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The GMT-Master II Designed for airline pilots in 1955 to read the time in two time zones simultaneously, perfect for navigating a connected world in style.

It doesn’t just tell time. It tells history.

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CONTENTS MARQUE | THE AUTO CLASSIC MAGAZINE | AUTUMN 2018 EDITION

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WELCOME TO MARQUE MAGAZINE

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he nights are turning chilly so why not kick back and enjoy reading – and dreaming – about things you'd rather be doing?

How about planning a visit to London, specifically to Wimbledon? The world famous tennis competition is celebrating 150 years in 2018, so while you're in town, why not do a spot of sightseeing too? Award-winning travel writer Mal Rogers has some off-the-beaten-track places you should see in old London town.

Or how about somewhere a little closer to home - the newly christened BunGeo region? It's surprisingly packed full of things to do and see, from amazing scenery to delicious top class foodie haunts, and only a couple of hours from Perth. If you want to splash out on a really special few days away, look no further than our selection of Private Properties holiday homes; they're all drool-worthy (and have fireplaces for cooler nights).

There are plenty of new BMWs in the pipeline for the rest of 2018: Matthew Mills gives the new X2 a spin as well as the MINI John Cooper Works. Auto Classic's deputy customer service manager Andrew Pye shares why he is so passionate about the brand, and Josh Curtis compares Apple Carplay and BMW iDrive.

There are stories about the pioneers of space, choosing the right pair of binoculars and the labour of love that goes into making every shot of tequila something for everyone, in fact.

I hope to see you soon at Auto Classic happy reading.

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The latest mechanical timepieces 16 STAFF SPOTLIGHT

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The X2 Launch

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Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival

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North Pole marathon

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Urbane Projects

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City Calm Down’s new album

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MQ LIFESTYLE BMW accessories.

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150 years of Wimbledon

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BMW PERFORMANCE

BMW i3 leads the way

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Apple Carplay vs BMW Connect

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MINI REVIEW

MINI John Cooper Works

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MQ THIRST

Tequila explained

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BMW LIFESTYLE

Motorrad accessories

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Binoculars in focus

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BMW X2

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The hottest events, the best innovations, travel inspiration and exhibitions

TOP DOG After a successful debut collection in 2017, Melbourne dog outfitters label Sebastian Says has launched a new bohemian range of uniquely crafted macramé leads, merino wool sweaters and collars in rich on-trend colours and high-quality materials for pampered pooches.

Designed in Elwood, Australia, the aptly named A New Bohemian collection has been inspired by natural textures and earthy beach surroundings, with a focus on both functionality and aesthetic.

The label’s highly sought-after macramé leads will now be available in a teal, indigo, toffee and red, that are handcrafted by artisans using 100% cotton. The uniquely designed square and twist knot detailing an elevated design feature and at the same time reinforce the strength of the lead, ensuring they will stand the test of time.

Vegetable-tanned leather collars with solid brass hardware continue to feature in the collection. They have been designed to age beautifully, and highlight the natural characteristics of the hide resulting in a distressed look. Custom monograming on Sebastian Says leather collars is available exclusively online, and customers can

interactively personalise their dog’s names onto their collars.

Sebastian Says founder Suz Strampic, was inspired by the love of her puppy, Sebastian, and the role he plays in her life to design the A New Bohemian collection, explaining, “The new collection offers deep and tonal colours of rich red, teal and navy, that can easily be matched to neutral toffee

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“My partner and I enjoy a little road trip to the outskirts of Melbourne. The natural earthy beach surroundings of Australia is what inspires me, Sebastian plays a big part in our life. And so, this collection represents us.”

All Sebastian Says Products are available online at sebastiansays.com.au and via its stockists across Australia.

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SPANISH PASSION Proud, fiery and defiant, Carmen is a femme fatale who lives by her own rules. She draws Don Jose into her wild world and he falls under her spell, leaving his sweetheart, Michaela, and his honour behind. When Escamillo, the strutting bullfighter, arrives, jealousy pushes Don Jose to the brink.

Passion burns brightly in this fiery tale. Bizet’s greatest opera is filled with glorious music and heart-racing drama. Lindy Hume’s much-loved production will draw you into the story of power, strength, courage and love.

Carmen, His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth, July 21, 24, 26 and 28. Visit waopera.asn.au THURSDAY’S THE NEW FRIDAY Following the success of 2017’s Let’s Thursday Like We Friday, 52 venues have come together again to bring back those weekend vibes and party antics from early April.

The venue-led initiative will see 52 bars and eateries join forces to create a city-wide party across four precincts (West CBD, Central CBD, East CBD and Northbridge) with, entertainment, food offerings, experiences, drinks specials and more.

Every Thursday from now until May 31, Perth’s most popular venues will create special offers on food and beverages, offer new deals or bring in free entertainment to encourage CBD workers to remain in the city for a Thursday night party.

Hospitality guru Andy Freeman is delighted to see the return of the campaign with the support of the City of Perth.

“It’s great to see this initiative back, our city has an amazing offering comparable to the likes of Melbourne and Sydney and campaigns like this get people out as the colder weather arrives.” >>

NEW ARRIVALS, RISING STARS

2018 is the year of launches - here’s what we know so far The highly anticipated all-new X4 is arriving soon at Auto Classic

new driving assistant • All technologies featuring semiautonomous driving.

M-Performance version • New ‘the M40i’ with 265kW and 500Nm

redesigned • Completely interior with new trim and upholstery options

exterior colours; • New Phytonic Blue, Sparkling

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Storm, Flamenco Red and Sunstone metallic Up to 21” Wheels

M5: All new M xDrive All Wheel Drive System ensuring all 441kW of power gets to the ground.

441kW and 750Nm from a 8-cylinder twin turbo engine.

• The latest driving assistant technologies with semi-autonomous driving.

• in only 3.4 seconds.

• 0-100kmph 8-speed M Steptronic with Drivelogic and gear shift paddles.

• Recently awarded Worldtransmission Performance Car of 2018 •

I8 Roadster

0-100 – 4.6 seconds using an electric motor at the front wheels •and a 3 cylinder 1.5l petrol motor at the rear.

performance while still maintaining a combined fuel consumption • Amazing of 2.1l/100km

• New ‘E-Copper’ and ‘Donington Grey’ metallic paint finishes with new exclusive 20-inch wheels – 1kg lighter than the lightest • Fitted rim previously available.

Plug in hybrid system providing up to 53km of pure electric driving.

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<< Adam Kapinkoff’s ARK Group, which has recently opened Market Grounds, connected Northbridge and the CBD for the first time in over 100 years.

“Access to venues across Northbridge and the CBD has never been easier.

Everything is just a short stroll away and since the last campaign there has been a stack of new venues opening so people will be able to visit their favourites and discover some new gems.”

Each venue has a different Thursday night offering, ranging anywhere from Bloody Mary & Bao to 50cent wings to BINGAY! – bingo with drag queens and much more.

See the full list at visitperthcity.com/letsthursday

POP INTO A POP UP Auto Classic MINI Garage – Karrinyup “MINI Boutique”

VISIT KARRINYUP SHOPPING Centre before the end of April to discover the perfect autumn fashion accessory, MINI. Auto Classic BMW Motorrad have also made some recent appearances in Perth shopping malls Claremont Quarter and Garden City Booragoon.

“The external displays have been a fantastic opportunity to engage with the local community and educate the general public about not only BMW Motorcycles but also our regular information evenings and courses, says Jonas Goulden, Auto Classic Motorcycle Manager.

“We have even helped customers take the first steps towards applying for their motorcycle licence, the G310R is designed specifically for learner riders and with a start

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price under $7,000 this has been of been of great interest to our shopping centre clientele.”

Karrinyup Shopping Centre, MINI Boutique until April 30.

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT FOR ALL THE FAMILY Children will recount their experiences of living in Baroque times as Perth Chamber Orchestra (PCO) presents their most acclaimed concert to date, Baroque by Candlelight, as part of the Armadale Arts Festival at St. Matthew’s Church on May 12.

Following a sell-out perform in August 2017 at St George’s Cathedral, this concert

transports patrons back in time, offering an unforgettable evening.

Enhancing your musical experience with a glass of wine and sweet in hand, this is just the entrée for a feast of baroque music set to warm the heart in the candlelit church.

Intended to offer a unique musical, spiritual and historical experience, the concert will be under the artistic direction of Jessica Gethin, the leadership of virtuoso violinist Paul Wright, with soprano Prudence Saunders, and solos from Jenny Coleman (trumpet) and nineyear-old Joshua Crestwell on the banjo.

“The audience will be in for a special treat as local children will take to the stage to re-enact

CARMEN 7.30pm | 21, 24, 26, 28 July His Majesty’s Theatre Tickets on sale www.waopera.asn.au

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and recount what it was like to be living in those times,” said Bourby Webster, founder, director and visionary behind these conceptual concerts. “I want the audience to experience the music from a different perspective,” she said.

“For example, Vivaldi mainly wrote for a female orphanage run by nuns. It is believed that the orphans’ mothers included women from the Venetian opera chorus, and their fathers wealthy concert-goers!.

"Many of those baby girls turned out to be very gifted musicians when they grew up!” she said.

“I guarantee the whole evening will be illuminating in more ways than one,” she said.

The concert is presented by Seasons Funeral Homes, with support from the City of Armadale. Special mention to concert patron John Christmass OAM. MQ Baroque by Candlelight, St Matthew’s Church, Jull Street, Armadale, May 12, 4pm and 7pm. Visit perthsymphony.com for tickets.

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eneva’s annual Salon de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH to most) did

more than dazzle this year. A revamped show, plus a firm 21st-century marketing focus meant record attendances and a new wave of optimism for the luxury watch sector.

A tremendous range of timepieces were unveiled, ranging from delicate, artinspired women’s watches to radical sports watches and revamped classics.

The Swiss watch industry may have been going through some tough times, but SIHH 2018 proved it is still alive and ticking despite the challenges of the digital age.

CARTIER SANTOS LARGE SIZE When you’ve got a history going back to 1904, there’s a lot to live up to and that’s the case with the Cartier Santos, a legendary timepiece first designed for aviator Santos Dumont at the dawn of manned flight. He needed an accurate timepiece (and not a fob watch - flying was tricky enough without having to fumble around in your pocket). Thus Cartier pretty much invented the first aviation watch and was a pioneer in the wristwatch. Cartier has revamped the Santos line-up but, naturally, has kept the hallmark “square” Santos shape.

The Roman numeral display on the white dial is simply all class, while a Cartier automatic movement ticks away like a dream inside the stainless steel case. At 47.5mm x 39.8mm, this is a big watch, hence the “Large Size” monicker. Price $TBA Visit watchswiss.com or call 1300 808 135

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A.LANGE & SOHNE SAXONIA OUTSIZE DATE PINK GOLD Less is more, at least on the surface, of this classically good looking dress watch from the masters at Glashutte in Germany, A. Lange & Sohne. Housed in a pink gold case, a new calibre, in-house automatic movement runs the show with, well, German precision, but it’s under the hood that a lot of the hand-finished, exquisitely engineered, magic takes place. The outsize date in question is displayed at 12 o’clock on the jet-black galvanised solid silver dial. With a maximum power reserve of 72 hours, absolute accuracy is guaranteed.

The perfect business watch, the Outsize Date sits on the wrist at a modest 38.5mm. Price $34,800.

Visit watchswiss.com or call 1300 808 135

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JAEGER-LECOULTRE POLARIS CHRONOGRAPH WT IN TITANIUM Whether you’re actually travelling the world or just like to get a handle on what’s happening elsewhere from your armchair, this beautiful timepiece from Jaeger-LeCoultre is right on the money. A nice, readable, 44mm on the wrist, the Polaris Chronograph WT (World Timer) features a light and ultrastrong titanium case and automatic J-LC movement with a 65-hour power reserve. The cool feature is the rotating city disc (controlled by a third crown at 10 o’clock) so you can set the time of a selected city and then easily read off at a glance the corresponding time in 23 other cities. The Chronograph WT is one of a number of new releases in the Polaris family, a modern updating of the brand’s classic 1968 Memovox Polaris. Price, $15,950.

Visit watchswiss.com or call 1300 808 135

IWC 150TH IWC TRIBUTE TO PALLWEBER This unusual, but very distinctive, wristwatch from Switzerland’s IWC acknowledges the ground-breaking Pallweber pocket watch (named after Austrian watchmaker and inventor Josef Pallweber) of the 1880s.

The Pallweber watch had an ingenious digital readout with “jumping” hours and minutes displayed via two rotating discs.

This wristwatch (just 500 available worldwide) does likewise via some very clever engineering within the manually wound movement. At 45mm this is a collector’s piece that’s nice and bold on the wrist and beautifully presented, the blue lacquered dial providing a striking contrast to the white display discs.

Price, $33,000.

Visit watchswiss.com or call 1300 808 135

VACHERON CONSTANTIN FIFTYSIX DAY-DATE STAINLESS STEEL You can party like it’s 1956 with this retro-modern dress watch from the venerable Vacheron Constantin; retro because this model and others others in the collection (the FIFTYSIX Self-Winding and FIFTYSIX Complete Calendar) are inspired by a model first released in 1956. The two-tone dials, with the encircling chapter ring and alternative Arabic numerals and hour baton markers certainly hark back to designs of decades past, but, of course, the movement underneath is a state-of-the art Vacheron engine. At 40mm and 11.6mm thick, the Day-Date (stainless steel or pink gold case) won’t overpower on the wrist and it’s offset nicely with a classy brown or black alligator strap.

Price, $24,900.

Visit watchswiss.com or call 1300 808 135

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MY AUTO CLASSIC

TRUE BELIEVER Andrew Pye has BMW blood running through his veins which is why he’s Auto Classic’s Assistant Service Manager.

MQ Tell us about yourself – how long have you worked at Auto Classic?

ANDREW PYE After leaving the Motherland (UK) in May 2009, I continued my love affair with BMW at Auto Classic BMW. Believe it or not, I started my career in a different industry but it soon became apparent to myself that I enjoyed and excelled in motivating and helping the human race and making a difference. So just before the millennium I took a challenge to enter the motor industry and started with BMW. I soon started to find my direction in my own special unique way. I quickly moved up the departmental ladder in the service department and realised MARQUE AUTUMN 2018

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PEOPLE PERSON Andrew Pye, above, BMW Auto Classic's assistant service manager. Below, The Alexander Calder E9 3.0 CSL, 1975.

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that I had found my place in life with a company that suited my diverse and unique style. My BMW career took a short but cultured break in 2015, briefly moving to a different

brand. However once BMW blood runs through your veins no blood transfusion will remove it all. Just ask any long-serving BMW employee or BMW owner.

Once here in Perth, on hearing the management structure had changed at Auto Classic, the fire and excitement started to return. I was offered the opportunity to return and continue my love affair. With a more extended variety of skill sets I’ve been trying to hit the ground running which has been hard at my age but my mind and desire to succeed is now stronger than ever.

I’m here to share my passion and knowledge with the service team so we can give the customer an experience that exceeds their expectations.

MQ What do you particularly enjoy about the job?

AP The vibe - at Auto Classic the vibe will never change because the employees and management create it: they are passionate about BMW and the customer’s experience.

MQ What makes a good customer

“CREATIVITY AND PROVIDING OUTSTANDING CUSTOMER SERVICE ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO ME."

AP It has to be one from the BMW Art car collection – The Alexander Calder E9 3.0 CSL, 1975.

MQ What are the biggest challenges you face in your role?

AP Maintaining a beautiful customerfocused culture within the service department which reflects and enhances the sales department.

MQ What do you hope to achieve in 2018?

AP Hope isn’t a word I would use; we will achieve a perfectly balanced culture and welcome the reward of being the number one BMW dealership in Australia.

Visit Andrew at BMW Auto Classic in Victoria Park.

service person do you think?

AP A good customer service employee has to be able to understand people – they should be a listener, a proactive person and passionate about the brand they represent.

MQ What do you love about the cars that Auto Classic sells?

AP It’s just a BMW thing. It’s a love affair with a beautifully designed and engineered vehicle. You just need to drive one to know what I’m talking about.

MQ What gives you the biggest buzz about your job?

AP Meeting and greeting Auto Classic customers and seeing them leave after a service visit with a spring in their step.

MQ If you could choose any MINI or BMW, which one would you choose?

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If your beloved BMW has been in an accident, chances are you’ll have been put in the safe hands of Peter Wilkinson & Co, the only company many owners trust with their treasured vehicles. Mike Wilkinson tells MQ what makes his highly skilled job so rewarding.

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started in the industry in 1976 as an apprentice panel beater and have been with Peter Wilkinson & Co since 1980. I started as a panel beater tradesman and then went into the office as a store person, assistant manager and then manager until 1989 when I took over the business from my parents (Peter and Win).

There are a lot of really good people in our industry, most of whom don’t get the credit they deserve. Working on these high-tech vehicles is not always easy and the skills required to return them back to their pre-accident condition are very, very special and not something everyone can achieve.

That’s what I enjoy most about what we do. A motor vehicle gets delivered to us with an owner who is upset with the fact that their pride and joy is damaged and we get to return the vehicle back to its pristine pre-accident condition. There are not too many people who really know what goes on when it comes to repairing these vehicles but many are amazed at how good the end result is.

That’s what I really enjoy.

Customer service is about surpassing your clients' expectations wherever possible. Understanding that the relationship is starting off on the wrong foot because people don’t really want to be dealing with you is important. They have just had their beautiful BMW damaged and they are probably not too happy about that. Having some empathy for their position is important. The other crucial factor is that we are all very busy today and doing without your vehicle is more

difficult to manage today than ever before. We are in the mobility business, so acting swiftly and efficiently is an important factor when it comes to service.

The BMW motor vehicle is seen as a premium product, finished to a very high level and technology like no other. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I like about working on the BMW vehicles. There is very little margin for error. It is either right or it is wrong. When you are trying to repair vehicles to a very high standard, it is much easier to work on vehicles that have small margins than it is a vehicle with wide ranging margins for error. The precise fitting of panels and equipment and the high level paint finishes are what sets BMW apart from many other makes and is what the attraction is for me.

Probably the biggest challenge I face in doing what I do is managing the relationship between the clients' expectations and the insurance company's preparedness to pay. Quality costs a little more and sometimes it is difficult to convince an insurer why we need to spend the extra time to ensure things are right. There are a number of insurers who have entered into contracts with body repairers with the expectation that the cost of repair will be controlled. This does not always allow the repairer to complete the repair as it should be done. It is important that the client has an insurance policy which offers them choice of repairer.

We spend substantial amounts of time and money investing in the BMW brand with training, tooling and

information systems so that we are fully up to date with the latest repair technology and skills. It is absolutely critical that these modern day, prestige vehicles are repaired to manufacturers' specifications and only the approved BMW repairers can guarantee that.

The market over the last year or two has been very difficult and we have struggled to get enough work to our door. That appears to be changing slowly and I feel quite encouraged for the future. There feels like there is a little more confidence around and in general, people are more upbeat about

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the economy in Western Australia. We want to expand our offer in 2018 so that we become more than the repairer you deal with following an accident. We want to be the people you call when you want anything cosmetic done to your vehicle, so that between Auto Classic and Peter Wilkinson & Co , all your needs are met when it comes to maintaining your prestige BMW vehicle.

I would like to think Peter Wilkinson & Co becomes the repairer of choice for all the BMW owners in Perth.

We strive to achieve the very best quality of repair with the minimum of inconvenience to our clients. While we are considered by many to be the premium body repairer in WA, we are continually looking to improve our service levels.

There are many BMW vehicles I would like to have but if I was to choose one, it would be the X6M. Being an M series vehicle it has all the technology and refinements you could want. The sound of the M series tuned V8 also gets the heart racing. MQ Visit peterwilkinson.com.au

X2 LAUNCH

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Gary & Stephanie Pyne

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WELCOME TO X-TRAORDINARY The Auto Classic “service laneway” was transformed into a festooned street festival complete with food trucks, live entertainment and pop-up bar for a very special launch event, all in honour of the brand new BMW X2.

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ith catering by a selection of Perth’s best food trucks, guests were treated to live entertainment from musician Ari Davis and MC Tim Gossage. Resident BMW Genius Joshua Curtis talked through the X2’s incredible features, leaving many keen to arrange test drives of the latest addition to the BMW X family. The X2 is the first of many major launches for BMW in 2018 including the new M5, X4, X5 and i8 Roadster.

Touted by BMW as the “Rebel of the X-Range”, the first ever BMW X2 is unmistakable, unrestrained, and unprecedented; it’s a Sports Activity Coupé with the latest tech and the boldest style.

To arrange a test drive, visit autoclassic. com.au

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REST, RELAX, RECONNECT Romantic, secluded, self contained chalets with candlelit sky-view spas, kingsize double beds and tranquil forest outlooks, on 240 acres of natural beauty.

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Sam & Mat St Giuillaume Rosemary & Alan Gooch

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231 Yelverton Road, Yelverton Margaret River Wine Region Phone (08) 9755 7110 or email reception@forestrise.com.au

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This year sees the 10th annual Readers and Writers Festival find a beautiful new venue at Voyager Estate in Margaret River. By CASSANDRA CHARLICK.

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t seems unlikely, but for the past few years a little corner of the south west has played host to some of the world’s biggest literary figures. And this year is no different.

With a jam-packed listing of events over the June long weekend there is bound to be something for all tastes, from Pulitzer prize-winners through to Australian living legends.

More than 50 authors and presenters will descend upon the grounds of Voyager Estate (a new venue as the Margaret River Arts space undergoes building work) for a weekend celebrating the power of the written word.

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LEADING LIGHTS This year's Readers and Writers Festival has attracted literary stars from all over the world, including Josephine Wilson (opposite), Rosie Batty, left, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki (below) and Geraldine Brooks, below left.

The grounds of one of the region’s most beautiful wineries will become a hive of activity where the celebrations will include author talks, panel discussions, Q&A sessions, book signings, free lunchtime talks and free activities for children at the weekend in the festival’s storytelling tent.

Festival director Kerry Yabsley is encouraging festivalgoers to get their tickets well in advance this year with such an outstanding selection of authors and presenters visiting. “We truly have an incredibly strong and diverse line-up of writers coming to Margaret River for this year’s festival,” she says.

Renowned Australian-born Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks tops the list of headliners announced so far. Literary fans have good reason to be excited. Brooks has written three works of non-fiction and five novels, including the 2006 Pulitzer Prizewinning March and the ABIA book of the Year, People of the Book. She delivered the 2011 Boyer Lectures and,

in 2016, was named an Officer of the Order of Australia.

The festival’s line-up of literary talent also includes one of Australia’s most respected journalists and television presenters, Tony Jones.

Jones has over 30 years of awardwinning journalism experience covering radio and television, as a reporter, foreign correspondent, executive producer and television host. Viewers of Australian television might recognise him from previously hosting Lateline and reporting for Four Corners, both on the ABC, as well as Dateline on SBS. He is currently the host of ABC’s Q&A. Fans of fiction may like to catch award-winning author AS

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Patric, whose novel Black Rock White City won the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award, or perhaps see best-selling crime author Michael Robotham in action.

Australian popular author of thirteen novels and four works of non-fiction Nikki Gemmell will also be gracing the line-up.

Australian talent abounds for this year’s festival. Discussing her profoundly moving and inspiring memoir A Mother’s Story is Rosie Batty, the CEO and founder of the Luke Batty Foundation. An outspoken and dynamic crusader against domestic violence, she was named Australian of the Year in January 2015.

One of Australia’s 100 National Living Treasures, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki will be familiar to adults and children after years of life in the public eye answering all manner of questions about how life works. He will be talking science in what is bound to be one of the highlights of the program.

Margaret River will also play host to a plethora of home-grown Western Australian talent in the literary sphere, this year including the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary award-winning novelist Josephine Wilson. Nicole Sinclair will also come to the party, a writer whose first novel Bloodlines was shortlisted for the 2014 TAG Hungerford Award along with award-winning photojournalist Martine Perret who recently released her latest photography book.

“The festival is shaping up to be a great celebration of literature and yet another reason for people to visit Australia’s south west.

Margaret River in winter, with books, wine, local produce, top accommodation and Geraldine Brooks – it doesn’t get much better than that,” says Kerry. MQ Tickets to the 2018 Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival running from June 1 to 3 from mrrwfestival. com, by phone 08 9758 7316.

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By GABI MILLS BUNBURY IS UNDERGOING an energetic renaissance. Surrounded by beautiful waterways, the city’s rhythm is laid-back yet at the same time it’s edgy with a banging arts scene, massive event calendar, and an ever-growing collection of independent boutiques, small bars, and cafes with an obsession with providence and seasonal produce.

Only minutes away are the green pastures, vineyards, undulating hills, fertile valleys and quaint towns of the Geographe region. Lose yourself within Bunbury Geographe and tick their signature sights and experiences off your bucketlist.

Raise a glass - or two Sip your way through BunGeo in the Geographe and Blackwood wine regions where you can meet the makers first hand, plus an ever-growing brewery, cideries, and distillery scene. Most wineries come with sensational views but Green Door in the Ferguson Valley would have to offer some of the bes.! Don’t drive if you can help it - join a tour.

Wild nature Swimming with wild dolphins in Koombana Bay is a never-forget experience. There is something so very special about these beautiful animals but if you’re not keen on getting wet, take a Dolphin Eco Cruise.

For more amazing nature experiences in BunGeo go in search of the elusive numbat at Perups’ Nature’s Guesthouse, meet pup dingoes at Bunbury Wildlife Park or take a selfie with ultra-friendly wild kangaroos at Wellington Forrest Food, Wine & Cottages.

On your bike BunGeo is home to more than 20 mountain bike tracks plus the Munda Biddi trail, providing options for beginners and those who are up for a challenge. For a truly exhilarating day, organise a group of you and head to WA’s premier private bike enduro park, Linga Longa near Balingup. With a shuttle service to ferry you constantly to the top of the mountain, you spend more time having fun and less time climbing. Or try Cycletrek near Donnybrook, which offers one of the only hand-cycle courses in Australia

Culture club Discover the south west's cultural hub and explore Bunbury’s street and public art, the largest collection in regional Australia.

Get your copy of ReDiscover and Outside the Box Street Art Map and find inspirational urban art and whimsical characters painted by leading WA artists on 20 electrical boxes scattered through the CBD. Bunbury is also home to one of Australia’s best entertainment centre – BREC; BRAG, the largest WA regional art gallery, Australia’s biggest music festival, and performing arts organisations including the South West Opera Company and Philharmonic South West.

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Hot spot for nature nerds Four national parks, one Conservation park, inumerable State sorests, the south west’s largest river systems and another five significant rivers, 13kms of estuary, 20 dams/lakes/swimming holes, one mountain, Australia’s largest jarrah tree, the south west’s longest beach, rare 130-million-year-old basalt rock, and the last remaining stretch of tuart forest.There are so many awesome adventure/nature experiences to be had in the region.

To get away from it all, hire a canoe in Boyup Brook and float down the Blackwood River.

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From small roadside stalls to some of Australia’s best food producers and chefs with a passion for providence and local produce, BunGeo is literally bursting with fabulous, homegrown food. Autumn is harvest season and the perfect time to explore farm gates, and farmers’ markets. Meet farmers, orchardists, shops and restaurateurs who are dedicated to growing, producing and serving the very best that the region has to offer. Pack a picnic rug, bring a few glasses and spend some time exploring the glorious produce and wine-rich countryside.

Mountain high BunGeo is a spectacularly diverse landscape and the most undulating region in WA; from coastal plains climb the Darling Scarp to Mount Lennard to take in stunning vistas or head further inland through valleys and hills that take on a misty awe. Balingup is our top pick for amazing misty wintery mornings best enjoyed with a mug of hot chocolate by a log fire. Book a stay at award-winning Balingup Heights to really enjoy this special spot.

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Plenty to do BunGeo locals are mad about sport, festivals and the arts, with plenty to keep you entertained every weekend. See Australia’s fastest runners at the Bunbury Geographe Gift, hit the deck at Volley Ball

by The Bay and the Australian Junior Volleyball Championships, immerse your kids into a world of fairytales at Balingup’s Telling Tales, or get Groovin' the Moo at Australia’s largest touring music festival, Find creative inspiration at the Dardanup Art Spectacular, laugh away at the BREC Melbourne International Comedy Festival, cycle the mountain at the Tom Lowry Memorial Road Race Elements Series, or devour great cinema at CinefestOz.

Hashtag loving life Fill up your Instagram feed with brag-worthy images. Snap the sparkling blue waters of Black Diamond Lake or the serene water of Honeymoon Pool in the Collie River Valley.

Wander through Balingup’s Golden Valley Tree Park; Western Australia’s largest arboretum, which was recently named one of the top five locations in Australia to see autumn colour. Take a selfie standing on rare 130-million-year-old Basalt Rock at Wyalup Rocky Point in Bunbury as the waves plummet over these ancient rock formations. Sunset time is the best, when the light creeps down over the evening landscape, providing a dramatic backdrop. By the way, if you end up hitting up any of these spots below, make sure you tag #BunGeo to be featured on @visitbunburygeographe.

Eat, drink and shop your way down Victoria Street Venture down one of Bunbury’s most-loved streets. It’s known for cute, independent shops, restaurants, small bars and great street-side people-watching. For dinner, Market Eating House is a perennial, local favourite and a West Australian Good Food Guide 2017 Top 25 Casual Dining Restaurant.

Foodies should also venture to the Marlston Hill Waterfront or East Bunbury near the Parade Hotel.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT visitbunburygeographe.com.au or pick up a copy of Found Magazine to find out more about this region.

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H O L I DAY H O M E S

Extraordinary properties for an unforgettable holiday Set aside the commute, the errands, the background hum of striving that marks your days in the city.

There’s another way to be. Rediscover it on holiday with Private Properties. Our exceptional holiday homes are handpicked to melt away the nonsense, and leave you with the pressing decisions like which beach to visit, and whether to pop into that favourite winery for lunch.

Sometimes you need a getaway to arrive at what matters.

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ADVENTURE

>> COOL RUNNINGS

The North Pole Marathon is the world’s northern-most race of its kind; a gut-busting battle of mind-over-body in the most extreme of conditions. But Australia’s Marcus Fillinger won’t have tackled the 42.195km ice event for personal glory. He’s using the run to raise awareness for his animal rescue charity, Alphadog AnimalArmy Inc, and its mission to stop mass culling to control Australia’s wildlife populations.

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arathon runners don’t normally pack a pistol to ward off polar bear attacks.

Or have to prepare for race temperatures that can plummet to -61C. Or be faced with a slippery, shifting surface (it’s actually 2m-thick ice that is floating on the Arctic Ocean) that can bring undone even the most sure-footed of runners.

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photographer-animal activist Marcus Fillinger no ordinary runner.

“High achiever” is a description that doesn’t quite cut it when it comes to Marcus; he’s a professional photographer (with a Royal Australian Air Force background), has had 20 years’ experience as a polar guide, is a military marksman and an expert in tranquilliser firearms. In 2003 he undertook the first solo dive under the Geographical North Pole.

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The North Pole Marathon is no ordinary marathon and Canberra-based adventurer-professional Marcus Fillinger is no ordinary runner

he even stood for a Senate seat.

Marcus set up his Alphadog AnimalArmy Inc after returning home from the ice dive.

As well as providing a home for more than 20 rescued huskies and other animals (and rescuing, rehabilitating, releasing or re-homing more than 600 domestic animals and wildlife each year), the charity aims to raise funds for research into ethical, non-lethal, wildlife management solutions.

In other words, reducing or eliminating entirely, the thinking that “mass culling” is the only way to control wildlife.

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Marathon for the second time, putting in “Ks for Kangaroos”.

Like his first run in 2015, Marcus will be taking two rescued Siberian Huskies along with him.

His passion for animal welfare is evident from his 2015 Arctic adventure when one of his dogs, Baldvin, got kennel cough.

“I retired him early from the race and spent a number of hours tending to my dogs making sure they were comfortable and received the care they needed. I then continued the race - being the last one out on the course, and wanting to complete the marathon, despite it being -61C and 3am and there was a real concern of polar bears close to camp. To that end I ran with a sidearm, to scare away any

MAN'S BEST FRIEND Marcus Fillinger, above, running the world's toughest extreme marathon with dogs.

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bears I encountered,” he says.

A gruelling 14 hours after he started, Marcus made it to the finish line, the last of the 33 competitors.

For the 2018 event, Marcus has been running an average of 110km a week and putting himself through a gruelling daily strength and weight program (including pulling heavy truck tyres on his 80-hectare property at Tuggeranong near Canberra where the Alphadog Animal Army Inc charity is based).

“To run a marathon is within itself an achievement, but the training and execution to undertake the world’s toughest extreme marathon with dogs requires years of expedition knowledge, an ability to overcome the most challenging environmental punishment and a mindset to succeed,” says Marcus.

His canine companions this year, Duro and Blue, are rescued huskies from Longyearbyen, Norway, the

By the NUMBERS of runners, from 50 nations, 480 number who have taken part in the North Pole Marathon since its inception of Michel Ribet (FRA), oldest man 78 age to complete the North Pole Marathon, 2016 of Kenwynne Barber (GBR), 66 age oldest woman to complete the North Pole Marathon, 2006 of North Pole Marathons to 15 number date North Pole Marathons 5 most completed by one person, Ireland’s Paul Grealish (2004, 2012, 2014-16) record time (hours, minutes, 4:52.45 women’s seconds) set by Anne-Marie Flammersfeld (GER), 2014 record time (hours, minutes, 3:36.10 men’s seconds) set by Thomas Maguire (IRL), 2007

initial staging point for North Pole Marathon competitors.

From Longyearbyen, runners face a 2.5-hour flight to Barneo, a Russian-operated “drift station” on the frozen Arctic Ocean. The marathon course is a 4.2km circuit, starting and finishing at the camp’s airfield, which runners must

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evacuation insurance, souvenirs and a visit by helicopter to the exact Geographic North Pole.

Race organiser Richard Donovan, an Irishman who ran the first North Pole Marathon solo in 2002 in three hours, 48 minutes and 12 seconds, encourages runners to get sponsors on board. And, like Marcus many competitors run for a charitable cause.

“My entry into the North Pole Marathon was by the generous invitation of Richard Donovan and Swiss watchmaker Edox is covering logistical costs as well as providing a number of timepieces that will be auctioned off after the run to raise funds for Alphadog AnimalArmy Inc,” says Marcus.

He’ll be aiming for a faster time than his 2015 experience on the ice but the safety and welfare of his dogs will, of course, be paramount.

And Marcus is already eyeing up an even tougher challenge to promote Alphadog AnimalArmy - the insane sounding 7-7-7 event, in which entrants run seven marathons, in seven days, on seven continents.

“More people have been on Mt Everest’s summit and been to the International Space Station than have successfully completed the 7-7-7,” he says. MQ For more information, visit npmarathon.com. For information on Alphadog Animal Army, visit alphadog.org.au or call 0457 767 767

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PROPERTY

SHAPE SHIFTERS DESIGNED FOR LIFE Urbane Projects have created some of the city's most beautiful, bespoke homes.

Urbane Projects is a premium boutique builder in WA, specialising in designing and building luxury homes across Perth with a focus on providing every client with personalised, tailored attention.

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ed by Steve Gliosca, the Urbane Projects team channels a passion for design into every build.

“Building an exclusive number of homes each year enables Urbane Projects to focus on providing each client individual attention, says Steve.

“We are committed to offering homes with real impact and individuality that have distinctive curb appeal while ensuring a floor plan that’s unique to each client and their lifestyle.”

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the first thing these clients asked for when they approached us to create their dream house in City Beach,” says Steve.

From first glance the water theme is set, with a timeless water feature a highlight of the understatedly elegant yet eye-catching elevation complemented by tiered gardens.

A spectacular stone-clad feature wall acts as a central spine to the home, visually connecting the indoors to the outdoors while drawing the eye to the hotel-like wraparound pool and spa. Keen entertainers, the clients wanted a floor plan suitable for dinner parties of 30 plus guests. The capacious open-plan living, dining and kitchen (with large scullery) easily accommodates large gatherings, with commercial-grade sliding stackable doors that can open the space to the gardens and alfresco area with autolouvered roof.

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clients’ love of wine with a custom wine cellar by the kitchen; its walls are panelled with boxes from wineries they’ve visited around the world.”

As an example of how the Urbane Projects team go the extra mile and really listen to their client’s requirements, there’s a special part of the house, just for one of the family members.

“We future-proofed the floor plan so that encompasses a wing for the clients’ teenage daughter to allow her to gain independence as a young adult, with a separate entrance and entertaining zone and close access to the four car garage. Meanwhile the parents have their own spaces to retreat, read or watch movies,”” says Steve.

Urbane are in the business of delivering prestigious, sophisticated and exclusive boutique homes with a refined quality and a design that is both unique and client focused.

“Clients are our most important source of recommendation and

we are confident that those who have experienced Urbane’s design and services on their projects will provide potential new clients with an objective assessment of our abilities and accomplishments,” says Steve.

An integral element of the company’s management model is to actively seek feedback from clients to enable the team to continue to refine their processes and systems. It is this commitment to continual improvement which provides Urbane Projects with a sustained competitive edge.

“The builder you select for your new home should reflect the high quality standards you expect in all other aspects of your life,” says Steve.

“Urbane has a track record of meeting these expectations and exceeding them, testament to which is our strong level of referral business and friendships made during this process. At Urbane Projects we believe in delivering all you would expect in an exclusive boutique builder. MQ

URBANE PROJECTS' ETHOS >> We are actively engaged in each project >> We have a high level of pride in what we do and deliver to all involved in the process >> For me design is the journey of finding the simplest & most efficient solution which is also aesthetically pleasing >> A combination of joy, satisfaction, pride, and excitement. >> The ability to actually fulfilling it’s task and function whatever it is. Because the design is not just meant to be pretty it must works perfectly >> The only secret is to try to see things differently and develop every project to the highest quality: >> We put a lot of passion in our work and we put a lot of time to design useful and aesthetically original ideas. >> A balance of space and a less is more attitude Visit urbane.net.au

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BOOK MARQUE

NORMAN BURNS REVEALS THE LATEST GREAT READS. SPLENDID ISOLATION: The spectacular CastlePoint lighthouse, near Wellington, was one of 10 stations Paul Trevethick manned.

THE LIGHT FANTASTIC Those Ancient Egyptians didn’t know what they started when, 290 years BC, they built the Pharos Lighthouse. For its time, the lighthouse was state-ofthe-art; at 180m-high, it is said to have used a giant mirror to magnify light from a constantly burning fire to guide ships to the entrance to Alexandria harbour. The Pharos Lighthouse stood for 1,500 years before it was destroyed in an earthquake.

One of the Ancient World’s Seven Wonders had bitten the dust but the concept of the lighthouse didn’t end there; by the 17th century, as maritime trade boomed, so did lighthouse

construction. Thousands were built around the world (there are an estimated 50,000 in the world today).

But this wasn’t just a bricks-and-mortar creation; the lighthouse also became a symbol of hope, fortitude, even a religious icon. There was a romance, too, about life as a lighthouse keeper, although in truth it could be a lonely, tough, existence. The golden age of the lighthouse lasted until the end of the 20th century when most were automated, putting those rugged, weather-beaten lighthouse keepers out of work.

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no longer needed as a primary navigation aid. However our fascination with lighthouses shows no signs of slowing; many today (including in WA) have been preserved or restored as hugely popular tourist attractions.

Lighthouse literature is a genre in itself and one of the latest offerings is from Paul Trevethick, in which he combines his cooking expertise with his experiences as a lighthouse keeper in New Zealand.

A quirky pairing, yes, but Paul, a qualified chef, sheds light on just what it was like to man (no families allowed) these stations on New Zealand’s rugged coast.

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Point, in Fiordland; it had ferocious storms, great hunting (red deer could be shot from the back door), crayfish, papa (abalone) and hapuku in great numbers,” says Paul, who details his time on 10 lighthouses and includes more than 60 recipes inspired by the amazing food local to those stations.

A Lighthouse Keeper’s Cookbook, Paulus Publishing, $54 (including postage and handling). Contact Paul at lh. keeper@hotmail.co.nz

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WHERE CHEFS EAT

Pancakes have to be the ultimate breakfast comfort food but in this beautiful, scrumptious little volume Sue Quinn shows they are equally delicious as a dinner-time meal. Quinn ratchets up the delicious-o-meter to 11 on a 10 scale, featuring more than 70 easy-to-achieve recipes ranging from Japanese okonomiyaki, Indian dosa, French crepes to Moroccan lemon honey butter pancakes (I want these NOW) and a whole lot more. A drool-worthy addition to any kitchen bookshelf.

If anyone knows where in a city the good nosh is, it has to be a chef. And with this all-new, completely revised edition of Where Chefs Eat you’ll get the lowdown on local hideaways, late-night hangouts and ultimate gourmet destinations in cities around the world. More than 650 chefs, including stars such as Yotam Ottelenghi, reveal more than 3,000 of their dining musts, everywhere from New York to London, Tokyo and more. What great fun it would be to travel the globe ticking them off.

Sue Quinn, Hardie Grant, $29.99

Phaidon, $39.95

DRIVE TIME, WATCHES INSPIRED BY AUTOMOBILES, MOTORCYCLES AND RACING, Aaron Sigmond,

Rizzoli New York, $107

Beautiful cars and beautiful watches are just made for each other. And, in some instances, even share the same engineering and technological DNA. Watch enthusiast, F1 race fan and all-round car fan Aaron Sigmond explores the best of both worlds in this lavishly illustrated and expanded edition of Drive Time, featuring more than 100 watches and essays on their relationships with the greatest cars and motorbikes ever made including, of course, BMW. The watches, and cars, featured are indeed the stuff of dreams, many sporting stratospheric price tags, and with Drive Time you get the next best thing to actually owning them.

TYPEWRITERS, ICONIC MACHINES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF MECHANICAL WRITINGG Bruce Curtis, Chronicle Books, $65

The typewriter is dead. Long live the typewriter. Despite all the digital age can throw at them, typewriters are having something of a renaissance. Certainly old machines that were once just thrown in the bin, are becoming more and more collectible. But even millennials are discovering the joy of clattering away on a mechanical keyboard. Photographer and visual historian Bruce Curtis presents a century of great typewriters, from rare machines such as the Postal No.7 (1908, just six left in the world) to the groovy portables of the 50s and 60s, such as the Smith-Corona Silent and Olivetti Valentine. The quirkiest has to be the Keaton Music Typewriter, an ingenious contraption (1953) which allowed the user to type out musical notes, rather than text, on lined paper.

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ENDANGERED

Tim Flach, Thames & Hudson, $80 You’d hope one day there actually won’t be a need for beautiful coffee table books like Endangered and that mankind will, in time, become a smarter custodian of the planet.

Alas, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature 41,415 species are on their red list - of which 16,306 are endangered. That’s one in four mammals, one in eight birds, a third of all amphibians and 70% of the world’s assessed plants. So until humans do get their act together beautiful books like this from Londonbased photographer Tim Flach are essential. Flach’s amazing images are striking and heart-breaking in equal amounts; poignant shots of the white rhino (just three left in the world); Monarch butterflies soaring in the hundreds, but appearances can be deceptive herbicides are destroying their food source of milkweed. Flach hopes his book will “inspire, challenge and inform” and be used as a springboard for positive action.

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PAELLA PARTY: This gorgeous paella is one of the great dishes in Cuba: The Cookbook.

CUBA: THE COOKBOOK Phaidon, $59.95

Cuba is right at the top of my bucket list, if not just to see a country trapped (for the time being at least) in a 1960s time warp, but also to check out

THE DOG IN PHOTOGRAPHY, 1839 - TODAY Raymond Merritt, Taschen, $40

PAWS AND EFFECT: One of the great images in The Dog in Photography from Taschen Books. Harry Giglio, Pray for Peace, 1996, Courtesy of the artist.

Man’s best friend is also the photographer’s best friend for here, across 688 pages, is the proof.

Author Raymond Merritt, an avid photography enthusiast, collates some 400-plus images covering pretty much every gamut of the human-dog relationship. And these aren’t just your Instagram-type images; many are from renowned artists such as Man Ray, Elliott Erwitt and William Wegman, to name but three. Taschen Books are distributed in Australia by New Holland Publishers.

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some of that amazing AfroCaribbean-Spanish cuisine.

Cuba: The Cookbook features more than 350 recipes from across the island and explores the melting pot of cultures that has shaped Cuban food.

MUSIC

CITY SLICKERS A new album from City Calm Down moves the band from Victoria up a notch.

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n a small studio in the countryside of Victoria, beyond the commotion of city life, the boys from City Calm Down have spent the last six months writing and recording their forthcoming album, Echoes In Blue.

The new album continues the moody pop-synth sounds that City Calm Down excel in. The modern yet melodyrich sounds combined with the hauntingly big sound of lead singer Jack Bourke voice is reminiscent of Nick Cave in an alternate musical universe. However, it is the lyrical prowess of the album where the audience is truly exposed to how albums can transcend the catch hooks and candy cane lyrics we are so inundated with today. Rather, Jack and the band have created something truly thoughtprovoking.

“I was really trying to tap into the emotion of the music. The music informs the lyrics and they become the nexus of getting a concise narrative,” Jack said.

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the hardest things we as a band have gone through. It was an exhausting experience," Jack said.

“We all took leave from work and every weekend for a six-month period we were working on it non-stop.

“It essentially became an all-encompassing thing, not seeing friends and family for such a long time, it took its toll.”

However, it seems the strain of juggling multiple responsibilities while making it in the music industry has provided Jack and the band with a level of perception and insight that culminates in an album of incredible substance and purpose.

Echoes In Blue invokes messages of caution and awareness rather than the relentless affirmation of the human spirit we hear so often in pop music today. Tracks like Joan, I’m Disappearing, In this Modern Land, Distraction/Losing Sleep and Blame deal with issues of social constraints, particularly regarding social media and the broader web itself, and how we are almost trapped in our own self-awareness and need for attention and approval.

This is something that the band find conflicting to write about as they obviously rely on the advertising benefits of social media but all the while despise the use of it personally.

“I hate Facebook, I don’t have it on my phone for personal use but at the same time we market to people on Facebook and want them to be on Facebook so they will listen to us,” Jack says.

“However, it’s not up to me to say whether it's wrong or right but I have an avenue of commentary through music and people can make of it what they will.”

As Jack suggests, City Calm Down does not intend to offer any solution to the societal problems we face; rather they use the platform of music to simply address these problems.

“Generationally there is a perception that we need to work as much as we can to earn as much as we can so we can buy a house, buy a car, go on holiday and live the life everyone expects us to, only to one day have it all end and all those material things become utterly insignificant.

“There are so many rules we impose on ourselves that leads us to over-commit to the point of exhaustion, and I am just as bad as everyone else.

“When this happens you lose the innate ability to just be bored and feel freed from a truly traditional sense, not the modern sense of bored with your head in a phone or computer.”

While there is no solution in this album, the hauntingly beautiful melodies paired with a platter of brutally honest and perceptiveness creates something new - so you may as well just revel in its grace.MQ Echoes in Blue is out now. Catch City Calm Down on June 16, Metropolisl, Fremantle. Visit oztix.com.au or call 1300 762 545.

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HIGH FLYERS

Singapore Airlines has upped the ante when it comes to offering its passengers something extra.

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n an age where international air travel has become as common as catching a bus, airlines have had to up their game to attract customers.

Competition to be the airline of choice has seen some carriers go to extraordinary lengths to capture the attention of the market, with investment in new seats, in-flight entertainment systems, celebrity chefs and more delivering the travelling public a level of luxury and personalisation never seen before in the industry. One airline however, has set itself apart from the crowd investing hundreds of millions of dollars in a range of new cabin products that have wowed the industry and, most importantly, potential customers.

Consistently ranked one of the best airlines in the world, Singapore Airlines is considered by many to be the leader when it comes to delivering luxury in the sky and their new medium-haul cabin products are sure to maintain this well-deserved reputation.

Unveiled as part of the delivery

of the first ever Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner, their all-new mediumhaul business and economy class products are the result of a US$350 million investment and have come following years of consultation and design. However, as CEO Goh Choon Phong explains, the investment is also about delivering on an important pillar of the company’s brand promise.

“The introduction of the new cabin products on our Boeing 78710 fleet reinforces our unwavering commitment to product leadership,” Mr Goh said. “The new products were the result of a series of consultations with customers, and from working closely with our seat designers and manufacturers. We are confident that the new regional cabin products, with full-flat beds in business class and the many new features in economy class, will offer our customers a more comfortable in-flight experience even on the shortest flights.”

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products, to be fitted on its new Boeing 787-10 fleet and subsequent Airbus A350-900 mid-haul fleet, will redefine travel on flights of up to eight hours.

The good news for those in Western Australia is that Perth will receive one of Singapore Airlines' new Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners on May 7. Sandgropers can now look forward to enjoying a new level of comfort in the 36 new business class seats. Manufactured by Stelia Aerospace, the seats are arranged in a forward-facing 1-2-1 staggered configuration to provide every customer direct aisle access.

Every seat reclines directly into a 76-inch fully-flat bed, ensuring business class customers can rest in more comfort even on the airline’s shortest flights. They

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are 26 inches wide with retractable armrests that can be raised and lowered, while adjustable dividers at the centre seats provide individual levels of privacy.

Other features include ample stowage space for personal items, a business panel with in-seat power supply and USB ports, an integrated reading light unit with adjustable lighting intensity and a personal 18inch full high-definition touchscreen monitor, powered by Panasonic’s latest eX3 system.

For travellers who never turn left, Singapore Airlines US$350 million investment hasn't forgotten you, with those in Economy class benefiting from a range of new features.

Designed and built by Recaro, the 301 new economy class seats are arranged in a 3-3-3 configuration and each one has an ergonomicallydesigned contoured backrest that provides greater comfort, and a sixway adjustable headrest with foldable wings to provide more neck support.

Economy class customers also have their own personal 11.6-inch full high-definition touchscreen monitor along with personal storage space for small personal items, a coat hook, USB port and in-seat power supply.

While having a comfortable seat is important, so too is having an in-flight entertainment system filled with choices to please every taste, and Singapore Airlines has once again proved themselves a leader in this field. Their brand new state-of-theart intuitive in-flight entertainment system myKrisWorld ensures every passenger has greater control over their in-flight entertainment experience. Features include content recommendations based on customer preferences and viewing history, while KrisFlyer members will be able to bookmark and resume content on a later flight, as well as customise and save preferences for subsequent flights.

Singapore Airlines is also equipping the new 787-10s with inflight WiFi and GSM phone services.

While the 787-8 and 787-9 have been around for some years, the 787-10 is fresh off the production line. Singapore Airlines received its first 787-10 in late March making it the first to fly the newest variant of Boeing’s Dreamliner family, a fact that Mr Goh is extremely proud of.

“It is an honour for us to be the world’s first airline to take delivery of this amazing aircraft. The 787-10 is indeed a magnificent piece of engineering and truly a work of art,” he said at a special delivery event held at Boeing’s North Charlestown facilities in South Carolina, USA. Such is their commitment to operating a modern fleet and providing customers with a premium travel experience that Singapore Airlines have ordered 49 of the 68-metre Boeing 787-10s, making them the largest customer of Boeing’s newest aircraft.

For some airlines, a US$350 million investment in new cabin interiors would more than suffice, however it is actually the second such investment Singapore Airlines has made in cabin products recently.

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NEW COMFORT LEVELS The investment of US$350 million in new cabin interiors means that passengers aboard Singapore Airlines will enjoy some of the most comfortable journeys in the sky.

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invested, across the 787-10 and A380 projects, a combined total of US$1.2 billion dollars on cabin products alone.

Their investment and dedication to service excellence has paid off handsomely – the airline was recently named Best Airline in the World in the TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Awards for Airlines 2018.

They were also recognised in seven other categories of the awards organised by the international travel planning and booking site. MQ

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GAME, SET AND MATCH You’ve come to London for the tennis at Wimbledon - so what do you do once the racquets are put away for another year?

Mal Rogers, recently awarded the Irish Journalist of Year title, has some suggestions.

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t can reasonably call itself the most cosmopolitan city on the planet. Over 300 languages are spoken — and that’s just the residents, never mind the visitors. And it’s stuffed full of attractions. In London there is nothing you cannot eat, visit, embrace, play with or buy; no music you cannot hear, no film you cannot see, no style of theatre you cannot experience, no dance you cannot take part in — somewhere in this vibrant city.

Yet it doesn’t have to be too expensive. Museums, art galleries, cathedrals and city parks largely have no admission fee. The streets are tailor-made for the avid flâneur; days can be spent watching the theatrical goingson of places such as Soho, Portobello Road, Carnaby Street or Petticoat Lane.

Some uncooperative weather may intervene — the city seems to have been overcast since records began; but public transport is efficient and generally safe.

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The fulcrum of Britain’s cumbersome history, London is home to the original Clink, the original Bedlam, and the most famous royal families in history — from Henry VIII through to Princess Diana.

Historical happenings across the millennia have all left their imprimatur on the city.

Because of its ludicrous extravagance of attractions, a little pre-planning is a good idea before a visit. Here’s a handful of hints:

Have we got views for you

The London Eye, that gigantic hightech bicycle wheel on the south bank of the Thames is the most popular paid-for attraction in the country.

It’s not a thrilling ride, mind; the capsules circle round slowly, but give an unsurpassable view of all London and the countryside beyond.

Standard tickets cost £22.95 or you might consider jumping the queue for £33. Could be a good call — queues can take up to two hours.

Check it out first

If everything else in the world was destroyed but somehow the British Library survived, the cockroaches, by and by, could restart what we fondly call civilisation from its contents —

as soon as evolution taught them to read. The library, the largest in the world, holds over 170 million items, with some dating as far back as 2000BC. Good reads include the Lindisfarne Gospels, (illuminated manuscripts dating back to 715AD), Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, and the Magna Carta.

As a legal deposit library, the BL receives copies of all books and publications produced in the UK and Ireland. You could if you wanted, glance through the match programme of the 1948 rugby tie between England and Australia at Twickenham. You’d need a valid reason, and be prepared for a wait of several hours, but it would eventually be delivered to your desk in the reading room (Australia won, btw, 11-0). You could instead opt for an hour-long tour (bl.uk/events/generalguided-tour, $10).

Dock. Skirt round the billionaire yacht moorings and head up one of London’s oldest thoroughfares, Wapping High Street. You’ll pass former warehouses, ancient wharves, and a set of stone steps that leads to Execution Dock. It was down these stairs that Captain Kidd was dragged and strung up on a noose, with the Thames lapping his feet. This was back in the days when the evidence was not greatly weighted in favour of the accused. Kidd was convicted of piracy and murder — but at least he got a book written about him; he was the inspiration for Treasure Island.

Just beyond the gibbet stands the Prospect of Whitby, in the vintner’s

Good libations

To get to the Prospect of Whitby pub, hop off the underground at Tower Hill station. One of the world’s most famous castles, the Tower of London, is ahead of you; just beyond is the equally illustrious Tower Bridge. Stride past, and head eastwards to St Katherine’s

business since 1520. The pub — all time-worn wooden beams and stone flagging — has a great range of craft beers, gins, whiskies and robust English fare, and has been a welcoming hostelry for over five hundred years.

Face the music

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reel tapes, phonograph cylinders, videos, cine films, compact discs, and audiocassettes. The archive is open to the public, as are the regular concerts. Their bar is a hidden gem, the venue for many impromptu sessions.

Visit cecilsharphouse.org

birthday, opening of parliament or similar cause for celebration, animated playing cards will begin tootling their bugles, while grown men with most of a bear on their head will march solemnly down the street playing their musical instruments. It’s all good stuff, and could scarcely be more British if Charles Dickens showed up with an orphan in tow.

But even if you don’t see one of the royal biggies, you can still catch some seriously eccentric goings-on by walking from Trafalgar Square down Whitehall towards Westminster.

On your right you’ll pass Horse Guards, the formal entrance to St James’ Palace. Here at 11am daily the changing of the guards takes place.

It’s as niche as any parade in the world.

Carry on down Whitehall and you’ll pass Admiralty House, Downing Street, the Cenotaph war memorial, and finally arrive at Westminster with its statues of Cromwell, Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi. The broad brush of history is seldom more graphically displayed than on this urban half mile.

The graveyard shift

Blooming sow-and-sows

London has many notable necropolises: the Garden Museum where Captain Bligh of Bounty fame is buried, Abney Park in Stoke Newington where England’s most prolific public executioner is interred, or Golders Green cemetery where the remains of Bram Stoker lie. (They’re kept under lock and key lest anyone try some funny business vis-à-vis blood-sucking vampires.)

But for atmospheric, ivy-bedecked tombstones it has to be Highgate Cemetery. Many notables are interred here, with Karl Marx’s grave the most visited place of pilgrimage — something of an irony in that his funeral attracted just six people. You can wander round the cemetery on your own, or take the guided tour.

Don’t say that Marx’s grave is just another communist plot. They’ve

already heard that one.

Visit highgatecemetery.org

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LIVING HISTORY Make sure you visit Highgate Cemetery (above) and pay your respects to Marx and other famous people buried there.

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The immense Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew can claim the largest collection of different plant species on earth (last count, around 30,000).

Two-and-half centuries of clearing, sodding, planting, weeding, mowing, coppicing and hoeing has left this the most famous botanical extravaganza in the world.

Highlights (of which there are many) include the Rhizotron and Xstrata Canopy Walkway which takes you 18 metres above hundreds of horticultural A-listers.

Visit kew.org

The men from the ministries

The Palace of Westminster, including Big Ben, is the most recognisable collection of admin buildings in the world. A few parts of the original mediaeval palace remain, but most of

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what stands today is of 19th-century gothic design.

You can book tickets for a selfguided audio tour throughout the year. You can also queue up on a first-come–first-served basis at the Cromwell Green entrance. A ticket here will get you into debates at the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

Visit parliament.uk

Putting you in the picture

Western art — “a thousand years of crucifixions, then stripes” — is examined in some detail at the Tate Britain and the Tate Modern.

Tate Britain, on Millbank, houses a substantial collection of British art since Tudor times.

Tate Britain and Tate Modern are connected by a high-speed boat along the River Thames. Based in the former Bankside Power Station, Tate Modern holds the national collection of British art from 1900 to the present day.

Visit tate.org.uk

A degree of latitude

Greenwich, in south east London, is the site of the Prime Meridian of the World. “Wow!” I hear you say, “Is there much to see? Is it something like the Grand Canyon?” Sadly, no.

It’s an entirely theoretical line that marks 0 degrees longitude, where

east meets west, topographically speaking.

Today it is marked by a strip of stainless steel outside the old Greenwich Observatory. Why the Prime Meridian of the world should go through the London suburb of SE23 is a complicated story; suffice to say imperialism, trade and technological ingenuity have all played their part.

Once you get tired of jumping from one hemisphere to another, it’s time to carry out other sight-seeing duties in this area. A tour of the Royal Observatory is essential, followed by visits to the tea clipper the Cutty Sark, the National Maritime Museum and London’s cable car across the Thames (£8 return) Visit visitgreenwich.org.uk

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For the best cathedral to visit, take the advice of Doorkins Magnificat.

She’s the stray cat who took up residence at Southwark Cathedral in 2008 and is still going strong — it’s not uncommon to see her asleep on the dean’s stall in the choir during the day, or in winter stretched out in the hay at the nativity crib.

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Dog & Fox 24 High Street Wimbledon, Wimbledon, London SW19 5EA +44 (0) 20 8946 6565 A 19th-century pub in the middle of Wimbledon Village. Comfortable rooms, cosy bar — what more could you ask for?

Double rooms from around £100 Richmond Hill Hotel 144-150 Richmond Hill, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey, TW10 6RW +44 (0) 20 8940 2247 Visit richmondhill-hotel.co.uk This glorious 18th-century Georgian townhouse is within easy reach of Wimbledon and central London.

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be dragged off to to be hung drawn or quartered, beheaded or burned.

In January 1555, six high-ranking clergymen, including the Bishop of Gloucester, were condemned here.

Small wonder the queen’s nickname was Bloody Mary.

Southwark is London’s oldest Gothic Church —they’ve been forgiving sinners (including Mary) for over a thousand years. The building has effortlessly segued from convent to Augustinian friary to Anglican cathedral. The organ, the size of an oil refinery, has a glorious tone — you can check out recitals on the website – at cathedral.southwark. anglican.org/worship-and-music MQ

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VISITING HOURS There are so many parts of London which could take whole days to explore, from Greenwich to Kew's Royal Botanical Gardens (left).

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SQUARE Yagan Square is fast becoming the heart of Perth’s foodie revolution with new outlets opening all the time. But it’s more than that - it’s also a place of celebration. By GABI MILLS.

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ou’d have to have been living under a rock to miss the newest arrival in Perth’s burgeoning CBD reinvention. After causing so much traffic angst over the past few years, the entire city commuting population breathed a collective sigh of relief when Yagan Square finally revealed itself a few weeks ago.

It’s the flagship public space in the $5.3billion Perth City Link project, reconnecting Northbridge with the CBD and creating new residential, retail and commercial precincts with a slick new public transport amenity.

Nestled in the arms of the Horseshoe Bridge, Yagan Square is named after the Noongar warrior, providing an opportunity for reconciliation and to celebrate Whadjuk culture. Yagan himself takes pride of place in the development's public art which was a very important part of the new destination’s plan.

The square showcases the uniqueness of Western Australia’s landscape through design of the built

form and public art. To that end, the MRA engaged and collaborated with the Whadjuk traditional owners, through the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council and the Whadjuk Working Party from the early stages of the project.

With easy linkages to the train station and new underground Perth Busport, tens of thousands of people and visitors already pass through the space each day, which of course makes it a very enticing location for the collection of new foodie outlets springing up within the square’s Market Hall.

DESTINATION FOOD Above, Yagan Square is already one of the city's hotspots for foodies.

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by the local cuisines being made by local people. After training as chef, he made WA his home but he was forever shaped by his experiences of street food from around the world.

At Street Eats you’ll transport to Times Square in New York, the bustling night markets in Taiwan and the Shibuya intersection in Tokyo with their authentic food and ambiance. Drop in for breakfast and try the zucchini, lentil and corn fritters, topped with a poached egg, rocket and Persian fetta, or, for something lighter, a mini dosa

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wrap with spiced potato. For lunch, go off piste and try the fried cricket and mealworm appetiser, or for something more filling (and less insect-based), a Turkish grilled mackerel sandwich with sumac salad.

AHI POKE It’s the food fad that’s sweeping the nation - the poke bowl. Don’t ask me how you pronounce it (though apparently it’s poh-keh); however you say it though, the Hawaiianinspired bowl of fresh goodness is a delicious addition to the Yagan Square experience. Try the brown rice and tofu poke bowl - the deep fried silken tofu is the perfect offset to the crunch of all those fresh veggies. You can create your own combination, of course, choosing the

YAGAN SQUARE Materials used at Yagan Square – from the building fascades to selection of trees - have been specifically chosen to reflect Whadjuk themes, the strata of Western Australia’s geology and our unique coastal landscape.

type of rice, whether you opt for salmon, tuna or veggie, or go for one of their pre-assembled creations. Whichever one you go for, a lunchtime sanger will seem pretty sad from now on.

SOUL PROVIDER CATERING Owner and chef Vital grew up on Haiti, the Caribbean’s least fortunate island. He learned to cook watching his family in the kitchen, and has brought the warm embrace of Southern American comfort food to Yagan Square, after running a super successful food truck version of his business for the past four years. And thank goodness he has. It’s hard to imagine how we’ve gone without shrimp po’ boys in our life until now. Or jambalaya, or proper gumbo, laced with chicken and smoked sausage or seafood with okra. If you crave comfort food turned up to the max, this should be your first port of call. Vital’s also happy to cater for your next event - how about a paella that’ll feed 50 guests easily? Si, señor.

JERSEY JACK GELATO Everybody deserves a bit of sweetness in their life and, thankfully, Jersey Jack Gelato is on hand to deliver.

Continuing that age-old tradition of creating proper Italian gelato, the company takes enormous pride in offering signature flavour combinations which slap you around the chops - and then some. What’s perhaps surprising is that the company actually originates from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia by the team behind Nasi Lemak Korner i and HangOut Bar & Cafe n Preston Street. Locally sourced Jersey milk, cream, fruit and nuts make these scoops sheer heaven. If you want to go full calorific overload, may we point you towards the waffle tower? It’s a triple decker of waffles made up of your choice of gelato or sorbet flavours, or the Little Mostro (where the use of ‘little’ is clearly their little joke). You’ll work your way through three scoops of gelato and two mini cones served in a giant cone, topped with chocolate sauce. There’s also a milkshake mostro option which frankly makes me want to faint. Feeling brave? Order the durian-flavoured gelato - you’ll either love it or run screaming. MQ MARQUE AUTUMN 2018

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One of the major attractions of Yagan Square is the Market Hall, offering a diverse range of cuisines from local business owners committed to showcasing locally sourced and produced goods.

The unique point of difference and challenge for Yagan Square was to deliver a high quality food experience that is uniquely West Australian. The leasing campaign targeted niche operators that could showcase Western Australia’s exceptional produce, work with local ingredients, contribute to the growing role of food tourism in the state and assist in developing Yagan Square as a premier destination.

The mix of offerings secured are sure to engage commuters, theatre and concert patrons and city workers and will provide a “taste of the regions” for interstate and international visitors to Perth.

Yagan Square also boasts a bespoke digital tower and canopies which will broadcast specially curated stories of Western Australia, its culture and people.

Day and night, visitors to Yagan Square have opportunities to learn about Western Australia’s culture and landscape through engaging screen displays, a range of unique public art and events in the precinct.

For more information about all of the above, visit mra.wa.gov.au

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MUM’S the WORD Can mums teach CEOs something about sales?

Meerkats’ founder Mike Edmonds certainly thinks so.

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et me tell you a story. It’s a modern business fable about a multinational corporation, a group of mums and a cow named Ugly.

Once upon a time a little dairy company was founded by a hardworking man who believed milk was essential for growing bodies. Over the years his little dairy company became a local hero, inventing new types of low fat milk, delivering free milk to schools, pioneering yoghurt as a healthier family dessert.

The little dairy was so successful it eventually attracted the eye of a multinational corporation, which bought them. Smart men in suits in a city far away then instructed the little diary to stop making cheese and ice cream because their corporation already made these elsewhere.

They told them to focus on plain milk production and stop messing about with fun new dairy products.

And for goodness sake stop those unprofitable school tours.

This was a corporation with revenues of $17 billion and 30% of the global dairy market, so staff at the little dairy duly obliged.

You know what happened?

Over the next decade sales slowly began to slide, product awareness dropped and brand image withered.

Eventually, the multinational corporation, thinking they’d bought a dud, offloaded the dairy company on a small investment group.

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Who happened to be mostly women.

Who happened to be mostly mothers.

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in them. They resisted the temptation to let research determine product strategy and instead set about giving their customers innovative, quality dairy at an affordable price, just as their founder had done.

The turnaround was extraordinary. Their very first new product, an affordable natural fruit yogurt, increased sales by over 50%.

Soon after they launched a lowsugar flavoured milk just for kids, creating an entirely new category.

Within a year they were completely rejuvenating this company’s fortunes. And bringing pride and shared passion back to the corridors of their head office.

So how is it that a group of mums in a small regional market could outsmart experienced executives at a billion-dollar corporation?

Because we now live in a new era of commerce. And the rules of business have changed.

Truth is a potent business tool,

not a fluffy cultural value.

In a world where every consumer can share their brand experience instantly and globally, it doesn’t matter how good your image is. If it doesn’t reflect the reality of your product or service, you’re toast.

Environmentally-conscious outdoor brand Patagonia tell their customers the absolute truth about the materials in their clothing. Like when they have to use plastic thread, for example. Critically, they also share how much that aggrieves them and what they’re doing to fix it.

Sales continue to increase. Customer churn continues to decline.

Real innovation and growth come from looking inside, not out.

Stop asking consumers to solve your business problems. For enduring business growth in a world where truth beats image, look to the humans inside your company. Their passion and skill have enormous untapped commercial potential.

You just have to ignite it with an authentic motive.

Tesla don’t ask consumers what they want before conceiving their market-making energy products.

They use focus groups to refine products, not invent them.

Marketing is now an accelerant for the truth, not a replacement for it.

In a free market economy that is transparent, advertising can hasten the uptake of a product truth, but can no longer be a substitute for it.

Apple primarily advertise new products. And with very short media buys. The allure of their products is almost always based on new truth, so they can outsell rivals while spending a tenth of their ad budgets.

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MIKE EDMONDS is founder and chairman of Meerkats The Creative Business Solutions Company in Perth. Meerkats has been named Agency Of The Year three times and won awards globally for its creativity and strategic thinking. For more ways our new transparent world has affected business growth and what owners can do about it, particularly owners of small businesses and startups, read Mike’s book Truth. Growth.

Repeat. a jargon-free guide to achieving long-term growth by putting your personal 'why' at the core of everything you do.

Available at leading bookstores, airports and online. Find out more at meerkats.com.au

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SOUND ADVICE Cochlear implants can change people’s lives - just like John Holsgrove who was able to join in family conversations once more after the procedure.

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hen health problems arise, there are undeniable benefits to working within the medical profession such as becoming aware of warning signs quickly, understanding how potential treatments work and even an awareness of the right people to ask for assistance.

For child psychologist John Holsgrove, he perhaps knew too much when he became aware of his hearing deterioration. He was 55 when his wife first mentioned some concerns about his hearing. He initially dismissed it, not wanting to admit there might be an issue.

“When my wife first mentioned my hearing, I first thought it was criticism for not listening,” John said, laughing. “I didn’t really believe that there was much wrong with my hearing, but eventually I thought, to keep her happy I’ll go and get tested.

Sure enough, I did have a hearing impairment that needed hearing aids.”

It was a shock to the system for John, who was in the prime of his psychology career having just completed his PHD and being fit and healthy as a recreational cyclist. He dutifully wore

his hearing aids each day but found the combination of his rapidly deteriorating hearing loss and his job as a child psychologist, dealing with small high frequency voices, wasn’t an ideal mix. He was also aware of research which pointed to a connection between hearing loss and dementia.

“Due to the nature of psychology, every word the child says is important and it’s not good to be asking stressed children to repeat things,” said John.

“When I first started to lose my hearing, I knew about cochlear implants but I just never thought my hearing would get that bad,” John recalled. “I thought you lost a little bit and then it plateaued and so on, but mine didn’t. It dropped off straight away.”

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believes cochlear implants are a little miracle, allowing him to re-engage with the world.

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in surgery. John was confident the surgery would only bring about benefits, due to his insider knowledge that he was being treated by the best in the business, such is Professor Atlas’s reputation in the medical industry.

“It’s an emotional decision at the end of the day,” John admitted, when talking about his decision to move to a surgical intervention for his hearing loss. “You need to reflect on how you feel about cochlear implants and how you might feel once you have them and remember it’s not just your decision. There’s a whole network around you that needs to be a part of the decision so talk to your loved ones about how they feel, too.”

Ear Science Institute Australia CEO Sandra Bellekom says John’s experience is the perfect example of how much a cochlear implant can improve a person’s life not only now, but into the future.

“The benefits for John were immediate and dramatic. He was able to converse with his loved ones and return to life as he knew it before his hearing loss but John was also aware of the positive impact that regaining his hearing could have on his future mental health.”

John’s crucial message to those battling hearing loss is a simple one.

“Cochlear implants are a little miracle to me because I’m re-engaged with the world.” MQ

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FIELDS OF GOLD To professional tennis players there’s one tournament above all others that defines greatness in the sport - Wimbledon. And in July the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club celebrates an amazing 150 years of an event that has somehow managed to move with the times, yet remains the epitome of English-ness.

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THE CROQUET SET: (inset) Croquet players photographed in 1870 outside the new pavilion at the Worple Road ground. They include Henry Jones (third from left) and John Walsh (far left) in whose office at The Field magazine the All England Club was founded.

MOVING WITH THE TIMES: The opening of a retractable roof over Centre Court in 2009 was marked by a special mixed doubles match featuring Andre Agassi and his wife Steffi Graf against Britain’s Tim Henman and Dutchwoman Kim Clijsters.

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roucho Marx once famously said he wouldn’t want to join any club that would have him as a member.

But the same doesn’t apply to tennis players, most of whom would probably happily sell their first-born for the chance to become a member of London’s All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), better known as the All England Club or plain “Wimbledon” to millions around the world.

For there’s one way to automatically gain membership of what is probably the world’s most exclusive sports club (just 565

members, divided into five categories - full, life, honorary, temporary and junior temporary), and that’s by hoisting the winner’s trophy.

And this year’s winners will have even more incentive to seal glory in London’s SW19; they’ll go into the history books as champions in Wimbledon’s 150th year.

It’s been an incredible journey for the AELTC, founded in July 1868 as a croquet club. Croquet was king until a new craze, tennis (originally known as sphairistike, an amalgam of badminton and other sports invented by one Major Walter Wingfield) took hold.

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KING IS QUEEN (above) Billie Jean King (USA) on her way to winning the women’s singles in 1968, the first championship of the Open era.

FRENCH STYLE: (opposite bottom) Honorary member Suzanne Lenglen (France) was one of the first to compete on the new Centre Court on Church Road in 1922.

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Within a few years the club had put in grass tennis courts and changed its name to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

In 1877 the first Wimbledon Championships were held; well, championship singular actually because only one event, the gentleman’s singles, took place.

Spencer Gore, also a handy first-class cricketer, was the first winner, taking home the grand sum of 12 guineas in prize money and a silver cup valued at 25 guineas.

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were added, although it was a lot easier to defend trophies those days; until 1922 the reigning champion had automatic passage to the final.

In 1968, after a battle between proponents of professionalism and those who wanted tennis to remain an amateur sport, Wimbledon became an “Open” event and winning it has since become the sport’s holy grail.

Wimbledon has steadfastly clung to its grass surface and traditional white attire but in the past few decades the traditional has been complemented by hitech developments - for example a retractable roof, installed in 2009, means The Championships can go on despite England’s notorious “summer” weather.

Behind the scenes, too, advanced technology is helping give fans at the tournament, and watching either on TV or in their tens of millions online, incredible insights into the players, their technique and form.

And it’s not just a bald aggregation of statistics either; the All England Club uses an “intelligent machine” developed by IBM called Watson to provide state-of-the-art coverage.

Watson can, for example, analyse all matches underway on court and spit out Tweets far faster than a human - 400 a second in fact.

Watson can also create, using its artificial intelligence programming to monitor crowd noise, players’ facial expressions and match data to video highlight packages far quicker than a human. Even more advanced analysis will be introduced for the 2018 tournament to enhance IBM’s “Slam Tracker” program to analyse “pressure points” of specific matches - even before a ball is hit.

The 150th anniversary is also a milestone in broadcasting for the tournament; for the first time, the AELTC will take over from the BBC as host broadcaster.

All of which would have first champion Spencer Gore’s head spinning if he were alive today.

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Gore would no doubt also be flabbergasted at the 2018 prize money on offer.

The men’s and women’s champions will each take home just under $4 million.

Not a bad return for two weeks’ work… MQ This year’s Wimbledon Championships will be held from July 2-15.

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FEDERER EXPRESS: With a record eight Wimbledon singles titles already under his belt, and his form showing no signs of faltering, Switzerland’s Roger Federer will once more be favourite for the 2018 title in the club’s 150th year.

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The BMW i3 is the bestselling electric car in its field - quite an achievement, says Matthew Mills.

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hroughout its long and gilded history, BMW has made a point of always looking to the future, never resting on its laurels.

It’s that commitment to staying at the forefront of the motoring industry that has ensured that it has led the way in so many aspects of the trade. And today it continues to be at the vanguard of progress thanks to its work in the realm of electric cars.

Few would argue that it’s a field that it is vital to crack – as time rolls on alternative fuels are becoming a necessity rather than an experiment in science fiction. Fossil fuel is, after all, finite and more and more we’re all realising that we have a duty to our grandchildren to lead a cleaner, healthier life on the road.

BMW, then, can be proud of its sterling work in the field, a commitment cemented in the industry’s psyche with the news that the remarkable i3 is the bestselling electric car in the premium compact segment.

And the key to its success has to be the continuation of BMW’s commitment to building the ultimate driving machine, whichever model it is tackling.

As well as being recognised as the pinnacle of electric motoring, the i3 is known the world over as a symbol of driving pleasure, sustainability and intelligent connectivity in the urban traffic environment.

It has reigned as the top-selling premium electric car in its class since 2014, not just in Europe but worldwide too. And in Germany, it has actually been topping the new

vehicle registration statistics for the electric car segment as a whole, also since 2014.

And now that recipe for success has been further improved, thanks not just to refreshing styling accents, cutting-edge equipment features and new digital services, but also to the addition of a new model variant – making its debut alongside the new edition of the first ever premium car to be conceived from the outset for all-electric mobility is the BMW i3s.

With a higher output, modelspecific chassis technology, noticeably more dynamic driving qualities and design features all of its own, the i3s generates a particularly intense blend of the unrivalled sporty driving pleasure associated with electric cars

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from the BMW Group.

The BMW eDrive technology on board both the new i3 and i3s lets drivers enjoy emission-free mobility with wonderfully instantaneous power delivery. Both models draw their energy from the lithium-ion high-voltage battery developed by BMW and a range extender engine can be ordered as an option for both new models.

By offering a premium-quality, all-electric driving experience, meaning zero local emissions, together with a whole new level of connectivity technology, both the i3 and i3s represent the future of urban mobility.

Visit autoclassic.com.au to arrange a test drive of the i3 today.

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APPLE CARPLAY VS. BMW IDRIVE Why choose when you can have both? By JOSH CURTIS.

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ost BMW’s manufactured in the last six months have the ability to have Apple CarPlay fitted – but why might you want Apple CarPlay to add to your BMW iDrive experience?

Apple CarPlay is a car infotainment interface which leverages the processing power and capabilities of Apple’s latest iPhones to present a userfriendly and familiar Apple interface on your iDrive screen. It is commonly featured on vehicles which don’t have the abilities of the BMW iDrive system as standard, however many BMW clients are still optioning CarPlay on their vehicles when purchasing.

Having CarPlay available gives some more flexibility in the future should you decide to use a more Apple like interface, however compared to the capabilities of the

latest iDrive version 6 there seems to be very few benefits to using the CarPlay interface over the included BMW iDrive system.

CarPlay offers in-car use of the following apps; Podcasts, Audiobooks, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher, Audible, Amazon Music, Google Play Music, WhatsApp and many other popular apps. BMW Connected offers in-car access to Spotify and Audible from this list.

If you use other music streaming service as shown above and would like to control these services while in the car, CarPlay may benefit you.

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alarms you have set while you are on the move; you definitely don’t want to pick your phone up to turn it off.

The navigation system is clean and easy to use, my preference leans towards the BMW Navigation system because of the accurate Real Time Traffic feature – this recently saved me 31 minutes on my drive to work because of an accident up ahead. The navigation system redirected me automatically, avoiding the congestion.

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They were at the vanguard of mankind’s most audacious adventure - to land people on the Moon and return them safely to Earth. NASA astronaut and moonwalker Charlie Duke and Apollo Flight Director Gerry Griffin are landing in Perth to share tales of how Mission Control’s unsung heroes helped usher in a golden age of space exploration.

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harlie Duke was one of America’s front-line Cold War warriors when, in September 1962, then US President John F. Kennedy gave a speech that would change the course of history.

At Rice University Kennedy vowed to “put a man on the Moon and return him safely before the decade is out”, a startling pronouncement that left Americans agog everywhere - including young US Air Force fighter pilot Charles Duke, stationed at Ramstein Air Base

in West Germany.

“When Kennedy made that announcement everyone in the squadron had a good chuckle,’’ recalls Duke, his distinctive North Carolina drawl echoing down a somewhat scratchy line from his Texas home.

“I thought it was incredulous; we (the US) had achieved just 15 minutes in space and here he was saying we would get to the Moon in 8 1/2 years.

It was very, very bold and I didn’t think we had much chance of doing it. But thanks to technology, the

SET FOR LAUNCH The Apollo 16 crew (from left), Command Module pilot Ken Mattingly, Mission Commander John Young and Lunar Module pilot Charlie Duke.

people and hard work we pulled it off,” he says.

Not only was Kennedy’s vow fulfilled (on July 21, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon) but Duke himself, barely a decade after listening sceptically to that speech, also became a card-carrying member of humanity’s most exclusive club the moonwalkers. He was just 36, the youngest of NASA’s 12 astronauts to go to the Moon.

Walking on the Moon’s surface wasn’t Duke’s only critical role for NASA. He was the voice of Mission Control (in NASA-speak the CAPCOM) during the Apollo 10 round-trip-to-the Moon mission and for Apollo 11’s historic (and hair raising as it turns out) landing.

And despite going into space just once (his Apollo 16 mission trip lasted just over 11 days; Duke and fellow astronaut John Young spent 71 hours on the Moon) in some ways Duke’s role in keeping the Apollo “flame” burning is even more important today.

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing

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and there’s been a massive revival the world over in interest in the Apollo program. That’s why he and fellow NASA legend Gerry Griffin (flight director for all nine manned Apollo missions, including six Moon landings) will be live on stage in Perth in May for the premiere of a stunning new documentary on the “unsung heroes” of the Apollo program, the back room boys (and girls) at Houston’s Mission Control.

Duke’s flying skills, natural thrill-seeking tendencies and sharp intellect meant he had what author Tom Wolfe dubbed “the right stuff” by the bucket-load to be an astronaut candidate but it might have been something closer to the heart that spurred his NASA application in 1966.

“I was an instructor at the Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, California. It was a pilot’s paradise but not a great place to raise a family,’’ says Duke. So when NASA advertised for a fresh intake of astronauts, Duke had extra motivation.

“The requirements were sort of generic; you had to be a US citizen, have at least 1500 hours’ flight time, be male, less than six foot tall; they were really looking for people with Master’s degrees in aeronautics or with test pilot experience, today of course candidates need a science background and a PhD and of course can be men or women,” he says.

Duke along with 18 others was accepted into the astronaut program, much to his (and wife

Dorothy’s) delight.

“It meant moving to Houston, which was half-way to Atlanta, Georgia where Dottie’s family was from. It was a great job for a test pilot; I’d met some astronauts and they were so excited about this challenging career I decided ‘that’s what I want,” says Duke.

Getting into the space program was difficult but that was only the start of the hard work.

The new astronaut-candidates faced a battery of mental and medical tests and were expected to absorb a mind-boggling amount of information, from an intimate knowledge of geology to learning the Apollo spacecraft systems and more.

“The most fun training was the geology; we went all over the place, to Kilauea in Hawaii, the high desert, everywhere. The most physically demanding was learning how to operate in a spacesuit and the most memory intensive and mentally demanding was learning to master flying the spacecraft. We spent thousands of hours in the Lunar Module simulator, learning every facet of the system,” says Duke.

The intense training included drills designed to focus the astronauts, back-up crews and the army of NASA boffins and engineers on how to handle potential emergencies while in space but the Apollo program faced its darkest hour before the first mission was even off the ground.

On January 27, 1967, during a

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launch rehearsal test, a fierce fire ripped through the Apollo 1 command module while it was on the launch pad. The three crew - Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White - perished.

“It was a devastating blow,” says Duke, “but their deaths were not in vain. All the astronauts had seen test pilot school classmates and friends killed in aeroplane accidents and our attitude was ‘mourn and grieve the loss of our friends but let’s fix this thing and get back on track’.”

After a two-year hiatus, the Apollo program got back on track and by the time NASA gave the go-ahead for the first manned landing, their confidence in the project was high. Confidence, and being totally risk-free, were not the same though.

Duke was selected as the official “link man” (CAPCOM) between Mission Control in Houston, Texas, and the crew of Apollo 10.

This was a dress rehearsal for the Moon landing in every respect, sans the actual landing - that was the task for Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin in Apollo 11.

So Duke found himself back as CAPCOM but this time the stakes were much, much higher. And it’s the fascinating, fly-on-the-wall look at what went on behind-the-scenes that’s the subject of the British-made documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo that Duke and Griffin will be helping promote come May. It’s a moot point which was the more challenging

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forfor Duke; carrying out his actual mission in space or being CAPCOM. Especially when things started to go pear-shape on Armstrong’s lunar descent.

“When you’re actually doing it (flying in space) the dynamics are ‘focus on the operation and time that we need to get things done’. Whereas in Mission Control you are focused on the mission but really just your part of the mission…and the idea is ‘if this thing breaks or something happens it’s not going to be your fault,” says Duke.

As Armstrong’s “Eagle” Lunar Module was four minutes into its lunar descent, 386,000km from Earth, an alarm blared out on the spacecraft computer. The code read 1202; in Houston, NASA boffins scrambled to figure out what it meant, Duke having to calmly relay to Apollo 11 “stand by, we’re looking at it” even as the Eagle perilously neared the point of no return to the surface.

“If this was a problem in the simulator you were dead in the water and landing would be aborted; but this was the real deal. They figured out the alarm (it and a second 1201 error code meant the onboard computer had a temporary overload) and I gave a ‘go’ for landing,” recalls Duke.

But the drama wasn’t over; a gravitational glitch meant the Eagle had overshot its intended landing site and Armstrong suddenly found himself coming down on a heavily

cratered, boulder strewn area that could prove disastrous. Armstrong overrode the computer to fly the Eagle to safety with just 30 seconds’ of fuel remaining.

Duke told the crew, and a worldwide audience of hundreds of millions listening on: “Roger, Tranquility Base. We copy you, down. We’ve got a bunch of guys about to turn blue, we’re breathing again.” Says Duke: “There was a great sigh of relief in Mission Control, I’ve never seen tension or drama as in that last 30 seconds.”

NASA repeated its success with Apollo 12 but with Apollo 13 the US space program flirted with potential disaster once more.

“I’d left NASA at around 10PM to go home. We (Apollo 13) were coasting to the Moon, not very demanding, so I went home and was actually in bed when John Young called me and said we ‘had a problem’.”

An explosion had crippled the Apollo 13 spacecraft as it was halfway to the Moon.

A lunar landing was now out of the question but the big issue was how to get the crew, who had to huddle in the still attached Lunar Module in bitter cold, their power, oxygen, water and food supplies critical, safely back to Earth.

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MISSION CONTINUES: (Above left) Today Charlie Duke is an active lay preacher but also continues to enthral and educate the younger generation about the Apollo Moon missions.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Gerry Griffin (foreground) and the Mission Control crew celebrate Apollo 13’s successful return to Earth.

FIRE IN THE SKY: (Below) The mighty Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 16 crew blasts off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre on April 16, 1972.

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board Apollo 13 were recreated to the most minute detail in the NASA simulators. “We worked 35 hours straight and by the time the spacecraft turned for Earth (via slingshotting around the Moon) we were confident we had enough consumables, such as water, power and oxygen, to get back safely - as long as we didn’t make mistakes,” says Duke.

In the pre-Internet era, the dramatic return of Apollo 13 became the most watched event in history.

In April 1972 Duke finally got his own chance to ride the massive Saturn V rocket into space, head to the Moon and walk on the surface.

Simulators could mimic most, but

not all, of the ride.

“The Saturn lift-off wasn’t simulated very well; at the end of the first stage we had 4 1/2G acceleration and the vibration was just intense.”

Landing on the Moon was for Duke more than just out of this world.

“There was the emotional side of it and the physical side of actually doing it. The thrill of doing it and then you start to appreciate the beauty of the Moon; it was a very rough surface with rolling, undulating mountains right and left.

The thought that NOBODY had ever been on this spot before was a very humbling experience. We (he and John Young) were bubbling with enthusiasm but we were driven on by the schedule; the focus was on doing your job,” he says.

Before blasting back to rendezvous with Ken Mattingly in the Command Module, Duke made a poignant gesture that captured the spirit of space exploration far more than any scientific experiment.

He placed a Polaroid snapshot of his family on the lunar surface.

It remains there to this day, undisturbed.

Duke retired from NASA to go into private business but, like many of the Apollo astronauts, he found life back on Earth after his Moon

exploits not so rosy.

His marriage was heading for the rocks and his wife Dottie turned to religion, which she credits with saving the relationship.

A couple of years later Duke also committed to a deeply religious life; today he is a lay witness and president of the Duke Ministry for Christ.

Outside of the church, fishing, his business interests and spending time with family, his children and grandchildren, Duke (who turns 83 in October) is busier than ever as an “ambassador” for Apollo and space exploration in general.

Duke sees a return to the Moon as vital.

“Hopefully we can get a base on the Moon for scientific purposes.

In 2017, 18,000 applied to become a NASA astronaut, so there’s no lack of enthusiasm among the younger generation for going back into space, to the Moon or one day Mars.”

He is certain that the job of setting foot back on the lunar surface, or Mars, should go to a human, not a machine.

“There certainly a place for robotics, surveyors and orbital spacecraft and things like that. But I don’t think a robot will ever replace a human being. A human is able to look at a situation and rapidly sum up ‘this is not what we were expecting’ and adjust to that; it is a long way to go for a robot to have that ability. Humans can make modified decisions based on what they see and experience. And besides, the human spirit is God-given to explore, be it the deep ocean, the atom or the vastness of space.”

UNIVERSAL APPEAL WITH THE 50TH anniversary of the first Moon landing looming in July 2019, the Apollo program will get a massive publicity boost. But on the publishing front astronaut memoirs and books about the space program have been steady sellers for years. Pretty much every Apollo astronaut has written, or had a ghost writer do it for them, a memoir (Neil Armstrong’s First Man will hit the big screen next year with Ryan Gosling portraying Armstrong). Today’s astronauts may not be, like those pioneers, household names but they can still tell a great story of what it is like to go into space.

Scott Kelly’s Endurance (Doubleday, $29.95) relates his experiences on the International Space Station - including 340 days on one mission, the record for a US astronaut. Incredibly, his identical twin brother Mark also made the grade as a NASA astronaut. Science writer Jeffrey Kluger’s Apollo 8 (Henry Holt, $39.99) tells the story of probably the most audacious Apollo mission of them all - the “trial run” of Apollo 8 where Frank Norman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders flew to the Moon and back in a live test of all the Apollo systems. There were no guarantees the trio would even be able to safely re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere.

Lastly, the magnificent 240-page hardback Moonshots (Piers Bizony, Voyageur Press, $99.99) presents a stunning collection of 200-plus images, most taken via special “big format” ultra highresolution Hasselblad cameras, of the past 50 years of NASA missions. Presented in a lavish slip-case with die-cut Moon “phases”, this is the closest most of us will get to space. MQ

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fridges, different kinds of ovens, a magnificent cooker, and even a separate cheese ‘cave’, to ensure every morsel of food can be perfectly prepared. There's even a library of cookbooks to read.

Two separate lounges are designed for comfort and pay homage to American culture. Bruce Springsteen fans are treated to memorabilia and books throughout, an indication of the easy style of the house. Four fireplaces – three indoors, one outdoors – ensure a warm reception no matter the weather.

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The main dining table has been lovingly created from a felled marri tree from the property.

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Children will delight in the tree swing, the trampoline, cubby house, and in exploring the meandering creek before cooling off in the pool.

Adults can enjoy a drink on the jetty by the dam while observing the visiting kangaroos, joeys and birdlife the water source brings.

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SEA HOUSE, YALLINGUP There’s something incredibly therapeutic about being near the ocean, it’s just good for the soul. Add to the mix pretty much everybody’s dream house and you’ve got the perfect combination for a heavenly winter break.

This stylishly appointed home, which is filled with shades of blue, would be great for a family or a bunch of friends to stop and drink in the moment.

Its views are outstanding; looking out over the surf breaks, you can enjoy your morning coffee, contemplate a surf or work out your plans for visiting wineries and south west attractions.

There are a choice of living spaces and bedrooms on the entry level and downstairs, perfect for two families to share or older children who want their own space.

There’s also a games room, outside lawn area and spacious balcony to enjoy.

The home is light, bright and decorated in quintessential ‘down south’ style – furnishings are modern, bright and fuss free; this is a space that is meant to be lived in and enjoyed.

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As you walk into the house, you can see straight down the hallway and out onto the horizon of Florida Beach ahead – yep, its pretty easy to lose yourself in the view here.

Gently undulating sand dunes on the beach mimic the gentle lines of the house itself; built with a nod to sustainability and the beach houses of yesteryear, each living space in the home seems to roll in to the next, much like the rolling waves on the Indian Ocean outside.

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MINI’s John Cooper Works isn’t just a car - it’s a legend, says Matthew Mills.

ometimes a car is just so much more than getting from A to B. Sometimes a car is history, an icon, a mood-enhancer, a gamechanger.

And one of those times is when that car is the MINI John Cooper Works.

Here is a piece of machinery that manipulates its surroundings, oozing goodwill and a sense of a life more interesting.

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immaculately dressed woman, walking with her husband, smiled broadly and told me in no uncertain terms just how much she loved my car. I beamed back, thanked her, and revelled in the thrill of simply being associated with this wonderful piece of iconic motoring. (I’m a little bit embarrassed to admit that I didn’t take the time to tell her that it wasn’t actually mine, that I was only borrowing it for a while).

But that’s what MINIs do – they put smiles on people’s faces and make days that little bit better – and the JCW simply does it in spades.

The highest-performance variant of BMW’s MINI stable, mine sat proudly in the sunshine, bright red, thick white racing stripes proudly adorning the bonnet. It’s round and proud, curvaceous and beautiful, compact but a huge, huge presence on the road.

It oozes motorsport, the twin exhausts at the back likely

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That’s what the MINIs do – they put smiles on people’s faces and make days that little bit better – and the JCW simply does it in spades.

to be the only view any competitor would get of it on the track. And it has, as my wife pointed out, a face that smiles at you. I like to think I’m far too practical to anthrop omorphise cars, but, hey, the MINI JCW looks like it wants to be your very best friend – and take you to the very best parties.

It is, in essence, a wonderful tribute to MINI’s long, long heritage and the spirit of the man it is named for, one John Newton Cooper, the mechanic’s son who headed the team that developed the original British Motor Corporation Mini back in the early 60s.

When BMW moved in to rescue the ailing British manufacture in 1994, they of course kept Cooper and his son Mike on to advise the design team that revamped the car into the MINI we know today.

Sadly, Cooper died at the age of 77 in 2000, but it would be difficult

MINI MARVEL The MINI John Cooper Works is so much fun to drive - and to look at.

to believe that the motoring stalwart wouldn’t love the MINI John Cooper Works as much as he loved every car he created.

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rings from the old-school analogue speedo to the central info panel, a neon dream which dances through the colours of the rainbow as you tell it what to do.

Retro, of course is the key, the whole ethos of the cabin born to evoke feelings of a simpler age, the swinging 60s, The Beatles’ Britain, Jagger’s world – get the kids to search out all the wonderful Union Jack branding that reminds you just where this icon was born.

But the tech is all there too – sat nav, Bluetooth hook-up and a sound system that would put Woodstock to shame. It’s comfortable too, a two-door hatch that’s big enough for grown-ups – acres of room in the front and enough to be comfortable in the back. Its curvy lines also mean the boot’s ample enough to carry all the luggage you’d need for a weekend away. If, however, you want it that bit bigger there’s also the four-door Clubman and Countryman variants, as well as the pretty little Convertible.

But, of course, the JCW’s crowning glory is the drive. It’s fast – boasting the most powerful engine ever fitted in a production MINI, a 2.0-litre four-cylinder spark ignition powerhouse producing 170 kW/231 hp and maximum torque of 32oNm – but it hugs the road like a sweetheart meeting their beau after a year at sea.

Open it up and it’ll take you from a standing start to 100 km/h in 6.3 seconds – while the Brembo sports brake system will bring you to a halt even quicker.

But, of course, it’s a MINI so it’s still economical and eco-friendly, with a combined fuel consumption of 5.7 litres/100 km and combined CO2 emissions of 155 g/km.

I found myself once more falling in love with driving. It’s a car that has that effect on you, impossible to drive without a big grin on your face.

I’m pretty sure it’s a car that John Cooper himself would have been proud of.

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There’s a lot more to tequila and other native spirits of Mexico than the old salt-and-lime party shot, as Norman Burns discovers.

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Tequila.

A word that conjures up hazy memories of some outlandish, predawn, drinking game.

The downing of one-drink-too-many that, despite a generous suck of salt and lime, still tasted like lighter fluid and had a kick like a mule (Mexican, of course). An act of bravado that has you vowing “never again”.

Then there’s the “weird worm thing”. What’s that all about?

(The short answer is: marketing, marketing and marketing and, by the way, it’s not actually a worm - more on that later - and anyway, it’s only ever found in bottles of mezcal, tequila’s also much-misunderstood cousin).

Tequila, mezcal and other Mexican spirits (Brownie points if you know the others - sotol, raicilla and bacanora) have far more to offer than their stereotypical frat party image and being a core ingredient of the classic margarita cocktail. We’re talking about drinks that can be sipped neat, just like a great whisky.

All are made from the heart (or pina) of the spiky agave plant, or similar stem succulents, and under Mexican regulations (Denomination of Origin) that limit production to strict geographic areas.

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agave) for centuries before Spain’s conquistadors arrived uninvited.

When the Spaniards’ supplies of their own brandy ran out (conquering the New World was obviously thirsty work) they looked to tweak the local brew, introducing distillation into the process. Thus, the ancestor of modern tequila was born.

Today every style (there are an estimated 100 distilleries with 2,000 brands in operation today) has its own unique properties and flavour profile, either due to the specific type of agave it is sourced from, the terroir (yes, just like grapes) of the growing region, the production method, the skill of the distiller and more.

Unlike wine making which can produce an annual vintage, making tequila or other Mexican spirits is a much more drawn-out affair.

Only blue agave plants are used to make tequila and they take eight years to reach maturity.

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Sotol takes even longer; made only in the states of Coahuila, Durango and Chihuahua, sotol is made from wild desert spoon plants which take 15 years to reach maturity - and each plant makes just one bottle of sotol, whereas an agave plant can make eight bottles of tequila or mezcal.

But take note that while tequila is a mezcal, a mezcal is not a tequila.

That’s because, under Mexican law, tequila can be distilled only from the blue agave plant (and even then only in the state of Jalisco and several other specific regions).

Mezcal can be produced from many agave varieties.

So how are they made?

First the agave plants are handharvested by jimadors, a highly skilled task. The jimadors must use their knowledge to ensure the plants are just right for harvest and haven’t produced either too much, or too little, sugar.

The piña (heart) of the mature agave plant (these can weigh up to 100kg) is carefully cut out (the spiky leaves are discarded) and then baked for several days.

For tequila, this is usually in an above-ground oven but mezcal makers use an underground fire pit covered with mats and earth, similar to the New Zealand Maori hangi for cooking food.

The agave hearts are roasted or grilled over hot rocks in a cone-shaped pit (a palenques) for three days. This gives mezcal its characteristic smoky flavour.

The roasted piña are then crushed (sometimes by the age-old method of a large stone wheel, called a tahona, pulled by a donkey) to extract the sugar-rich sap.

The sap is then left to ferment (sometimes yeast may be added) for up to 12 days before the liquid is distilled (tequila is usually double distilled).

The initial liquid distillate (about 55% alcohol) is known as blanco, or silver, tequila and is usually bottled immediately.

The distillate can also be aged in bourbon barrels and “rested” for 2-11 months; this is known as reposado style.

Finally, the liquid can be aged for up to three years - the anejo style; it’s this style that, like a fine Scotch, is most commonly sipped neat. Unlike whiskey, however, tequila can’t be aged for much longer otherwise the characteristics of the barrels would overwhelm the spirit inside.

According to data from the International Wine and Spirits Report, Australia’s consumption of agave-based spirits grew from 88,500 nine-litre cases in 2007 to 127,500 last year, still well below that of rivals such as whisky, gin, rum and vodka. Mezcal sales were just a fraction of that.

“The public perception of these drinks (tequila, mezcal) is improving,” says James France of NSW-based Vanguard Luxury Brands, which imports Mexican spirits such as Del Maguey mezcal and the Fortaleza, Ocho and Illegal tequilas brands.

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CACTUS KICK Agave plants are hand-harvested by jimadors, just one part of the complicated process to make tequila.

in the past. That’s because until about 16 years ago there was virtually no 100% agave tequila available in Australia. As a younger generation comes through - one that hasn’t been exposed to lesser quality agave

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spirits - we are seeing more ready acceptance of agave spirits,” says James, who offers some straight-topoint advice for tequila newbies.

“If it’s not 100% agave tequila don’t drink it. Blancos are usually enjoyed best mixed, unless they are very premium such as Fortaleza.

Reposados can be enjoyed mixed or straight up and anejos are best enjoyed straight only,” he says.

However while tequila/mezcal may not (outside of being a cocktail ingredient) be challenging sales of traditional spirits in Australia yet, internationally the beverage industry’s heavy hitters have been scrambling to snap up tequila brands.

Case in point, Casamigos, the brand started by actor George Clooney, and two of his mates restaurant mogul Rande Gerber (and husband of supermodel Cindy Crawford) and property developer Mike Meldman.

The PR story goes the three only ever intended their tequila (sourced, of course, from Jalisco) to be for personal use and shared just with family and friends.

Gerber already had extensive experience in the spirits and food

industries, including producing the world-award winning Caliche aged white rum.

Initially Casamigos’ master distiller provided 1,000 bottles a year to Clooney and co as “samples” but, according to a report in The Washington Post, told the trio they would have to “get licensed and do it right.”

They did, going public with Casamigos, with sales skyrocketing in just a few years. This got them on the radar of liquor industry giant Diageo, which last June bought Casamigos for a cool $US1 billion.

A tidy sum indeed - but that deal pales in comparison with Bacardi’s move on Patrón late in 2017, taking a 100% stake in the world’s top selling ultra-premium tequila brand for $US5.1 billion.

The surge in international demand is also creating a classic supply-and-demand dilemma for agave growers.

Reuters reported in February a looming shortfall of blue agave stocks, bearing in mind it takes eight years for the plant to reach maturity. While nearly 18

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TAKE A SHOT It takes eight years for the blue agave plant to reach maturity. Bottom right, Caballitos manager Jamie Passmore; and below, George Clooney and Rande Gerber of Casamigos Tequila.

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million had been planted in 2011 and were ready for harvest, another 27 million were needed to keep up with demand from tequila makers.

This had led to a six-fold price increase since 2016, from around 26 cents Australian a kilo to $1.50 a kilo.

The upshot, say industry analysts, is that tequila demand will outstrip supply until at least 2021.

Luckily though there’s still plenty of the stuff already bottled and a bar is usually the best place to start if you want to start exploring exotic drinks.

A dedicated tequila bar, Caballitos, recently opened just near the trendy King Street precinct in Perth’s CBD. Entering, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’ve stumbled on a southof-the-border cantina. Caballitos oozes the Mexican vibe, including a spectacular array of skulls around the bar, itself the focal point of more than 160 tequilas/mezcals, many dangling from the ceiling.

Formerly a vodka bar, Caballitos is part of Perth drinks entrepreneur Andy Freeman’s empire (The Flour Factory, Varnish on King and more).

Naturally, margaritas and

other tequila-based cocktails abound, along with a range of Mexican food and Mexican beers, but manager Jamie Passmore leads a team passionate about educating their customers on the finer points of the tequila universe.

“The more you learn about tequila/mezcal, the more you discover how artisanal it is,” says Jamie. “They’re very multi-faceted drinks; it’s about sweetness versus smokiness and much more.”

While he says Caballitos will happily accommodate the “lick, sip, suck” brigade who want shots he prefers to encourage customers to explore the amazing range on show.

“It’s great to get a shot of tequila or mezcal and have a glass of Sangrita - like a Bloody Mary mix - on this side. The flavours complement the spirit,” says Jamie who adds that tequila/mezcal should be served at room temperature rather than out of the fridge.

“The colder temperatures can ‘close up’ a lot of the flavours.”

And as for that “worm”...

This is actually the larvae of a moth found on an agave plant; they’re only found in (some) bottles of mezcal as a marketing gimmick.

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Caballitos manager Jamie Passmore’s must-try Mexican spirits.

TROMBA (ABV 40%), TEQUILA, made in Jalisco This is a reposado, or ‘rested’, tequila with great grassy notes and mellowing from the barrel. Not as harsh as a blanco tequila and a great starting point for people being introduced to tequila.

BURRITO FIESTERO (ABV 40%), MEZCAL, made in Oaxaca Really sweet, earthy tones, made from Durango agave. A great cocktail mixer too.

CALLE 23 (ABV 40%), TEQUILA, made in Jalisco From the Los Altos (highlands region), all round very good and smooth. If the staff are having a shot, this is what they enjoy.

DON JULIO 1942 (ABV 38%), TEQUILA, made in Jalisco This is an anejo (aged) tequila, the “Big Daddy” of tequilas with vanilla/caramel tones. Perfect for sipping; the ideal alternative to that bottle of Scotch if you’re having a cards night with mates.

LA VENENOSA (ABV 61.8%), RAICILLA, made in Jalisco This is a blow-your-socks off, still-strength, raicilla.

EMMASCARADO (ABV 54%), MEZCAL, made in Oaxaca This is the other end of the spectrum from the Burrito Fiestero; smoky, earthy and a classic mezcal with that extra kick.

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Self-confessed BMW R1150 GS Adventure obsessive Dr Robin Morritt shares the story so far of his beloved bike.

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had hoped to get 500,000 km out of my 2003 R1150 GS Adventure before buying another bike to replace it. After all, the old “1150” has hardly missed a beat in more than 420,000 km - it’s truly a long distance beast.

It has only once been unceremoniously hauled back to BMW Auto Classic in Victoria Park on a truck after stopping on the side of the road. As it turned out, the fuel pump had expired.

Unfortunately for the old bike I couldn’t resist the latest BMW R1200 GS Adventure Rallye X with its

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outstanding suspension upgrades and all the electronic kit. Time will tell if she is a match for my old R1150 GS Adventure.

But I digress . . . back to that 500,000km ride on a BMW R1150 GS Adventure.

Prior to buying the twin-spark BMW R1150 GS Adventure in 2003 I had the original single-spark version.

I put 80,000km on the clock before trading it in for the twin-spark version. And voila - 500,000km and counting on my current R1150 GS Adventure. Now that I have the Rallye X, the 1150 will be serviced

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and set aside for special occasions.

It will likely get to 500,000km in its own right in due course. The old bike will just have to compete with the new Rallye X and my HP2 Enduro for time out riding and exploring.

My BMW R1150 GS Adventure still runs very well, despite more than 420,000km on the clock. I have dealt with Auto Classic since it first opened its doors in 2000. One of my bikes, a K1200 RS, managed to roll off its centre stand and through one of those expansive glass panes soon after opening - once again, that’s another story . . .

BMW Motorrad's Jonas Goulden and his staff have looked after me very well over the last few years. The 1150 has been maintained exclusively by their service crew from day one.

Many thanks to Shane Huxley and Anthony Precha for their attention to the bike over the last few years. I

came off near Neale Junction and compound-fractured bones in my left hand. I rode the 1150 out through the desert and home. Having said that, the bike has never let me down in a remote area but I’m not so sure about my body standing up any more to the rigours of that kind of tough riding.

put the kilometres on the 1150, Shane and his team keeps it running.

The 1150, with me aboard, has criss-crossed Australia; from Cape Leeuwin to Cape York, from Tasmania to the Kimberley. Every minor road and track in every major desert area has been either crossed or investigated by the pair of us in the process.

The 1150 can be a brutal companion and has thrown me into the dirt, sand and mud on many occasions. On a ride across the Great Victoria Desert on the Anne Beadell Highway (a remote twin-track) I

There have been some special moments along the way to those 420,000kms. Returning home to Nedlands from a BMW GS Safari on the east coast some years ago I rode the 1150 non-stop from Ceduna to Nedlands, covering a distance of 2,000 km in twenty-two hours.

I left Ceduna in the early morning and arrived into Nedlands very early the next morning. Travelling east to west gave me some extra daylight before having to face the night from Hyden with dawn arriving at York.

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for me I have not kept track of what it has actually cost to ride those kilometres. I am certain Auto Classic has the full record - just in case. For the record, the bike has been shod with Continental TKC80s for most of the journey; 110 rear and 55 front tyres. A few pairs of Heidenau K60 Scout Tyres have covered the last “few” kilometres. And the clutch plates were changed- out at about 360,000 kilometres, just in case. The plates didn’t need to be replaced.

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BMW ACTIVE T-SHIRT Made from a remarkably quick-drying fabric with antipiling effect with an urban athleisure styling, the loosefitting ladies’ T-shirt also comes with a carbon finish, giving the garment an extra-soft feel.

SETTING THE STYLE STANDARD BMW Active’s collection of outfits and accessories underline BMW’s style aesthetic.

BMW ACTIVE SWEATSHIRT The jersey-lined drawstring hood and raised scarf collar make this an extremely comfortable top while ensuring maximum freedom of movement.

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rom the urban jungle to the peaceful countryside, the products in the new BMW Active line are ideal for embarking on sporty expeditions and outdoor activities. This newly created collection comprises outfits that blend sportiness with functionality, handy outdoor accessories, a robust luggage series and matching accessories for dogs. The move sees BMW Lifestyle once again expanding its range of leisure items as it offers even more ways to enjoy a modern, active lifestyle.

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BMW ACTIVE JACKET FUNCTIONAL There’s no such thing as bad weather, especially if you’re wearing this breathable jacket with sealed shoulder and hood seams. It offers high water resistance (10,000mm waterproofing) as well as being highly visible thanks to its yellow zippers and the reflective print on the shoulders.

BMW ACTIVE GILET Ideal for cooler days thanks to its combination of a warm, quilted front and soft fleece on the back, not only does the gilet offer optimum temperature control, it feels comfortable to wear even when carrying a backpack or during long car journeys.

BMW ACTIVE DOG COLLAR AND THE BMW ACTIVE DOG LEAD A first for BMW, welcome to a new range for your pooch.

Every canine will love wearing the smoothly adjustable, soft nylon dog collar designed to protect their fur. Both this and the lead are made from robust, dirt-resistant

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BMW LIFESTYLE material and come with double seams that reflect in the dark for even greater safety.

BMW ACTIVE COOL BAG Keep snacks and drinks fresh and cool on long excursions. The bag’s easy-access compartment with Velcro fastener allows items to be removed quickly and simply with minimal cooling loss, while the intelligent interior partitioning puts an end to bottles accidentally tipping over or sauces leaking.

BMW ACTIVE BACKPACK The great appeal of the BMW Active luggage series lies in its variety of sophisticated features, functional, hard-wearing materials and special design based on the BMW prototypedisguise pattern. The intelligent arrangement of the backpack’s inside pockets, the padded outside pocket for tablets or laptops up to 15 inches

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BMW ACTIVE SPORTS BAG Torn between a backpack and a bag?

Then the multifunctional sports bag may just provide the perfect all-rounder. The adjustable shoulder straps combine with two extra straps to allow the bag to be used as either a backpack or a travel bag. A large main compartment, a variety of small outside and inside pockets, a shock-resistant padded outer compartment, plus a ventilated wet compartment ensure that everything inside is stowed away safe and sound from the elements.

The BMW Active collection is available for purchase from the Auto Classic service lounge. To confirm stock availability, please email lifestyle@autoclassic.com.au MQ

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Whether you’re into the footy, the races, twitching (aka bird watching) or maybe just want to keep a close eye on the neighbours, a good pair of binoculars is invaluable. But cut corners on quality and you’ll soon come unstuck.

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hen my daughter was around four she used to insist on bringing her “skelescope” to the dining table.

Peering down the opposite end to the eyepiece (the “skelescope” was, in fact, a pair of plastic toy binoculars) she’d exclaim: “Why’s my dinner so small?”

Now if you’re in the market for real binoculars, unless you get do some research first, you can easily end up with a skelescope-like product that not only is completely unsuitable for the task at hand but could very well, through shoddy optics, be a danger to your eyesight.

Binoculars are, in reality, two telescopes mounted on a single frame. The first designs date back to the early 17th century, but it wasn’t

until 1854, when Italian Ignazio Porro took out a patent for a system of prisms within each “tube”, that the modern binocular was born.

Prism systems (there are two main types) are still the mainstay of binoculars today and because the prisms bend light you don’t need a tube as long as a telescope.

Amateur astronomer Keith Williams has been involved in the retail trade in top-line cameras, telescopes and binoculars for the best part of three decades.

“The biggest mistake people make is buying high-powered binoculars; the higher the power, the harder they are to hold and the less light gets to the eye, giving you a shaky image and poor quality image,” says Keith.

“When buying binoculars you are faced with two sets of numbers, for example 8 x 42. The first number, 8, is the magnification; 42 is the diameter of the large lens in millimetres. Seven, eight and 10x magnifications are fine.”

There are marked differences between the prism systems used too.

“There are two types - porro and roof. Porro prisms are in the shoulder of the binocular, often used in larger binoculars because the prisms are bigger than roof prisms; being larger they let more light to the eye, so are better in low light conditions,” says Keith.

Companies such as Zeiss and Leitz led the way in the 1960s with smaller, lighter binoculars using the roof prism system.

“Roof prisms today are the norm for everyday use, compact and easy to hold. Roof prism binoculars appeared much simpler than porro prism binoculars but inside they had a more complex light path and required much greater optical precision in manufacturing,” says Keith.

“The other term you will see for prism is BaK4 and BK7, BaK4 is a glass designation used by Schott AG, an old and respected German manufacturer of optical glass. BaK stands for BaritleichKron (German

for Barium Crown). It is used for prisms in most (but not all) high-end binoculars. It has a higher refractive index than BK7 glass (another Schott designation).”

Technology first introduced in video and still cameras to stabilise images also found its way into binoculars.

“There are two basic systems, passive and active,” says Keith.

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magnification. In the 1990s most of the stabilised binoculars were for military, sea and rescue use and powered by a battery pack or powered from the vehicle they were being used in. To this day they are still preferred by the services and costs run into the thousands. This is known as the passive system and in these systems there is no feedback from a sensor to the corrective element.

“The whole binocular may be stabilised by use of a gyroscope, or the binocular prisms may be disengaged from the housings, allowing them to be unaffected by binocular movement,” says Keith.

“As technology improved, the active system was invented. In these the change in attitude of the binoculars is sensed electronically, and some part of the system changed to correct this offset.”

Keith says a pair of good quality, 7 to 10x binoculars will do the job for most people looking to use them for “bird watching, sport and general purpose”. And if you do opt for a highpowered set, a tripod mount is a must.

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“Aperture is king, the more light you can get in into the binocular the better. There are some fantastic compact binoculars available but they do come at a price; these have superb optics and state-of-the-art coating that allow every bit of light to the eye, giving you bright, clear images,” he says.

Buyers should also be wary of manufacturers’ hype about how “tough” their products are.

“Binoculars are an optical device, like a camera, video camera or your spectacles. If you drop them, give them a heavy knock, they will break.

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Very good eye relief and field of view, the optics are multi-coated and the BaK4 prisms give very clear images.

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military specs, but this is large and not the sort of binocular you would want to carry around bird watching or going to the footy,” says Keith.

While some makes are waterproof, any salt water must be washed off or it could affect the rubber coating on the binoculars.

“When cleaning the eyepieces - or objective lens make sure you brush the dust off first then use a lens cleaning cloth to wipe any smudges off the lenses; and don’t touch the lenses with your fingers.

Lastly, if you wear mascara,

be aware that this will get on the eyepieces, so keep them clean.”

Keith says there’s a big choice of top quality binoculars out there, whatever your budget.

“My top five manufacturers are Leica, Zeiss, Steiner, Swarovksi and Vortex. As for everyday binoculars ($200$1,000) my top five is Nikon, Vanguard, Saxon, Busnell and Pentax.” MQ Thanks to Keith Williams for his assistance with this article.

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Minox BF-Series 10x42 Fully waterproof (3 metres) and fog-proof; aluminium body, twist-up eyecups, tripod socket and lightweight (just 780gm).

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TWO’S COMPANY The brand new BMW X2 is something special, as Matthew Mills discovered.

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o be handed the keys of the X2 was an honour, knowing as I did that I was going to be one of the first journalists to put this wonderful new addition to BMW’s spectacular SUV stable through its paces.

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That iconic machine, BMW’s first SUV, marked the beginning of a remarkable success story that has seen the X Series establish itself well and truly as a world leader in the genre. It was followed by the sporty X3, then the big, butch X6, the small but beautifully formed X1 and, four years ago, the superb X4, so to see

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just how the X2 was going fit into this all-conquering dynasty had my heart pumping as I crossed Auto Classic’s forecourt towards my deep gold review car.

First impressions instantly confirmed BMW’s assurance that the X2 was born to be the “cool X”. It’s a coupe, of course, and presents itself as the X4 and X6’s even more handsome little brother. There’s still that aggressive, pugnacious even, styling that the bigger coupes boast, but the X2 has an unquestionably sportier look.

Tech-heads will tell you that it shares much of its technology with the X1, but the two cars have very different personalities. The X2 is a touch shorter, but a little bit wider and lower, and, with its upside down kidney grille, double exhausts and BMW badging on the C-pillar harking back to cool retro times, is definitely the funkier cousin, the extrovert.

Inside, however, the X2 feels spacious and comfortable, belying its positioning in the compact SUV bracket.

The sports front seats hug both driver and passenger and the dashboard is comfortingly BMW, boasting the wonderful tech set-up that the brand’s devotees have come to love. The 6.5-inch touchscreen, home of the sat nav and reversing camera, sits proudly front and central and the 100watt stereo entertainment system is magnificent enough to satisfy even the most meticulous aficionado. As you’d expect, the X2’s also all ready and waiting to hook up with your smartphone.

The back seats too are roomy and comfortable, big enough for most grown-ups to be able to enjoy a long freeway run, and fold down to reveal a remarkably spacious luggage area if you’ve got a lot to cart down south for your weekend away.

All in all, the cabin feels luxurious and top end, everything we’ve come to expect from the X Series, and once on the road it ticks all the boxes too.

your eyes off the road.

It is, in fact, a comfortingly safe car to be inside, boasting the maximum five-star ANCAP rating and packed with tech to look out for its most precious cargo, including stopand-go adaptive cruise control, that lane-keeping assistance, autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian detection at urban speeds and semiautomated parking assistance.

At night, especially if you can get out of the bright lights of metro Perth and into the bush, the LED lights front and rear really light the way, cutting

The sDrive20i has a two-litre turbo-petrol, four cylinder engine which produces 141kw of power and 280Nm torque, which is plenty of grunt for what is essentially a small car. It picks up, then, beautifully, accelerating in a commanding but safe way, giving the assurance that it’s going to do whatever it is that you want it to do. Fuel wise, it’s not going to break you at the bowser, averaging around 7.5 litres/100km.

The X2’s diminutive dimensions come into their own while cornering – the X2 feels like it’s on rails,

hugging the tarmac with complete confidence, making it a wonderful machine to drive at pace. It is deceptively quick, that engine easily capable of taking you from a standing start to 100km/h in just 7.7 seconds.

Once on the freeway, though, this a car that just wants to take you to your destination in style, comfort and safety. Its tech quietly keeps a watching brief around you, gently nudging the wheel should you stray out of lane and keeping a watchful eye out for tailgaters or miscreants sneaking up on your inside.

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ARRIVE IN STYLE The X2 is a remarkable new addition to BMW's X series.

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The X2, then is a remarkable new addition to BMW’s wonderful X Series. While the next X we’ll see has a very distinct raison d’etre – the X7, set to go on sale next year will tackle the busy big 7-seater SUV market – the X2 was charged with making itself a unique addition. It has accomplished this challenge in spades, bringing the series a small, sporty, funky, cool coupe SUV that combines fun and excitement with luxury and the sheer driving excellence that has long been BMW’s forte. MQ * The X2 sDrive20i launch variant, which is available from Auto Classic now, will be joined by the X2 sDrive18i and range-topping X2xDrive20d in mid-2018.

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HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR BRAND PERSONALITY How can you make your brand so engaging that it feels as though you are dealing with a person?

Debbie O’ Connor has some tips.

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ne thing that we can all agree on is that people do business with people. So how do you create a business that evokes in your clients the sense that they know it as intimately as they might know a friend, trusty advisor or hero they look up to? You build a brand with personality of course.

As humans, we like to personify things – our pets, even our cars.

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on emotions, then creating a brand with personality will result in better customer connection and engagement. But how do you go about doing that? After all, your business is not a person. Firstly we need to understand what brand personalities are.

In the late 1800s Swiss psychologist Carl Jung studied hundreds of people to define their different personalities. He noticed that their attributes could be defined by 12 key personality archetypes. These personalities are so universally identifiable that we subconsciously know and understand them without having to have them explained.

Whether it’s a magical fairy, a tattooed rebel, a wise old woman or a powerful businessperson,

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YOUR BEST YOU Debbie O'Connor (above) is an awardwinning brand strategiest and founder of White River Design.

somehow we understand their personalities and identify with them.

These same human attributes can be effectively utilised in branding a business.

What to think about when creating a brand personality?

IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU – IT’S ABOUT THE BRAND Most business owners tend to focus on their own personality when thinking about their brand personality. This could be shortsighted, as you want your business to be bigger than you. The joy of having a clearly defined brand personality is that it helps attract the ideal customers as well as the perfect team.

FOCUS ON HOW, NOT WHAT The biggest mistake is focusing on what you do, not how you do it. Lets take Oprah and Ellen for example.

Both are talkshow hosts. Both have a huge following, command attention and respect, but for different reasons. Oprah is positioned as a thinker and philosopher. She reflects on life, is an advisor to many, and due to her life experiences she is highly credible. Added to that, she projects the image of confidence, is full of wisdom and always very professional. Oprah is what we call The Sage personality. Ellen on the other hand is playful and joyous. She takes things (and herself) lightly. She likes to create a little fun/chaos, is impulsive, spontaneous and appears to live in the moment. Ellen is The Entertainer personality. Both are just as effective for different reasons, but they wouldn’t be as authentic if they swapped personalities.

WORDS TO GO BY Think of words that describe how you do what you do, and how you would like people to perceive your business: Funny or serious?

Rebellious or in control?

Innovative or conservative?

DEBBIE O’CONNOR is an internationally award-winning brand strategist, keynote speaker, mentor, and expert guest on the 12-part Build My Brand series. She’s also the founder and creative director of multi-award winning branding studio White River Design, and CEO of The Creative Fringe which is listed on Australia’s 100 Coolest Companies.

Find out more at debbieobrands.com

Remember, there’s no right or wrong answer. You just need to have clarity about how you deliver your service or product, so that you can consistently deliver it each and every time. Once you have your list of words, look at words that belong together. Creating a strong brand personality is not about being all things to all people. It’s about being steadfast and clear about how you work.

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personality you will have the clarity to know how to connect with your customers.

It will guide you in what colours, fonts and images to use. You’ll be able to craft your brand language and tone to ensure that it resonates with your target audience. But most importantly it will help you develop a brand culture and experience for your clients and your team.

Being clear on ‘who’ you are as a brand is critical. After all, if you aren’t sure on your brand, how can you expect others to be?

If you can build a brand that has human traits, you’ll make your customers feel as though they are doing business with people rather than an organisation. After all, people do business with people.

Check out brandpersonalities.com.au for descriptions on the 12 brand personalities. MQ

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LAST WORD

SEVEN DEADLY SINS JAYDE WESTABY

Londoner Jayde Westaby plays Tanya in Mamma Mia!, the sparkling, singalong musical featuring 22 ABBA songs that’s heading to Perth in May.

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ince coming to Australia, Jayde has been played Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show (2015) and in 2016, she was part of the original cast in the critically acclaimed Dreamlover, directed by Simon Phillips. Early 2017 saw Jayde taking on the role of Lucille Ball in Everybody Loves Lucy touring Australia. Here she shares her seven deadly sins.

Gluttony – What is the food you could eat over and over again? This is so hard

because I love food. Like really love it! SO HARD. OK, it has to be cheese (at the moment in particular Costello Blue but pretty much any) or Dumplings from Din Tai Fung in Perth. Yum.

Greed – You’re given $1m that you have to spend selfishly – what would you spend it

on? I would travel. Go see everywhere and do everything in those places while staying in a variety of hotels that give the best massages in the land. Sunsets and great red wine. I don’t think a million would last too long!

Sloth – Where would you spend a long time doing nothing? Croatia. It’s completely stunning and ticks all the boxes. I’ve stayed on the island Hvar and had the most wonderful time. There’s much more to discover in Croatia. It has the best food, atmosphere, the whole island smells of lavender and kicks off at sunset at Bar Hula Hula. It’s so cool, probably way to cool for me.

Wrath – Which news story makes you white with rage? When the weather report is wrong. You know when you’re dressed and packed for certain weather and a particular temperature and it’s not that? The total opposite. Fuming.

Envy – Whose shoes would you like to walk in? If I could bear to part with my exceptional platforms I get to wear in Mamma Mia, I think I would chose anyone who wears Jimmy Choos, oh, or Louboutins. Shoes I adore but don’t buy. They’re so pretty.

Pride – What is the one thing you’re secretly proud of? Taking a leap of faith, leaving everything I know and moving to the other side of the world with my little family. A huge risk but so happy and proud of us for not just talking about it but for doing it.

Lust – What makes your heart beat faster? My partner Sean, my son Bay and a good HIIT workout! Not to mention the finale of Mamma Mia. Come along to see what I mean!

Mamma Mia!, Crown Theatre, from May 15. Visit ticketmaster.com.au for tickets.

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