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We are so happy to be back in your hands, after a publishing break during the pandemic. This edition features a few of our favourite Melbourne faces, with stunning properties to peruse in this latewinter market (it’s open for business).

Hawthorn great and Brownlow medallist Shane Crawford is a natural in front of the camera, but it’s surprising to learn just how precisely he applied himself to his TV apprenticeship. Crawford’s “next great act”, as journalist Peter Hanlon discovers, builds on an education that started as a schoolboy watching Ray Martin on The Midday Show. ●

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ENTERTAINMENT Enjoy Melbourne’s film and writers’ festivals online for the first time.

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Actor John Magaro in the Melbourne International Film Festival’s opening flick First Cow.

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elbourne is renowned for its jam-packed festival calendar, particularly in August when both the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) are under way. Both festivals will again kick off this week but for the first time are entirely online.

When the call was made in April to cancel the physical MIFF event, it wasn’t merely a precaution, but a necessity. “MIFF is part of an ecosystem. Films flow from points of premiere all around the world and various distributive models,” Al Cossar, MIFF artistic director, says.

The idea of an online festival was floated early, but the organisers were only interested if the quality could be maintained. Cossar says it wasn’t as simple as uploading the originally planned content online – they needed to re-engineer the festival.

“We know the value and the meaning of the festival to our audiences, and we wanted to do something that was hopefully true to their expectations of the program, but also was true of our programming personality ongoing,” Cossar says.

Organisers also needed to overcome the logistics of showing content online – a key concern for the film industry that is particularly

The show must go on sensitive to this model of distribution. Fortunately, one of the world leaders in online video streaming, the New Zealand company Shift72, agreed to work with MIFF to produce the event.

Titled 68½, the online 2020 MIFF program of 113 films includes 12 world premieres, 82 Australian premieres and 44 shorts. More than 56 countries are represented, and at least one woman director is attached to 49 per cent of the selected films.

Highlights include the opening film First Cow, directed by Kelly Reichardt, who Cossar describes as “one of the most fascinating filmmakers working today”.

Cossar says there are benefits to the online format, such as the introduction of long-form series not conducive to a typical cinema setting.

Among them is City So Real – a four-part chronicle of Chicago’s 2019 mayoral elections, revealing a city divided on social-justice issues.

There’s also the 14-hour Women Make Film series, which covers the vast, brilliant yet often neglected realm of female-directed cinema.

MWF, or MWF Digital as it’s known this year, has made major changes in order to migrate online.

Audiences this year can expect the same diversity of event formats, but across a more focused program

“We wanted to do something that was hopefully true to their expectations of the program.”

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around the theme of “attention”.

MWF Digital associate director Gene Smith says: “You will be able to read new commissioned works online from authors including Helen Garner, join a bookclub with Kate Grenville, listen to podcasts, watch interviews with literary greats, or join a workshop.”

Most MWF Digital events will have a “pay what you can model”, enabling as many people as possible to participate. “We don’t want money to be a barrier to access. That’s a core part of the festival philosophy, and a quarter of the MWF program is free every year,” Smith says.

During this time of uncertainty and turmoil, festivals such as MWF and MIFF that actively engage in global issues feel more pertinent than ever. The online events offer a valuable place for Melburnians to engage with their wider community, without sacrificing the safety of being in their own homes.

Says Smith: “My hope is that MWF Digital at the very least offers a wonderful distraction – a moment in time to celebrate the books and ideas that hold our attention and make us think differently about the world and our place in it.”

Most MIFF 68½ films will be accessible from August 7 to 23, with some films available at allocated times only. Tickets are available, subject to virtual capacity limits.

MWF Digital is on August 7 to 16. ● ● mwf.com.au

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ven during his earliest stints in front of a television camera, before he’d called time on his stellar AFL career, Shane Crawford had an eye for the next act.

At Channel Nine’s old studios, in Richmond’s Bendigo Street, he’d sit in on the filming of Sale Of The Century and The Price Is Right to see how they came to life. In the corridors he’d connect with people from the production crew and the props department, anyone whose working world was “this place where magic was made”. When he wasn’t among The Footy Show’s panellists, he’d slip into the control truck and watch the levers of live TV being pulled.

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Influenced by Graham Kennedy and Ray Martin, the charismatic Shane Crawford was destined for the screen.

His fascination wasn’t new, only the unprecedented access and the insights. Growing up in the southern NSW town of Finley, he had loved “the realness” of Graham Kennedy and Bert Newton, and how subtle shifts in pace made their comedy rise like dough in a tin. If he wasn’t at school, he’d camp in front of The Midday Show and study how Ray Martin went about his craft.

“When I started doing The Footy Show, years later, there were five or six cameras pointing at you from everywhere,” he recalls. “I said to Nine, ‘You’ve given me this opportunity, and I’m trying to be myself and have fun. But do you think someone can tell me what to do?’”

They sent him to Sydney to spend a day with an Australian television guru Peter Faiman, a producer of shows that were fronted by Kennedy, Newton, Don Lane and Paul Hogan, and who directed the latter in Crocodile Dundee. Crawford remembers the experience as formative and utterly special.

As they watched old tapes, he peppered Faiman with questions. “Why do they do this?” “Why are they filming this way and not that way?” He draws regularly on the advice he received that day.

“A couple of key things,” notes Crawford. “He said, ‘Just always be who you are, be yourself. The audience connects with you because you’re real, and if you’re not they won’t.’ And he said, ‘Let things breathe.’ That’s why Kennedy and Newton and Hogan were so good. They let things breathe, allowed time for the audience to think and react.

“The best thing [Faiman] said: ‘There’s no rules.

You do what works for you, go for it.’ I reckon I learnt more in one day than I would have in 20 years.”

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oing “what works for you” has only enhanced Crawford’s love of television, and given him a CV that includes 12 years on Postcards, several kids’ shows and a star turn on Australia’s first Celebrity Apprentice. By running from Adelaide to Melbourne and cycling the Nullarbor to Perth, he’s raised millions for breast cancer research, all the while living the advice his mother gave her children: just get out there and have a go.

“I enjoy the process … the creative side,” he says of television. “The art of trying to connect with the audience, the chemistry you have with the people you’re doing the show with.”

Fun lies at the heart of it, which makes his latest

venture – combining hosting and sideline commentary duties on the fourth season of Australian Ninja Warrior – kid-in-a-candy-shop stuff for a 45-year-old whose true calling could be playing Peter Pan. Crawford was already a big Ninja Warrior fan, watching from the couch with sons Charlie, Ben, Jack and Harry, raucous times that must leave their mum, Olivia, in no doubt that she’s outnumbered and that resistance would be futile. After a brief fillin stint on the show for Rebecca Maddern, he jumped at the chance for a deeper dive when the pandemic forced another ex-sportsman, former England cricketer Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff’, to fly home to Manchester to be with his family.

Immediately, Crawford’s thoughts turned to childhood Sunday nights watching the homespun 1980s hit It’s A Knockout. He likened entering the Ninja Warrior studio at Melbourne Showgrounds to walking through the gates of Dreamworld.

of life – have staggered him. “They’re incredible, some of the girls especially. I came away gobsmacked by what these athletes can do.”

He was told “not to muck around on the course”, but confesses he couldn’t resist having a crack at the Warped Wall, a steeply curving ramp that rises into a vertical wall that competitors must scale. (“It took a few attempts, but I finally got there – I’m pretty determined.”) He wishes he could have taken his boys along to filming, but reckons they’d then have insisted on a course at home in the back yard, “and I’m not very good at building things”.

Soon after Alastair Clarkson arrived at Hawthorn, a few seasons before Crawford finished, the new coach urged him to scale back his media commitments. “But I want to do this when I stop playing football,” Crawford responded. “I want to make shows, to be creative.” He convinced Clarkson the TV apprenticeship was his version of going to university.

“I never set out to be looking back from my rocking chair saying, ‘I hold the world record for the most pairs of underpants worn at one time’.”

“My eyes lit up the first time I saw the course,” he says. “It was just, ‘Wow!’ It must be so intimidating for people who’ve travelled from all over the country, who’ve been practising on hay bales and their own home-built apparatus, then they see this thing that’s lit up. It’s gigantic; it must blow their mind.”

Shooting long into the night with no live audience, he found himself drawn to the ninjas as if they were teammates. “I felt like I was a friend – I was pretty much the only one on site talking to them. I felt like a coach, I felt like a supporter. The ninjas would get up to the starting blocks and they had no one, no crowd. They had me, doing a piece to camera and saying, ‘You can do this’.”

Tweaks to the season-four landscape – including a “state of origin” contest, and bonuses offered to the winner of a nightly “Power Tower” face-off between the two fastest ninjas – spiced up a frenetic format.

Crawford spent 16 years and 305 games on an elite athlete’s treadmill, and retired a Brownlow medallist, premiership player and Hawthorn great.

He has lived sporting professionalism from the inside, yet the strength, agility, flexibility and balance of the ninjas – ordinary folk from all walks

It’s clearly working for him, as versatility – and living Faiman’s advice to be himself – are underpinning a career that has outlasted The Footy Show and continues to build. He’s humbled to be part of a world that fascinated him for so long, not least when he recalls meeting Nicole Kidman and Molly Meldrum as a boy.

A handful of madcap Guinness World Records – including one for having 153 Golden Orb spiders crawl over his near-naked body – attest to Crawford’s “have-a-go” mantra. All part of the show, but not how he wants to be remembered.

“I never set out to be looking back from my rocking chair saying, ‘I hold the world record for the most pairs of underpants worn at one time’.

“What’s important is just being happy. I think that’s the key for everyone these days – just to get yourself in a happy place where you can put a smile on your face and, hopefully, put a smile on someone else’s face too.” ● AUSTRALIAN NINJA WARRIOR \ Sunday at 7pm and Monday and Tuesday at 7.30pm on Nine and 9Now. Nine is the publisher of this masthead.

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hen Mitch Catlin’s marketing and media consultancy work dried up overnight on Black Friday, March 13, he could have sat in front of Netflix feeling sorry for himself.

Instead, the former TV journalist turned to Instagram to keep busy, launching a page to promote Australian businesses.

By the end of week one he had 7000 followers of Buy Aussie Now. “Initially, I did not contact brands, I just asked people to support the small businesses that I knew would be doing it tough,” he says.

The idea, prompted by his 80-year-old mother saying, “people will buy Australian”, struck such a chord that within a fortnight Catlin – a media and marketing whiz who has steered Swisse and Myer – could not cope with demand from businesses wanting promotion on the Instagram account.

“People were crying out for help,” he says. “I realised there was something there. This is an opportunity to make a difference to Australian

Add Aussie to cart A one-stop store for thousands of local brands is set to launch.

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Mitch Catlin, left, of Buy Aussie Now, a marketplace for home-grown products such as NED Whisky, right.

Works continue and there will be transport disruptions in August We’re relocating utility services along Greensborough Road to make way for major construction on North East Link as well as continuing works on the Monash Freeway Upgrade. We’re also removing four level crossings on the Upfield Line.

Public transport disruptions: Buses replace trains and trams Upfield Line

3 August to 8 November

Brunswick and Anstey to Upfield

Road disruptions: Closed roads, lanes and ramps Monash Freeway

In August

Overnight freeway, road and ramp closures

Greensborough Road

In August

Lanes closed overnight between Lower Plenty Road and Erskine Road

Find a detailed list of disruptions at bigbuild.vic.gov.au 8

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retail.” When Catlin discussed the idea with his mate Chris White, now Buy Aussie Now chief executive, they realised there was no one-stop shop for Australian brands. Now, he and White have parlayed that social media account into what’s billed as Australia’s first marketplace for goods made here by locally owned businesses, launching next month.

Within 24 hours of approaching investors, Catlin had raised about $500,000 in start-up funds.

“People were crying out for help. This is an opportunity to make a difference to Australian retail.”

By the end of July about 3500 Australian businesses had signed up to buyaussienow.com.au Those joining must be 100 per cent Australianowned, with all profits staying in Australia.

Manufacturing and production must occur here, but some ingredients can be imported. They range from household names such as Endota Spa, Ugg and smoothie-makers Emma & Tom’s, to boutique jam and chocolate companies.

Listing is free. Businesses upload product details and orders go to them. They pay a transaction fee only after a sale; Indigenous businesses and not-forprofits pay nothing.

Fifteen thousand shoppers have registered with the site.

Wade Porter is chief executive of Made by Cow, which produces cold-pressed milk approved by food authorities as safe to drink without heatpasteurising, so it retains its nutrients.

Launched in 2015, it plans to expand into flavoured milk, cheese, ice-cream and butter.

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It’s transitioning into a mass, premium brand but it’s a tough economic climate, so Buy Aussie Now will help with brand awareness, Porter says.

Catlin’s survey found “some brands were desperate for people to know that they were Australian – for example Endota Spa”. Also, they wanted to align themselves with other Aussie brands – an enthusiasm local buyers share, according to Adam Karafili, executive chairman of NED Whisky.

His company, with Australia’s largest distillery at Campbellfield, produces whisky and RTDs, has vodka in the works and plans for tequila.

When the pandemic hit, it pivoted to make hand sanitiser, giving large quantities to GPs and the Brotherhood of Saint Laurence. Karafili says buyers would rather pay for a local brand than an import.

“To have a marketplace that can help feature Australian-made goods, there will be massive support out there for what Mitch is doing.” ● ● buyaussienow.com.au goes live September 24.

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No one is going to Tuscany any time soon, except in our dreams. Molte grazie, then, to the architect of this glorious hideaway at the Como tip of Toorak. With its loggia, pool and north-facing garden, it catches the spirit of Italian country life while being perfectly Melbournaire.

It certainly feels like a safe haven. Set in 831 square metres behind creeper-clad walls, the two-storey house gives little away; two gables with wide chimneys are all one can see from the street.

Inside, however, all is fresh and inviting. Architects Russell Barrett and Michael Munckton have separately redesigned the interior, bringing the Late Modern house right up to date.

Formal living and dining areas and a family lounge have french doors to the pergola loggia and poolside patio, offering year-round options for executive entertaining.

The kitchen, smart in subway tiles and grey stone, sits behind the dining area yet has a clear sightline to the pool.

Four bedrooms include a spectacular main suite upstairs plus a ground-floor suite ideal for guests.

Two double garages have access via Cloverdale Avenue.

And note this, for post-lockdown travel: There’s just one traffic light between here and the airport.

The architects have retained the best features, such as the living room’s vaulted timber ceiling and huge fireplace, and the scrolled staircase that rises from the lounge.

At the front, a study/bedroom (with fireplace) has its own entrance. The living room – vast, white and airy with a danceworthy oak floor – will suit big parties and banquets.

A chunky timber cutaway leads to the casual zone, with the

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main bedroom, which has a study, a dressing room and a granite twin en suite with a free-standing bath.

Bedroom two is battleaxe but spacious, with a walk-in wardrobe and an en suite.

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and shopping. ●

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the graceful portico to a refined interior

family rooms that look out to the pool

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other half of the house and the main suite

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marble and parquetry finishes. Several

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living areas open to the terrace overlooking

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features an electronic glass wall. There is

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the pool and lush gardens. The kitchen, a

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also a study that could be a fifth bedroom.

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The garage is on the lower ground floor,

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provide a gilded lifestyle and later extended

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are set in Paul Bangay-designed grounds

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studies are located on both floors, which

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facilitates flexible communal living with

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glass sliding doors and features a covered patio overlooking a glass-fenced lap

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pool. Upstairs hosts the accommodation quarters, with a large, central rumpus

This modernist, 1956-built property sits

opening to a private balcony, while the

Set across two floors, this four-bedroom

room overlooking the pool from above.

in a quaint Toorak cul-de-sac on the edge

rooftop terrace affords breathtaking

residence meets both family and

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of the Yarra River. The two-storey, three-

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entertaining requirements. On the ground

it in walking distance to public parks,

bedroom house was designed by Russian-

station is mere footsteps away and

floor, polished concrete floors and timber

community centres, shops, transport

Australian architect Anatol Kagan, whose

Toorak Village is a comfortable walk down

detailing make up the interior space, while

and schools. ●

innovative design places the property

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large windows allow the natural light to

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seep in and flood the open-plan living

enhances natural sunlight and sense of

and dining zone. The Caesarstone kitchen

space. Downstairs, the main bedroom and

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features a butler’s pantry, two ovens,

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en suite overlook the leafy rear courtyard

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fridge, freezer and wine cooler. The outdoor

Price: $2.5 million-$2.75 million

areas, bedroom accommodations and

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entertaining area links to the inside through

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ceiling doors which open out onto a tiled courtyard suitable for summertime wining

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plan, with space for an additional bedroom or a private retreat, and is also fitted with

upper mezzanine, which can be used as

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a spa. The Golden Mile location positions

This free-standing house holds a coveted

a private retreat, teenager’s bedroom or

in this Brighton residence which rises over

residents of this mansion within walking

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storage space. ●

four levels and sits on the edge of Port

distance of the beaches, Royal Brighton

beaches and Albert Park Village and Lake

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Yacht Club and Brighton Baths. ●

all within walking distance. The simple floor

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fenced lap pool, elevator and more. The

means the property has significant styling

basement garage features a cellar, bar and

potential. Two bedrooms are positioned

storage space, while the ground floor hosts

at the front of the residence, which allows

Agent: The Agency, Emily Adams

most of the entertaining zones, including,

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the open-plan living zone at the rear of the

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Price: $3.25 million

first floor features the accommodation

Price: $10 million-$11 million

orientation. The high ceilings in the living

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The enduring appeal of Marcus Martin’s lines, matched by a first class contemporary renovation by Lucy Bock means this spectacular home transcends time in the most memorable way. Expansive spaces for living, dining and entertaining bring everyone together while the presence of an elegant ensuite for each of four beautiful upstairs bedrooms ensures each family member also enjoys a refined retreat. Best of all, everywhere there is beautiful, brilliant light! Such bright proportions bring an unforgettable feel good factor to a home further enhanced by a central kitchen that’s like a magnet for guests and equipped with dual Gaggenau ovens, two dish-washers and a butler’s pantry. A sophisticated study, games room or kids’ lounge, wine cellar, storage and accommodation for three cars complete the consummate family home where luxury is free from limits, where leafiness and light are constants and a sun-drenched terrace surveys a sublime heated swimming pool and gorgeous gardens.

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