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After relocating from the UK in the 2000s writer Dave Witty fell in love with the coastal Queensland town of Mackay.The author of What the Trees See: A Wander Through Millennia of Natural History in Australia shares his passion for the city’s
From ancient Roman aqueducts to futuristic vertical farms, how can we blend historical wisdom and cutting-edge technology to make our cities viable, vibrant and resilient places to live? We get some creative answers from, wait for it, an exper
What would food writer Hetty Lui McKinnon eat if it was her last day on Earth?Join Hetty as she explores her memories of her mother's simple yet profound ginger fried rice.
In Object of Desire, designers, makers, creators and aesthetes of all persuasions talk about a special object in their life.
Architects have a grand history of designing excessive and ostentatious structures, often as a display of power, wealth or technical prowess.
In recent years, the trend of social media food influencers has significantly shaped what we eat and how we eat it.
This week, Elizabeth David directs her invective against soup, Annie Smithers mounts a soup-positive defence, and we settle for Gratin Dauphinois, because cream smothered potatoes is something everyone can get behind.
A repudiation uniformity and embrace of community, former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Tim Entwisle shows us the possibility for the nature strip beyond alienation and agapanthus.
Andy Mason, bush regenerator, gardener, community activist, geographer, argues in favour of the re-invention of the suburban backyard as a site of sustainable production and ecological regeneration as well as a space for community building.
This week, Besha Rodell, Chief Restaurant Critic, The Age/Good Food, lover of all things vintage, describes her particular obsession with vintage glassware.
Tim Entwisle, former director of Royal Botanic Gardens takes Jonathan for an annual tour of the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, this year with an emphasis on native plants, diversity and sustainability.
Dr Soon-Tzu Speechley, lecturer in Urban and Cultural Heritage at the University of Melbourne, talks about a brick he dug up in his garden and what it reveals about the history and evolution of architectural style, the expansion of brickworks
If you are dressed head to toe in black, polyester, nylon or some combination thereof, you may need a dress doctor. Stat.
At her Lorne restaurant, Little Picket, award-winning chef, Jo Barrett shows Jonathan Green the dish she would cook if it was her last meal on earth.
Raw meat, egg slonking, seed oil panic and the war on “soy globalism” - welcome to the dizzying dietary fixations of the alt right.
A Blueprint segment in which designers, makers, creators and aesthetes of all persuasions to talk about a special object in their life.
Jonathan Green puts his life on the line to ride a penny farthing.
From the velocipede in the early 1800s to its more modern incarnation, featuring tubular metal frames, wire-spoked wheels, pneumatic tyres, and gears, design writer and critic, Colin Bisset gives us a potted history of the development of the b
The city of Paris is about to enact an ambitious new climate Plan; at it's heart is a commitment to building a cyclist friendly urban centre.
Nam Le, award winning author of The Boat, takes us to the two places that shaped him as a writer: under the vast sky and amidst the dramatic weather of Iowa City and a barn in Provincetown, against the howling wind of the North Atlantic, wher
Internationally renowned designer Bethan Laura Wood is building a library like no other; she gives us a tour of Kaleidoscope-o-rama, her artwork informed by the interiors, furniture and objects that were the backdrop for conversation and knowl
In the second instalment of her study of Elizabeth David’s masterpiece, French Provincial Cooking, award-winning chef Annie Smithers talks hors d’oeuvres and makes use of some late summer zucchini.Find more of Annie's past Kitchen Rudimentals
The climate crisis has cast a long shadow over our visions of the future, but what if we imagined something more positive?
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