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SARAH HARRIS charts the twists and turns of Meshel Laurie’s path to enlightment

eshel Laurie has never been one to take the easy way out, not even when faced with the fraught scenario of a dead dog and a pair of second graders. The ebullient radio and television star laughingly recalls her efforts to explain the expiry of the family shih tzu to son Louie and daughter Dali, her now-seven-year-old twins, in accordance with her Buddhist beliefs. “When Britney died I had to try and talk them through cyclic existence and I was like, oh God! I just wanted to say she has gone to heaven and we will all see her again one day at a big party in the sky, but I couldn’t.” Honesty is important to Meshel, whether it is in matters of faith, taking on trolls, or calling out racism and sexism. “In a way, Buddhism is about reality. Existence is suffering, which sounds incredibly nihilistic, like I might as well just give up now. But the fact is, suffering happens, you can’t avoid it. It is part of life,” she says. Meshel has had quite a big serve of reality in the past few years. Her sudden axing by Nova in late 2015, after delivering sustained No. 1 results in three different slots for the network over 13 years, hurt her deeply. She was immediately snapped up by KIIS to go head-to-head against her old station with co-host Matt Tilley. Matt & Meshel In The Morning snagged a respectable share of the breakfast ratings last year and held ground going into 2017 – although there’s still a considerable way to go to catch up with slot leaders 3AW and ABC Radio Melbourne. It’s a challenge Meshel relishes. “I feel the opposite of big fish, small pond. I am a little guppy in this incredibly intense pool and that is something really exciting and motivating,” she says. “Obviously the big goal is out there, but feeling every day like you are chipping away at

believes, among other things, that the royal family are shape-shifting lizards – to Dr Susan Carland, Monash University lecturer and researcher and wife of The Project host Waleed Aly. Through her podcasts, Meshel has tackled topics as varied as organ donation and the rules divorcees should follow on dating app Tinder. Meshel also notably set up a GoFundMe campaign to pay for victims of child sex abuse to travel to Rome to hear evidence given by Cardinal George Pell to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The fund was intended to raise $55,000 but, with a little help from Tim Minchin and his song Come Home Cardinal Pell, it ultimately exceeded more than $200,000. “It was quite terrifying to have that in an account in my name,” Meshel says, laughing. It all came about because Meshel had travelled to Ballarat to see some friends do stand-up comedy and decided to use the spare hour in her hotel room to track down some interesting local people for her podcast. She’s a workaholic; it’s a statement she makes several times during the course of our interview. “I don’t want to sound like some jerk from West Hollywood who reckons they have got a disease when they are just badly behaved, but I do think there is an addictive element in it in so many ways and I have to watch it. And I have to accept the part my workaholism played in the break-up of my marriage.” Meshel and artist Adrian Lewinski were together for almost 20 years. They met in Brunswick during a Salvation Army-run program to help people get off the dole and were married six months later. Before meeting Adrian, Meshel seemed hell-bent on following the script of her favourite movie Dogs In Space (1986), pining for a junkie and occasionally using drugs herself. “I lived inside that movie. My dreams sleeping

it is exciting. That’s what gets me up in the morning.” The alarm goes off 4.20am every workday; Fridays, when she appears on Channel Ten’s The Project (aired live from 7pm in the eastern states) are very long indeed. Meshel also volunteers in palliative care, something she took up after working at night on Father Bob Maguire’s food trucks became too tricky with little kids. “I researched a lot of options and this was one that looked like I could do before the school pick-up,” she says with a wry chuckle. Her latest palliative patient, whom she’d visited for two years, died the day before we meet for this interview. “With palliative patients you have to have a certain mindset,” she says. “I never personalise it.” Then there’s the fortnightly podcasts for Mamamia Women’s Network. Meshel organises guests, interviews them, edits and produces Nitty Gritty Committee herself. “It lets me have longer conversations and explore things I know won’t fly on FM commercial radio,” the 43-year-old says. “You get frustrated sometimes when the best conversations are six minutes long.” Interviewees have included everyone from David Icke – the world’s most famous conspiracy theorist, who

and waking were about dark pubs with tiny stages, poverty, sniffling boyfriends. I couldn’t wait to get there. “My dreams protected me from the changing landscape of my family, the misplaced anger of dad, the disappointment of my mum, the wrongness of my body, the bitchiness of my friends and every other shitful aspect of my typical teenage years,” she wrote in her 2013 memoir The Fence-Painting Fortnight of Destiny Destiny.

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lot of Meshel’s unhappiness was due to her deteriorating relationship with her father. Taxi driver Graham “Tubby” Laurie and the eldest of his three children are a lot alike in many ways. “Physically, certainly, I am more like him [than my mother Mary],” she says. “He has always been a very popular, entertaining character. I think I definitely picked that up from him. I think when you call yourself Tubby, you put this idea into the world that it is OK and you are not precious about yourself. It is sort of unbulliable and I think I picked that up from him.” But during the ’80s recession – carrying a lot of debt and paying crippling 18 per cent interest on his business and home – Tubby “turned into a bit of a monster”.

hese days Meshel, her parents and younger siblings Sherri and Pete all live in happy proximity around Altona, but back then Meshel yearned to escape her family and her home town of Toowoomba in Queensland. “I felt like I was a boring person, from a boring town,” she says. “I wanted to be exciting, rebellious and drugs seemed like a way to fix that. “I suffered, I think, a lot of mental illness as a result. I suffered depression. I gambled my mental health [with drugs] and could probably have saved myself a lot of mental anguish in my 20s and 30s.” At the University of Southern Queensland she spent more time on amateur pharmacology than on her art and drama studies. By her second year, substance abuse was starting to mess with her head and she went cold turkey, coming to her senses just in time to discover she could score a free bus trip to Melbourne – the destination of her dreams – if she joined the university socialist club. Returning to Toowoomba after the 1993 Socialist National Conference and a weekend that turned into almost a week, Meshel was convinced Melbourne was the place for her. While saving for the move interstate, she started volunteering at community radio Triple Z and hanging out at the Sit Down Comedy Club and, in March 1994, did her first stand-up gig at Famous Bob’s Steak House in Brisbane. More gigs followed and it wasn’t long before she was southward bound and became part of Melbourne’s coolest comedy scene at the Espy. Meshel’s first Melbourne International Comedy Festival outing in 1997 was with a show called Dairy Belles, written and performed with Corinne Grant, about two country girls who move to the city to become famous. Alas, the tale came only half true – at the end of the show’s run, just Corrine was picked up by

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comedy management agency Token. It was the start of a pattern. Increasingly Meshel found herself being overtaken by other young talents and, when a friend told her about a receptionist job going at a brothel in Port Melbourne, she decided to take it. She worked in various parlours in the next few years, which gave her abundant material; her show The Whore Whisperer was a sell-out at the 2001 Melbourne and Edinburgh International Comedy Festivals, pulled crowds at the Adelaide Fringe festival the next year and eventually went on to run for three weeks at the Sydney Opera House. (She still has a whole unpublished book on the subject of Melbourne’s brothels, tentatively titled Sitting on a Gold Mine, tucked in her desk drawer.)

ow she was well and truly back on the comedy map, work offers flowed. In 2003 she began filling in for Kate Langbroek on the Nova 100 breakfast show. But, when she finally landed her own metro breakfast show in 2005 – after a stint in regional radio at Gosford – she was devastated to learn the gig was in Brisbane, not Melbourne. It was during those Brisbane years that Meshel was at her lowest ebb. She felt that returning to Queensland was a huge backward step. At first she maintained her national profile through regular appearances on Spicks and Specks and later Rove Live, but when Rove returned to air in 2007 after a hiatus, Meshel found she no longer had a weekly spot. “I ended up in this deep depression and couldn’t pull myself out of it and I decided to go to the Langri Tangpa Buddhist Centre. I looked on the website and saw they had this one class at 10.30 on Tuesday morning called Dealing With Negative Emotions. I thought that has got me written all over it, because I was not only depressed,

“i spent so much of my life trying to get famous … now you have to drag me to a red carpet” but I was feeling anger, resentment, hatred.” Buddhism has given Meshel a fresh perspective, but it is not without its struggles. “I am in transition very, very clearly to myself,” she says. “It is a strange dichotomy having spent so much of my life trying to get famous to the point where I don’t want to be interviewed and you have to drag me to a red carpet.” These days she finds great outlet in writing and painting, and dreams of an old age spent “cooking and sweeping for monks”. Her new book Buddhism for Break-ups is a distillation of the feelings of sadness, jealousy and loss run through the filter of Eastern philosophy. Meshel is also in the process of setting up an online dharma centre and “would like to do Buddhist stand-up and write a show that is both teaching and really funny”. Well, zen, watch this space. ● sharris@theweeklyreview.com.au » Join Meshel on KIIS 101.1 for Matt & Meshel from 6am weekdays. » Buddhism for Break-ups by Meshel Laurie, published by Nero, RRP $29.99 » meshellaurie.com FEBRUARY 1, 2017 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 7

SARAH HARRIS ASKS AUSTRALIA’S MOST FAMOUS FUTURIST WHAT’S IN STORE FOR THIS YEAR & BEYOND

WHAT LIES AHEAD D emographer Bernard Salt found himself at the centre of a storm late last year when millennials failed to see the irony in his remarks about their tendency to spend money on smashed avocado instead of saving for a house. If anything, “avogate” underscored his serious point about the growing chasm between the generations, and the haves and the have-nots in our society. Here the KPMG futurist shares his thoughts on what lies ahead.

I do see a divided community – those who have bought into the property market and those who haven’t, for whatever reason. I don’t think Melbourne is any different from Manhattan Island, London or Paris. Not everyone working in New York under the age of 35 has an expectation that they will be able to buy an apartment on Manhattan Island.

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In Tokyo, in London, you accept the fact you rent. On one hand we proudly say Melbourne is a global city, but that means the price of property rises because you are competing with people with global incomes. That then relegates locals further out. The goat’s cheese curtain is moving. Bentleigh now has one of Melbourne’s hippest cafes. I mean Centre Road, Bentleigh, that’s like east of Brighton. It might be that by 2025 the hipster zone extends to Burwood.

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There is a break point coming, when baby boomers will cede authority to a new generation, whether it is X or Y. The oldest baby boomers were born in 1946, so this year they are 71. The midpoint of the generation is pushing into their 60s. It is time for this generation to move on and we are seeing that in budgets, in calls for higher superannuation and houses to be included in taxable assets for pension allocation. Baby boomers have circled the wagons. At some point they must give way, youth must win out and I think what lies beyond 2017 is an X and Y world.

Bucket list thinking is driving a group I call MYTNs – My Time Now. They have paid off the mortgage, the kids have left home and they are doing Rhine River and Alaskan cruises and having their kitchens made over. At the extreme edge of MYTN philosophy, people are re-evaluating their relationships. I think we will see a spate of de-partnering. Increasingly that decision will be made by women who have their own superannuation and income. It might mean travelling or bushwalking with friends, because it is more engaging than sitting at home with someone who doesn’t want to do anything. ● sharris@theweeklyreview.com.au

E-CHANGE Sea change morphed into tree change and the next iteration is e-change, where you take your job from the

More people will go to regional centres and start their own businesses. One of the strongest themes of the past two years has been small business development. It’s a combination of intellectual capacity being released into the market after the mining boom, and people in their late 50s and early 60s saying they are not ready to retire, and going into business for themselves.

CBD and relocate to Daylesford or Torquay and do your job from there for at least part of the week. Location is vital; you can’t e-change in Nhill or Dimboola, you need to be within a reasonable distance of Melbourne, but not necessarily on a daily commute. Those cute towns in the goldfields will be talking about Melbourne e-changers into the future.

CHANGING OF THE GUARD It might be that 2017 is a year of consolidation, but it strikes me there is a mood for change, whether that is political, which would come in 2018-19, or whether it is social or generational. The avocado row simply triggered the festering resentment in a generation. I think a large proportion of the

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population, baby boomers and me included, was not aware of the extent of the sentiment. I am concerned we are creating a double society. The old way, the old regime, the old logic is not meeting expectations. That was evident in 2016 with Trumpism and in Brexit. We would be foolhardy to say it does not affect us here.

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Ask the wine guy opened a bottle of wine for I ’vecooking; how long will it be good for? you go by the adage “if it’s not good Iforfenough to drink, it’s not good enough food”, you need to use it quite quickly. Wine starts to deteriorate the moment the bottle is opened and after two days it has usually started to oxidise – it’s similar to the way a sliced apple goes brown – and is beyond its best. You can slow oxidisation by keeping the bottle in the fridge (even for reds), but if you want to cook with the wine, pour it into an ice cube tray and pop it into the freezer. It will keep for months. ●

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Rameau d’Or Rose 2015 (Cotes de Provence) $20; 12.5%

From the cold Victorian Alps comes a compelling wine that’s all restraint and composure. Stonefruit, spice and lemon aromas are complex and a little hedonistic, with flavours that are rich and intense. Its balance is seamless with those concentrated flavours kept in check by acid that plays a background role – every element working in harmony. ●

File this under large. It’s a blend of cab sav, malbec, merlot, petit verdot and cab franc that will have lovers of big reds hooked from the first sniff of its blackberry, plum vanilla and tobacco aromas. It starts out fresh in the mouth, before a wall of tannins and dense dark berries and mocha comes galloping through. ●

Pale pink rose from Provence is such a lovely thing. This smells and tastes of Turkish delight, cherries and watermelon – everything you expect and hope for from rose’s spiritual home – delivered with texture and complexity. It’s not totally dry, but refreshing and lengthy all the same, with a hint of honeysuckle on the lengthy finish. ●

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cookbooks and all things delicious. Sofia started blogging about food while still at university. Now she’s an in-demand gastronomic scribe whose work has appeared in The Age Good Food Guide, Frankie Magazine, Delicious and Lonely Planet, to name a few. She writes a weekly column for our sister publication, Good Food, and runs a copywriting business called, of course, Word Salad. You might bump into Sofia on her regular Friday morning pilgrimage to the Queen Victoria Market with her mum, or at her local favourite haunts, Aka Siro or Smith Street Alimentari in Collingwood. She’ll likely be accompanied by Jinkee, her beloved toy poodle – a minor celebrity on Instagram, with 73,000 followers and rising. ●

THIS WEEK I’M … EATING \ I’ve always said they should be sold separately, and for a limited time you can buy Golden Gaytime crumbs in 150-gram tins for $6 at a pop-up shed at Topman in Emporium. I’m eating them straight from the tin. Also check out the Five Gaytime specials in flavours such as Chocopalooza and Unicorn Breath. ●

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D AV I D L O V E S … OYSTER OMELETTES \ It’s just a crisp batter made from flour and egg, fried off in some oil over charcoal and then they throw in a bunch of oysters and spring onions. In Bangkok’s Chinatown, there’s the most fantastic place. ●

DRINKING \ Whatever MoCU.com.au suggests. It’s a website featuring curated craft beer (and cider and wine). So when I’m feeling lazy but want to sip something new, they’ve already done the research. Delivery is free for metro orders over $50 and affordable ($7) otherwise. ●

SRIRACHA SAUCE \ The brand I’m using at the moment [Koh Loy] is my favourite. It’s quite different from the Rooster brand Sriracha. It can go on anything – I’d even suggest the occasional dab behind the ears. ●

COOKING \ Purple congos will make anyone who thinks potatoes are boring think again. They’re waxy and great for boiling. Make a bright purple mash the kids can’t refuse or roll them into gnocchi that looks suspiciously like Play-Doh. ●

GUILT UIL Y PLEASURE \ Chocolate is UILT not my guilty pleasure, it’s my absolute pleasure. I’m shameless and committed. If anyone ever does anything wrong to me, I can be easily bribed with a good choccie. ●

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NOT COOKING \ I never cook at home. I’m cooking at work, why would I cook at home? If I’m in Bangkok, I’ll pick up something on the streets. ●

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he woman beside me on the jade banquette is mid coughing fit. Her husband hasn’t flinched but, at two-week-old Long Chim, a cough symbolises success. David Thompson has a global reputation for not dumbing down food. He acquired it at Nahm, his Bangkok fine-diner (No. 37 on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list) and later at Long Chim eateries in Singapore, Perth and Sydney. Now he’s bringing his street-inspired authenticity to Melbourne’s Crown precinct. Diners on a suicide spice mission start with larp, a minced chicken salad. Among the tangle of eight fresh Asian herbs and 20-spice powder from Bangkok, crunchy chicken skin evokes rotisserie memories – until scud chilli hits. See coughing woman. If you can’t stand the heat, grilled pork skewers balance singe and sweet; mashed prawn and turmeric curry subdues spice with coconut; and DIY condiments permit chilli control over the must-order charred rice noodles. Failing that, cool off with durian ice-cream. The fruit is banned on public transport in parts of Asia due to its smell, which is likened to dirty socks and decaying flesh. My advice? Eating should be an experience – make it one. ● slevin@theweeklyreview.com.au

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sually, nobody gets impatient for the Mormons to come knocking, but it seems like a very long wait since the Australian premiere of this hit Broadway musical was announced. Can it live up to such extended hype? In Melbourne for the final week of

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MANCHESTER BY THE SEA \ CASEY AFFLECK SUNSET SERIES Lacking motivation to make SPORT good on your resolution to get fit this year? The Sunset Series gives you the chance to run rings around some of Melbourne’s most picturesque locations before kicking back with food, drinks and live music. The three midweek races begin with a circuit around Melbourne Zoo. Subscribing to the series will net you a discount, a voucher and a T-shirt. ■ The Melbourne Zoo, Princes Park & The Tan, February 1, 15 & March 1, from $30, solemotive.com ●

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ngie Hart toys with kimchi brown rice while pondering a twist on the old desert-island chestnut – what would she choose, Spotify or a crammed bookshelf? “The books,” she decides. “I’d miss music, but songs are forever in my head. Desert-island reading? Bliss.” Then she adds: “Any chance of a guitar or stationery instead?” We’re in Mixed Business, a Clifton Hill haven where the former Frente! frontwoman’s decaf lattes aren’t questioned. It’s also where she best tackles her fear of leaving home, triggered partly by a friend’s death in 2013; a still-delicate wound. But then, Angie, 44, has spent years mining painful emotions: in song, poetry, and now, as co-curator of Women of Letters, through a waning medium given new life. “Letters are the vinyl albums of literature,” says Angie, who in her new role selects prominent women to read aloud letters on a chosen topic at often sold-out WOL events. Founded in 2010 by writers Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire, WOL is now a literary juggernaut with sister events in New York, Indonesia and Ireland. “With social media comes yearning for the opposite, more meaningful exchanges,” says Angie. “Our meetings are unrecorded, intimate one-offs, like letters themselves.”

Angie, a committed writer, spoke at the inaugural WOL event and gladly accepted the baton from Michaela, who recently moved on to head the Sydney Writers’ Festival. She feels old, but doesn’t look it. Lose the grey and Angie could almost play herself in a biopic of indie darlings Frente!, whose breezy 1990s pop (remember Ordinary Angels?) was a platinum-selling alternative to grunge. She’s wrestling with an autobiography about those days. “It’s like songwriting,” says Angie, who is also recording her third solo album. “There’s an initial burst of inspiration, then you write some crap tunes that you have to dig your way through.” There with figurative shovels are husband Blair, their two-year-old daughter (a surprise after years of IVF torment), and a network of local music collaborators, including fellow members of acapella outfit Ladychoir. A pretty manic life can’t stifle the laughter. If only there was more downtime. “I recently went to our magical backyard shed and unwrapped The Hollow of the Hand, PJ Harvey’s book,” Angie says. “It drove home why words matter. I sat there absorbed. I’d love more quiet time alone like that.” ● Words and pictures by STEVE McKENZIE

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my skin. Although I can let myself out at any time, I resist. When the time’s up, I burst out of the chamber and say, “Holy moley!” My skin temperature is 11 degrees, apparently quite a decent drop. I warm up on an exercise bike. My second session is tougher than the first, while the third feels like a breeze (probably because I selected a hip-hop tune).

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What she makes Lindy’s range includes handwash, body lotion, hand treatments and a body oil in scents including pink grapefruit, lemon myrtle and eucalyptus. She makes all her products with natural ingredients such as cocoa butter, sweet almond oil and pure essential oils.

“People don’t realise the toxins they’re putting into their bodies, so it’s really important people get into the natural stuff. It’s easy to do now – and affordable,” Lindy says. “The natural ingredients are good for you, and also good for the waterways.” More than just delicious-smelling, all-natural skincare, Ena products are also packaged to look stylish in your home. Lindy enlisted local graphic design Ortolan to create her fashionable and artistic labels, and Melbourne company synergy to supply the bottles and jars. “I knew that the design had to be beautiful, so that was really my edge more than anything,” Lindy says. “I thought there’s no reason why you can’t have incredible style and have natural ingredients. I wanted the products to be really sleek and smart and pop out.” Where to find it Ena products range from $11-$40 and are stocked in shops across Australia. The brand is growing rapidly – much to Lindy’s surprise. “I’ve gone from having a goal of 12 stockists by the end of last year to having 21 now,” she says. ● JEMIMAH CLEGG jclegg@theweeklyreview.com.au

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Cuba Now that Americans can legally board flights to Cuba (thanks Barack Obama) the long-embargoed Caribbean island is set to be invaded by its curious neighbours. Havana’s time-frozen charm might not last long under the onslaught, so 2017 is looking like a great year to go there. Infrastructure still falls far

short of demand but big-name hotels are hovering with intent, Airbnb has signed up more than 8000 homes for holiday rentals and themed food tours explore the country’s cuisine beyond the notorious rice and beans. There’s no sign of McDonald’s and Starbucks yet, so get there before the multinationals do. ● ● www.cubatravel.cu/en

Argentina Buenos Aires is an evergreen capital that will knock your socks off if it’s your first time, or charm your pants off (again) if you’ve been before. I’ve visited eight times – once for six weeks – and I still get excited about throwing myself headlong into its mixed-up, delicious mayhem. Every. Single. Time. For my next visit, I’m thinking I should detour to Salta and Jujuy, desert frontier towns with fascinating stories to tell, and to Mendoza to drown myself in top-flight wines. Argentina is vast and littered with landmarks, from Patagonia to Iguazu Falls to the pampas ranchlands. There really is something for everyone. ● ● argentina.travel/en

Oman Given the bevy of Middle Eastern airlines lavishing Australia with convenient, timely and well-priced air travel to the other side of the world, chances are you’re looking at a Dubai/ Abu Dhabi/Doha stopover in 2017. Don’t waste your time in these cultural wastelands. Tack on a side trip instead to Oman, which offers authentic Arabian Nights moments at desert fortresses and oases, dhow cruising with dolphins along the Musandam Peninsula and magical evenings in the whitewashed capital, Muscat, where the Al Hajar Mountains meet the Arabian Sea. ● ● tourismoman.com.au

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THE BOURKE STREET FUND

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DRIVE

DOUBLE TORQUE ROD & SHERYL EASDOWN TEST DRIVE INFINITI Q50 RED SPORT

H E S AY S

S H E S AY S

me, I’m about to have a big rave. The Ewithxcuse addition of a twin turbo V6 to the Q50, along some very tricky technology, has created a car

nfiniti’s value equation continues. The Q50 Red Icomfort Sport has fit and finish, fabrics and surfaces, space, and quietness on par with anything from

BY THE NUMBERS IT COSTS

$87,790

IT HAS

A 298-kilowatt, three-litre, twin-turbocharged V6

WE GOT

11.2 litres per 100km in the city, 9.8 in the country. The official combined figure is 9.3

ROD’S VERDICT

C O N S E N S U S \ A GREAT DRIVE

I want one. ●

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Germany but represents a 10-grand saving on the cheapest competitive model from there. And it’s a nice place to be with excellent leather seating (go for an all-white interior if you promise not to get mud on your shoes), a generous slew of standard equipment and reasonably good room in the rear seat. However, the boot gets tight and it isn’t the greatest shape for packing stuff. It’s a most satisfying car to drive, being just as gentle or aggressive as you want. I found Eco mode a little annoying because the accelerator seems to fight you whenever you want to actually accelerate, but in normal mode the car rides and handles beautifully. It’s also easy to park with surround view imagery on the screen. Dial up Sport or Sport Plus and you’re in a completely different car. The acceleration is exhilarating, the grip is prodigious and the solidity is most reassuring. ●

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that goes from family to feral with a simple switch in driving modes. Choose from six, Standard to Sport Plus. Lots of cars have driving modes but these actually make a difference. The V6 is a gem, smooth and responsive with heaps of performance. There are two versions – 224 or 298 kilowatts. Both are eager and enthusiastic. In Standard mode it’s a comfortable family cruiser. In Sport Plus it’s, well, a rocket ship with cornering. It holds the gears, it tightens up the steering and it makes the suspension racetrack solid. It’s fabulous fun through twisty bits, but it rides hard. The steering is fast, communicative and accurate. The pioneering technology works wonderfully. And, get this; choose Eco mode and the accelerator gets heavier, pushing back when you’re wasting fuel. The V6 Q50 feels great. It will outrun practically anything this side of a turbo V8. ●

S H E R Y L’ S V E R D I C T He can have one if I get one, too. ●

MORE INSPIRATION? SEE MORE OF MICHAEL’S COLLECTION OPEN FIRE Our eldest child has left home and the other two are in their late teens and spend a lot of time in their bedrooms on devices. Light this and, without a word, the room is full of people lounging around like cats. Build a fire and they will come.

SNOWDROPS There is a real sense of hope when you see these coming up. The energy with which they push out of the ground makes my heart sing. I feel so incredibly grateful to have been introduced to the joy of such small and humble things.

PERSONAL SPACE AT H O M E W I T H M I C H A E L M CC O Y

hile most home-buyers are sold on interiors, it’s only natural that garden designer and writer Michael McCoy and his wife Karen bought their family home in Woodend for love of a tree. The century-old oak tree was, and is, perfection. “It’s the quintessential childhood tree – many’s the time you’d walk past and see these little legs dangling,” the presenter of the ABC’s lush new Dream Gardens series says. “The house itself was pretty dreadful, with aluminium-framed windows and painted a very strange guacamole green. It was moved onsite in the early ’80s and then added to several times, completely senselessly, but I love that. The fact we have to go outside, to walk through the outdoors, to get to our bedroom, suits me very well.” ● SARAH HARRIS sharris@theweeklyreview.com.au

» Dream Gardens goes to air on ABC TV on February 9 at 8pm.

TREE The oak tree has been a major presence as long as anyone living around here can remember. Every now and then I say, ‘I can’t cope with this house any longer, there is too much to do’, and the kids go, ‘but what about the tree? You can’t leave the tree.’

CLOCK Prime minister Billy Hughes gave this clock to my great-uncle Tom. He travelled with him to the [post-WWI] peace talks in Versailles as his physiotherapist. Journalist and author Ray Stannard Baker, who also wrote as David Grayson, was there at the same time, with Woodrow Wilson’s press secretary.

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These are from my mentors Christopher Lloyd and Jean Galbraith. They brought a level of inquiry to gardening that engaged me and were a huge influence. It was one of my proudest moments being published on the same page as Jean in The Age when I started writing.

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MELBOURNE’S BEST

PROPERTIES

THE LIVIN’ IS EASY 6 TRINITY INITY COURT T, RYE, 3941 AGENT Kay & Burton 5984 0133

EDITORIAL SUBMISSIONS PROPERTY PRODUCER \ ALEAH ESPANTA NT NTA aleah.espanta@domain.com.au M \ 0435 822 047 ADVERTISING INQUIRIES SALES DIRECTOR \ REBECCA WARNER rebeccawarner@domain.com.au M \ 0448 317 687 The real estate cover story (right) has been visited by a TWR journalist. Agents’ Choices and Out of Town are promotions provided by the selling agent.

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PRICE About $2.5 million PRIVATE SALE OFI February 4, 2pm SCHOOL ZONES + Rye Primary + Dromana Secondary College + Rosebud Secondary College FAST FACTS Panoramic coastal views; media room; office space with separate entry; garden track through tea-tree; classic indoor/outdoor living; elevator; pool; gym; bar.

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RYE 103km from Bourke Street

BLACKBURN \ 1/13 GLEN EBOR AVENUE

he kids are about to go back to school, most of us are back to the daily grind and that exquisite anticipation you get in mid-December at the prospect of long, lazy sunny summertime seems like some kind of cruel mirage. But it’s not over folks, for even as the tennis packs its net and cricket winds down its endless summer, we might not have every day, but we’ve still got the weekend. That’s why we can still look to houses like this one in Rye and dream … of languid weekends with family and friends and of making elaborate plans to do a lot of nothing for next year. This is just the place for it, too, for while there’s a plethora of activities here and all across the coast, you’d be just as happy to laze out on the expansive deck and watch the ships plough their watery course. Sitting up on this magical site, you can get an eyeful of all the majesty this part of the world has to offer. The view takes you from Arthurs Seat, crosses Main Ridge and runs to Cape Schanck, with sand dunes and seascapes between. It starts here at the bottom of the driveway where a gorgeous coastal garden begins and tracks up to the house. You can dive in here and stroll among the tea-trees, their knobby branches knitting together to create a most fabulous canopy. Up at the house, you can enter from the ground floor – an excellent space that contains a gym, cinema and study or office with separate entry. The central billiards or rumpus area is a ripper, with a bar and plenty of lounging room. When you’ve had enough of the fun and games, take the lift to the luxurious upper level. It’s here that the deck wraps three sides of the house and offers those glorious views. Formal entry is via an impressive staircase up and across the deck. A wing off the wide foyer takes you into a study, where selecting a volume from the book-lined walls, taking a comfy seat and facing the sea on a stormy day would be one of life’s great delights. Beyond here, the main bedroom is an elegant, contained space, with more glass and views, as well as a walkin wardrobe and fine en suite. Four bedrooms range around the northern edge, all of them a generous size and all with storage and access either to the deck out the front or a lovely little courtyard and grassy protected terrace to the rear. Adjacent to that terrace is a large, paved area with built-in barbecue and kitchen access trhough a servery window. The large central living and dining area is the crowning jewel here. Glass, deck access and pretty much 360-degree coastal views are the picture postcard frame to an interior that is no slouch either. Vaulted ceilings allow light and air to circulate and the dimensions are divine, with everything speaking to the heart of that languid summer vibe. It’s stunning here and the protected outdoor area out the front just gives you another place to sit and enjoy those incredible vistas. If the sky turns dark and the weather closes in, come inside and sit in front of the gorgeous Mount Gambier limestone hearth and cosy up. The kitchen at the rear looks sharp and big enough to handle a large crew – storage aplenty, walk-in pantry, heaps of preparation space. Of course, a coastal resort like this isn’t complete without its own pool. Here you get one with an elevated spa presiding over the blue below. Summertime. You know how the living is. ● LOU SWEENEY property@domain.com.au

FINAL WORD “A COMPLETE LIFESTYLE PACKAGE & FANTASTIC VALUE FOR MONEY DUE

AGENT Barry Plant 9878 0222 PRICE $825,000 – $895,000 AUCTION February 4 at 11am OFI February 2, noon; February 4, 10.30am SCHOOL ZONES + Blackburn Primary + Blackburn High + St Thomas the Apostle Primary see more domain.com.au

PROPERTY ID 2013310354

27km from Bourke Street

3130

AGENT RT Edgar 5984 4500 PRICE $3.6 million PRIVATE SALE OFI By appointment SCHOOL ZONES + Sorrento Primary + Rye Primary + Tootgarook Primary

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PROPERTY ID 2013197550

LIZ JENSEN – AGENT 111km from Bourke Street

This renovated single-storey property offers a comfortable lifestyle within walking distance of Blackburn Lake Sanctuary, shops and train station. The open-plan living area has a modern, fresh palette, with plenty of natural light invited in through the floor-to-ceiling windows. The three bedrooms (all of which have either a built-in or walk-in-wardrobe) are separated by the main bedroom’s en suite and the laundry. At the rear of the house is the covered deck and spa. Being the first of three identical houses on the same block, this home has the added benefit of a front lawn. Other key features include a renovated kitchen, gas-ducted heating, split-system air-conditioning and a lock-up garage. ● AMELIA BARNES

PORTSEA \ 182 FRANKLIN ROAD

TO ITS QUALITY & SCALE.”

WE LOV E IT

This house oozes Mediterranean style from the pillars of the loggia to the arched wrought-iron doorway. Just 800 metres from the beach, the four-bedroom house has 3270 square metres of manicured grounds surrounded by tea-trees. It has a tennis court, pool, outdoor kitchen and fireplace. Entry is into a tiled foyer leading to a living room. To the right are the kitchen and the dining and family room. Bifold doors open to the outdoor kitchen, barbecue and pool. Three bedrooms have builtin wardrobes and two have floor-to-ceiling glass doors to the pool. The main bedroom wing has a walk-in wardrobe, en suite, powder room and study. Once you drive down the long, winding driveway you might never want to leave. ● KIRSTIE BEDFORD

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BLAIRGOWRIE \ 10 BEACH AVENUE

AGENT Sotheby’s 5984 4114 PRICE $1.9 million PRIVATE SALE OFI By appointment SCHOOL ZONES + Sorrento Primary + Dromana Secondary College + Rosebud Secondary College

The en suite showcases limestone tiles, and untreated ironbark is used for the deck. The lower level comprises a double garage, two storerooms, two bedrooms and a bathroom. On ground level are three bedrooms – the main with walk-in wardrobe and en suite, and two off the family room, which adjoins a wraparound balcony. Open-plan kitchen, dining and living areas at the rear have tiled floors, co-ordinated drapes and light fittings, and full-length windows offering views towards the back beach.

Seaside peace and contemporary panache come together on this property. With the eight-year-old house benefiting from owner-builder construction and interior-designer input, and a state-ofthe-art pool, there’s no need for Melbourne residents to catch a plane to find holiday bliss. A geometric facade of sandstone, timber and render establishes an emphasis on natural materials that’s reinforced inside the house through spotted gum feature walls and seagrass wallpaper.

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PROPERTY ID 2013312285

108km from Bourke Street

From here, three sets of glass doors blur indoor and outdoor boundaries. Sliding doors in the kitchen and dining areas cut a corner to an outdoor room, and concertina doors in the dining area link with the deck. The design of this area easily allows adults to keep an eye on kids while all enjoy the salty air. The decking extends under a glass fence to the selfcleaning pool and spa. A study bolsters the case for year-round residency, as do hydronic heating, a Jetmaster fireplace and proximity to schools. ● KAY KAY KEIGHERY

AG E NT’S CH O ICE POSTCODE

3105

1/15 Estelle Street, Bulleen 3

POSTCODE

3113

22 Mitchell Avenue, Warrandyte 3

POSTCODE

3106

3 Colonsay Street, Templestowe 4

POSTCODE

3094

2/17 Elmo Road, Montmorency 4

Agent: Barry Plant Doncaster 9842 8888 ................................................................. Price: $600,000 - $660,000 ................................................................. Auction: Saturday February 11 at 11am ................................................................. OFI: Thu & Sat 11.30am-noon .................................................................

Agent: Chris Chapman 0421 736 592 ................................................................. Price: $1.1 million - $1.2 million ................................................................. Auction: Saturday February 18 at 12.30pm ................................................................. OFI: Thu noon-12.30pm; Sat 10-10.30am .................................................................

Agent: Andrew Keleher 0417 599 135 ................................................................. Price: POA ................................................................. Auction: Saturday February 25 at 12.30pm ................................................................. OFI: As advertised or by appointment .................................................................

Agent: Ciaran Brannigan 0410 544 478 ................................................................. Price: POA ................................................................. Auction: Saturday February 11 at 11am ................................................................. OFI: Sat 11.30am-noon .................................................................

This attractive single-level villa comprises three large robed bedrooms (main with bathroom access), great living room and an open-plan kitchen/meals area.

This exemplary five-year-old home is stylish and spacious, with lots of natural light, landscaped gardens, a pool and a short walk to the shops and river.

Defining sophisticated style and epitomising quality, this spacious and functional home presents an outstanding lifestyle for the most discerning buyer.

Let's eat lunch @ Cafe Vue at Heide, 7 Templestowe Road Let's eat dinner @ Tao's, 201 Bulleen Road Let's drink coffee @ Bulleen Expresso, 28/79 Manningham Road

Set within the exclusive enclave of homes that make up Jamieson Place, this house is just a few minutes from the local shops and the station. It delivers house-sized living on house-sized land.

Let's eat lunch @ The Roundabout Cafe, 220 Yarra Street Let's eat dinner @ Altair, 152 Yarra Street Let's drink coffee @ River View Deli Cafe, 262 Yarra Street

Let's eat lunch @ Petty's Orchard, 1 Homestead Road Let's eat dinner @ Senses, 124 James Street Let's drink coffee @ Harrys Cafe, 21 Anderson Street

Let's eat lunch @ The Milkbar Cafe, 14 Were Street Let's eat dinner @ Na Son Khla, 40 Were Street Let's drink coffee @ The Werey Bear, 5 Were Street

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BLACKBURN \ 1B CLARKE STREET On one of Blackburn’s renowned tree-lined streets, this brick house is immaculately presented. Inside, retro elements such as wainscot panelling, wallpaper and patterned tiles sit alongside more classic features, including ceiling roses, a decorative open fireplace, and a full-height stainedglass window. Despite being relatively compact, the single-storey house offers multiple communal spaces for entertaining, relaxing and dining. As well as the neat main living room, there is a separate meals and kitchen area, and another more casual family room. The two bedrooms are either side of the central bathroom (there’s also a separate toilet). With panelled timber cupboards, patterned tiles and an outlook over a small garden, the character-filled bathroom evokes the feeling of being in a tropical rainforest. The kitchen has been renovated in a more contemporary style, offering modern amenities that include stainless-steel appliances, a Neff oven and a Fisher & Paykel dishwasher. At the rear, there’s a courtyard wrapped in lowmaintenance greenery – ideal for outdoor dining and small gatherings. The property is in the zone for two government schools – Blackburn High and Blackburn Primary School – and the football and cricket grounds at Morton Park are just seconds away. Other features of the house include ducted heating, split-system air-conditioning, a single lock-up garage and a laundry. ● AMELIA BARNES

3130

AGENT Jellis Craig 9908 5702 PRICE $700,000 – $770,000 AUCTION February 11 at 11am OFI February 2, 1pm; February 4, 11am; February 9, 5.30pm SCHOOL ZONES + Blackburn Primary + Blackburn High + St Thomas the Apostle Primary

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PROPERTY ID 2013323437

27km from Bourke Street

AG E NT’S CH O ICE POSTCODE

3105

25 Lindsay Street, Bulleen 3

POSTCODE

3128

61a Neville Street, Box Hill South 3

POSTCODE

3115

20 Homestead Road, Wonga Park 7

POSTCODE

3095

19-21 Livingstone Road, Eltham 5

Agent: Barry Plant Doncaster 9842 8888 ................................................................. Price: $1 million - $1.1 million ................................................................. Auction: Saturday February 18 at 11am ................................................................. OFI: Thu 12.30-1pm; Sat 11.30am-noon .................................................................

Agent: Troy Nelson 0468 930 166 ................................................................. Price: POA ................................................................. Auction: Saturday February 18 at 10.30am ................................................................. OFI: Thu noon-12.30pm; Sat 10-10.30am .................................................................

Agent: Daniel Broadbent 0424 155 476 ................................................................. Price: POA ................................................................. Private sale ................................................................. OFI: Sat 10-10.30am .................................................................

Agent: Tristan Messerle 0438 176 416 ................................................................. Price: $1.25 million - $1.375 million ................................................................. For sale ................................................................. OFI: Sat 1.30-2pm .................................................................

Packed with space, bathed in light and excellent in presentation, this threebedroom beauty offers an opportunity to buy in a solid blue-chip location.

Demonstrating the impact of clever, contemporary design, this picture-perfect single-level home will excite all those on a quest for easy-care living.

All the elements for a perfect home culminate in this magnificent architecturally designed home, privately set in one of the most desirable locales.

Belle Vue (c1914), has been brilliantly redesigned, blending old-world character with opulent contemporary inclusions. An easy-care lifestyle on 1550sqm (approx).

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Doncaster 1-4/760 Elgar road Elegant and sophisticated with exquisite style and high-end luxury, experience a relaxed and enviable lifestyle inside any of these four ultra-contemporary Townhouses set within Manninghamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest residential showpiece in the very heart of doncaster. offering a mix between three and four-bedroom floorplans and available off the plan with huge stamp duty savings, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the chance of a lifetime to indulge in a superior standard of living, made possible with striking external facades, North-facing outdoor spaces and gorgeous interiors crafted with a focus on space, light and meticulous attention to detail.

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4a METHOD PRICE CONTACT

Contact agent for Price Tony Tuccitto 0407 144 390 Edison Kong 0435 841 615 Doncaster 9842 8888

Bulleen 1/15 EstEllE strEEt Nestled in a leafy residential street, in a well presented block of only two, is this incredible front villa just a short distance from local shopping precincts and the Eastern Freeway. this attractive single-level villa comprises three large robed bedrooms (main with bathroom access), great living room and an open plan kitchen/meals area opening to a sunny courtyard garden, as well as a fantastic bathroom and large laundry.

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Vermont 3/3 Kingsclere street this stylish and trendy three-bedroom home is centrally placed in the heart of Vermont, surrounded by shops, schools and public transport. safely nestled at the rear of this residential development, this near new home has electric security gates offering privacy and security, and a long list of features with their associated benefits, including ducted heating, dream kitchen, gutter guard, full ensuite, euro laundry, double garage, and much more. Walking distance to Vermont shops and reserve, walk to Vermont Primary and Vermont secondary college.

saturday 11th February at 11am $600,000 - $660,000 thur & sat 11.30-12pm Photo ID required theo Politis 0415 030 088 Mitchell Etherington 0423 932 899 Doncaster 9842 8888

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BlackBurn north 23 Gay Street Situated in one of Blackburn Northâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leafy streets, this original weatherboard threebedroom home has access to outstanding schools and magnificent parklands. a redevelopment opportunity with a 23 metre frontage on 645sqm of land also features a weatherboard home, SLUG & storage with ample room to improve on a functional footprint. three bedrooms surround a central bathroom with a spacious lounge at the entrance. a family kitchen overlooks the dining with access to the outdoor living.Walk to Blackburn High School or one of several primary schools in the area as well as trains and buses, with the city and airport less than 40 minutesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; drive.

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Bulleen 25 Lindsay street Packed with space, bathed in light and excellent in location, opportunities to buy in a solid blue-chip location hardly come better dressed than with this three-bedroom single-level beauty. in a prized pocket only moments to the Park + ride, Macedon square and schools, its attractiveness as a family home is accentuated with a generous arrangement of formal and communal living areas, zoned bedrooms and an easy-care backyard the kids will adore.

Saturday 11th February at 11am Contact agent for Price thur 4-4.30pm & Sat 2-2.30pm Photo ID required Jack Stack 0400 434 030 Paul antonio 0458 264 909 BlackBurn 9878 0222

METHOD PRICE INSPECT CONTACT

saturday 18th February at 11am Contact agent for Price thur 12.30-1pm & sat 11.30-12pm Photo ID required Mark di Giulio 0407 863 179 david napoleone 0425 740 922 Doncaster 9842 8888

BLACKBURN 1/13 GLEN EBOR AVENUE

This beautifully presented home is within easy walking distance of Blackburn Lake, Blackburn Village Shopping and Blackburn train station. With three double bedrooms, open plan kitchen, spacious lounge/dining area and rear courtyard with spa. METHOD PRICE INSPECT CONTACT

Saturday 4th February at 11am ESR $825,000 to $895,000 Thur 12-12.30pm & Sat 10.30-11am Photo ID required Allan Smith 0419 522 440 BLACKBURN 9878 0222

BLACKBURN 88 South Parade 9878 0222

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The Portsea 29.7sq Think of your property as a blank canvas... Now imagine rebuilding the stunning Portsea amongst the existing landscape of your street. Spread over two floors and the flexibility to adapt this plan to suit your lifestyle, the beautifully proportioned Portsea will provide all the elements of a well designed home. Light-filled living areas including kitchen, dining, family and alfresco merge seamlessly at the rear of the ground floor, the entertainment hub. Meanwhile, a powder room on the ground floor and spacious bathrooms on the first floor will take the chaos out of early morning routines.

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BlackBurn South 5 Princes court Located in a quiet court only minutes to thriving Blackburn South shopping centre with a choice of restaurants, retail and supermarket shopping this BV home offers generous living and bedroom accommodation and is ideally suited to further refurbishment to create a decidedly spacious family home in this coveted locale. Accommodation comprises extended living/ dining room with provision for an open fire place, four bedrooms with BIRs, large central kitchen overlooking a familyroom, family bathroom/2 WCs, carport, extensive storage facility and private rear garden.

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oFFice

Blackburn 9894 8788

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MitchaM 16 Clive Street Located on a flat allotment approx 909m2 only minutes walk to Mitcham train station and shopping this original 4 bedroom home offers a raft of exciting possibilities; renovate and extend the existing property, build your dream home, redevelop with one or more new properties (STCA) or purchase as an investment in this hugely convenient, sought after location. Accommodation comprises living room with provision for an open fire place, kitchen, 4 bedrooms, family bathroom/separate WC and sunroom. Call your builder, call your architect but make sure to call us now!

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18 Fisher Street FOREST HILL Anglers Ahoy

a3 b2

Rarely found and first time offered. This exclusive Clinker Brick home on a fabulous corner allotment measuring approximately 584m2. Impressive features include the Rolls Royce - being hydronic heating in every room, with a stunning lounge with hardwood floors and feature brick wall around fireplace. A charming modern kitchen/meals area, split system A/C, with plenty of storage and coupled with an exciting mezzanine family area this is one of the best examples of family homes in the area. Off street parking for up to 7 cars, 4 undercover and a private cellar complete the picture. Be ready to cast your bid today.

Auction

Saturday 11th February @ 11:00am

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