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The November 19 Edition

The path to a happier, saner divorce | Tim Winton, a blue groper and the sea | All abuzz about Kangaroo Island’s bees | Tyler Wright on surfing’s monoculture

14 stories

Gwyneth was right: The push for a happier, saner divorce

From collaborations with counsellors and finance advisers to equine therapy and sound-healing, a burgeoning industry is encouraging ‘conscious uncoupling’.

  • Tim Elliott
Ligurian bees are considered passive and high-yielding; in the 1880s, Kangaroo Island was declared the world’s first sanctuary for them.

The potential devastation facing the world’s only ‘pure’ Ligurian bee population

Kangaroo Island had been a sanctuary for Ligurian honeybees for more than a century when the 2019-20 bushfires hit. Will the varroa mite deliver a new sting?

  • Mark Dapin
From left: cinematographer Rick Rifici, director Robert Connolly and Tim Winton on location at Ningaloo Reef, where most of the underwater work for Blueback was filmed.

Tim Winton on a blue groper, a novel – and his life-imitates-art moment

With his novel, Blueback, now a movie, the author reflects on how his love of the sea has evolved – and what he’s prepared to do to protect it.

  • Tim Winton
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They lived ‘blessed lives’ running a cancer charity. Then Georgie got her diagnosis

Sisters Georgie Crawford-Smith and Annie Crawford, founder of the charity Can Too, have always played and worked together. Now, the pair face a new challenge.

  • Nicole Abadee

Not straight, not blonde: Tyler Wright on trumping surfing’s monoculture

The two-time world champion talks about surfing’s idea of womanhood, coming out as bisexual, and how a brush with death changed her life.

  • Benjamin Law

Interrupting isn’t necessarily rude – it’s just ‘conversational overlapping’

There’s now a new term for butting in when someone’s talking – and sometimes, it’s considered good manners.

  • Amelia Lester
Daisy Pearce (centre) with teammates Libby Birch (left) and Blaithin Mackin.

Good Weekend Talks: ‘So much more than that’: Daisy Pearce on finding fulfilment outside a flag

Melbourne captain Daisy Pearce has had a trailblazing career, but a premiership medal has eluded her – thus far.

  • Marnie Vinall

New restaurants with music on the menu

For a chorus of bars and restaurants, music is becoming more than just background noise.

  • Terry Durack
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Is yelling at my sat-nav a lost cause?

Our Modern Guru finds a way for dealing with this much-maligned navigation device.

  • Danny Katz
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Sydney: Warike

Put this Peruvian restaurant on your dance card for a night of zippy seafood and the best pisco sours in town.

  • Callan Boys
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Melbourne: Nazar

The name references the good-luck charm that's often translated to "evil eye", and this Kew local is one to watch, reviews Besha Rodell.

  • Besha Rodell
Spring arancini with  molten cheese centres.

Karen Martini’s arancini with peas, spinach, mint and smoked scamorza

Arancini make for perfect finger food, although a little warning is needed when freshly cooked (that molten cheesy centre!).

  • 2 hrs +
  • Karen Martini
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Helen Goh's chocolate and amaretto fruitcake

With flavours redolent of apricots, cherries and almonds, amaretto is an uncommonly delicious liqueur to add to a Christmas cake.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
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