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The April 22 Edition

Craig Foster’s advocacy: from refugees to a republic | Bob Brown on love & croissants | Crooner Alex Cameron on singing for the ‘table for one’ guy | Brooke Blurton on being a Bachelorette

15 stories

‘So ridiculous’: Why Craig Foster wants Australia to give King Charles the boot

The former Socceroo doesn’t believe Charles is our kind of bloke – and that it’s high time we had our own head of state.

  • Jane Cadzow
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‘More of an effect than you can imagine’: Restoring Notre-Dame’s ancient acoustics

Four years after a devastating fire tore through the famed Paris cathedral, the quest is on to rediscover the sounds of its past.

  • Madeleine Schwartz
Alex Cameron performing in
Sydney in late 2022. He says fans come to see him “create a spectacle on the knife’s edge” while he sings about the “table-for-one guy” starved of purpose.

‘Too raw’: Some hate Alex Cameron’s songs. Taylor Swift, Russell Crowe beg to differ

Paying homage to the desperate, the disenfranchised and ‘the table-for-one guy’, this Bondi-born crooner has become a globetrotting success story.

  • Angus Fontaine

Fewer imbeciles, more washing up: Bob Brown and his partner’s post-politics life

The one-time Greens leader had resigned himself to eternal bachelorhood. Then an easy friendship with sheep farmer Paul Thomas grew into something more.

  • Tim Elliott
“When I was doing it, I could feel the gravity of it and understood how much it meant to the people and communities I represent.”

First Nations, bisexual, a Bachelorette: Brooke Blurton on ‘walking in two worlds’

The Noongar-Yamatji broadcaster on being political “just by existing”, her stance on the Voice to Parliament and her fears around starring in The Bachelorette.

  • Benjamin Law

Are car arguments valid entertainment?

Of course, writes our Modern Guru. Real life rules over reality TV.

  • Danny Katz
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Good Weekend indeed: Six fun things to do

What to watch, read, eat and buy: get ready for the weekend with these great diversions.

  • Nicole Abadee, Thomas Mitchell, Melissa Singer, Frances Mocnik and Jill Dupleix

When you slow down to think about it, fast food is changing

The chips aren’t down just yet – but when it comes to traditional chains, is the ground shifting?

  • Terry Durack

School night

Paul Connolly’s Kitchen Sink Drama is a slice of domestic life, captured masterfully in only 100 words. This week: Growing pains.

  • Paul Connolly
Karen Martini’s pumpkin, herb and feta filo pie.

Pumpkin, golden raisin, zaatar, herb and feta filo pie

This riff on a classic spanakopita is autumn comfort food at its best.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Prawn and chillli linguine,
EASY

Danielle Alvarez’s prawn and chilli linguine breaks all the rules

I love prawns and I love pasta, but I don’t always love how they come together. This rule-breaking recipe is different and delicious.

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Inside Firebird’s long dining room.
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Is Firebird still firing? The flavours are fantastic but the service is lukewarm

This fire-driven restaurant may not be writing an entirely new chapter on modern Australian cooking, but it is representing the genre admirably.

  • Besha Rodell
Where’s Nick is a friendly local bolthole for catch-ups.
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Where’s Nick was always a good place to drink wine, but now it’s an excellent one

There are wine bars in Sydney with deeper cellars and more composed food, but I can’t think of one that’s more convivial than this Marrickville bolthole.

  • Callan Boys
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Good Weekend Superquiz and Saturday Target Time, April 22

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