Lake Pedder, potato perfection, Confucius wisdom, and wombat time of year
Rima Truchanas learned to swim in Tasmania's Lake Pedder and watched on with her family when 50 years ago it drowned to make way for the Hydro-Electric Scheme . Her early life was shaped by her...
View ArticleAncient odours, wilding your garden, the art of preserving, and the history...
Film and television shows have conjured up images of ancient cities many times, thanks largely to historical texts and archaeological finds. Now archaeologists are trying to recreate the odours of old...
View ArticleLuxury Indigenous tourism, urban farms, and the English country home's...
We see Indigenous art and motifs used extensively in Australia's marketing campaigns. But do Indigenous communities and businesses benefit from this branding? Professor Anne Poelina — a Nyikina Warrwa...
View ArticleBesha Rodell on food critics, Australia's newest herbarium, the Gothic...
All the world's great cities have some things in common and fantastic food is one of them. But what happens if a city doesn't have a chief restaurant critic? Besha Rodell, the recently appointed Chief...
View ArticleGenealogy for homes, design to the rescue, Anna Wintour, and the history of...
Via their Instagram page Design.Emergency Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli have brought designers together to tackle some of the worlds intractable problems. Journalist Amy Odell discusses her...
View ArticleThe perfect potato cake, a peek inside the National Archives, the origin of...
Once regarded as a fringe movement, more designers and architects are looking to nature-based systems to build our lives while reducing carbon emissions. Claire Beale, Executive Manager at LCI...
View ArticleMore escapism, Garden Rudimental, Australia's oldest community cookbook plus,...
Hotel designer Bill Bensley lives by the motto, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing. The California-born designer has studios in Bangkok and Bali, and his latest book More Escapism: Hotels,...
View ArticleBritish Dandies, puff pastry, a sentimental journey of motels, and The Great...
For the dandy, looking swell is a way of life! He prides himself on wit and dress, but their influence reaches beyond fashion and intellect, as Dominic Janes discovers in his latest book British...
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