Issue#21.1 January 2018

Australian Country

Your Contemporary Country Lifestyle Magazine

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Precision Planning
MANAGEMENT, IAN AND ALICIA COOKNELL HAVE BUILT THEIR DREAM HOME IN RURAL VICTORIA. BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS Not very many two-year-olds receive a deck for their birthday. But for little Bonnie Cooknell the extension to her carava
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Mail Bag
I couldn’t resist writing to you regarding your wonderful magazine and in particular, the September/October issue. I love most of the homes you feature, but must confess I drooled over every page of Jodie & Andrew’s home. While this is a home a pensi
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Class Act
COMPILED BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE Until recently Jacqueline and Frederick Kirby ran an acclaimed restaurant at Rickety Gate Wines, a boutique winery and weekend cellar door in Denmark’s Scotsdale Valley. But now they have closed that business to concentra
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Artist In Residence
BY TAMARA SIMONEAU, PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLAIRE MCFERRAN, STYLING ANGELA LYON Chance has been kind to Paul and Bonnie Atlan. It brought them together in the first place after Bonnie set off for Paris as a young American model in search of success in the
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Sustainability Showpiece
WOULD NOT BE LIVING ON HIS HISTORIC PROPERTY ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF GOULBURN. BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS Methodical is practically Doug Rawlinson’s middle name. So the irony of the fact that his life was framed by a five-second encounte
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Living History
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY ROSS WILLIAMS, STYLING BRONTE CAMILLERI If the walls could talk in the homestead at David and Cheryl Hunt’s Ivybrook Farm at South Australia’s Maslin Beach, they’d be telling tales that go back almost as far as the
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A Forever Home
BEAUTIFULLY WITH A CLEVERLY CURATED COLLECTION OF PRELOVED ONE-OFFS AND UPCYCLED CAST-OFFS, TO CREATE A QUEENSLANDER OOZING WITH PERSONALITY AND CHARM. BY TAMARA SIMONEAU, PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN DOWNS Peter Allen’s emotive anthem about this beloved
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Pioneers In Paradise
PEART FAMILY HAVE DEVOTED THEMSELVES TO TURNING WHAT WAS REGARDED AS WASTELAND INTO A TRUE ARCADIA. BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS As Rowan Peart sees it, back in the day everyone had cousins in the country and most likely visited them
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Editor's Letter
ONE OF THE MANY PRIVILEGES OF EDITING AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY IS THAT I GET TO TRAVEL ALL OVER THE COUNTRY MEETING FASCINATING PEOPLE WHO GENEROUSLY welcome us into their homes and lives. As regular readers know, I grew up in country Queensland and never
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A Vision Splendid
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS It’s the opening night of the Vision Splendid Film Festival and the host town of Winton, 1350 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, has turned on a typical western Queensland winter welcome. In other words it
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Out & about
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE There were plenty of proud moments as the Royal Agricultural Society Foundation (RASF) hosted its rural scholarship presentations in a series of events at Armidale, Wagga Wagga and the Sydney Showground. Each year the RASF provid
Australian Country3 min readFashion
Store Strolling
COMPILED BY FI COLLINS The Gilly Stephenson Food Safe Wax is a rich, soft wax perfect for a natural finish on a variety of raw timber/bamboo surfaces. Made from a blend of beeswax, EcoSoya and carnauba waxes, it penetrates deeply. gillystephenson.com
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Diary Notes
COMPILED BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE A highlight on Tasmania’s summer calendar is the Museum of Old and New Art’s (MONA) Festival of Music and Art (FOMA) curated by Brian Ritchie, the bass guitarist for the Violent Femmes. FOMA brings a beguiling mixed bag of
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Restoration Story
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS There’s a sign in the kitchen at Moira station that reads: ‘Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Just take it and make it perfect’, which pretty much sums up the way Riverina water drilling contractor Rex Wat
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Off The Shelf
COMPILED BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE We can’t keep our hands off this handsome tome, in particular the cover, which features a photograph of a tent on a beach with a cliff in the background and a spectacular night sky above. It’s cleverly embossed with a dott

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