo: Jason South. The Champagne cork is weathered. Rust has found a foothold […]
Craft beer boom means heady days for hops growers
Allan Monshing, farm manager of Rostrevor Hop Gardens in Eurobin, is a third-generation hops farmer. Photo: Peter Merk. Somewhere in America, probably on the west coast, the epicentre of the global craft beer movement, a beer […]
Best places to eat and drink in the Adelaide Hills
Wheel estate: Bridgewater Mill Restaurant offers “posh platters”. Photo: Supplied. Peter Barrett Few visitors leave this rolling, bucolic, wine-soaked landscape without having at least one Hans Heysen moment. The great German-born Australian watercolourist’s spirit is everywhere, written […]
The Catman of Kangaroo Island
Barry Green at the entrance to his aptly named home on Kangaroo Island. Photo: Emma Byrnes. A family holiday in January took us to South Australia’s Kangaroo Island, where we tracked down a local with an interesting […]
Vietnamese dining scene moves into a new age
Thi Le, female chef and co-owner of Anchovy restaurant, is educating herself and patrons about real Vietnamese food. Photo: Simon Schluter. The Age, 23 January, 2015 By Peter Barrett Born in a Malaysian refugee camp to […]
Ordinary people, lending a hand
Despite increasingly harsh policies directed at asylum seekers from both sides of politics it turns out there are plenty of ordinary Australians who are doing their bit to lend these vulnerable people a helping hand. Read […]
