issue 29 | summer 12/13
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smooth sailing
with the Bendigo Yacht Club
falls gold
swimwear that rocks
fly in, fly out
workers dig a new way of life
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the anniversary party you’ll always remember. the conference that made a difference. the gala dinner that was a huge success. the wedding that was a dream come true. the unforgettable weekend away. the fun dinner out with the family. the big night out with the girls. the great saturday with the mates.
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Tell us what is on the menu when you celebrate Christmas Day?
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Pudding is the one constant from year to year… it wouldn’t feel the same without it. We always have two… a traditional Christmas Pudding that my Nan (who is in her 90s) makes, and a chocolate self-saucing pudding that I’m normally just pulling out of the oven as everyone is arriving and the aunties are descending on the kitchen.
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Tell us about your favourite painting, piece of artwork or photo?
writers Ben Cameron, Erin Delahunty, Curt Dupriez, Vicki Harrington, Sarah Harris, Geoff Hocking, John Holton, Colin King, Ash McAuliffe, Hayley Plant, Mary Pomfret, Raelee Tuckerman, Steve Kendall, Rosemary Sorensen, Megan Spencer, Tania Ryan and Katarina McNeill
My husband’s grandfather played for Carlton in the 1940s. We have a photo of him with the rest of the team on the tarmac in front of a plane ready to leave for a game. All the players are dressed to the nines in suits, ties, hats and trench coats. I just love the look of oldschool pride they have, with the world at their feet.
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What is your favourite Christmas carol?
photography Terri Basten, David Field, Andrew Perryman, Anthony Webster, Vicki Harrington, Sally Stoel and Rebecca Gray
“It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”…I like that its not one of the mainstream carols that you hear all the time. It’s so beautifully written…I love the line: “Still through the cloven skies they come, with peaceful wings unfurled…”
Work Experience Julia Allan print manager Nigel Quirk
Andrew Perryman - Photographer Tell us what is on the menu when you celebrate Christmas Day? We have a hot meal with my wife’s family for lunch on Christmas Day. Roast chicken, potatoes, pumpkin, peas, carrots and a special homemade gravy. Dessert is always home made plum pudding with custard and ice-cream. Dinner with my side of the family is cold meat and salads. Everyone brings a plate of meat and a salad, organising beforehand so we all don’t bring the same. Tell us about your favourite painting, piece of artwork or photo? I don’t have a favourite painting, piece of artwork or photo. I tend to like a wide variety of images. I do like the work of Eddie Adams however. He was a Pulitzer Prizewinning American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and his coverage of 13 wars. What is your favourite Christmas carol? Hark the Herald Angels sing. I like the version with the upbeat rhythm best.
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Phone (03) 5444 5868 Fax (03) 5444 4313 PO Box 324 Bendigo VIC 3552 172 McIvor Road, Bendigo VIC 3550 This magazine is printed using vegetable based inks on an elemental chlorine free paper. Sourced using sustainable forestry practices and manufactured using the ISO 14001 environmental management systems. This magazine is printed in Australia under ISO 14001 Environmental Certifications. This magazine is printed on FSC certified stock. FSC certification ensures traceability and verification of well managed forest timber, from mill to printer to you. Bendigo Magazine takes all care but accepts no responsibility for unsolicited materials. Bendigo Magazine holds copyright to all content unless otherwise stated. ISSN 1833-1289. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information in this publication, the publishers accept no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions or resultant consequences including any loss or damage arising from reliance on information in this publication. The views expressed are not necessarily endorsed by the editor or the publisher.
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How great is the month of December? It signals the beginning of summer, setting up and decorating the Christmas Tree (I’m going real instead of fake this year), a busy social calendar that involves far too many Christmas parties, Christmas light looking around Bendigo with my siblings, Christmas Day with my family and a well earned couple of weeks away from Bendigo Magazine headquarters. December also signifies our birthday! A couple of weeks ago I suddenly had an overwhelming desire to make sure I had a copy of each issue of Bendigo Magazine to keep for myself at home. I literally begged and borrowed to secure my complete collection (thank you to the crew at La Piazza for letting me swipe issue 22.) The rainbow of spines are now sitting pretty on display at my home and is a timely reminder of how much this magazine has grown. While we aren’t making a big fuss of our birthday this year – seven years and 29 issues of Bendigo’s own glossy lifestyle mag is definitely worth a mention. I’m surrounded by a wonderful team of highly creative and hardworking people – some of which have been with the magazine since day one. I think we should all be very proud of ourselves. One of my favourite places to visit in Bendigo over summer is the Wine Bank. You can usually find me outside on one of the wooden table settings, wine in hand, soaking up the view of the gorgeous buildings in the aptly named View Street. Speaking of inspiring views, in this issue we meet some locals who we believe have the best view in Bendigo from where they work, which is a far cry from the white wall I stare at from my desk each day – see page 80. We also meet some local workers with a view of a different kind – who are utilising the opportunity of “fly-in, fly-out” work which can take them to some of the most remote areas in Australia see page 60. We immersed ourselves into the summer theme of this issue and put the wind up our sails with a visit to Lake Eppalock to meet some members of the Bendigo Yacht Club, see page 194, and also caught up with some local volunteers at the Axe Creek fire station, see page 52. There is no end to the volunteers’ dedication and resilience when it comes to protecting their patch. The Bendigo Community also joins the party helping us make the most of the sunny days and balmy nights by providing free entertainment at beautiful outdoor settings across the Bendigo Region with the Summer in the Parks program. Check out page 72 to find out how you and your loved ones can enjoy live music and bands, outdoor movies, historical walking tours and Christmas celebrations. This summer issue is also filled with food and entertaining ideas, local weddings, home solutions, artist and personality profiles, the latest trends in swimwear to ensure you look sizzling pool side and the ultimate Christmas gift guide. Mental note to self: begin Christmas shopping now. From everyone here at Bendigo Magazine, we wish you a very merry Christmas, an enjoyable festive season that makes you smile and a safe and happy New Year.
ANDREA COATES Editor issue 29 | summer 12/13
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fly in, fly out workers dig a new way of life
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All about us Editor’s letter Letters to the editor What’s on? Calendar of events In the know Competitions
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Fashion & Beauty 112 117 123 135 143 152
Tried and tested Christmas gift ideas This season Swimwear White House Style Kid’s fashion
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Arts & Entertainment 76 For art’s sake 91 At the movies 94 New releases 95 B.Entertained 177 Tech head
House & Garden 168 Home solutions 171 On site
Business 179 Down to business 180 New business 183 Quiz the experts
People 37 44 48 67
The graduate My favourite things A worthy cause Local person
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AwArd winning Agent Rory Somerville from Mawby Property Bendigo has been awarded the REIV Young Agents’ Scholarship for 2012 at a ceremony held at St Kilda’s Republica in August of this year. The Young Agents’ Scholarship program is an initiative designed to develop, encourage and support young real estate agents as they make a start in the real estate industry. Rory was the only regional agent to be nominated for the award and so far is the only ever regional recipient of the award. By winning this prestigious award, Rory has received funding for his tuition to complete the Certificate IV in Property Services (Real Estate). This opportunity will provide Rory with the academic requirements to gain a Victorian Estate Agent’s Licence. Rory was also awarded funds that he can contribute to professional development at REIV, which includes a choice of all training courses and events, 12 months of mentoring sessions with four senior real estate professionals and free attendance at all REIV Young Agents Events for 12 months. REIV Membership manager John Mitchell said “Rory was so humble in his speech, and so appreciative that someone from the country had been recognised and afforded this opportunity. “ Rory also made an important point in his speech: coming as he does from an independent agency, Rory’s found that attending Young Agents’ events means he’s been able to network and gain access to training and information that is otherwise only available to employees of franchise agencies,” explains John. Rory was delighted to be the recipient of this award and plans to put it to good use “I mostly I want to better myself professionally,” explains Rory. “I’m most interested in the mentorship element of the scholarship – mentorship from city agents; that’s important to me as a regional agent. I have no plans to move away from Bendigo – I’m very much a Bendigo boy!”
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summer loving Sunny days and warm balmy evenings lend themselves to getting out and about and experiencing all that our region has to offer over the summer months.
Summer in the Parks December 2 to February 28 Make the most of sunny days, balmy nights and free entertainment by immersing yourself in beautiful outdoor settings across the Bendigo region as part of the Summer in the Parks program.
Childhood: growing up in Bendigo November 9 to February 24 Childhood for some is sun-soaked and sugar-coated and for others, full of awkward moments and obstacles; none-the-less, it is a defining time considerably shaped by the place/s in which one grows up. The exhibition Childhood: growing up in Bendigo presents childhood memories and treasures, exceptional and everyday, gathered from the diverse and shared experiences of those who have or are currently growing up in the City of Greater Bendigo. From local haunts to holiday treats, childhood games and tales of mischief, defining moments and family traditions, the exhibition will highlight similarities and differences between the childhood experiences of different generations and provide insights into the history and development of Bendigo as seen through the eyes of its children. Post Office Gallery, 51 – 67 Pall Mall, Bendigo. Open Daily 9am – 5pm, (03) 5434 6179, postofficegallery@bendigo.vic.gov.au, www.bendigoartgallery.com.au
Soak up entertainment experiences for the whole family at a range of fabulous events. Enjoy live music and bands, breezy outdoor movie nights, historical walking tours, garden tours, Christmas celebrations, art events and much more. These family-friendly events bring the community together in some of the region’s most stunning surrounds. For more information and an events program visit www.bendigotourism.com
Year of the snake Chinese New Year February 9 It is time to welcome the Year of the Snake with the Bendigo Chinese community. Saturday, February 9, 2013 will mark the beginning of the Chinese New Year, a colourful and noisy time of year where red decorations adorn homes and businesses to welcome happiness and prosperity. Red clothing is worn during this time to ward off any bad spirits. Chinese New Year is a time where communities come together to celebrate the beginning of a new lunar year. 2013 will see the year of the Snake brought in on February 9 with large-scale celebrations being conducted throughout the world for 15 days. Audience members will be entertained by the beautiful girls from the Bendigo Chinese Association Plum Blossom Dance Team in their richly coloured costumes as the team present a number of Chinese cultural dances. Watch the Bendigo Chinese Association Lion Team in action as they put on a showcase of martial arts and acrobatic tricks beneath Southern Lions. Daring stunts will be performed to overcome obstacles whilst spreading good luck and prosperity to all onlookers. Dai Gum San will come alive with colour and excitement among the rhythmic sounds of drums, cymbals and gongs. Chinese food and drinks will be on sale throughout the evening Location: Dai Gum San. Time: 6.30pm to 7.30pm. www.goldendragonmuseum.org
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OTIS FOUNDATION December 1 – February 28 The Otis Foundation provides free short term retreats for women living with Breast Cancer. Otis relies on donated funds and community contributions and we are currently seeking a generous donor who can provide a piece of land for us to build a new retreat upon. In a special community project in conjunction with Paul Gray Builders, we are seeking approximately 1-5 acres, within 45 minute drive of Bendigo to build a new retreat in the memory of Kerri Gray. To find out more about the project and the selection criteria, please visit www.otisfoundation.org.au or www. paulgraybuilders.com.au or phone us on (03) 5444 1185.
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December 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 Bendigo Prince of Wales Showgrounds Market Bendigo Showgrounds Cnr Homes Road and Havilah Road Bendigo www.bendigoshow.org.au
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December 15 Heathcote Regional Farmers’ Market Barrack Reserve Heathcote Phone Sherrie on 0417 598 460
January 6, 13, 20 and 27 Bendigo Prince of Wales Showgrounds Market Bendigo Showgrounds Cnr Homes Road and Havilah Road Bendigo www.bendigoshow.org.au
January 12 Bendigo Pacing Cup Lords Raceway Trotting Track McIvor Highway Bendigo www.bhrc.com.au
February 10 and 24 Bendigo Prince of Wales Showgrounds Market Bendigo Showgrounds Cnr Holmes Road and Havilah Road Bendigo www.bendigoshow.org.au
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Hot news From birthday parties and ice-cream, to spa treatments and female fitness – the Bendigo business world sizzles this summer. Happy Birthday Oliver Birch One of Central Victoria’s most loved furniture and homewards stores recently celebrated its second birthday. What makes Oliver Birch so special is that is showcases such an exciting and exquisite range of individual quality Australian-made and overseas furniture in such a stunning setting right in the heart of Bendigo. Owner Deb McAliece is proud of what has been achieved at Oliver Birch in only two years, “We have an amazing team of dedicated people that surround us and
who constantly strive to give the best advice and product information to our customers. Oliver Birch can now help you bring it all together with our interior decorating service. Working with you either at your home or in our store, our specialists help you plan, implement and make dreams a reality.” For your special piece of furniture, giftware, exclusive homewares or a gift voucher for those who can’t decide, visit the team at Oliver Birch located at 19 - 21 Bath Lane Bendigo. Contact them on (03) 5444 1112 or visit www.oliverbirch.com.au
The ageless art of Bathing Throughout history, baths have been known as a gathering place for social activity, healthy exercise and mental relaxation. Bathing in its many forms has been proven to enliven both the mind and spirit. Explore the curative effects of mineral water, salt water and steam in our Bathhouse facilities. There are two areas of the Bathhouse available for guests to enjoy. The Bathhouse features the relaxation pool and a spa pool. For a more secluded experience, The Sanctuary offers underwater spa couches, aroma steam room and salt water therapy pool. For a more indulgent experience enjoy the Spa where a host of sublime beauty and body treatments await. Choose from an array of treatments including private mineral baths, relaxing massage, body treatments, facials and restorative mind-body therapies. Here you can indulge in a mix of healthy treats and emerge feeling relaxed and revived. www.hepburnbathhouse.com
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Fernwood fitness Bendigo is the birthplace and spiritual home of Fernwood and is undergoing an exciting new refurbishment. Fernwood have been the leaders in female health and fitness for the past 23 years and are spending more than $300,000 on the upcoming refurbishment. This will include 27 new pieces of Technogym equipment, the Vario which is a unique piece of equipment for Bendigo provides innovative variable stride to suit users of all sizes and abilities. Each piece of card equipment will have live internet as well as iPod docs, digital TV, programs, help menus and interactive challenges. There will be new floor fittings in the group fitness room and cardio weights area, new signage, as well as paint internally and externally. All of this is being done with a focus to provide Fernwood Bendigo members with the best quality equipment, the best facilities, complimented by the best in staff care and experience. Fernwood Bendigo is located at 1/358 Hargreaves Street and can be contacted on (03) 5441 8008.
Continuing Education Continuing Education Bendigo’s reputation as a quality provider of certificate and diploma vocational training, especially in its communityfocused courses, continues to grow. There’s been strong demand for aged care, children’s services, education support, disability services and community services training – with great employment outcomes for learners. CEB has been working with local businesses to help address the region’s aged care staff shortage. CEB and Bupa Aged Care in Bendigo have been involved in a joint training course designed to give students accredited training, as well as practical on the job experience. CEB CEO Jeremi Moule said that working partnership with employers like Bupa meant students received the best possible training outcome – and a foot in the door towards employment. “Our aged care courses have strong employment outcomes and demand for qualified staff in the sector continues to grow,” Mr Moule said. CEB aged care trainer Kevin Brown said the partnership was a great experience for students. “There’s nothing better than being able to understand the theory and see it put into practice by completing part of your training in an aged care facility,” he said. Anyone interested in Aged Care or other vocational training opportunities should contact CEB on (03) 5430 2100 or visit www.cebendigo.com.au.
Seasonal changes continue to delight at Balgownie Balgownie Estate is a hive of activity at this time of year with local wildlife parading their off-spring, the preparation of the summer herb gardens and 2013 vintage planning underway. In late Spring Balgownie becomes home to many ducklings. Last year there were around 25 wood-ducks born in three batches at the vineyard. Nesting pairs of wood-ducks have grown fond of Balgownie’s dam, making the nearby mid-rows their home and annual nesting ground; much to the delight of the Balgownie team and visitors. The popular Balgownie Cellar Door Café is always a delight as spring turns to summer with Kathryn Honey’s wonderful herb and salad garden display at the front entrance. This impressive addition becomes an edible treat as side-salads and garnishes on the delicious café menu. The 42nd vintage is fast approaching at this Maiden Gully vineyard and the Balgownie team is already hard at work. Vineyard Manager, Sam Bowman, is ensuring the trellising is prepared, vineyard rows are ship-shape and applying generous quantities of organic compost to add nutrients and improve the soils water holding capacity. Tony Winspear and Luke Whittle, Balgownie’s Winemaking team, are now preparing the winery for the busy season ahead. They are also excited about the highly anticipated 2010 Estate red releases (Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz), which is available at the Cellar Door. Balgownie Estate is located at 46 Hermitage Road Maiden Gully and can be contacted on (03) 5449 6222 ■
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They say a picture’s worth a thousand words and here we put four well-known local identities in the frame Writer: Sarah Harris - Photographer: David Field
Karen Quinlan One might expect the director of Bendigo Art Gallery would have wall after wall crammed with fabulous art, but Karen Quinlan admits too much art in a domestic setting gives her the heebies. “I actually get nervous being in houses with lots of art. I am unsettled by it, because I know what it needs in terms of maintenance. The domestic environment means you don’t have the temperature and humidity control. You have wear and tear with people living all around it. Besides, I don’t really need a collection when it’s what I do for a living. I’m spoilt for choice in the gallery.” But that’s not to say Karen’s walls are devoid of artistic inspiration. “When I am away I buy posters and get them framed, because they are colourful and user-friendly and tell you about something you saw, reminding you of particular shows. I also confess to framing a few tea towels that have designs I think are too good to be consigned to washing up. “And I have bought a few original pieces from artists over the years. One quirky one I really like is a coloured wood engraving by Tim
Jones. He’s best known for his superb line-work and fine detail. He is a master printmaker and I have great admiration for his artistic prowess. I bought this one called Who’s Friends in the late 1990s directly from the artist, who had made the work a few years earlier, in 1986. It is part of an edition of 35. I love the colours, the brightness and fine line-work. “It’s funny really. When I was growing up, you were either ‘a-DrWho-fan’ or ‘not-a-Dr-Who-fan’ and I could always take or leave that program. To be perfectly honest, it gave me nightmares as a child and some of the imagery spooked me. I am not sure why. However I have developed a better appreciation of Dr Who as an adult. The early series seems so amateurish now by comparison to the current versions. ‘’And I do like this static image portraying the Daleks, who look friendly and almost approachable. They appear to be in jovial conversation, maybe even at a party. Not necessarily saying ‘Exterminate! Exterminate!’ I originally bought this for my partner and it now resides in my daughter’s bedroom. It always makes me laugh when I remember it’s there and take time to look closely at the detail.”
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“when people come to my house they tend to never look at me.”
Sonia Collard She tried to warn us. “When people come to my house they tend never to look at me,” the owner of Habadash, Castlemaine’s bespoke buttons, bodacious bobs & beautiful bits boutique, had said. Like the shop, Sonia’s home calls from the threshold and invites exploration. It’s a gallery, but one so completely enmeshed with comfortable domestic function that it’s impossible to tell where the art begins or ends. “I could choose 10 paintings that I really love,” Sonia says. And they all have stories behind them – the legacy of decades spent working as a picture-framer, frequently in collaboration with well-known artists. “Sentimentally, I am really very fond of the platypuses done by Sam Fullbrook. He was an Archibald winner and considered Australia’s best colourist, but he fought the establishment. He could be cantankerous and bolshie, but an amazing character who’d be betting on gee gees one day and off to see La Traviata in New York or donating a grand piano to the Queensland Conservatorium the next. “You’d go and see him and you’d have to call out at the door, ‘Sam put some pants on’! He’d have his teeth out and be all dishevelled, but he would serve tea in the finest china and there would always be fresh flowers on the table and a fruitcake he’d just baked. He came unstuck when the ATO caught up with him. He said, ‘Sonia it looks like they are going to bankrupt me. Do they still do this work-for-thedole? I don’t know that I can do this work-for-the-dole’. He was 83. “This is a Bill Coleman I’ve had forever and ever and here’s a Louis Kahan. Louis was another Archibald winner and a wonderful man, but whenever I did an exhibition with him we wouldn’t be talking by the end. It was always so fraught. And then the show would start and he would send his wife around to me with a painting for a gift, and she would come and say, ‘Here, it’s from your boyfriend’. He was in his 80s then. “Then there’s Norma, Norma Bailey-Ramsey, whose work I just love. It’s sort of dark, but it just does something to you. The first one I ever bought is her over there, the poor, sad-looking thing. I was still working as a picture-framer then and we got on really well. But she would walk in wearing these dark glasses and look around and say, ‘It’s very dark in here’. And I’d say, ‘Take your glasses off honey’.” There are so many beautiful and interesting works, many gifts from artists she has worked with, but Sonia is reluctant to concede that they also reflect her skill. “Picture-framing isn’t brain surgery,” she laughs. “These are people I have ended up framing for, who I admired from afar and I was fortunate they ended up finding me.”
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“the fact that it was painted so long ago, yet here we are dealing with the same issues, created a bit of a linkage.”
Ken Marchingo One of the most popular and largest works in Bendigo Art Gallery is the absolute, all-time favourite of Ken Marchingo, the CEO of Haven – Bendigo’s innovative and home-grown housing association - and now chair of the International Housing Partnership. The work is called Homeless 1890 and is by Thomas Kennington, a notable member of the Royal Academy but with just enough of a touch of rebel to resonate with Ken. “The thing that struck me, when I first saw this painting, was here we are in the late 20th century working with this social evil called homelessness that absolutely dominated the minds of people more than 100 years ago,” he says. “What made this work unusual was that Kennington – who was famous for landscape paintings – was actually commissioned by some people who were interested in civil change to create a series of paintings that captured the social disadvantage of that grimy, massive suburban London turn-of-the-century hideousness. “It is actually quite a revolutionary painting because it is born of a movement to create a civil society and address poverty and disadvantage. The fact that it was painted so long ago, yet here we are dealing with the same issues, created a bit of a linkage. “The image of the dying paper boy on the streets of London with a woman with a ministering to him – who may be his mother or perhaps just a passer-by – is powerful. “The reason the subject is so clean is that it lends itself to being lithographed. One of the purposes of this painting and the others they commissioned of Kennington was to create an image that could be reproduced easily in the penny press. “So it was also about these civil revolutionaries using the most dominant method of mass communication they had at their disposal to get their message out at a time when the masses had something to read that wasn’t just The Book, as in The Good Book. “Some people who work in homelessness hate this painting because they say, ‘Oh no, it’s such a stereotypical view of homelessness. It’s not current or contemporary – paper boys don’t die on the street any more’. “The point I think is that it doesn’t matter whether the depiction is contemporary; the issue is still contemporary. It should remind us also that the work we are embarked upon has deep roots that go back a long way and – while it is a tragedy and disgrace that it is still an issue in modern society – it is not a new issue. People look at homelessness and say they didn’t have homelessness when I was young. Yes they bloody did, it’s just that no one paid much attention.”
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Rod Fyffe The much-loved thrice mayor of Bendigo Rod Fyffe well remembers – and indeed still has – the first piece of art he bought when he was 15 or 16. Where other lads might have been saving for a car or motorbike, the young Rod salted away his prizemoney for best-on-ground at the footy and his birthday cash to buy a piece of stained glass by Jean Orval. The acclaimed Dutch-born artist made his home in Hamilton, where Rod vividly recalls being introduced to him at the local art gallery which he used to haunt. “He said, ‘Come around to my studio and have a look’ so I did and I was just gobsmacked at what he did and how he did it. It was just absolutely glorious. I had to buy a piece. It was only small, but it cost $50 which was a lot back then, although I suspect he gave me a special student price because all the other pieces were round the $150 mark. “I don’t have any artistic ability – in fact I couldn’t paint the wall of a house in one colour – but it does speak to me. I can trace it back to the opening of the Hamilton Art Gallery in 1961. I really started to love art then.” Rod is known to be a generous donor to the Bendigo Art Gallery, gifting several pieces of work by internationally renowned ceramicist Gary Bish just this year. But he declines to say much about this, preferring instead to talk about the eclectic personal collection he has 34 | Bendigo Magazine - Issue 29
built up over the years with wife Victoria that’s now grown so large it spills over to a friend’s home. “They have the space, they like the works and it is great for work to be viewed,” Rod says. “Artists want that, but I believe it is important for as many people as possible to see very good and excellent art. I think every body has an interest in art, but there are some of us who have a passion for it. ‘’You can talk to people from any walk of life and they will say they like this or they like that so as a consequence they do have an interest, but maybe not so much that they are driven to collect.” One piece that won’t be coming down from the Fyffes’ wall any time soon is the Deborah Klein work titled Large Red Comb. “I have liked Deborah Klein for a long while. She had an exhibition in Melbourne and we went down to have a look and my wife said she would buy this work for me as a Christmas present,” he reveals. “Over the course of the last 15 or 20 years, Deborah has done a series of drawings, paintings and pastels that depict fabric, and this one was moving into hair and it’s just so realistic that it is unbelievable. “It’s almost to photo realism. You can see every strand of hair. I love the intricacy of the work. It suggests feminine vulnerability yet strength. “It sits beside an all-black abstract of the Whipstick by Justin Andrews.” He laughs. “You’d have a hard time photographing that for the magazine.” ■
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Dawn, what degree did you complete at La Trobe Bendigo? Why did you enroll to study that particular course and did you have a set career goal in mind at the time of applying?
attitude brings about this growth. Whilst I have only been here at VEA short time, I am certainly excited about what the future holds.
The study of the human mind and behavior of people both as individuals and within groups has always interested me. With experience in the training sector, I wanted to take my career to a strategic development level within organisational management. Therefore, completing a Bachelor of Behavioural Science gave me the insight into a wealth of knowledge and skills that I have been able to apply along the way in my work. This psychology course has allowed me to pursue a career path of working within a diverse and changing environment.
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You are now head of marketing and sales for VEA, what does this role entail?
I really enjoy spending time with my family and friends. I do have a passion and love of travel, embracing the culture of other countries and meeting new people. I do have a keen interest in community-based groups. Oh and I do enjoy a good conversation and laugh over a wine or two!
As a mature age student, I had a lot of balls to juggle as a mum, cook, carer, as well as working. One simple piece of advice is to plan, plan, and plan again, this helped keep me sane and focused. Remember learning is about the experience; don’t be so hard on yourself and most of all enjoy the journey. ■
I am responsible for a team that is focused on growing our business both nationally and internationally. We work in a very dynamic and competitive business environment and having the right people with a professional
There are many things that my degree provided me. Nurturing relationships in business to deliver sustainable business outcomes and future growth is one key element I have been taught. It can be a challenge at times, but having the underpinning knowledge to recall and use has been of great benefit.
Are you involved in any groups or part of any Committees? My career has put me in contact with a lot of community-based groups. More recently, that has been as a member of the Bendigo Inventors Committee for 2012. What is your best memory from your years of study at La Trobe? I have so many wonderful memories from my time with La Trobe. I won’t say it was easy, but it was so rewarding. My best memory is without doubt, my graduation ceremony. I was also very fortunate to have support from friends to achieve my degree.
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Guests were treated to a view of the latest trends and upcoming looks for spring on the red carpet runway at Bendigo’s historic Conservatory recently. The historic glasshouse was transformed into a unique fashion runway, showcasing the best that Bendigo had to offer from spring looks and millinery, to street wear. Funds on the evening went to Connect Pink and breast cancer research. ■
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A call to arms for local brigade When the local fire siren blares on a blustery, February afternoon, it strikes fear into the hearts of anyone who lives on the bush fringes of Bendigo. Writer: John Holton But while most of us get busy putting our fire plans into action – filling buckets, making sure our protective clothing is at the ready – a special group of men and women are heading for their local fire shed, knowing they may well end up on the frontline of a major incident. It not only takes a great deal of commitment and courage, but also time, effort and cost. But as local Axe Creek resident and historian Debra Reade has discovered, there’s no end to people’s dedication and resilience when it comes to the important job of protecting their local patch. At Axe Creek, it’s a tradition that dates back more than 100 years, rich with stories that have been brought together by Debra and other members of the brigade in the recently released book Fire Call – A history of Axe Creek Rural Fire Brigade. After many months of painstaking research that included trawling through newspaper archives, and interviews with volunteer firefighters both past and present, the result is a book in which local history sits side by side with first-hand accounts and anecdotes from some of the major incidents of the past 100 years, including Black Saturday. “When the area around Axe Creek was first opened up for settlement after the 1850s, the local farmers experienced some large and fearsome bushfires,” brigade president, John Wells said. “Back then, they would band together and fight the fires with whatever means they had: rakes, branches, beaters, buckets and so on. They learnt to modify their environment by ploughing firebreaks, and clearing fuel from around homesteads. Their readiness to help one another in times of need gave the community resilience to survive the effects of fires. That’s still very much the spirit behind local brigades like ours.” The earliest reports of community firefighting in Axe Creek appeared in the newspaper in 1903 when a group of concerned residents came together and
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organised a meeting to set up “some sort of fire response team”. However, an article in 1916 shows evidence of a more official organisation: Never in the history of Axe Creek and surrounding districts has there been such a growth of natural grasses, consequently there is a great danger of fires. The residents of Axe Creek, Emu Creek and parts of Myrtle Creek and Sweeney Creek are to be commended for the action they have taken to organise themselves into a band of fire-fighters. About 60 landowners formed themselves into a bush fire brigade, with two captains, two joint secretaries, and a committee of seven members. The current captain of the Axe Creek Rural Fire Brigade, Neil Dusting, believes the biggest challenge to rural fire brigades today is the maintenance of a voluntary fire service as changing lifestyles reduce the availability of volunteers. “These days, about 90 per cent of our members work in town and just aren’t available during the day if there’s an emergency,” Neil said. “Lifestyles have changed dramatically with fewer people working on farms and more people building homes on small acreages. “The amount of training involved can be a deterrent to new members too. It requires volunteers to give up a lot of their time and be away from families and work. But the rewards are also enormous; the comradeship and the opportunity to serve the community in a very hands-on way. “Without people sacrificing their time we simply wouldn’t have a brigade. It’s vitally important to the community.” The history of Axe Creek Rural Fire Brigade is definitely a family affair, and includes among its members some iconic Bendigo names such as Lowndes, Mannes, Houlahan and Reade. City of Greater Bendigo counsellor, James Reade, and his father Kevin attended the
Redesdale fire on Black Saturday before being called back to Bendigo to mop up and locate hazards in the area that included Happy Valley Road. James remembers it as an extremely emotional time. “We had to organise and supervise the public while contractors cut down falling and dangerous trees. We were going through people’s homes and sheds blacking out areas that were smouldering. People were returning to their properties to find everything gone. It was devastating, both for the people who had lost everything and for us watching it unfold.” Lieutenant Matt DeVincentis was only 22 on Black Saturday and attended the Redesdale fire. “We all knew it was going to be a shocking day,” Matt remembers, “but none of us expected just how big or ferocious this fire would be. It was like nothing we had experienced before. “Amid the chaos, the crew leader gave orders which roughly translated to: ‘If a house is under threat, protect it; if a house is on fire, move on’. So that’s what we did. The smoke was thickest I’d ever seen. “The scene after the fire was unforgettable; everything was reduced to a fine white powder on the ground. Due to the gale force winds, we found small trees leaning on a 45-degree angle with their leaves pointing south, as if frozen instead of burnt…” Fire Call is full of equally compelling stories, but also plenty of humour and down-toearth honesty. For local history buffs and lovers of Bendigo stories it’s a must-read; a fitting tribute to those whose efforts have enabled the Axe Creek Rural Fire Brigade to serve and protect this region and beyond for more than a century. Fire Call is available by contacting Debra Reade from the Axe Creek Rural Fire Brigade on (03) 5439 6275 or email: kdreade@bigpond. com ■
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Childhood: Growing up in bendigo History is as much a part of the Luke home in Bendigo as are the doors and windows. Writer: Rosemary Sorensen Photographer: David Field The past colonises the walls of Tom and Libby’s carefully maintained house in a leafy estate in the northern suburbs in the form of photographs and mementoes. Their 28-year marriage has given them ample opportunity to foster their shared passion for their Cornish heritage. Both are now Bards of Cornwall, dedicated to keeping alive in the goldfields the strong heritage of the country from which their families set sail in the mid-1800s. Tom, blessed with a brilliant memory, is a walking archive, able to recall dates, names and places, and proud to be keeping alive traditions – and memories – of the country and people they both love. So it is surprising and intriguing to discover how little of his personal history is there at the ready when he is asked about his own childhood, growing up in Bendigo. He does remember, like so many of his generation, the day the war ended – the elation, the relief, the feeling that, at last, life was going to begin again after so much sad news about the boys who left Bendigo, never to return, one after the other. He has a photograph taken on that day, showing him belting down the street to share the jubilation with the rest of the community, a lad who would later leave to work in the Victorian country, then overseas in Canada, later back in Melbourne, where he would meet a young woman who would become his life partner. That’s the “memory” Tom put forward for the exhibition now showing at the Bendigo Art Gallery’s Post Office Gallery, a moment in childhood that helped make him the man he is today. Any physical remnant of what was perhaps an even more powerful memory has been lost – except in Tom’s mind’s eye where it is as sharp as the sun on a tin roof.
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“I remember one exam,” he says, “where I got seven out of 100 for algebra, and 99 out of 100 for history. “And I lost that mark for an English expression.” In a different time, where a family was not dogged by Depression-era unemployment, that little boy might have gone on to the secondary school and studied what eventually became his life’s passion, history. But instead, family history, ancestry, and the dramatic narratives of how the families came to be in Bendigo in the first place – it all had
to wait. “I had it all in here,” he says, tapping his forehead, “but I didn’t start putting it down on paper until I met Libby.” Just how close their family histories run down through the generations Libby and Tom discovered when they saw family names linked in a country cemetery. They now watch, during their research in the archives and in cemeteries here and in Cornwall, for signs of names that fill in the gaps in the long line that leads all the way down to their comfortable home where a piano, bought
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by Libby’s grandmother 90 years ago from Suttons in Pall Mall, now sits silent in the corner of a room. Libby is the hoarder of the couple; for every fact and figure at Tom’s fingertips, Libby has a treasured object. A christening dress, an exquisitely embroidered undergarment that belonged to her grandmother, a poignant photograph of her grandfather who died in a mining accident. What Tom remembers of his mum pushing him five miles in a pram from Kangaroo Flat to see a doctor because they couldn’t afford
a fare, what Libby remembers of how much she loved to collect; such are the childhood memories collected for the Childhood exhibition at the Post Office Gallery. Curator Clare Needham says it’s the everyday things that make up history, as much as the grand moments. “People tend to think they have lived ordinary childhoods, nothing special,” Clare says. “But when you look at it in the context of history, what’s interesting are the everyday things.
“It’s a vast topic childhood.” For Tom and Libby Luke, their childhoods and all their lives since, are part of an intricate criss-crossing of paths, webbed like the cracks in aged porcelain. At home in leafy Bendigo, they travel each and every day with their ancestors all over the world. The Childhood: growing up in Bendigo exhibition can be viewed from November 9 – February 24 at the Post Office Gallery, 51 – 67 Pall Mall Bendigo. Call (03) 5434 6179 for more details. ■
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LAKE WEEROONA There is not a Bendigonian, past, present or future, who won’t have made it to Lake Weeroona sometime during their existence. Writer: Colin King - Photographer: Anthony Webster Some among us might never ride the talking tram, descend Central Deborah mine or set foot in the art gallery. But Lake Weeroona is inescapable – especially if you have difficulty driving past the jam-donut van. After all, it is officially our most visited park. With a name derived from the Koori for “resting place”, it was destined to serve generations of picnics, regattas, Henleys, swimming, fishing, rallies, walking, fundraisers, fun runs, Easter fairs, weddings, concerts and untold other festivities. The original vision is attributed to 1873 mayor Dugall McDougall, although it must be said that he was driven by inter-city rivalry with Ballarat’s Lake Wendouree. Wellconnected members of the Bendigo and Sandhurst rowing clubs were also influential in delivery of a more rowing-friendly venue than the Grassy Flat (Kennington) reservoirs they began on. William Guilfoyle, designer of Melbourne’s Botanic Gardens, was recruited to prepare plans for the Emu Flat site. First off, Bendigo
Creek was diverted around the barren mining eyesore that reeked of the nearby gas works and soap factory. Like all large public projects, the plans were not well received by all. However, upon completion in 1879, it was instantly lauded as, “one of the best measures ever carried out by the city council.” Pretty soon, “near the lake” became prized cachet in real estate advertisements. The boast is as valid today with ‘a short stroll to Lake Weeroona’ applied by agents to increasingly distant properties. It even came with its own pub that operated until 1912 – Lake Weeroona Hotel on the corner of Bridge and Nolan Streets. At the opening ceremony, a steamboat led a flotilla of rowing clubs’ vessels. The previously established Sandhurst Model Yacht Club was also an early lake user. Since then, the lake has born every imaginable inland craft – ski boats, motorised bath tubs, yachts, dragon boats, decorated parade boats, paddle-boats and canoes. A boating sensation occurred in 1950 when the stern
of a rowing shell exploded mid-lake, injuring its coxswain. Police suspected sabotage to prevent the boat competing. The lake itself, the mature trees and historic picnic shelters have changed little. Other features have come and gone. Like the precinct fence with its Vahland designed gates, swimming pool, caretaker’s residence, camping ground, mid-lake Rotary Fountain and the original boatsheds at the boardwalk end. Notable additions have been the rowing club pavilion (1980), the much loved adventure playground (1998) and Boardwalk Restaurant. It began life as a temporary Chinese tea house at the Melbourne International Festival of 1991. As for the swans, a pair was promised by Victoria’s Acclimatisation Society before the lake was even dug. White English swans to satisfy settlers’ nostalgia for home have long since gone. These days, only native black swans call Lake Weeroona home. Vintage postcards depict a more tranquil and verdant idyll. The comparison is confirmed in the Greater Bendigo council’s 2011
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Top: Enjoying a stroll along the boardwalk at Lake Weeroona. Middle: The Boardwalk Bendigo restaurant. Bottom: The playground at Lake Weeroona.
Master Plan. Simon Harrison, Manager, Parks and Natural Reserves believes Weeroona’s been loved to death – a victim of its own popularity and climate change. Simon says the master plan is about, “sustainable management of the precinct for the future. To make sure that in another hundred years it’s still here.” Planned rejuvenation works include tree plantings that “keep with the character of the site.” It’s not surprising in the land of droughts and flooding rains that Lake Weeroona has on occasion been dry. The chances of this recurring were finally overcome in 2007 with the availability of recycled water. Simon gladly confirmed that the lake is free of major weed and silt problems that have surfaced over the decades. Things were in such a state in the summer of 1963 that filling in the lake for development as a recreation ground was suggested. It is not uncommon to see people fishing at the lake, but are they simply wetting their lines? After all, the lake doesn’t crack an entry in the Fishing Around Bendigo publication. Furthermore, its minuscule
mention on the Fishing Victoria website could hardly be more disheartening — “Contains goldfish and a few redfin. Stocked with trout several times without success.” But you never know your luck. Earlier this year, someone chasing those few redfin hooked a sawn off shotgun. Other contraband like stolen bikes and detonators has also been dragged from the lake over the years. In 1956, a Quarry Hill woman ended up in court for fishing there without a licence. She argued, “I am holding the rod for my husband” and managed to beat the charge. The same defence is not recommended for driving your husband’s car without a licence. Loch Ness may have Nessie but for a time around the end of the 19th century, Lake Weeroona was said to be frequented by “The Terror of Spring-Heeled Jack.” The bounding bat-featured phantom dropped from the trees to terrify unsuspecting couples seeking night-time seclusion along the foreshore. He was so dubbed after a similarly leaping devil-like figure “depriving ladies of their senses” in England. The lakeside became deserted by night as word spread. Pretty soon the preying interloper became the hunted. He evaded capture from Bendigo menfolk by leaping fences his pursuers needed a ladder to scale. When the bogeyman disappeared into White Hills cemetery or over the hospital wall to the morgue, Bendigonians believed they had a vampire in their midst. This aggrandised and sensationally illustrated account surfaced in a 1939 Melbourne magazine article by horror specialist, J P Quaine. He made much of the Bendigo Ghost story that swept Australia during his own Bendigo upbringing. While occasional sightings of its English counterpart still occur, all’s quiet on the lake front… for now! Bendigonians’ fondness for Lake Weeroona was best demonstrated in 2004 with staunch opposition to a proposal to extend the tram service round the lake. A Government grant of $3.7 million was forfeited rather than concede a square millimetre of the park. Surely that makes Lake Weeroona priceless. ■
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Fly-in, fly-out (FIFO); n. a generic term used to describe a variety of longdistance work practices, where workers travel by air or other mode of transport to and from worksites typically in remote areas, often at a distance from existing communities. Writer: Erin Delahunty - Photographer: David Field While the concept of fly-in, fly-out work is not new to Australia – big miners have been doing it for 25 years – its prevalence and popularity in recent years has skyrocketed. FIFO is part of the vernacular and entrenched in our culture. Everyone has an opinion about FIFOs and governments across Australia are grappling with the social and economic impacts of it. But four Bendigo residents have seen the FIFO lifestyle from the inside. These are their stories.
Pod climbs ladder to happiness Working in places “that aren’t even on Google Maps” installing escape ladders in deep, dark mines has made Bendigo father-of-two Pod Brereton, 50, the happiest he’s ever been. After a long and distinguished career in television production, Pod now traverses the country for rapidly expanding Bendigo firm, Safescape, installing a product called Laddertube, which provides a safe secondary means of escape from underground mines. The brainchild of Safescape managing director Steve Durkin, a former mining engineer, Laddertube is a fully enclosed, non-metallic tube and ladder system used to escape mines in an emergency and according to the firm, is the only product of its type in the world. Previously such equipment was made of steel or metal and corroded over time. The first Laddertube was installed at Fosterville gold mine in May 2011 and they are now found in gold, silver, copper and nickel mines across Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory, as well as in Papua New Guinea, Canada and Spain. The business is just two years old and employs nine full-time staff from its Kangaroo Flat base. The product is manufactured in Perth. Pod is dad to Jack, 17, and Tom, 15 and partner to Toni Smith, who has two kids Seth, 13 and Piper, 10. He joined the company in 2011 and has since spent time installing the ladders at sites across Australia, including at the Flying Fox, Kanowna Belle, Gwalia, Spotted Quoll, Cosmos and King of the Hill mine sites in Western Australia, Cracow gold mine in Queensland, at Cobar in New South Wales and the huge Ok Teddy mine in western Papua New Guinea. It’s hot, hard and potentially dangerous work, but Pod, who is the first to admit he wasn’t looking for a mid-life career change, loves it. “There’s just something about it. I love the product. I love learning and re-educating myself. I love working with the guys and explaining the product and aside from missing my partner and the kids, I don’t mind the travelling. I’ve honestly never been happier in all my life.”
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Unlike most FIFO workers, Pod drives, rather than flies, to remote mine sites, in a customised light vehicle and extra-long trailer, filled with specialised equipment. Aside from his omnipresent iPad and iPhone to stay connected to home, Pod relies on music to keep him company during the 4000-kilometre trek across the Nullarbor. “I stick my Classic Rock Songs of All Time album in and have a bit of a sing.” In another point of difference to the classic FIFO, Pod doesn’t work to a routine roster. “I might work five days on and then have two off or be away for weeks at a time.” Once onsite, Pod works long hours, up to 14 hours a day, in sometimes extreme heat, kilometres below the surface. “It can get so bloody hot down there, your boots literally fill with sweat and you have to stop to tip it out because it’s sloshing around. We can sometimes only work for an hour or so before taking a break because of the heat.” This is understandable when you consider the relative humidity underground can be up to 200 per cent on occasion. The deeper into the earth, the hotter it gets, and the darker. “We think we know what dark is, but it’s something else when you’re a kilometre underground and flick your headlamp off, and see black, just pure pitch black.” A devoted father, Pod happily admits only the age and maturity of his kids, coupled with a good relationship with his ex-wife, who has the boys when he’s away, makes his “dream job” possible. “I miss Toni terribly, but I love coming up from the mine at the end of the day and reading the stream of text messages about her day. This job also means you truly value the people in your life. For that, I’m thankful too.”
Little Pixie makes a big impact Eight years ago, mother, grandmother and former hairdresser Kim “Pixie” Aitchison swapped high heels for purple steel cap boots. With her tiny frame and ‘can-do’ attitude, she entered the manliest of manly worlds, becoming one of Bendigo’s – and Australia’s – first female FIFOs, driving mining trucks as big as the average suburban house that can be worth up to $3 million. Pixie – so nicknamed because she looks like one in the cab of the mammoth vehicles she drives – is a pioneer by any estimation. In an industry almost exclusively inhabited by men, Pixie has carved out a place for herself, building a reputation for reliability and skill, regardless of her gender. She proves women can get the job done. And the mother-of-three and grandmotherof-five calls Eaglehawk home. “In all facets of life, people make assumptions about what you can and can’t do, but I’ve always believed that you have to earn respect, not just be given it. I’m pretty proud of the fact that people rate my work,” Pixie says.
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Pixie grew up on sheep station in southern New South Wales, but moved to Eaglehawk from Queensland with her three boys, Craig, Adrian and Damien, in 1996. “After living in various parts of Australia for work, we decided to relocate to Bendigo for educational and sporting opportunities for my boys.” With a family background in farming, Pixie’s always had an interest in heavy machinery. “I worked in the correctional system for a while, but then I decided to get my heavy rigid licence, doing practice in old quarry dumpers around Bendigo.” It was love at first clutch. “By that stage, my boys were grown-up and I found that I just loved driving trucks. Then, I heard about a job with Ridwest in Port Hedland and the rest is history,” says Pixie, who drives a distinctive bright purple one-tonne ute with a huge Caterpillar sticker on the window. Since her first trip “over west” in 2003, Pixie has worked at numerous projects across the country, from Kununurra, Port Headland, Barrow Island and Koolan Island in Western Australia to Darwin and Gove in the Northern Territory and Groote Eylandt, the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, off the NT coast, to Gladstone in Queensland. And more. “People know I’m good at what I do, so I get offered work on different projects. In our industry, your reputation is what gets you work. You get a call, and off you jump. It’s a pretty amazing lifestyle, seeing Australia and working at the same time.” A self-confessed “Caterpillar freak”, Pixie prides herself on her constant up-skilling and knowledge of the equipment she works on. “I figured early on that it’s better to know what’s wrong with the truck before it does.” And when you’re reversing a 793-tonne truck five kilometres along a precariously narrow ridge, fully laden with rock to build a sea wall in the Indian Ocean, where divers are waiting in the water to position the rocks, there’s little margin for error. “When I stop and think about it, some of the things I’ve done are pretty amazing. I’d love for some of my friends back home to be able to see it.” One thing her friends have seen is the tattoos she has in honour of her Pixie persona; PIXIE is emblazoned across her lower back and she has a .45 pistol slinging from each hip, in homage to her straight-talkin’ ways. But it’s not just the work Pixie loves, it’s the people. “I call them my outback family; the good friends I’ve made along the way. There are some truly amazing people from all walks of life out there. We share the experience of being a long way of home and you quickly learn how to get along when you’re living and working together.” Pixie jokes that’s she’ll probably drop dead in a dump truck. And that’d be just fine with her.
“in all facets of life, people make assumptions about what you can and can’t do, but i’ve always believed that you have to earn respect, not just be given it.”
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Stefan paves his way For 24-year-old Stefan Gogoll – a carpenter by trade who has switched to working as a concreter at a uranium mine in the world heritage-listed Kakadu National Park – being a FIFO is a once-in-alifetime opportunity to “get out and see the joint … and be paid at the same time.” Stefan, who grew up in Echuca, but moved to Bendigo three years ago, works for AusForm, a Bendigo-based firm which specialises in the construction of reinforced concrete structures for the industrial sectors, including the mining industry. After hearing about a potential opportunity earlier this year through friends, Stefan jumped at the chance to join the FIFO army. “It’s pretty rare to get a job that gives you the opportunity to see Australia; places I’d never see otherwise; and get paid to do it. For me, at this time in my life, it’s brilliant,” Stefan says. Stefan commutes more than 3600 kilometres to the tiny outpost of Jabiru in the Northern Territory, and then onto site, to work 12hours a day, in up to 40C heat, for three weeks, before returning home to Flora Hill for a week. “It sounds tough, but there is a real sense of camaraderie among the other guys working up there. Lots of us are in that 20 to 30 year old age bracket and we work together, live together, eat together and all get along. It’s awesome.” The flipside of course, is those back home. Stefan’s partner of a year, Carla Doran, is a personal trainer and shares the house Stefan owns in Flora Hill. “It’s definitely hard with the missus. It was a decision we made together though and we just try to talk through everything as best we can. She still finds it pretty tough. It’s not like you’re totally isolated though, there is still email and the phone,” Stefan, who’s dad and sister also live in Bendigo, says. “When I am home, it’s a bit of a whirlwind of catching up with friends and family.” Despite the perks, such free travel and generous leave provisions, the FIFO life is not for everyone, Stefan admits. “We don’t have kids and that’s a huge factor. I imagine it would be incredibly tough for families. It’s definitely not for everyone.” But for right now, Stefan’s happy “living the dream”. “Being a FIFO is ideal for people like me. At my age, to be able to earn good money, pay off my house, get a start in life … what more could you want?” When his current job in the NT ends this month, Stefan expects to be sent to another far-flung location. “Even that to me is exciting, getting to see another part of our beautiful country.”
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Russell unearths a new plan A desire to live mortgage-free motivates Bendigo’s Russell Andrew, 31, to be a FIFO. After tinkering with cars all his life, Russell qualified as a diesel mechanic after high school, doing his apprenticeship at Bendigo firm Andy’s Earthmoving. Three years ago, he heard through a friend – as seems to be the FIFO way – about the chance to “do the working in the mines thing”. Like so many before him, it was a personal connection that landed Russell his first gig. And he hasn’t looked back, declaring he absolutely loves what he does. After initially working at remote mine sites all over Western Australia for industry giant Caterpillar, Russell is now a subcontractor to Brisbane-based Salmon Earthmoving Services, working on the construction of a gas plant on picturesque Curtis Island, which is just off Gladstone in Queensland. Russell, who is single, has been working 12-14-hour shifts on a “three weeks on, one week off” roster for more than a year. He is responsible for repairing, maintaining and testing heavy specialised mining equipment such as earthmovers, excavators and trucks. “The size of some of the equipment would blow peoples’ mines, but it’s all just work to me now,” he says. From Bendigo, Russell drives to Melbourne, flies to Gladstone, and then catches a ferry to the island; a 2200-kilometre trip that usually takes eight hours. “I do a pretty standard roster for a FIFO, but of course I miss home a lot; it is sorta hard sometimes. All you can do is catch up with the people who are important to you, like direct family and close mates, when you are home and really appreciate them,” he says. “It’s odd, but when you’re away, it doesn’t really matter where you are. You’re away for that period time regardless; I wouldn’t really care if I was on the other side of the world.” Russell, who owns a small property at Huntly, believes the sacrifices he’s making now will serve him well in the future. “It’s definitely more about the financial side than anything else. I am hoping to be mortgagefree; it’s as simple as that. I don’t make too many plans in life as a rule, but being able to pay my house off quickly would be great.” The weather on a small island in the Coral Sea is a pretty good trade-off too. “As a rule, it’s always at least 10C warmer on the island; I certainly get a shock when I come back home. I’m always telling people how freezing it is, when it’s really probably not.” The sense of shared purpose among the FIFOs who live and work on the island is another happy side effect. “It is hard, but most of the guys fly-in and they’re similar type people to me. You get to know the guys you’re working with and you have the mindset of ‘let’s just get in and get the job done’.” There are dangers though. “Of course, there are dangers, but it depends on the people you’re working with and you rely on them. It’s ironic, because people say how dangerous the industry can be, but because of this fact, most jobs are run by safety.” Russell happily accepts the risks and isolation, but he’s realistic about the job’s longevity for him – and suitability for others. “It’s definitely a lifestyle suited to a younger fella. I won’t do it forever. When you’re young and single, you can get out there and have a go. But I wouldn’t think it would be any good for a family. But for me, right now, I love it.” ■
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all the pretty horses Hold onto your reins as we saddle up to talk to a local who specialises in rocking horse restoration Writer and Photographer: Sarah Harris Luna Park isn’t just for fun. “There’s been lots of study and hard work,” Goldfields resident Patricia Mullins says of her role in the $2.2 million restoration and ongoing maintenance of the famed fairground’s star turn. It was two decades ago that a 68-horse trojan named the Grand Carousel first galloped off with her heart. “Julia Murray, one of the founders of Friends of Luna Park, had an exhibition of photographs and drawings showing the dreadful state of the carousel and I just wrote in the visitors’ book: ‘I restore wooden horses’,” Patricia recalls. It wasn’t long afterwards that she got a phone call and signed on as artistic director for a project that would consume the next eight years of her life. “I gave up my illustration work and just concentrated on the carousel, finding the right people to do the work.” Now, a decade after the restored carousel was unveiled, Patricia is back at work in the park ahead of the St Kilda foreshore icon’s 100th birthday, to retouch paintwork damaged by sun and sea air. She moves between the concentric whorl of horses, inspecting each and sharing their stories. “This little fellow was one of the most rewarding to work with,” Patricia says with a fond stroke of a dark flank. “He was one of several that were in pieces underneath the Scenic Railway. His head and his leg were actually located off-site after we went on radio and appealed for the missing bits. “We called him Phoenix because he rose again out of the most diabolical circumstance. You see, a wooden horse can always be repaired. It can always come back to life, as long as you understand what was there in the first place.” It’s a lesson she learned from a late great horseman named Jack Bartlett. It was Jack who taught Patricia, then a young RMIT illustration student, the craft of making and repairing rocking horses. Jack in turn had been taught by his father Robert, who founded the Bartlett Company of rocking horse and wooden toy manufacture in Melbourne in 1913 – the same year the
Grand Carousel was shipped to Sydney.
I drew horses.”
It was the 30th machine made by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company and the only one ever exported, having originally been specially constructed for the White City amusement park in Sydney and later moved to Melbourne. “It is unquestionably the most elaborate and beautiful carousel in Australia,” Patricia says.
An award-winning children’s book illustrator of such much-loved titles as Hattie and the Fox and Shoes from Grandpa and an author in her own right, Patricia’s most recent project is a collaboration with Bendigo’s Glenda Millard. Their poetic picture book Lightning Jack tells the story of a carousel horse who gallops away with the imagination of a small boy.
The vision was to see this carousel returned as close as possible to the state it was in when it left the factory. “We had a mobile conservation laboratory at Luna Park for about six months and were able to find – even in the horses that had been stripped in the past – the original paint deep in the crevices, which allowed me to establish the repetition and the palette. What we discovered under layers and layers and layers of white enamel paint was that every single horse was beautifully and fantastically decorated. There is gold leaf, there is glazed silver leaf, such elaborate trappings with detail upon detail.” Since her apprenticeship Patricia has whispered life into scores of wooden horses, and more recently her company Equus Art carried out the restoration of the Melbourne Zoo merry-go-round. “I confess I am a horse tragic,” she laughs. “I grew up being totally horse-mad. I rode horses, I made little horses,
Patricia still vividly recalls her first ride on a merry-go-round on a family holiday in Dromana. “I remember the speed and the lights and how very high up it seemed. I had chosen the horse. Kids still do that today. You can see them, they watch the horses go round and then they pick one and go for it. It is the start of the whole experience. Before they even get to climb on its back they have formed a connection with that one special horse.” The loving refurbishment and continuing maintenance of the Luna Park carousel will ensure future generations are transported – though thanks to modern OH&S requirements the ride is now slower and the horses lower than they used to prance. “It’s still about a moment in time, about lifting you out of your normal life into something magical,” Patricia says, painting the air with imagery. ■
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Disappearing Bendigo Gone but forgotten Writer and illustrator: Geoff Hocking We were cleaning out my mother’s house recently. After 93 years in the one street in Golden Square she finally said her last goodbyes to Bendigo, and among all of her things: every birthday card we ever sent, every drawing we ever did as children, every certificate, every letter from foreign lands and countless photographs of everyone she ever knew, I came upon a large broadsheet poster produced in 1945 by the Welfare Publications, an arm of John Fairfax & Sons, titled An Historical Record of the Second European World War, and Issued Free To All Ex-Servicemen – With the Compliments of the Advertisers. I had never seen this broadsheet before. It was in mint condition, and seemed to have lain, hidden among her collected ephemera, and probably not looked at by herself, for more than 60 years.
the original old store once looked like. The original MYER façade was lovely. A castiron verandah protected lead-light decorated, brass-framed bay and gondola-styled display windows; the kind you walked in and around and kept warm and snuggly on a winter’s night as you made your way home from the YM dance. MAPLES (109 Pall Mall), a furniture store long gone from the CBD, advertised by offering CASH or TERMS. Terms were a novel concept in 1945. After the great depression of the 1930s and the long years of war few people had been prepared to buy anything unless they could pay cash, but at the end of the war a new way of doing business was being invented.
After years of denial few returned men wanted to put off their comfort any longer than they needed to. Hire purchase and credit entered the lexicon. Some rakish fellows even started to carry cheque books, which in our mother’s eyes amounted to writing promisory notes on bits of paper that the payee may not even have the funds to honour. How the world has changed. There is also an ad for MATTHEWS BROS Where quality and Values Always Tell. Our mother used to work at Matthews before she was married. The store opened into Hargreaves Street and backed onto MYERS where the latest fashions for female juveniles are displayed now.
It appears to be the sort of publication that was created as a generic printed item, then overprinted with paid local advertisements for distribution into local districts. What interested me most were three things: first, that it was distributed to ex-servicemen – I assume that it was probably given away through local RSLs – and second, the Australian flag shown in the centre graphic of Flags of Allied Nations is clearly indicated as a red flag, not blue, and that is a discussion to be had on another day – and third, the names of the Bendigo businesses who advertised on the broadsheet. Almost all of the business houses listed have since disappeared from the local business community, but almost all were once the stalwart business names that underpinned Bendigo’s retail activity. Only two names remain. One, MYERS as it was then known, is well represented at the centre of the broadsheet, as Bendigo’s Most Modern Store, offering: Ladies’, Gentlemen’s and Juvenile’s Fashions. Who would advertise to juveniles today? They also promoted themselves as Complete Home Furnishers, in the day when MYERS did sell everything for the home from carpets to cookers, lounge suites to laundry tubs. The other is the Draper and Furniture Store The BEEHIVE (Est. 1852) – The Store For Better Value – that at that time ran from Pall Mall through to Hargreaves Street guaranteed that Satisfaction (was) Assured, once a great rival to both MYER and MAPLES, also placed an advertisement. It is worth noting that of all the advertisers in this broadsheet in 1945, The Beehive remains as a building, but not a store, and MYER remains as a store but it has long ago lost the beauty of its original façade. At the time of writing the Beehive is returning its face to its former glory while MYER only shows a painted image of former self on the old DICKENS Supermarket windows to indicate to its customers what
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bendigo memories After Myer bought the store, sometime in the 1960s, they opened all the way from Pall Mall into Hargreaves Street through old Matthews’ Stores. Our mother didn’t like the floor manager at old Matthews very much. She reminisced, without too much affection, that he was always a bit too friendly with some of the shop girls. Matthews was one of those old-fashioned haberdashery and manchester stores with high shelves lining the narrow store, a long counter on either side on which smaller goods were displayed, and those old rolls of brown paper set into silvered cast-iron dispensers next to which a ball of string dangled from the ceiling.
many coloured V-necked lambswool Tamar sweaters topped off tight-legged Levis and DBs.
to do with deep-fried, secretly herbed and spiced, digitally-licked poultry.
Another ad is for MATCHETT’s who described themselves as Bendigo’s Leading Grocers, Wine, Spirit and Provision Merchants, on the corner of Bath Lane and Mitchell Street, Telephone No. 38. Matchett’s moved about a bit, not far from this corner, but from shop to shop and in their last incarnation had a rather specialised bottle shop in Hargreaves Street up until a decade or so ago.
Among my mother’s things was a letter written to my father on the occasion of his retirement after 43 years of employment at Bendigo’s Myer Store. It was written by Mr Kenneth Bailleau Myer and congratulated our dad on his length of service, wishing him well in his retirement. However, the most interesting part of this letter – well interesting to the historian in me – was the last line, where Myer acknowleged that his father, Sidney, knew our father’s mother.
The family firm has now also disappeared.
An ad for ASHMAN’S, The Home of Better Suits. Tailors, Hatters, Mercers & Dry Cleaners, reminds us that it stood for many years on the corner of Hargreaves and Williamson Streets, the Gillies’ end of Hargreaves Mall today.
Photographer REG. V. BROCK For Portraits That LIVE, had his studios upstairs in the Old Colonial Mutual Buildings opposite the fountain on View Point. Everybody had his or her portraits taken by Reg. V. His hand-coloured images LIVED on almost every mantle-shelf in Bendigo. He has long gone from this sepia-toned picture of old Bendigo.
Ashmans were outfitters for the mature man. They never really entered the modern world but stuck doggedly to good old-fashioned clothing better suited to men of a by-gone era. Once those men had largely gone by, so too did Ashmans.
The BENDIGO BATTERY HOSPITAL, Late of the RAAF and AIF promised to keep car, radio and home lighting batteries fully charged; and H. PRIEST Motor Engineer and Parking Station, also in Hargreaves Street, Telephone No. 164, offered his mechanical services.
It hung on all through the 60s and 70s, stocking a bit of mod-gear but it couldn’t change its spots and was usurped by such young retail guns, as Rob at the eponymous Jeanery and Barry Rule at Boucher’s Menswear who both tapped into a groovy zeitgeist, where mop-tops and beatle-cuts merged with roll-necked skivvies, and the
JEFFREY’S BREAD in Wattle Street, Telephone No. 1663, promoted their White, Wholemeal, Vienna, Pro-Vita and Starch Reduced Breads’; while THE KENTUCKY COFFEE LOUNGE offered their Six Point Meal Service [whatever that may be] from their café on the corner of Hargreaves and Williamson Streets, and had nothing at all
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All gone now – except for MYER.
The painted image of the old Myer Store on the window in Pall Mall is of Sidney Myer’s first store, in Bendigo. This is where he started. Well, in fact he started by pushing a hand-cart laden with household goods around the streets of the gold-mining town, from cottage to cottage selling to everybody’s mother, and grandma Janie was just one of hundreds he must have encountered on his rounds – but somewhere that memory endured, just as this broadsheet has endured for more than 60 years, folded and kept away until now. Every business name set in old hot-metal type, on this letterpress printed threecoloured broadsheet was a Bendigo family name, from the day when local families largely ran their own shops, and their longserving and loyal employees were in it for the long haul with them. How times have changed. All gone now – except for MYER. ■
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Summer in the Parks Balmy summer nights are part of the pleasure of living in the Bendigo region. What better way to enjoy a summer’s evening after a typical warm sunny day than sitting on the cool grass under a leafy tree, picnic basket in tow, in one of the region’s green lush parks. Writer:Mary Pomfret Summer in the Parks has been run successfully by the City of Greater Bendigo for the past 10 years. The program offers a range of events and activities during the summer months across the municipality that are mostly free of charge. It’s a great opportunity for families and friends to enjoy entertainment in our local parks and reserves without spending a fortune You might be lucky enough to hear the musical sounds of jazz, blues or popular music playing while you relax in ambience of the early evening as shadows fall or later under the moonlit sky you might even catch a movie or you might just wish upon a star. All of this and more is what the Summer in the Parks program offers. Melbourne- based gypsy-style band The Woohoo Revue whose drummer Andrew Rousch was born and raised in Bendigo will be opening the music in the parks series on Friday, January 4, 2013. The touring band has recently performed at WOMADelaide, Port Fairy Folk Festival, Melbourne International Gypsy Festival, and Falls Festival to mention but a few venues. What a treat this sextet of horns, strings and drums will be for Bendigo. “We love a trip to the goldfields. We’ve had great audiences there in
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the past,” band member Dannie McKenzie said. “It’s been years since we performed in Bendigo and we’re looking forward to getting the crowds up dancing again.” Christmas celebrations and community carols through December are always a highlight for families and are part of the season’s festive celebrations. Music in the Parks each Friday evening in January and Outdoor Cinema each Saturday evening in February is a great way to unwind after a busy working week. The Summer in the Parks program also promotes a range of other activities and events run by community and special art events including a sound art and projection event by Bendigo’s sound art and experimental film collective undue noise inc. undue noise inc. will present an evening of live sound and video performance with an international flavour. Artists will include Tim Nohe from Baltimore, who will present abstracted sound and videos based on water from his home town. Paris-born Bendigo sound artist Jacques Soddell will manipulate sound from the Taurion River in France with videos of Tasmanian rivers and local animator Paul
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Fletcher, who is well known for his annual Easter “Little Creatures” exhibition at the Town Hall will also be performing. The projection event will be held in the conservatory in Rosalind Park on Saturday January 19 from 8pm to 10 pm. For lovers of acoustic Blues guitarist and vocalist Alawishus Jones will be performing on Friday, January 18 at Happy Jack Reserve Lockwood South. Alawishus describes himself as “a time travelling Bluesman from the 1930s.” Alawishus perfoms with “the aid of a little ‘old fashioned’ know-how, an old fashioned rec’d player …we called ‘em gramophones in them days… and access to the grid …we called that the telegraph wire.” “Alawishus Jones will be at Happy Jacks Reserve to play the blues for the folks and to weave a tale or two for their delight and edification.” he says. Maree Tonkin Coordinator of Arts and Culture, Community and Cultural Development, The City of Greater Bendigo said: “The Summer in the Parks program offers something for everyone and is a wonderful way for friends and family to spend time together in some of our beautiful parks and reserves. “The City of Greater Bendigo is pleased to offer and promote free and low cost events for the whole community to enjoy over the summer months.” “Summer in the Parks is a much looked forward to annual event, especially the moonlight cinema evenings and Music in the Park events over January and February.” For those who enjoy walking, there will be walking tours throughout January and February including historical tours, botanical gardens tours and evening spotlighting tours spying nocturnal animals with CoGB Parks and environment staff. And the special events which have become part of the Bendigo’s culture include the spectacular New Year’s Eve fireworks display and Australia Day celebrations. The 2012 – 2013 Summer in the Parks program can be picked up from the Bendigo Visitor Centre Pall Mall and local cafes. It can also be found online at www.bendigotourism.com. A facebook page also keeps you updated with current news regarding the program and can be found at Facebook/BendigoSummerintheParks. ■
TOP: Christmas carols MIDDLE: An outdoor cinema BOTTOM: Gorgeous gardens set the scene for Summer in the Parks.
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Bendigo CAE, “Hargreaves Mall hadn’t even started!” he guffaws. “It was a big country town – and I still like that about it.” Still feeling very connected to Bendigo, Michael was part of its first artist co-op gallery. “It was a funny time back then,” he said, “where ‘the idea’ was all that mattered, and technique was treated with derision.” In 1989 he returned to Melbourne and fell into graphic art, with which Michael has supported himself ever since. Then “St Kilda Road” came calling. “It was my ‘Masters Of The Universe’ phase,” he said of the advertising design job that eventually took him to South East Asia. By the late 1990s he was married with a family on the way. Corporate burn out nipped at his heels, so he and wife Barb decided it was time for a tree change. With family in Castlemaine, it seemed the perfect place to call home. Michael’s art story is a complex one; in among the business – and busy-ness – of his life, he’s never stopped painting, or photography. He credits several cathartic moments with evolving his style. Defining himself as a landscape painter, a 2006 trip to the Alice Springs desert transformed not only his view of the world but his approach to painting. “Sitting in that dry river bed looking at the undulating hills over Glen Helen Gorge, I’d never experienced that physical relationship between me and the landscape before... It was about getting inside the landscape, not just painting it,” he said. “I have been trying to paint like that as often as possible ever since. “Don’t get me wrong; I’m a Western artist using Western traditions. My work is not about the spiritual or cultural connection Aboriginal artists have with the land. “But it is about technical aspects – and an emotional one – of collapsing the perspective to the front of the plane, where everything becomes flat. “The desert almost convinced me about intelligent design! It looked like everything had been placed there. I see everything that way now. “It’s just one picture at a time for me,” said the 50 year-old, happy at where he’s at with his work and life. “For me it’s about ‘will this painting lead me to the next painting’ – that discovery.” He slows down to still. “I don’t ask for profound insights... All I ask is, will it lead me to the next one?” ■
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We are not all blessed with a great outlook in our workplace, but some people have it made. Bendigo Magazine spoke to three of the best Writer: Steve Kendall - Photographer: David Field
Marty Gobel - MyJet There can be no finer view from a workplace than that of Marty Gobel. Marty is the pilot of MyJet, Bendigo charter jet service, and the country looks pretty impressive at altitude. The company took flight when the owner realised his regular business trips would work out quicker and cheaper if he owned a jet.
“I have to do the daily inspections before take off, arrange the catering and just make sure everything is right.” Marty said the transition to jets was not as hard as someone might think. “If anything, the Cessna Citation is less complicated than the Dash 8,” he said. Fully loaded the Cessna carries eight passengers plus the pilot.
This high-flying businessman formed the company and now takes on charter flights to keep things ticking over.
“We operate with one pilot, that’s me, but the company is certainly on the up,” Marty said.
Marty’s father was a pilot so access to aircraft provided the desire and the proximity to learn for himself.
“We have just opened new facilities at the Bendigo Airport, and I think they’re among the best in Australia for the type of operation.
Following stints as an instructor and charter flying, Marty headed out to the gasfields of Queensland.
Marty’s most regular flight is to Adelaide when he takes “the boss” on a business trip.
After time with two other airlines, Marty joined Qantas and spent 10 years in the cockpits of Dash 8s
“I fly him over by 7.30am and then bring him back 5pm the following day, I get to rest and have a look around in the meantime, that’s pretty special.
Then came Bendigo and MyJet. “I have a broader responsibility here,” Marty said. “We have regular flights, but a lot of the trips are last minute. I have to be ready.” Marty makes sure the maintenance is up to scratch, and even buys the papers on the way to work so the passengers have something to read. “Flying days can be long, with most take offs scheduled for around 6am. I have to be up at least a couple of hours before that,” he said.
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“The job is challenging, but it’s always rewarding when you rise to that challenge.” As for the view from the workplace. “With every job, there are good days and bad days,” Marty said. “But flying at sunrise or sunset is pretty special, the air is always calmer which makes for a smooth flight. “The long shadows create picturesque serenity.” Nicely said Marty.
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“the bendigo centre was designed to maximise natural light, so being exposed to so much natural light and a beautiful view is invigorating.”
Greg Penno - Bendigo Bank
about half of my working week at this desk,” he said.
Greg Penno spent 20 years in the Royal Australian Navy in predominantly human resource roles and this included recruiting for the navy.
“When I am not here, I spend a lot of time talking to people across the business, either in meetings or visiting other teams at the Bank’s offices.
This put him in the right skill set when Bendigo Bank was formed in 1995.
“When not in Bendigo, you’ll find me in Melbourne or at another of the bank’s head office locations across the country.”
“A recruitment function was established and I was asked to run this given my previous recruitment experience,” Greg said.
Greg said the city of Bendigo and Bendigo Bank provide him with exceptional work satisfaction.
“Since joining the Bank I have been responsible for most of the human resource roles at the Bank, and currently I am responsible for industrial relations and safety.” In real estate they say location, location, location is the key, but does the same go for banking? “My work surroundings are very important to me and my team,” Greg said. “The Bendigo Centre was designed to maximise natural light, so being exposed to so much natural light and a beautiful view is invigorating. “We have such a fantastic location in town overlooking Rosalind Park and being able to gaze out the window at one of the nicest spots in Bendigo assists during times of contemplation and decision making is fantastic.” But as good as the view is it’s not Greg’s whole week. “Because of the nature of my work I do travel, but I would spend
“I have great physical surroundings to invigorate and inspire me, and I work with a fantastic group of people that also enjoy their town and their workplace,” he said. “As the organisation expands nationally, I’m put in touch with a broader network of people and this means I’m always inspired by learning something new and sharing my knowledge with other members of my team.” It’s not all work for Greg of course and he has a lot of interests outside of work. “I guess it’s just about getting the right balance between managing a busy job and having a good family life,” he said. “My wife and I have a 20 acre property just outside of Bendigo and we have 11 grandchildren who visit us regularly, so there is always something happening at home involving grandkids and the farm animals. “Being able to work from a great desk means I can enjoy the sights of the great city of Bendigo while I work, a perfect combination.”
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Michael Ervin - Borchelli ristorante Michael Ervin see all walks of life from his prime location on View Street. As manager of Borchelli Ristorante it’s his job to make sure it all runs smoothly in the restaurant, but you can bet on any downtime he’s keeping his eye on the comings and goings outside. “You see the well-dressed ladies and gentlemen in their Mercedes, and you see the youngsters in their Fords and Holdens,” Michael said. “It’s the same in the restaurant. A real cross section of locals and tourists. A broad spectrum.” The hospitality game started around 15 years ago for Michael, both as a DJ in a nightclub and as staff at the Royal Hotel in Ballarat. Then followed a stint at The Boardwalk in Bendigo, another fine view. “Especially in summer,” Michael said. He worked in the kitchen at the Rifle Brigade and opposite the cathedral. Michael has been at Borchelli’s for five years. “I’ve been looking over Simon Lock’s shoulder the whole time,” he said. “So I have learnt all of his techniques,” he said with a glint in his eye. “He doesn’t have to worry though.” Michael said he puts his heart and soul into where he works. “I respect my employers, and in turn I hope they respect me. “You do the best you can for the business, I look after the staff. “In return they do better for you.” Apart from the classic view of The Capital, being so close has its other plus points. “People who come here are happier because they’re going out,” Michael said. “They know they can get a good coffee here, or a little cake or a full meal.” Michael makes special mention of the restaurant’s spaghetti marinara. So bear that in mind. The work of a manager is one of calming the way, and Michael said if things are getting tough he resorts to humour. “I find I can ease any stresses my lightening the situation, usually at my own expense. Pointing out the mess I have made of myself,” he said. Over his time at the restaurant Michael has been able to consider The Capital at some length. “There’s such a symmetry to it,” he said. “The fire station has a little arch and so does the gallery. It’s framed by arches. “When I look across the road I think how lucky I am to be working doing what I enjoy, and I consider the hard work that went into building The Capital.” “I’ve got it easy really, making coffees.” ■
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SANDHURST TRUSTEES When a fledgling Sandhurst Trustees snapped up Bendigo’s old old post office in 1891, it became one of its canniest investments ever. Writer: Colin King - Photographer: David Field Bendigo has known seven post offices in all. These days the mantle of ‘the old post office’ is held by Bendigo’s Visitor Information Centre in Pall Mall. However, its predecessor at 18 View Street landed the title back in 1887 – the same year mining manager and accountant, John Neeson, proposed formation of Sandhurst Trustees. The company celebrates its 125th anniversary on December 12. Although Bendigo’s View Street post office was designed by William Wardell, it was destined for a short mail-processing life. Wardell – who also designed Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral, Government House and St Mary’s cathedral in Sydney – was acclaimed as: “By far the most eminent architect who lived in Australia.” Nevertheless, before it even opened for business in 1869, people were asking: “Was it quite beyond the bounds of possibility for Mr Wardell to hit upon some newer and better design?” It fell short of the grandeur Bendigonians saw emerging, like the Mechanics Institute (TAFE), Beehive, Masonic Hall (Capital Theatre) and restyled Town Hall. Pretty soon, critics were baying for a replacement post office with an edifice: “That would stand fair comparison with the public building of the old cities of Europe.” Inexorably, a new new post office rose in 1883 to become the grand French Renaissance centrepiece of Pall Mall. The goldfields wealth driving such boom-style architecture in 19th-century Bendigo also spawned trustee companies in Australia – “to watch over the fortunes.” Sandhurst and Northern District Trustees Executors and Agency Company was formed to capitalise on the demand in Bendigo. It was promulgated in 1888 by an act of parliament that oddly singled out lunatics among potential recipients of its services. The company acquired the empty View Street post office for its headquarters in 1891.
The building might easily have become Bendigo’s art gallery instead. The City Council had it and the Rifles Brigade orderly room in its sights as a potential art gallery. Fortunately for Sandhurst Trustees, the orderly room became Bendigo’s art gallery. The rest is town history. Today the Sandhurst Trustees office is recognised as a heritage building of State significance. Its less ornate classical façade belies the lavishly detailed and faithfully preserved interior. Only the discreet presence of computer screens betrays the distinguished blackwood panelled working environment of two centuries ago. Not a tourist replica, but the real thing. The stunning polished timber post office counter still serves as the reception desk. Property Manager, Neil Athorn, is “quite happy to have people call in,” as did many visitors attending the Grace Kelly exhibition. “We’re quite proud of the building and we can show them around. Larger groups,” he says, “are welcome to make an appointment.” On display is a gallery of pioneer shareholders and directors. The list reads like a Bendigo street directory – Sternberg, Abbott, Beischer and Lansell among them. No doubt, that honour was somewhat due to their civic roles with the hospital, agriculture society, art gallery and as city councillor and MP. Present day Chair, Jenny Dawson, and fellow directors continue that tradition – variously involved in the Art Gallery Foundation, Loddon Valley Netball Association, Swap Meet, GoulburnMurray Water, Regional Development Australia and others. Sandhurst’s direct community involvement via bequests and sponsorships has also remained strong. It includes long associations with the Easter Fair, Bendigo Show, publication of the Annals of Bendigo and acquiring Sun Loong Chinese dragon in 1970.
concentration on traditional trustee functions – together with restricted investment powers – meant it “never really grew very large”. That all changed in 1969 with the recruitment of two younger more dynamic directors – Allen Guy and John Henderson. Over the ensuing 10 years the performance thermometer burst through the glass. Paul Rohan, General Manager, affirms, “Since those days, with the introduction of superannuation and managed investment schemes, it has grown to be an organisation with about $4billion of funds under management. In 1993 we became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. Our services complement those of the bank.” Paul believes, “We’re custodians of the business and the building. It’s important that we maintain the integrity of both of those things.” This is evident to visitors by the complete absence of the usual brash commercial signage. Rather, the company name crests the building façade in the same discrete style used in the 19th century. Polished brass and frosted glass versions flank the striking entrance. Amending these to depict the company’s truncated name has always been resisted. Such restraint and design integrity is far too rare in the business world, even though our streetscapes would be the better for it. It nonetheless epitomises the company motto etched on the entry door – mindful, faithful and lasting. ■
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Tune out TV and tune in to song Who would win in an all-out battle between music and TV? Ben Cameron speaks in favour of the magic of the music. Writer: Ben Cameron When it comes to explaining things, musicians usually do it best. Politicians are too busy being tricky with their words, while school teachers are too busy striking because pollies have been tricky with their words. So it’s left to people like Bob Dylan with The Times Are A Changin’, or Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, to break it down for us. Then there’s ACDC’s Long Way To The Top. A classic for three reasons: it has a bagpipe solo, spruiked the values of working hard and that real winners don’t cut corners, and it came from a time when music was mostly just about the music. It was way back in 1976 when Bon Scott and co marched down Swanston Street for the Long Way video clip, when a thick moustache upped your street cred like a modern day sleeve, beer came in large brown bottles, in long brown paper bags, and best of all, reality television was just some imaginative kid in a cardboard box with one side cut out and a coat hanger on top.
1. The Shire. Nicky Minaj aside, musicians rarely place plastic surgery higher than talent on their list of priorities for making it. 2. Television makes you fat: Music is flexible, easy going, you can take it anywhere. Apart from the 1960s when TV sets were those weird things people gawked at in shop windows, you can’t really enjoy television while speedwalking or jogging, unless you’ve just pinched one. 3. Television tries to speak on my behalf: How many times have you heard a television set boast some lame drama is “The program all of Australia is falling in love with”? Um, excuse me TV, no I’m not. 4. Television lies: How many times have you heard a television set describe a Today Tonight story on shonky builders as “A story you can’t afford to miss” Hang on TV, I’m pretty sure my brain can afford to miss
it, and will more than likely thank me later. 5. There’s no justice in television: The Mick Molloy Show was canned after just a few episodes, Big Brother has been around for a decade. 6. Television corrupts: INXS were cool until they decided to find a new frontman on television. 7. Dad knows best: As a teenager growing up, the old man put an hour a day limit on watching the “damn idiot box”. There were no such limits on music. Unless it was that “damn depressing Nirvana”. So the point is if I had to choose between never hearing my favourite song, or never watching my favourite show ever again, I’d choose Fools Gold by the Stone Roses. Family Guy clips on YouTube has made that decision a whole lot easier. ■
But fast forward to the turn of the century, and reality TV arrived like the early signs of chafe: it was new, it was raw and pretty soon it was going to be everywhere. Incorporating everyday activities like carpentry, cooking and weight loss, it was only a matter of time before reality TV’s one size fits all approach latched onto music. Here in Australia, the first serving was Popstars, and local audiences couldn’t get enough of the taste. Then came Australian Idol, X Factor, It Takes Two, the rebooted Young Talent Time, Australia’s Got Talent and The Voice, like slightly different varieties of the same burger. Don’t blame the producers though, they’re merely following the two golden rules of television: 1. If you’re onto a good thing, tweak it slightly and re-release it as if it’s brand new. And 2. It’s wiser to milk a cash cow with calloused knuckles, than to turn your back on one. Personally, these glorified karaoke sessions seem more about television than music. Why is that a bad thing? Because when it comes to doing things for the planet, music wins hands down. If the world was shifting house and needed a hand, music would be sweating bricks doing all the heavy lifting, television would be merely pointing, shouting directions and making cups of tea. To ram the point home, here’s a few more reasons why the tunes beats the tube any day of the week.
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When you’re onto something good, stick to it. It’s why the Herman’s Hermits’ sole surviving member, Barry Whitwam, continues to tour relentlessly after almost 50 consecutive years, with no end in sight. Writer: Ben Cameron
Strangely, it could have been so different for the Mancunian drummer; he could easily be cutting hair right now, instead of records, if the band hadn’t released its signature hit so early on in the piece. “When I first started in Herman’s Hermits I thought I would give it a couple of years and see if we could make it in show business,” Whitwam says. “And if it didn’t work out I could always go back to ladies hairdressing, at which I was very good!” Whitwam could safely hang up the hairdryer though after the Hermits released the prophetic UK chart topper I’m Into Something Good and things got, well, pretty bloody good. It was a fair leap for the drummer who got his first gig through his mother’s deep pockets. “I remember being not very good at first,” Whitwam remembers of his work as 12-yearold with instrumental group, Danny and the Demons. “The reason I joined the Demons was because the boys in that group needed somebody with a drum kit. They already had a lad who could play cardboard boxes and cooking pans but he didn’t have any drums. “I borrowed £40 off my mother to buy a set of drums and lo, I was in the band! I paid back the money to my mother over two years. “Back in 1958 £40 was a lot of money, but I had a paper round and earned a few pounds playing at social clubs and weddings.”
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Just a few years later Whitwam would join the Hermits, a major piece of artillery during what the music historians called the “British Invasion” of the 1960s, when bands from the Old Dart dropped hit singles like atom bombs all over the states. Through songs like Mrs Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter and I’m Henry The Eighth I am, the Hermits become one of the biggest selling acts of the decade, experiencing a level of success they curiously couldn’t quite replicate back home. “The British music papers didn’t write much about our success in the USA as they thought we were a little lightweight and didn’t deserve to be that big in the USA,” Whitwam says. “We had a lot of success in the UK, but the difference was that the USA fans were more hysterical than the UK fans.’’ While they rubbed shoulders with some of the biggest names in British rock and pop, the Hermits weren’t cut from the same cloth as The Rolling Stones when it came to rock n roll excess – they were just as clean cut on the stage, as off. “We were very young when we started,” Whitwam says. “The average age of the band was about 17 years. Off stage we had lots of fun, which some people would class as mischief. “We had a few water fights in hotels which did cause some damage sometimes, but we always paid for the damage.” It’s all pretty harmless fun compared to the legal battles that would follow when singer Peter Noone left the band to pursue a solo
career in 1971, and the repercussions of that decision are still felt today. “In 1975 we were having great success in the USA doing around five tours a year over there and Peter wasn’t doing much so he suggested he re-join the band,” Whitwam says. “However, he wanted us to take just 10 per cent each with the balance for him so (we) obviously declined. “Why would we drop from 25 per cent to 10 per cent just to have Peter back in the band?’’ While the band continues to rack up a prodigous amount of gigs each year, Whitwam is the only Hermit left from those early days. “I do feel like a survivor as each year more and more of my friends in other bands are dying,” he says. “I do feel very lucky to be in Herman’s Hermits; I was at the right place at the right time. “It makes me very proud to have kept the group going all these years. I was very lucky.” The Hermits, in one shape or another, have toured Australia more than 20 times since 1965 – it’s been 10 years since their last Bendigo show – but the road has never been a grind for Whitwam, it’s a way of staying young. “What keeps me going is the fact that I love playing to a live audience and still get a buzz when I walk out onto a stage,” he says. “You can’t buy that feeling and it keeps me young at heart and healthy.” Herman's Hermits will be in Bendigo April 11 2013 at The Capital. www.thecapital.com.au ■
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Bringing home a world of hospitality It’s no easy task to convince Hayden Winch to sit down and take a breather – harder still to get him to talk about his success in the hospitality world. Writer: John Holton - Photographer: David Field But sitting upstairs at his current venture, Castlemaine’s Public Inn, enjoying a rare quiet cuppa, what I do discover is a man deeply passionate about his industry; driven to create establishments that are the very best they can be. When pushed as to why a born and bred Bendigo lad who studied graphic design ended up managing some of the world’s most prestigious hotels and restaurants, Hayden quotes his long time mentor Alla Wolf-Tasker. “Some people just have this industry in their DNA.”
“I remember being really excited by the environment of a busy restaurant,” Hayden says. “Clogs was always a lively place. It was such a new experience – the smells, flavours and textures – I just loved it.” His ignited passion for the restaurant environment would soon burn bright. As a 20-year-old, Hayden gained a position at the prestigious Lake House in Daylesford working with renowned executive chef Alla WolfTasker. Describing it as an “ah ha moment” in his development, Hayden progressed from
waiter to manager in the space of just nine months. “As someone just entering the industry, I couldn’t have landed in a better environment,” he says. “The Lake House was a growing business and Alla set very high standards. I was constantly challenged to maintain a level of excellence. “I also learnt so much about food and wine. It was where I developed my skills as a sommelier. The size of the wine list and the number of suppliers definitely accelerated
“I guess I’m one of those,” he confesses. His first inklings arose as a uni student in the early 90s when he worked part-time behind the pizza counter at Clogs in Bendigo.
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home grown my knowledge of, and interest in wine.” An interest that has led Hayden, a decade on, to produce his own wine label. But that’s another story… By the time he left the Lake House in 2004 Hayden was General Manager of the resort. It turned out to be a career-defining experience and led on to the dual roles of Sommelier and Hospitality Consultant at the award-winning Vue de Monde in Melbourne, working with celebrity chef Shannon Bennett. But it was on a holiday to Vietnam that his career path took a wholly unexpected twist. “I met the General Manager of the resort we were staying at and got chatting to him about the work I’d done back in Australia,” Hayden remembers. “Before the trip was over he’d offered me a job. “It was the type of opportunity that was too good to knock back – managing a new hotel in the Six Senses chain from scratch. I liked the environmental and social conscience of the company, and it came at a time when my partner Koren and I had just had our first child. We decided to jump in.” The two years spent in Vietnam proved a huge learning curve for Hayden and a chance to combine his interest in design with his entrepreneurial skills in resort management. He managed the opening of the Ana Mandara Villas in the high altitude village of Dalat, managing a workforce of 100 Vietnamese builders. From there he moved on to the Evason Hideaway, and as General Manager, oversaw the opening of several new areas of the resort – a popular retreat for the rich and famous. “The Evason Hideaway is like a six-star version of Robinson Crusoe,” Hayden explains, “with beach villas, hilltop villas and even secluded rock pool villas only accessible by boat. I had a staff of 360 and only 30 of
those spoke fluent English. It was a surreal time in many ways. We hosted some famous guests. Princess Caroline arrived with just a day’s notice. We collected her and her entourage from the dock, and on the way back to the resort I remember thinking, how did I end up here? It was a long way from Clogs’ pizza counter.” Under Hayden’s management the Evason Hideaway won the 2006 Tattler Resort of the Year. While it was a time he and Koren will never forget, island fever eventually set in. It coincided with Koren gaining a managerial position in Dubai, and so they headed from the tropics to the desert. It was the height of the construction boom, and Hayden divided his time between caring for his two-year-old son and working for an interior design company, specialising in hotel lobby fitouts and turn-key projects. When the opportunity arose to manage
hotels in the Aqua Group in Hong Kong the family moved yet again. After what Hayden describes as a lack of “local culture” in Dubai, they were eager to immerse themselves in the Asian lifestyle. “In many ways it was my dream job,” Hayden says, “being responsible for five food and beverage outlets and having the chance to plan and open two restaurants that became very successful. “We always knew that we’d come back to Australia, though we assumed it would be Melbourne. I think we’re the only people ever to move from Hong Kong to Bendigo.” That move saw Hayden collaborate to open The Dispensary Enoteca, before embarking on what he describes as his most challenging venture so far – the opening of the Public Inn at the old Criterion Hotel in Castlemaine, a European-inspired provincial bistro and bar, focusing on fine food, the best local wine and boutique beer. “The Criterion Hotel was affectionately known as The Swinging Arms,” Hayden jokes. “It has a long and lively history in this town, so the challenge has been to build a new identity – to give it a new soul.” Hayden’s design skills have come to the fore, with a decor centering on natural timbers and textures: original steel beams, imported light fittings, and chairs and barstools inspired by Danish design. Handmade Oregon dining tables and burgundy leather Chesterfields arranged around open fireplaces create a warm and distinctive setting. Just down the road in Templeton Street the second part of Hayden’s vision is taking shape. The old Castlemaine fire house has already been transformed into CAFÉ re PUBLIC a sister establishment to the Public Inn offering casual dining 8am to 4pm seven days a week. While right next door the fire station is being transformed into a boutique brewery and tasting room that will open onto Templeton Street. As we wander through this fabulous space I mention to Hayden that one of his great entrepreneurial skills seems to be finding the perfect venue. “I don’t know about that,” he says modestly. But behind him Koren is nodding her head – silently agreeing with my contention. She knows better than anyone that this venture won’t be their last. ■
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Oliver Birch To celebrate their second birthday the team at Oliver Birch held a closed door VIP sale in store recently. Those lucky enough to attend got to be the first to see the exciting new ranges of furniture, homewares and giftware and have first option on discounted floor stock as well as go into the draw to win a gorgeous new Accent chair. Congratulations on your second birthday Oliver Birch. Oliver Birch is located at 19-21 Bath Lane Bendigo and can be contacted on (03) 5444 1112 ■
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Sniff, swirl and sip I adore summer in Bendigo. Visits to Lake Eppalock, afternoons and evenings eating and drinking and of course all the celebrations of the festive season – it is hard to not find something to love. ASH RAEBURN – WINE GUY
Fairbank, Syrah 2007. Western & Central Victoria. Retail: $24 Members: $21.60
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Gilles Lapalus reputation continues to grow and grow. Having produced wines across the world, we are lucky that he has called Central Victoria home. Using organic and biodynamic methods throughout the vineyard, this wine displays Gilles’ distinctive winemaking style. Make sure you keep an eye out for his own label, ‘Bespoke Bros’. Ripe blackberry and spice aromas lead into a palate that is dry and savoury with black fruit flavours supported with hints of menthol and pepper spice. The fine, grippy tannins help deliver a lingering, dry finish. Is definitely a complex wine that provides exceptional value for money. Also shows fantastic aging capabilities.
The festive season brings out the best in wine with something to suit everyone. Fine, decadent bubbles, crisp, zesty Riesling, a fruit driven Savvy
Hentley Farm, ‘Exception’ Riesling 2012. Eden Valley, S.A. Retail: $24 Members: $21.60 As the name on the label suggests, this Riesling is the one ‘Exception’ for Hentley Farm as it is the only wine produced from grapes not grown from their vineyard in the Barossa Valley. Riesling is an amazing wine to drink over the warmer months, perfect for afternoons by the pool, watching the cricket or a nice refreshing glass after a long day. Quite light golden in colour, this Riesling delivers everything you want from a crisp, fresh Aussie Riesling. Showing developed citrus aromas on the nose, like walking into a room of freshly sliced/juiced lemons, limes and grapefruit. The palate is crisp and clean, just a touch of orange sherbet and blossom develop on the palate to help add a slight roundness to the wine.
B, dry, textural Rose to elegant, lively reds, wine makes an ideal gift. Below shows a range of wines that can take care of most of your gift needs.
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Yangarra Estate has joined a group of loyal vintners producing Grenache based blends in the McClaren Vale region and by labelling it ‘Cadenzia’, it has led a mini-revolution of the use of Grenache across Australia. Yangarra is well equipped, specialising in Mediterranean varietals and focussing on concentration, complexity and texture.
This boutique winery was one of the first established in the Macedon Ranges in 1972. Family owned and operated, the vineyard contains unirrigated plantings of Shiraz, Cabernet, Pinot Noir, Merlot and Riesling.
Predominantly Grenache, blended with nearly equal amount of Shiraz and Mouvedre it brings developed raspberry and blueberry aromas leading into a rounded palate where spicy, savoury and dark berry flavours are all rolled into one. This multidimensional wine sings a tune on every part of your tongue providing a spicy, yet delicate finish.
This Sparkling Shiraz makes a fantastic addition to Christmas lunch with a very vibrant purple colour offering aromas of candied plum and raspberry. Quite soft and lush on the palate with a persistent bead, there are flavours of mulberries, blueberries and some subtle spicy notes lurking in the background. The finish is full and lingering with classic red berry flavours. All wines mentioned above are available at Wine Bank on View 45 View St Bendigo or phone (03) 5444 4655. Bring in this article and receive a 10 per cent discount on any of the wines. ■
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cheers to summer Beer in summer has to be fresh, crisp and refreshing. A lager or pilsner is what we reach for. Luckily we no longer need to buy beer that needs a wedge of fruit in it to taste any good, as there are more and more lagers and pilsners being made with hop or malt driven flavour profiles.
4 Pines – Kölsch I love this style, even if simply for what it stands for. There’s a rule in the Kölsch drinking culture – there is to be no exclusivity. That is, people of every social standing in society would be able to drink Kölsch together. Bosses with workers, women with men. The style originated in the German town of Cologne, and is brewed using traditional lagering techniques (left to rest at low temperatures after fermention for a few weeks). This version is from the 4 Pines Brewery in Manly, NSW. The beer pours a straw-like colour, lightly cloudy, fluffy white head and has a nice subtle crispness, light hop aroma and mild bitterness. Pints of this and Sundays are best of friends. As are pizzas with blue cheese, pear and pancetta. Currently making its way into Bendigo, and frequently on tap at the Public Inn in Castlemaine.
by bringing to Australia its first bottle packaged lager (which was served cold). Whether it’s sitting outside with oysters, having tapas, or in the beer garden with wood fired pizzas, make sure it’s one of these…
Knappstein Reserve – Lager I chose this beer not just because of its amazing Nelson Sauvin hop driven taste, but for the memories of visiting the brewery in the Clare Valley in South Australia with my brother. We head over to watch the Tour Down Under in Adelaide every year; this was one of the breweries that stood out for us. A 45 degree day, and a cold craft lager on tap was suddenly the best thing we had ever tasted. At 5.6% it’s not the best beer to have as a sessional, but a fantastic beer to have nonetheless. It’s crisp up front and has a spicy bitterness that rolls off the back of the tongue, a balanced malt body in the middle results in the beer being perfectly matched to spicy light dishes. GPO Bendigo stock this beer and have a great tapas style menu that suits.
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Tooboorac Hotel & Brewery – Gunslingers APA The Tooborac Brewery has undergone some change over the past 12 months, two new brewers into the team has resulted in a tweaking of the standard range, and introduction of new beers to their range of five. The brewery is owned and operated by James and Valerie Carlin at the historic pub in Tooboorac. A beautiful old pub that you can lose a lot of time in. Brewed as an American Pale Ale style (read: hop aroma and flavour outbalancing the malt), this beer is decidedly fresh thanks to this brew being hop forward. Perfect match with spicy or creamy foods. Even better with American style sticky ribs, made with pork just down the road from the Tooborac Hotel – McIvor Farm Foods. Berkshire pork ribs and craft beer? What could be better in summer!
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La Sirene – Saison I reviewed a Saison last month, but couldn’t resist reviewing this amazing version. Based in Melbourne, and brewed in Eastern Victoria, the brewers behind this beer are passionate belgo-farmhouse ale makers. Soft and delicate, suitable spice and funk, it’s balance in a Saison in a style that has never seen such restraint. Notoriously hard to ‘get right’ when brewing, coupled with big expectations on how it should taste saw the first four batches of this beer discarded when it wasn’t as they wanted. Their persistence and patience has paid off with a beautiful beer that is perfect for days in the sun. Food match? Simple foods, sourdough and local olive oil. Remember, Saison is best shared. ■
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Historically, beer made in Australia was predominantly ale, big and cloudy and only available at your local. This changed as a result of Bendigo’s Gold Rush when the Cohn Brothers revolutionised the way Australian’s drink beer
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Man your Barbecue A delicious Christmas – the ‘Aussie’ way. Writer: Tim Baxter - Photographer: David Field Picture this…A beautifully set and decorated dining table, white linen tablecloth elegantly draped, gleaming silver cutlery (from Sheffield of course!), bowls filled with homemade cranberry and apple sauces, Bohemian crystal glassware and mum’s best china crockery. The smell of roast pork crackling emanates from the kitchen where mum, grandma, daughters and aunties are madly checking the seasoning being stuffed into the massive roast turkey, carving the honey and clove glazed ham and making sure the roast leg of lamb is still pink in the middle. Dad, grandpa, sons and uncles are opening the first bottle of a big Aussie Shiraz, discussing our chances in the Boxing Day test and lamenting the end of another year that has gone too quickly. This was pretty much my childhood every Christmas Day. And it may resemble yours? Reality check needed...This is Australia, not England. Now my grandparents were very “English” and my father was born there as well – so perhaps there were historical and emotional reasons in my house why this bizarre paradox existed, but it quickly became apparent to me through my teenage years, that on 30+ degree days in midsummer, with beautiful blue skies, perfect outdoor entertaining weather, access to some of the finest seafood in the world, that it was ludicrous to be stuck inside, boxed
and regimented into our seats in the most traditional room in the house. Drinking booze suited for winter and a massive spread of completely inappropriate (but beautifully created) food that you haven’t eaten since July. Surely I’m not the only one that thinks this is a little weird? This is Australia! So as I grew from a boy to a man I decided that when I had my own family I would cook Christmas dinner for them in a completely logical way that suited my climate and culture. My wife and I get up at the crack of dawn and preparations get under way. Our 10-year-old daughter loves cooking and will be of great assistance this year. Christmas lunch means freshly shucked oysters, massive tiger prawns, quinoa and freekah salads, duck for sure, pork sausages, old fashioned lettuce and tomato salads, sliced ham, sizzling scallops, boxes of cherries bursting with flavour, the ripest mangoes know to man and of course the piece de resistance… barbecued lobster. Every chair in the house is taken outside and trestle tables are found in the garage to create a shoddy and makeshift communal table to suit 15 to 20 people on the patio, verandah, backyard or anywhere outside really…so long as its close to the barbecue so you can hear the crackle and hiss of charring crustaceans and the intoxicating smell of
snags sizzling away. The portable stereo (now with iPod connectivity) is dragged outside with a remarkably long pink extension lead to play all sorts of laidback 1960s soul and jazz that suits the very nature of Christmas day (why is it Christmas day always feels like Sunday?) We round up as many varying types of glassware as we can muster, three or four different types of plates and bowls, multiple sets of tongs, platters, paper serviettes – this is outdoors dining – Aussie style – no place for our Wedgewood, Sheffield silver and Jasper Conran crystal. And of course a massive great esky filled with ice and packed with crisp craft beers, exceptional vintage champagnes, vibrant and zesty Aussie and German Rieslings. The may even be a nice bottle of London Dry gin in there too (as my only nod to the old country). So if you are totally trapped in antiquated English tradition this year, with no logic prevailing, at least try to add just one element of an Aussie Christmas to your day – I suggest ordering a lobster from your local fishmonger for a totally decadent day. And inevitably you end up with lobster left over the next day and personally I cannot think of anything better to eat while watching the Boxing Day Test than lobster sandwiches – just make sure you use cheap commercial white bread without crusts and season well. ■
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Photographer: Andrew Perryman While he is not flat chat in the kitchen overseeing the cooking and plating up of around 200 meals per week at the National Hotel, Corey can be found spending time (and cooking) for his young son Xavier and partner Shannon. Corey explains that his success in the kitchen comes from “Passion. If you don’t have passion for the job and thrive on a challenge, you won’t last in this industry.”
The menu at the National Hotel was already pretty spot on – however Corey has definitely put his stamp on it. The dessert selection was probably the weakest part of the menu and he has been working hard to introduce some desserts that have a bit of wow factor. Corey shares with us his recipe for Panna cotta, one of the popular desert dishes on the menu at the National.
• 450ml coconut cream • 450ml cream • 4 gold grade gelatin leaves • Fruit to serve Method Split the vanilla beans lengthways and scrape out the seeds. Put them in a medium sized saucepan with coconut cream, cream and sugar. Heat until just under boiling point, stirring constantly. Take off the heat. Soak the gelatin leaves in a bowl of cold water until soft, then squeeze out the excess water. Add to the hot cream mixture and whisk until dissolved and pour into dariole moulds. Cover each mold with cling wrap and refrigerate until set. Place on individual plates and serve with berries or your favourite sweet sauce. ■
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And the eyes have it A look into the ever-changing world of plastic and reconstructive surgery. Writer: Katarina McNeill - Photographer: David Field Blepharoplasty – Eyelid reduction surgery Plastic and reconstructive surgery was developed and is used to correct or improve problem areas on the body. These problems which can be caused from disease, congenital defects, developmental abnormalities or injury can cause great physical and emotional stress on the sufferer and the ability to correct these problems has changed countless lives.
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and the ability to listen patiently” are key qualities in a plastic surgeon.
With the desire to remedy this problem and noting the sterling recommendations we had received, we headed for local plastic and reconstructive surgeon Richard Dickinson’s rooms at Bendigo Day Surgery for a consultation about the benefits of undergoing such a procedure.
“Reconstruction is about satisfying and matching a patient’s desires. Once we are on exactly the same page, the rest is a rewarding, technical and personal journey for all.”
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A disappointing misconception is that plastic and reconstructive surgery is a somewhat vain extravagance, and although being so prominent in society for some time, it can still be a taboo subject in many social environments.
On arrival, we were greeted with light refreshments and warm conversation from practice manager Kerrie, which immediately dissolved any nervousness about the appointment. Richard greeted us and we were led to his consulting suite to begin our chat.
With this in mind, I would like to give you an insight into a work colleague’s private journey.
This consultation is used not only for the client to gain information about the procedure, but it is also as a method for Richard to get to know his client and their lifestyle, gauge an understanding of what they would most like to benefit from the procedure and their overall suitability as a surgery candidate.
Our staff member Lyn, had been deliberating for some time over having surgery on her eyes – in particular, her upper eyelids, known as blepharoplasty. As time had gone by, they had gradually drooped, which made it difficult for her to apply makeup and left
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Richard offers a wealth of information, explaining the procedure in simple terms, addressing questions, but also asking Lyn questions about her thoughts on the procedure. Both benefits and risks were clarified and an explanation of their protocol pre and post surgery was outlined, providing Lyn with much solace to make her decision. Consult with Nurse Karin Several days after the initial consultation, Lyn had another consult with the practice nurse, Karin. In this consultation, we went over everything covered with Richard. This helps to resolved any unanswered questions, and clarify that Lyn had a sound understanding of what would happen, but also to touch base with Karin who will be there for Lyn during her aftercare period.
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Terri) with cheese and biscuits. Once happy that Lyn has come out of the anaesthetic well, she was escorted to the aftercare lounge to quietly rest and nibble on muffins and coffee while Richard checked on her status a second time. By 2pm, Lyn was able to head home with her daughter Tahleah as acting nurse. Post Procedure Like any surgery, there was a small amount of bruising and swelling in the delicate area, but any discomfort was relieved through standard pain medication and a cool compress. Karin was in close contact with Lyn during her post-op period and was there to answer any question, any time, as well as monitoring Lyn’s overall health and wellbeing. I spoke to Lyn two days post surgery; she was her usual bright self and swanned into the office complete with oversized Chanel glasses. She looked fantastic and although a little pink and puffy she exuded a new confidence, which I’m sure was attributed completely from her new, refreshed eyes. As time went by – we were advised three months to expect everything to settle back to ‘normal’ ¬– Lyn’s eyes have smoothed out revealing a well-defined eyelid and socket line giving her a definite, alert, refreshed appearance. Anyone would be forgiven for thinking she’d just returned from a relaxing holiday in the Bahamas.
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In all, Lyn’s experience was that of a calm, well-informed and positive endeavour to rectify something that had bothered her for some time. She is so pleased with the results both physically and emotionally and knows that if she has even the most minute of questions, three, six or 12 months from now, Richard and his specialist team will be there to assist her. ■ Procedure Despite the reality of what was happening, the whole procedure from beginning to end was a very relaxed one. Lyn was first surgery of the day and was led to the operating theatre where she was greeted by Specialist Anaesthetist Siobhan Dobell. Siobhan chatted to Lyn and explained the anaesthetic procedure and allayed any last minute nerves. Medication was administered and Lyn fell into a slumber so Richard could begin his rejuvenation. An incision was made within the creases of the eyelid so as to reduce any visible scarring, as they will fold in with the natural crease of the lid. This small but crucial incision allows for any fat repositioning, tightening/stitching back of the muscle/tissue and the removal of excess skin if necessary. The incision was closed with a fine suture that runs to the outside corner of the eye. This is then taped with fleshcoloured surgical tape. This suture will be removed within a week of the surgery. When Lyn woke up in recovery she was greeted by Richard and the friendly faces of the recovery nurses (including Bendigo Magazine’s resident fashion photographer
Lyn with daughter Tahleah on Tahleah’s wedding day – 10 weeks after surgery.
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THIS SEASON Justin wears Stray shorts in burgundy $69.99 Stray t-shirt $39.99, Stray casual shirt $69.99, Stray neck chain $34.99 and Billy Boat shoe $59.99 all from Roger David (Bendigo Marketplace) Bree wears cosmo red singlet $29.95, Cobalt skirt $59.95, sunflower purse $29.95, yellow belt $19.95 and accessories all from Portmans (Bendigo Marketplace) and straw hat $69.95 from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street). Shoes stylists own.
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Justin wears Penn check shirt in red $89.95, Mack stretch jean in mustard $99.95, Brando v tee in white $29.95, byron mocassin in navy $99.95 and ‘Byron’ Navy Moccasin $99.95 all from Tarocash (Bendigo Marketplace) Models: Bree and Justin Photographer: David Field Stylist: Rhylee Elliott Hair: Honeyeater Makeup: Brazilian Beauty Location: St Aidan’s Park. Thank you to Tweed Sutherland First National for access to the incredible location. www.tsfn.com.au or call Sandi Dixon on 0418 337 275 for more information. And thank you to Bentley the dog for being such a wonderful model. ■
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Amy wears Speedo gingham vintage one piece $120 from Blush Lingerie (Killian’s Walk), Morgan & Taylor Resort hat $59 from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street), allysha square enamel ring $5.95 and allysha 5 shape statement necklace $14.95 from Colette (Bendigo Marketplace)
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Amy wears Jets Swimwear bandeau gather one piece $189 from Blush Lingerie (Killian’s Walk), sash stripe and stone ring $8.95, nelly facetted dome ring $8.95 and trend gold ridged plate necklace $12.95 all from Colette (Bendigo Marketplace)
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Amy wears Seafolly rococo rose skirted pant $79.95 and rococo rose bandeau $89.95, Seafolly crochetta hat $45 all from Folly & Jane (Bath Lane) and candy 2tone rope bracelet $9.95 and candy sunshine ring $9.95 from Colette (Bendigo Marketplace)
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Amy wears Seafolly aloha tie side hipster $79.95 and aloha tie front halter $109.95 and Seafolly fringe benefits pool towel in bright lime $59.95 from Folly & Jane (Bath Lane), so bright gold cuff $9.99, so bright gold ring two piece set $9.99 all from Equip (Bendigo Marketplace)
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Amy wears Seafolly festival slide-tri $69.95 and festival mini hipster $64.95 from Folly & Jane (Bath Lane) and trend gold cobra chains $9.95 from Colette (Bendigo Marketplace)
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Amy wears zimmermann zoe floating underwire bikini in brick $250, Adorne tribal tote $59, Jessica T. warrior cuff $34.95 and Soles t bar sandals $119.95 all from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane)
Amy wears Zimmermann zoo layered triangle bikini set in splice $265 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane) and Seafolly fringe benefits pool towel in bright lime $59.95 from Folly & Jane (Bath Lane) and sun hat from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street).
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Lynsey wears Thelma Tank $89.95 from The Laboratory (Bath Lane), Very Very Gasp Slim Pant $149 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane), Therapy Cargo Wedge $50 Kick Shoes (Bath Lane), House of Harow Jordana Sunglasses $149 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane) and Naomi Levi handbag from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane)
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Lynsey wears Zimmermann Elixir Frill Tankini $280 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane). Cardigan $15 from Kmart. Accessories models own.
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Lynsey wears White Suede metal waist belt from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane). Dress stylist’s own.
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Lynsey wears Peter Trends Bridal gown $1495 from Belles and Bowes Bridal (Eaglehawk)
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Lynsey wears Shakahachi Lace Block Dress $319 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane) and Windsor Smith Milan Heels, $99.95 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane).
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Lynsey wears Manning Cartell Future Dreams Dress $599 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane). Shoes stylist’s own.
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Lynsey wears Winifred Dress $189.95 from The Laboratory (Bath Lane) and Mollini Hinda & Hola Sandal $129 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane). Accessories from kmart. Photographer: Terri Basten Model: Lynsey Addlem Stylist: Rhylee Elliott Makeup: Katarina McNeill Hair: Lynsey Addlem Glasswear: The Boardwalk Location: Lansellstowe. This stunning property is currently on the market. Visit www.tsfn. com.au for further information.
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Summer smiles Don’t we have some adorable children here in Bendigo? Check out some of our favourite cuties. If you have an adorable little one, we would love to hear from you. Please email your professionally-taken, high-resolution images to: comps@bendigomagazine.com for publication in our next issue.
Scarlotte Riley age 8 Embrace Images
Jorja Lawry age 4 Lauren Freemantle Photography
Evelyn Ladson age 6 months Leah Ladson Photography
Georgette O’Brien age 1
Sebastian Doak age 2 months Kate Mono tti Photogra phy
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How sweet it is Sumptuous cakes, memorable sweets and gorgeous outfits ensure a party to remember.
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Ava wears Tutu Du Monde twilight tutu $99 and Tutu Du Monde ruffle my feathers headband $24.90 from Milt and Joe (Hargreaves Street)
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Aria wears Tutu Du Monde blossom tutu $149 and Tutu Du Monde ruffle my feathers pink headband $24.90 both from Milt and Joe (Hargreaves Street)
Lucas wears Oobi retro record player t-shirt $34.95 from Mr Good Times (Fountain Court) and Munster progress shorts $69.95 from Milt & Joe (Hargreaves Street)
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Lucas wears Ben Sherman shirt $56 from Milt and Joe (Hargreaves Street)
Aria wears Oobi Russian princess skirt $49.95 and Oobi beautiful fluttersleeved t-shirt $29.95 from Mr Good Times (Fountain Court)
Ava wears Papoose dress $37.95 from Bendigo Nappies and Kidz Biz (Strath Village) and basket tea set $29.95 from Mr Good Times (Fountain Court)
Will wears Bodean t-shirt $22.95 and Papoose Boy shorts $24.95 from Bendigo Nappies and Kidz Biz (Strath Village)
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Ava wears Oobi dress $49.95 from Mr Good Times (Fountain Court)
Will wears Minti Growly t-shirt $39.95 and Alphabet Soup runaway short $59.95 from Milt and Joe (Hargreaves Street)
Aria wears Papoose girl top $34.95 and Papoose girl shorts $24.95 from Bendigo Nappies and Kidz Biz (Strath Village) and mini pink tea cup and saucer from Eaglehawk Party Hire.
Lucas wears Sudo top floor t-shirt $34 and Munster progress shorts $69.95 from Milt and Joe (Hargreaves Street)
Models: Ava, Aria, Lucas and Will Photographer: David Field Stylist: Rhylee Elliott Location: Chateau Dore A big thank you to Eaglehawk Party Hire for the use of table and candy buffet accessories www.eaglehawkpartyhire.com and to Sugar N Sprinkles for the cake pops, cake and biscuits – for more information visit www.sugarnsprinkles.com.au Issue 29 - Bendigo Magazine | 155
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Wonder woman Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Supermum! Writer: Kylie Freer - Photographer: David Field
Dashing in, dropping off, flying out and zooming off to what comes next, yet back in time for the last call and all with an aura of calm and grace. It can be hard work maintaining a secret Supermum identity. I mean, who’d want to be caught shopping at the supermarket in one of those outfits? I won’t even step out in ugg boots. Before children, my vision for Supermum was akin to Wonder Woman sporting her lasso of truth and indestructible bracelets. Marston’s 1943 version of Wonder Woman personifies my ideal Supermum; feminine, with the strength of Superman. She’s a beautiful and good mother, wife and woman who triumphs with love, not firepower. So romantic and idealistic. Instead, I feel like more like Elastigirl, the mother and wife in the Incredibles, who can stretch herself as far as she can and still retain her shape. Recently, I’ve felt pulled in different directions and the ‘snap-back’ I get from my elastic suit seems to be losing some of its carefully maintained control. I have a habit of saying “yes” before “no,” and of biting off more than I can chew. As I run kids around,
they run me around, I ‘play’ house, and go back to paid work more, trying to fit everything in and retaining my shape is becoming a challenge. Inconveniently, my suit seems to snap-back incorrectly when I’m getting ready to go to the gym or score some ‘me-time’. Once upon a time, in the days when I was a cross between Rainbow Brite and SheRa the Princess of Power, I could fit time for me in beautifully; in fact, the world revolved around me, or I thought it did. I held the Sphere of Light in the palm of my hand, instead of today’s calendar, lists and notifications stored in my iPhone. Now, after I’ve dressed, fed and packed two children, dropped one off at day-care, the second at school, I message my friends to let them know I still think of them, while I’m tapping my foot and waiting for my takeaway latte on the way to work. Lazy lunches are no longer, nor are shopping trips powered by a disposable income. Now, it is work, mortgages, school notes, bills, laundry and lunch boxes. Life recently has felt like an unrehearsed dance routine requiring precision timing. I
feel just behind the beat and I’ve less time to help out at my daughter’s school or to spend playing with my little boy. I am lucky to have my current work-life balance, but at times there are still clashes. Whilst I recognise I can’t do everything (and I don’t want to) there are times when I see another mum and think, “I wish I could do that.” Then a little guilt creeps in and dulls my expression until I catch a smile, cuddle or an ‘eyelash’ kiss. Bless them both. When I reflect pre-children on how I envisaged my career to be, so much has changed. My priorities and perspective have shifted. My children did that unknowingly. I love being a mum. It is the most rewarding job ever created for womankind. As much as I would enjoy being a full-time, stay-athome mum, I know that in today’s world, financially, most mothers cannot. Additionally for me, there is a little She-Ra left and I do enjoy being able to contribute to the lives of others in a different and meaningful capacity. Don’t get me wrong though, when push comes to shove, my family comes first. They always will. So, maybe, just maybe, there is some Wonder Woman there after all? ■
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Setting the bar I’ve always been impressed by people who achieve things that no one else expected them to. Writer: Chris DeAraugo
So often we very quickly make judgement calls on others and set an imaginary bar as to where that person will end up on the totem pole of life. We’ve all done it, “ah, that guy will never make anything of himself.”
But while everyone was setting this young man’s bar fairly low – no one had actually stopped to ask him where he thought he was going and what his aspirations where. No one asked where he was setting his own bar.
Someone very close to me has achieved so many things above and beyond what his family and friends ever thought he would when he was a young boy growing up and struggling with school.
And then he did something amazing. He quit that good job and took off overseas! I remember I couldn’t believe it and said to him “You’re quitting a job you could have for life to travel. What happens when you come back?” And his answer was simple yet reassuring. “I’ll find something. I’m very employable.” That was my first hint that this man saw himself differently to the way many others did and he new his strengths.
Reading didn’t come easy to him and nor did some of the other basic academic requirements so it was quickly determined that this young fellow was destined for a life in the lower to middle rungs of the ladder. His bar was set low by others.
And to cut this story short – he came home, got a tough job in Melbourne in a new industry and proceeded to go from success to success. Taught himself to read and write to a higher standard, started winning awards and making really good money.
And this ranking was supported by his school basically asking him to leave at the end of Year 9 – it was “If you leave, we’ll pass you.” I’m sure his parents were worried but at the same time had confidence that their son had many other good and important qualities.
He returned to Bendigo with new plans and dreams and without giving too much away, this man is a multi millionaire, owns many businesses and has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars back to his community. And he still re-sets his ‘bar’ to levels no one else expects. He has big dreams and works really hard to achieve them. I’ve seen him go one way when others were heading the other way. He uses his intuition and people
And that’s why it’s great when someone just keeps working hard and backing themselves and achieving something when others had already set the bar a lot lower for them.
And I remember when he got what was his first decent job. Everyone was pleased. “Well he might not end up in jail now!” I recall someone saying.
skills and his main asset – good common sense. Yet if his progress was left to others, we probably all had him back plodding away and not ever achieving anywhere near what he has. And our community would be all the worse for that. I remember telling this story to a bunch of young people who had ended up in the less academic part of their school system. I was aware that many of them had been told “well you’re not so good at school so you’ll have to go into this stream with the other strugglers.” Telling them about this man’s rise and commitment and effort against the perceptions of others was designed to remind them – “Don’t let others set your bar. Have you your own dreams and standards and work hard for them.” There have been many famous athletes who have achieved great things in their sport even though their body shape or basic skills didn’t seem suited to that sport. The great Bendigo footballer Greg Williams is one that comes to mind. Too slow, wrong shape they told him. They finally realised he had great dedication and could find and use the footy. His record speaks for itself. So there you go. Set your goals and dreams and work really hard and be persistent and you can achieve all sorts of things. ■
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a man’s word
manscaping There are several times in a man’s life, when he finds himself in a difficult situation without an obvious escape route. Writer: Ash McAuliffe - Photographer: David Field
I tend to find myself in these situations more regularly than the average male and I’m not sure why. Some say that it is my playful spontaneity, others say that it is my fearless disregard for the unknown… my wife says it’s because I’m a fool. She may be right. I’m about to tell you such a story and you can be the judge. Women tend to constantly remind us about the difficulties that they endure, such as childbirth. I’ll bet just about every male over the age of 15 has been told by a woman how painful childbirth is. I’ve seen it and I am 100 per cent onboard with the ladies on this one, but their bodies are made for it, and unlike men, women have been plucking, waxing, shaving and electrocuting themselves to look better for their man, someone else’s man or any man that comes along for centuries so they’re used to it. Meanwhile men invented beards because most of us can’t be bothered shaving every couple of days. My point is that women are used to all of this stuff but manscaping is a relatively new phenomenon… and it hurts at the best of times, let alone when a guy tries it at home without supervision. I like to keep up with the latest fashion trends, which in my mind is a quality to be admired. One of the ways that I do that is to read men’s health and fitness magazines. I had been reading one of my Men’s Health Magazines one Saturday, morning, but not a normal Saturday though. There was a family function on the next day so my parents AND my in-laws were at our house, which is usually great but turned out to be quite inconvenient. In this particular issue the topic of manscaping was discussed in depth. After a few pages of testimonials from both
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men and women as to the advantages of a manscaped body, I had thought to myself, “Hmmmm… I think I’ll try that one day”. I mentioned that I’m spontaneous didn’t I?
any hair! The time had come to read the instructions… yes gents, it was THAT bad. In bold letters: DO NOT USE WATER OR SOAP TO REMOVE WAX. Hmmmm.
My son was sleeping in our bedroom and as the ramifications of waking him up were not even worth contemplating, I decided that instead of using the ensuite, I would shower and get ready in the main bathroom. As there was a flurry of cleaning the kitchen and working in the garden going on I decided to make myself scarce and that I would take my time getting ready. So there I am in the bathroom thinking of things to do with the benefits of manscaping still floating through my mind when I saw a set of clippers and an old waxing kit… “This can’t be too hard” I said to myself.
The instructions suggested baby oil. “No problems” I thought to myself, “we have heaps of that.” Lo and behold I could not find any baby oil in the bathroom, so I sent an emergency SMS to my wife:
Within the space of 10 minutes I had done irreparable damage to myself and had made it worse by not reading the instructions. Picture this: a grown man in the bathroom with hair everywhere as a result of some runaway clippers, very little hair or skin left between the north and south pole if you follow my meaning, and an underpant region full of wax… well, there was wax pretty much everywhere that my undies would normally cover. All of this going on with my parents and parent’s-in-law in the next room. I decided that enough was enough, and that I should jump in the shower and wash it all off. If that wasn’t a good idea, in fact it was the worst thing that I could have done. It seemed that no amount of rinsing, scrubbing, scratching, picking or rubbing would get this horrible stuff off. Bearing in mind, that I had somehow managed to remove most of my skin without removing
‘I’m naked in the bathroom, bring some baby oil’ I was surprised when I got quite a terse reply... ‘Don’t be dirty, our parents are here and we don’t have time’ It was time for action, so I slipped on my jocks and jeans and went out there… gentlemen you can’t imagine how difficult it is to walk with wax in your underpant region in such a way that looks remotely normal and at the same time try not to wince at the pain of yet more clumps of hair being torn out with each step. On top of that the thought that perhaps the jocks you are wearing might be there to stay loomed large in the back of my mind. I went and grabbed the baby oil and hobbled my way back to the bathroom. I was dousing myself liberally in the underpant regions with baby-oil when my wife finally walked in… let me say that she got exactly the wrong impression of what I was doing. Needless to say, there is a moral to this story and it is quite simply this: Use caution when ‘manscaping’. There are very few times when a man should read the instructions before conducting an activity, but taking to your sensitive regions with blades and chemicals is definitely one of those times. ■
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Demi & Tim
RYAN
Photographs: Richard Gibbs Photography
Tim and I first met around eight years ago, he was a close friend of my older sister Courtney who was not exactly thrilled about our blossoming relationship but you can’t fight fate. In early 2010 in Rosalind Park Tim finally popped the question. He got down on one knee and asked “Will you be my wife?” I don’t think I ever actually gave him an answer although the tears of joy I think had said enough. In December that year entered the next love of our lives a gorgeous healthy baby boy, Harrison William Ryan born December 15, 2010 and this only made our bond stronger than ever before. My dress was hand made by Cheryl at Poppy’s Bridal Couture, it was made of dupion silk, had a small train and a three metre long veil. Both Cheryl and I designed the gown after we decided which style suited me, and it was exactly how I imagined it
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would be. My wedding party consisted of my bestfriend Jaime, my sisters Courtney and Taylah as bridesmaids, my aunt Sharon as matron of honour, Tim’s best friend Scott was his best man, his brother Alan and my brother Chad groomsmen, along with my little brother Baxter as page boy. We were married on March 17, 2012 and the day of our wedding was a perfect 25 degrees with not a cloud in the sky and I can honestly say the best moment of the day was when I arrived at the altar and standing there, was my husband to be, with a huge smile on his face and watery eyes. The ceremony was held at 3.30pm in the grounds of Morrisons Winery Moama with the reception following at 6pm after official photos were taken under the bridge in Moama next to the river and in the historical port at Echuca.
Tim and I wanted to have as many memories of the day as possible and we wanted the same for our guests so our photographer set up a back drop and a remote controlled camera – it was a hit! We had over 600 photos of the bridal party and guests really letting their hair down because there was no one standing behind the camera, every one really let their personalities shine. We then used these photos as our ‘thank you’ cards so everyone received a personalised thank you. For our guest book we purchased a Polaroid camera and asked our guests to take a photo of themselves, place in the book and write a short message. We honeymooned on the Queensland coastline where we spent five days relaxing together as husband and wife and arranged for Courtney to fly up with Harry so we could spend the tail end of our getaway as a family. - DEMI
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Ceremony and reception at The Convent Gallery Photography – Embrace Images by Emma
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One perfect day Our local newlyweds share with us an image of their wedding day.
Bridget and Michael Waters Married February 4, 2012 Ceremony at Mercy Chapel Catholic College with reception at Chateau Dore Photographer – Melissa Caine Photography
Bethea Robertson and Shamus Janssen Married February 11, 2012 Ceremony and reception at Nanga Gnulle Gardens Photographer – Jessica Bourke Photography
Deanne and Nathan Fitzgerald March 19, 2011 Ceremony and reception at Big Hill Winery Photographer – Embrace Images by Emma
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SIMONE & DANIEL
CORBY
Photographs: Katherine Davis Photography
Daniel and I met at work at Community Telco Australia in 2010. We attended some work drinks and the sparks began to fly and was followed up by some flirtatious emails and after around two weeks we got together. He was so sweet and bought in some ‘left over’ zucchini slave for my lunch at work one day because he had overheard me saying how much I liked it. Daniel proposed to me when I was five months pregnant with our son Flynn the weekend before I was leaving for a week long trip to New Zealand with a girlfriend. It was to be the longest we’d been away from each other since the day we got together, and is still the longest. He made me breakfast in bed and proposed to me in bed. My wedding dress was made of ivory silk and 166 | Bendigo Magazine - Issue 29
lace. I knew I wanted a country garden look but the style I ended up with was nothing like I expected but as soon as I put it on I knew it was right. The moment I saw the tears streaming down my mother’s face, I knew I had to buy it. We were married on April 14, 2012 and our wedding day was amazing. I was checking the weather for a week before the date and it looked like rain was forecast, however it turned out to be a simply stunning day. It was amazing to be able to share our day with our son. We not only made vows to each other but also to him as we officiated our little family. Our ceremony and reception was held at Big Hill Winery and our celebrant Ross Simmons was amazing and made our ceremony so relaxed and happy. And of
course, as you can see my groom was just gorgeous. We would love to extend a big thank you to my mum and step dad, Dan’s parents, my bridesmaids, Bec, Lisa and Rhi and groomsmen Andrew, Kilby and Geoff for making our day run so smoothly. And big thank you to our amazing photographer and friend Kath for the lovely photos and helping to make things run perfectly. We are still saving for a ‘real’ honeymoon, but we did spend a week traveling along the great ocean road while my mum looked after Flynn. It was so nice to have alone time together to celebrate becoming husband and wife. - SIMONE
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BLUE HUES Whether you are cooking up a storm for the family or entertaining guests, your kitchen is always a hive of activity – especially over the summer months. Decorate with light, cool colours, fun centrepieces and positive pickme-ups and create a vibrant and fresh living space for everyone to enjoy. Photographer: David Field and Andrew Perryman Blair Runner $14.95 from Natural Living Interiors (Lyttleton Terrace)
Pendant Light $245 each from Oliver Birch (Bath Lane)
Oak Salad Servers $21.95 from Organise My..... (Bath Lane)
Monique Bowl $59.95 from Organise My..... (Bath Lane)
Kitchen Word $25 from Nest Egg (Strath Village)
Adjustable Industrial Stool $299 from Oliver Birch (Bath Lane)
Tea Towel $5.95 from Provincial Home Living (Lyttleton Terrace)
Blue Vase $25 from Nest Egg (Strath Village)
Large Jar $9.95 from Provincial Home Living (Lyttleton Terrace) Love Word $19.95 from Nest Egg (Strath Village)
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Green Apples $3.95 each from Provincial Home Living (Lyttleton Terrace)
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On the road Gary Conway, father and motor mechanic is passionate about servicing cars, and has been for more than 25 years, recently venturing into the word of Motorhome services – the bigger, the better. Photographer: Anthony Webster What inspired you to become a mechanic? When I was a kid of around 12 you could always find me pulling things to pieces and playing around with lawn mowers and engines. I was naturally able to just figure things out. I was 15 when I began by motor mechanic apprenticeship in Hopetoun – working on farm machinery. The 1983 drought inspired me to make the move to Bendigo as jobs were becoming scarce in the Mallee. I worked at Lou Owen Autos for around 18 months before opening my first business named Conway Car Repairs. The next step was the purchase of Kangaroo Flat Auto service, over 25 years ago now – and we still have some of the original customers still choosing to have their cars serviced here. What do you love about your job? Customer satisfaction. There is nothing better than when a customer is happy with what we do and the care we take. It’s definitely not the money or the hours that’s for sure. Do you find any part of your job difficult or challenging? Probably to make sure everything gets out on time and keeping the place clean. Our mechanics hands are black, so black marks appear everywhere – we are having a meeting about that this week. We are on
display and I like to ensure the workshop looks nice and clean. What are your work hours like? Pretty good at the moment 8am – 6pm Monday to Friday. Back in the day I did some fairly long hours while I was establishing the business. What is your favourite ‘tool’ of your trade? It would have to be our new four post movable hoist. It can lift 30 tons of weight. It makes life so much easier for us. We can put a truck, motorhome or large ute on it and get great access underneath. It’s housed in our new shed. What do you drive currently? I drive a Toyota Hilux. Rough and tough like myself. I’ve had it for five years. What is your dream car? It would have to be an Isuzu Tip Truck that I’d use for gardening. I’m a keen gardener. What do you see in the future in the mechanical industry? Are there any new trends emerging? We used to dismantle and actually repair parts. Now we just replace them. This is a good thing for the consumer as their parts are brand new and more reliable, however it’s poor for our young apprentices who will never get the opportunity or knowledge on
how to repair damaged parts. We’ve noticed some changes happening at Kangaroo Flat Auto Service. Can you tell us what you have been up too in regards to the Motorhome services? I bought a Motorhome a few years back to tow my boat and go fishing. We fell in love with it and soon discovered there were no good servicing options available. So I decided to build a workshop to service motorhomes and we service motorhomes from Cairns to Perth. People stop by our workshop on their travels for a service. We now also hire motorhomes and have two Jayco Conquest Motorhomes for hire. The best part is there is no early checkout while you are on your holiday. How many children do you have? Tell us what is special about them and your wife? I have a wife of 26 years Maree, who is a midwife in Bendigo, daughters Courtney, who is a country music signer, Alana who is a classical singer and Alexandra who is a really talented rower. We also have a son Timothy who is an apprentice motor mechanic here. When you’re not working, what do you like to do with your time? Gardening, a bit of fishing. Following the kids around to rowing events and concerts. ■
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MAKE A SPLASH A stunning pool also deserves a comfortable place to sit back, relax, and enjoy the view. Landscaping around the pool creates a design transition from the hardscape of the pool with the green and colour of plant material, furniture and decorator items in the garden. Make a splash with your swimming area this summer. Photographer: David Field
Black Vase $133.95 from Oliver Birch (Bath Lane)
Jersey Lime Cushion $44.95 from Natural Living Interiors (Lyttleton Terrace)
Hanging Chair $799 from Natural Living Interiors (Lyttleton Terrace) Collage Fusia Cushion $34.95 from Oliver Birch (Bath Lane)
Swimming Pool POA from Pure Pools (www.pure-pools.com.au)
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ll a m s ed s u oc f ily m fa a re a e W animal hospital, where your pet is in good hands. Veterinary Practice – Companion Animals Vaccinations Consultations De-Sexing Microchipping Dentals Grooming Puppy School Pet Food & Merchandising
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Feline Friends Our resident vet Dr Joanna Reilly of Bendigo Animal Hospital answers your questions regarding the health and happiness of your cat. What vaccines does my cat need and how often? Kittens need to be vaccinated against cat flu and fatal diarrhoea. We give a course of three injections, four weeks apart. Adult cats are vaccinated yearly, although there are new vaccines coming out that last up to two years. It is best to have a yearly wellness check from your vet and discuss what is best for your pet that year. MyCat has fleas – what can I do? Fleas live and feed on cats and dogs and lay their eggs, which drop off into the environment, bedding, carpets etc. When another warm body passes by and the eggs are vibrated they hatch out and immediately jump onto the unsuspecting body to start the cycle again. Because cats roam so much, they are especially good at spreading flea eggs and picking up new fleas from their environment. The best flea control is the spot on preparations available such as Advantage or Frontline, since the product reaches all areas of the cat. Flea collars are of limited use and can cause nasty wounds if your cat
gets a front leg through their collar. A lot of products on the market are toxic to cats, so don’t share cat and dog products. What and how often should I feed my cat? In the wild, cats eat raw meat, raw bones and partially digested vegetable matter from the stomach of their prey, and they never need to have their teeth cleaned. Kittens should be fed raw meat and raw chicken bones as soon as they can eat hard food. A little dry food is okay but choose a premium brand with good quality protein levels as cats need a much higher protein diet than dogs. Human tuna in brine is okay too. Greasy tin food tends to put a layer of bacteria on the teeth and leads to tartare build up. My cat will not use its litter tray. What should I do? Just as we don’t like using a toilet that has been used, cats are very clean animals and will find another area to go if their litter tray is dirty. So cleaning and emptying the tray twice daily is best. Ensure the tray is in a private undisturbed place and often a second tray in another area will encourage them to go.
PAWFECT PETS We have some very proud pet owners here in Central Victoria and it’s easy to see why with these adorable photos.
Oscar, age 7 months Some cats only like dirt to scratch in, so if they wont use kitty litter try a thin layer of dirt on newspaper and gradually mix with kitty litter over a period of a few weeks until they are happy to use litter only. ■
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Lucy, age 3
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surfing the web Australia’s ever growing need for speed is being met with 4G mobile coverage and capable devices being rolled out around the country. Photographer: Andrew Perryman
Jayden Edwards - Tech Head
4G (or LTE) can reach download speeds around five times faster than 3G connected devices and upload at speeds around three times faster. Mouth watering? Well if you want to experience the power of 4G here in Bendigo, Telstra is the only place to get it at the moment. Telstra has got around double the 4G coverage than any other network and cover around 40 per cent of the population and growing rapidly. The other thing you’ll need is a shiny new 4G capable mobile phone like the two below…
Motorola Razr HD 4G In contrast to the Samsung, the Motorola Razr HD is a solid feeling phone. It’s not as big as the Samsung but more than makes up for it in weight and thickness. It’s big, fast, solid and just keeps going and going. It feels a bit more chiseled and angular than most phones with nice big buttons on the side that don’t feel like they’ll break if you press them too hard and a solid but smooth Kevlar backing, this thing feels bulletproof. It’s got a big HD 4.3 inch screen Gorilla Glass screen, splash guard coating so spilt coffee and big bumps are not a problem. The biggest selling point about the Razr is it’s battery life. Marketed as the “All Day Phone”, what the Razr loses in lightness, it gains in battery. It’s got one of the largest batteries you can get in a smartphone these days that just keeps going and going. You’ll get around 600 minutes of usage time out of it and 324 standby hours. Motorola’s Smartactions app can help get even more life out of the Razr by setting rules like automatically turning off data syncing at night or automatically adjusting brightness to suit. As great as the battery life is, using 4G will reduce the life a little bit.
Samsung Galaxy S3 4G Touted as the best smartphone available, the Galaxy S3 boasts a massive display, lots of processing power and a host of innovative tricks and features. If you’ve got or seen a non-4G Galaxy S3, you’ll find nothing new here, as it’s the same phone, if not, read on. The first thing you’ll notice picking up the phone is how light it is, even after putting the battery in like I failed to do at first. The second thing is how big it is, it’s huge, maybe too huge for some (one handed thumb coverage is a struggle).
Some highlights include “SmartStay” that will detects your eyes looking at the screen and power off if you look away and “Direct Call” which will start calling someone if you’re half way though texting them, then raise the phone to your ear (you know, incase your thumbs cramp up). There’s some other nice, if not a little gimmicky, motion features like swiping the side of your palm across the screen to take a screenshot and tilting to zoom. Samsungs answer to Siri: S Voice, is handy too.
Practicality aside, that big 4.8 inch HD screen is a thing of beauty, great for videos and photos. The phone itself is thin and rounded so it’s looks a little like a big tic tac, but feels pretty comfy in your hands. The plastic casting does feel a little flimsy, but it’s deceptively tough.
Specs wise, It’s got a 8mp camera on the back that can handle 1080p Full HD video and has a 1.9mp 720p front facing camera. The battery life is probably one of the best out there, normal dally use will leave you with around 25 per cent at bedtime. It’s got a big quad-core processor so speed isn’t an issue and there’s a microSD card for extra space if you need it.
The 4G model comes with the latest Android software (Ice Cream Sandwich) and is jam packed with a bunch of Samsung enhancements that abide by the phones tagline “Designed for Humans”.
Summing up, it’s definitely one of the best phones out there, intuitive, fast and feature packed. But the size could be an issue for some. Perfect for Android lovers with big hands.
It’s running the latest Android software that Motorola haven’t toyed with too much apart from adding some of their own apps. Its dual-core 1.2 GHz processor and 1GB of RAM ensures it runs pretty damn quick, especially on 4G. While it hasn’t got the most consistent camera out there, it’s still 8mp and capable of 1080p video. It’s got a HDMI connector as well. So if you are after a super fast, tough and longlasting smartphone with just enough bells and whistles, you can’t go past the Razr. ■
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Bizness Babes We all know a woman’s mind is a wondrous thing, full of brilliant ideas reaching from their ability to plan every meal for an entire week, to the miraculous way they manage to remove an impossible stain from a stark white shirt. Writer: Hayley Plant - Photographer: Andrew Perryman It is these ideas that make the world go round, but what if you could turn your ideas into a business plan? Well the Bizness Babes say you can. Bizness Babes is an organisation igniting the entrepreneurial spirit of women who want to succeed in business. Over the past six years this not-for-profit organisation has been giving hundreds of women the training and tools to establish and build successful businesses.
women”, as Vickie explains this could be for “any woman who doesn’t have the time or access to TAFE or further education, but have a hobby or idea that’s great”. Vickie and the teams “why not?” attitude is phenomenal in helping women take that leap of faith and trusting their gut instinct on a good idea. As she explains: “You don’t want to look back at your career and regret it, if you think it’s a good idea, the chance is someone else will too.”
administration and support service. “Bizness Babes gave me the belief and confidence in myself that I really could start my own business,” explains Jennifer. “The workshops provided the direction, tools and techniques I needed to get started and keep going. I am forever grateful for the opportunity Bizness Babes has provided me and other women.” Though exceedingly supported by The Wise Foundation and Queensland government funding, Bizness Babes heartily rely on the support of the community.
The course is taken over a four month period, with only 11 contact days of training. This helps women to pursue a business in a field of their choice and evidently allow each graduate to define the success of their own business.
Many of us feel as though there are not enough hours in the day to even consider starting up our own business, and now is just not the right time. But that’s the very message of Bizness Babes, that now can be the right time.
The Bizness Babes know that while one woman may aspire to develop a multimillion dollar businesses, another maybe aiming for a little financial independence…”the freedom to choose salmon rather than sausages for dinner.”
Their support is not exclusively educational, but while taking the training and beginning your own business, they can provide childcare, business coaching, or assist with any other obstacle you may need to overcome.
Vickie Burkinshaw, an empowering team member of Bizness Babes, has witnessed and assisted women in achieving their business goals since 2006.
The course is designed not to be complicated, but make business three things… simple, enjoyable, and accessible. Every woman deserves the tools to dream, to open their minds to the possibilities business can give them and their communities.
Bizness Babes are encouraging one another to get involved in their community. They have people all across Australia getting involved to lend a hand, and remind people they can accomplish their dreams… whatever those dreams may be.
Mother of three young children, Jennifer Brosnan, with the help of the Bizness Babes program was able to establish her business ‘Leave it with me’ which is a seniors
For more information about Bizness Babes or to support the group in our community contact vickie.burkinshaw@biznessbabes. com.au 0418 986 838. ■
She is proud to have helped a total of 630 women graduate, with more than half continuing to run their own individual businesses, ranging from hand crafts, to baby whispering. The uniqueness of this program is its ability to suit the “everyday
Through the sponsors, the costs, childcare, specialist classes, business coaching, have been provided to help women achieve the ideal outcome for their business. Surprisingly these sponsorships are not limited to monetary support alone. Venues, goods and services, guest speakers are always as demanded and appreciated by all involved.
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Frankie O’s Flower Emporium The gorgeous Frankie O has just opened the doors to her flower emporium. Located in the centre of town in Hargreaves Street Frankie O’s Flower Emporium is not a florist shop as such, but an emporium of beautiful fresh cut flowers, ready for you to take home, back to the office or even to give as a gift (hint hint to the men out there). Frankie O’s Flower Emporium will provide you with market-fresh and in many instances, locally-grown flowers so you can enjoy fresh flowers in your home or office, ever day of the year. Frankie has a huge selection of flowers and market prices to suit all your flower needs. Call in and treat all of your senses, you’ll be glad you did. Frankie O’s Flower Emporium is located at 333 Hargreaves Street Bendigo and can be contacted on (03) 5441 6027
What’s new pussycat? The Bendigo business community is thriving with many new fresh faces opening their doors. Why not stop by, say hello and show your support. Locate Australian App
In the name of fun
Would you prefer to buy Australian and local products but do not know which ones they are or where to find them? Locate Australian is here to help you – and things just got a whole lot easier with the launch of the new Locate Australian Smartphone App. This Smartphone app enables consumers to scan a bar code and find out immediately the product’s most likely country of origin and if the product is listed on www. locateaustralian.com.au then you will also have access to the Locate Australian labelling system to determine if the product is Australian made by an Australian owned company and made from Australian produce.
Brett Gregory, “Certified Funologist” has enthralled audiences in various states throughout Australia for more than 10 years now. His target audience is two to 12 years, but adults can’t walk away either. Having performed at literally hundreds of birthday parties, festivals and corporate events, Brett is now living in Bendigo and fast becoming our favourite Childrens’ Entertainer. Brett has been married for 19 years and has three children of his own including Jordan, 17, who assists with the technical needs of the shows. Brett’s work history includes 10 years as an Ambulance Officer as well as working with children with disabilities.
The new app is free, easy to use and will enable consumers to make an informed choice when making product purchases, and most importantly will enable Australian consumers to support Australian producers. The new app is so impressive that it has finished in the top 20 finalists for the 2012 Bendigo Inventor Awards and the Locate Australian team had the app on display at the awards recently held in October.
Brett’s live and interactive show is a mix of physical humour, juggling, mime, bubbles, puppets, stories, tricks and fun characters. Brett can tailor the show to suit any event – private, corporate or public event.
For more information on Locate Australian and the new Locate Australian Smartphone App visit www.locateaustralian.com.au
The website www.brettgregory. com.au and Facebook page have a detailed client listing, written references and current insurance details. Fully approved to work in this field, Brett is able to design an age-appropriate routine, either as an on-stage performance, roving throughout the crowd, or both! Brett likes to “...take the X-box Generation and infuse them with the theatre of life!” Any enquires can be made through email on the website, or by calling 0429 950 332.
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Warwick Jones This family run business beginning in Melbourne has been creating fashion for real women for more than 20 years. The Warwick Jones label is designed and manufactured in Melbourne – a fact the family is very proud of as well as opening a new store in Bendigo. Warwick Jones take the latest international trends and translate them into styles that are fashionable for a ‘real’ woman. They carry sizes 8 – 22 however, the focus is on the real woman so their quintessential customer is a mature size 16 who wants to look fashionable and stylish. All garments are meticulously fitted to be comfortable and flatter a real woman’s body. The team pride themselves on their famous comfortable well fitting pants, as well as fashion looks that adapt easily from day to night. Warwick Jones Bendigo is located at 7 Mitchell Street and can be contacted on (03) 5442 6320.
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Essential Interiors Jill Bruinier has always had a love and fascination for colour, paintings and interior decor - beginning when she was a little girl rearranging her bedroom and setting it up and decorating to her liking. This love for all things interior design and the fulfillment of helping people enjoy their property has inspired Jill to begin her new business Essential Interiors.
The Boardwalk Bendigo It would have to have the best view of any restaurant in Bendigo – on the water’s edge overlooking the picturesque Lake Weeroona. The Boardwalk Bendigo is enjoying a new lease on life with a new owner, new faces, a new menu and a newly refurbished kitchen. Well known Bendigo hospitality identity Andy Lawson is now at the helm of this thriving restaurant and is excited about the warm months ahead. “I’ve been in food and hospitality all my working life and I just love the restaurant scene and looking after people,” explains Andy. At the Boardwalk Bendigo, the team combine great food and attentive service for an experience you’ll remember for all the right reasons. Their take on service and hospitably means a real coming of age for their pavilion by the lake. The Boardwalk Bendigo is open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee and drinks and also specialise in weddings and functions. Why not stop by and say hi? The Boardwalk Bendigo is located on Lake Weeroona, Bendigo and can be contacted on (03) 5443 9855.
Needlecraft The team at Needlecraft Curtains and Blinds have a little secret – and all will be revealed early next year. But in the mean time why not visit Bendigo’s premium window furnishing showroom and view the highest quality window furnishings available for your home. The team invite you to visit and operate the products on display which include motorised window covering solutions for the ultimate in home automation. You can also look through the entire colour range with a comprehensive sample collection. Needlecraft Curtains and Blinds Bendigo offer the most comprehensive range of custom made drapes and curtains, blinds, awnings and shutters ensuring there is a solution for your requirements. They also offer expert advice to help you make the right choice in decorating your windows. The Bendigo showroom is located at 155 Lyttleton Terrace, Bendigo and the team can be contacted on (03) 5443 5559 or visit www. needlecraftblinds.com.au
What a view
“I really enjoy working with clients to help decorate their homes and make their home their sanctuary, somewhere they enjoy spending a lot of time., Similarly, also in their working environment.” explains Jill. “Together with the client, I help with the process of selection by guidance which follows by having an understanding of individual’s aspirations and the ability to engender confidence in my clients’ ability to visualise the end result. I am there to work with the client in achieving their goal/ dream, to assist them reach and exceed all expectations.. I am constantly resourcing the latest trends and products on the market and design ideas therefore am able to offer up to date advice, including new products that haven’t hit Australia’s shores as yet. I have a vast number or suppliers in the industry at my fingertips who have unique products and services for my clients. I also work with my clients to select products and decors that are timeless and that will last for many years to come and aren’t just a passing phase, although for the client that does want a trendy décor, that is achievable also.” Essential Interiors will offer those in the Bendigo area sound interior design advice as well as the opportunity for shopping tours both locally and in Melbourne to visit selected suppliers after an initial one on one consultation in the property of your choice. I’ll be able to pass on some great advice and price advantages on these shopping trips. Colour pack ages are also available to ensure your property reflects your desire and complements your furnishings for a stunning result. For more information contact Jill Bruinier from Essential Interiors on 0438 414 911 or visit essentialinteriors.com.au ■
Aaronview Building is a local building company employing local people. Aaron is a fully qualified carpenter and registered builder and has more than 16 years’ experience in the building industry. Aaron and his team are able to service Bendigo and the surrounding areas and place an importance on young people in the community by supporting the Australian apprenticeship scheme. From new homes to renovations, alterations, decks and pergolas – Aaronview building is committed to delivering quality workmanship and a personalised service to all clients. Aaronview Building is aiming to encourage its clients to adopt energy efficient and sustainable designs when building new homes as well as renovations and attempt to use building products and methods that are as environmentally friendly as possible. Visit the website www.aaronviewbuilding. com.au and keep an eye out for house and land packages in Golden Square or you can contact the team on (03) 5444 3210 or 0407 338 944.
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BORROWING TO INVEST Whether you’re looking to accelerate your investment growth, looking to buy into a business or just need to ease your cash flow constraints, you might find yourself borrowing money to buy investments. Possibilities include passive investments, such as shares or a rental property or more active assets, such as a business. AFS Partner Damien Palmer – your taxation specialist.
Borrowing to invest, the tricks and traps When you borrow to invest there are a number of costs involved, which may include loan establishment fees, valuation fees, interest on loans and bank charges. In addition to these costs, there is also the requirement to repay the principal you initially borrowed. The tax treatment of these various payments can vary greatly, and you need to be aware of the tax treatments so that you know just how much of a tax saving you will get for the money you will outlay.
A tax deduction or not? As with most areas within a tax system, investment deductions are not always straightforward. As a general rule, interest will be deductible on borrowings that are being used for income producing purposes.
Gearing up to minimise tax
An example of this is when money is borrowed for an investment property that is available for rent or the purchase of shares that produce income in the form of dividends.
A lot of investors will negatively gear their investment. This is where the interest on the loan is more than the income produced from the asset. Under our current tax laws, the interest is fully deductible in these circumstances and creates a loss situation from the investment. This loss can then offset other income that you have, creating a tax deduction against the other income. As an investor, you are then relying on the capital growth of the asset to outweigh the loss you’ve incurred by paying the interest.
Our laws become tricky when the property is not available for rent or the shares are not producing dividend income. Generally in these examples the investor is relying on capital growth as a means of producing income. So they buy property or shares and intend on selling them some years later, once the value of the property or shares has increased. Profit produced in this manner makes the income fall under the capital gains tax regime. The interest expense on the loan in a capital gains situation is generally not deductible against the investor’s ordinary income. Instead, the interest is added to the cost base of the asset thus reducing the capital gain when the property or shares are sold in the future.
As with most parts of our tax system the rules are complicated and the outcomes depend upon your unique circumstances. If you have questions regarding the deductibility of your interest, contact the professionals at AFS & Associates. We’d be only to happy to help you increase your potential. ■
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Breast Reduction Breast Reduction surgery can be one of the most empowering outcomes that a woman can experience. The earlier in life, the better, but it’s never too late to have it done. Writer: Richard W Dickinson Traditionally woman have been encouraged to endure and put up with what ‘nature’ has
with a caring, confidential and professional concern for your individual needs.
given them, way too much. Many women endure the uncomfortable symptoms of painful shoulders, neck and lower back pain. Skin rashes in the breast fold can be red and raw.
The first visit takes about an hour, bring a partner or friend along if you want, as the ‘brains trust’ so you can recap later on.
Exercise for otherwise motivated and fit young women can be impossible. This can isolate them from their friends and weight can be a difficult thing to control. Bras are often not made in such large sizes or are expensive and difficult to buy. When they arrive they look like granny’s bras. Clothes shopping is another struggle and frustration, no tops or bottoms match and forget about swimwear. Black becomes the favourite colour.
What’s the procedure? Where do I start? Visit your GP, tell them about your concerns, ask for a referral to find out more. They will care and understand and be kept informed by your surgeon. Your specialist will really understand your circumstance. They will put you at ease,
when you are ready you will be given a date,
It is a chance for you to find out more, learn about the surgery and ongoing care, it is not about going ahead with surgery. More visits will be arranged to build your knowledge
so you can make plans in your time and with certainty.
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and meet all of your carers, in preparation for surgery and after care. Your individual treatment plan will be formulated. You will be pleasantly surprised that this surgery can be done as day surgery since little pain relief is required , but most stay in hospital overnight. Scars are minimal and your recovery will take about four weeks, but you will be closely followed for at least twelve weeks. Financial advice and consent will be given to cover everything. Aftercare is included and any revision surgery, if required, will not cost a thing. All very reassuring. You will not be placed on a waiting list,
Write down a list of questions, so you don’t forget, don’t be afraid to ask. Your surgeon will probably answer all these and more at your first visit. Don’t forget to consider your surgeons credentials, training and experience, ask him. You want ‘the best’ person to look after you, someone highly professional but also friendly and caring. To find out more, make an appointment with Mr Richard Dickinson at Bendigo Plastic Surgery. Our friendly staff will help you make the first step that can really change your life. ■
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ACHIEVING FINANCIAL GOALS Darren Eldridge is a banking professional with nab, having been a part of the finance industry for the last 20 years. He has extensive knowledge in helping people achieve their goals and dreams through all aspects of personal banking. Writer:Darren Eldridge – Branch Manager, Retail Plus – NAB Bendigo One of the best parts of my role as the manager of NAB in Bendigo is helping people through the various stages in their lives. Every day I meet people who are about to experience something new or have a dream they want brought to life. It doesn’t matter whether it’s opening that first bank account for children, through to helping people save to buy their first car or travel on that overseas adventure. Maybe it’s getting married or looking to own that first ‘dream’ home or even helping people grow their wealth. It’s important to me to help my clients achieve tomorrow’s memories, today.
each week can make over the life of a loan. For example, if you have a $150,000 home loan, paying an additional $10 per week can save three and a half years off your home loan term, and reduce your interest payable by just over $24,000.
One of the most common questions I hear from my clients is “how do I pay off my home loan sooner”. And while everyone’s situation can be different, here is some advice that may help you.
Adding an offset feature to your home loan can also make a big difference to paying your home loan off sooner. An offset feature allows you to have your savings in one account, which is matched against your home loan. The interest you pay on your home loan is then calculated on the difference between the two balances. While it might not sound like a lot of difference, over the course of a year, this reduces your interest by a little over $300 on current rates. The more you have in your savings account, the bigger the savings can be on your home loan interest.
The first option is to pay off a little bit extra with each repayment. It’s amazing how much difference an extra $10 paid off your loan
Another way which can assist in paying your home loan off sooner is to consider applying a fixed interest rate to your loan in for a period
of time. This option is especially good if you feel Interest rates might rise in the short term. It can provide certainty to your repayments which can protect your lifestyle from any rate rises. Obviously if interest rates decrease over this time, it can lead to the opposite effect. If you are thinking about fixing the rate on your loan, you really need to consider your personal situation and goals. There is no point in fixing your loan for five years if you are thinking of selling your home in three years. I’ve found over the years that everyone’s situation is different, and the best way for us to match our advice to your goals is to simply talk with you. Please note, all information above is based on current interest rates over a 30 year loan term. Any advice in this document has been prepared without taking into account your objectives, financial situation or needs. Because of this, before acting on this advice you should consider whether it is appropriate to your objectives, financial situation and needs”; and “You should obtain a Product Disclosure Statement relating to the product and consider the statement before making any decision about whether to acquire the product”.
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YOUR BUSINESS SUCCESS In this first quiz the experts – we look at two areas that are common challenges for managers in the largest organisations, right through to the smallest of businesses. Paul Murphy – At Work Consulting How do I select and manage people in my team to boost business performance? Business success is really created by team effort.Two basic secrets to team member success have been identified in recent studies – and they are as obvious as ‘liking each other’ and ‘sharing similar worldviews’. Teams with low levels of trust or ‘liking’ tend to form sub-groups, cutting satisfaction and performance. But surprisingly, there’s evidence that even if team members don’t like each other much, so long as they share a similar worldview, they can still get the job done. So on these two counts as a manager it’s important to ensure cliques aren’t allowed to form in your teams, and that team members trust each other and share goals they actively work towards. Building a team’s emotional intelligence helps it become and remain a cohesive unit. It helps leaders and individual members manage and understand themselves as well as other people. Winning strategies for managing teams, include, if you have this luxury, getting it right from the start. Select team members to get the right values mix, as well as the right skills. Use inspiring leadership
to win commitment to shared values. Build team skills using training and coaching. Get the team to set ground rules that will guide everyone on what’s acceptable behaviour. Facilitate regular ‘team talks’ that include looking at why we behave the way we do, what motivates or demotivates people, and the usefulness of team diversity even with those shared values. As projects startup, encourage members to set up processes to reach goals effectively, deal with obstacles and avoid blaming. Deal with conflict as it comes up (not months in), and praise positive team behaviours when you see them. And remember that the team that has regular informal get-togethers - even coffee breaks with all included – tends to shine. How do I motivate people, particularly when things aren’t going well? Understanding what motivates people is hard enough at the best of times. So, how can you motivate people when they’re failing? The key is often in understanding our emotional drivers. Research on NBA basketball games found that teams that were only behind by one or two points at half time were significantly more likely to win. Lab studies reinforced this finding,
with participants told they were ‘just failing’ increasing their effort far more than other participants. So failing (a bit) can be highly motivating! So if you find you’re struggling to motivate failing staff, first try these three things. • Call time out early if someone is missing targets, to help them focus on where they are falling short and to increase their effectiveness. • Along with exploring any barriers they see, tell them how they are doing relative to a slightly better performer (need not be a current team member), building their belief that they can lift their game. • Give positive feedback on how they can improve, remind them of times when they have improved, when their effort has resulted in success, and how good that made them feel. These are simple steps, but should help you get better results through your people drawing on their own motivation to stronger performance and ultimately success. ■
Thinking about it only gets you so far You’re set on building success in your organisation, but you’ve held off getting it happening. You know there are people issues, but it’s not quite clear how to tackle it. Sure it’s a step to take; but rest assured, an integrated development program from AtWork Consulting will get results. Strategy rather than ‘ad-hocery’. More impactful leadership. Managers who simply manage better. Improved teamwork. An organisation that delivers. If you’ve thought about it for a while, and the cost of waiting is mounting up, it’s probably time for action. To fast-track performance in your workplace, contact Paul Murphy today. “Paul’s work with our management team has produced outstanding results. As we near the end of our program, I am already counting the value of the gains we’ve made. These are both for outcomes for our individual managers and for improvements in their work as a team. AtWork Consulting have provided a comprehensive and professional program customised to our needs, which has proved successful and popular with the participants.” - General Manager Technology
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BE YOUR BEST From getting the most out of the festive season, to ensuring your children are positioned to be their very best at school in the new year – the team at Global Chiropractic have all bases covered. Writer: Dr Deanne Esposito - Chiropractor Q1. The festive season is always challenging and stressful. What can I do to enjoy this time of year better? Plan your day, EVERYDAY! - Write down your 7 priority steps (tasks) to be achieved. Write them the night before for the following day. Writing down your tasks is important as it affirms them and therefore it’s more likely they will be achieved. Put the list into priority order so as the most important things get done first. Sleep - Your body is healing and regenerating when you are sleeping. It is best to get 7 ½ 8 hours sleep per night. - Sleep decreases stress in the body and increases your immune system function. Personal Success Ritual - Developing a personal success ritual is important so that during busy, stressful times you do not forget to do the vital things for your own health and wellbeing. - It is best to develop this routine first thing
in the morning to get your day off to a positive start. This may mean you need to rise a little earlier, however the benefits you receive will make it worth it. - This routine should take up the first 90 minutes of your day and consist of hygiene routine, exercise, vitamins, breakfast and water.
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your child is switched on ready for learning.
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By introducing movement, singing and physical activity can assist them achieving more, listening and concentrating better. Physical movement and singing definitely helps our brain remember things better.
- Chiropractic can help your body cope with the effects of stress naturally. Stress can cause underlying conditions to surface like headaches, migraines, indigestion, constipation, neck pain and back pain for example.
Here are some ideas to get your kids brains well wired and switched on before heading off to school: 1. Marching on the spot – legs going to 90 degrees and opposite arm and leg moving at same time.
- Chiropractic adjustments restore normal, optimal communication between the brain and body. This allows the body to cope better with the stresses in life.
2. Elephant walking – Walking on hands and feet with opposite hand and foot touching the ground at the same time.
Q2. How can I ready my child so as they are at their best to start school? To have your childs brain thinking super hard at the beginning of their school day means
3. Superman/supergirl – Lying over fitness ball or on floor with pillows under their stomach. Aim to get both arms and legs extended into the air and balancing on ball. Parents may need to assist, by holding childs trunk as this may be difficult to start with. ■
Chiropractic naturally facilitates health. This is why health conscious people are making Chiropractic part of their lifestyle. Proactive family focussed care from preconception and beyond.
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Heat pack or ice pack? It can be a common question when someone gets hurt playing sport or at home, and they want some pain relief and to minimise the damage. Writer: Sangeeta Sangwan - Senior Physiotherapist - St John of God Following an injury, the inflammation process begins around that area. It can easily be identified by increased temperature or redness of the skin, pain and swelling. If you notice any of the above signs after an injury, then you should apply an ice pack to reduce the inflammation process and enhance healing.
desired or until it begins to cool down, but usually is applied for 20 minutes.
• Apply for 15-20 minutes
In a nutshell: use ice immediately after an acute injury and use heat for a problem that has been persisting for longer than three weeks.
• Make sure you don’t put the ice directly on the skin to avoid skin burn
Can a physiotherapist help me after an injury?
• Elevation of the injured area combined with the icing will help further in reducing the
You can see a physiotherapist straight away after your injury. You don’t need any medical referral. The physiotherapy team at St John of God Hospital is highly qualified and experienced in treating various sports injuries, and you don’t need to be a hospital patient to see us.
How should I use the ice pack?
• swelling • Use the ice pack two to three times per day as desired What do I use heat for? Heat is usually helpful in chronic problems or injuries (more than three weeks old). It helps in reducing muscle spasm and pain. A heat pack can be applied for as long as
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EYe on education Maria Simpson retired from Telstra two years ago and joined the Bendigo TAFE board last year. An end of year speech to her staff lured Maria out of retirement and into the role of chief executive officer. Writer: Maria Simpson Maria, you are not unfamiliar with the education sector? MS: No, I spent 20 years as a secondary school teacher working in state high schools and at all levels. Looking for a different challenge I stepped professionally into the commercial arena. Starting with Telstra in training and development I worked across a range of different leadership roles for almost 20 years before retiring two years ago. You have almost come full circle. How did you end up at Bendigo TAFE?
MS: I was planning my retirement rather than further employment so it was meant to be only a few months. But, last November, I presented to all staff, saying this is our business, this is where we are at, these are our challenges and this is what we need to do. I believed we could and I felt a need to commit to go on the journey. So, I applied for the job. The last few months have been challenging for the higher education sector. How is Bendigo TAFE prepared for this next phase?
MS: I had just joined the board when the previous CEO took leave. Our president, Marg O’Rourke, asked if I would step aside from the board and stand in as CEO for a short term. Having given my commitment to the board, I felt it was the right thing to do. So I sought leave from the board and stepped in for what I thought would only be a few of months.
MS: The premise of our plan is to ensure Bendigo TAFE remains an autonomous provider of vocational education and training for the greater Bendigo region. My brief is to deliver good business outcomes and to ensure everyone understands their role and how they contribute to this success.
Yet here we are 12 months later and you are now chief executive officer.
MS: We welcome anyone to join us at any stage of their learning journey, regardless
What is the advantage of choosing Bendigo TAFE?
of age, background or career aspirations. We offer quality education and cater to individual needs while remaining flexible, available, and relevant. Our teaching staff is incredibly committed, very professional and delivers real quality outcomes. People underestimate the breath of teachers’ skills. They’re great time and project managers and very good at managing relationships and dealing with people. Tell us, what excites you most about the future of Bendigo TAFE? MS: Bendigo TAFE is a wonderful education provider and everyone here is proud of its role in Bendigo’s history. We’ve been transforming lives for more than 155 years. I look forward to being part of the growth and prosperity of the institute over the next few years. ■
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Bali with a twist It has been 30-plus years since I last visited Bali so I was keen to see how it had fared. Writer and Photographer: Vicki Harrington The roads haven’t changed, they are still potholed and narrow and parking is still out of control. The streets of Kuta and Legian are jampacked day and night with a frenzied mix of people, motor scooters and cars, usually resulting in gridlock by early evening. Some things have not changed, they have just grown. There are more tourists, more hotels, more pesky-but-cute monkeys and millions more motorbikes. Back in the 80s, we arrived with grand plans of seeing the island on motorcycles. Despite
being warned it was not a good idea, we headed to Denpasar that first day to secure our licences. Rumour was, all we had to do was ride a lap of the yard behind the police station, pay the fee and a licence would be granted. Reality kicked in while we waited at a major intersection and witnessed the traffic madness and mayhem first-hand so we hired a driver for the week instead. These days Bali boasts a population of about four million and covers 5632 square kilometres. About 1.5 million people ride
motorcycles with many of those people shirtless, barefoot and helmet-less tourists flirting with death as fatalities number between 100 and 200 per month. With about 200 new motorcycle sales per day, it is clearly a little place with an even bigger traffic problem than in the 80s. The 2002 bombings obviously left an indelible scar on the burgeoning tourist landcape but it is business as usual again with many new hotels and resorts under construction. All good reasons to head for the hills this
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travelogue time and opt for a holiday in the real Bali. Ubud, one hour north of the beach resorts, is the cultural heart of Bali. It enjoys a cooler climate and boasts villages full of stone masons, silversmiths, woodcarvers, sculptors and artists. Village life is a peaceful, daily ritual with extended families working in the rice paddies and sharing a meal together in the evenings. Sharing this local lifestyle is both a privilege and an experience not to be missed. We stayed in the hills behind the village of Singaprang at Ayung Sari Indah, a unique place to enjoy a taste of Bali life run by Balinese artisit Wayan and his Australian expat partner, Karen. Holiday accommodation without mini bars, televisions, wi-fi, telephones or hairdryers sounds a bit harsh, but the cultural and health benefits outweighed the lack of electronic creature comforts. Wayan and Karen have eight individually designed, traditional Balinese bungalows with private outdoor bathrooms set in beautiful gardens and overlooking lush green rice paddies. They serve delicious, healthy Balinese village food in an outdoor dining area. The daily exercise regime, coupled with time for relaxation and rejuvenation, had our small group feeling fit and fabulous in just five days. Activities were organised by experienced Australian fitness trainer, Jo Sharp of Sharpmoves. They included morning workouts using coconuts, sandbags and bamboo poles instead of weights and barbells. There were evening pilates sessions,
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yoga and meditation classes led by Gabby, a German-born ex-pat living in Ubud, walks through the rice paddies and jungle, cycling through villages, a trek up the 1700 metre high Mt Batur, one of Bali’s active volcanoes, followed by a soak in the Toyabunkah hot springs and rafting beneath waterfalls on the pretty Ayung river. We relished a day off for pampering at an Ubud day spa with a massage and body scrub followed by a soothing soak in a traditional flower bath. The charming, gentle and smiling Balinese staff at Ayung Sari Indah provided each bungalow with a fresh thermos of lemon grass and ginger tea each day and Gusti the cook gave us a cooking lessson making curries, salads of jungle greens, sambals and
peanut sauce before we were joined by the local villagers for a farewell feast complete with lots of singing and dancing. One of the highlights was witnessing the delighted grins on the faces of the village school children when they received our donations of school shoes, pens and pencils Jo suggested we bring with us. Children cannot enter school in Bali until they have their own black school shoes and thanks to Jo’s initiative, 60 new students are now enrolled. And there was our driver, our very own Ketut. The Balinese naming system sees all firstborn sons named Wayan, second sons are Made, the third are Nyoman and the fourth
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are all called Ketut. With their typical good humour, the locals have embraced our AAMI television ads with Rhonda and t-shirts with her catch-cries abound in the markets. Our Ketut, (“Eyes on the road Rhonda, this Ketut is ours”) is a very courteous, careful and patient driver plus a skilled artist. He took us on a day trip to one of Bali’s most important Hindu temples at Uluwatu where we witnessed a traditional Kecak dance at sunset before moving on to Jimbaran. Every evening about 40 restaurants set up tables and chairs on the seaside lining Jimbaran Bay creating a huge seafood dining place. After making your selection from big water tanks, your fish is grilled and served on the beach by candlelight. We also visited Tanjung Benoa, renowned for all genre of watersports. Parakiters dangle precariously from their sails in a mish mash of wires but always seem to land safely in the designated spot, banana boats race around with passengers clinging on and flying fish rides hover above the water. We tried the snorkelling but with all the boat activity the colourful fish were just visible in the cloudy waters so we took a glass bottomed boat to the turtle breeding farm on Pulau Serangan for a first hand look at the turtles. It’s the perfect holiday mix and sure to have you return home feeling re-energised and re-vitalised in mind, body and spirit. ■
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SETTING SAIL What’s the best way to enjoy the sun at your face and the breeze at your back at Lake Eppalock this summer? The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind. Writer: Raelee Tuckerman - Photographer: David Field
“Set up your mast, spread the white sail and sit down in the ship. The North Wind will blow her on her way...” So wrote Greek poet Homer in his epic Odyssey some 2500 years ago. Today, there remains something captivating about the sight of sails billowing against a backdrop of blue skies and white-capped water. But as Bendigo Yacht Club members will tell you, few things compare with the feeling of actually boarding a sailboat, catching the wind and riding those waves. “I sail for the sheer pleasure of it,” says retired research scientist Brian Coman. “I like the sensation of gliding over the water without any noisy motor, and the sound of waves
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lapping at the sides of the boat. It’s a very relaxing sort of occupation.” Brian, 68, took to the water last year after seeking a new outdoor past-time in which he could involve his whole family: wife Merilyn, three adult children and his grandkids as well. He didn’t just join the yacht club – he spent 800 plus hours in his Strathfieldsaye garage building his own 16ft Hartley trailer-sailer, based on plans he bought online of the original 1950s trailable yacht. “I looked around at different boats and eventually saw a photograph of a Hartley. It is a very wide, stable boat, good for a learner, and I was very impressed with the look of it. It has an old-fashioned look and I
am an old-fashioned bloke.” His vessel, dubbed The Governor, took about six months to complete. Brian constructed the frame from local English elm timber he milled with his eldest son, cabinetmaker Martin. But its launch was a bit of an anti-climax. “I launched it in the dam at the back of the house,” Brian laughs. “I was afraid if I took it out to Eppalock in front of hundreds of eyes and it sank, it wouldn’t look good so I surreptitiously floated it in the dam to make sure it had no leaks.” Not that you even need your own boat to feel the sun on your face and the wind at
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your back. This summer, riding on the wave of the success of Australia’s gold-medalwinning Olympic sailors, the Bendigo club is launching a range of experiences for everyone, from families who have never set foot on a yacht through to elite catamaran racers. The schedule includes: • Discover Sailing programs run over several Sundays at Lake Eppalock when, for a small fee, members of the public will be able to try their hand at activities ranging from rides in a small Optimist training dinghy for young children, to trips on a bigger Pacer, a trailable yacht or even an
extreme adventure on a catamaran. • Formal sailing courses run by the club’s Central Victorian Sailing Academy, including learn-to-sail lessons for anyone aged seven and up and continuing classes for those with basic experience. • Specialised catamaran clinics for trained sailors – both introductory courses for those who want to experience cat sailing, and advanced sessions for the elite who want to compete internationally. Coaches include Greg Goodall, a former world champion and head of acclaimed Bendigo boat-making business Australian High Performance Catamarans. Yachting has been in Greg’s blood since
he was a lad, and five generations of his family have been involved in the Bendigo Yacht Club – from grandparents Ernie and Ida Campbell, to his mother Nancy Goodall, brothers Allan and Steve, sons Brett and Liam, and now his five-year-old granddaughter Grace. The dynasty began around the time the Campaspe River was dammed to create Lake Eppalock, leading to the formation of the club in 1962. Ernie Campbell, who played an important role in his grandsons’ lives after the untimely death of their father, joined the club with the boys and together they restored an old Mirror boat and learnt to sail in the fickle wind on the lake, hundreds
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of miles from the ocean favoured by so many yachties. Both Greg and brother Allan (and later fellow club member Glenn Ashby) would go on to win world titles in the sport of yachting. The 58-year-old recently returned from Los Angeles, where he and son Brett competed in the 2012 world F18 catamaran championships. His wife, Helen Sharrock, with whom he also works and sails, sums it up with the statement that has become the yacht club’s motto: Sailing is not just a sport… it’s a way of life. Not surprisingly, it was the sport that brought them together in the first place. “We met at a cat regatta at Sorrento in 1981,” she recalls. “I was sailing in a boat that Greg hadn’t sailed in before and he came across my skipper Rob on the beach and introduced himself. He said, ‘I’ve never sailed one of these before so can I borrow
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your boat?’ “Then he looked at me and asked, ‘Can I also borrow your crew?’ The joke is that he gave the boat back but he didn’t give the crew back!” Things haven’t always been smooth sailing for the yacht club – a decade of drought virtually dried up their Lake Eppalock home and saw membership plummet from more than 600 to below 150, and a 2008 fire destroyed a boat shed and all its contents. But as the rain and water returns, so too do the members and Helen, who co-ordinates many of the club’s training and development activities, says even bigger things are in the wind. “The sky’s the limit – we have a great group of people who are dreaming big and we are looking at having a centre out there that is based around sailing but offers a lot more. “We are thinking about a function centre
so people can have weddings and corporate events, and we want to develop the sailing school into a commercially viable venture so schools might book their kids in for a week and we teach them to sail. “We have got a lot of hurdles to get over, of course …but we want a centre that has sailing as its prime objective but has a much bigger role to play in our community.” Sailing is one of the oldest methods of human transport – and Brian Coman reckons little has changed since Homer so beautifully described the art more than two and a half millennia ago. “The boat may be a bit more sleek and sophisticated looking today, but it is the same object and no doubt it gave people then the same pleasure as it gives me today.” The Bendigo Yacht Club celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. For details of its sailing schedule and activities, visit www.bendigo.yachting.org.au ■
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seven seat sensation Mazda chose the recent Australian International Motor Show as the venue to make the world debut of its fresh-faced flagship SUV, the CX-9. Writer: Curt Dupriez Not Toyko, New York, Paris or Geneva, but Sydney. And rightly so, too. Australia’s a significant market for the Japanese carmaker, the brand enjoying a steady climb in popularity in recent times – we’ve even made Mazda 3 a number one seller. And one in every three vehicles Aussies buy these days is an SUV, the revamped large family-mover is a crucial part of Mazda’s local portfolio. In what ways might the updated CX-9 swoon Aussie families? Firstly, and importantly, Mazda hasn’t messed with a hugely successful recipe of large interior space, seven-seater flexibility and robust presence and feel. A case of nothing broken nor requiring any fixing there.
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Nor is there any great sea change when it comes to the oily bits underneath. Power continues to comes from the rather lusty ‘MZI’3.7-litre petrol V6 carried over from the outgoing CX-9, which is good for 204kW and torque enough (367Nm) for lugging half the under-12 soccer team and all of their gear across country Victoria without breaking a sweat. The engine is backed by a slickshifting six-speed automatic transmission is also familiar to older CX-9 owners. Another of the CX-9’s strengths is its availability in front-wheel drive. Essentially, the Mazda brains trust wisely concluded that not every family-focused large SUV owner wants the added cost nor needs the added
benefits – mostly in an off-road ability sense – of all-wheel drive. So going front-wheel drive saves upfront cost – said to be about $5000 in the CX-9’s case – and running costs at the fuel bowser. Again, nothing changed here. What is quite obviously new is the restyled front end treatment, which adopts the new ‘kodo’ styling language being rolled out across Mazda’s entire range (including the stunning new Mazda 6). The upshot is a sharper and, we think, sexier upmarket look. Specifically, the Hollywood makeover encompasses a new grille, front bumper – which stretches the CX-9’s five-metre-plus length a barely noticeable 7mm – more
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angular headlights that encompass a very cool ‘halo ring light guide’ on high-spec variants, fresh taillights and a rather striking set of massive 20-inch alloy wheels. It’s a classy effect, enhanced somewhat with the choice of three slick new colours: Brilliant Black, Zeal Red Mica and Meteor Grey Mica. Inside, the revised CX-9 feels a bit fresher and richer than its forebear. The styling retain that unmistakably Mazda feel so popular with the brand’s buyers, yet there’s a more generous use of premium soft-touch materials throughout, while the introduction of rich red highlights is a neat touch. The leather used is said to be higher grade, and there’s bit of suede to spruce up the mix. There’s also some nice upgrades to the electronics: the infotainment system has
more functionality, the sat-nav has been improved to provide more comprehensive ‘real time’ data (such as traffic conditions), and the car’s phone directory system is said to store around 1000 contacts. And, thankfully, a reversing camera is now standard fitment across all CX-9 variants. Other electronic trickery includes the myriad safety systems which carries across the CX-9 range, such as dynamic stability control, roll stability control, traction control and electronic brake force distribution. You won’t have to wait long to see the CX9’s fresh face in country Victoria, either. The large SUV goes on sale in December, as will the exciting new Mazda 6 sedan and wagon range. ■
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The Famous Reindeer Racer Cogho is on the couch with yet another sporting personality from the North Pole – Reindeer racing superstar Santa Claus ...Great on the sled but is he any good with Questions… Cog: Santa, tell us about your Reindeer racing career?
Santa: Got to be the 2012 North Pole cup, my prize reindeer Rudolph won by a nose
Santa: I’ve been in Reindeer racing all my life, starting out with my parents in the old days learning all I could along the way before leaving school and attending the North Pole Racing Training Centre. After graduation from there I held a few jobs at different stables before meeting a beautiful lady who was to become Mrs Claus. We made the move to our little house and stables and we train 12 Reindeers. For the past five years I have been the leading trainer in the North Pole
Cog: What’s the biggest sledge on the racetrack you have copped?
Cog: Who is your biggest supporter in your career?
Cog: Santa tell me the first thing that pops into your head with the following:
Santa: That would have to be my wife Mrs. Claus, putting up with the highs and lows a Reindeer trainer can go through and being there to keep me heading in the right direction...
Rudolph – superstar
Cog: What was biggest win in your career?
Santa: One wag at the track said that my wife could drive the sleigh better me and l had no comeback because Mrs. Claus goes alright. Cog: Are people still keen on Christmas? Santa: Yes of course they are my boy, it’s the time that people put all there differences aside and actually talk to each other plus it’s a time of giving and eating.
- Bryan ‘Cogho’ Coghlan Program Director 3BO/Star FM What Presents would those listed below be getting from Santa this year? Kylie Minogue ¬– a new man Blitzen – Carrots Mrs. Claus – Back massage Eddie McGuire – Collingwood premiership Black Caviar – whatever she wants
Julia Gillard – red like Rudolph’s nose
Cog: And wrapping up. If you were a drag queen you would need a name, what was the name of your first pet and first elf?
Reindeer racing – next big thing
Santa: Dasher Mario
Magical elves – funny little men
Cog: Thanks Santa
Bendigo Magazine – great read
Santa: Merry Christmas Cogho ■
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