Christmas

That’s right, it’s our Big Christmas Issue and it’s got all the trimmings. With Sydney vendor Clem as our Christmas cover star, we’ve got our annual Big Wish Yous from vendors all around the country as they farewell 2025 and make space for the new year. In fact, we’ve got so many well-wishes that we’ve had to add eight extra pages to fit all 140 of them in!

More highlights in this edition:

• • Jimmy Barnes on Jimmy Barnes: the Cold Chisel frontman pens his own Letter to My Younger Self.
  • Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor tell us how Bohemian Rhapsody changed the world – and why Freddie Mercury loved Christmas.
  • Goorie and Koori poet Evelyn Araluen on activism, girlhood and the long future, found in her second book The Rot.
  • Rising movie star Harris Dickinson speaks about focusing on homelessness for his directorial debut Urchin.
  • Rick Stein dishes up a Christmas classic with a twist: black forest-inspired Hazelnut Pavlovas. Read the full recipe here.

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