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“With this album, we really wanted to show everyone that we’re going for it; we’re giving it a go,” says Amyl and the Sniffers’ frontwoman Amy Taylor ahead of the release of their highly anticipated third album Cartoon Darkness. We sit down with the ARIA Award-winning punk-rockers and go deep on their new sound, their big dreams and the serious business of having fun.
Vicky Daddo discovers that football is not the same on the other side of the world – but now football is coming home. I’m nine years old, thumping my frozen feet on the concrete of the Carshalton Athletic Football Club stand, south of London, with my dad and brother. Mum’s at home, probably enjoying the…
Read MoreThere’s a reason why my son Miles will eat bowls and bowls of this – you just can’t beat a bowl of juicy, melt-in-your-mouth beef in a thick and flavoursome sauce. You just can’t.
Read MoreMelanie Saward inherited her nanna’s love of dolls – but her sister may have had other ideas. Nanna’s house is full of dolls. She has beautiful antique cabinets stuffed to the brim with vacant plastic faces staring out. All the wardrobes in her house are stacked high with boxes full of immaculate porcelain dolls bought…
Read MoreFrom the coffee cliques at university to the caff-fiends huddled outside during lockdown, a cup of joe, to many folks, means community. I knew what I needed to do to become a grown‑up, but I had been putting it off for years. By the time I got to university, it was clear: coffee was the…
Read MoreThis is the soup of my childhood. Every time I was sick with a cold or flu this would be the soup my mum would make for me. Simply eating this soup would actually make me feel less sick; it was home in a bowl. It would make me feel loved and cared for, nurtured,…
Read MoreSometimes a recipe is more than just a recipe. It comes with a family story and memories. It can transport you to another time and place. To your grandmother’s kitchen. To another country. To a more innocent era, before you were forced to leave your home.
Read MoreFor Grace Fryer Mandy Beaumont’s debut novel The Furies is out now. Her short story collection Wild, Fearless Chests was shortlisted for the Richell Prize, organised by the Emerging Writers’ Festival and Hachette Australia. It was also shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award, and won the Moth International Short Story Award. Mandy teaches creative writing…
Read MoreIn Chinese culture, we always share food and the table is full of a mix of vegetables, meat, fish and rice, so that the food is varied for good health. At each meal, fish is the most important dish. The fish must be very fresh, and well-chosen in an Asian fish market. We prepare it…
Read MoreIn the far northwest of Australia, Exmouth Gulf is a sanctuary for humpback whales, dugongs and turtles, a blue-carbon reservoir in a breathtaking landscape like no other on Earth. But all that could change, as developers push ahead with potentially tragic consequences. Tim Winton is one of those fighting to preserve this wonderland.
Read MoreI used my sensory memory to create this recipe based on the curry leaf tree in my paternal grandmother’s garden. Each time I went to her home, the leaves of this large tree would be heavy with the fresh, zesty and distinctly mouth-watering scent of curry leaves.
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