Home is where her heart is
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Home is where her heart is
FR EE YO M UR AG AZ IN E ISSUE #12 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016 WIN AIRFARES TO HAWAII MAKERS MARKET THE DEMAND FOR HANDMADE IS BOOMING Woman of style JULIETTE BINOCHE IN PARIS ESCAPE DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS BEYOND THE CASINOS AIRBNB BRISBANE’S HOT PROPERTIES Bindi Irwin Home is where her heart is Take the Jet With exceptional inflight service, complimentary beverages and snacks, our JETGO aircraft boast speed, comfort, the quietest cabins and the smallest environmental foot print in its class. NETWORK KEY When flying to your next destination, Take the Jet. Brisbane Dubbo from Brisbane Tamworth from Gold Coast Townsville from Rockhampton Townsville from Gold Coast Rockhampton from Melbourne (Avalon) Dubbo from TOWNSVILLE 248 $ 194* $ 193* $ 192* $ 155* $ 247* $ To book your seat today, call us on 1300 328 000 or visit us online. ROCKHAMPTON * BRISBANE GOLD COAST DUBBO TAMWORTH MELBOURNE (Avalon Airport) *Fare rules and conditions apply. All prices listed are limited, one way fares. Welcome to your free BNE magazine, brought to you by Brisbane Airport CONTENTS 4 Brisbane Airport News New flights to Shanghai; community grants, and more 6 Brisbane Insider Shared work spaces are hot; Mt Coot- tha cycle challenge, and more 8 Bindi back to her wildlife The dancing teen is not about to give up her day job 10 Makers market The demand for handmade is booming STYLE 12 Juliette Binoche in Paris The Australian label with French flair 14 Style Extra Binoche shares a few of her favourite Paris addresses ESCAPE 16 Downtown in Las Vegas F FOOD & DRINK 26 A summer splash Cool cocktails; can beer save the Great Barrier Reef, and more 28 Meet the makers Home-made is the flavour of the month; coffee hits; airport food never tasted better, and more WHAT’S ON 30 Thriller of a musical Carrie comes to the stage; a podcast goes live; country music’s biggest show, and more 32 Delta’s purrfect Memory Cats; Diana Krall; Rob Thomas; dance exchange; new folk club, and more 33 Events calendar Find out what’s happening in the city GALLERY 34 Day in the life There’s more to this city than casinos 19 WIN airfares to Hawaii Enter our competition for a chance to win two return tickets to Hawaii MY BRISBANE 36 Wayne Denning, 20 media producer Blazing new trails in Tamworth Where he takes time out in Brisbane A new generation of entrepreneurs is rejuvenating the city and there’s a wealth of farm gate trails to explore NEED TO KNOW 38 Terminal Maps 24 Hot properties Five five-star places to stay in Brisbane and you’ll find them on Airbnb 39 Helpful information for visitors to Brisbane Airport 42 Travel news New app; a smart bag, and more rom food to fashion and homewares, handmade goods are in demand and talented makers are finding an enthusiastic market for their lovingly crafted pieces. In this issue you’ll meet some of those makers, many who’ve swapped careers to pursue a personal passion and others who are pushing the boundaries of imagination to bring an exciting new flavour to food and drinks. You’ll find a few examples among the cocktails on page 26, the sodas, cheeses and cakes on page 28. And then there are the supporters like Showroom (page 10) and Wandering Cooks (page 28) who povide a showcase for new talent and for that we are truly thankful ... Passengers in transit at Brisbane Airport 40 Destination map 43 26 Brisbane metro map 10 BNE magazine is published bi-monthly by Brisbane Airport Corporation. Brisbane Airport Corporation, Media Manager: Leonie Vandeven Managing Editor: Heather McWhinnie ([email protected]) Designer: Stephen Bryett Advertising sales: Chris May ([email protected]) or call 0401 312 312 Christine Iannarella ([email protected]) or call 0418 745 172 ©2016 Brisbane Airport Corporation. The contents of this publication are not for reproduction, redistribution or reuse by any means whatsoever or in any form whatsoever without express permission of the publisher. Advertising: all advertisements in BNE magazine are the responsibility of advertisers. Advertising is accepted on the understanding that it does not contravene the Trade Practices Act. Responsibility is not accepted by BNE magazine for statements made or the failure of any product or service to give satisfaction. The publication of any material or editorial does not necessarily constitute endorsement of views or opinions expressed. While every effort is made to avoid errors, some information contained in the publication may be superceded. 16 Education Assist Do you want to work in the Disability and Community Service sectors? Grants for COMMUNITY PROJECTS B risbane Airport Corporation (BAC) presented more than $110,000 to charities, community groups and schools in the latest round of cash grants from its Community Giving Fund and sponsorships. BAC distributes about $1 million in donations each year to more than 100 community initiatives and charities and it was named Corporate Philanthropist of the Year in 2015 by the Queensland Community Foundation. Groups big and small benefited from grants for projects in education, the arts, environment, sports, health and more. Schools, too can apply for grants now from the Special Schools Fund with a new round of applications set to open in March. These are just a few of the community initiatives that received grants recently ... Do you have a disability and want to obtain a qualification? We can help you achieve this. GO TO epicassist.org FOR MORE INFORMATION RTO41218 4 | BNE January/February 2016 FOOD RESCUE Approximately two million Australians rely on food relief every year provided by organisations such as OzHarvest which collects quality excess food from commercial outlets and delivers it, direct and free of charge, to almost 500 charities across the country. Brisbane Airport provides an average 2.5 tonnes of food donations every month from regular donors including Alpha Flight Services, DHL, Q Catering, Gate Gourmet and Virgin Australia. When Virgin Australia and Gate Gourmet joined forces to launch their program last year it was the first of its kind in Australia. Now the program ‘rescues’ about 1.5 tonnes of food per month from unused airline meals which are refrigerated rather than thrown out and collected daily by OzHarvest. The food is then redistributed to groups including Rosies, Salvation Army Street Level and many more. In its inaugural year, the program has spread to eight ports across Australia and collected more than 110 tonnes of food, 17 tonnes of it from Brisbane Airport. One kilogram of food can be used to provide up to three meals. BRISBANE AIRPORT NEWS people with intellectual disabilities and mental health issues. Under the guidance of chef Steve Goodale (pictured below left), the cafe serves up more than 200 meals a week and operates a thriving catering business. MUSIC BY THE SEA in bayside Sandgate kicks off with a bang each year with a three-day festival (8-10 January) of jazz, folk, classical and world music. Past performers have included James Morrison, Roger Woodward and Simon Tedeschi – and this year Tedeschi is back to lead a lineup that includes Flamenco Fire, Maru Tarang (a collaboration of Australian and Indian musicians, pictured left) and artists from Canada and the UK. TANGALOOMA ECO MARINES has also seen demand for its program surge in the last year and 16 schools around Brisbane now have teams of ambassadors initiating local environment projects. Tangalooma Resort on Moreton Island funds the program to educate school students about marine conservation and projects aim to reduce hazardous pollution of the waterways to help save marine life such as turtles (below right), dugongs and dolphins that live in Moreton Bay. ACTIVE REFUGEE AND MIGRANT INTEGRATION IN AUSTRALIA opened a year ago and has seen more than 100 people per week access services from language and computer classes to homework support, counselling sessions and life skills lessons which aim to break down the social isolation and barriers to employment experienced by some refugees even long after they have settled in Brisbane. MENS SHEDS is an Australian innovation that has spread to Europe, Canada and the UK. The ‘sheds’ are meeting places for men of all ages to get together to learn or share skills and join activities ranging from woodwork and welding to cooking and computing. Mt Gravatt (left), Meadowlands and Somerset Mens Sheds all received grants this year. ESPRESSO TRAIN cafe is just one of the initiatives of Nundah Community Enterprises Cooperative, an award-winning social enterprise which provides training and employment opportunities for New flights to Shanghai China Eastern is the latest airline to add a new direct service from Brisbane Airport. It now operates flights three times each week between Shanghai and Brisbane which promises to boost travel between China and the Sunshine State even further. China is the fastest growing Asian market for Brisbane, up 23 per cent, and is now the city’s third largest source of visitors. The new flights will also make it easier and quicker for anyone to fly direct from Brisbane to China’s mega city Shanghai, known as ‘Hu’ for short, where East meets West in stark contrast. The new flights are serviced by Airbus A330 wide-body aircraft which include lie-flat Business Class seating and operate in codeshare with Qantas. China Eastern Airlines operates a broad network of destinations across China, Europe, North America and Asia from its base at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport. GOLD STANDARD Brisbane Airport’s volunteer ambassadors are easily identified by their bright blue or red shirts and friendly smiles as they roam the Domestic and International Terminals every day, including public holidays, to assist travellers. Collectively they speak more than 16 languages and have donated a whopping 22,464 hours of their time over the last year to help visitors to this city, a dedication which earned them a Gold award at the 2015 Queensland Tourism Awards for their outstanding contribution. BNE January/February 2016 | 5 Business Assist Focus on building your business. Leave the paperwork to us. • Budget • Business Activity Statements (BAS) • Data base management • Employee and payroll entry • Many more BEHIND THE PIPES Tours to view City Hall’s 120-year-old Father Willis organ booked out so quickly when they were introduced for the first time late last year that more will be scheduled from February. The organ is one of the largest in Australia and features more than 4300 pipes, the tallest standing at an impressive 13 metres high and the smallest at just 10 centimetres. The organ was built in 1891-92 by Henry Willis & Sons, Camden Town, London, for the Brisbane Exhibition Concert Hall and purchased by the council in 1900. It was relocated, enlarged and modernised for Brisbane’s new City Hall which opened in 1930. When City Hall closed for its own massive renovation in 2010 the organ was once again removed and meticulously restored – the sound of each of the pipes was recorded to make sure it would sound the same once it was returned four years later. There are no two identical pipe organs in the world; each one sounds and looks different and the Father Willis organ is regarded as one of the best pipe organs in Australia. For tour details call 3339 0800 or see www.museumofbrisbane.com.au/organtours GO TO epicassist.org FOR MORE INFORMATION BURN up the hill The top of Mt Coot-tha is known for its panoramic views of Brisbane but it’s also a steep climb to the top, providing the ultimate challenge to road cyclists. Many try it on weekends and now they will get to test their mettle at the first Brisbane Coot-tha Burn on 13 February – and just in case you are wondering what’s the time to beat – Samuel Volkers currently holds the record for the 2km leg burner at just a smidge under six minutes. As well as amateur, elite, masters and pro time trials chasing a $40,000 cash prize pool there will be novelty races and a corporate teams time trial event. Entry $95 at www.cootthaburn.com 6 | BNE January/February 2016 BRISBANE INSIDER PLUG & PLAY WORKSPACES Where To Find Hot Desks In Brisbane 2 1 T Cameron now manages Salt Space with his partner Anne Slee. Salt Space has capacity for just over 30 people and Cameron has seen demand grow while he’s been there. They rent desks from $15 a day and there are options to have bigger desks, more private corners and access to meeting rooms at extra cost. Salt Space is close to cafés and shops, has high ceilings, lots of natural light, an alfresco deck and lounge area where coworkers can mingle. Not all tenants at co-working spaces are in creative industries such as graphic design, fashion, web/app/game development. Others are lawyers, accountants, mining engineers and business consultants and sharing work space can sometimes lead to new business referrals. Some places also provide access to mentors and skills workshops. The Coterie is part of the Creative Industries Precinct at QUT at Kelvin Grove and spaces available there range from communal tables to permanent desks (standing desks will be available later this year) and studio spaces for up to 12 people. Jon Pickersgill has worked from the Coterie two days a week while launching his new menswear brand Undie Dog. While it offered an opportunity to work undistracted by his toddler son at home, Pickersgill says it also provided connections with experts he wouldn’t have met otherwise who have helped him with design and manufacturing his brand. 1. Little Tokyo Two, 36 Mein Street, Spring Hill www.littletokyotwo.com 2. Gravity, 140 Creek Street, city www.office-hub.com.au 3. The Coterie, Kelvin Grove, www.qutcea.com/the-coterie/ 4. Silo, Paddington, www.silopaddington.com 5. Salt Space, New Farm, www.salthouse.bris.biz 6. 111 Eagle Street, city, www.office-hub.com.au Find more hot desks and shared work spaces listed online at www.office-hub.com.au and www.creativespaces.net.au 3 he modern office landscape is changing dramatically and the market for hot desks and collaborative workspaces is booming. There are more than 2 million businesses in Australia and more than half of those (1.3 million) are sole operators who aren’t looking for long lease contracts. But even a one man band likes some company now and then – so co-working spaces are in hot demand. In Brisbane there are at least a dozen collaborative work spaces offering desk space at daily, weekly and monthly rates – and that’s not counting the office blocks that are also offering single desk spaces on flexible rental terms, or venues offering special purpose rooms for small operators to host ‘meetings’ and events from cooking classes to life coaching workshops. Grant Philipp, CEO of Office Hub which specialises in leasing shared, serviced and co-working space across Australia, says the market is only going to grow. For business owners it’s not always about the economics, it’s about feeling like they are part of a community and having other people around. According to Philipp, they want a ‘plug and play’ office where they can go in, sit down and just start working without complicated commitments. Spaces range from fully wired shared communal tables, to single desks and small lockable offices. Free access to high speed WiFi is generally included, which can be a big saving. Cool collaborative spaces are generally close to good cafés and bars (in Brisbane that’s around Fortitude Valley, West End and Spring Hill) but supply – and demand – is starting to build in the city because of access to public transport and other facilities. One building, at 320 Adelaide Street, has reconfigured every floor in the building to accommodate small shared spaces, while some of the city’s most prestigious office towers, such as 111 Eagle Street, also offer single desk space. Tom Cameron works in IT and found his business needs – and staff numbers – fluctuating so much he didn’t want to commit to a long lease so he opted for a studio room at Salt Space in New Farm and when he needs extra contractors he can get extra desk space when he needs it. “The flexibility is what attracted me to it,” he says. 6 4 5 BNE January/February 2016 | 7 COVER STORY Bindi BACK TO HER WILDLIFE Bindi Irwin is on top of the world after a win on Dancing with the Stars but home is where her heart is W hile other Year 12 graduates had nothing more on their minds than dancing at schoolies, wildlife warrior Bindi Irwin was dancing her heart out before 14 million people worldwide to take home the trophy on the US series Dancing with the Stars. Irwin, whose only experience dancing had been on stage at Australia Zoo with her Jungle Girls, won the competition with a record number of perfect scores but the girl who walks with rhinos, feeds crocodiles, handles snakes like a charm and calmly lets a lemur sit on her head confesses she was scared. “It was quite terrifying to be on a show where you’re dancing every week for three to four months (if you make it all the way through) with no dance experience.” Irwin says she tried to make up for that by being as determined as possible to do the best she could and that meant a gruelling practise schedule. “We would rehearse seven days a week, starting with four to five hours a day and working up to eight and nine hour days, then studying and watching videos after that and trying to learn in your own time. It was quite a lot of work. Dancing is completely different to any other exercise that you can imagine. You can be a runner or a swimmer or be like me and work with wildlife and go on a million hikes but dancing is quite an adjustment for your body. It was a challenge but it was also really fun.” Irwin can say that comfortably now that she is back in her well-worn ‘connies’ (the Converse sneakers she lives in at home at Australia Zoo) but her feet are still recovering from the workout. “It’s like running a marathon every day is the best way I can describe it,” she says and along the way she lost a few toenails and the skin started to peel off her feet. For weeks she didn’t mention it to anyone and danced on. “I tried really hard not to let on. I wouldn’t have mentioned anything if Derek (Hough, her dance partner) hadn’t found out when I took my socks off one day.” He was shocked. “Unless 8 | BNE January/February 2016 something’s broken you just carry on – that’s something I got from my Dad. So I lost a few nails, I just superglued them back on and kept going! They’re still healing but I’m fine. I have a new appreciation for all dancers.” The experience also proved to be an important coming of age revelation to Irwin as she was encouraged to recall important memories in her life and express her emotions in every dance. “I never realised movement like that could tell such a story and I felt like every week I was able to tell a story by creating these beautiful dances. A lot of them focused on parts of my life I hadn’t visited before and I felt like I was ready and needing to share my story with “I feel most like myself when I’m with wildlife and in wild places where there are no other people and just animals. I get along the best with animals...” everybody. I felt I could be open and honest.” When they were asked to create a dance that recalled their most memorable year it took Irwin back to the tragic death of her father Steve in 2006. “That changed my life forever and I put it to one side because I wanted to focus on finding the happiness in every day and didn’t think about it for a long time so during this experience with Dancing with the Stars I was really able to open up and revisit these places in my life that I hadn’t gone to. I was kind of able to understand and let it unfold. I really hoped that by sharing my story like that I was able to reach out to other people who’ve been put through a lot.” Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Irwin also graduated Year 12 and completed the first stage of her business and tourism studies which will help prepare her for taking on more responsibility at Australia Zoo by the time she turns 18 in July. She’s already a strong advocate for wildlife conservation. Irwin was named Australian Geographic Society’s Young Conservationist of the Year in 2014 and last year was the Young Achiever Award winner in the Queensland Premier’s Sustainability Awards. In addition to Australia Zoo the Irwin family owns three conservation reserves in Queensland and contributes to many local and international research and outreach projects to help endangered animals, including cheetahs in South Africa, Sumatran tigers and elephants in Cambodia. “We donate everything we make back into wildlife conservation. It’s what we do,” Irwin says. Particularly close to her heart is Australia Zoo’s Wildlife Hospital which works closely with their rescue unit and has saved more than 58,000 animals over the last 10 years. The rescue unit gets up to 100 calls a week from people all over Australia wanting help with native animals found in distress, from sea turtles to koalas to snakes. “It’s the heart and soul of the work we do at Australia Zoo,” she says, and she’s happy to be back in her khakis. “I’ll always be excited about spreading the message of conservation and trying to inspire other people along the way and I want to be able to accept jobs and work in places like LA to help that. It’s all fun and exciting and great to be there but I’m most comfortable and most happy when I’m in the middle of nowhere. I like being with my family in places where there are no other people and there’s just animals – I get along the best with animals! I feel most like myself when I’m with wildlife and in wild places. It’s a lot of fun to experience city life but my home is wherever there is the most trees.” Irwin has found an ally in her cause with boyfriend of two years Conrad Powell, a college student and wakeboarder from Florida in the US. Powell recently spent holidays with the Irwin’s at Australia Zoo and their Ironbark Conservation station at Blackbutt in Queensland’s west. They met when Powell took a tour at Australia Zoo and Irwin was his guide. “From that point on we stayed in touch and our friendship just grew and grew.” According to Irwin they talk every day on the phone by skype and text. “And I’m very old fashioned – I write letters every week,” she confesses. “His support has meant so much to me, he understands my travel and my love of conservation and that’s terrific. I couldn’t have found anyone better and you make long distance work.” Most important to Irwin is that she carries on the work her father started. “My Dad always said he didn’t care if anyone remembered him, he cared if people remembered his message. So I want to make sure everything he stood for lives on with me, and my mum and brother feel the same way.” BNE January/February 2016 | 9 FEATURE hand made LONG LIVE Age-old crafts are enjoying a comeback and there’s no shortage of talent finding a market for handmade goods 10 | BNE January/February 2016 J ulie Hillier was born to sew. Her mother was a dressmaker and Julie learnt to count by sorting the button tin. But when she was ready to leave high school her teacher most definitely did not share her dream of a future sewing. So instead she studied architecture, got married, kept sewing for herself, had a few more career changes and raised three children before her dream returned and she saw the opportunity to make it happen. Now Julie runs Ministry of Handmade from her spacious park-side home in Bridgeman Downs and passes on her skills to others. “I’d always made my own clothes and about four years ago I wanted a change. I decided I really wanted to finish my working life doing something I really love. I also wanted to help other people experience the joy that comes from making things for yourself.” Julie and her husband Maurice had spent their married life renovating and making things and, as they had both studied architecture, knew how to make the creative and constructive work together. “I’d worked in a few different roles including marketing and corporate training and I could see this was a way to use all of my skills, plus I get to sew all the time,” Julie says. At Ministry of Handmade Julie hosts a weekly program of workshops (see her program at www.ministryofhandmade.com.au) taking her ‘students’ through the steps of making Learn how to make resin jewellery at Candu classes lampshades, cushions, upholstered bedheads, ottomans, even vintage-style dresses. Maurice helps by making the frames for the furnishings which are supplied and students are only required to bring their chosen fabric. Class sizes are kept to between six (for sewing) and 10 (for shibori dyeing which is done outdoors) and last for just over two hours to a half day on weekdays and weekends, depending on what’s being made. “I do feel a hunger that people want to make things for themselves. They want to be involved in what their world is made of. I watch the expression on their faces change and that’s really gratifying for me because I know how much joy I can get from sewing and how pleasurable creating things can be. People have found again the satisfaction that comes from creating something with your own hands and putting your own personality into it.” Generally each project can be finished in one workshop and there’s still time for a ‘home bake’ refreshment break – with delicious treats made by Maurice. Classes are offered in different skill levels from Learn to Sew Basics to the more advanced dressmaking that requires some experience with a sewing machine, and Julie has an honour board that keeps track of her return customers. “People swap phone numbers to arrange to meet again later, it’s like a tribe.” Bronwen Jones has found the same response at her classes teaching resin art and jewellery making. “I’ve seen people exchange email addresses and some people I met at a class two years ago are still staying in touch through Instagram,” she says. Like Julie, Bronwen is self-taught and started working with resin after watching a Better Homes & Gardens show while recovering from an operation in hospital. “It was that simple, I saw a segment on resin jewellery-making and decided I wanted to have a go. I spent years making things in resin before I was invited to host Candu classes (www.candu.com.au) above Barnes, a resin supplier, in Nile Street, Woolloongabba.” Bronwen was a regular in the store as she collected supplies for her own work that she made for markets, gift shops and galleries around Australia. Now she hosts jewellery making workshops and, more recently, resin art classes that run for about three hours. There’s not more than six people in a class and demand is constant. “The bangles and rings are easy little things that you can immediately finish and take away by the end of the class and so it’s a really nice way to learn. Each person makes two bangles and two rings in colours of their choice and they will be wearing them by the time they leave the class,” Bronwen says. Jewellery designer Fabienne is another selftaught artisan who started making her YCL collection of jewellery as a hobby before it was worn by Jennifer Hawkins and Delta Goodrem and was photographed in magazines such as British Vogue and Tatler. Now she ships around the world and Catherine Roberts, owner of Showroom (104 Edward Street, city, see www.show-room.com.au) counts her as just one of the success stories among the hand-picked brands that are on her shelves. YCL has been part of Roberts’ inventory since she opened her store three years ago. “[Fabienne] came in early on when we were new and worked in the store in exchange for having retail space. She has developed so much as a business since then, in quality and design, and people come in all the time wanting it because they have seen it online but they want to try it on. She can’t make it fast enough,” says Roberts, clearly proud of the connection Showroom has helped provide between Fabienne and her customers. Roberts started Showroom when she saw how difficult it was for local designers to get their work into local stores, and how successful markets were in providing a personal interaction with customers that led to higher sales. Showroom is a showcase for many local products but Roberts also looks further afield for an eclectic mix of world brands, from places such as North America, Belgium and Sweden. Products run the gamut from candles and stationery to honey and tea, linen napery, copper mugs and julep cups and rope baskets. Roberts, too, hosts ‘crafternoons’ for people to learn things such as hand lettering, floristry and weaving on hand looms while ‘Home Room’ workshops are held over eight weeks and aim to help creative entrepreneurs learn how to turn their passion project into a viable business. Imelda Ryan and sisters Cecelia and Sonia could see their business change dramatically now that Amazon has invited them to list their products on its new Handmade online store. The trio behind Maker & Merchant (see www. makerandmerchant.com.au) is not new to online selling and they already have customers in Canada, North America, Austria and New Zealand but they do provide a very bespoke collection of products which they design and generally sew themselves. They often do small runs of just 100 of each design and launch something new each month. Imelda is the illustrator who comes up with the patterns and whimsical drawings that adorn cushions, pillowcases, hankies and tea towels in their product range but the trio has recently also launched a capsule collection of clothing, including a cotton ‘walking’ skirt and cropped t-shirt in different colours. Imelda and Cecelia continue to work part-time while they do renovations at home to create a dedicated studio space for their enterprise but they are aiming to make the business one that will sustain all three of them full-time ... and with Amazon on their side that could happen sooner than they think. Cecelia, Imelda and Sonia Ryan from Maker & Merchant Showroom is a showcase for artisan products Julie Hillier of Ministry of Handmade BNE January/February 2016 | 11 STYLE a french affair D onna Guest’s love affair with Paris began immediately on her first trip to the city more than 20 years ago and it became the inspiration for the network of Blue Illusion stores she has since opened with her husband Danny. Now with her children grown and more than 120 stores in Australia and overseas Donna travels to her favourite city even more often and immerses herself in its culture and cuisine. As a dedicated Francophile Donna had envisaged the Blue Illusion woman in Oscar-winning actor Juliette Binoche (The English Patient) and it is a coup for the brand that the French film star now features in its seasonal campaigns – the first fashion label she has chosen to represent. “She was the perfect inspiration for our brand – elegant and effortlessly chic. She’s such a naturally beautiful woman,” says Donna. “She represents the romance of France but she’s a real woman and doesn’t pretend to be something she’s not.” For Binoche, fashion is about comfort to suit her lifestyle and in Blue Illusion’s latest collection her favourite pieces include these summer essentials. 12 | BNE January/February 2016 Clockwise from left: Red woven midi $199 Embellished top $169.95 and chambray pant $149.95 Scoop neck stripe tee $39.99 and white boyfriend jean $159.95 Stripe maxi $229.95 and Cora woven belt $39.95 Aztec print kaftan $229.95 and European superstretch skinny leg jean $149.95 All fashion from Blue Illusion at Brisbane Airport Domestic Terminal. For more stores and styles see www.blueillusion.com BNE January/February 2016 | 13 STYLE EXTRA I PARIS Oscar-winning actor Juliette Binoche and Australian owner of French-inspired fashion label Blue Illusion, Donna Guest, share a love for Paris and these are a few of their favourite places Juliette Binoche Donna Guest Herboristerie de la Place Clichy 87 Rue d’Amsterdam, 75008 This is one of the oldest places in Paris, before the pharmacy existed, for natural medicine and herbal treatments. The place has a wonderful feeling from the past. I can get lost in here for hours! Le Pavillon de la Reine (Hotel) 29 place de Vosges, 75003 One of my favourite places to stay when I visit Paris; so romantic. The interior is pure poetry, with rich ivory white walls and timber furnishings. It’s intimate with a wonderfully aristocratic feel. Le Champollion 51 Rue des Écoles, 75005 A wonderfully old cinema near the Jardin du Luxembourg. I often go for a walk in the garden first followed by a film. They usually show old films in their original version. I’m sure if you look hard enough, you will be able to watch an old masterpiece in English. Barbara Rihl Retail 1 Rue du 29 Juillet, 75001 Themed around travel, I love the quirky concept of this boutique. A fun way to accessorise, Barbara animates her bags with cute illustrations of French girls. Artcurial Art Books 7 Rond-point des Champs-Élysées, 75008 Are you looking for a beautiful art book? Artcurial has a good choice of different books. It might be a little expensive, but each edition is very attractive and will tempt all book lovers. Le Petrelle 34 Rue Petrelle, 75009 A very romantic destination, beautiful French food with very good products, from the freshest flowers to books and scented candles. Look hard because it is tucked away in a quiet corner of the 9th arrondissement. Juliette Binoche in Blue Illusion light washed denim jacket $199.95, scoop neck stripe tee $39.99 and white boyfriend jean $159.95. Recommended Retail Prices only. Find more French inspiration at www.blueillusion.com 14 | BNE January/February 2016 Le Roi du Pot-au-Feu 34 Rue Vignon, 75009 Very French, there is no reservation. You simply go and take your chance on getting a table. Order the pot-au-feu, with the camembert and tarte tatin. It was one of Robert Doisneau’s favourite restaurants. I went with him once upon a time. Mamie Gâteau Café 66 Rue du Cherche-Midi, 75006 Part café and part antique shop, this is the perfect place for afternoon tea. I enjoyed the most divine home-made pear hazelnut tarts, and purchased the most beautiful recipe book here. Merci Retail 111 Boulevard Beaumarchais, 75003 This is the ultimate in Parisian cool. It is modern and charming, with lovely high-end designer labels. If I were to describe it in one word: chic. Bones Restaurant 43 Rue Godefroy Cavaignac, 75011 Created by an Australian chef, this is an artycool dining experience. Expect a four-course menu, punctuated by several amuse bouche. It is easily the best prix-fixe dinner in the city. La Belle Hortense Wine and Book Bar 31 Rue Vieille du Temple, 75004 Books and wine are made for each other, oui? This petite bohemian bookshop is also a delightful place to sip the best French drop. My favourite place to relax, drink, read and repeat. BNE November/December 2015 | 13 MEET @ NOVOTEL BRISBANE AIRPORT A v a i l a b l e from $75pp* • Sixmeetingrooms • Stateoftheartaudiovisualequipment • Capacityfor2to120delegates • Allroomsfeaturenaturallight • IdeallylocatedclosetoBrisbaneAirportwith unbeatableaccess Contacttheteamtodaytoseehowwecanassistwithyour nextmeetingorevent 07 3 1 75 3 1 0 0 | w w w. n ovo te l b r i s b a n e a i r p o r t .c o m . au ESCAPE IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT THE CASINOS When Julia Buckley moved to Las Vegas she discovered another side to the city away from casinos, flashy fountains and big shows … 16 | BNE January/February 2016 F ew cities revel in their reputation as Las Vegas does. Everyone knows what to expect from Sin City: its casinos racked up along the legendary Strip, as flamboyant, decadent and in your face as it gets. And that’s exactly how it used to be – a city built entirely to fulfil the whims of its visitors. But over the past few years, Las Vegas has been working on a more demure – and more real – persona. Two miles north of the Strip, the low-rise, mid-century buildings of Downtown (where the neon lights first sparked up in 1906, before shifting south to the Strip) are the centre of the new Las Vegas. Today, the new Downtown core is around nine square blocks, and ever expanding. As well as the bars – which have more personality and better drinks than you’ll find on the Strip – there are now independent shops, restaurants and funky hotels, all completely disconnected from casinos, without a slot machine in earshot. Chefs are moving northwards from the Strip; entrepreneurs are coming from all over the States to be part of one of the fastest growing communities in the US (much of the investment has come from the Downtown Project, spearheaded by local tech mogul Tony Hsieh). After six decades of neglect, DTLV is back – and Sin City has a new, hipper string to its bow. Here’s where to play ... When Julia Buckley moved to Las Vegas she discovered another side to the city away from casinos, flashy fountains and big shows … » Container Park SHOP... With her impeccable retro dress sense (she’s normally to be found in a kaftan), Kate Aldrich brings a muchmissed taste of Las Vegas’ glamorous past to Antique Alley, a string of independent shops in the ever-growing Arts District, between the Strip and Downtown “proper”. Aldrich, a former restaurant plate designer and husband Tim, a vintage furniture dealer, moved from Denver in 2012 to open Patina Decor (see www.patinadecorlv.com), perhaps the city’s first truly highend vintage design store. With big name interiors and racks of 1960s-1970s womenswear (those kaftans feature heavily), it’s a fabulous throwback to Vegas’ ratpack heyday. Other highlights of Antique Alley include Amberjoy’s Vintage Closet (www.amberjoysvintagecloset.com) which sells rockabillystyle clothes made on the premises as well as vintage – owner Amber Burkhart has been part of Vegas’ underground rockabilly scene for years – and Retro Vegas (www.retro-vegas.com), a huge, hangar-like shop stuffed with antiques as fabulous as the city they come from. Drew Barrymore’s among the regulars who come for the vast collection of Vegas memorabilia – everything from ash trays and mugs to life-size casino statues. Container Park after dark Downtown itself is a hive of independent stores, mostly located in the Container Park (www.downtowncontainerpark.com): a tri-level collection of shipping containers piled on top of each other, set around a central green where the likes of Sheryl Crow have performed small concerts. Most stores are locally-owned, new businesses – I never tire of Winky (winkydesigns.com), which sells Vegas-made watches and jewellery, nor BluMarble (www.blumarble. com), which recycles booze bottles from Strip casinos into tumblers, plates and even lighting. BNE January/February 2016 | 17 ESCAPE EAT... The Vegas food scene used to be tagged to the casinos: celebrity chefs from all over the world would flock to the Strip to make their name on a global scale. But with the rise of Downtown, all that’s changed – and even some chefs are transferring northwards from the Strip. Kerry Simon was the first – the US celebrity chef and one of Vegas’ best loved personalities opened Carson Kitchen in 2014. A 47-seater in a former motel, with communal seating and a veggie-heavy menu, it was a departure from Simon’s typical style (he’d previously helmed burger and fast food restaurants at the likes of the Hard Rock), yet he quickly grew a huge following from locals and tourists alike. Sadly, Kerry died last September but Eugene Santiago, his executive chef who’d taken on the day-to-day running of the restaurant during his long illness, is keeping things as they were. Kerry Simon may have been the trailblazer, but he’s not the only one to have made the move from the Strip to Downtown. Bradley Manchester, who’d previously won plaudits for reinventing the Vegas buffet concept at the Cosmopolitan, opened Glutton (see www.gluttonlv.com) last April – like Carson Kitchen, it’s more of a Californian take on traditional Vegas restaurants, with dishes such as ahi tuna tacos and curried cauliflower. Strip deserters aside, the latest trend is for European: Downtown’s newest openings are Brit gastropub The Smashed Pig (www.thesmashedpig.com) and a French fondue joint, F. Pigalle (508 Fremont St). It’s not all about the casinos Container Park DRINK... The after hours scene is what Downtown Commonwealth bar Bin 702 does best – and its resurgence started on a single block of Fremont Street with the opening of Beauty Bar at 517 Freemont (see www.beautybarlv.com), set in a 1950s Edward Scissorhands-esque beauty salon complete with a functioning nail bar, and DCR (www.downtowncocktailroom.com). DCR single-handedly revolutionised Vegas’ drinking scene with its seasonal, seriously inventive menu (think ‘Tea and Biscuits’, with amaro, English Breakfast tea, ginger and biscuit). Inspire (www.inspirelasvegas.com), is a private members’ club that allows non-members access to almost all the complex, including two bars and a theatre that’s already seen the band Arctic Monkeys perform. Commonwealth (www.commonwealthlv.com) is a pre-Prohibition styled bar with another secret bar, the Laundry Room, within it. Entry is by reservation only – text +1 702 701 1466 to hold a space. SEE... I moved to Vegas thinking the same as everyone else – that it’s a city devoid of culture. Not so, I came to realise – it’s just that, instead of Old Masters, this is a living museum of pop culture. Unlike the Strip, Downtown has escaped the wrecking ball over the decades and its mid-century streetscapes are pepped up with vintage neon signs – the perfect backdrop for obligatory selfies. The Neon Boneyard (www.neonmuseum.org) has long been one of Sin City’s most offbeat destinations: a two-acre outdoor lot filled with 150 original neon signs from everything from anonymous laundromats to world-famous former casinos (the latest addition is the glitzy marquee of the Ratpack favourite Sahara, which closed in 2011), its guided tours double as a history lesson – where else would you hear about America’s first non-segregated casino, other than standing in front of its old marquee? For something equally quirky – and not as highbrow as it sounds Neon Boneyard 18 | BNE January/February 2016 El Cortez Oasis at Gold Spike – the Smithsonian-affiliated National Atomic Testing Museum (see www.nationalatomictestingmuseum.org) is a fascinating look at America’s Cold War-era atomic program (one of the major testing sites was just outside Vegas). Its slightly ’80s layout only adds to the vibe. And if its Area 51 exhibit has given you a taste for the desert, head out to Red Rock Canyon (www.redrockcanyonlv.org), a national park about 30km west of the city centre. There’s a 20km driving loop that threads around bright orange, pillowy cliffs (petrified prehistoric sand dunes) and under a jagged mountain range, but my favourite thing to do is walk the 3km Moenkopi Loop, which takes you right into the landscape, up onto a limestone bluff (a prehistoric sea bed) with beautiful views of the Vegas valley. rarely anything to write home about. But things have changed in the last few years, both on the Strip, where the likes of Vdara, Mandarin Oriental and the Delano are casino-free, and Downtown. One of the oldest casinos in town, the 1941-opened El Cortez (www.elcortezhotelcasino.com), has a separate block of 64 funky, retro-style rooms, the Cabana Suites, across the street from the main casino. And in 2014, Downtown got its first “official” non-gambling hotel: Oasis at Gold Spike (www.oasisatgoldspike.com), a 1960s motel gussied up with cool modern decor, backing onto the Gold Spike, an old casino that’s replaced the gaming with actual games, like darts, shuffleboard and Connect Four. SLEEP... Hotels in Vegas have always tended to be casinos with Hawaiian Airlines flies direct from Brisbane to Honolulu and on to Las Vegas or 10 other American cities from Los Angeles to New York. For more information see www.hawaiianairlines.com.au rooms – usually superb value, since they’re subsidised by gambling, but » BNE January/February 2016 | 19 ESCAPE Eat play Love it AN EXPLORER’S GUIDE TO TAMWORTH 20 | BNE January/February 2016 Long after the sun sets on the country music festival there’s plenty more to celebrate in and around Tamworth, writes Leonie Vandeven O ne sure fire way to get a complete stranger to burst into an impromptu line dance routine is to tell them you are from Tamworth. It’s a joke that never gets old, apparently. Tamworth’s worldwide claim to fame is indeed country music and the festival that attracts tens of thousands of tourists over 10 days every year (from 15-24 January in 2016), but that’s not all it has to offer. Now there’s another 10-day festival that shows quite a different side of this fertile land in the north west of New South Wales, about 320km from the Queensland border. Taste Tamworth, from 1-10 April, is a chance for visitors to take a closer look at where their produce comes from, enjoy pop-up bars and long lunches and sample tasting plates in the park (while listening to live music, of course). I grew up in Tamworth so I’ve always thought the region was special but it took a recent visit to open my eyes to just how bountiful it really is – and so much more than can be squeezed into one short break. Stay Tamworth itself has undergone quite a renaissance and a new generation of entrepreneurs has given this country town a boutique city vibe, most recently in the newly renovated mid-city hotel CH on Peel. If the walls could talk, the CH on Peel boutique hotel would spill every secret about Tamworth and its people from the time it was built in 1900 as the Central Hotel. However, a complete facelift completed a year ago has transformed this heritagelisted building from a tired old pub to luxury accommodation that pays homage to its Deco heritage – a history not so hard to imagine as soon as you step into the original manually-operated lift which has been immaculately restored but feels like a step back in time to the hotel’s heyday of the 1920s. Today it has all the mod cons of free Wifi, Foxtel, wake up calls and valet laundry service while the Deco Restaurant and Bar serves tapas and taster plates on the menu, a perfect place to perch at the end of a day exploring. Eat My adventure started at a café resembling the Secret Garden, nestled behind two heritage listed church buildings and The Old Bell Tower in Marius Street (www.theoldbelltower.net.au). It’s not so secret if the steady stream of early risers coming in for breakfast is anything to go by, but you wouldn’t know you were sharing this slice of heaven with anyone but the fairy wrens as garden tables are tucked away in little private alcoves between the rambling roses, daisies, lavender and wisteria. The quaint Café Tea House attached to the garden serves very, very good Campos coffee, a decent selection of T2 teas and a simple but delicious country menu. The classic muesli with Greek yogurt and berries, served in a tall sundae glass, narrowly beat the Belgian Waffle with home-made butterscotch » Image: Destination Tamworth BNE January/February 2016 | 21 ESCAPE sauce to my belly. If I had time to spare I could have spent a few hours pottering about the gift shop bulging with antiques, trinkets and treasures. At Le Pruneau (83 Bridge Street) Frenchman Phillippe Kanyaro shares his passion for fresh provincial-style food at his café which serves up delights from breakfast brioche to orange-smoked duck at lunch. Phillippe is an accomplished cheesemaker and so cheese is made on site from local milk and he supports local farmers and their produce at his popular organic markets held in the café car park every Saturday morning. My tip: after brunch grab a loaf of crusty bread, a wedge of house-made cheese, vine-ripened tomatoes and strawberries to enjoy later. Any suburb, let alone city, is judged on its coffee these days and Tamworth makes the grade. In the not too distant past, asking for a latte would have drawn a blank stare. Now an urban-style coffee culture has well and truly taken hold with coffee junkies lining up at Addimi Espresso (306 Peel Street) for their morning fix. The collective worldwide experience of the baristas in this funky little café shows and they serve an excellent piccolo, along with house-baked goods and lunch from 11.30am. It is a hive of activity from 6.30am daily. After dark The Pig and Tinder Box (429 Peel Street) is the place to be. An old bank building has been given a new lease on life by Gen Y owners Chris Cornforth and Fraser Haughton who have brought their experience from operating small bars in big cities to Tamworth. While the Pig and Tinder Box is not so small it is buzzing with an energetic vibe. The menu is casual with a focus on generous tapas plates and wood fired pizzas washed down with craft beers, all served at a city pace. Cornforth, too, champions local produce sourcing meat, cheese and milk from local producers. “We’re in the middle of this amazing food bowl and we want to showcase that,” he says. Indeed, local farmers in the region have been producing everything from bush honey to grass-fed beef and hydroponic vegetables for generations but the farm gates have only been opened more recently for visitors to take a closer look at where their food comes from and how it gets to the restuarant plate. Cornforth and Haughton are supporting that with their own ‘Eat local, taste local’ flavour in their menu. Do not eat anything for at least 12 hours before feasting at the Safari Club Bar and Grill (19-23 Brisbane Street). Everything about this award-winning South African-style char grill restaurant is big so you’ll need an appetite to match for the huge plates of sticky, saucy, tender beef, pork and lamb ribs. They have just the right amount of spice and huge hand-cut steaks or exotic game meat such as crocodile are cooked by owner and head chef Elliot Dube. The more adventurous can attempt the 1.5kg Lions Paw* with a side of Monkey* gland sauce. *No lions or monkeys were harmed in the enjoyment of this meal! Explore Less than an hour’s drive from Tamworth is the historic and very quaint village of Nundle. Built on the banks of the Peel River, this sleepy village once pulsed with thousands of prospectors hoping to strike it rich on gold that would flow down from the hills to the valley below. The landscape remains virtually untouched since the gold rush days in 1850 with evidence of its existence still visible in the divots and piles of stones that line the river shore. Thriving with bird life and other fauna, it’s a spot where you’re likely to catch a glimpse of an elusive platypus, or a sleepy koala and jag a rainbow trout in the pristine waterways. And yes, there’s still ‘gold in them thar hills’, so you might just make your fortune! Seventy-five years ago fortunes were made from a thriving wool trade which fed demand for 200 woollen mills across Australia, but the Nundle Woollen Mill (1 Oakenville Street) is the last one still operating. Treechangers Nick and Kylie Bradford bought the mill eight years ago and now it’s the only place in the world you can actually see commercial wool spinning on machines that are more than 100 years old. The mill spins cleaned Australian wool and the Bradford’s dye all their own yarn in myriad shades of the rainbow. As hand crafts such as knitting, crochet, spinning and weaving enjoy a resurgence Nundle Woollen Mill ships its yarn all over Australia and 22 | BNE January/February 2016 “Its first owner lost the pub in a card game but it was an auspicious win for the next owner whose descendants continue to run the inn today” The writer travelled as a guest of Jetgo, CH on Peel and Destination Tamwort Clockwise from top left: the restored lift inside boutique hotel CH on Peel; the café at the Old Bell Tower; the Pig and Tinder Box has brought a small bar buzz to dining out in Tamworth and champions local farm produce; fish for trout at Arc-en-Ciel Trout Farm, Nundle; Le Pruneau also supports local farmers with an organic market every Saturday; Nundle Woollen Mill is the last surviving mill still spinning wool on restored 100-year-old machinery; the Peel Inn; Addimi is the coffee mecca in town. the world via its online store but the mill’s own shop is like a candy store for ‘yarnistas’ piled with woollen jumpers, scarves, gloves, hats, tops and socks and walls of yarn including the popular super-chunky felted Nundle Wool Vine. Visitors can book a tour to see the mill in action online at www.nundle.com Just a short stroll from Nundle Woollen Mill is the Mt Misery Gold Mine (80 Gill Street), not really a working mine but a lovingly restored old building full of mining memorabilia. There’s also an old mining shaft to explore which gives a spine tingling glimpse into the dark and dangerous days of gold mining. Luckily for us, instead of back-breaking work and choking dust, the ‘mine’ is now serving up delicious home-cooked meals, pastries, hand-made chocolates and a choice of teas which can be enjoyed on the open veranda with the local blue wrens or in front of the cosy fire during the cooler months. Back to the main street of Nundle and sitting in the beer garden of The Peel Inn (Jenkins Street) is a little surreal. It’s warm and sunny with colourful baskets of seedlings and flowering cumquats buzzing with bees and butterflies, yet it’s snowing … snowing petals. Above us the tendrils of a 40-year-old grapevine stretch far and wide, providing a leafy green canopy shading us from the midday sun and when it flowers in spring it sends down a flurry of petals which settle all around like snow. It is quite magical and adds to the ambience of the 150-year-old pub which has a rich history from the gold rush days. Its first owner lost the pub in a card game but it was an auspicious win for the next owner, John Schofield, whose descendants continue to run the inn today. Their classic pub menu is complemented with locally sourced beef, trout and blackberries and the tap beer icy cold and crisp. Trout is something of a specialty at the eateries here and we soon find out why. High in the hills just 20 minutes from Nundle village is the Arc-en-Ciel Trout Farm (Malonga, Morrison’s Gap Road, Hanging Rock). The temperature is noticeably cooler and the bushland dense and thriving with wildlife. Here, in a pristine paradise, the Sydenham family raise thousands of tonnes of rainbow trout (“arc en ciel” is French for “rainbow”) from eggs in natural spring-fed ponds surrounded by virgin bushland. To say that owner Russell Sydenham takes special care of his fish is an understatement – for one batch that was behaving erratically at night he thought they were stressed by the dark so he left the lights on in the hatchery all night – and the result is a range of product that wins awards at food shows around the country, from whole fish and fillets to paté and Gravlax cured in a marinade of salt, sugar and dill. There’s a farm-gate store and a café to try the trout specialties for lunch. For a small fee, visitors also can fish for their own trout or, in the warmer months, take guided tours to learn about the rich Aboriginal history of the land, bush medicine, bush tucker and unique wildlife. Keep an eye out for Goldie the 3kg albino trout and, if you’re lucky, you might spot an endangered Spotted Quoll or the magical sugar gliders flitting from treetop to treetop. For more information see www.rainbowtrout.com.au Getting to Tamworth is even easier with a new airline servicing the route direct from Brisbane. The flight takes about 45 minutes on Jetgo’s sleek Embraer jets and with just 36 seats per aircraft space is quite generous and in-flight service is complimentary. Taste Tamworth Festival is on 1-10 April 2016. For more information see www.destinationtamworth.com.au. Jetgo flights to/from Tamworth operate twice a day on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. For details and to book see www.jetgo.com BNE January/February 2016 | 23 ESCAPE HOT properties Who would have thought that the age-old tradition of pulling out an air mattress to accommodate overflow family and friends during the holidays would have sparked a multi-billion dollar business idea? That’s exactly how Airbnb began when the founders did pull out the air mattresses for paying guests to help pay their own rent. While there are yurts, shipping containers, retro caravans and even windmills listed on the site today, there’s not an air mattress in sight and there’s plenty of first class accommodation to choose from. Since Airbnb (www.airbnb.com.au) opened an office in Australia three years ago listings have grown to more than 50,000 – more than 5000 in Brisbane alone – and the number is growing fast. Queensland listings have more than doubled in the last year and are expected to double again this year. These are just five of the 5-star top spots … MOUNTAIN HIGH Sascha (right) fell in love with this house at Mt Glorious the moment she saw it and her guests agree. The tranquil location beside the bush with panoramic views overlooking Moreton Bay is booked every weekend and often during the week and a few musicians have used it as a quiet retreat to record new music. Guests have the run of the three-bedroom house and there’s an atrium bathroom with a bushland view of its own. Sascha runs her own business as well and admits keeping up with the cleaning and maintaining the house for guests can be hard work (cleaning fees are often extra to the room rate on Airbnb bookings) but she’s not fazed and says the benefits are meeting lovely people from all over the world while they still have access to the house for their own visitors if they want. Bookings are for a minimum two-night stay or four nights during peak periods. Cost $194 per night. WAREHOUSE CHIC When the Studebaker lights flash on as you arrive after dark at the entrance to this warehouse apartment you know you’re in a funky part of town. Dal (left) and her husband were reluctant to move from their inner city home, just walking distance to Central Station, the Valley, shops and cafés but by the time their second child was born they needed more space. At first they leased the apartment to long-term tenants but with family interstate they soon found they wanted the convenience of having the apartment available for visitors of their own. Dal says she tries to make the two-level, two-bedroom, twobathroom apartment a home away from home and indeed the long list of features includes a beach umbrella and beach towels, children’s toy box (and porta-cot if required) and takeaway menus from local restaurants. They’re the sort of details Dal says she’d like to see when she travels. “I know what it’s like to travel with kids and how much stuff you need and it’s nice if it’s there and you don’t have to worry about it.” Dal meets every guest and her listing provides lots of information about the neighbourhood which is why she is a ‘Superhost’ who consistently gets 5-star reviews. She also is very specific about house rules and says her guests respect that, more than when the place was tenanted. Minimum three-night booking. Cost $196 per night. 24 | BNE January/February 2016 CITY FRINGE When Robyn and Jim (below) renovated their large Queenslander home in East Brisbane they had visions of running a Bed and Breakfast but soon realised it would be more than what they bargained for as they wanted to enjoy semi-retirement. They also have a large extended family living overseas and wanted the flexibility of having space for them to come and visit. In the meantime, Robyn has two spacious rooms available that are each equipped with TV, desk and ample storage and they share bathroom, laundry, kitchenette and media room facilities. Visitors range from off-duty mine workers to English backpackers and have come from far-flung places such as Myanmar, South America and Saudi Arabia. According to reviews Robyn and Jim have gone above and beyond their visitors’ expectations, often picking them up or taking them to the airport at odd hours, to earn them ‘Superhost’ status and a 92 per cent 5-star rating. Robyn has some simple tips for guests looking for a good experience. “It’s all about communication. If you explain what you’re travelling for, what your needs might be, who you are travelling with and share a little about yourself then I am happy to help as much as possible. But some people just want to be left alone.” Minimum stay two nights. Cost $95 one room per night. HISTORIC GEM Eskgrove (above) was derelict when Arna and her husband bought it and, as Brisbane’s oldest private residence, it is a valuable piece of the city’s history so the couple worked closely with the Department of Heritage Protection when it came time to renovate. Now visitors to Brisbane can enjoy this fully-restored two-bedroom historic gem on Mowbray Park once again. The cottage is separated from the main house by a central courtyard and retractable screens on the back veranda provide even more privacy between the two residences. However, listing it on Airbnb was not part of the couple’s original plan when they bought the property. “We had no real intention of renting it out or doing anything with it as we just thought we’d need a bigger house with the kids,” Arna says. She hadn’t even heard of Airbnb until she was hosting a baby shower for a girlfriend and someone suggested it. She looked it up, listed (in about an hour using her smartphone), and had six bookings in the first two months from “lovely people”. A guest, Ruth, summed up her visit as “a wonderful piece of history tucked away in a fab neighbourhood, one minute walk to the park and river, five minutes walk to the ferry, 10 minutes walk to the CityCycle station, a terrific way for my friend to be introduced to a glorious little part of Brisbane”. Minimum two night stay. Cost $175 night. ECO POD At this architect-designed Eco-pod guests enjoy bathing in filtered rainwater, (which is recycled through a greywater system), solar power and even an organic breakfast. The guest suite is a self-contained ‘pod’ separated from the main house with its own plunge pool (inset), separate access, a media room. The king suite comes supplied with the prestigious Appelles Apothecary body products made from certified organic Australian essential oils (including aromatic oil burners on the bedside table). The Eco-pod is booked, on average, five nights a week and business consultant Phil manages it all from his smartphone. He has high praise for the platform which he says is easy to use and help readily available if needed. Airbnb also hosts events from time to time for hosts to meet and learn more. At a recent event more than 50 guest hosts were given Dyson cordless vacuum cleaners. Phil has also travelled a lot using Airbnb and recently helped his own two children book their first nights backpacking overseas with Airbnb. “We’ve stayed in yurts, beachside units and some weird and wonderful places and had some absolutely brilliant experiences,” says Phil. Minimum stay one night. Cost $211 per night. BNE January/February 2016 | 25 TASTE Italian classics Tequila time Tequila’s had a bad rap in the past and continues to be a drink that’s misunderstood, says Nico Iaia who’s taking a shot at reforming that image one drink at a time at Alquimia Tequila Bar. If you’re still slamming down shots you’ve got it all wrong and the taste of tequila deserves to be savoured with every sip. Alquimia has more than 80 types of tequila to choose from but Iaia keeps his cocktail list simple – each providing a twist on a classic, like Letters from Paradise (pictured above). Alquimia Tequila Bar is open 5.30pm until late Thursday to Monday, 702 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley. Marchetti is the quintessential Italian café, small, loud and expert at making good coffee so when owner Michael Makras decided to keep the café open for traditional Italian aperitivo on Friday nights before Christmas loyal followers were clamouring for a cocktail with a coffee base – so, while it’s not strictly Italian, the Espresso Martini (pictured) quickly became a favourite. Makras keeps the drinks menu short with mostly classic Camparibased drinks, such as a Negroni, or an Aperol Spritz and offers mini-versions of specialties from the lunch menu to tempt the taste buds. Due to popular demand aperitivo will be back in February, Fridays only 5-9.30pm, at Marchetti, Tattersall’s Arcade, 202 Edward Street, city. Summer SPLASH Brisbane’s Coolest Cocktails Say olé Sure it’s fun to drink Sangria, but even better to learn how to make one from a master. Fernando, yes, he’s from Spain, is the resident expert at Sangria Bar and on Tuesday nights hosts a masterclass which tells you the Sangria story and how to make an authentic drink. As is the Spanish tradition, it’s served with a Surtido board – tasty morsels of Spanish ham and cheeses with marinated olives and crusty bread. Cost $69 for two. Sangria Bar at Ole Restaurant, B13/14, Grey Street, South Bank. Call 3846 1201 to book. Kale with a kick Corbett and Claude’s owner Tim Johnson likes to keep his diet as healthy as possible so it’s no surprise even the alcoholic beverages on the menu ‘keep it green’. For example, Don’t Kale My Vibe (pictured) is a blend of vodka, kale, lemon, ginger, apple and apple cider vinegar while Cocktails in My Activewear mixes vodka, lychee and elderflower liqueurs with chia seeds and both are a super cool complement to the popular superfood pizzas. Corbett and Claude at 283 Elizabeth Street, city and Indooroopilly Shopping Centre. 26 | BNE January/February 2016 Bee-licious Emporium Hotel sources honey from its own rooftop bee hive to sweeten the Bee’s Knees, a new summer cocktail on its menu, but that’s not all. There’s bacon-fat-washedBulleit-Bourbon, maple syrup, Angostura Bitters, dehydrated orange and beef jerky in the Hickory Bacon Old Fashioned, housemade lemon myrtle sorbet, vodka and Prosecco in the Lemon Myrtle Sgroppino (pictured) and there’s a decidedly ginger and honey taste to ‘Penicillin’. Look out for these and plenty of fruity and herb flavours in the new cocktail list at Emporium Hotel, 1000 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley. Oyster hour Great Aussie bites I t’s no secret that Australia is one of the most beer-loving nations on earth so wouldn’t it be good if all those dollars spent were siphoned off to good causes? Well, that’s what environmental activist James Grugeon had in mind when he started the Brisbane-based Good Beer Company. Actually it’s more than just a company, it’s a movement. Grugeon launched a crowd-funding campaign in December to get pre-orders for his first batch of Great Barrier Beer which will be made by Bundaberg-based Bargara Brewing Company and delivered by mid-February. At least 50 per cent of profits from the brew – an India Pale Ale – have been pledged to the Australian Marine Conservation Society to help save the Great Barrier Reef. Grugeon says he chose to work with Bargara because it was important the beers were made from quality Australian products and environmentally-friendly through their ingredient sourcing and production. People who showed their support in the crowdfunding campaign will be rewarded with the first beers off the production line, before it’s delivered to bottle shops and venues across Brisbane and, eventually, other states across Australia. Supporters who kicked in as much as $5000 will be flown to Bargara Brewery with five mates for a dinner, a tour and a trip out to the Barrier Reef. There will be more rewards for people who join the movement with invitations to future beers tastings, have a say in future beer recipes, labels and causes. Great Barrier Beer is just the beginning for the Good Beer Company which will work on new products with craft brewers across the country that are committed to supporting important charities. Find out more and join the movement online at www.thegoodbeerco.com.au Popolo Kitchen and Bar serves up mouthwatering small plates (such as Polpette meatballs, Capesante scallops or crispy squid) and large plates (such as Mooloolaba prawns and squid ink pasta) to share for lunch or dinner all year round but leading River Quay restaurants will celebrate Australia Day by serving up a variety of taster plates and drinks from pop-up food stalls using Queensland ingredients. Great Australian Bites will take over River Quay at South Bank Parklands from 23 to 26 January accompanied by live entertainment. See the full program at http://qld.australiaday.org.au/whats-on/ Stokehouse Q at River Quay has given the Australian tradition of Happy Hour its own flavour for summer in the form of ‘Oyster Hour’, featuring Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin French champagne ($14 per glass) and fresh natural oysters ($2 each), served from 11am to 12 noon every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Stokehouse Q is also open for lunch and dinner seven days at Sidon Street, on the river at South Bank. To book, call 3020 0600. FOOD FOR THE MORNING AFTER Mother and son team Soula and Yianni Passaris have opened a café with just the right vibe for the Morning After! Designed by Derlot’s Alexander Lotersztain this spare corner café serves up breakfast and lunch menus that are 60 per cent healthy and 40 per cent ‘naughty’. The signature deconstructed breakfast carbonara with a 63 degree hen’s egg leans towards the more naughty side and is reportedly the perfect antidote for a hangover! Other recommendations include the fresh sand crab omelette, buttermilk and ricotta hotcakes, the sweet corn pakora and granola from local nutritionists and bloggers ‘The Unrefined’ (Instagram: @the__unrefined). Brisbane dietitian and nutritionist Lisa Peterson helped put the menu together. Morning After stays open for lunch too, for late risers on the morning after and, of course, there’s coffee and a wide selection of Cartel specialty teas. Open seven days 7am to 4pm at 57 Vulture Street (corner Cambridge Street), West End. Call 3844 0500. Cream of the crop The Damian Griffiths food empire in Fortitude Valley just gets bigger, from the Asian hawker food at Kwan Brothers and steak frites at Les Bubbles to Doughnut Time and the decadent desserts at Chester Street Bakery – now there’s Mister Fitz at Fortitude Valley and South Bank. Griffiths got his latest light bulb moment for a new venue on a trip to San Francisco and found himself longing for how ice cream used to be made. So his ice creamery was born, focusing on hand-made, pasteurised in-house, original recipe ice cream and ice cream sandwiches. Open seven days from10am at 1 Little Street, Fortitude Valley and Shop 9, 178 Grey Street, South Bank. BNE January/February 2016 | 27 TASTE meet the MAKERS The soda makers The cheese makers Bronwyn and Michael Lind’s White Gold Creamery is no overnight success. It’s been eight years in the making and was given impetus when the couple lived in a hinterland dairy farming community that they saw shrinking before their eyes. Driven by their private passion for cheese and wanting to do something to support local dairies the Linds embarked on a quest to learn all they could about cheese-making. They did courses and travelled to cheese capitals of the world in Italy, Germany and Switzerland to learn as much as they could before they opened White Gold Creamery and sold their first cheese less than a year ago. Their newest cheese, Beechmont (to be released soon), was inspired by one such trip to a centuries-old stone hut high in the Swiss Alps where they made cheese in a cauldron over a wood fire under the guidance of a father and daughter team. Meanwhile the Bloomy Rind Mountain Bries (the name is a reference to memories of the stirring breezes at their former hinterland home) sells out as soon as batches are made and taster packs including the cumin seed-spiked Duck Creek and Young Myrtle (with lemon myrtle and pepper) sell like hot cakes at the White Gold Creamery stalls at Moggill Farmers Markets, Brookfield, The Gap markets and the new Night Quarter markets, Helensvale. See www.whitegoldcreamery.com.au 28 | BNE January/February 2016 When long-time mates Cale Seusskow (left, above) and Simon Anderson (right, above) went looking for a drink to have on their ‘beer-free days’ after work they found the selection wanting. “We were looking for some adult craft sodas to replace the booze and there really wasn’t anything. Soft drink companies all seem to make the same flavours,” says Anderson. That was enough to kickstart the pair into experimenting with their own flavoured syrups to mix with soda water. Their own flair with flavours and cooking gave them a head start and when they are not working at Sourced Grocer (which also stocks the syrups at 11 Florence Street, Teneriffe) they are selling their BNE Soda Co syrups at Brisbane Powerhouse Markets, New Farm. “The ironic part is they mix with alcohol really well,” says Anderson. Ingredients, such as native foraged lemon myrtle, are sourced locally and seasonal but continuing favourites on their order list include Thyme and Ginger Beer and Cucumber Basil. New on the list is Apple Cream Soda made from Granny Smiths, caramelised vanilla sugar syrup and lemon juice, apparently also good with a splash of whisky. For more stockists see www.bnesodaco.com The incubator Angela Hirst wanted to start her own food business until she found that resources available to help her were sadly lacking. Instead she changed direction and set up Wandering Cooks as a space to help other fledgling food start-ups. And a public hungry for new ideas also benefits. Since it began two years ago Wandering Cooks has gone from leasing out commercial kitchen space to new producers to hosting three or four food trucks every Thursday in its car park, opening up a Makers Market every Wednesday from 5pm (until sold out) to showcase individual producers and a Bottom of the Garden Bar every Wednesday to Sunday afternoon to put gypsy brewers, craft beer makers, artisan wineries and soft drink makers in the spotlight. Already there have been many success stories, including Kaitlyn Fitzpatrick’s 31 Degrees custom chocolates which are made at Wandering Cooks and sold online, Kate Williams’ No Do gluten-free doughnuts – Williams recently set up her own café in Newstead – and Tamara Lord and Candi Coonan (pictured left) recently opened their own cake shop in Geebung due to popular demand for their amazing raw cakes. Wandering Cooks has helped at least 70 start-ups with space, equipment, events and workshops and there’s more to come with Once a Garden to begin at the end of January showcasing preserving and pickling and the Great Unhatched coming soon to throw the spotlight on the art of barbecue, ethically-produced meats and butchers who excel at their craft. For more information see www.wanderingcooks.com.au COFFEE HITS Kitchen Confidential Fonzie Abbott, voted one of the 10 best coffee shops in Brisbane, is the newest local coffee roaster to open at Brisbane Airport, bringing its signature Highside blend and others to Level 2 (near Gate 41) at the Domestic Terminal. For three years they’ve been roasting and blending beans sourced from Central South America, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea and now supply almost 50 cafés from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast to Byron Bay in northern NSW. For a closer look at how the coffee is made Fonzie Abbott’s factory at 40 Fox Street, Albion is open to the public 6am to 3pm weekdays and 7am to 1pm Saturdays. Peter Refell Executive chef Emirates Leisure & Retail Drink it cold Merlo has brought back its Black Bear Cold Press coffee for summer, a smoother, sweeter and less acidic alternative to a cooled espresso shot, with no bitterness. While iced coffee is made with a hot espresso machine and then chilled, Black Bear cold press is made with a special blend of Merlo’s roasted beans and cold water from the start then milk added before it’s bottled. Cost $5.50 per bottle at Merlo on Level 1 Central Area and Virgin Food Court Level 2 in the Domestic Terminal, Brisbane Airport. Baristas test their skills Last year more than 5 million cups of coffee were served to passengers travelling through Brisbane Airport and as passengers’ tastes become increasingly more sophisticated baristas continue to improve their skills. To put them to the test Brisbane Airport recently held its first mentoring program and barista competition hosted by experts from multi-award winning Wolff Coffee Roasters and popular Hendra café Dandelion & Driftwood. Seventeen baristas were judged on technical and sensory skills and Vicky Juan (below) from Hudsons Coffee at the International Terminal was named the competition’s first Barista of the Year. Yumi Yogawa from Windmill & Co, also at the International Terminal was second and Lucy McNamara from Bar Roma at the Domestic Terminal was third. You worked with Marco Pierre White for years. What did you learn from him? Not to over complicate food, simplicity is the key, and to always focus on the true flavour in your dishes. You also worked with White on the book In the Kitchen with Michael Caine, his business partner in the restaurant The Canteen. Was Caine quite a foodie, or a good cook himself? Michael Caine was a true restaurateur in every sense, The Canteen was not his first restaurant, he loved food and entertained in the restaurant all the time. He would spend time with the front of house staff and chefs daily when in town. He even helped out one night in the kitchen when we had our Christmas staff dinner. You have just opened Aviation Pier Café and Bar at Brisbane Airport’s Domestic Terminal. What sort of food is served there? Fast comfort food, freshly prepared every day using as much local produce as we can, including Woombye cheese, Chriberg smoked bacon and Green Beacon craft beers. The team at Green Beacon produce some of the best craft beers in Queensland. How long did you spend researching South East Queensland produce before opening the eateries at Brisbane Airport? We spent six months in depth before we opened Brisbane River Grill, visiting the best breakfast, lunch and dinner operators in Brisbane. What are the signature dishes at your newest Brisbane Airport venues? At Brisbane River Grill it’s surely the Breakfast Skillet with the best of Queensland local produce including Tamborine Mountain free range eggs, Chriberg bacon and sausage from Cabassi & Co artisan butcher. At Glasshouse it is hormone-free Wagyu beef burger with Woombye cheese and a fresh house-made relish. At Aviation Pier it’s a classic Croque Monsieur Breakfast Sandwich with Chriberg smoked ham and a rich housemade cheese sauce that can be upgraded with a free range egg. What’s been your greatest discovery in local produce? Tamborine Mountain free range eggs – eggs that taste like they should and all you need is a great sourdough bread to mop up the yolks which are as yellow as I have ever seen. Dining options have changed significantly at Brisbane Airport in recent months. Is this a trend happening around the world? Food and beverage has changed dramatically over the last five years throughout the UK, US and that is coming to Australia. Customers do not accept sub-standard food anymore and gone is the service station style of food, whether in an airport or the high street. Large investments into food and beverage outlets in airports are seeing a marked change in quality and service. We take the customer journey very seriously and aim to have everyone starting or ending their trip with a truly great experience. You are based in Melbourne and visit Brisbane often – what’s a restaurant you would recommend to visitors? Alchemy (175 Eagle Street, city on the river). Brad and Angelica Jolly run a well-established restaurant which has lasted the test of time, culinary perfection with innovation. I try to eat there every time I’m in Brisbane. As executive chef and food and beverage manager of Emirates Leisure and Retail Peter Refell oversees 29 outlets currently open and six more under construction in airports across Australia. BNE January/February 2016 | 29 WHAT’S ON Thriller of a musical Our appetite for stage musicals may seem insatiable but director Zoe Tuffin is not sugar-coating her interpretation of Stephen King’s Carrie for its Queensland debut and she says she hopes audiences will be more than a little spooked. Be warned, blood will flow in this musical thriller from local company, Wax Lyrical Productions, which has an M rating for ages 15+. It’s been nearly 30 years since the first Carrie musical hit the stage and more than 40 since the book and film launched a new level of horror on unsuspecting audiences, but its themes of bullying, teen angst and religious fanaticism are topical for today. The stage adaptation was written by Lawrence Cohen who wrote the script for the original film and the music and lyrics created by Academy Award winners Dean Pitchford and Michael Gore (who had also worked together on Fame). However, in Brisbane the show will be given a new energy with a cast of rising stars. Recent graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium’s Musical Theatre Program Sophie Perkins is the evil Carrie, Georgina Hopson (Into the Woods) is her classmate Sue Snell and cabaret and jazz favourite Jacqui Devereux (Chicago, Jersey Boys, Mary Poppins), is Margaret White, Carrie’s mother. It’s the most ambitious production so far for Tuffin and her husband and business partner Shane Pike who started Wax Lyrical Productions just two years ago but they are not daunted and already are planning their next musical. Carrie the musical from 20-30 January at Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm. Tickets from $40 plus fees. Call 3358 8600 or see www.brisbanepowerhouse.org Life is weird in Night Vale It’s the modern day version of a radio serial, even if it is a decidedly odd one, and the podcast Welcome to Night Vale has been a runaway success for its creators, who have since written a spin-off book and launched a touring live show. The podcast episodes have been downloaded many millions of times since the series began in 2012 and demand for seats to see the first live performance in Brisbane was so great a larger venue had to be found soon after first tickets went on sale. Cecil Palmer is the host of the local community radio show and calmly relates all sorts of bizarre happenings in the small town of Night Vale in the style of weather reports, news, announcements from the Sheriff’s Secret Police and cultural events. It’s weird, dark and inexplicably funny. Tickets $71.60 plus fees. At Concert Hall, QPAC, South Brisbane on 8 February. For bookings call 136 246 or see http://qpac.com.au FAST and furious Cirque Adrenaline takes theatre to dangerous heights in a new show where daredevil motorcyclists, trapeze artists, hair-raising fire acts and a Wheel of Death are the stars. This is Cirque du Soleil on speed – many of the performers are former stars of Cirque du Soleil – which blends traditional circus acrobatics with higher, faster and more dangerous manoeuvres for a heart-pounding spectacle. From 7 to 17 January at the Concert Hall, QPAC, South Brisbane. Tickets from $79 plus fees. For bookings call 136 246 or see www.qpac.com.au 30 | BNE January/February 2016 THEATRE AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IT Artists from Belgium, Cambodia, Indonesia, Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, UK, USA and around Australia are all part of WTF16 at Brisbane Powerhouse, a festival of contemporary performance that challenges perceptions of traditional theatre. Politics, war, women’s power, conflict and asylum are some of the themes under the microscope – there’s even a dancing robot in Huang Yi & KUKA (above). Free Club nights during the program will feature some wild and wonderful international music artists. From 18-27 February. Full program at www.brisbanepowerhouse.org Land rights in focus Brisbane audiences will finally get to see director Neil Armfield’s dramatic interpretation of Kate Grenville’s award-winning book The Secret River when it premieres at QPAC’s Playhouse from 25 February to 5 March. Since it was first staged at the Sydney Theatre three years ago it has been called “epic” and “a classic of Australian theatre”, has won multiple Helpmann Awards and has since been made into a television mini-series which aired on ABC. Nathaniel Dean (above right) reprises his award-winning lead role as William Thornhill, the ex-convict who battles the local Dharug people for ownership of land on the Hawksbury River in the 1800s and Trevor Jamieson (above left), who starred in the TV mini-series, co-stars. Tickets from $68 plus fees. For bookings call 136 246 or see www.qpac.com.au Country classic not to miss Troy Cassar-Daley may have been a Grafton boy but as a long-time resident of Queensland we now claim him as one of our own and hot on the heels of his Freedom Ride tour his new show Heroes and Friends will be a highlight of the Tamworth Country Music Festival. The festival helped kickstart Troy’s career 35 years ago and he has been to every one since then, winning 27 Golden Guitar Awards along the way. This year he will be joined on stage by some country music friends who will each bring a new artist to the festival to sing one of their hero’s hit songs. Heroes and Friends is on at the Tamworth Regional Entertainment and Conference Centre on 21 January. Tamworth Country Music Festival from 15-24 January. For tickets and program see www.tcmf.com.au BNE January/February 2016 | 31 WHAT’S ON Study in black Sultry songstress French Grammy award-winner Lou Doillon (below) brings her sultry blues-folk sound to Brisbane for the first time at an intimate show for So Frenchy So Chic at Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm. Doillon, daughter of style icon Jane Birkin and sister of actor and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, will celebrate her second album Lay Low at the show on 14 January. Tickets $52 plus fees at www.brisbanepowerhouse.org As part of an exchange program China’s Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC), will appear on stage with Brisbane’s Expressions Dance Company (EDC) in a new work called Black. The companies created the piece together under the direction of acclaimed Hong Kong choreographer Xing Liang when EDC travelled to China last year and dancers pay homage to the dreamlike, fleeting and ineffable charm of black. Both companies will also present a new work of their own. Black is at the Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, South Brisbane from 12 to 20 February. For bookings see www.qpac.com.au KRALL TURNS TO POP Grammy Award winner Diana Krall reimagines some of the best pop songs of all time on her latest album Wallflower which she will perform in Brisbane as part of a world tour, accompanied by a band and an orchestra. The album is a departure from Krall’s signature jazz style but the switch has not slowed album sales – it reached the top 10 on both the ARIA and Billboard album charts and, ironically, #1 on both their jazz charts! Many of the songs are standards from the ’60s and ’70s by Linda Ronstadt, Elton John, Bryan Adams, Crowded House and others that Krall listened to growing up but she will also perform many of her other hits at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Bank on 8 February. For tickets see www.ticketek.com.au Delta’s purrfect Memory Delta Goodrem is no newcomer to the stage but her role as Grizabella in Cats is her first in musical theatre. She admits she’s been watching her own cats at home very closely to help her find her character’s personality which Brisbane audiences will see when the show opens on 29 January. While Cats is one of the longest running musicals in history the show, and Grizabella, have been updated a little for the times – but one thing that hasn’t changed is the iconic song ‘Memory’, which Goodrem sings and reviewers have pronounced a highlight of the show. Since its first appearance more than 30 years ago the multiple Tony award-winning Cats has been translated into 15 languages, performed in more than 30 countries and has been seen by more than 73 million people worldwide. Cats is at the Lyric Theatre, QPAC, South Brisbane from 29 January until 14 February. For bookings see www.qpac.com.au 32 | BNE January/February 2016 WHEN WHAT Top trio on the Green It’s been a long time between solo albums for Rob Thomas, the one-time frontman of Matchbox Twenty, who will be back in Brisbane for A Day on the Green at Sirromet Wines, Mt Cotton on 28 February. The multiGrammy Award winner says he will be playing some new stuff from his album The Great Unknown and fans won’t be disappointed as the sounds are unmistakably Thomas’ signature pop-rock that’s so far sold more than 80 million records. But there’ll be some of the old stuff on the playlist too and Thomas will be joined at the event by Pete Murray and former Powderfinger lead guitarist and songwriter Darren Middleton. Tickets from $105.90. For details and to book see www.ticketmaster.com.au WHERE JANUARY 3-10 Brisbane International Tennis Queensland Tennis Centre, Tennyson 6-23 Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine, for children Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, South Brisbane 7-17 Cirque Adrenaline, circus, aerial Concert Hall, QPAC, South Brisbane 9 Triffid Country, music The Triffid, Newstead 9-13 Circa’s Carnival of the Animals, for children Playhouse QPAC, South Brisbane 9-17 Heathers The Musical Playhouse, QPAC 14 Punk Poets in the Garden The Triffid, Newstead From 16 Baby with the Bathwater Brisbane Arts Theatre, Petrie Terrace 20-23 Aladdin, Brisbane Ballet Theatre, youth Playhouse, QPAC, South Brisbane 22 Brisbane Roar v Adelaide United Suncorp Stadium From 28 Flamenco Fire’s Viva Sevilla, dance Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, South Brisbane 29 The Griswolds, music The Triffid, Newstead From 30 Quartet, Queensland Theatre Company Playhouse, QPAC 5 Josh Pyke with Banff The Triffid, Newstead 5 Nick Offerman and Megan Mullaly Summer of 69 Concert Hall, QPAC, South Brisbane 6 St Jerome’s Laneway Festival Brisbane Showgrounds, Bowen Hills 6 Short Stack, all ages The Tivoli, Fortitude Valley 7 James Bay Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Bank 11 Lior Suchard, master mentalist Concert Hall, QPAC, South Brisbane 12 Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets Suncorp Stadium 14 Kate Miller-Heidke and friends The Triffid, Newstead 16 John Mellencamp Brisbane Riverstage, City Botanic Gardens 19 Spiderbait 25th anniversary tour The Triffid, Newstead 19 Jeremih Eatons Hill Hotel 19 Goran Bregovic and his Wedding and Funeral Band Concert Hall, QPAC, South Bank FEBRUARY New folk club Folk is trending again and there’s no shortage of talent in the lineup for the Foundry’s new Brisbane Folk Club which hosts an event each month. A Brisbane favourite Alison St Ledger joins Paddy Dempsey in band Sissybones at the club’s second event on 13 January with Garrett Kato and O’ Little Sister, and on 3 February Sons of the East, Forty Thieves and Andrea Kirwan line up at th Foundry, 228 Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley. Tickets just $14.80 each. Bookings at http://the foundry.oztix.com.au 19-24 Cinderella, Australian Ballet Lyric Theatre, QPAC 21 Simply Red with Tina Arena and Natalie Imbruglia, A Day on the Green Sirromet Wines, Mt Cotton 24 Behind the Scenes with the Australian Ballet Lyric Theatre, QPAC, South Brisbane 26-28 Shen Yun Lyric Theatre, QPAC, South Brisbane 27 Spartan Challenge Suncorp Stadium 27 Diesel Woolly Mammoth, Fortitude Valley 27 Brisbane Comedy Festival Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm 29 Exile Songs and Tales of Irish Australia Concert Hall, QPAC, South Brisbane BNE January/February 2016 | 33 DAY IN THE LIFE Arrivals and departures 10.40am Who Donna Neaby, from Dorrigo, NSW and Faye Gibson from Wavell Heights, Brisbane Where Departing for Cairns, Far North Queensland Why The pair are travelling on a girl’s weekend getaway to the tropical north. 10.30am Who Emma Ryan, from Essendon, Melbourne Where Departing for Melbourne, Victoria Why Virgin Australia cabin crew team member Emma stayed overnight in Brisbane before beginning a work day roster that will take her back to Melbourne then to Sydney. 34 | BNE January/February 2016 2.10pm 7.30am Who Fraser and Frankie Wallace, from Auckland, New Zealand Where Departing for Auckland, New Zealand Why They are on their way home after a family holiday in Noosa, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. 10.55am Who Peter, Rebecca and Donovan Bray from Alexandria, NSW Where Arriving from Sydney, NSW Why Peter is on his way to compete for the first-time in an Ironman competition on the Sunshine Coast. 2.20pm Who Adam and Gemma McNicol, from Kenmore, Brisbane Where Departing for Hawaii Why The newlyweds are on their way to enjoy their honeymoon which will be their second visit to Hawaii. More than 600 flights arrive and depart from Brisbane Airport every day transporting passengers to 71 destinations in Australia and around the world. Brisbane photographer Marc Grimwade captured some of those travellers on their journey through Brisbane Airport 11.15am Who Kaela Keogh, from McDowall, Brisbane Where Departing for Townsville, North Queensland Why Kaela is on her way to attend a Legacy Ball and spend some leisure time relaxing on The Strand on Townsville’s waterfront. 2.30pm 7.30am Who Jackie and Denham Furnell from Whangaparaoa, Stanmore Bay, New Zealand Where Departing for Auckland, New Zealand Why The couple is travelling home after spending two weeks holidaying on the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast in Queensland. 1.30pm Who Ian Smith, from Wooloowin, Brisbane Where Departing for Auckland, New Zealand Why Ian is travelling to Turangi, near Auckland for three days of trout fishing. 2.35pm 7.30am Who Emma and Matt Scragg from Adelaide, South Australia Where Departing for Auckland, New Zealand Why These newlyweds will spend two weeks in New Zealand before jetting off to Hawaii for their honeymoon. 1.55pm Who Bindi and Shane Woods with children Sean and Kate from Lake Macquarie, NSW Where Departing for Hawaii Why The family is travelling to Hawaii for a week before they take a 19-day Pacific cruise back to Sydney. 2.45pm Who Craig and Kirsty Ryan with their three boys, Mason, Cooper and Eli, from Hope Island, Gold Coast, Queensland Where Departing for Hawaii Why The family is on their way to a holiday in Hawaii, hoping to do lots of hiking and to go in a shark tank. BNE January/February 2016 | 35 MY BRISBANE WAYNE DENNING Owner and executive producer Carbon Media Since changing career direction in his 30s and launching his Indigenous advertising agency and media production company a decade ago Wayne Denning has created Australian-themed segments for Sesame Street, created game shows for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids, has a teen comedy in production and has his eyes on a bigger campaign to encourage more Indigenous children to learn coding skills. Apps, websites, animations, documentaries are all on the agenda at Carbon Media’s office in Fortitude Valley. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Blackwater in Central Queensland. can have a cold drink and listen to the music. Very cool without trying to be cool! Where do you live now? I live in Milton, about 2km from the city. Where do you always take visitors when they come to Brisbane? I always take visitors up Mt Coot-tha so they can take in the beautiful city panorama and along the Brisbane River. People are always amazed at Brisbane’s size but also its greenery and how the Brisbane River snakes through the cityscape. What do you like most about your neighbourhood? I love living inner city and being able to walk through Paddington to the CBD, stroll to watch a Broncos game or attend a concert at Suncorp Stadium. It’s really convenient to everything and has a great vibe. What’s your favourite outing on the weekend? I love walking from Milton through the city with my dog, George via South Bank and stopping for a coffee pit stop along the way – there’s plenty of cafés to choose from. Brisbane city is ever-changing, always vibrant and everyone is so friendly, living the outside lifestyle. You’re a coffee lover – where’s a favourite place to get a good coffee? Remy’s in Paddington is my favourite place for a coffee. I can take my dog George with me, the coffee and food is great and later in the day you 36 | BNE January/February 2016 What’s your hot tip for visitors that only a local would know? The Ivory Street Tunnel is a godsend to get from Fortitude Valley to the city fast. You make TV shows for children – where are some good places to take kids in Brisbane for a good time? I love taking my nieces and nephews to South Bank and the Cultural Precinct – there are so many options from GOMA and museums to QPAC and the parklands. Your favourite place to chill? For me down time is spent chilling out at home having drinks and dinner with family and friends (and George, of course) and for a Sunday casual drink, the new Darling & Co (formerly Iceworks) opposite Suncorp Stadium. Favourite meal out? Our food and wine scene is second to none with some of Australia’s top restaurants. For special occasions Esquire Restaurant in the city would be an absolute favourite – the food is amazing. Cru Bar in James Street, Fortitude Valley is also consistently good with a great vibe. Your office is in Fortitude Valley – tell us your favourite things about the Valley? The people – the Valley is really vibrant with loads of character and characters – it can be humbling at times but is generally inclusive, which I think is really important in a city. The food – there’s heaps of great eating options in all directions – from cheap and cheerful to higher end. And James Street – which has got it all, making for a nice walk to get out of the office at lunch. Where do you feel most inspired? QAGOMA is a really inspirational place to visit especially during the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8 until 10 April), which is always an incredible experience. Brisbane seems to be a good incubator for creatives, why do you think that is? Brisbane really gets behind its creative industries. By nature, we don’t take things for granted and I’ve found we are driven to make our mark on the world beyond the bigger Australian cities of Sydney or Melbourne to often go further afield to London, LA, New York and Asia. What is the best thing that’s happened to Brisbane since you started Carbon Media in 2006? It’s probably not the ‘best’ thing that’s happened to Brisbane, but it’s been great to see the inner city areas come to life, like James Street in the Valley and Gasworks at Newstead. They’re cool, interesting precincts that appeal to locals and visitors alike. It is also really positive to see Brisbane’s international appeal growing with the new entertainment and accommodation precincts being developed. How do you like to travel around Brisbane and what’s your favourite journey and why? I love to walk and run around Brisbane from my home in Milton across bridges via South Bank and through the city, it’s a dynamic and changing streetscape. Where can people get the best view in Brisbane? I think cities are best seen whilst walking through them – for example, from New Farm via the Valley, on to the CBD, then South Bank to Paddington gives you an amazing crosssection of Brisbane’s soul. Best time of year to be in Brisbane ? Brisbane has a great climate most of the year round. Winter is rarely bitter so is really comfortable. Summer would be my favourite – coming from Central Queensland I grew up with heat – so I enjoy the heat and humidity with amazing electrical storms, which are terrifying and beautiful to watch all at once. What is your favourite short break outside Brisbane? I like to go the beach – either the Sunshine Coast or Gold Coast; both are stunning, absolutely world class and so close to Brisbane. BNE January/February BNE March/April July/August 2016 2015 | 37 QANTAS TERMINAL Domestic Terminal TO CAR PARK VIRGIN TERMINAL Domestic Terminal OTHER AIRLINES Domestic Terminal QANTAS TERMINAL Domestic Terminal 10 8 TO CAR PARK VIRGIN TERMINAL Domestic Terminal OTHER AIRLINES Domestic Terminal INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL LEVEL 3 PASSENGER PICK UP Setdown Area 11 1 DEPARTURES Customs & Security 2 12 INTERNATIONAL ARRIVALS Baggage Pick-up & Customs JR/Duty Free To Gates 82 – 86 80 81 PASSENGER DROP OFF 4 7 4 6 5 9 81 Entrance Retail Information Duty Free Check In Food & Beverage Gate Number Baggage Collection Public Toilets Disabled Toilet Parent’s Room Prayer Room ATM Money Exchange Net Kiosk 3 Telephone Elevator 8 Stairs Meeting Point Travelator Airtrain Desk Bus & Coach Taxi Rank 38 | BNE January/February 2016 To Gates 82 – 86 The Village Green Services 1 Brisbane Airport Welcome Desk & Study Brisbane Desk 2 VIP Lounge 3 Flight Centre Ltd 4 Oversize Baggage Kiosk 5 Protect-A-Bag 6 Qantas Courier Qantas Qantas Airways Sales & Service Sales & Desk Service Desk 7 Airways 8 Qantas Lounge 9 Air New Zealand Sales & Service Desk 10 Virgin Australia Lounge 11 Southern QLD Tourism Info & Transport Desk 12 Tourist Refund Scheme NEED TO KNOW AIRPORT AMBASSADORS Welcoming volunteers, including the team pictured left, are available to answer questions and offer directions to visitors within Brisbane Airport’s terminals. Look for the bright blue shirts if you need assistance and our Chinese-speaking ambassadors wear red shirts. BNE PARKING IMPORTANT INFORMATION Visitor Information Centres For information about accommodation, tours, transfer tickets and general enquiries, Visitor Information Centres are on Level 2 International Terminal and Level 1 Domestic Terminal (Central Area). Currency exchange Travelex currency exchange and transfer facilities are on Levels 2, 3 and 4 International Terminal and Level 2 Domestic Terminal near Gate 23. Baggage lockers Find small, medium and large lockers for short and long-term hire at the terminal entrance to the public car park at the International Terminal, at either end of the Domestic Terminal, or next to Woolworths at Skygate. Tax Refund Scheme (TRS) The TRS enables you to claim a refund, subject to certain conditions, of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Wine Equalisation Tax (WET) that you pay on goods bought in Australia. See www.customs.gov.au or call 1300 363 263. Lost property International – enquire at the Visitor Information Centre, Level 2, call (07) 3406 3190. Domestic – enquire first to your airline. Qantas call (07) 3867 3264, Virgin Australia (07) 3114 8150, Jetstar (07) 3336 1752 or email Tigerair at [email protected] before contacting the Visitor Information Centre on Level 1 or (07) 3305 9233. Disability access Lifts, travelators, ramps, aerobridges, rest points, accessible parking spaces and toilet facilities are in place for passengers with limited mobility or disabilities. Airlines are responsible for assisting passengers with disabilities within terminals. Passengers should refer to their airline’s policies prior to booking their ticket. There is no porter service or any form of direct assistance provided at Brisbane Airport other than any assistance that may be provided by the passenger’s airline. A team of more than 160 volunteer ambassadors roam the Domestic and International Terminals to offer passengers assistance with a smile. Ambassadors are on duty every day of the year and, between them, speak 16 languages Local amenities Skygate is Brisbane Airport’s retail and dining precinct, a short free bus ride on the Transfer Bus from the terminals. There are more than 130 stores, including brand-name factory outlets, a 24/7 supermarket, hairdresser, gym, restaurants, chemist, medical clinic, hotel, beauty services, barber, tavern and golf leisure centre. Convenient, secure and undercover short and long-term parking is available within walking distance to both terminals. For special offers and full product offering including valet, car washing, the new AIRPARK and more see www.bne.com.au TERMINAL TRANSFERS Passengers transferring between the terminals can travel via the free Transfer Bus which departs at regular intervals from Level 2 International Terminal and Level 1 Domestic Terminal and travels via Skygate. TRANSPORT BOOKINGS Internet access Internet kiosks are located at International Terminal on Levels 2, 3 and 4 and at Domestic Terminal Level 1 and 2. Access eight hour (500MB limit) free WiFi at International Terminal Levels 3 and 4 retail areas and at Domestic Terminal Level 2 retail (Central Area). Coach, rail, limousine and corporate car bookings can be made at the Visitor Information Centre, Level 2 International Terminal or Level 1 Domestic Terminal. Prayer Room A multi-denominational prayer room is located at International Terminal Level 4. TransLink is the local bus, ferry and train public transport network stretching north to Gympie, south to Coolangatta and west to Helidon. See www.translink.com.au or call 13 12 30 for information. Police For assistance at Brisbane Airport please call 13 12 37. Acknowledgement In keeping with the spirit of reconciliation, we respectfully acknowledge the Turrbal people, the Traditional Owners of the land on which Brisbane Airport stands, and pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. PUBLIC TRANSPORT TAXIS AND AIRTRAIN Taxi ranks located kerbside Level 2 International Terminal and Level 1 Domestic Terminal. Airtrain provides regular rail links between Brisbane Airport, Brisbane city, Gold Coast and TransLink network as well as terminal transfers. Tickets available in the terminal or at the station. Follow Brisbane Airport BNE January/February 2016 | 39 DESTINATIONS FROM BNE Seoul South Korea Tokyo (Narita) Japan Shanghai (Pudong) China Dubai United Arab Emirates Guangzhou China Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates Taipei Taiwan Hong Kong China Bangkok Thailand Manila Philippines Singapore Singapore Denpasar Indonesia Port Moresby Papua New Guinea Honiara Soloman Islands BRISBANE 71 DESTINATIONS IN AUSTRALIA AND AROUND THE WORLD Vancouver* Canada Los Angeles USA Honolulu USA Darwin Nauru Nauru Cairns Cloncurry Mount Isa Port Hedland Emerald Biloela Rockhampton Gladstone Windorah Bundaberg Charleville Fraser Coast (Hervey Bay) Quilpie Roma Miles BRISBANE Thargomindah St George Toowoomba Cunnamulla Birdsville Nadi Fiji Noumea New Caledonia Norfolk Island Australia Whitsunday Coast (Proserpine) Hamilton Island Mackay Moranbah Barcaldine Blackall Espiritu Santo Vanuatu Port Vila Vanuatu Longreach Alice Springs Apia Samoa Townsville Tamworth Perth Dubbo Newcastle Port Macquarie Lord Howe Island Sydney Adelaide Canberra Auckland New Zealand Melbourne Wellington New Zealand Christchurch New Zealand Dunedin New Zealand Launceston Hobart Queenstown New Zealand *Flights commencing June 2016. Map not to scale. Please note airlines and destinations are current at time of print. BNE AUTUMN 2014 | 41 TRAVEL NEWS Outbound THE WAY TO GO Queenslander Mark Cantoni and business partner Ryan Hanly are avid travellers but they found that Facebook just didn’t cut it when they wanted to connect with other travellers on the road ... so they created Outbound, a social networking app specifically to meet the needs of fellow touristas. Users simply set up a profile defining what type of traveller they are – solo, female backpacker, caravaner, for example – set some filters, and Outbound will show other like-minded travellers in their vicinity. Then it is up to the user to connect with individuals or groups for advice, tips, recommendations or meetups. An events section shows user-driven and created activities to join – and you can view the profiles of people attending or contact the organiser for more information. A noticeboard, just like a hostel noticeboard, is the place to post questions for the Outbound community like ‘Know any good hotels in Budapest?’ or ‘Anyone travelling to Cairns in March?’ or even ‘Car for sale’. Free for iPhone and android or for more details see www.outboundapp.org BEST AIRLINE The Kiwis are the team to beat – and not just on the rugby field. Air New Zealand has been named Airline of the Year 2016 by international product and safety review site AirlineRatings.com with judges calling it a global trendsetter and its performance “stunning”. The airline topped the rankings for its continuous passenger innovations, environmental commitment, record-breaking financial performance, seven-star safety rating and its focus on staff which the judges said was instrumental in contributing to the airline’s consistently outstanding performance. Air New Zealand also scored highest for its Premium Economy Class and Economy Class. Virgin Australia rated Best Cabin Crew, Singapore Airlines Best Inflight Entertainment and Scoot Best Low Cost Airline in the Asia Pacific. SMART bag Next boutique hotel As the James Street precinct’s expansion continues at lightning speed New Farm will soon have its own new chic boutique hotel. Silver Needle Hospitality Group, operators of the Next Hotel in Brisbane’s CBD, has signed up to open its first Sage branded hotel next door to the iconic Queens Arms Hotel, or the ‘QA’ as the locals call it, where head chef Jason Anderson recently took over the kitchen and opened the subterranean Farrier bar and supper club. But another makeover for the QA is in the pipeline as part of the new development which will see a new four level, 93-room hotel built by local development firm Pacifica and Hutchinson Builders for an opening anticipated for mid-2017. 42 | BNE January/February 2016 It’s the carry-on bag every smart traveller has to have – it weighs itself (goodbye excess baggage fees), charges a smartphone and locks itself if it gets separated from its owner … and the companion app serves up some cool travel stats such as distance travelled and more. The Bluesmart Carry-on is the world’s first connected travel bag – its 3G tracker also helps find it if it gets lost – developed by a team of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs who raised more than $2 million in crowdfunding from supporters across 110 countries to make its first shipment. Now it’s available to order online, US$489, including shipping to Australia. For details see http://bluesmart.com GETTING TO THE CITY M4 Route Number 25 Exit Number Train Line TO SUNSHINE COAST Main Road AirportlinkM7 & Clem Jones Tunnels Brisbane CBD Service Centre Nudgee A3 Banyo W ay M3 Nundah So ut he rn Cr os s Gympie Road Sandgate Road A3 Mo reto nD rive Airp ort Driv e Chermside DOMESTIC TERMINAL BRISBANE AIRPORT 26 Stafford TO CITY e Rd Albion Lytton way otor yM ewa Gat ra ge og En ross Way rn C Lutwyche th S ou Clayfield M7 INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL terial Road t Ar Ea s t -Wes M7 A3 Mo tor way Stafford Ro ad Breakfast Creek Hamilton Eagle Farm 77 Enoggera Creek Bowen Hills 31 M1 Aquarium Passage 30 RI V E R M4 Bulimba s Newstead ty By pa s Kelvin Grove Inn e r C i Wynnum West Spring Hill Paddington Morningside 15 BRISBANE West End Main Street 33 y wa tor Mo ific Pac Co ro na tio nD riv e BRIS BANE 25 Por tO fB risb ane 26 Windsor Milton Boggy Creek M1 Road nnum Wy New Farm 23 23 Manly R oad Norman Park TO GOLD COAST * Map not to scale. BNE January/February 2016 | 43 • 1 Billion Masterplanned Community Development • Situated in the beautiful scenic rim • New House and Land packages from $345,000 available now 160 159 158 157 37 36 34 33 40 27 46 79 26 25 48 63 23 22 Shed 51 60 52 59 14 55 56 19 54 15 57 20 53 16 58 21 85 86 87 13 17 18 11 8 Toilet 9 10 s ing Sw OL PO Q BB Q BB Bus & Caravan Loading 6 5 4 3 2 1 7 Office 96 97 98 99 100 101 Car Park 92 93 95 94 12 88 89 90 91 105 106 102 PARKLANDS 24 50 61 83 84 137 unity Comm n Garde 49 82 62 81 141 80 47 64 142 BIKEWAY 31 30 29 65 28 78 45 66 44 67 43 68 42 32 41 70 69 74 75 76 77 35 38 39 72 71 149 73 148 147 146 Car Park 134 145 158 133 143 129 130 131 132 140 128 139 138 125 126 127 136 135 124 121 122 123 112 111 119 120 118 109 110 107 108 Common Room 104 Pool Room 114 115 116 117 Car Park 103 SERVICE STATION OAKLAND WAY RD 113 EARLY LEARNING CHILD CARE CENTRE RANG 997 RT NE FUTURE RESIDENTIAL 998 FUTURE RESIDENTIAL DESE FUTURE RESIDENTIAL 156 154 153 152 151 150 Car Park BEAU INDEPENDENT LIVING FOR OVER 55’s FUTURE DEVELOPMENT 155 1 3Stage 0 0 1 Under OA KConstruction L A N D | OA K L A N D E S TAT E . C O M . A SALES OFFICE BIKEWAY 36 40 56 8 9 50 10 11 46 47 48 13 49 GS 12 RD PARKLANDS 25 24 KIN NG 45 CT ECIN RE PR CENT ERA 51 G OPPIN OPENING 2017 52 44 SH CATHOLIC SECONDARY COLLEGE 7 53 43 26 6 54 42 27 5 ES 29 28 4 55 41 RN TAVE UD 30 3 ERT N TUBBER STREET 39 31 2 BEA 32 1 57 38 33 FUTURE RESIDENTIAL 58 37 BIK EW AY 35 34 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 PARKLAND 14 Park PARK EXISTING HOUSES EXISTING HOUSES BOUNDARY STREET Oakland Estate Features STAGE 1 • Spanning 339 hectares and over 2000 home sites •M Large A S Tblocks E R Pranging L A N from 595sqm to 1109sqm • Dedicated parklands with paths and bikeways • Shopping centre precinct • Family friendly Tavern with conference centre • Early learning care centre • Independent aged care living facility • Catholic high school (opening 2017) Oakland Estate Location | OAKL ANDESTATE.C OM.AU Where the city ends and a new country lifestyle begins • Located in the heart of Beaudesert with existing community services • Located half way between Brisbane & Gold Coast • 35 minutes from the Gold Coast • 45 minutes from Brisbane • 6Km from the new Bromelton inland freight port completeness of the information herein contained. Interested parties should satisfy themselves as to the accuracy, reliability, currency, or completeness of each description or reference. All information herein is subject to change without notice. © Robinson Projects 2014. Oakland Estate. Correct as at August 30 2014. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT US AT WWW.OAKLANDESTATE.COM.AU 1300 625 526 LEY D