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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Melbourne captain Daisy Pearce has had a trailblazing career, but a premiership medal has eluded her – thus far.
- by Marnie Vinall
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?
Our Modern Guru finds a way for dealing with this much-maligned navigation device.
- by Danny Katz
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
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
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
With flavours redolent of apricots, cherries and almonds, amaretto is an uncommonly delicious liqueur to add to a Christmas cake.
- by Helen Goh
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