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Shop owners in Melbourne’s beachside suburb, Williamstown, are closing their doors as trade lags on the once busy shopping strips.

This suburb is being stripped of shops. The council is trying to stop the exodus

Three Williamstown restaurants shut up shop on the same weekend, and a fourth went a week later. But there are ideas to revitalise the area’s ailing shopping strips.

  • Najma Sambul

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offering hard-to-find native ingredients and products.

‘I want to buy food I grew up eating’: Why aren’t native ingredients in the shops?

There are aisles dedicated to Mexican, Indian and Asian foodstuffs, but not Australian. Indigenous chef Matt Moncrieff wants to know why.

  • Lucy Manly
Reality shows The Masked Singer, My Kitchen Rules and The Block all launched their 2022 seasons on Sunday, August 7. 

The Block-goes-bush wins first round in battle of the reality juggernauts

MKR, The Block and The Masked Singer went head-to-head on Sunday, with Spicks and Specks chirping in too, in one of the biggest ratings clashes of the year.

  • Karl Quinn
James Warburton, CEO of Seven West Media, presenting the broadcaster’s 2022 line-up.

Australia’s got talent? Seven to revive MKR, four talent shows in 2022

Seven has unveiled its programming slate for next year, and it’s big on short-run talent shows, but short on local drama.

  • Karl Quinn
“Staff are getting paid better every year, the food prices are getting higher every year”: celebrity chef Manu Feildel.

Hanging up his apron: Why Manu Feildel is giving up on restaurants

With My Kitchen Rules axed, his contract with Channel Seven set to expire at the end of the month and another failed restaurant under his belt, the celebrity chef has a plan for the future.

  • Zoe Samios
My Kitchen Rules was once one of the most popular shows on television.

Seven cooking up a My Kitchen Rules comeback

MKR could go into production as early as next year as Seven West Media looks to boost its network’s ratings.

  • Zoe Samios
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Pete Evans.

Oh, for Pete's sake: The rise and fall (and possible rise) of Pete Evans

With a single click, the celebrity chef this week completed his transition from mainstream media star to leading figure of a dangerous fringe movement. 

  • Karl Quinn
Manu Feildel and Pete Evans.

In a decade of reality television, have we learned anything at all?

In the past 10 years, we've revelled in and cringed at the likes of Married at First Sight, Junior MasterChef and The Masked Singer. Where will the format take us in the next 10?

  • Craig Mathieson
Guy Sebastian, who is heading to Eurovision, got his start in the first season of <i>Australian Idol</i> in 2003.

Australian Idol to be revived; MKR, House Rules dumped in Seven shakeup

Cooking show Plate of Origin won't return either as the broadcaster focuses on 'proven' formats made by external production companies.

  • Broede Carmody and Zoe Samios
Together at last: Matt Preston, Manu Feildel and Gary Mehigan.

Oh, POO! Plate misses opportunity to serve something truly original

Seven's new cooking show is well intentioned but it might have delivered so much more with a bit more boldness.

  • Karl Quinn

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