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The burning question: what will be left of Victoria’s rainforests?

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Hugh and Nan Nicholson in a fire-stricken area of Terania Creek in November. (Photo by Terri Nicholson) The […]

January 6, 2020 environment, Health, Issues, Science

Rebooting Picnic at Hanging rock is a missed opportunity

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If, like me, you marvelled while your school bus rolled the wrong way up a hill and you […]

May 19, 2017 Issues, Literature, opinion

How good is Australian olive oil?

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Sui Tham at her Olive oil grove, Cape Schanck Olive Estate which has won gold and best-in-class medals […]

May 7, 2016 Business, Food, People

Anzac Day behind the lines

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Curator Jenny Long at the “Somewhere In France” exhibition with a Moët & Chandon champagne cork from 1918, […]

April 25, 2016 News, People

Craft beer boom means heady days for hops growers

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Allan Monshing, farm manager of Rostrevor Hop Gardens in Eurobin, is a third-generation hops farmer. Photo: Peter Merk. Somewhere […]

March 9, 2016 Business, Food, News

Best places to eat and drink in the Adelaide Hills

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Wheel estate: Bridgewater Mill Restaurant offers “posh platters”. Photo: Supplied. Peter Barrett Few visitors leave this rolling, bucolic, […]

March 7, 2016 Food, Lifestyle, Travel writing

The Catman of Kangaroo Island

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Barry Green at the entrance to his aptly named home on Kangaroo Island. Photo: Emma Byrnes. A family holiday in […]

February 25, 2016 Issues, News, People, Science

Vietnamese dining scene moves into a new age

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Thi Le, female chef and co-owner of Anchovy restaurant, is educating herself and patrons about real Vietnamese food. Photo: […]

January 23, 2016 Food, Lifestyle, News, People

Ordinary people, lending a hand

  Despite increasingly harsh policies directed at asylum seekers from both sides of politics it turns out there […]

May 27, 2014 Issues, People
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