MARCH 2012 Issue 65

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MELBOURNE FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL AT DOCKLANDS

TIM MCGRAW & FAITH HILL 2012 MELBOURNE TOUR

MEET DEPUTY LORD MAYOR SUSAN RILEY AT DOCKLANDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL

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14 Events this March A Word from your Local Deputy Lord Mayor, Susan Riley Melb Int. Dragon Boat Festival Yarra’s Edge Development Update Minister Hall Opens ACE Stage 2 Melbourne Food & Wine Festival Tim McGraw & Faith Hill Tour InBusiness Page 3008 Wellbeing Section Aust F1 Grand Prix Karate Kids at Docklands Docklands Map

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On our March cover, Mirvac showcases their latest stunning residential development, ARRAY and on page 10 we include a residential development update on Yarra’s Edge. While on the topic of Yarra’s Edge, be sure to take in the array of events and culinary delights on offer across the Riverside Opening Weekend of the 2012 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival as featured on pages 12 & 13.

In a series of firsts, American country music superstars, Tim McGraw and his multi Grammy Award winning wife Faith Hill, perform for the first time together in Australia, while Faith makes her Australian concert debut. To mark this huge event, 3008Docklands has 4 double passes for our readers to see Tim and

Faith perform together and separately at Rod Laver on March 21st.

Take the opportunity to meet and ask questions of your Deputy Lord Mayor Susan Riley, a long standing advocate for Docklands, Susan will be attending the first networking evening for 2012 at Docklands Chamber of Commerce on March 21st.

And lastly, we have some absolutely fantastic giveaways in this issue, but be especially sure to check out our Inbusiness page on page 16 for your chance to win a sensational Samsung Galaxy Tablet valued at $700!

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EVENTS

Until 17 Mar

Until 22 Mar

Starts 10 Mar CELEBRATING THE GRAND PRIX EXHIBITION

MELBOURNE FLEA OPENS AT DOCKLANDS

BE BRAVE AND SHAVE!

MELBOURNE BIKEFEST

In celebration of the 2012 Australian Grand Prix, an exhibition of classic racing cars drawn

by Mike Harbar will be on display at the Hilton Melbourne South Wharf. English born, artist Mike Harbar is passionate about cars and drawing them. Since moving to Australia in 2000, Mike has continued his work as a freelance car illustrator with over 200 customer’s world-wide, producing commissioned artwork for magazines, car specialists, club events and private enthusiasts. The exhibition is open all day, every day.

This March, brother and sister Niki and Stephen Filipovic’s dream of bringing an open air market to Docklands will become a reality when the Melbourne Flea opens. The open-air market includes a farmer’s market, a flea market of vendors selling pre-loved or unique and quirky items while inside the containers, a mecca of gastronomic stalls with delicious meals from some of the biggest names in food await you from their pop up restaurants every Saturday, rain, hail or shine.

The Leukaemia Foundation is calling on Australians to ‘be brave and shave’ during this year’s World’s Greatest Shave, to help raise $3.2 million for blood cancer research and patient support in Victoria. Each year, around 11,500 Australians are expected to be diagnosed with leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

Money raised funds free services to support the person and their family, including information, transport to and from treatment, and accommodation as well as funding cutting-edge research into better treatments and cures.

Melbourne Bikefest is a celebration of bikes in everyday life, an initiative devoted to taking the ‘sport out of transport’. Held in Melbourne over four weeks, the festival program encompasses fashion, food, performance, markets, talks, rides, art and design.

Bikefest delivers bike themed activities to a collective audience of more than a million people. The mission of Melbourne Bikefest is to promote bike riding as inclusive and delightful through cultural engagement.

See the website for a full listing of events.

When: 15-17 March 2012 Where: Events are listed at www.worldsgreatestshave.com or hold your own How: Sign up today at www.worldsgreatestshave.com or call 1800 500 088

When: Until 17 March Where: Events across Melbourne Program: www.melbournebikefest.com.au

When: Until March 22, 2012 Where: Hilton Melbourne South Wharf Cost: Free Enquiries: 0418 357 814

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15~17 Mar

When: Saturdays starting 10th March Where: 453-507 Docklands Dve, Docklands Times: Farmers: 9am – 2pm / Flea: 9am – 4pm /Container: 9am – 9pm Info: www.peoplesmarket.com.au

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MOTORMANIA AT DOCKLANDS

RICE FOR CAMBODIA DOCKLANDS VICTORIA HARBOUR BANQUET EVENING COMMUNITY GARDEN INFORMATION PLANTING DAY SESSION

The Lincoln Mercury Car Club of Australia will host the 5th Melbourne Motormania event at Waterfront City this March. Rev up with live music and entertainment and a special appearance from Elvis, performing a few of his most loved numbers. Saturday is open to over 150 makes and models on display while Sunday will feature ‘Born in the USA’, an all American day showcasing Lincolns, Mercury, Corvette Buick, Hot Rods and many more, attracting an estimated 220 cars on display.

Enjoy a Khmer banquet evening at Docklands’ Bopha Devi Cambodian restaurant to raise funds for orphans and vulnerable children in Cambodia organised through Rice for Cambodia (RFC), a registered fundraiser in Victoria. The evening will also include a short presentation by the venerable Somnieng Hoeurn, Founder and Director of the Life and Hope Association (LHA), and described as one of Cambodia’s pre eminent spiritual leaders. Be inspired by his vision and the work of RFC & LHA.

The City of Melbourne would like to invite people to participate in the planting of garden beds in the new Docklands community garden. The new Docklands community garden is a joint project by the City of Melbourne and Places Victoria and is located on the corner of Geographe St and Keera Way, Victoria Harbour. Construction of the gardens is well underway and is scheduled for completion in mid March.

Please register your interest in participating.

Residents of Victoria Harbour are invited to an update from Project Director, Claire Johnston who will also share details on the delivery of the proposed new library and community centre set to commence construction this April, to be known as Dock Square. The proposed library and community centre is designed to become a meeting place where the Docklands community can access a range of resources and activities, and actively participate in community life.

Light refreshments provided.

When: 3 & 4 March Where: NewQuay Prom & Waterfront City Piazza, Docklands Cost: FREE Web: www.lincolnmercury.com.au

When: Wednesday 7th March at 7pm Where: Bopha Devi Cambodian Restaurant - 27 Rakaia Way, New Quay Cost: $45 per person Reservations: Rebecca 0438 055 348

When: Sunday 25 March Where: Cnr of Geographe St & Keera Way, Victoria Harbour Register: Contact The Hub 8622 4822 Further Info: www.melbourne.vic.gov.au

When: Wed 7 March – 5:30pm – 8pm Where: Level 1, Green Room – The Gauge, 825 Bourke St, Docklands RSVP: Jemma Glendinning on 9643 0255 Email: jemma.glendinning@lendlease.com

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HAPPY HOUR 4PM - 7PM WED - FRI

DINNER SPECIAL 6PM - 8PM WED & THURS

OPEN TILL 10PM WED - SAT

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NEIGHBOURHOOD

THERE’S PLENTY TO DO AT DOCKLANDS! The City Circle Tram will be wrapped in the beautiful, bright colours of the Docklands logo over the next 3 months.

Destination Docklands, in partnership with Yarra Trams, Harbour Town Shopping Centre, NewQuay Restaurants, Black Light Mini Golf and Medibank Icehouse, hope to entice visitors from the city and beyond with the key message “There’s plenty to do at Docklands”!

The campaign is designed to generate interest in Docklands, educate the public about what

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Docklands has to offer, encourage visitation, explorations, repeat visitation and spending.

All City Circle trams lead to Docklands and stop at Harbour Town Shopping Centre every 6 minutes.

A WORD FROM YOUR LOCAL Thanks to 3008Docklands for giving Melbourne West Police a great opportunity to regularly liaise with the Docklands community via this local magazine.

Whether you are an employer, employee, student or resident, it’s the people who work and live in Docklands that help make Melbourne a world ‘safe city’ leader.

To help Docklands continue as a safe environment, future articles in the magazine will be designed to provide proactive information on local issues of Crime, Public Safety and Road Safety.

In the coming months a new local Police and Council initiative will be launched called ‘Precinct Policing’. This new collaborative approach offers an avenue for feedback and communication by residents with your local police on any non emergency issue.

Melbourne West 637 Flinders Street, Melbourne

Together, community and local police will continue to deliver a safer Docklands for all.

St. Kilda Road 412 St. Kilda Rd, Melbourne

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JOIN DEPUTY LORD MAYOR

SUSAN RILEY

AT THE DCC NETWORKING EVENT When: Tuesday 20 March 2012 Time: 6.30 to 8.30 pm Where: The Harbour Kitchen - Shop 1, 800 Bourke Street, Docklands RSVP: By COB Tuesday 13 March to admin@docklandscc.com.au Finger foods and drinks will be provided Join your fellow Docklands business community at the Chamber of Commerce on March 20th for first BIG networking evening for 2012.

Take the opportunity to meet your Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne Susan Riley as she joins members and visitors at this special networking event to start off the new year.

This is a great opportunity to find out more about the Chamber and Docklands and meet like minded business people in the precinct, make new contacts and exchange business cards.

MELBOURNE CITY ROMP COMES TO DOCKLANDS The Melbourne City Romp will bring its unique style of treasure hunt fun back to the streets of Melbourne on Sunday 25 March, 2012. As the flagship fundraising event of the Burnet Institute, the Melbourne City Romp is part puzzle, part treasure hunt and part ‘Amazing Race’ and is accessible to all. And, for the first time, the 2012 Romp will include various checkpoints across the Docklands! Eight in fact!

Armed with a map, clue sheet and mobile phone, teams of 2-6 will attempt to solve challenges at checkpoints located across Melbourne and the Docklands. Teams face a range of challenges involving trivia, observation, mathematics, geography, history and physical endeavours.

Checkpoints are a secret until Romp day, when teams use a clue sheet and team map to navigate their way to as many checkpoints as they can visit in a four-hour period. What we can reveal

to 3008Docklands readers is that one of the Docklands checkpoints involves a giant farm animal up a tree. Use this hint wisely!

All money raised through fundraising activities goes directly to Burnet’s fight against The ‘Big Three’: HIV, TB and malaria, some of the world’s worst infectious diseases.

So, get your colleagues or family together for a great day out! And, the best part, it’s all for a good cause.

To register visit www.cityromp.com Registrations close March 16, 2012.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD

DOCKLANDS HOSTS 28TH MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL On Sunday 11 March Victoria Harbour will burst into life to the beating of drums, splashing of paddles and the excitement of a traditional Chinese Lion Dance as the 28th Melbourne International Dragon Boat Festival gets under way. This year is particularly auspicious being the “Year of the Dragon” and while the cycle of the Chinese calendar sees the return of such icons every 12 years, it was in 1952, 60 years ago that we last celebrated the “Year of the Water Dragon”.

Since the late ‘80’s Victorian dragon boat teams have travelled the world to compete in an ever expanding sport. Confined to China for over 2000 years, Dragon boating spread from Hong Kong throughout South East Asia to Britain, Canada and then the USA took to this exciting, colourful sport.

Today we find countries as diverse as Iran, Hungary, Turkey, and Sweden and

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Trinidad-Tobago have joined the action.

The Australian Auroras Dragon Boat team, with a strong contingent of Victorians won 1 gold medal and 15 other medals at the hotly contested 2011 World Championships in Tampa Bay, Florida.

Kuala Lumpa, Malaysia hosted the first IDBF Breast Cancer and Cancer Survivors World Cup in 2011 where Victorian paddlers won 2 gold and 2 bronze medals. Yet another team of middle aged ladies lead by DBV Administrator Jenny Mayne OAM won three silver medals in open competition in Busan, South Korea, were acknowledged with an arch of paddles as they came off the water and were featured all over Korea on TV as “The Grandma Express”.

The 2011 Australian Corporate Games featured over 1000 paddlers from companies across town competing in dragon boats at

Docklands. Victoria has recorded an increase of over 30% in paddlers in the last 12 months.

Breast Cancer survivors are legendary the world over in dragon boating and our ladies find a renewed zest for life with this exciting sport. Prostate Cancer survivors are now coming on board only to discover they too can experience the same exhilarating lift to their spirits that prompts the ladies to say, “if I’d never had breast cancer, I wouldn’t be here having all this fun”.

In April, Victoria Harbour Docklands will also host the Australian Dragon Boat Championships over 5 days from April 1 to April 5 and we expect to see up to 3000

athletes from all over Australia competing in this 5 day spectacular event hosted by Dragon Boats Victoria for the Australian Dragon Boat Federation.

You too can be a part of the “fastest growing sport in the world”.

Just check the website www.dragonboatsvictoria.com.au or make the call (0411 706 370) and DBV will be sure to assist you to get fit, lose weight and join us as we paddle the international dragon boat circuit around the globe.

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CONSTRUCTION COMMENCED

AT LANDMARK NEWQUAY DEVELOPMENT Leading Melbourne developer MAB Corporation (MAB) has announced Brookfield Multiplex as the builder for their landmark $365 million apartment building,The Quays which will be one of the tallest developments at NewQuay in Docklands.

Construction has now commenced at The Quays development, which will comprise 617 apartments and feature a podium-based twin tower with a striking glass façade.

Chief Operating Officer David Hall said that MAB is delighted to once again work with Brookfield Multiplex, after recently completing the successful HarbourOne development at NewQuay. “The Quays will set a new benchmark at Docklands,” said Mr Hall. “We look forward to delivering outstanding quality and workmanship with the team at Brookfield Multiplex.”

Brookfield Multiplex Regional Managing Director of Construction & Development Graham Cottam adds “We have developed a solid relationship with MAB and demonstrated our design and construction management skills with the early completion of the previous project,” said Mr Cottam.

The Quays development delivers on position and amazing lifestyle amenities offering a vibrant social hub for residents.

The ground floor will include a Health

Club with a 25 metre swimming pool, spa, sauna, gymnasium and a yoga studio.

On level one, residents will be able to work, relax and entertain in the Residents’ Club with exclusive access to a library, business centre, private dining room and cinema lounge, while the podium will be crowned with an expansive roof top garden adjacent to a tennis court, clubhouse and barbeque facilities.

The Quays was released to market in February 2011 and Mr Hall adds that the response has been very pleasing. “More than 70 percent of apartments have been sold,” he said. “Buyers are attracted to the waterfront location and striking architecture on offer.

The Quays is designed by award winning architects McBride Charles Ryan. Prices for the apartments range from $365,000 for a one bedroom to $1.2 million for a three bedroom, three bathroom apartment with a study and two car spaces.

Completion of The Quays is anticipated in late 2013.

For further information phone 1300 137 590, log onto www.mab.com.au or visit The Quays’ Waterfront Display Suite located at 24 NewQuay Promenade, Docklands.

The Display is open daily from 10am – 7pm.

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MARCH COVER

BE PART OF A THRIVING COMMUNITY LIFESTYLE AT YARRA’S EDGE Artists Impression With three remarkable residential developments on offer you have the opportunity to be part of a thriving community lifestyle at Yarra’s Edge by owning your own piece of Melbourne’s waterfront.

Array – The Waterfront Collection – Coming Soon Following in the footsteps of its renowned residential apartment buildings the Melburnian and T5, Mirvac has announced Expressions of Interest for its newest offering at Yarra’s Edge – Array.

Its most exclusive and prestigious waterfront project to date, Array will offer residences with a new level of customisation, featured in one, two, three and four bedroom designs, luxury twin multi-level penthouses of a calibre never seen on Melbourne’s waterfront, marina berths and unrivalled city views.

Register your interest now at www.arraybymirvac.com River precinct – Free-hold homes on the Yarra’s Edge Touted as Melbourne’s Millionaires Row, Mirvac’s low-rise neighbourhood, River precinct at Yarra’s Edge marks an enviable inner-city waterfront location. Homes in the River precinct offer the unique opportunity to own a free-hold home along north facing bank of Melbourne’s Yarra River.

With the final stages settling mid year, only 4 Terrace Homes remain, featuring 3 levels of luxury living, just metres from the Yarra’s Edge.

For more information visit www.mirvacriver.com.au Yarra Point Apartment Tower – Under Construction - 85% Sold

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Mirvac’s Yarra Point residential tower is currently under construction at Yarra’s Edge.

With 85% of apartments already sold, there’s still a choice of one, two and three bedroom designs available priced from $513,000.

Each residence offers style and comfort with designer interiors capturing natural light and showcasing the views across Point Park to the city to best effect. A select number of three bedroom Sky Residence options are also available priced from $1.41m.

For more information visit www.yarrapoint.com.au

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Visit the River home and Yarra Point Display Suite, 35 South Wharf Drive, Docklands, open 12-5pm daily.

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MINISTER HALL OFFICIALLY OPENS KANGAN INSTITUTE AT THE ACE STAGE II

LEFT TO RIGHT: Phill Murphy (Kangan Institute General Manager – Technical Group), Ray Griffiths (Kangan Institute CEO), Michael Brown (Kangan Institute Board President), Geoff Gwilym (CEO Auto Skills Australia) and Minister Hall.

Minister for Higher Education and Skills, the Hon Peter Hall, officially opened Kangan Institute at the Automotive Centre of Excellence (ACE) Stage II at a ceremony held on February 22nd.

Centrally located on Batmans Hill Drive in Docklands, the ACE Stage II features state-of-the-art facilities such as a worldclass vehicle and engine testing facility and a purpose-built auto electrical lab supplied by Training Systems Australia with the latest simulation and diagnostic equipment. The campus also offers specialised workshop spaces converging industry and learning environments, including a dedicated industry training workshop and distinctive spaces available for event hire and product training.

Ray Griffiths, CEO of Kangan Institute, said that the centre was a unique hub open to all automotive stakeholders, whether they may be students, employers, industry participants or even motoring enthusiasts.

“The ACE was established with a clear aim to focus on the industry’s needs and provide future automotive leaders with innovative and relevant training to strengthen the industry’s overall competitiveness,” he said.

“With the launch of Stage II, I can say with confidence that we’re taking a big step towards further securing our position as the most advanced automotive training provider in the region.”

From light and heavy vehicles to outdoor power equipment, marine mechanics and

motorcycles, Kangan Institute offers a range of nationally-accredited qualifications at the ACE from certificate I to diploma levels and a great selection of short courses.

The automotive department also develops customised training plans to address individual needs, with flexible learning options including on-site training.

Ray adds that the ACE Stage II is poised to drive the future of Australia’s automotive development by promoting a fresher perception of the sector and attracting youth to the industry.

“We’ve already had a great start with this with a new cohort of about 3,500 apprentices starting their training at the ACE this year,” he said.

The ACE offers an award-winning environmental building design aligned with the clean and green future direction of the automotive industry. The complex achieved a VicUrban Award of Excellence and a 5-Star Green Star rating by the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) last year.

LEFT TO RIGHT: Ray Griffiths (Kangan Institute CEO) with Minister Hall.

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MELBOURNE FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL

INDULGE AT THE 20TH MELBOURNE FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL The 20th Melbourne Food and Wine Festival presented by Bank of Melbourne (MFWF) will kick off culinary celebrations with a giant splash with the Festival’s first Riverside Opening Weekend (3 - 4 March) along Melbourne’s Yarra River extending to the Docklands and the launch of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival Greenhouse by Joost, a living, breathing waste-free restaurant and bar.

Another opportunity to taste the best produce from around Victoria during the Riverside Opening Weekend is at Cellar Door & Farm Gate as 58 fabulous wineries bring their cellar doors to the grassy South Wharf Promenade. Joined by craft brewers and artisan producers, spend the day sampling some of Victoria’s famous cheeses, artisan breads, charcuterie, gourmet ice cream and more.

The Riverside Opening Weekend will transform the city’s waterfront into a food and wine lover’s playground with more than 30 events across the weekend to tantalise tastebuds of all ages.

Cross the River to take part in the Urban Picnic at WTC Wharf as it transforms itself into a grand picnic park complete with grass, deck chairs, umbrellas and picnic rugs. Pick up a gourmet lunch box from

COCKTAIL CELEBRATION THROUGH THE DECADES Sip your way through history to celebrate the ritual of the great cocktails of decades past – enjoying some classics with a twist along the way.

Cocktail connoisseurs will sip their way through history and have a greater appreciation of the evolution of the cocktail as well as the spirits themselves.

The Den has an expansive bar which glows by night, stocked with hand-picked rare whiskies, vodkas and other spirits from the finest distillers around the world. Their mixologists’ unique and quirky cocktails are designed to thrill your senses

You can also wander along Southgate promenade and sample seasonal tasting plates from some of Southgate’s top restaurants including The Atlantic, indulge in sweet treats at Sweet Festivities along Crown’s promenade.

As always, a visit to Central Pier will not disappoint, for a special treat don’t miss the Glenmorangie Whisky and Chocolate Matching Experience at Alumbra.

Renowned Melbourne chef, Guy Grossi is joined by Marilisa Allegrini in a very special event at Merchant as part of the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, celebrating the wine and food of the Veneto region of Italy.

We have selected a few varied events in the neighbourhood that might take your fancy!

20th Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2 – 21 March 2012 melbournefoodandwine.com.au

GLENMORANGIE WHISKY & CHOCOLATE MATCHING EXPERIENCE Alumbra, in conjunction with Moet Hennessy, presents the Glenmorangie Whisky and Chocolate Matching Experience – an event that will appeal to lovers of premium whisky and deluxe chocolate alike.

Glenmorangie, a Single Malt Scotch whisky from the Highland region of Scotland, will be complemented by a selection of premium chocolates. The sit-down presentation will be hosted by Glenmorangie Brand Ambassador and a whisky expert from Alumbra and will be followed by an interactive tasting experience.

and you will be immersed in the preparation and enjoyment of cocktails through the ages.

From the famous Mint Julep done The Den way to the Ardbegian Tea Party, this event is truly worth toasting.

The Den is a dark, slinky subterranean playground hidden in the basement of The Atlantic restaurant and celebrates the ritual of the great cocktail.

When: 15 March, 6:00pm - 8:00pm Where: The Den, Basement Bar at The Atlantic, Crown Entertainment Complex, Southbank What: two-hour hands on class and tasting Cost: $60

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one of the nearby restaurants, sit back and enjoy the sunshine and live music.

Glenmorangie will match eight distinctive products in the Glenmorangie range with a specific chocolate to work well with the flavours that come from the whiskies. Glenmorangie whiskies that will be matched; Glenmorangie Original, Glenmorangie Lasanta, Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban, Glenmorangie Nectar D’Or, Glenmorangie Astar, Glenmorangie 18 year old, Glenmorangie Quarter Century and Glenmorangie Signet.

What: Eight whisky tastings with matched chocolates Cost: $45.00

When: 7 March, 7pm - 8:30pm & 9:00pm - 10:30pm Where: Alumbra, Shed 9, Central Pier, Docklands

MARILISA ALLEGRINI & GUY GROSSI AT MERCHANT Veneto’s most famous producer of Valpolicella, Marilisa Allegrini and Guy Grossi join forces and celebrate the land they love with an indulgent 5 course dinner reflecting the gastronomic heart of the Veneto matched with Allegrini wines. Guy and Marilisa will present this Venetian carnival with stories of their food and wine.

Allegrini is one of the Veneto regions leading exponents of wine production and they are responsible for creating a world class range of wines that remain true to the traditions of winemaking, whilst incorporating new techniques to improve quality further.

When: Thursday 8 March 2012 Time: 7pm – 11pm Where: Merchant – Rialto, 495 Collins St, Melbourne Price: $210.00 Bookings: Merchant 03 9614 7688 Full payment is required when booking this event.

Dockland’s stylish Yarra’s Edge precinct will be bursting at the seams with food and wine lovers on 3rd and 4th of March for the start of the 2012 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.

MELBOURNE FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL

MELBOURNE FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL AT YARRA’S EDGE from only $5, with wines carefully chosen to complement each, tantalising even the most discerning palate.

More than 30 events will be on offer on the riverside promenade, which will come to life with Melbourne’s best culinary offerings and live jazz music from eight of Melbourne’s leading schools, spearheading the festivities across the two day celebration.

Free river shuttle boats will operate between 10am and 5pm on both days from seven points, including Federation Wharf, Southgate Floating Land, Crown Riverside, WTC Wharf, South Wharf, Yarra’s Edge and Harbour Town/New Quay Marina. Ticket cost is $5 per day.

The precinct’s many restaurants will offer up local and international inspired sampling plates

For more information visit www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au

Courtesy Melbourne Food & Wine Festival

OCEAN TO PLATE DINNER A seafood journey with celebrated chef Donovan Cooke. Enjoy a behind-the-scenes preview into this great kitchen operation, and marvel at the tastes of the ocean in true ocean-to-plate style.

The Atlantic restaurant is inspired by New York’s famous meat packing district and the hustle and bustle of the fish markets of years gone by, in New York and Chicago.

Hear about the techniques he has perfected over time and delight in the menu – Creatures from the Deep.

When: 8 March, 7:00pm - 11:00pm Where: The Atlantic restaurant, Crown, Southbank What: Seafood degustation with matched wines Cost: $185

On arrival tour the basement kitchens with Donovan. In this custom-made kitchen, built to his exact specifications, he will explain how he hand selects the freshest available fish of the day, right through to its intricate preparation.

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TIM MCGRAW & FAITH HILL

By Lisa Quittner Some say that couples in love almost make music together, in the case of country singing sensation, Tim McGraw and his beautiful and talented wife, Faith Hill, they literally do.

calibre performers, Madonna, Tom Petty and Crosby, Stills & Nash.

For Melbourne fans this is an opportunity you quite simply cannot afford to miss, both Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are amazing musicians and performers as individual artists in their own right, but together they’re

TIM MCGRAW & FAITH HILL This month, Melbourne is in the front row to witness history in the making, as American country music royalty, husband and wife team, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, perform together on their first ever tour outside of the U.S and Faith Hill’s long awaited first ever tour of Australia.

Chugg Entertainment together with Rob Potts Entertainment Edge is to proud to present the Tim McGraw & Faith Hill Australia 2012 Tour, performing for two nights only at Rod Laver Arena on March 20th and the recently announced second concert on March 21st.

“There is so much excitement surrounding this tour, I think because it’s more than just a concert - it’s an event,” says promoter Michael Chugg. “The first time that they’ve toured together here and the first time that Faith Hill has ever performed here – I know that I wouldn’t want to miss it.”

It’s been five years since this music industry power couple last toured together and their Australian tour will mark only the fourth time they have embarked on a tour together, their first time in 2000, then in 2006 and 2007.

Their 2006/2007 tours made history as the highest-grossing country music tour of all time, as well as the highest-grossing tour of that year outright, over taking top

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country music to mainstream, her hits are recurring favourites on Australian radio.

Faith has also performed at America’s Football Super Bowl not once, but twice, The Academy Awards and The Grammy Awards and has also graced the covers of People Magazine, Marie Claire and In Style.

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a bona fide powerhouse and 3008Docklands readers have the opportunity to be part of history when they perform both separately and together at Rod Laver Arena in March.

Between these two incredibly talented artists, they have dominated the music charts since the early 1990s, producing a phenomenal 70 million in combined record sales, 8 Grammy Awards and 46 number 1 singles in the US between them.

Faith Hill has established herself at the forefront of the music industry with a voice that is as powerful as it is recognizable, with over 30 million in record sales worldwide, including thirteen number 1 singles. Faith is the only female artist to have 3 studio albums debut at number 1 on Billboard’s Top Pop Album and Country Charts. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Faith has also won 3 Country Music Association Awards, 12 Academy of Country Music Awards, 4 American Music Awards, and 4 People’s Choice Awards.

Her multi-platinum hits This Kiss and The Way You Love Me confirmed her status as a ‘crossover’ artist from

Tim McGraw has record sales in excess of 40 million and has dominated the charts with an astounding 32 number 1 singles, including, Felt Good On My Lips from his 2010 double CD collection. With 7.8 million spins on the radio, he was the mostplayed artist of the past decade in any genre of music.

While Tim last toured Australia on his Southern Voice tour in 2010, of which his concerts sold out in Brisbane within 15 minutes of ticket release with Melbourne and Sydney closely following suit, his Southern Voice tour was the No. 1 country music tour of 2010 and debuted at Number 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart with the title track hitting Number 1 on Billboard’s Country Songs chart as well.

Tim McGraw has won three Grammy Awards, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association awards, 10 American Music awards, 3 People’s Choice awards and numerous other awards within and outside the United

States. As if that wasn’t enough, he is also an accomplished actor, co-starring with Gwyneth Paltrow, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester in Country Strong (2010) not to mention The Blind Side (2009), which was nominated for an Academy Award, Four Christmases (2008), The Kingdom (2007), Flicka (2006) and Friday Night Lights (2004).

The Tim McGraw & Faith Hill Australia 2012 Tour, will feature their most loved hits including McGraw’s Live Like You Were Dying, Everywhere, Real Good Man and Hill’s Breathe, This Kiss and The Way You Love Me, as well as duets, It’s Your Love, Let’s Make Love and I Need You. 3008Docklands is delighted to be able to offer our readers the opportunity to win premium and gold tickets to this massive musical event. Don’t miss your chance to see two of the past decade’s biggest country stars performing together, and separately, on stage at Rod Laver Arena and the chance to see Faith Hill perform for the very first time on Australian soil.

When: Tuesday 20th of March & Wednesday 21st of March Where: Rod Laver Arena Tickets: Through Ticketek – 132 849 or ticketek.com.au

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IN BUSINESS

Name: George Fattouche.

Title: National Enterprise Service Manager.

Business: Anittel.

Time in Docklands?

3 months.

Why Docklands?

Ease of travel.

Your Business in a Nutshell? Anittel is a professional services organisation dedicated to providing IT and Telecommunications services to Australian businesses. IT, Telecommunications and Internet are rapidly converging fields. While most technology companies specialise in only one area, we have built a team with broad experience across them all. Our customers leverage a national pool of resources, skills and experience, whilst working with local support teams to help manage all aspects of business technology.

A successful business needs? Dedication and persistence.

Whose brain would you like to pick?

Ben Bernanke.

What inspires you: Great team work.

Biggest mistake business owners can make: Hoping for the best rather than going out to achieve success.

Words of advice: Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain.

Most surprising discovery since being located at Docklands? There’s a cow in a tree???

Please explain.

What is your businesses mantra? Pride ourselves on having strong relationships with our client base.

Most important office/business tool? Our valued team members.

What is your key goal for the next 5 years?

Anittel to be leading IT & Telecommunication service provider.

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Asking some very simple questions will help you to have greater clarity. Ask questions, such as “How can I best assist you? Is there anything I need to know that would assist me to achieve the best possible result for you?”

2. Stimulate their wants and desires: Get clear on what they want and relay it back so you have greater clarity. Then offer solutions to their problems and avoid the hard sell.

Let them know if you can or cannot help them - if you can’t, tell them. Yet if you have the solution that matches their wants and desires then you also need to convey this. After all if you have the exact solution they are after, then they would be mad not to do business with you.

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NETWORKING EVENT If you’re up for a FREE night of learning, networking, canapés & drinks then you’ll love these Business Shorts events. Bring your cards and meet other business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals in a relaxed environment. Come along and expand your network!

Future Competitive Landscape for Small Business Date: Thursday 22nd March 2012 Address: Servcorp 710 Collins Street Docklands Time: 5:30pm - 7pm Speaker: Paul Higgins, Emergent Futures Topic: The effects of technology, trust and transparency are altering the competitive landscape that small to medium sized businesses will be operating in over the next 5-10 years. Paul will look at how these drivers of change are affecting relationships with customers, suppliers and competitors and also driving new competition from areas not previously regarded as a source of competition. Paul will then provide a forward strategy for how to deal with these changes.

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SERRATA RECOGNISED AS ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S GREENEST RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS Paul Shaw, Head of Lend Lease’s Apartments business said it was a great achievement that reaffirms our commitment to creating safe, healthy and sustainable communities.

Victoria Harbour in Docklands is building on its green credentials with residential apartment project Serrata awarded one of Australia’s highest green ratings.

The 15-level Serrata building received the rating from the Green Building Council from Australia.

The Lend Lease and Sekisui House project is one of only three in Australia with a four-star green star multi unit residential v1 certified rating.

“Victoria Harbour is a precinct that boasts the highest concentration of green-star rated buildings in Australia.

These include The Gauge office building, rated six stars, and Convesso, Australia’s most sustainable luxury residential tower with a fourstar green star rating. Its twin Concavo is also set to achieve the rating.”

“Serrata confirms the credentials with a number of features that not only contribute positively to the environment, but reduce the operating costs for the purchaser,” said Mr Shaw.

Serrata, known for its bold design and creative urban edge is a joint venture with Japan’s largest home builder, Sekisui House.

Toru Abe, President and Managing Director for Sekisui House Australia Pty Limited said the company believes strongly in the importance of sustainable communities and receiving the green rating was further acknowledgement of their efforts.

Serrata’s key sustainability features include: • Installation of smart meters in all apartments which allow residents to monitor and manage their energy and water consumption in real time and historical figures, leading to the reduction in usage and costs.

• Low-E glazing double glazed windows to reduce the use of heaters and air conditioners. The glazing rejects the heat in summer months and retains warmth in winter months.

• Natural light and ventilation to the corridors which reduce the ongoing operating costs and provide fresh air and natural light to the corridors.

• A rain water tank for garden irrigation and toilet flushing.

• Materials chosen with low volatile organic compounds and low formaldehyde resulting in improved indoor air quality by reducing irritations and increasing comfort.

• A superior acoustic performance that reduces external and inter tenancy noise.

• Bicycle storage for all dwellings as well as a secure visitor bike storage room with access to local cycle paths.

The central location of Serrata allows residents to take advantage of public transport, local amenity and sustainable travel. Residents are in walking distance to Merchant Street shops including a full line supermarket, cafes and restaurants and the Collins Street tram provides direct access to the CBD and Southern Cross Station.

Construction for Serrata commenced in October 2010 and more than 90 per cent of apartments are sold. Work on the project is due to finish in June this year.

Visit www.serrataliving.com.au for further information.

DOCKLANDS IN VIEW AT GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY TALKS IN MELBOURNE Melbourne hosts some of the world’s leading thinkers on sustainability during the C40 Workshop from 27 to 30 March.

Many cities face the common challenges of population growth and climate unpredictability. Coming together to exchange ideas on how best to meet these challenges and adapt to climate change, city officials from many nations are a leading force for global action on climate change.

The C40 Workshop held in Melbourne this month brings together experts to share ideas on how to create sustainable urban communities, exploring how

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cities plan, design, build and maintain sustainable communities. Lord Mayor Robert Doyle said that in an environment of climate change, a carbon tax debate and clean energy ideas, it was not always easy for people to connect with high-level proposals.

‘Five years ago, a handful of the world’s great cities came together to form the Climate Leadership Group, to share best practice around sustainability.

Melbourne was among them. The group has now grown to more than 40 cities and is chaired by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,’ the Lord Mayor said.

This March, the world’s leading sustainability experts meet in Melbourne, travelling from New York, San Francisco, Portland, Sao Paulo, London, Copenhagen, Johannesburg, Yokohama, Karachi, Dhaka, Lagos, Changwon and Sydney. As part of the four-day workshop, officials from these great cities turn their attention to Victoria Harbour in Docklands, working together to find the best way for developers to create a sustainable precinct.

‘The challenge is to create sustainable communities within our city. We need to explore localised energy sources,

harvesting stormwater, creating more green spaces and new ways of waste management,’ the Lord Mayor said.

‘Together, we will build a competitive and sustainable city with a prosperous economy that attracts and retains the best and brightest, propels economic growth even further and retains the qualities of Melbourne that we know and love.’

For more on the C40 Workshop visit melbourne.vic.gov.au and read about the C40 Climate Leadership Group visit http://live.c40cities.org

By Tom Elliott For many of us, the recent strength of the Aussie Dollar (A$) has been an absolute boon.

Internet shoppers, overseas holiday makers and foreign car buyers have all seen their purchasing power increase as the local currency has risen well through parity with the US$.

Given that economics is often referred to as the ‘dismal science’, however, it goes without saying that where there is a group of winners, there must be a corresponding cohort of

losers. In Australia’s case, the obvious losers from the A$’s rise are domestic tourism operators, education providers to offshore students and domestic manufacturers of global goods like cars and aluminium.

Unfortunately for both car and smelter workers in Victoria, the recent news emanating from their sectors has not been good. While the prices of both foreign made vehicles and aluminium have been falling, the relative cost of making these products here has risen to the point where volumes are being cut and employees are losing their jobs. Strong unionisation of both workforces has led to please for more government assistance – but the question which must be asked is do such handouts really make sense for taxpayers?

When the auto industry began here in the late 1940s, government assistance combined with tariffs were ostensibly used to help

the industry make a start in a competitive world. Over 60 years on, however, Australian consumers still seem unmoved by the sometimes dubious charms of locally made vehicles, with 17 out of every 20 cars sold here being manufactured overseas.

Even more so than cars, aluminium is a truly global product that tends to be smelted where bauxite, the necessary raw material, is plentiful (tick for Australia) and electricity is cheap (which used to be the case in Victoria).

Alcoa has only kept its two Victorian smelters running because the state government decided decades ago that subsidising cheap power was an appropriate price to pay for the creation of local jobs.

Over the past few years, however, electricity here has become dramatically more expensive at the same time aluminium prices have sagged on global exchanges. Combine this with a stated commitment to return

the state budget to surplus, and all of a sudden the subsidies needed by Alcoa to keep open the Point Henry smelter near Geelong seem excessive.

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All job losses are sad, as each represents the loss of financial hope for often struggling families. Having said this, across a large and diverse economy like Australia’s people lose their jobs all the time – and the majority find new ones. The rise of China as a economic powerhouse means we’ll always struggle to compete with the manufacture of both basic products like aluminium, and even complex ones like cars. No amount of government subsidies will change this inexorable equation. As a result, I think we must resist the siren-like call to preserve at all costs old assets like the Point Henry smelter.

Tom Elliott is Director of both MM&E Capital Pty Ltd, a Melbourne based hedge fund, and Beulah Capital Pty Ltd, a private wealth manager.

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THE FASTEST WAY TO IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH

By Nicole Hutcheson - Kinesiology Practitioner & Instructor As a Kinesiologist, I am always being asked for advice on ways to improve your health. My number one top tip would have to be- Drink More Water.

One of the most common imbalances I see in my clinic every day is dehydration.

Most of us simply are not drinking enough water.

So how much is enough? The usual recommendation is 8 x 200ml glasses per day, but that is actually the absolute minimum we should be consuming.

For optimal health and body function, you need to be drinking 1 litre, for every 23Kg of body weight.

Our bodies are at least 60% water. It is the main component of all of our bodily fluids including blood, and it is involved in every function of our body.

Put simply- if we don’t drink enough-

our body doesn’t work properly. We can live for about 3 weeks without food, but survive less than a week without water.

One huge benefit of drinking your optimal water intake is weight loss.

Not only because it often replaces high calorie drinks such as soft drink and juice, but it also fills you up so you eat less. Many of us mistake thirst for hunger and end up snacking during the day, when really, we are just thirsty.

Adequate water will also increase your metabolism.

Another benefit of drinking more water is how much it helps with our digestive system, which needs lots of water to work properly. You wouldn’t dream of using the same dinner plate for every meal you eat without washing it in between meals would you. However, when we don’t drink enough water to help break down and digest our food,

that is exactly what we are doing to our insides. Old food starts to build up in our body and it makes it harder and harder to get rid of.

When we are dehydrated we feel tired, fatigued and weak. Staying hydrated keeps your memory sharp, your mood balanced and your motivation flowing.

Try increasing your water intake and see how much your energy levels improve.

And of course, a common cause of headaches is lack of water, which is also used by the body to help flush out toxins and waste products from the body.

By Dr. Rohan Armstrong - Principal Osteopath As you read this, take a note of your posture…

Are you slumped at your desk, spine rounded, shoulders drooping forward? Or are you sitting up straight, tall spine, trunk muscles activated, shoulders relaxed as your elbows rest by your side?

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Whilst holding the posture, they completed a mock job application, listing their strengths and weaknesses relevant to the job. They then rated the degree to which they believed themselves to be a good candidate for the job. The researchers found that posture had a significant effect on these ratings, in that sitting slumped over was associated

If you would like to make an appointment with Nicole, call 9819 6835 or email nicole@chikinesiology.com.au

The easiest way to increase your water intake is to carry a water bottle around with you, or keep one on your desk at work and just keep filling it up. Also make sure you keep track of how much you are drinking. You will find that a little perseverance will quickly turn into a very healthy habit.

CHANGE YOUR POSTURE, CHANGE YOUR MOOD How you are sitting may be influencing how you are feeling, and vice versa. Not just right now, but throughout the whole day. A recent study in the EJSP (Social Psychology) looked at how posture influences self-confidence.

Participants were asked to hold one of two postures; slumped sitting, or sitting up straight.

Nicole Hutcheson is a highly skilled Professional Kinesiology Practitioner and an internationally qualified Instructor. Nicole has been a Docklands resident for 6 years and is a regular 3008 contributor.

with lower work related self-confidence as compared with sitting up straight.

Another study found that posture is more important to a person’s sense of power and confidence that one’s actual title or position.

These are two good examples of how the body can influence your mind, and a good reminder to check in with your body to know how you are feeling. For example; • The muscles in your face can shift your mood. Place a pen between your teeth engages the muscles of smiling which increases happiness & amusement.

• Changing your breathing pattern to a slow, steady deeper breath through your nose,

whilst relaxing your belly, throat and face can also help reduce the effects of stress, cortisol levels, and leave you with a sense of calm and contentment.

• Combine them; sit up straight, take a slow, deep breath in through your nose to fill your belly and smile.

These are all good reasons for taking care of your body and paying attention to your habits of posture, facial expression, muscular tension and breathing.

So the next time you’re feeling stressed or need a boost in confidence, consider changing your body to change your mind. As your mother always told you, sit up straight and smile!

Dr. Rohan Armstrong Principal Osteopath City Osteopathy West Suite 1004, 488 Bourke St Melb Ph: 9663 5450 “ we make people feel better”

HEALTH’S SAKE

One of the biggest challenges when adding exercise into your life is wanting to do it. So why make it harder by doing something you hate.

Choose exercises that you enjoy. Exercise that stimulates positive responses will help you to exercise. Exercise that you don’t like or even hate will drive you further away from exercise.

It is always frustrating to hear people say they hate the gym and then wonder why they don’t go. Not exercising is costly for your health and shelling out for gym memberships is not good for your hip pocket. If you don’t like the gym don’t go to the gym.

There are plenty of exercise opportunities out there from walking clubs to sports teams to canoe clubs to coaches - put yourself in a position to be successful with your exercise. Choose exercise you enjoy and you will keep doing it.

I give my clients one ‘free pass’. They get to choose one exercise that I will never put in their program. This gives them some control over the exercise we do and helps them to stop thinking exercise has to hurt, be boring or even horrible. Life is too short to not enjoy what you do.

Exercise is simply physical activity that increases the heart rate - that includes gardening, cleaning, taking the dog for a run or walk, playing with kids and even walking down the street. You do not have to run a marathon.

Our bodies were not designed or today’s sedentary lifestyle and limited physical activity will eventually affect the quality of your life. Our bodies need to move.

Cameron Walsh is owner of dluxe Health & Fitness, Strength & Conditioning Coach and Personal Trainer. dluxe offers personal training, nutrition coaching, Kickstart 20Twelve and more Contact Cam on (03) 9614 4909, info@dluxe.com.au or visit www.dluxe.com.au

Ask yourself these four simple questions: • Do I enjoy exercise when I am by myself or with others?

• What environment do I enjoy exercising in?

• How do I like to feel after I have exercised?

• What physical activities do I like?

If you have been inactive for more than three months or have an existing medical conditions always check with your doctor before commencing an exercise program.

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3008 - MAKEUP BAG MAKEOVER

BY WENDY SCHMID With all the great products on the market, it’s easy to amass quite a beauty stash. When they’re kept too long, however, cosmetics can go from enhancing your clear complexion to compromising it with funky colours and smells -plus they can spread bacteria.

“Over time, preservatives stop working efficiently and it’s possible for staph, fungus and yeast to contaminate makeup that’s been stored past its prime,” says dermatologist Francesca Fusco. So resolve to keep your get-glam arsenal well-edited and up-to-date this year.

These are the key items to have in your beauty bag, says Global Creative Design Director Pat McGrath of Procter & Gamble: foundation, concealer, powder, bronzer or blusher, eye shadow, eyeliner, “bold” and “safety” lip colours, and mascara. Now use this cheat sheet to figure out when to throw away different beauty products. Begin the countdown when you first open the product.

FOUNDATION: Six months to eighteen months In a hot, humid climate, liquid or cream foundation can break down in as little as six months. “Ditch foundation if there is separation or if the liquid starts to get grainy or extra-thick,” says celebrity makeup artist Sue Devitt. Stored in a cool place (not under the lights of your medicine cabinet), liquid foundation can stay fresh for as long as a year.

Powder-formula foundations will last an additional six months, as long as you wash the sponge applicator weekly.

Tip: Smell your foundation when you buy it.

“If the smell changes at all, throw it away,” advises celebrity makeup artist Joanna Schlip,

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who has worked with Sandra Bullock and Sarah Jessica Parker. “It’s not worth holding on to the product and risking a breakout.”

CONCEALER: Six months to one year Powder and stick concealers last a year, but liquid formulas should be replaced in half that time. Again, watch for shifts in colour, consistency or scent.

PRESSED FACE POWDER: Up to two years Moisture or oil from your face can transfer back to the compact as you perfect your complexion, so prolong the life of face powder by cleaning your brush weekly with shampoo or a mild detergent, or replacing sponge or puff applicators when they become soiled from use. While pressed powders can last as long as two years, they should be discarded if a hard film forms on the surface of the powder before then, says Schlip.

you don’t pick up bacteria from the moist eye area and transfer it back to the shadow pot or compact.

LIQUID EYELINER: Three months to one year If your liner is drying out and you can no longer achieve a flirty cat-eye, you may need to say farewell at the three-month mark. However, liner can safely be used for a full year. “You’ll know it’s still good if it applies smoothly,” Schlip says.

EYE PENCILS: One to two years Luckily, your cache of colourful pencils can stick around a while. Most have a wax base, and bacteria can’t grow on wax, notes Devitt. Tip: Sharpen once a week to keep pencils fresh.

MASCARA: Three to six months

POWDER EYE SHADOW: Up to two years Like face powder, these can be kept for up to two years. Just be sure to practice clean-tool maintenance, says Fusco, so

LIPSTICK: Up to two years Those bold reds and deep berries you save for glamour nights will safely last for up to two years, as lipsticks generally contain wax in their base.

LIP GLOSS: One year Although, with frequent re-application, you’re likely to go through your favourite shades long before then!

Wendy Schmid is a former beauty editor of Vogue. She writes for numerous magazines, including Vogue and Marie Claire.

As soon as the smell is off or the wand is nearly dry when you pull it out, it’s time for the

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By Tahlia Mandie – Psychotherapist & Family Counsellor We all know someone who does too much. Maybe we all do a little too much. Saying ‘No’ is not always easy; in fact, it is often one of the hardest things to say.

I, for one, get joy and exhilaration from helping others, challenging myself and taking on new responsibilities and roles.

Saying ‘No’ sometimes feels like I am letting someone else down, maybe even myself. Is this just me? So, when was the last time you said ‘No’ to someone and turned an opportunity down?

Taking on the world, extra work projects or extra volunteer roles may seem like the very best thing to do, but here is the thing, we all have a burn out button eventually. Taking on too much may in fact not be the best thing at all. It becomes time away from family, partner, children, friends, and what about you and your “me time”?

Without sounding totally insensitive and under valuing the importance of helping and being there for others, being a little selfish sometimes is giving yourself

permission to focus on you and the other important things in your life. Ask yourself, what am I really doing this for? Is it worth sacrificing my other roles and commitments, joys and passions?

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Tahlia is a psychotherapist and family counsellor, writer and blogger helping individuals, couples and families navigate through life’s challenges and move forward.

Check out Tahlia’s work at www.directionexploring.com.au or www.theparentingfiles.com.au

year out of college as they play at adulthood, fumbling their way through “the real world” of love, marriage, academicism and religion.

Jeffrey Eugenides had a tough task ahead of him with The Marriage Plot. After the brilliant success of the chilling, dreamlike The Virgin Suicides and the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic Middlesex, his long-anticipated follow-up was always either going to be received in one of two ways: rapturously praised as yet another work of genius, or dismissed as a complete disappointment.

First there’s Madeleine, the object of the other two’s affections. Dark-haired, beautiful and from a sheltered, well-off family in the suburbs of New Jersey, she is described within the first few pages as “incurably romantic.” She loves the Victorian novel and writes her honours thesis on “the marriage plot” in the works of her favourite authors like Jane Austen and Henry James. In a semiotics class, she meets and falls in love with Leonard, a brilliant and mesmerising science major who is shackled by the violent pulls of manic depression. Then there’s Mitchell, obsessed both with Madeleine and discovering some kind of meaning in religion, whose existential yearnings take him to Kolkata to volunteer (albeit briefly) with Mother Theresa.

The Marriage Plot takes on much simpler, more ordinary subject matter than his previous two novels. Set in the 1980s, the story centres around three Brown graduates- brilliant, well-read and entirely clueless about how to live. Starting on graduation day, the novel slips back a few years to fill in some of the blanks of their overlapping stories, then follows them through their first

The story is a simple love triangle at its heart, but it also plays at pulling apart ideas about love and marriage and all its complications. Eugenides is enquiring whether “the marriage plot” is still a meaningful literary form, when marriage hardly seems a satisfying goal for these characters with such wild, youthful aspirations. The idea of romance is explored in academic

We can’t always please others.

We need to sometimes please ourselves.

So the next time someone asks something extra of you and you already feel like your candle is burning thin and dry, a simple “no, I’m sorry, but I can’t” may go a long way.

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SOMETIMES WE NEED TO SAY “NO”

terms -Madeleine becomes obsessed with Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse, which claims that humans would not experience romantic love unless we had read about it first, and her growing infatuation with Leonard becomes troublingly entangled with her intellectual ideas.

The tragedy of The Marriage Plot is ostensibly Leonard’s struggles with mental illness, but another, quieter sadness permeates the novel - the way Madeleine’s life gradually diminishes behind the screen of Leonard’s needs. Though her character is introduced as the centre of the story, as the novel progresses she becomes almost wholly reactive, responding to the desires and actions of her two suitors. There are little flashes of her independence sparking up, but on the whole she has less of a “journey” than the other two, instead receding and becoming almost irrelevant by the end of the book.

Without the heaviness and difficult topics that Eugenides tackles with such flair in his previous works, it’s very easy to dismiss this book as frivolous, but there are layers beneath the light and easy tone of The Marriage Plot that make this both an enjoyable and thought-provoking novel, and one that has more impact and relevance than you might at first imagine.

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DOCKLANDS KARATE FOR KIDS As a lifelong practitioner of Shito-Ryu Karate, Sensei Rodney Mcleod believes in the mental and physical benefits of doing martial arts. And as a devoted martial artist, Rodney has just opened Melbourne Kids Karate in the Docklands.

Rodney says, “Karate is a great opportunity for kids to get active and have fun. As well as building strength and fitness, Karate is fantastic for developing self esteem. Personally

speaking, It’s had a great positive effect on my life and I practice it every day.”

Having learnt Karate for over 15 years and teaching for over 10 of those years, Rodney has seen many generations of students grow in both skill and character. “Without a doubt, Karate builds confidence and resilience. It’s really an amazing thing to see the effect it can have on a young person.”

Though Karate remains his main style, he is open minded about learning other

forms of martial arts. In fact, Rodney is also a competitor in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and freestyle wrestling.

Andrew Lai the local head instructor of Docklands Brazilian Jiu Jitsu speaks highly of Rodney and his teaching style, “Rodney’s a fantastic instructor - not only does he have great skills, he has a great attitude with the kids and they look up to him. I think Docklands is lucky to have someone so experienced teaching in the area.”

For those who are interested in joining in, Melbourne Kids Karate will be running after school classes every Tuesday and Thursday at the Docklands Hub venue at 17 Waterview Walk, Docklands.

Further information is available at the Melbourne Kids Karate website at www.MelbourneKidsKarate.com.au or phone (03) 9016 8471.

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2012 FORMULA 1 AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX LAUNCH There’s nothing as exciting as a Formula 1™ race. It has the power to stop traffic in Asia, make America sit up and take notice and rouse Europe from its slumber. The 2012 Formula 1™ Australian Grand Prix will be no exception, with the world’s fastest cars, coolest celebrities and latest technology converging on Melbourne for four days of breathtaking action.

With the official launch of 2012 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix held at Docklands last month, local Melbourne model Kate Peck and four-time Bathurst 1000 winner Greg Murphy were unveiled as ambassadors for the big race.

This year will see the V8’s competing over 3 races. Once again the action will be as hot off the track as it is on. The Crusty Demons are bringing their one of a kind show to Melbourne and are sure to excite and delight. Back for 2012 is the Australian

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Defence Force, all eyes will be on the sky when the F/A-18 and Roulettes buzz the crowd.

The Australian Grand Prix attracts a bigger worldwide audience than any other local event and organisers are confident this year’s event is on track to break attendance records.

Did you know?

• The Albert Park circuit in Melbourne is 5.303 km long and the race runs clockwise around the track for 58 laps.

• The drivers have to remove the steering wheel to get inside the car. A latch behind the steering wheel releases it from the column.

• The length of time between the red light and the go signal is a pause of random duration so drivers cannot predict it.

• F1 cars can go from 0 to 160 kph and back to 0 in just 4 seconds.

• Small planes can take off at slower speeds than F1 cars travel on the track.

• A driver can slow his car down from 200 kph to almost a standstill in the space of just 80 metres • Sebastian Vettel, the 2010 drivers champion is the youngest ever drivers champion - aged 23 and 133 days.

2012 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix When: 15-18 March, 2011 Where: Albert Park Tickets & Program: www.grandprix.com.au

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