Issue 27.3

Australian Country

Your Contemporary Country Lifestyle Magazine

Australian Country1 min read
Helping Out On This Issue …
Don is a life-long photographer working for media companies and books, as well as corporate, industrials, government and charitable organisations. He regards the camera as a passport, introducing him to the most amazing places and people, and allowin
Australian Country2 min read
Editor's Letter
They say if you find the job you love you'll never work a day in your life and this issue is packed with people who have done just that. They begin with Carol Westmore, who has devoted many years and countless funds to restoring not one, but two hist
Australian Country7 min read
Beacon In Brick
Not much is known about Robert Pitcairn before he arrived as an early settler in the remote settlement of Deddington, in north-eastern Tasmania, but one thing is certain. He knew how to build a handsome house. Nile Farm rises like a blazing edifice o
Australian Country2 min read
Diary Notes
Grenfell in the NSW Central West is hosting its 67th four-day celebration of Australia's celebrated bush poet who was born on the goldfields in 1867. The four-day program features a street party, market stalls, live music and performances as well as
Australian Country4 min read
Set In Stone
Blame the pandemic. Or perhaps a long, shared history of making drastic changes on a whim. Or just the desire to share 'an adventure'. Whatever the cause, it led theatre producer Kerry Comerford and her artist and designer husband, Mark Thompson, to
Australian Country3 min read
Riverside Reverie
Mon Bowring is icing a lemon drizzle cake as she chats via phone from her home in the South Australian river port of Goolwa at the mouth of the Murray River. The cake is morning tea for the 'boys' who are helping to restore her 40-foot paddlewheeler,
Australian Country4 min read
Longford Landmark
The village of Longford in Tasmania's north-east is noted for its many historic buildings, most built with the symmetry and classic proportions of the Georgian era. Visitors to the town located 27 kilometres south of Launceston come to wander around
Australian Country2 min read
Emerging Talent
Maitland school student Alizetta Dawson was three years old when her eldest (and highly creative) sister, May, became interested in photography. May started using Alizetta as her photographic model and went on to take art and photography classes. Now
Australian Country5 min read
Cactus Celebration
Jim Hall comes from a long line of English gardeners and his grandfather developed prize-winning gardens in Victoria's Goulburn Valley. But it was Jim's father, John, who led him down a different garden path to a passion for succulents and cacti in p
Australian Country5 min read
Pedal To The Metal
Outback sculptor Milynda Rogers confesses she had no intention of creating the world's largest outdoor sculpture exhibition when she started planting her works along the road to her home on a station in central-western Queensland. In fact, her initia
Australian Country8 min read
Bring A Plate
What do you make when asked to bring a plate? Country cook Sophie Hansen, who lives with her family on a farm near Orange in the NSW Central West, off ers seasonally delicious answers to that perennial question in this, her fi fth cookbook. Drawing i
Australian Country1 min read
A Fresh Eye
Tetyana Malega is a professional graphic designer and amatour photographer who grew up and lived in Ukraine till the 2022 war began. After three months in the war zone, she was forced to leave her homeland and she's sincerely grateful to Australia fo
Australian Country3 min read
New Horizons
New friends, fresh challenges, many more opportunities and a host of other exciting prospects are foremost on the agenda for 16-year-old Caulfield Grammar School Year 11 student Maeve Sheldrick. Maeve grew up on a beef cattle and cereal crop farm nea
Australian Country3 min read
Store Strolling
The David Roche Foundation House Museum presents the catalogue for the exhibition, Quilts: The Fabric of War 1760-1900. Priced at $49.50, this volume showcases rarely-seen quilts crafted by soldiers dating back to 1760, using fabric from their milita
Australian Country3 min read
Off The Shelf
Fiona Lowe, HarperCollins Publishers, $32.99 In her life before becoming a novelist, Fiona Lowe was a midwife, sexual health counsellor and family support worker, so there's not much of human frailty she hasn't seen. In this novel, it's the secrets d
Australian Country1 min read
Australian Country
Editor Kirsty McKenzie email [email protected] Contributors Bronte Camilleri, Anabel Dean Photography Ken Brass, Don Brice, Alizetta Dawson, Tetyana Malega Advertising Nicola Fender Fox ph (02) 9887 0630 email [email protected] Natalie Gros
Australian Country2 min read
Mailbag
THANKS FOR BEING IN TOUCH. WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK. LAST ISSUE GENERATED LOTS OF FEEDBACK FROM OUR READERS. WIN A PRIZE We appreciate your thoughts and in each issue, one correspondent wins a prize. Simply email Kirsty at [email protected] or wr
Australian Country1 min read
Stockists & Contacts
AM-Boss Access Ladders, 11-13 Maida Ave, North Sunshine Vic 3020 ph: (03) 9310 8788 e: [email protected] w: ambossaccessladder.com.au Baimbridge Antiques, 64 Thompson St, Hamilton Vic 3280 ph: (03) 5572 2516 e: [email protected] w
Australian Country3 min read
Desert Dreamings
Ruby Henderson-Leconte waves her arm across a map of Australia, taking in the vast swathe of the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. The arts administrator explains these are the lands of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankun
Australian Country2 min read
Editor's Letter
They say if you find the job you love you'll never work a day in your life and this issue is packed with people who have done just that. They begin with Carol Westmore, who has devoted many years and countless funds to restoring not one, but two hist
Australian Country1 min read
Helping Out On This Issue …
Don is a life-long photographer working for media companies and books, as well as corporate, industrials, government and charitable organisations. He regards the camera as a passport, introducing him to the most amazing places and people, and allowin
Australian Country2 min read
Diary Notes
Grenfell in the NSW Central West is hosting its 67th four-day celebration of Australia's celebrated bush poet who was born on the goldfields in 1867. The four-day program features a street party, market stalls, live music and performances as well as
Australian Country7 min read
Beacon In Brick
Not much is known about Robert Pitcairn before he arrived as an early settler in the remote settlement of Deddington, in north-eastern Tasmania, but one thing is certain. He knew how to build a handsome house. Nile Farm rises like a blazing edifice o
Australian Country4 min read
Set In Stone
Blame the pandemic. Or perhaps a long, shared history of making drastic changes on a whim. Or just the desire to share 'an adventure'. Whatever the cause, it led theatre producer Kerry Comerford and her artist and designer husband, Mark Thompson, to
Australian Country2 min read
Emerging Talent
Maitland school student Alizetta Dawson was three years old when her eldest (and highly creative) sister, May, became interested in photography. May started using Alizetta as her photographic model and went on to take art and photography classes. Now
Australian Country3 min read
Riverside Reverie
Mon Bowring is icing a lemon drizzle cake as she chats via phone from her home in the South Australian river port of Goolwa at the mouth of the Murray River. The cake is morning tea for the 'boys' who are helping to restore her 40-foot paddlewheeler,
Australian Country4 min read
Longford Landmark
The village of Longford in Tasmania's north-east is noted for its many historic buildings, most built with the symmetry and classic proportions of the Georgian era. Visitors to the town located 27 kilometres south of Launceston come to wander around
Australian Country3 min read
Desert Dreamings
Ruby Henderson-Leconte waves her arm across a map of Australia, taking in the vast swathe of the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. The arts administrator explains these are the lands of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankun
Australian Country5 min read
Cactus Celebration
Jim Hall comes from a long line of English gardeners and his grandfather developed prize-winning gardens in Victoria's Goulburn Valley. But it was Jim's father, John, who led him down a different garden path to a passion for succulents and cacti in p
Australian Country5 min read
Pedal To The Metal
Outback sculptor Milynda Rogers confesses she had no intention of creating the world's largest outdoor sculpture exhibition when she started planting her works along the road to her home on a station in central-western Queensland. In fact, her initia
Australian Country8 min read
Bring A Plate
What do you make when asked to bring a plate? Country cook Sophie Hansen, who lives with her family on a farm near Orange in the NSW Central West, off ers seasonally delicious answers to that perennial question in this, her fi fth cookbook. Drawing i
Australian Country3 min read
New Horizons
New friends, fresh challenges, many more opportunities and a host of other exciting prospects are foremost on the agenda for 16-year-old Caulfield Grammar School Year 11 student Maeve Sheldrick. Maeve grew up on a beef cattle and cereal crop farm nea
Australian Country1 min read
A Fresh Eye
Tetyana Malega is a professional graphic designer and amatour photographer who grew up and lived in Ukraine till the 2022 war began. After three months in the war zone, she was forced to leave her homeland and she's sincerely grateful to Australia fo
Australian Country3 min read
Store Strolling
The David Roche Foundation House Museum presents the catalogue for the exhibition, Quilts: The Fabric of War 1760-1900. Priced at $49.50, this volume showcases rarely-seen quilts crafted by soldiers dating back to 1760, using fabric from their milita
Australian Country3 min read
Off The Shelf
Fiona Lowe, HarperCollins Publishers, $32.99 In her life before becoming a novelist, Fiona Lowe was a midwife, sexual health counsellor and family support worker, so there's not much of human frailty she hasn't seen. In this novel, it's the secrets d
Australian Country2 min read
Mailbag
THANKS FOR BEING IN TOUCH. WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK. LAST ISSUE GENERATED LOTS OF FEEDBACK FROM OUR READERS. WIN A PRIZE We appreciate your thoughts and in each issue, one correspondent wins a prize. Simply email Kirsty at [email protected] or wr
Australian Country1 min read
Australian Country
Editor Kirsty McKenzie email [email protected] Contributors Bronte Camilleri, Anabel Dean Photography Ken Brass, Don Brice, Alizetta Dawson, Tetyana Malega Advertising Nicola Fender Fox ph (02) 9887 0630 email [email protected] Natalie Gros
Australian Country1 min read
Stockists & Contacts
AM-Boss Access Ladders, 11-13 Maida Ave, North Sunshine Vic 3020 ph: (03) 9310 8788 e: [email protected] w: ambossaccessladder.com.au Baimbridge Antiques, 64 Thompson St, Hamilton Vic 3280 ph: (03) 5572 2516 e: [email protected] w

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