Issue#20.6 November 2017

Australian Country

Your Contemporary Country Lifestyle Magazine

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Middle Eastern magic
BY MICHAEL RANTISSI AND KRISTY FRAWLEY, PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALAN BENSON Makes about 1.25 litres Iron goddess is a Chinese tea known for its signature floral scent and it’s one of those teas that doesn’t like the temperature of boiling water — hot water do
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Red for Remembrance
BY TAMARA SIMONEAU, PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANASTASIA KARIOFYLLIDIS “It was here that I was able to establish an identity as a person in my own right, and that’s something not every woman of my generation has had the opportunity to do.” Fay Helwig is a vision
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PATCHWORK Of The PAST
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS As Claire Ayling sees it, moving to Goulburn was fate. If she hadn’t been a quilter, she would never have been trawling around on the internet, checking out the provincial NSW city, where a quilting friend li
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Editor's Letter
It’s been a bit of a bucket list year for me as we ticked off a few destinations and experiences I’ve wanted to share with readers for some time. We travelled the Carnarvon Highway for the travel story in this issue, attended the Outback Vision Film
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Making A Splash
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS Julie Brown says the Eureka moment happened while walking out cattle. It was the summer of 2007, and she was on the motorbike shifting cattle with her husband, Adrian, on Marchmont, their 50,000- acre (20,234
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Diary Notes
COMPILED BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE More than 50,000 illuminated stems create internationally acclaimed English artist Bruce Munro’s incredible Field of Light installation, which covers an area equivalent to four football fields against the backdrop of Uluru
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A Plantsman’s Paradise
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY ROSS WILLIAMS, STYLING BRONTE CAMILLERI By his own reckoning Mark Day is the luckiest man on earth. The veteran journalist, foreign correspondent and editor divides his time between a waterfront apartment in the Sydney
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Store Strolling
COMPILED BY FI COLLINS Inoko makes hand-poured soy candles in an array of luxury fragrances. Purchase the timber vessel and then add the candle refill and you can reuse the vessel again and again. inoko.com.au A fresh white jacquard quilt cover set w
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Boots ’n’ all
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY PAUL PICHUGIN When the invitation popped up on her Instagram feed Kara Lauder assumed it was a hoax. The head honcho of a company called Celebrity Connect, which arranges invitation-only events in the lead up to the Ac
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Bangalow Beauty
BY TAMARA SIMONEAU, PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANASTASIA KARIOFYLLIDIS To those lucky enough to call it home, Bangalow is the best of both worlds — high in the rolling hills behind the world-class beaches of Byron Bay, it’s a little enclave of creatives and self
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Out & about
By KIRSTY MCKENZIE The western Queensland town of Winton, Australia’s very own outback Hollywood, recently rolled out the red carpet for the annual Vision Splendid film festival. The nine days of film curated by the festival’s creative director Greg
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The Road Less Travelled
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS As seasoned theatre goers know, it’s a good tactic not to be blinded by the star performers in the cast because you might miss outstanding contributions from the support actors. So it is with the Carnarvon Hi
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Off The Shelf
COMPILED BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE HARDIE GRANT BOOKS, $24.99 Hats off to the creators of this handy compendium of 32 day walks in Melbourne and further afield across Victoria. From the Mornington Peninsula to the Dandenong and Yarra Ranges and even the Vic
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Shuckingly Good
WORDS BY DARIA KURILO, PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEN BRASS Forget about the pearls. Oysters are having their moment. And everyone is talking about Tasmania’s Bruny Island’s beautifully creamy oysters. With the Southern Ocean renowned for having the cleanest air
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Mailbag
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Preserving The Past
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS Diversify or die is the mantra of business in the bush these days but Richard and Marisse Kinnon have taken it to the next level in the centralwestern Queensland town of Longreach. Richard, who grew up on a c
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For The Next Issue
FOR THE NEXT ISSUE OF AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY WE’VE TRAVELLED THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THIS AMAZING COUNTRY AND MET SOME FABULOUS FOLK. OUR TRAVELS STARTED IN VICTORIA WHERE WE MET ALICIA AND IAN COOKNELL AT THEIR HOME HIGH ON A HILL ON MELBOURNE’S NORTH
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Class Act
COMPILED BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE Honey has a big presence in the remarkably well-preserved goldrush town of Beechworth in north-eastern Victoria. Visitors can taste more than 30 varieties of honey and buy all manner of bee-related products at the Beechwor

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