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The November 19 Edition

The path to a happier, saner divorce | Tim Winton, a blue groper and the sea | All abuzz about Kangaroo Island’s bees | Tyler Wright on surfing’s monoculture

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The November 19 Edition
Gwyneth was right: The push for a happier, saner divorce

Gwyneth was right: The push for a happier, saner divorce

From collaborations with counsellors and finance advisers to equine therapy and sound-healing, a burgeoning industry is encouraging ‘conscious uncoupling’.

  • by Tim Elliott
The potential devastation facing the world’s only ‘pure’ Ligurian bee population

The potential devastation facing the world’s only ‘pure’ Ligurian bee population

Kangaroo Island had been a sanctuary for Ligurian honeybees for more than a century when the 2019-20 bushfires hit. Will the varroa mite deliver a new sting?

  • by Mark Dapin
Tim Winton on a blue groper, a novel – and his life-imitates-art moment

Tim Winton on a blue groper, a novel – and his life-imitates-art moment

With his novel, Blueback, now a movie, the author reflects on how his love of the sea has evolved – and what he’s prepared to do to protect it.

  • by Tim Winton
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They lived ‘blessed lives’ running a cancer charity. Then Georgie got her diagnosis

They lived ‘blessed lives’ running a cancer charity. Then Georgie got her diagnosis

Sisters Georgie Crawford-Smith and Annie Crawford, founder of the charity Can Too, have always played and worked together. Now, the pair face a new challenge.

  • by Nicole Abadee
Not straight, not blonde: Tyler Wright on trumping surfing’s monoculture

Not straight, not blonde: Tyler Wright on trumping surfing’s monoculture

The two-time world champion talks about surfing’s idea of womanhood, coming out as bisexual, and how a brush with death changed her life.

  • by Benjamin Law
Interrupting isn’t necessarily rude – it’s just ‘conversational overlapping’
Opinion
Opinion

Interrupting isn’t necessarily rude – it’s just ‘conversational overlapping’

There’s now a new term for butting in when someone’s talking – and sometimes, it’s considered good manners.

  • by Amelia Lester
Good Weekend Talks: ‘So much more than that’: Daisy Pearce on finding fulfilment outside a flag

Good Weekend Talks: ‘So much more than that’: Daisy Pearce on finding fulfilment outside a flag

Melbourne captain Daisy Pearce has had a trailblazing career, but a premiership medal has eluded her – thus far.

  • by Marnie Vinall
New restaurants with music on the menu
Opinion
Opinion

New restaurants with music on the menu

For a chorus of bars and restaurants, music is becoming more than just background noise.

  • by Terry Durack
Is yelling at my sat-nav a lost cause?

Is yelling at my sat-nav a lost cause?

Our Modern Guru finds a way for dealing with this much-maligned navigation device.

  • by Danny Katz
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Sydney: Warike
Review
Sydney

Sydney: Warike

Put this Peruvian restaurant on your dance card for a night of zippy seafood and the best pisco sours in town.

  • by Callan Boys
Melbourne: Nazar
Review
Melbourne

Melbourne: Nazar

The name references the good-luck charm that's often translated to "evil eye", and this Kew local is one to watch, reviews Besha Rodell.

  • by Besha Rodell
Karen Martini’s arancini with peas, spinach, mint and smoked scamorza

Karen Martini’s arancini with peas, spinach, mint and smoked scamorza

Arancini make for perfect finger food, although a little warning is needed when freshly cooked (that molten cheesy centre!).

  • by Karen Martini
Helen Goh's chocolate and amaretto fruitcake

Helen Goh's chocolate and amaretto fruitcake

With flavours redolent of apricots, cherries and almonds, amaretto is an uncommonly delicious liqueur to add to a Christmas cake.

  • by Helen Goh
Good Weekend Quiz

Good Weekend Quiz

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge.

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