Margaret began writing at high school, and wrote on and off while working to attain a Master of Science degree. After working as an analytical chemist for ten years, participating in activities with the Australian Volunteer Coast Guard and raising a family, she moved on to study writing and editing, and achieve a Diploma in Library and Information services. She entered her first novel The Wild One in the Fellowship of Australian Writers Jim Hamilton Award (2011) and received a highly commended, this award being for an unpublished novel of sustained quality. Now with her boys grown up, she has begun to rewrite her early novels. Editor in Chief and Science Editor for The Australia Times, she lives with her three men in Melbourne, Australia, in a house with a metal roof that is used as a runway by possums.
Rockpool Dining Group chefs, led by Neil Perry AM, will cater to the World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2017 awards ceremony in Melbourne on Wednesday, 5 April. Neil and his team of chefs will deliver produce-driven menus showcasing the finest Australian ingredients to 800 guests at the pre and post awards events, to be held … Read more
A unique addition this year and the home of our Festival. Features a bar, laneway, gallery and private dining space. We’re throwing open our doors and welcoming you to our house for the 10 days of the Festival.
Tucked down a laneway in Melbourne’s CBD, the House of Food & Wine is just like a real home, with dining and lounge rooms – even a gallery.We’re hosting sit-down dinners, wine tastings and block parties, and our bar will be open from midday every day. Make our home yours over the 10 days of the Festival.
Saké Restaurant & Bar has added new dishes to the mix courtesy of Tokyo-travelled and self-declared Japanophile, Chief Brand and Culinary Officer, Neil Perry AM.
Drawing inspiration from a recent trip to Japan, Neil’s new dishes balance washoku – or traditional Japanese food – with Saké’s much-loved contemporary spin and sense of fun.
Neil’s devotion to the finest Australian ingredients and sustainable practice shines through the menu, which showcases the work of some of the country’s most admirable producers.
“We want our loyal customers to fall in love with Saké all over again,” says Neil.
“We’re offering them another reason to keep coming back by taking them on a journey of rediscovery. My new additions focus on tradition while still being contemporary and fun and heroing everything that is celebrated about Japanese cuisine: produce, quality, seasonality and freshness.”
St Patrick’s Day is fast approaching and Australia’s leading Irish pub P.J.O’Brien’s is hosting the biggest party in Melbourne on Friday 17 March.
Whether there is proud Irish lineage to honour or just a passion for the Emerald Isle, Australia’s six million Irish and Irish descended will come together to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, with festivities including marches, musical performances, dancing and plenty of drinking and eating around the country.
As the streets of Dublin flood with festival-goers across a four-day celebration and the New York parade attracts millions, Melbourne’s party is on the banks of the Yarra River at P.J.O’Brien’s Southgate.
From 1,200 to 1,500 Irish and Irish-at-heart merrymakers are expected throughout the day. Expertly poured pints of Guinness will flow forth from dawn until well beyond dusk, paired with traditional Irish grub. Some of Australia’s best Irish music acts; dancers and pipers will entertain from morning to night in the year’s biggest quest to celebrate the shamrock.
Starting the day right, revellers can enjoy the Traditional Full Irish Breakfast from 8am-11am, with a plate loaded with Black and White Pudding, grilled pork sausages, bacon, mushrooms, fried egg, grilled tomato, baked beans and toast (vegetarian option available). In the spirit of St Patricks’ Day, breakfast can be enjoyed with a pint of Guinness or a glass of sparkling for the special price of $25.
Since making it’s way down under just over a year ago, Teeling Whiskey has become the fastest growing Irish whiskey brand in the country.
Shooting into the spotlight after winning multiple world-class awards, young independent producers Jack and Stephen Teeling have expanded their portfolio to introduce their most impressive varieties yet.
This March, Teeling is launching the Teeling Revival Volume II 13 Year Old Single Malt just in time to say sláinte to the Emerald Isle. The Revival II is a limited edition commemorative Single Malt which has been exclusively produced to mark the one-year anniversary of the Teeling Whiskey distillery in Dublin. Ireland’s leading independent whiskey company is also releasing the multi-award winning Teeling 24 Year Old Single Malt, which sits in the Teeling’s World’s Rarest Irish Single Malt Collection, alongside the other new release, the 33 Year Old, believed to be the world’s oldest bottling of Irish Single Malt recently released.
Teeling’s new whiskey varieties will be available in Australia from early March at Dan Murphy’s and selected independent retailers, bars and special St Patrick’s Day events in Melbourne and Sydney.
Teeling Whiskey 33 Year Old
Teeling events in Sydney and Melbourne
Melbourne
St Patrick’s Day Eve Party
When: 7pm, Thursday 16 March
Where: Bar 1806, 169 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
What: An evening of appreciation for Teeling Whiskey with cocktails on arrival, sharing boards and canapes, and a tasting of four Teeling whiskies including a new limited edition
Where: Loch and Key, Upstairs at 34 Franklin Street, Melbourne
What: A party filled with Teeling Whiskey drink specials, cocktails, shots and boilermakers, with a savvy Irish inspired menu and live Irish music including a performance from The Ramshackle Army. There will be prizes for best dressed and competition winners for those looking to get in the festive spirit of St Patrick’s Day, and generally all round great craic throughout the night.
Tickets: Free entry
Sydney
Irish Whiskey Fair 2017
When: 3:00pm-7:30pm, Wednesday 13 March
Where: The Wild Rover, 75 Campbell Street, Surry Hills
What: The Teeling Whiskey portfolio will be showcased as part of the inaugural Irish Whiskey Fair, where guests can sample the finest in Irish Whiskey to get in the St Patrick’s Day spirit.
Where: City Tattersalls, 194-204 Pitt Street, Sydney
What: Taste your way around the Emerald Isle in an evening of Teeling Whiskey appreciation where guests will sample a selection of Teeling Whiskeys paired with Irish themed canapes.
8th March at 6.30 pm at Backlot, 65 Haig Street, Southbank.
International Women’s Day.
The She Shot International Women’s Micro Film Festival was created so that more women directors could be represented on screen. The numbers are clear – 50% of screen school graduates are women but only 15% later work in the industry, this means there is a need to redress the balance.The film festival has attracted many submissions globally indicating that female directors would like a voice and a space to express their individual vision.
We have seventeen films that have been selected from around the world, of various genres, and some student films have also been selected for the night.The Best Film by a Female Director will receive an Australian Director’s Guild associate membership, and Triurban Media will award $250.
We thought that it was important that we showcased these great films on International Women’s Day, which is March the 8th, at 6.30 pm at Backlot Studios, 65 Haig Street, Southbank.
Read an E-book week starts March 5th (5pm AEDT) and ends March 11th. A great chance to find free and reduced prices on great self-published books from new and established authors.
Taste of Sydney in partnership with Electrolux unveils a stellar line up of the city’s top chefs, new and renowned food precincts and returning restaurant favourites for 2017
Taste of Sydney in partnership with Electrolux is excited to announce an unmissable line up of Sydney’s latest and greatest restaurants from new and noteworthy precincts that will come together for the ultimate pop-up playground in Centennial Park from Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th March 2017.
For the first time, Taste will transpose the city’s hottest new foodie destinations. The revitalized and buzzing Paddington precinct is home to some of the city’s top restaurants and bars right now, and the reinvigorated suburb will showcase some of its award-winning chefs and restaurants. Young gun chef Josh Niland will join Taste for the first time with his hugely popular Australian seafood restaurant Saint Peter along with Latin American bar man and executive chef Regan Porteous of Tequila Mockingbird, which opened in mid-2016.
Acclaimed French-born chef Guillaume Brahimi together with Public House Management Group will also make an impression at the festival for the first time, bringing to Taste one of Paddington’s best-loved dining rooms, Four in Hand by Guillaume.
As Sydney’s newest precinct to debut at Taste, Barangaroo will showcase an array of its standout restaurants, that opened along the waterfront in 2016. The dynamic duo behind the popular Bar H, chef Hamish Ingham and sommelier Rebecca Lines will present their newest venture Banksii, a vermouth bar and bistro where you can experience the botanical focused menu influenced by the Mediterranean. Renowned Turkish born Australian chef Somer Sivrioglu will also transport his restaurant Anason from The Streets of Barangaroo to Taste of Sydney where visitors will be treated to authentic Turkish cuisine.
Over the four days, the festival will also feature a lineup of the CBD’s newest restaurant openings, including Bouche on Bridge headed up by Harry Stockdale-Powell who will prepare his approachable fine dining offering through local and sustainable produce. Spanish inspired Mercado Restaurant will make an appearance with head chef and co-owner Nathan Sasi cooking up signature dishes based on his philosophy of revival of the old with the new through whole animal butchery, meat curing, cheese making, bread baking and preserving.
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Afterpay provides budget tool for parents concerned about new school year expenses
Sydney, Australia, 12 January 2017 –
Leading retail payments innovator Afterpay is now available at Australia’s largest specialty athletic and school shoe retailer, The Athlete’s Foot.
Introduced in time for back to school 2017, The Athlete’s Foot has implemented Afterpay online and in-store across Australia, helping parents budget expenses for the new school year and providing much needed financial relief at the end of the holiday period.
According to Back to School Research completed by Haymakr in March 2016, 65% of mums in Australia want to buy their children better quality school shoes but are constrained by budget. In addition, at the beginning of every school year, children need both sports shoes and school shoes for the year ahead, however only 32% of mums in January 2016 bought their children sports shoes at the same time as buying them their school shoes.
The Athlete’s Foot offers high quality school and sports shoes, including Clarks and the exclusive brand Ascent, coupled with an expert fitting service, ensuring parents value for money and quality product giving them peace of mind for the year ahead.
