MAY 2018 - FREE SYDNEYOBSERVER.COM.AU Sydney Observer OCEANIC GETAWAYS HOW TO: STYLE YOUR HOME OFFICE Local Author LOCAL NEWS • EDUCATION • LIFESTYLE • FOOD & WINE • TRAVEL CONTENTS 6. Local News FROM THE EDITOR Welcome to another issue! This month 10. Profile we are chatting with local author Amanda Hampson on her latest novel The Yellow 14. Education Villa. Having grown up in New Zealand and lived in the UK for a number of years, 18. Real Estate Amanda now calls Sydney’s Northern Beaches home. However, The Yellow Villa, 19. Finance among many of Amanda’s books, explore the great unknown that comes with travel- 20. Lifestyle ling to a foreign country. Learn more about Amanda, her characters and their inexplica- 24. Wellbeing/Seniors ble sense of wanderlust on pages (10-12). 32. Fashion & Beauty This issue also explores the ongoing call for a NAPLAN review (16), how the most recent ABS findings illustrate a picture of Ku-ring-gai as of the 38. Home & Garden present day (7 & 18) and the ‘slow clothing’ movement with Jane Milburn (34), in time for her upcoming workshop with the Ku-ring-gai council. Food & Wine 40. Don’t forget to head to our website (sydneyobserver.com) to sign up for our new weekly e-newsletter, delivered every Monday with a fresh over- Travel 44. view of local happenings. 46. What’s On Sydney Observer 47. Astrologer Hanna @Sydney_Observer Clairvoyant 48. sydneyobserver.com MAY 2018 - FREE SYDNEYOBSERVER.COM.AU Sydney Observer PUBLISHED BY: Kamdha Pty. Ltd. Designer of fine jewellery EDITOR: Hanna Moore OCEANIC GETAWAYS (
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