Issue #25.1 January/February 2022

Australian Country

Your Contemporary Country Lifestyle Magazine

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Editor’s Letter
Welcome to the first issue for 2022. Let’s hope that it’s a less challenging one for all of us and that our lives can finally return to something resembling, if not the old normal, at least one a tad more regular. We’re delighted to bring you a bumpe
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Helping Out On This Issue ...
Anabel is an award-winning travel journalist who began her career as a Fleet Street news reporter in London. She has worked as a feature writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, arts editor for The Bulletin and lifestyle editor for Medical Observer maga
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Garowie Grandeur
There’s no such thing as a small project on a heritage building, according to Ipswich real estate agent June Frank, who has deep knowledge of all property in her hometown, which is Queensland’s oldest provincial city. Although June has owned Garowie
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Winning Stakes
As building site inspections go, it was a doozy. Linda and Laurence Monds recall the event as a pretty regular day at Tyreel Stud, their thoroughbred horse-breeding property in the Hawkesbury region on Sydney’s western periphery. But for architect Mi
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Landscape And Legend
The word iconic gets bandied about endlessly in the lexicon of hyperbole. But we can safely say Sir Hans Heysen rates as the real deal when it comes to the cream of Australian landscape artists. Similarly, the expression, humble beginnings, is all-to
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The Power Of Pink
The adage that when the going gets tough, the tough get going could have been coined for Western Australian sheep and grain farmers Jennifer and Rob Warburton. As newlyweds, in 2000, they were challenged by a double whammy of Jen’s diagnosis and setb
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A European infusion
By her own reckoning, Rosalie Cook lived in a chateau in a previous life and you don’t have to look much beyond her front door to confirm this assessment. There’s a Parisian symmetry to the façade of the home she shares with her husband, Stephen, and
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What’s The Buzz?
Her Majesty has been liberated from three days of lockdown in a padded post bag and is secreted in a tiny timber box with five fawning court attendants. She’s under gauze and quivering. Her aides are edgy, feeding from a plug of sugary fondant, fussi
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The Bee Crisis
Bees are an indispensable pillar of our food supply pollinating the most important group of organisms on the planet — flowering plants — and they are under threat from parasites, disease, pesticides, pollution, habitat loss and climate change, in fac
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Music And The Food Of Love
The splashback in the kitchen of Jimmy and Jane Barnes’ home in the NSW Southern Highlands tells the tale of the legendary rock couple’s shared life and loves. It’s pieced into the wall behind their bold blue AGA cooker are more than 30 Delft tiles J
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Into The Wild
The Tarkine is the rarest rainforest on planet earth and the last known habitat of the Tasmanian tiger. The final authenticated capture of the thylacine was almost a century ago in wilderness clasped like an emerald necklace around the tiny settlemen
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A Layered Approach
In spite of many years as a horticultural teacher, garden presenter, consultant and tour guide Brian Sams confesses it was not until he actually started developing his Highfields garden that he realised the size of the task he had undertaken. “In t
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Mateship And Mullets
The mullet haircut may be a divisive fashion look but for boarding students at Melbourne’s Xavier College, it was a unifying statement that helped them support each other through the recent COVID-19 lockdowns. Xavier College is a Catholic school foun
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Master Class
Serves 4 Start this recipe a day ahead. My little twist on the classic millefeuille is a little bit easier, fun, tasty and modern. Instead of spending the whole day making puff pastry, I’ve used tuiles. Of course, they’re not as fine and flaky as pu
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Light Fantastic
Emma Gascoigne is a wool buyer and classer from Oberon in central NSW. She has a love for all things agriculture, especially the wool industry, which she counts herself lucky to have been part of for the past five years. She strives to capture images
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Damage Control
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Store Strolling
Just Country’s Montana Silversmiths jewellery range is a bestselling, Western-themed collection of necklaces, earrings, bracelets and belt buckles. This intricate and delicate bracelet, $169.95, will make a welcome addition to any jewellery box. just
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Off The Shelf
The Country Women’s Association of Victoria has been working to improve the lives of Australian families, particulary those from rural and regional areas, for almost a century. Hearty, wholesome and affordable cooking is a cornerstone of the organisa
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Mailbag
I have recently purchased my first country home and was given a beautiful bundle of country books and this edition of Australian Country as a house-warming gift. I’m also recovering from major surgery and I just wanted to say thank you. I have been s
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Win A Prize
We appreciate your thoughts and in each issue, one correspondent wins a prize. Simply email Kirsty at kmckenzie@umco.com.au or write to us at Australian Country, Locked Bag 154, North Ryde NSW 1670. We reserve the right to edit lengthy letters before
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And The Winner Is
Trudy Andrews from Moree NSW who wins a nightie from the new Dry Chill sleepwear from Chilly Towel. The range is made from an advanced woven fibre fabric that draws moisture away from the skin and encourages breathability and coolness throughout the
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For Our Next Issue ...
We’ve another diverse story list for your reading pleasure. We’ve been to Kapunda near the Barossa Valley where artist Jacqueline Coates paints her macro works and teaches lucky students to recreate her style. We headed to Queensland’s Garden City, T
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Editor Kirsty McKenzie email kmckenzie@umco.com.au Designer Michaela Primiano Contributors Bronte Camilleri, Anabel Dean, Roderick Eime Photography Justin Alexander, Ken Brass, Emma Gascoigne, Dic Liew, Glenn Weiss, Ross Williams Advertising Ange
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