Issue #23.4 July/August 2020

Australian Country

Your Contemporary Country Lifestyle Magazine

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Editor’s Letter
Well, what a ride we’ve been on since I last wrote. I hope you and your loved ones are all staying well and have found some silver linings in the clouds that have so far darkened 2020. Mine have come from the most unexpected sources: old friends and
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Helping Out On This Issue ...
Anastasia is a lifestyle photographer who has been capturing an array of images from interiors to still life, architecture, gardens, landscapes, food and travel for 12 years. She is based on the Sunshine Coast and photographed the feature on artist E
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Naturally Connected
Given his druthers, Carl Nancarrow would probably be living on a vast cattle station somewhere back of Bourke. His wife, landscape and still-life artist Emma, prefers a more urban existence, close to the art galleries that nourish her soul and the be
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At Home In The Hills
There are some houses money can’t buy. The Adelaide Hills home Glenda Dunlop shares with her husband, Paul Vivian, is a classic case in point. For sure, the late-19th-century bluestone cottage had loads of character thanks to its age and original fea
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Character Study
Given her surname, Jane Campbell says it’s entirely fitting that she’s ended up living in the historic South Australian township of Strathalbyn. As one of the few towns in Australia, and the first in South Australia, to be settled by Scots, many of t
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Tales From The Heart
There’s an unforgettable moment when you drive through Heavitree Gap, a broad rift in central Australia’s MacDonnell Ranges, as Alice Springs reveals itself in all its sprawling splendour. The Ghan railway line and the Stuart Highway that connect the
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Taste Of The Territory
No matter whether you call it impetuosity, following his heart, or arch stupidity, Darwin chef and restaurateur Jimmy Shu has always operated on instinct. It goes some of the way to explaining how, at the bulletproof age of 25, he left all that was f
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Action Station
Diversify or die is the mantra in the bush these days, and it’s an approach the Walker family has taken to heart at Camden Park, their 18,500-acre (7486-hectare) property near Longreach in central-western Queensland. Camden Park has been owned by Wal
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The Selby Is In Her Place
As existential crises go, Kim Selby’s was slow in ferment, but swift in resolution. With her English husband, Mike, in tow, she returned in 2004 from a decade living and working overseas. Although she’d been feeling increasingly homesick since images
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Winter Warmers
Onkaparinga Eucalyptus quilt cover, set priced from $119.99, showcases Australian foliage and flowers in a design hand-painted by the brand’s artist in residence. The fabric is a delicate 250-thread-count pure-cotton percale. onkaparinga.com.au O
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Take Me To The Prom
Victorians like to keep a few secrets up their collective sleeve. While several million visitors head to Phillip Island every year, either to see the nightly spectacle of the penguin parade or for the annual blast of the Motorcycle Grand Prix, an ext
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Out & about
The biennial 2020 Apple and Grape Harvest Festival was staged in Stanthorpe at the end of summer, celebrating the grape crush and apple harvest. Thanks to some long-awaited rain on Queensland’s Granite Belt, the countryside was transformed back to a
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Store Strolling
The Pure Vision Real Flame firebox is designed to be recessed into a flush wall or frame. Available in several finishes, this firebox can include an optional glass back to allow viewing from other rooms or provide an extended perspective in a single
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Off The Shelf
Thea Hayes qualified as a nurse in Sydney in 1959 and soon after moved to Wave Hill station in the Northern Territory, where she spent the next 20 years as a nurse, wife and mother of four. She has since lived and worked all over, from Toogoolawah an
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Mailbag
I’m isolating in my suburban Melbourne home and reading your mag. We love our home and garden including my she shed, Buck Cottage. What a beautiful country we live in. Your magazine is now on my shopping list. Veronica Argus, Sunshine VIC The strik
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For Our Next Issue ...
We’ve traversed Australia from coast to coast in search of some fabulous stories about rural and regional people and their lifestyles and businesses. We start with a handsome homestead in tranquil Toodyay in WA’s Avon Valley and end up on the other s
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