Geelong Coast Magazine Winter 2019 by Star News Group

CAN YOU BEAR IT?

Meet the You Yangs' cutest character

ON THE WATERFRONT

Polishing the jewel in Geelongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crown

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LOCAL LOVE

Ella and Sam's coastal wedding

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Sue Anderson's eye for the land

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IN CONVERSATION KRISTI VAN ES

SAVING INDIA'S SEX-TRAFFICKING VICTIMS

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Callum WATSON LEARNING to play the piano at the age of four was the beginning of Callum Watson’s musical ambitions.

productions and recently enjoyed international premieres of his works, including in the Netherlands.

Now 22, the Torquay pianist and composer has performed in front of audiences including mayors, ministers, premiers and celebrities.

While playing keyboard for up to six bands at a time, Callum also founded Geelong Jazz Soires, a monthly event promoting local talent.

The music prodigy says his love of piano started in kindergarten.

The soires have received “strong support” from the community since launching in March, he says proudly.

“At kinder they had this big old piano. I started playing it one day and became hooked,” Callum says. “I didn’t like kinder very much, so the piano was the thing that kept me going there.” Callum has since composed music for nine theatre

“I’ve already got regular attendees coming back every month.”

“There'll be a lot of things that will set you back but you just have to keep on persevering,” he says. The former Surf Coast Secondary College student was the sole recipient of a Margaret Schofield Scholarship for his original composition, which featured various instrumentals on anything from the didgeridoo to bagpipes. More recently Callum received a Geelong Youth Award, which recognises the contributions of young people to their community. The jazz enthusiast was "honoured" to land the “fantastic“ local award. “It gives me a lot of encouragement to keep going on with what I’m doing,” he says. Callum's dream now is to make a full-time career out of music. “I’d love to be able to compose during the week and then perform on the weekends.”

But Callum's journey has come with its challenges, inspiring his advice for aspiring musicians to “persist during the hard times”.

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KRISTI VAN ES From teaching at Christian College to saving victims of sex trafficking in Calcutta, Kristi Van Es has seen the highs and lows of humanity. She tells ELISSA FRIDAY about her remarkable work with Offspring, the charity she established to help some of the world's most disadvantaged women and girls.

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KRISTI, PLEASE TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAMILY BACKGROUND. I’ve got an older brother and younger sister who now live in Melbourne. I’ve always lived in Moolap and have been there for the past 25 years of my life. I have a boyfriend, which is interesting when you spend most of your time in India.

Pete and I have been together for 18 months, initially meeting when he came over to talk with me about the organisation he works for. We soon realised our common ground. He works one day a week for a non-profit organisation in the anti-trafficking field, which raises funds for partner organisations throughout Asia.

YOU WERE A LOCAL TEACHER A FEW YEARS AGO? I started teaching in 2005 at Christian College, middle school campus. Then I went across to the Bellarine campus teaching for around six or seven years there. I loved my job. It was great to get up in the mornings and go to work thinking, 'I’m getting paid for doing this'. Also, it wasn’t about how well they threw the ball during sports class. It was more about me helping them through challenging years.

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TELL US ABOUT YOUR FIRST EXPERIENCE IN INDIA.

WHAT WAS IT ABOUT INDIA THAT LURED YOU BACK?

SO YOU DECIDED TO RESIGN FROM YOUR TEACHING JOB?

I first went on a group trip to the south of India when I was 19 and still to this day have a love-hate relationship with it.

It was an organisation called Teen Missions that worked with taking kids on experiences to places like Fiji.

At the end of 2012 I resigned and got on a plane to India.

I loved it because of the constant things going on all the time. I struggled in some ways with the cultural difference. Plus, I got pretty crook, and at one point I was lying outside with an intravenous drip that was just attached to a bit of wood they had made on a makeshift bed. I did get better, though, and whatever they dosed me up with helped.

All the places they went seemed nice but India was somewhat intriguing to me. I think because I like a challenge and that was going to be one.

I don’t try to figure what it is any more that makes me unwell, I just figure out how to get better.

YOU INCLUDED INDIA AGAIN IN YOUR FUTURE TRAVELS? I took a year leave from work and we worked in the Aboriginal community right in the centre of Australia, in Armada, just underneath Uluru. I was the swimming and sports teacher for a term. We then travelled to Africa and were working with a few different organisations there. After that, travelled through Europe for six months and then went to India for two months in 2010 for the second time when I was 27.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR THIRD TRIP TO INDIA AND HOW IT INSPIRED YOU TO MAKE A FUNDAMENTAL DECISION. I went back in 2011, taking with me a small group of people on a two-week exposure trip looking at rural and urban poverty. I said to them, 'This is what I’m looking at doing here and why, and this is how much it will cost for the trip', and so on. I was trying to lead people on a similar experience to what I saw in terms of how we live in such a privileged culture and world. I thought, 'Let’s have a look at what’s going on over on the other side of the world and look into doing something about that'. During the trip we visited an organisation called Justice and Care, which goes into the venues and rescues girls from sex trafficking. For me, that was my first real exposure to human trafficking.

I spent 2013 as a research year, working with different organisations, figuring out what the need was, and if there were similar organisations there. I felt ready to come on board alongside others but I was also ready to fill a gap. It came from meeting a girl who had been trafficked from China into Greece. I was in Greece at the time and when she was free she looked at me and said, ‘But I’m still like a baby’. All of her life she’d had no independence, so for her to be free and let into the world with no skills or knowledge inspired me to want to help break that cycle of them feeling still vulnerable to going back into what they were rescued from. YOU WERE INSPIRED TO OPEN A CHARITY THERE? Doors just kept opening, giving me the opportunity to come to India. I felt that I couldn’t not do something, and part of that is my Christian faith. I just wanted to love people and these were the people that I felt like I needed to love. We have been a registered charity since 2014. I did my research year and spent two years setting up the organisation in India, in Calcutta, before we actually had our first sex traffic survivors. There were heaps of challenges for me in a new country, culture, language, new everything. I was working on finding a place to live, finding our first staff member and office and so on. HOW DID YOU DECIDE ON THE NAME OFFSPRING FOR YOUR CHARITY ORGANISATION? It came from a verse in the Bible, which I had read when I was in Greece travelling in 2010. I was standing in the spot where Paul had preached to the people of Athens. I asked a guy about it, and was told what Paul had preached was in Act: 17, so I read it. It said: ‘In him we live and move and have our being. We are his offspring’. I wasn’t planning on setting up an organisation then but I love that word, offspring. We're someone’s child and that’s important, offspring for life.

WHAT IS THE PROCESS FOR RESCUING THE GIRLS? These guys from the organisations are going into the brothels undercover, pretending to want these girls but obviously not doing anything. They talk to the girls and explain why they are undercover there. Huge risks are involved for those undercover. They put their lives on the line for girls they don’t know, which really got me thinking about what are we here doing about it.

In India you have to pay a dowry for a daughter when she gets married and is about to live with the husband’s family. They would not really see their daughter after that, and she wouldn’t be sending money home. Whereas when a boy marries his family gets a whole lot of money and then his family has another female in the household helping out with all the jobs. I can’t judge people for the decisions they make when I haven't had the experiences they've had.

HOW BIG IS THE SEX TRAFFICKING INDUSTRY? DOES TRAFFICKING INCLUDE CHILDREN?

It’s massive. Modern day slavery is another word for human trafficking. It’s bigger now than it's ever been. Part of that is sexual exploitation and forced labour. There are a lot of different areas in it. With females, sex trafficking is the biggest. There are a lot of areas where people are forced into slavery, with no choice, such as forced labour in garment factories. We decided to hone into one area. HOW ARE WOMEN TRAFFICKED? WHAT IS THE PROCESS? People struggle to understand that concept, which I did when I first heard about human trafficking. I thought to myself, 'how does this happen? How does someone exploit someone in that way?'.

One of the girls we have is now 21, and she was trafficked at the age of four. She moved from one side of the country to the other. She doesn’t know her original family and was rescued at the age of around 16, so, yes, they are trafficked often at a younger age because there are more profits for a younger girl.

MEN ARE ALSO TRAFFICKED? Men generally will be trafficked more for forced labour but there is also definitely trafficking for sexual exploitation of boys.

Sex trafficking survivors with products they made in the Offspring program.

WHERE IS THIS MOST RIFE? They say there’s not one country that’s not affected by modern slavery.

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In terms of sex trafficking, I’d say it’s in the Asian countries where it happens the most.

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The biggest factor is vulnerability, which comes from poverty, which comes from a lack of education, and the low status of women in society. From what we’ve seen with the girls we have with us it’s the parents who either can’t afford to have a girl child and then sell their daughter into the industry, or unknowingly they send their daughter to a job in the city so she can send money back to the family and it all sounds great but it’s not.

Kristi spreads the word about Offspring at a corporate function.

A namaste clutch, made from recycled saris and rice bag materials as part of the Offspring training program.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS FOR THE VICTIMS? We see girls having really high and low mood swings, also being on medications for schizophrenia, for depression, and having flashbacks when they're with us. We do see the effects and try to have an impact on them in a positive way.

ARE THERE DEATHS? Not for us personally with the girls we've had but we have heard stories from one of our girls about another girl within her community who was rescued and went back into the community and then not long after was murdered. If the traffickers feel like the girls are going to testify or say anything these girls are still at risk, or there may be stigma from within the community, so there are lots of risks involved. IS IT A HIGH-END INDUSTRY? Not in India. I walked past the red light area with one of my staff members and a woman came up to him and spoke. I asked what she had said - she had offered herself to him for the equivalent of 50 cents. The effect of hearing this impacted him so much, learning how someone can give up their body for such a low amount of money. In India it ranges. People will pay money for a younger female or a virgin, and there are people who are also willing to pay low amounts of money for sex.

Kristi talks with a trainee at the Offspring centre.

DO THE WOMEN GET MUCH OF THE MONEY? The money mostly goes to the pimps and to the traffickers. The females might get some but that’s part of the manipulation, part of the way to keep them there. It goes back to the vulnerability, of always being in poverty and the hope they have some money to save up and give to their family, which leads to the feeling of needing to stay in that place for their family. It’s a trap. The manipulation and the lies involved almost make it so they don’t have a way of leaving, and it’s like their hands are tied behind their back. They actually don’t have a way of leaving or getting away from it.

WHAT DO YOU OFFER THE SURVIVORS? Everything we do with the girls is based on trauma-informed care. It involves protecting and working with these girls who have experienced trauma. We have been in full operation with traffic survivors for three years now. We partner with organisations which actually do the rescues, and also organisations that have the girls living in registered government homes once they’ve been rescued.

DO THE RESCUED GIRLS LIVE AT OFFSPRING? They live with the partner organisations. They come to work at Offspring Monday to Friday and then they go back. However, we've just set up our first home to provide the next level of accommodation for them with a little bit more independence. They're still coming to work for us but they're living in a separate space. Often they don't have a community to go back to, and it’s very difficult for a single female in India to get accommodation and to find a safe space to live.

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TELL US ABOUT THE TRAINING We provide a vocational training centre to give the girls life skills including using the sewing machine and learning to make products from recycled saris. They earn money and can save. Plus, they also learn good behaviour in a workplace and what it means to come to work on time. We have a non-negotiable hour every morning dedicated to education, which includes learning English, maths, and Bengali, the local language. We talk about healthy and unhealthy relationships, effective communication and decision making, and sex education. Our vocational training centre has two units and no more than six girls in each. The girls have always been in unsafe environments, so we want them to come to a safe place where they know all the staff and they can start to become themselves again.

Our girls have never known these things, or how to make a good decision, or been aware that a relationship is unhealthy. We also offer one-on-one care with an assigned case worker.

TELL US ABOUT THE HOME YOU HAD BUILT FOR THE GIRLS. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one unit with maximum six girls in it. In everything we do we work off a model of quality over quantity. We have low numbers because we want to make sure that, with the girls we have, we're doing the best job we can for them. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy as an organisation to get caught up in numbers but they get lost in that.

Kristi and Offspring staff jumping for joy. Picture: Caleb Westwood.

Our motto is, 'Every life is worth fighting for', so we want to do the best we can with the lives we have.

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YOU MENTIONED A CONVERSATION THAT REALLY HIT HOME FOR YOU.

HOW DO YOU PERSONALLY LOOK INTO WHETHER AN ITEM IS ETHICALLY MADE?

One of our girls was trafficked from Bangladesh into Calcutta. She was working in a garment factory in Bangladesh and the pay and working conditions were not great. Someone offered her a job in Calcutta, so she went across the border into Calcutta and was sold into a brothel.

There are a couple of good apps out there, like Baptist World Aid, which offers an ethical fashion report. When I’m out shopping and I like an item I get the app out to see if it gets a good rating. For me it’s not about whether I like the item or think I’ll look good in it, it’s about the fact someone made it, and if that company isn't paying or doing the right thing by that person then I’ve got no right to buy it.

One day I was wearing jeans and she asked, 'Those jeans from India or Australia?’. I replied, 'From Australia', and she said, ‘Yes, but maybe made in Bangladesh by me.’ My heart sank and it made me realise that people have a responsibility in where they buy their clothes and their chocolate from. We should look at how we can be ethical in that. We need to be aware that sometimes what we buy is made by real people, not robots.

HOW DO YOU SEE OFFSPRING PROGRESSING IN THE FUTURE? I want to see Offspring grow but at the same time I want for it to remain small. It’s about doing the very best with what we have, one step at a time.

Above: An Offspring staff member teaches a mathematics class. Below: Celebrating Offsrping's first birthday in Geelong during 2017.

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KOALA-TY TIME The wildest celebrities would be red-faced if caught getting up to the antics of the You Yangs' Clancy. LUKE VOOGT ventures into the bush to discover the secret life of koalas and the efforts to ensure their survival. YOU Yang resident Clancy is Australia's most famous wild koala and, boy, does he know it, according to 'publicist' Janine Duffy. "He's one of the cockiest, most arrogant koalas I've ever met," the koala expert tells GC. The blonde koala is unperturbed by tourists and animal experts that patrol the trees alike, having a scratch, groom or climb no matter who's watching. "He's a bit of a performer," Janine says. "I often compare him to Chris Hemsworth - a lot of the American ladies love that."

Clancy has almost 45,000 Facebook followers, the most of any non-captive koala, and has been proudly showing off new son Bunyip and daughter Lulu online. "His son is a spitting image!" Janine says. But Clancy is a bit of a scoundrel, whose sexcapades rival that of the wildest celebrities, she reveals. His latest two joeys resulted from mating with a mother koala and her daughter, before taking off on a hiatus, Janine says. "They're his second and third that we're sure of. He takes no responsibility for them, pays no childcare."

But Janine is sure Clancy will come back, as she has observed him for nine years. "He's known us since he was in the pouch of his mother," she says. "I think it he'll be back - he's done it before where's he's gone away for three months." Female koalas can travel several kilometres in summer, in search of the male with the deepest voice, Janine explains. "They're not lazy in summer," she says. "He was the sexiest koala of the year last summer - he was Mr Stud and the women came from everywhere.

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"We know far too much about these animals," she adds, laughing.

Left: Koala Clancy enjoys his relaxed lifestyle in the You Yangs.

Right: Koala joey Lulu gets to know her surroundings.

But with long hot summers and drought on the horizon, Clancy and his fellow koalas are under threat. "Koalas in the You Yangs and Brisbane Ranges need our help," Janine says. "It's getting hotter and drier around Geelong and every summer it gets harder for koalas to survive. "It really is a serious thing. Our modelling suggests that they will not survive climate change in the You Yangs." Koala numbers have declined by 46 per cent in the You Yangs between 2007 and 2017, with a small recovery from 2011 to 2013, Janine says. "The trend is continuing on that bad track. Our area is predicted to get hotter and drier and it's been doing so for 20 or 30 years already."

Hotter, drier summers in future means less healthy vegetation and lower tree survival rates in these poorer growing areas, she says. Koala populations in western NSW are suffering similar decline, Janine says.

Right: Janine Duffy, second from left, leads a koala tour group.

"There's no lack of scientific literature and we have some top scientists working on these animals." Trees under already "terrible" water stress cannot sustain the "thirsty" local koala population in future, Janine says. Koalas can die in temperatures higher than 37 degrees celsius if they cannot find adequate shade, she adds. "We lost at least two to heat this January."

Gradual land-clearing of red gums in the "best quality growing land" over the past century has forced koalas to migrate further into the You Yangs, Janine explains. There the "average" land has kept koalas alive but "wasn't really where they wanted to be", Janine says.

Below: Ngardang takes a nap as joey Bunyip looks on.

But Koala Clancy Foundation is helping to ensure the outrageous antics of their namesake critter can continue well into the future. Together with farmers, Landcare and volunteers, the foundation has planted about 5000 red gums over eight years on the edge of farms or local rivers. "We'll get another 3000 in this year," Janine says. "We've been getting quicker and more professional. We've also got more farmer support - they're getting to know us and they like what we do. "Little River has wet soil and every tree we plant along the river is doing extremely well. "We had 80 to 90 per cent success, even during last summer, which was awful (hot and dry)."

Recently the group held a planting session in Bannockburn and Janine welcomes anyone to plant trees in the You Yangs and Brisbane Ranges on 21 July and 18 August. "What we need is many hands to plant, and local hands are the best," she says. "It only takes five years for a river red gum tree to grow big enough to feed a koala. "In the time it takes a kid to go through high school, we'll have a healthy koala forest - if we plant it now." The foundation digs the holes and supplies the equipment, meaning at most two hours of tree planting. The cost of the day, $30 for adults and $20 for children, includes nature walks with koala experts and goes towards the foundation's work.

With koalas being so beloved by Australians and tourists alike, Janine is confident local people will pitch in to protect the species for future generations. Koalas' tendency to make eye contact and their similar proportions to a baby human are the secrets to the cute creature's popularity, Janine explains. "When someone actually meets a wild koala and the koala turns and looks them in the eye it's one of the most stunning moments," she says.

"I've been to Africa multiple times, I've been walking with the gorillas and chimps and things. It's very rare to make eye contact with wild animals but koalas do it all the time." After 21 years as a koala researcher Janine has never lost her "enchantment" with the furry marsupials. "It's like being a family friend, you're somebody they've known for their whole life," she says. "I feel very protective of them and very privileged to understand so much of their life." For more information on helping local koalas visit: koalaclancyfoundation.org.au/ you-can-help/koala-conservationday

On the WATERFRONT More than a quarter-century after kick-starting the transformation of Geelong’s waterfront, former premier Jeff Kennett returns to enjoy the stunning views with LUKE VOOGT.

ON his regular Geelong visits as a Victorian government minister Jeff Kennett saw a city facing “inward” rather than toward its greatest asset.

As Victorian Premier in the early ’90s Jeff established a standalone authority to pour millions into redeveloping the waterfront and attract private investment.

“Most cities (that) have water use it as a major feature. Geelong just allowed it to exist,” he says.

“It meant redesigning the whole front of the land mass to the bay,” he says.

“(The waterfront) was a bit of a rust bucket. It was there by name but it wasn’t humming.

He employed former Ford managing director, the late Bill Dix, to lead the authority attracting cafes, restaurants, hotels and institutions to the waterfront.

“I then started taking a much greater interest in Geelong and started working out what we could do to revitalise it.”

“Leaders are there to create the environment; they employ good people to fill in the colours,” Jeff says. “That’s where Bill was so terribly good. With him we had a very proactive focus on what we were trying to do.” Deakin University set up a modern campus on the waterfront, while local businesses flourished as they invested in redeveloping the area.

Re-landscaped parklands and art, like Jan Mitchell’s iconic Baywalk Bollards, transformed the precinct. Sitting on a balcony watching people walk, jog and play in waterfront parklands, Jeff reflects on how far the precinct has come. “The waterfront is, in one sense, complete because it’s a lovely place to be,“ he says. “I like that people can still put their fishing lines in the little holes to fish.” Roger Grant, then director of Geelong’s tourism board, says Jeff’s waterfront authority provided the “framework“ for businesses to invest.

Jeff Kennett surveys Geelong's waterfront after leading its redevelopment as Premier in the 1990s. Picture: Rebecca Hosking

“They had the freedom and the capacity to engage with the private sector and really make things happen quickly.” Roger, who recently retired the post after 26 years, is excited about Geelong’s planned conference centre and a potential mineral spa project at Eastern Beach. “I see (the waterfront) as this beautiful canvas where we’re just missing bits,” he says.

Many of his Melbourne clients initially plan to bypass Geelong for the Great Ocean Road before discovering his tours online, he says. “They are blown away with how beautiful our waterfront is and it’s an absolute pleasure to take tours there. It gives me a buzz to hear comments from people about how amazing it is.”

The waterfront’s wide clean pathways and open spaces make Segway tours possible, Tim says. On most tours the smells of a colourful plethora of multicultural families cooking lunch reaches the Segway riders’ noses, he says. “It’s bloody brilliant, I love it.”

“I think we’ve moved beyond ’it can’t happen in Geelong’. The vibe now is ’it should happen in Geelong’.” One of those making things happen on the thriving waterfront is Geelong Segway operator Tim Carr.

Arabella and Kane wear the A.05 button-up shirt in black and white Belgian organic linen. Picture: Sheree Porter

Courtney ready to get busy in the studio.

WASTE NOT Looking good should mean feeling good, too, but ethical considerations can dampen the joy of a new outfit. Fortunately, as ELISSA FRIDAY discovers, one local woman is mastering the cycle of sustainable fashion. HERNE Hill’s Courtney Holm has loved arts and crafts for as long as she can remember.

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“I’d get on the little sewing machine as a kid and pretend to sew with my mum,” she remembers.

Georgia wears the A.12 Long Button Up Dress and the A.05 Button Up Shirt both in Belgian organic linen. Picture: Cydney Cosette

After finishing high school Courtney decided to follow her creative heart, enrolling in fashion design at University of Technology Sydney. After six years of studying while working to make ends meet, she graduated with a major in menswear then took it a step further as an honours year project. “The approach to how you design menswear really appealed to me,” she says. Courtney launched her first menswear brand in 2013. “It was more of a hobby than a proper business," she explains.

"After finishing university I'd moved to Melbourne and become a Pilates instructor.

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"I met my husband and decided to stay put. We really loved Melbourne and the people there."

Georgia wears the A.12 Long Button Up Dress and the A.05 Button Up Shirt both in Belgian organic linen. Picture: Cydney Cosette

Juliette wears the Red Line Sheer Crinkle Top in Lenzing Tencel and Red Line Stonewash Shorts in un-dyed hemp. OppositeJuliette wears the Red Line Stone-Wash crossover trousers in un-dyed Hemp and zero waste halter in un-dyed organic cotton rib. Picture: Katie Goodwin

During a break from work Courtney envisioned taking her business in a new direction, toward sustainable fashion. Now 33, she's delivering on her vision with label A.BCH, an acronym for Article By Courtney Holm, which she launched in 2017. "My dream is to be able to prove to other businesses that there is a viable way. “It is possible to run a fashion business whilst still achieving goals and dreams, but just not at the cost of the planet.”

Courtney says acknowledging the “reality of wastage” in the fashion industry was an eye-opener for her that serves as inspiration for A.BCH. “When you're cutting a garment 15 per cent of the fabric used gets disposed of and thrown in the bin" she explains. “There was no recycling of textiles, and that became an issue for me. Recycling is something that has to happen at the design stage.”

The importance of achieving a sustainable clothing industry really hit home when Courtney watched The True Cost, a documentary on the suffering of Third World workers supplying global fashion houses. Suddenly, her career wasn't just about "design and just making more stuff” for Courtney. She began delving into the supply and manufacturing side of the fashion industry. “It became my passion to make it all easy for the customer to understand the supply chain,” Courtney says.

“A.BCH is circular design. It’s a loop from the design phase, so nothing gets wasted."

“In the design phase we look at creating things that are made to last," Courtney explains.

Courtney says garments must be designed in separate biological and technical cycles.

"We look at what works aesthetically, and what will work from the circular design aspect. The garments need to fit into the biological cycle.”

The biological cycle involves sourcing materials that decompose, which means trying to avoid certain products so full of chemicals they don't break down in the environment. The technical cycle involves the use of materials that can be recycled, such as plastic.

Items that fail the cycle include polyester threads because, as Courtney describes, they're a "nightmare" for recycling and composting.

Buttons, interlining, dyes, finishes, enzymes and a range of other materials and items used in the manufacturing process also have to achieve a circular cycle. Courtney uses threads made from organic cotton and Tencel, a product of wood pulp. She rates the strength of both threads as competitive with polyester.

Juliette wears the Red Line Bolt Check Top and Bolt Check Wide Trouser in Japanese organic cotton gauze. Picture: Katie Goodwin

A "whole-take-back program" for customers extends the cycle for A.BCH products, Courtney says.

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“For every 500 grams of textile that is given back to us, we give them a credit," she explains.

Georgia wears the A.10 Long Trousers in Belgian organic linen. Opposite- A.09 Signature sweater in Australian milled organic cotton and Red Line Surplus Wool T-shirt. Picture: Cydney Cosette

Juliette wears the Red Line Sheer Dress in Japanese organic cotton voile and Zero Waste Bodysuit in organic cotton rib. Opposite- Red Line Sheer Crinkle Trouser in lenzing tencel. Picture: Katie Goodwin

Juliette wears the A.01 Slim T-shirt in Australian milled organic cotton, and the A.21 Lounge Shorts and Red Line Sheer Crinkle wrap necklace in Lenzing Tencel. Picture: Katie Goodwin

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AND Words: ELISSA FRIDAY Pictures: LOUISA JONES An 18th birthday party led to a proposal in France then a wedding on the Surf Coast for Ella Ridgway and Sam Hopgood. 30

WHERE THEY GREW UP

THE FIRST DATE

Ella grew up in New South Wales before moving to Torquay, while Sam was a lifelong resident of Clifton Springs.

“We went to an afternoon Sunday movie together,” Ella tells.

“We’ve lived together in Torquay since 2016,” Ella says. The couple have been an item for 10 years. WHERE THEY MET “We met at a friend’s 18th birthday party, which was at the start of year 12. I was wearing a rag-doll costume,” Ella remembers. Ella’s dad dropped her off at the party before Sam arrived and spotted her. The two were introduced and “progressively” got to know each other at a series of subsequent 18ths, Ella says. Pictures: LOUISA JONES

“We just clicked and have been inseparable ever since.”

The couple watched Angels and Demons, with Ella describing the movie as “just a chance to sit in a dark room and hold hands”. “The date was going really well and Sam asked me if I would come to meet his family that day for dinner. I did and it all went well.”

“Then we were in the elevator I saw a bar-cart used for deliveries to the hotel rooms with a note on it that said 'Marriage proposal'. "I realised that it was for us but I wasn’t supposed to see it.” Later, in a beautiful Versailles garden, Sam dropped to one knee and finally proposed.

THE PROPOSAL “It was definitely one of my most favourite memories,” Ella smiles. The memory began when Sam booked the pair flights to Paris and Ireland around Ella’s 25th birthday. “Lots of people had remarked that he was going to propose, so it was much anticipated but after a week still nothing had happened,” she says. 31

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THE ENGAGEMENT The couple was betrothed for two years, which gave them ample time to save money and plan their wedding. “We chose a Saturday, November 24, which was the same day that we got engaged,” Ella says. THE RING Sam picked up the ring from a jeweller in Melbourne the day they flew to Europe. “He wore two pairs of jocks to hide it well,” Ella laughs. She describes the rose gold solitaire ring as “simple and classic” “It’s probably not something I would have chosen for myself but I'm so glad he picked it.

“He chose a 14-carat rose gold band, and it really complements mine," Ella says. WEDDING PLANNING The big gap between engagement and wedding day was handy for coordinating guests, with Sam’s family local but many of Ella's interstate. To make things easier, the couple chose the RACV's Torquay resort as the venue. It was all part of Ella's planning motto: Simple but elegant. "My sister and best friend were really helpful but Sam and I did the bulk of what was important to us," she says.

“I think he did a better job than I would have for myself.”

The couple managed to balance their "big-picture" for the wedding with a sensible budget, which went right down to the choice of menu items.

The couple also returned to the same jeweller for Sam’s wedding ring.

“We chose foods that we knew our guests would like to help reduce wastage,” Ella says.

I think he did a better job than I would have for myself...

HENS AND BUCKS “My sister, best friend and my mum threw a Versailles garden party at mum’s house in Jan Juc to celebrate our engagement," Ella says. “We even had a jumping castle to represent the palace.”. All the girls in both families attended, along with Ella’s close friends. The 25 guests were pampered with the visiting services of Hilary Holmes Makeup, which also looked after the bridal party's wedding day requirements. “It was a really lovely experience,” Ella says. Sam’s groomsmen organised a bus for 15 to Yea Racing Club where they had bought naming rights to one of the day's races, with Sam making the presentation to the winner.

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THE DRESS Ella initially chose a dress off the rack when visiting a Pakington Street boutique with her mum, sister, and aunt Bree. “At the time I didn’t feel like I was missing out on anything by not getting a traditional wedding dress,” she says. "Bree was very unwell, so it was so very special to have her involved in our wedding because she sadly passed away about a month before our wedding,” Ella explains. Eventually Ella had secondthoughts about her choice of a non-traditional dress. The uncertainty led Ella and her sister to Armadale, where the bridge-to-be found a perfectly fitting dress with a moretraditional design. “I think I was fighting being a traditional bride,” she says. “My sister bought me the new dress and I ended up selling the first one, which was the right decision and it was an enjoyable experience.” BRIDESMAIDS AND GROOMSMEN “My sister, Rose, was my maid of honour, my best friend Alex was my bridesmaid, and I had my little brother, Anton, as page boy,” Ella says.

She granted her bridesmaids free reign to choose something they felt comfortable wearing, so each chose differently. Sam's groomsmen were best friends Nathan, Rob and Tom, all ex-high school mates. “They all chose tuxedos,” Ella says. “Another high school friend was working in the store where they got the tuxes, so it was nice for them all to catch up.” THE CEREMONY Celebrant Georgia Mills officiated on the big day, which went without a hitch. “As far as the wedding goes, I had more compliments about the ceremony and the vows than anything else. It went really well,” Ella says. The ceremony was held amid the "lovely lighting" of the resort's foyer, she says, with Frank Ocean crooning his version of Moon River as Ella and Sam walked up the aisle. PHOTOGRAPHY The couple chose photographer Louisa Jones, based on previous experience with her. “She makes us feel comfortable,” Ella says.

“We found a nice location for photos along the track, and then the rest of the family photos were done at various locations around the resort.” The photos were taken before the ceremony so Ella and Sam could mingle with family immediately afterward, Ella says. “The only hiccup was when my veil flew off but luckily it blew inland and dropped into a scrub area. My sister luckily rescued it for me,” Ella laughs. FLOWERS “Our flowers were by Brit Hough’s company called Miss Petal and Co, so we picked someone we knew," Ella says. "I kept it green and coastal, with tropical foliage and whatever flowers were in season.” The wedding wreath was a "big feature", with Ella’s best friend, Alex, donating the wreath's inner-structure after previously having it customised for her own wedding. “We both had our own take on how to decorate it,” Ella says. Ella placed the wreath on the bridal table for maximum effect. THE RECEPTION The ceremony and reception were both at the same venue. “The wedding coordinator helped us to find a layout we liked,” Ella says. “The coordinator also designed all the cards, welcome signs and invitations, and we gave everyone a chocolate with their place cards.” The couple's traditional table allowed lots of interaction with all the guests, while a DJ provided the entertainment. THE CAKE The couple chose to have caneles, a French pastry, instead of a wedding cake. As a special treat, Sam's dad made them for each guest on the morning of the wedding. “We both really love them," Ella explains. "They were flavoured with rum and vanilla, with a custard centre and a crunchy caramelised crust on the outside.”

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Abigail Grace's father Brett helped her learn how to play the guitar.

But music is a great escape for meâ&#x20AC;?

Abigail Grace, a young woman with a lot of talent. Picture: Justin Flynn

ABIGAIL GRACE WORDS: JUSTIN FLYNN

WHEN Abigail Grace collapsed at a school assembly and was rushed to hospital, she didn’t realise it would be the start of three years of worry. Abigail was in year 10 at Bellarine Secondary College when she succumbed to a soaring heart rate and seriously low blood pressure. After being told the incident was probably a panic attack, the problems persisted. Eventually, three years later, she was diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. “Basically my heart beats at 120 beats per minute even while resting,” she says. After countless specialists, tests and medications, and even being told it was probably all in her head, Abigail was told the news she didn’t want to hear: “There’s nothing we can do”. The fall-out meant Abigail had to abandon her university plans and her dream of becoming a criminal

psychologist and is unable to work, but her music career is slowly taking hold. The talented musician hasn’t let it stop her from doing what she loves. Her father Brett, who is also an accomplished musician and a very good saxophone player, gave her an incentive to learn the guitar. “He had a Maton guitar and I loved the way it looked and I could already sing, so dad said he would give the guitar to me if I learned how to play,” Abigail says. “He said playing the guitar would open up more doors for me further down the track. “I pretty much had to teach myself and found it difficult but eventually got there. “I really hated him for that, but in the end I loved him for it.” The Drysdale resident, who turned 21 in April, has a voice

that she reluctantly describes as “haunting, or at least that’s what others have said it is” and she is also an accomplished song writer.

“If I’ve got some problems in life or health worries, I go to music and forget about everything that’s going on.”

Her blend of indie folk had her winning the busker’s competition at Portarlington Bowling Club Fair two years in a row, winning the Queenscliff Music Festival’s busking competition and being an opening act for country music singer James Blundell, also recording a song with him on his album Campfire.

Abigail will often go to one of the supermarkets in Drysdale, set up out the front and busk.

And while Abigail seemingly takes things in her stride, she says she still has her bad days. “Oh I still have days where it’s ‘why me, why can’t I do what everyone is doing?,” she says.

“I’ll go down there and just busk for a few hours,” she says. Abigail is a bit of a Jill of all trades, performing at weddings, cafes, pub gigs, wineries and private functions. However there is a burning desire to take it even further. With university and a career on hold while her condition is monitored, Abigail is steadfast in what she wants to do. “I’d love to make a career out of this,” she says.

“But music is a great escape for me. “When I’m performing, I forget everything and I’m in that moment. I don’t know what I would do without it to be honest.

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EYE for the land Sue Anderson with one of her coastal landscapes, on display at Queenscliff. Picture: Justin Flynn

From Lake Mungo to Urquhart Bluff, Sue Anderson takes a unique perspective on the Australian landscape. JUSTIN FLYNN discovers the landscape and lifetime inspirations behind her art. WITH a family full of artists, it's no surprise that Sue Anderson travelled down the same path. The Geelong born, Drumcondra raised artist was surrounded by art.

“I grew up in a family where both sides had an artist. I saw a lot of artwork at my grandmother’s house in Geelong,” Sue explains. “My uncle on my father’s side was an artist and an art teacher and then on my mother’s side she had a sister who’s a painter and she’d paint at the kitchen table and was working the farm as well.

“And then when I was at secondary school I had a teacher who introduced me to van Gogh when I was 16 and that’s when I had that thunderbolt moment and thought that’s what I want to do, I want to paint.”

Sitting upstairs at Queenscliff's Salt Gallery during its Terrain exhibition on a warm late autumn day, Sue is quick to identify the inspiration behind her art.

Above: Urquhart Bluff

“Over the years I’ve become more and more interested in Australian landscapes - New South Wales' Coburg Peninsula, Darwin, Mildura ... Lake Mungo is a special place.

Left: Geelong Road

“There’s so much diversity in the landscape and so many different areas that are challenging to paint from coastal areas, to mountains and deserts. “I’ve seen the encroachment of suburban development cover the land. A lot of it has disappeared. “Because I grew up in Geelong, all of the western plains, the You Yangs and coastal areas are really important to me. That’s where my roots are and I respond to that landscape.” Represented by Australian Galleries in Melbourne and Sydney, Sue has been exhibiting with them for 27 years. Her works has featured in group exhibitions at Salt Contemporary Gallery over the last eight years.

Sue walked to school at North Geelong Primary, then attended North Geelong High.

“Seeing another way of living, it was totally different to what I knew and I loved it.

Her father worked at Ford but his transfer to the Philippines meant she was uprooted at age 14 and taken to a whole new world.

“There was a lot of fantastic art and craft there and amazing processions and decorations, people would dress up.”

She loved the entire experience.

Sue eventually returned to her hometown before finishing school at Geelong Grammar.

“That just changed my whole mind around, seeing another culture and another world,” Sue remembers.

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Growing up in Drumcondra surrounded by family, Sue says there were was never a dull moment.

“I try to capture moments when you see something that’s amazing, like a flock of birds flying or a beautiful sky.

“My grandparents lived in the next street, so I had a lot of family around me growing up in Geelong.

“That’s what I’m trying to do, but in my own way because people look at things in different ways. A lot of my paintings have different perspectives, looking above, sideways, upside down and trying to get that feel.

“My early memories were that we lived near the beach so we went to the beach a lot as kids. “My father loved the water and would take us down the coast to Torquay swimming and camping trips and 30 years of family summer holidays at Indented Head where we sailed and fished.” A passionate environmentalist, Sue says she tries to inspire people to look after their surroundings.

“Not necessarily what it looks like, but what it feels like and how it speaks to you and evokes memories.” Sue spends most of her spare time sailing, swimming, walking, listening to music, playing the ukulele in a small band and reading.

“Our natural environment is precious," she says.

“My husband surfs and sails so we are out on the water or at the beach every weekend,” she says.

"I want people to appreciate how unique, especially Australian landscape environment is, especially our birds and our plants.

Ocean Grove, Point Impossible and Urquhart Bluff are favourite spots. They're also set to inspire another rush of creativity.

I want people to

appreciate how unique, especially Australian landscape environment is... Above: 13th Beach Road

Right: Waiting for a Wave

“I’d love to do a whole series of all the beaches and coastlines because they are all very unique,” Sue says. “There’s a lot of inspiration for me around here. “I love the western plains and I love the flat grasslands and I love the coast. “Those places are familiar to me but as you get older they seem more precious.” How people interpret Sue’s art is up to them but she prefers an immediate response. “I want people to respond to my art straight away and not intellectualise about it too much,” she explains.

“Now I just want to spend the time developing my landscape painting and I’m also learning a lot more about ceramics.” When she's not working on her own paintings, Sue loves teaching art to children and teaches at numerous local schools. “I love seeing what kids come up with because they are so spontaneous and it comes from their gut instinct,” she says.

Above: Avalon Right: Swan Bay

“Not everyone agrees on what they think is a good thing but what I am trying to do is find my own language and my own voice about what interests and inspires me.

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CLASH of cultures By NATALEE KERR

A new book recounts the early days of white settlement through the eyes of the local Wadawurrung people. And, as NATALEE KERR discovers, even author Dr Fred Cahir describes the content as "provocative".

One of the many illustrations from Dr Cahir's history book.

A Ballarat academic has wound back the clock to the 1800s with a book chronicling Aboriginal accounts of the region's "invasion".

to Melbourne,” he explains.

Dr Fred Cahir's novel details the relationships and interactions between British "invaders" and the traditional owners of the Geelong and Ballarat region, the Wadawurrung people.

After returning to Victoria, Dr Cahir began consulting Aboriginal community members and reading “history books written by white fellas”.

Dr Cahir says his inspiration for My Country All Gone - The White Men Have Stolen It came from his 30-plus years working with Aboriginal communities across Victoria and the Northern Territory. “It really began on the Nullabor Plain in 1983 when I was cycling solo across Australia from Perth

“I was young, dumb and blonde - a bad combination. Not surprisingly, I ran out of food and water for several days.”

“The Wadawurrung community indicated to me they wanted to rewrite their version of what happened as a contrast to the white historian point of view,” he says. Dr Cahir worked with numerous Victorian Aboriginal groups and individuals to complete the 347-page book, which includes 40 colour illustrations.

He admits that some might find his book “provocative” and “not an easy read”.

Federation University academic Fred Cahir with his new book on the white "invasion" of the Geelong region.

“Any reader who sits down to read a telling of history of the region that they live and work in, which was purportedly peacefully settled, and discovers that the peaceable settlement they thought existed was in fact a ruthless and greedy conquest, will naturally be rattled,” he contends. “It talks about the Wadawurrung’s attempts to survive the frontier war and at the same time, thrive in a new society forced upon them. “The squatters, with their hundreds of thousands of sheep, effectively became the spearhead of the British invasion as the sheep wiped out what had been the Wadawurrung’s staple food, the root crop vegetable murnong, or yam daisy, reducing them to starvation.” Dr Cahir's book recounts the "great anguish' of the Wadawurrung. “There were no murnong about Geelong," a Wadarurrung man is quoted. "It was like Port Phillip all gone, the bulgana (cattle) and sheep eat it all.” However, the book also details a “surprising number” of touching interactions between members of the two cultures, Dr Cahir says. “Quite a lot of friendly and very meaningful relationships took place between the two groups.

The novel draws on three decades of archival research documenting the "invasion" of the Geelong district from 1800 to 1870, he says The local Wadawurrung then knew the “white strangers from the sea” as the “ngamadjidj”.

“It’s a history that provides fine brush strokes of a wider changing frontier that was violent in nature but surprisingly had some instances of cross-cultural engagement.”

Dr Cahir describes some of the engagements as “remote islands of friendly relations in an ocean of undeclared warfare”. “In the Geelong district, these islands took many forms including trade, work and various forms of cultural exchange and even in learning one another’s languages,” he says. Dr Cahir believes that many of the new Australians had a “longing to belong”, which inspired some to be “indigenised”. His book includes snippets of Wadawurrung voices documented in the records of the new Australians. “Some of the white strangers from the sea recorded the Wadawurrung’s oral stories that predated the existence of Port Phillip Bay,” he says. “One account relates how the Wadawurrung could at one period ‘cross, dry-foot’, from one ‘side of the bay (in the east) to Geelong (in the west)’ until a time when ‘the earth sank, and the sea rushed in through the heads, till the void places became broad and deep, as they are today’.”

Dr Cahir says the "deep-time" stories about the formation of Port Phillip Bay reflected Wadawurrung women's expressions of grief in 1853 about the unrelenting waves of the British. “The stranger white man came in his great swimming corong (vessel), and landed at Corayio (Corio) with his dedabul boulganas (large animals), and his anaki boulganas (little animals)," one of the women recounts in the book. "He came with his boom-booms (double guns), his white miammiams (tents), blankets, and tomahawks; and the dedabul ummageet (great white stranger) took away the long-inherited hunting grounds of the poor Barrabool (Wadawurrung) coolies and their children”. Cr Cahir says My Country All Gone - The White Men Have Stolen It is available by emailing him onf. cahir@federation.edu.au.

A drawing of William Buckley, an English convict who settled in Australia and lived with the Wadawurrung people for many years.

Their tales cover first contacts ranging from the arrival of the British navy through to the appearance of squatters and then gold-seekers. As a white man, Dr Cahir thinks he could be seen as “stealing Wadawurrung history” but maintains that it was important to detail the relations between two nations.

Native women gathering tambourn wedge.

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Based in Newtown, Tom’s company “fixes all headaches, big or small” for clients ranging from individuals to various sizes of local businesses and contractors. Tom enjoys working the wideranging clientele, describing himself as a “people person“ who strives to maximise tax deductions. “I’m just very happy to see clients smile at the end of it all,“ he says. “I love seeing people smiling instead of worrying.” As a boutique firm, TMC offers affordable yet high-level service. Clients pay only $99 for a basic tax-return completed to exacting standards. A finalist in the 2019 Deakin University Geelong Business Excellence Awards, TMC Accountants is at 402 Latrobe Terrace, Newtown. More information is available by phoning TMC’s office on 5222 3532 or by visiting its website at tmcaccountants.com.au.

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Specialist Surgicentre executive team members podiatric surgeon Simon Smith, Monash IVF director Dr Prue Johnstone, oral maxillofacial surgeon Martin Ching, nursing director Chris Guidotti, front office manager Zoe Hunt and nurse unit manager Renee Trotter.

SURGICENTRE DAY hospital thriving SPECIALIST Surgicentre is Geelong’s only free-standing, fully-licensedand-accredited day hospital offering a variety of surgical services.

“As the pioneers of IVF and scientific leaders, Monash IVF has over 40 years’ experience and over 35,000 babies across Australia.

The facility is the realisation of founder Martin Ching’s 2006 vision for his own stand-alone day hospital.

“Thanks to the Surgicentre we’re providing Geelong with access to world-leading fertility treatments and services in their home town.”

The central Geelong hospital’s convenient location is ideal for patients and their treating doctors.

Monash IVF commenced its first Oocyte pick-up list at the Surgicentre in June 2018. On the first list, one patient's single transferred embryo produced identical twins.

Operating as a registered and accredited day surgery, Specialist Surgicentre primarily caters for oral and maxillofacial surgery services with Mr Ching. Both of his Geelong and Docklands hospitals are registered with the Department of Health and Human Services to perform acute surgical services. Specialist Surgicentre recently expanded its services in a partnership with Monash IVF, which has been established in Geelong for 30 years. “In July we’re really thrilled to celebrate our 12-month affiliation with the Specialist Surgicentre,” says Monash IVF fertility specialist Dr Prue Johnstone.

“As many as one in six couples will experience some difficulty falling pregnant,” Dr Johnstone advises. “If you’re having troubles, we’re here in Geelong to help you add to or complete your family. Both the Geelong and Docklands Surgicentres has achieved quality excellence in their risk management system with ISO International Standards Organisation. The range of surgical specialities offered at the Surgicentre include foot and ankle, plastic and

cosmetic, oral maxillofacial and general dental and most recently IVF services. Gynaecology services to commence soon. Clinical operations officer Chris Guidotti has run the hospital since 2009. “I’m engaged as a consultant and look after compliance, which is the licencing and accreditation of the facility,“ she explains. “Mr Martin Ching’s clinic is situated on the same site of the hospital. However, the hospital is a completely separate business and is managed by myself and the executive team." Chris is also president of Day Surgery Nurses Group in Victoria and nationally. “And I’ve just been invited to join Australian College of Perioperative ACORNurses, on their working party for standards,“ she says. Surgicentre is supported by a robust medical advisory committee, and all visiting medical officers and dentists must be credentialed to work at the facility.

Staff employed under the guidance of a nursing and operations management director, with all team members experienced and qualified in their specialties. Nurse unit manager Renee Trotter previously worked in Geelong’s public health sector, so she has brought a wealth of clinical knowledge to Specialist Surgicentre. Under the guidance of Chris Guidotti, she has undertaken all the quality roles required for accreditation. Patients have generally expressed high levels of satisfaction with the transition from the former Geelong Private Hospital, which closed in 2018, to Specialist Surgicentre. The day hospital offers exceptional services from a group of friendly staff in a private, discrete atmosphere. Specialist Surgicentre has become a benchmark among networking groups for small and day hospitals around Australia. Specialist Surgicentre is at 200 Malop Street, phone 1300 654 456.

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Lake keeps CATS FLYING Cats with exceptional medical imaging services.

THE Geelong Cats have an extensive team of quality medical professionals helping them stay in the game, just like Geelong’s Lake Imaging.

“MRI allows us to identify the mechanism behind a sports injury, taking out the guesswork and permitting the players to start rehabilitation faster. Our state-ofthe-art equipment helps get the Cats back on the field and in the game.”

The region’s leading provider of radiology services is proud to have an alliance with the Cats and is committed to providing players with a high level of expertise. Radiology is essential to diagnosing and treating sport and exercise-related injuries, particularly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which produces detailed, high-resolution images of organs, soft tissue and bony structures to help identify various injuries. “The average scan takes approximately 25 minutes and the majority of people are pleasantly surprised at how quick, safe and comfortable the

Lake Imaging's Heather Ducie, Brad Webb, Karen Hart, Charlene Sykstus, Sam Binns, Behdin Abed and Catherine Ryan with an MRI scanner.

whole MRI experience is,” says Lake Imaging MRI manager Heather Ducie. “It’s worth noting that it’s not the MRI machine that delivers a diagnosis or rehabilitation advice. Once a patient is scanned, a set of images of the body is generated for a radiologist to interpret and report on results.

Lake Imaging radiology director Dr Chien Ho says the company’s team of specialists plays a vital role in the scanning and reporting process. “Experience matters,” Dr Ho says. “Our team of radiologists is committed to supporting the

The medical team at Lake Imaging understands sports medicine and works closely alongside doctors and specialists to provide accurate and precise reports, which are critical for the diagnosis, treatment and recovery of the players. The Cats’ choice of Lake Imaging as their preferred MRI provider gives Geelong people confidence they too can benefit from the same level of professional service and expertise.

Lake Imaging Preferred Supplier of MRI Imaging Services to The Geelong Football Club.

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BRASS ON with Domino PETER Hames has been selling Domino Brass for nearly 20 years - and with good reason. Domino Brass door furniture is solid-cast brass with quality internal mechanisms designed to last for generations. Domino Brass continually adds to its collection of antique reproduction and contemporary door furniture, travelling globally to source originals for new moulds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the company others try to copy,â&#x20AC;? Peter says. Proudly based in Melbourne, Domino Brass products are sold all over the world. The companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beautiful door furniture, curtain fittings, bathroom fittings, hooks and more are the ideal complements to Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own incredible range of lights, P.J. Hames Lighting, on show at Oakwood Restorations.

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[antiques & collectibles]

Paul and John Rosenberg toast the success of Moorabool Antique Galleries.

MOORABOOL Antique Galleries’ is an intriguing destination for anyone with an eye for collectibles. The premises' two floors display a vast range of objects ranging from furniture to silverware and almost everything in between. In particular, the business is renowned for Australia’s largest range of antique ceramic items, along with a reference library containing more than 2000 books on ceramics. “As well as the books, we have example ceramics from every period and place possible, which we use to identify unknown pieces,” says owner Paul Rosenberg.

"I'd hate to do a stocktake," Paul laughs. "We've never counted but we must have over 10,000 pieces in stock. This makes it the largest of its kind in Australia, and perhaps the world.” Moorabool Antique Galleries has become a family tradition, with Paul operating the business in the footsteps of father John. “I still meet customers who bought things from him 30 years ago” Paul smiles.

Galleries' intriguing RANGE The 60-year-old business sticks to the “proper definition” of antiques, he says. “That means more than 100 years old, which includes the Georgian and Victorian eras. “We have a very wide variety of goods, which mirrors the diversity of our clientele. Our stock ranges from very affordable small gifts

through to major pieces that we've sold to organisations like the National Gallery of Victoria and Geelong Art Gallery, even international institutions.

“We have several hundred cups and saucers, some 200 years old, both beautiful and usable and costing less than a modern equivalent.”

"We have something for everyone."

Moorabool Antique Galleries is at 16/18 Ryrie Street, Geelong.

Paul nominates early 19th Century English porcelain teaware as particularly good value.

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The shop houses numerous cases of well-documented pieces for sale.

[looking] good

Salon Eve's Rachel Waterfall, Kate McRorie-Williams, Barbara Henriques, Olivia la Spada and Emily Bedford.

All about SALON EVE SALON Eve’s Barbara Henriques and her team love helping clients achieve great new looks. Now with 13 years of hairdressing experience, Barbara opened the Manifold Heights salon in December 2012 with the aim of making sure everyone left feeling a million dollars.

Barbara particularly enjoys getting creative with her clients’ hair styles. “I enjoy a good cut,” she says. “I love creating a brand new look. I definitely get my kicks when a re-style’s in progress.

“It’s so rewarding and exhilarating for both the client and the stylist.” The team of five at Salon Eve caters for both male and female clients. With a focus on sustainability, the salon uses vegan products from Pureology and Eleven. “We’re also a member of Sustainable Salons Australia,” Barbara explains. “We recycle hair, plastic, metals, paper, electronic goods et cetera.

“We also donate cut hair to Variety, a charity that uses it to make wigs for children undergoing cancer treatment.” Salon Eve also supports local artists, with a variety of their works decorating the interior. “We’re always on the bandwagon for supporting anything local,” Barbara says. Salon Eve is at 1/127 Shannon Avenue, Manifold Heights, phone 5298 1547.

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“It’s always a challenge but it certainly keeps me on my toes with all the different situations that arise - there’s definitely never a dull moment,” she laughs.

“After 13 years I still absolutely love my career. I enjoy meeting all different people and their personalities but, most of all, anyone who has a hair challenge - I’m always up for it!”

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[eye] health

TIPS TO FOCUS ON this winter

Words: TANYA CARROLL, EYEWEAR ON PAKO WINTER is upon us. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to dig out your winter woollies, get your flu shot, buy a beanie, make some soup and try to stay warm. If you suffer from dry eye, central heating may make them worse. Here are six simple steps you can take to minimise the discomfort caused by dry eye in winter: First, blink more. Many people find that dry eye gets worse when reading or using a computer. This is because we blink less when we are doing anything that needs a lot of visual attention. Second, use a humidifier. Opening windows for a few minutes on cold days will also help. Third, lower the temperature in rooms when possible. Fourth, use lubricants. Ask your optometrist whether lubricating eye drops may be helpful for you. The treatment for

dry eyes depends upon the cause, so it is important to speak to your optometrist if your eyes feel dry. Fifth, give yourself a screen break. People tend to stay inside, watch more television and spend more time using computers during winter. Using a screen will not damage your eyes but prolonged use can make your eyes tired and dry. Remember to take breaks and operate the 20:20:20 rule: every 20 minutes take a 20-second break and focus your eyes on something at least 20 feet away. Lastly, for a comprehensive eye health check this winter give the friendly team at Eyewear on Pako a call to book an appointment with one of our optometrists. It only takes around 30 minutes and is bulk billed through Medicare. Updates from Eyewear on Pako are available on instagram@eyewearonpako.

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[what's] cooking

BUTTER QUEEN cultures fans OCEAN Grove’s Monica Cavarsan was hooked on home-made butter from the first taste of mum’s handiwork in the kitchen of their family dairy farmhouse. Monica has since followed in her mother's footsteps to become known as The Butter Queen, who operates the cheekily named local business Lard Ass. Monica makes the business’s hand-crafted cultured butter, while her husband helps with deliveries and their three sons handle sales at farmers' markets. “I started making butter about four years ago using my friends and family as the product testers,” Monica says. She prefers cultured butter for its higher fat content and consequently richer flavour. “To make cultured butter you ferment the cream for 24 hours with good bacteria, which enhances the flavours naturally found in the cream," she explains. “Normal cream is alkaline, so what we do is bring the PH level down to create what is known as a creme fraiche.

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“Afterward, we refrigerate for up to two weeks during the ageing process, which brings out the rich flavours in the butter. We then churn it slowly to preserve the creaminess." Lard Ass’s salted or unsalted cultured butter also comes in a variety of flavours, including smoked garlic, dry-roasted fennel seed, smoked, and sweet vanilla. Monica always has more flavours and butter products in the pipeline, so fans are advised to keep their eyes peeled for new offerings. Lard Ass butter is sold at wholefood and fruit and vegetable stores, provedores, restaurants, coffee shops and farmers markets, giving Monica an extensive network of operators with whom she collaborates. “I'm proud to work with other small businesses and producers to harness our opportunities,” she says.

Monica Cavarsan in the Lard Ass kitchen.

[what's] cooking

Lucas Schlotzer is thrilled with the restaurant's new look.

EBONY & IVORY’S breath of fresh air “I exposed this brick wall, we pulled up the carpet and polished the Baltic pine floorboards.

Manager Jurgen Schlotzer says he always wanted to renovate Ebony & Ivory but didn’t have the time.

“I brought in some newer, comfier couches, we repainted the interior highlights, we reupholstered the cushioning, and the list goes on.

However, eldest son Lucas has helped Jurgen achieve a joint vision for the venue.

“We had a lot of help from friends and family. Without them we could never have come so far.“

“I wanted to bring the building back to its roots and expose its rustic and historical features,” Lucas explains, pointing out the changes.

The renovations are complete but Lucas is still delivering other changes at Ebony & Ivory.

“We’re sticking with the favourites on the menu and have streamlined the overall menu,“ he says. “This has also allowed us to now offer express lunches for all the businesses around us, or for people who are on the go. “Plus, we’ve really perfected the dishes that everyone loves.”

The venue’s traditional handmade pasta and gnocchi dishes have been “slightly adjusted“, Lucas says. “All our pastas are still freshly hand-made daily in our kitchen by our expert chefs but now they’re accompanied by even-moredelicious sauces, which is hard to imagine since they were already so good.“ Ebony & Ivory’s historic premises is at 189 Moorabool Street, Geelong.

The express lunch includes paninis, soup of the day, and vegetable frittata, with additions on the way.

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ONE of Geelong’s favourite restaurants has undergone major renovations.

The dinner menu features local favourites such as Portarlington mussels and line-caught, pan-fried snapper.

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[social] network

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN GEELONG BRANCH 75TH ANNIVERSARY LUNCHEON at Geelong Regional Library and Heritage Centre 1. JANET PARK AND MAREE SNOW. 2. EDITH CHEN, ELIZABETH FAIRLIE AND MARILYN CARR. 3. LYN RANFORD, NONI CROZIER AND YVONNE BOWDLER. 4. BETTY COLYER AND ROSEMARY STEWART. 5. GWENDA BRYANT AND CORAL KULPER. 6. ANN WILKINSON, LESLEY GRANT AND ANNE PARTON. 7. MARILYN CARR, JILL BUCHANAN AND CAROL WALTERS. 8. JANICE BINNS, NOELE COOK AND VAL TRINDER. 9. ELIZABETH STOJONOVIC AND MARY STOW. 10. NORMA KOEHNE AND JANICE BINNS. 11. BRIDGET ALLEN AND ALLISON SEAL. 12. JAN KINLOCH AND ELEANOR BOWMAN.

[social] network

Geelong Region CANCERIANS ART SHOW LAUNCH 1. YEKATERINA KRIVOGUZ WITH ROMANUS AND MARINA OBIALOR. 2. LOUISE KING 3. ANGELA BATTAGLIA, LAURA DOHERTY AND NOEL TUDDENHAM. 4. ROSS AND JAN SYNOT. 5. PHILLIPA CHALLIS, EDDY KONTELJ AND HELENE BENDER. 6. DARRYN LYONS AND ELISSA FRIDAY. 7. PAUL MCDONALD SMITH AND JILL SHALLESS. 8. ALLISON TOWERS, MITCH SAFFIN, DAN SIMMONDS AND BERNADETTE UZELAC. 9. HERBERT AND LESLEY PICKER WITH GWEN AND GEOFF WHITE. 10. JENNIFER CROMARTY AND ROBERT MENAUL. 11. JILL LEWIS AND TOM ROMEYN. 12. ANNETTE WALTER, PRISCILLA FENTON AND DENIS WALTER. 13. JURA AND EDWARD RILEY WITH NOREEN SALT. 14. ELI, CASEY, TAHLI AND CHARLIE BENSON.

[social] network

PEACE OF MIND FOUNDATION GEELONG launch at Centra Hotel 1. LESTER MATTHEWS, SHARYN MATTHEWS AND RUBY PICONE. 2. TASHA BOLITHO AND ANTON CRONJE. 3. JOE FAMA AND KATE HERFORD. 4. JACQUI BENNETT AND BRANDON DELLOW. 5. BRONWYN HASKELL AND OLIVIA HARRINGTON. 6. AMY BETT, JIM MARENDAZ AND ZOE WATERS. 7. SIMONE BRISTOW-HARRINGTON AND GARY HILSCHANKSY. 8. MELANIE DAVIES, BEC PICONE, KATH KIDD AND ANNIE JOHNSTON. 9. DON WHITE AND CONNOR WHITE. 10. HANNAH DANIEL AND HARRY DOWN. 11. JACQUI BENNETT AND SUE JIRIK. 12. LAUREN O'KEEFE AND BRONWYN HASKELL.

[social] network

GEELONG MUMS’ MOTHER’S DAY LUNCH at Mt Duneed Estate 1. JANET IRWIN, CASSIE MAHON, DEB MAHON AND CAL STEWART. 2. MELANIE BRAME, CATH WOODS AND ANITA BIRD. 3. PAULINE SUTTERBY, VAS ZANIS AND JUDY JONES. 4. KATE MCLENNAN. 5. ELISSE THORLEY, TEGAN SALIARIS, JESS ASTON, CHLOE ORCHARD AND KELLY SMETHAN. 6. KATE YOUNG, MICHELLE COLLINS AND MELISSA OLSEN. 7. SARAH SELLWOOD AND GEORGIE O'DWYER. 8. JEN SPEAKMAN, LEANNE GRIGG, JO MUNRO, CHELSEY CURTIS, CAROL GRIGG, JANE CLARKE, MELANIE GRIGG AND DEB LANGLEY. 9. DEIRDRE MACKECHNINE AND KATE BETTS. 10. LAUREN WILSON AND PETA BALDACCHINO. 11. ANNELIESE CARUSO AND ANNELIESE MARTIN. 12. GAYLE AND FARRON BURRILL.

CALENDAR of EVENTS 11 July

3 August

The Angels No Exit: 40 Years On

The Blues Train

Yes you will see their faces again, Geelong! Aussie rock legends The Angels return to celebrate 40 years since the release of their No Exit album.

The Blues Train starts and finishes in Queenscliff and rides along the Bellarine Railway.

“I've been coming down to Geelong since the 1970s and just love it,” Angels lead singer John Brewster told the Indy recently. Gateway Hotel, Corio

The unique blues journey sets off down the tracks from historic Queenscliff Railway Station before returning after a few hours of meals, drinks, dancing and, of course, toe-tapping blues and jazz. Queenscliff Railway Station

18-19 July

24 August

The Sapphires

Geelong Cats v Carlton Blues

Award-winning Australian play The Sapphires, which inspired a film of the same name, comes to Drysdale for two shows in July.

It's Geelong’s last game of the AFL season and it could also their last at home for the year, too, unless they get a home final. Head to Kardinia Park and cheer on the mighty Geelong Cats as they prepare for their September campaign.

Four young Aboriginal women from regional Australia, who like singing country music, suddenly get the chance to change their tune and their lives.

Kardina Park, South Geelong

Wearing sequins and armed only with microphones, they find themselves trying to spread joy in the hell of the Vietnam War. Potato Shed, Drysdale

20 July Taste of Tamworth A stellar line-up of Australian country musicians and Golden Guitar winners come to Geelong in Taste of Tamworth. Carter and Carter, Lyn Bowtell, Jayne Denham and The Weeping Willows join forces to give Geelong locals an authentic taste of Australia’s biggest country music festival. Gateway Hotel, Corio

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Various dates until 1 September The Moon Fifty years ago, on 20 July, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took “one small step for man” and “one giant leap for mankind” after landing on the moon. Geelong Gallery is celebrating perhaps the most amazing achievement in human history with a series of exhibitions featuring the film, music, literature and science of the moon.

4-8 September

WaistWatchers The Musical Set in a women’s gym, WaistWatchers The Musical pokes fun at health fads and weight obsessions. The play takes a light-hearted look at four women dishing on food, diets, exercise, friendship, love and sex. Potato Shed, Drysdale

14 September

Hair - Original Tribal Rock Musical

Gold Class Wrestling Fans of the ‘squared circle’ can get their fix when Gold Class Wrestling comes to Geelong West Pro wrestling's hottest local stars face off in a night of hard-hitting, trashtalking, high-flying action to entertain the entire family. Geelong West Town Hall

Twenty years ago Kasey Chambers released her debut album, The Captain, a pivotal record that made her country music career.

The play captures a world eschewing conformity and letting its hair down in hippie counter culture and free-love. The Playhouse, Geelong

Chambers comes to Geelong to celebrate the anniversary for one show only, playing songs from The Captain along with her best songs from other albums. Costa Hall, Geelong

Play School There’s a bear in there, and a chair as well, as Play School celebrates its 50th anniversary in a Geelong exhibition.

The grand dame of world theatre, Dame Edna Everage, has been forced out of retirement by the demands of her adoring “Precious Possums”, announcing a surprise visit to Geelong in October.

Look through the round, square and arched windows and see characters that shaped Australian childhoods for half a century like Big and Little Ted, Humpty and Jemima.

In a letter to her fans, Dame Edna apologised for upsetting them when she announced her retirement from public life, blaming her manager, "failed actor and attention seeker" Barry Humphries. Costa Hall, Geelong

PLAYTIME FOR GROWN UPS

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12-13 October Dame Edna My Gorgeous Life

National Wool Museum, Geelong

Various dates from 29 June to 14 December

Kasey Chambers The Captain 20th Anniversary Tour

Veteran TV actor Hugh Sheridan and Australian Idol finalist Paulini star in Hair, set in the ’60s, a turbulent time when people were losing faith in the establishment and the Vietnam War.

Open daily until 7 October

7 September

Segway Geelong offers segway tours once a day at 2 locations - Leura Park Winery & the Geelong Waterfront.

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