Brutal Crime a Daughter's Courageous Stand Myth

PAULINE’S JUNE 26-27, 2021 HOME TRUTHS The One Nation leader on her jail time with a murderer, what she really thinks of the PM and Covid rules

LEISA SCOTT

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back in and worked her way back to the top. And in that time she’s left a slew of disloyal or disgraced party members in her wake. At 67, she remains committed to 17 representing her state and intends to do so beyond the next election. Musician Also this week we have an extract from William Barton the heart-wrenching memoir Mother Wound by Amani Haydar. The lawyer, artist and writer grapples with the grief THIS ISSUE and anger of her mother’s brutal murder at the hands of her father. This is a gripping and eloquent portrait of sorrow and trauma and domestic violence and is Pauline Hanson is a polarising figure. As an important book at a time when as a writer Leisa Scott puts it in today’s cover society we are grappling with the issues of story, the right-wing Queensland Senator violence against women. “has been dog whistling her way through And if you find the avalanche of health Australia’s public discourse for 25 years”. advice overwhelming, Dr Norman Swan She speaks to her base and is unapologetic has the answers and he shares his five best about her views on topics such as climate tips with Jill Poulsen. change, Covid rules and immigration. Enjoy your weekend. But Hanson is also a survivor. She’s been jailed and released on appeal, kicked out of the party she founded and then let

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“Avo on toast Financial year is often the ends in frenzy

most affordable, The Taxman Cometh. Apologies to Eugene O’Neill for riffing on the title of his play The Iceman Cometh but it’s yet still a that time of the year. And if you don’t know who Eugene O’Neill is then the bit fun” riffing doesn’t matter, it’s still that time of the year. Tax Time! Everyone’s email boxes, post boxes, Facebook pages, newspapers and TVs are being flooded with the seasonal cry reakfast has been called of “End of Financial Year Sale!”. People the most important meal of will be encouraged to pick up crazy the day. Mum used to say that bargains because it’s tax time! Spare me. to get me to eat something People get feverish around this time of before school. I’ve never been the year and think that by splashing out, Bbig on breakfast, I chug a coffee and wait they’ll save with tax deductions. until my stomach starts eating itself I had a pal who bought a leaf blower around 1pm. However, going out for at a Bunnings end of financial year sale breakfast is very on trend, so here’s my and thought he could claim it. Why did guide to what your breakfast choice says he buy it? “It was on sale,” he said as if about you. talking to an idiot. “Why are you trying ● Granola: You’re either vegan and to claim it?” “Because it’s tax time!” that’s your only option at the place your He had a crack, suggesting the leaf friend chose for breakfast, or you’ve just blower was a piece of health equipment. come from F45 and don’t want to blow all Eventually his accountant, who was also your good work. his partner, talked him out of it. But ● Eggs Benedict: You’re having a good on him. The things people try to blowout, or you’re hungover, this is a claim as deductions. My parents one breakfast that starts the day on a no- year claimed a congenial Blue Heeler nonsense note. You’re a practical person, called Sam as a guard dog, but only who just wants something good with no once. “Felt too guilty,” said my Dad, frills. Eggs Benedict with bacon is the training for the Noosa triathlon, but for savour the fact they’re eating ice cream “Sam was more of a snooze dog.” breakfast of someone who tied one on last once in your life cut loose. If this is how for breakfast. I know people have tried to claim night. Eggs Benedict with mushroom is a you’re starting the day, how’s it going to ● Gnocchi: Those who order this are cosmetic surgery and once asked my vegetarian who tied one on last night. end? It better be some amazing next-level my heroes. I reckon you’re probably only accountant if that was possible. He Either that or you’ve found yourself at a cooked oats you’re paying $15 for. going to eat one meal out this week and nodded and admitted that an way-too-cool cafe and this is the only dish ● Breakfast burrito: You’re going for it why blow it on bacon and eggs? You can accountant friend had once successfully you recognise that doesn’t have ancient today aren’t you? Go hard or go home, the make that yourself any old time, but claimed a breast augmentation as a fermented grains or kim chi. breakfast burrito is the breakfast of the house-made gnocchi is a very special work/investment deduction. I stared. ● Avo on toast: The breakfast of people brave, it’s a bold person who starts the day treat. I get the logic, it’s just potatoes He shrugged and said in a cryptic who are trying to kickstart a diet, trying to at this level. Go you, I’m all for it, life is bacon and mushroom anyway isn’t it? accountant’s manner, “Joys of a diverse save for a house, trying to make a healthy short, get as much cheese in your Does it go with a flat white? Not really, and tiered economy.” choice. It’s not the avo on toast that chews breakfast as you can. I tip my hat to you, but it’s nearly lunch time you tell yourself. I’m not immune at tax time and go up your house deposit, I think it’s adding a you’re probably going jet skiing after this. ● Nourish bowl: Yep that will offset it mad at stationery shops. Pens. Paper. side of haloumi, bacon and an Audi A3 ● Pancakes: You’ve earned these, all won’t it? The Tim Tams you ate You name it. I buy it and try to claim it. that does it. You’re dedicated to staring enjoy them, this is the breakfast of watching tele, the Big Mac you guzzled I suppose it’s only human nature to down the breakfast burrito and still someone who’s achieved something and down in the car, the nourish bowl is a try and get a little up on the tax man, choose avo on toast with cherry tomatoes they’re celebrating. Some pancake cure-all and, frankly, I’m proud of you for but when you think of it, paying tax is and feta. Hats off to you. Avo on toast is orderers will feel guilty once everyone ordering it when breakfast tacos with what pays for what we all share and use. often the most affordable yet still a bit fun else’s avo on toast comes out and attempt popcorn chicken are staring you in the Health, services, education, roads and option on the menu, that sounds like a bit to share their sugary breakfast to reduce face. You’re setting the tone for the week, they all mean shared opportunity. Still of you doesn’t it? their guilt. Don’t take any, this is their this nourish bowl is the start of a day of the taxman cometh. But seriously – a ● Porridge: Come on, really? Who are prize for telling Colin in accounts to stop meal prepping. leaf blower? you trying to impress? I know you’re cc-ing them on everything. Let them Mel Buttle is a Brisbane comedian William McInnes is an actor and author

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You & Me Interview ANOOSKA TUCKER-EVANS They met when he offered a horse ride to her and her kids and they now live and work together on their beef property in the Scenic Rim

Debbie Richardson, 50 Running Creek Beef co-owner, Running Creek, Scenic Rim

How did you and Rod meet? Back in 2011 I was 40ish and Rod was 46. We met by chance on his farm as I was visiting in the area and Rod had generously agreed to give my four children, who were then aged between 10 and 16, and I, a horse ride.

What were your first impressions of him? I thought to myself, “He is a bit cute and very personable”, not that I think he really noticed me. I was living in Sydney at the time so for the longest time we would talk and text and didn’t go on our first date for three months.

When and how did he propose? It was around seven years after we met but, more importantly, I had my children from my first marriage to raise and school and also the move back to Queensland so, in many ways, the time didn’t matter. I had my best friend by then, who I did and still do, love very deeply.

I thought, ‘He is a bit cute and very personable’, PICTURE: MARK CRANITCH not that I think he really What do you love most about Rod? Rod is Rod Richardson, 56 What is the secret to a successful noticed me very much the undercover farmer. He has a Running Creek Beef co-owner, marriage? Mutual respect and my ability wicked dry humour, loves pop music and is Running Creek to keep up with her. How long have you been married? extremely intelligent in all aspects of Whilst on paper we’ve been married for commerce and politics. What’s not to love? What were your first impressions of Deb? What’s it like working and living just over three years, it just doesn’t feel Although his No.1 trait I admire most is his Not bad … all kidding aside, she was a very together? Hectic but rewarding. As with accurate because in our hearts we’ve been ability to respect and chat with anyone. lovely person. mustering on our farm’s mountains, it’s not together for much longer. We love being for the faint-hearted. married to each other but in many ways You work and live together, how is that? How did you know you wanted her to be when we first met is the day that stands It shouldn’t work but it absolutely does! your wife? I’m fairly perceptive but after What are Deb’s best qualities? She’s hard out most for us. We just love being around each other. We seven years and an approach from working, fun and easy on the eye. An all- laugh heaps, work side-by-side and on the Farmer Wants a Wife, I thought, wait a round good heifer as we say on the farm. What is the secret to a successful days when we aren’t working together or minute … marriage? Rod is incredibly supportive near each other, can’t wait to be reunited. Running Creek Beef is heavily involved of me and so very proud of what I have in Eat Local Week this year with lots of accomplished with Running Creek Beef. Do you ever have a break from each events, how have you and Deb pulled He openly admits it’s my baby, and does other? Haven’t done it and couldn’t everything together for it? It’s been seven everything within his power to imagine ever doing it! The odd time that we She’s hard working, fun days a week with lots of help from good encourage, support and let me have my can’t both attend a function, I miss not friends and neighbours but very rewarding lead. I can’t quantify just how loved and having him there to share a funny moment and easy on the eye. An when we meet enthusiastic farm visitors. cherished this makes me feel. Our or enjoy the event together. You will often all-round good heifer as marriage has it’s foundation in respect find us apart chatting to people but we Eat Local Week from today until July 4, for for each other. always find our way back to each other. we say on the farm details visit eatlocalweek.com.au

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Senate for the first time, bringing three others with her in the double dissolution election. Two of those Senators, WA’s Rod Culleton and NSW’s Brian Burston have gone after dis- putes with Hanson, while another elected in 2017, Queenslander Fraser Anning, once a close Hanson friend, only lasted a morning in the One Nation Senate team before turning Independent. One Nation has seen a lot of division. LAST WOMAN But Hanson remains. “David Oldfield, Ett- DAVID OLDFIELD, ridge, Burston, Fraser, the whole lot of them, Culleton, where are they now?” she says. ETTRIDGE, BURSTON, “They’ve walked away. I never have.” FRASER, THE WHOLE It’s Hanson’s 67th birthday when we meet at her Scenic Rim property called Serendipity. It’s LOT OF THEM, also the start of National Reconciliation Week. She’s not too fussed about either. Her birth- CULLETON, WHERE STANDING day “is just another day” and she is not swayed A divisive and resilient political figure, Senator Pauline Hanson has lost more by reinvigorated calls for an Indigenous Voice to ARE THEY NOW? Parliament, part of the consensus-driven 2017 elections than she’s won but has no plans to retire or temper her views Uluru Statement from the Heart. “They’ve got a voice in parliament,” she says, Story LEISA SCOTT citing a handful of Indigenous parliamentarians. “They’re a voice for the Aboriginal people.” Unprompted, she adds: “There’s about auline Hanson fixes me with that 750,000, 800,000 who actually identify as Abor- flinty stare and digs in. “I will make iginal. Whether they’re actually Aboriginal, the decision what goes in my body,” that’s another thing.” she says. “I won’t be told by anyone It’s an echo of the letter to the Queensland else that I have to have this vacci- Times that catapulted Hanson on to the national nation. I will take the risk.” stage in 1996. She was the fish and chip shop It is not the message health auth- owner from Ipswich, the one-time, short-term orities want the public to hear from a local councillor who’d won Liberal Party prese- federal politician. But Hanson has been dog lection to run in the “safe” Labor seat of Oxley. Pwhistling her way through Australia’s public dis- She wrote of how governments “shower” Abo- course for 25 years now and not even a global riginals with money, facilities and opportunities pandemic is going to make her come to heel. “no matter how minute the indigenous blood is It doesn’t matter if it’s Pfizer or AstraZeneca, that flows through their veins and that is what is she’s not having a Covid-19 jab. She’s not keen causing racism”. on masks, either, and only wears one at airports. Hanson was labelled racist and the Queens- Hers has a golliwog motif. land Liberals apologised. Hanson did not. As the As for state border shutdowns due to media spotlight got hotter, the Liberal Party dis- Covid-19 outbreaks, they are “over the top”. endorsed her. The ballot papers had been print- “Those people who are vulnerable, then you go ed, though, so Hanson ran as an Independent and lock yourself away,” she says. “You don’t with the Liberal Party by her name. She won the lock up the majority of people.” seat with the biggest swing in the nation and a She admits most Queenslanders felt differ- juggernaut was launched. The racist label fol- ently in the lead-up to last year’s election, which cessful campaign to stay in federal parliament RESOLUTE: Senator lowed Hanson, bolstered by her maiden speech Pauline Hanson at her is one reason Pauline Hanson’s One Nation three months later; a lurching, chaotic affair with Scenic Rim home; above, in which she said, “I believe we are in danger of polled so poorly. “Queenslanders wanted to be half-baked policies and little detail run by the in parliament this year being swamped by Asians”. kept safe,” she says. Does the populist politician political novice and the two men who launched speaking on the Fair Work “I challenge anyone to say anything that I’ve wish she’d read the people better? the first incarnation of One Nation with her, Amendment Bill 2021. said that is racist and define the word racist to Main picture: Mark “No, I’ve made my statement; I don’t change David Oldfield and David Ettridge. Those two Cranitch me,” she says at a follow-up interview. “It’s that my point of view.” are long gone from Hanson’s orbit, the first of you believe your race superior to another. Ques- And that’s Hanson in a nutshell. She hasn’t many former loyalists to fall from her favour. tioning or debating an issue is not racism.” softened over the years, she says, and is “very The media butted heads with Hanson and Australia is not a racist country, she says, dis- strongly opinionated”. Changing her mind is not One Nation back then as it tried to hold the cam- missing the recent ABC Australia Talks survey easy. Many have tried since the right-wing Han- paign and policies – remember the flat-rate 2 per which found 76 per cent of respondents believed son hit Australia’s political landscape with a win cent Easytax? – to the same standards as other there was a lot of racism in Australia. in the 1996 federal election. But she is resolute. parties. But that was missing the point. “Not at all,” she says, reflecting the views of On an inquiry into the past and ongoing in- Hanson was something new; a true populist, polled One Nation voters who were far less likely justices against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is- the anti-politician, who had tapped into the to agree with the proposition. landers: “I called it years ago an Aboriginal deep-seated concerns and biases of those who If any One Nation members – the number of industry and it’s still an Aboriginal industry,” she felt left behind. Her power was not in policy but which she will not disclose – were shown to be says. On man-made climate change: “Not to the highlighting faults, perceived or real, in “the sys- racist, she’d get rid of them. “They’re not wel- extent that they carry on and say it’s man-made tem”. She was the lightning rod for dissent long come in the party.” climate change, I don’t believe that.” On the before former US president, Donald Trump. But people with far-right racist views do come media: “My life with media has been one of hell.” Hanson’s been written off many times. She’s to listen to her speak. Hanson addressed a rally It hasn’t been easy for the media, either. I cov- been booted out of her own party, jailed, released held by the anti-Islam group Reclaim Australia ered the early days of One Nation and the Paul- on appeal, and lost more elections than she’s in 2015, despite some in the crowd sporting swas- ine Hanson phenomenon. I was there when One won. But in 2016, with a campaign calling for tikas. She has no regrets. “To talk at a rally and Nation had its stunning 11-seat Queensland elec- royal commissions into Islam, climate science talk about Australian values and what I stand for tion win in 1998 and covered Hanson’s unsuc- and the banking sector, she snagged a seat in the is totally different to standing before someone

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It’s Hanson’s 67th birthday when we meet at her Scenic Rim property called Serendipity. It’s also the start of National Reconciliation Week. She’s not too fussed about either. Her birth- STANDING day “is just another day” and she is not swayed A divisive and resilient political figure, Senator Pauline Hanson has lost more by reinvigorated calls for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, part of the consensus-driven 2017 elections than she’s won but has no plans to retire or temper her views Uluru Statement from the Heart. “They’ve got a voice in parliament,” she says, Story LEISA SCOTT citing a handful of Indigenous parliamentarians. “They’re a voice for the Aboriginal people.” Unprompted, she adds: “There’s about auline Hanson fixes me with that 750,000, 800,000 who actually identify as Abor- flinty stare and digs in. “I will make iginal. Whether they’re actually Aboriginal, the decision what goes in my body,” that’s another thing.” she says. “I won’t be told by anyone It’s an echo of the letter to the Queensland else that I have to have this vacci- Times that catapulted Hanson on to the national nation. I will take the risk.” stage in 1996. She was the fish and chip shop It is not the message health auth- owner from Ipswich, the one-time, short-term orities want the public to hear from a local councillor who’d won Liberal Party prese- federal politician. But Hanson has been dog lection to run in the “safe” Labor seat of Oxley. Pwhistling her way through Australia’s public dis- She wrote of how governments “shower” Abo- course for 25 years now and not even a global riginals with money, facilities and opportunities pandemic is going to make her come to heel. “no matter how minute the indigenous blood is It doesn’t matter if it’s Pfizer or AstraZeneca, that flows through their veins and that is what is she’s not having a Covid-19 jab. She’s not keen causing racism”. on masks, either, and only wears one at airports. Hanson was labelled racist and the Queens- Hers has a golliwog motif. land Liberals apologised. Hanson did not. As the As for state border shutdowns due to media spotlight got hotter, the Liberal Party dis- Covid-19 outbreaks, they are “over the top”. endorsed her. The ballot papers had been print- “Those people who are vulnerable, then you go ed, though, so Hanson ran as an Independent and lock yourself away,” she says. “You don’t with the Liberal Party by her name. She won the lock up the majority of people.” seat with the biggest swing in the nation and a She admits most Queenslanders felt differ- juggernaut was launched. The racist label fol- ently in the lead-up to last year’s election, which cessful campaign to stay in federal parliament RESOLUTE: Senator lowed Hanson, bolstered by her maiden speech Pauline Hanson at her is one reason Pauline Hanson’s One Nation three months later; a lurching, chaotic affair with Scenic Rim home; above, in which she said, “I believe we are in danger of polled so poorly. “Queenslanders wanted to be half-baked policies and little detail run by the in parliament this year being swamped by Asians”. kept safe,” she says. Does the populist politician political novice and the two men who launched speaking on the Fair Work “I challenge anyone to say anything that I’ve wish she’d read the people better? the first incarnation of One Nation with her, Amendment Bill 2021. said that is racist and define the word racist to Main picture: Mark “No, I’ve made my statement; I don’t change David Oldfield and David Ettridge. Those two Cranitch me,” she says at a follow-up interview. “It’s that my point of view.” are long gone from Hanson’s orbit, the first of you believe your race superior to another. Ques- And that’s Hanson in a nutshell. She hasn’t many former loyalists to fall from her favour. tioning or debating an issue is not racism.” softened over the years, she says, and is “very The media butted heads with Hanson and Australia is not a racist country, she says, dis- strongly opinionated”. Changing her mind is not One Nation back then as it tried to hold the cam- missing the recent ABC Australia Talks survey easy. Many have tried since the right-wing Han- paign and policies – remember the flat-rate 2 per which found 76 per cent of respondents believed son hit Australia’s political landscape with a win cent Easytax? – to the same standards as other there was a lot of racism in Australia. in the 1996 federal election. But she is resolute. parties. But that was missing the point. “Not at all,” she says, reflecting the views of On an inquiry into the past and ongoing in- Hanson was something new; a true populist, polled One Nation voters who were far less likely justices against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is- the anti-politician, who had tapped into the to agree with the proposition. landers: “I called it years ago an Aboriginal deep-seated concerns and biases of those who If any One Nation members – the number of industry and it’s still an Aboriginal industry,” she felt left behind. Her power was not in policy but which she will not disclose – were shown to be says. On man-made climate change: “Not to the highlighting faults, perceived or real, in “the sys- racist, she’d get rid of them. “They’re not wel- extent that they carry on and say it’s man-made tem”. She was the lightning rod for dissent long come in the party.” climate change, I don’t believe that.” On the before former US president, Donald Trump. But people with far-right racist views do come media: “My life with media has been one of hell.” Hanson’s been written off many times. She’s to listen to her speak. Hanson addressed a rally It hasn’t been easy for the media, either. I cov- been booted out of her own party, jailed, released held by the anti-Islam group Reclaim Australia ered the early days of One Nation and the Paul- on appeal, and lost more elections than she’s in 2015, despite some in the crowd sporting swas- ine Hanson phenomenon. I was there when One won. But in 2016, with a campaign calling for tikas. She has no regrets. “To talk at a rally and Nation had its stunning 11-seat Queensland elec- royal commissions into Islam, climate science talk about Australian values and what I stand for tion win in 1998 and covered Hanson’s unsuc- and the banking sector, she snagged a seat in the is totally different to standing before someone

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who, one or two in the crowd might wear an em- remained unclear at the time of publication. blem of that type,” she says. Hanson has been back in Parliament five Such tortured language and curious logic is a years now, her longest stint in Canberra. She hallmark of Hanson’s style. Her first adviser, says she is not just humoured by her colleagues John Pasquarelli, the man who identified the raw for her vote but has their respect. The travel to power of Hansonism, described her delivery as Canberra is tiring, “But when you get outcomes, “poorly constructed, barely fluent and convolut- that’s the satisfaction I receive.” ed in the extreme”. What’s the best outcome she’s had since her Pasquarelli did try to get her media training return? “I was able to get funding for a little girl to back in 1996. She went once. “Why change me?” have some treatment here in Australia which she says. “It’s worked. This is who I am.” saved her life,” she says, adding six other children We’re sitting in the loungeroom of her com- have since had the treatment. “There’s a lot of fortable home, a ranch-style place with wide ve- other things that I have achieved but to give life randas, gardens she tends herself and a pool that back to so many young children ...” is part of her exercise regimen. There’s a large Some of the other things are her part in con- naive portrait of her on the wall; she’s dressed in vincing former PM, Malcolm Turnbull, to over- white, surrounded by insets of Parliament ride a plan to take over scores of grazing House, an Aborigine standing on one leg, and a properties in central Queensland’s Shoalwater castle with a “1” in the middle. Bay area as part of a defence expansion. And she She’s in vibrant red in another large photo- claims credit for getting through a mandatory graph taken around the time she was on the TV code of conduct for the sugar industry which she show Dancing with the Stars in 2004. How’d she says the then Nationals leader, Barnaby Joyce, go? “Runner-up,” she says. “Bec Cartwright won. had failed to act on for 18 months. Thirty years younger than me.” She also rates her successful, controversial Another reality TV star, the one who became push for a family law inquiry, of which she was US president, Donald Trump, is someone Han- deputy chair. “I was instrumental in getting more son admires. “I think he was great for the US,” … registrars into the court system,” she says. she says. She does not believe Trump incited the Labor and the Greens opposed the inquiry, Capitol Hill riots nor lost the election. saying there had been other inquiries with other “No, I don’t,” she says. “What I’m hearing, recommendations that needed to be acted on. they’re doing an investigation into that about the They also objected to Hanson’s comments that watermarks on the voting paper and I think cor- mothers lied about domestic violence to disad- ruption does happen. I think it happens here and vantage fathers in custody battles. She main- I think it happens over in America.” The Repub- tains, despite claims to the contrary by domestic lican-led watermark investigation is occurring in violence prevention advocates, that the number one Arizona county. of false allegations is “quite high”. She wants On the Australian political scene, Hanson people who make false allegations prosecuted. nominates Defence Minister, Peter Dutton, as Under parliamentary privilege in 2019, Han- someone she respects. “Peter Dutton will be a fu- son disclosed that the ex-wife of one of her sons ture PM of this country,” she says. She’s not as had taken out a domestic violence order against keen on the incumbent, labelling Scott Morrison bourne Covid-19 lockdown tower drug addicts HARDLINE: Hanson in him and had alleged he had sexually abused his 1998 with David Oldfield, “a bully”. “My personal relationship with Scott who should have learned English before coming far left, and David son. Hanson said it was false and he was not Morrison is not very good at all,” she says. “I to Australia. She boycotts the ABC but is regu- Ettridge, right; above, as charged. “I’m not in parliament for my own son think he’s become arrogant; I think he’s a bully.” larly on News Corp’s Sky News. the Independent for Oxley and his things,” she says. “I’m representing a lot She likes Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, She remains steadfast on her hard line on im- in 1996, delivering her of parents who support my view and are grateful maiden speech; and with but says he’s not PM material. “As people say, migration, refugees and asylum seekers, nomi- James Ashby in Parliament I’m prepared to speak out on their behalf.” Two-way Albo. I don’t think he’s decisive.” nating speaking out on these issues as the biggest House, Canberra in 2019. Hanson also helped the government pass its Michael McCormack, the National Party change she has affected in the Australian politi- corporate tax cuts for businesses with a turnover leader, is a nice fellow but weak. “I’ve been doing cal landscape. She claims, with reason, that for- of up to $50m. She rejected uncapping the $50m a lot of what the Nats should have been doing.” mer Prime Minister, John Howard, changed his limit. But One Nation abstained from a vote on It frustrates her, she says, that “weak, gutless policies on immigration and Aboriginal affairs the $158bn personal tax cuts that was passed in politicians” are too tied to their political masters because of her. “I believe I gave him the courage 2019 with the support of Senate crossbenchers, and parties to make change. Asked what she’s because of the public support I had to actually Jacqui Lambie and two Centre Alliance senators. learned about politics over the past 25 years, she deal with immigration,” she says. Commentators argued Hanson had been side- reprises the story of how her late father, Jack She does not bend when it comes to the Mu- lined and was outmanoeuvred by Lambie, who Seccombe, had told her when she got thrown out rugappans, the Tamil family seeking asylum who voted for the cuts in return for the scrubbing of of the Liberal Party that she shouldn’t have spo- until last week had been in detention on Christ- Tasmania’s $157m public housing debt. ken out because she’d never change anything. mas Island since late 2019 after being taken from “It’s called negotiation,” Hanson says. “They “I was very naive,” she says. “So, I suppose their home in Biloela in March 2018. go to whoever they think they’ll get the votes it’s been a challenge in a lot of ways (but) I think “I know they’ve got a lot of support from the first and then they’ll go and negotiate with oth- you can make a difference. And I think I have community … but there is a process,” Hanson ers … that’s why they bought her vote with that made a difference.” says. “Unless you follow that process, that’s why $150m deal to Tasmania.” we had these 50,000 boatpeople who wanted to Later, I get a call from James Ashby, Hanson’s A camera and lighting are set-up behind come here to Australia and you can’t have it. chief-of-staff, who was present at the second in- Hanson’s lounge, her makeshift studio enabling You’ve got to set strong boundaries.” terview and had requested, and received, the re- her to disseminate her views to whoever wants to She hasn’t followed the case closely, arguing MY PERSONAL cording of the first. He wants to clear up what hear them. Nowadays, she uses social media ex- her job as a Queensland Senator is to represent Hanson has achieved for Queensland. It would tensively, claiming the mainstream media Australian citizens and permanent residents. The RELATIONSHIP be “the easiest, simplest” thing for One Nation to doesn’t want to give her a platform. two girls were born in Australia. When I probe get money for Queensland out of the govern- She left a regular spot on Channel 7 in 2019 further, Hanson says, “I think I’ve given you your WITH SCOTT ment in exchange for its vote, he says. after Sunrise host, David Koch, asked if she felt answer”. Ten days after our interview, news Instead, Hanson and fellow senator, Malcolm complicit in the Christchurch massacre, suggest- breaks that now four-year-old Tharnicca Muru- MORRISON IS Roberts, concentrate on improving legislation, ing right-wing white extremists were “egged on” gappan had contracted pneumonia and a blood which saves the country money. “She’s not inter- by One Nation’s immigration and Islamic poli- infection, leading to renewed protests over the NOT VERY ested in how much money you’re going to spend cies. Channel 9’s Today program dumped her family’s detention. The family has been reunited on Queensland but how we can improve it in last year after she called residents in the Mel- in Perth but their long-term future in Australia GOOD AT ALL other ways,” he says.

08 QWEEKEND.COM.AU JUNE 26-27, 2021 V1 - BCME01Z01QW Late last week in the lead-up to the passing of er bureau can’t even get the weather right in controversial superannuation bills, Hanson cir- 24 hours.” Hanson is not the first to confuse cli- culated an amendment which would have bene- mate with weather. “So you’re telling me I’m fitted high income earners over 67. Labor going to listen to them, what it’s going to be like accused Hanson - who earns $211,000 and a 15.4 in 100 years’ time. I’m sorry. I don’t believe them.” per cent super contribution – of betraying her She says she doesn’t deny climate change, just “battlers” and trying to give herself a pay rise. the extent of the human role in it. She offers this The amendment was withdrawn. thesis. “Climate change does happen and in rela- tion to the sun, the moon and this is where the Photographs line the mantelpiece above planet is situated. That’s what I believe in.” Hanson’s fireplace; her late mother, Nora Sec- combe, a group shot of family and friends done James Ashby is hoeing into a supermarket up in their finery on a cruise, and one of her with chicken in Hanson’s kitchen as his boss poses for her partner’s late father. She smiles when I say I photographs. He joined Hanson’s team in the haven’t heard much about her partner. “You lead-up to her 2016 campaign, a return to politics won’t be hearing about him either; we’re not after launching legal proceedings against his for- going down that path.” He is Tony Nyquist, a mer boss, the then Speaker Peter Slipper, for sex- former property developer and real estate agent ual harassment. The charges were later dropped. from NSW. “I’ve kept him very secret,” she says He’s also the man who was embroiled in the of their 12-year relationship. “I can keep them explosive media sting by the Arabic news chan- longer than a couple of years,” she jokes. nel, Al Jazeera, in 2019. Ashby and then One Na- There’s another photo of Hanson in Vanuatu tion state leader, Steve Dickson, went to the US in 2010 with son, Steven, from her first marriage with Hanson’s knowledge for meetings with the to Walter Zagorski and her daughter and son, powerful gun lobby, the National Rifle Associ- Lee and Adam, from her subsequent marriage to ation, and its sponsors. They were caught on hid- Mark Hanson. Her oldest son, Tony Zagorski, is den camera in strategy talks with NRA not there. Hanson has no contact with him but representatives who want Australia’s gun laws will not explain the rift. The split has occurred watered down. He was also filmed saying that if since November 2003 when the two Zagorski One Nation could get $10m from US gun lobby- boys wrapped their arms around their mother ists, the party could win eight Senate seats. protectively as she walked out of prison after her Why has Hanson kept Ashby on? “My in- three-year sentence was quashed. terpretation of it was, they were drunk. They She’d been jailed 11 weeks earlier, along with kept asking them questions, ‘Well what would Ettridge, for fraudulently representing the status you do if you had the money, what if you got this of One Nation membership to secure the state money?’. Of course, eventually if you keep push- registration of the party and, as a result, falsely ing someone, you’ll get an answer out of them.” obtaining two election reimbursement cheques The duo did appear to be drinking in some of the from the Queensland Electoral Commission to- footage discussing money, but not all of it. talling $498,637. She’d already been kicked out of Hanson says the story was obviously a “beat- One Nation in 2002 after bitter internal battles. up” because One Nation has not changed its gun Hanson maintains her jailing was a political But by 2004, she ran, unsuccessfully, as an Inde- TOTAL CONTROL: policies nor taken money from the NRA. It ap- Hanson in April this year stitch-up, blaming the then federal minister, pendent for a Senate seat, with a variety of subse- wearing a face mask with pears to have lost money recently though. One Tony Abbott, for setting up a trust fund to pay for quent campaigns for Queensland and NSW golliwog pictures; at the Nation last year invested $500,000 into Mayfair legal action against Hanson and One Nation, Parliament and Senate spots. She even launched Reclaim Australia rally in Platinum, the troubled company behind a now- and the then Premier, Peter Beattie, for changing a new party, Pauline’s United Australia Party. King George Square in scrapped billion-dollar redevelopment of Mis- 2015; and leaving prison electoral laws. “Both Liberal and the Labor party But come 2013, she rejoined One Nation as a with her sons, Tony, left, sion Beach and Dunk Island. Liquidators and were in bed together with this to get rid of me,” rank-and-file member and was leader by No- and Steven Zagorski. lawyers have said the chances of investors re- she says. She’s since forgiven Abbott. vember 2014. trieving funds are slim. Ashby says One Nation is Her first night in maximum security was trau- She says she took “total control”. “When I “hopeful” of recovering the money. matic, with Hanson shaking uncontrollably and came back to the party … I set the ground rules. It Hanson retreats from earlier statements that being sedated with pethidine. She didn’t like will work this way because I wasn’t going to be she knew nothing about the investment. “At the being asked about her feelings by a young psy- white-anted again and that’s why we’ve been time I said (that) but there has been minutes of it chologist and has not sought counselling since. successful the second time around.” that I actually did sign off on that.” Was she mis- She refused contact visits with all but her father On international issues, Hanson believes lead? “No, not mislead, probably I didn’t under- because of the strip searches. “It was invasive, it China is of grave concern and Australia will need stand the company that was going to … That was really was,” she says. “That upset me, having to support of allies to counteract its might. She sup- my mistake to do that because I relied on the oth- go through the strip search.” ported the Morrison government’s call for an in- ers at head office to investigate that properly.” But she soon got into the rhythm of prison life quiry into the origin of Covid-19 which sparked There’s still about $1.8m in the One Nation and says, “I didn’t have any trouble from anyone the latest round of trade sanctions. war chest, according to Australian Electoral who was in there”. One of her prison mates was She says Australia needs to find other markets Commission declarations. One Nation is plan- Valmae Beck, the now dead killer who, with her or “start up your own manufacturing base here”. ning a strong presence at the next election, con- husband Barrie Watts, was convicted of the ab- “I’m all for turning it around, being self-sufficient testing Senate and lower house seats. Hanson duction, rape and murder of 12-year-old Noosa as best we possibly can be. It doesn’t mean to say, will run for the Senate again, likely vying against schoolgirl, Sian Kingi, in 1987. Watts has recently as people try to say, I want to shut Australia off the Liberal National Party’s Senator Amanda applied for parole. from the rest of the world, that’s just stupid com- Stoker who was relegated to third spot on the People have “had a go” at her for being friend- ments … You make yourself self-reliant. That’s ex- I DON’T LNP ticket in her party’s preselection. Stoker is ly with Beck but Hanson hits back. “You haven’t actly what Morrison said last year when it started unproven in elections, says Hanson, with her worn my shoes, you have no idea of the situation, out; ‘We must look at building our own manufac- INTEND Senate spot “gifted” to her when George Brandis what it’s like to be in there,” she says. “I spoke to turing industries’. What has he done? Nothing.” left. The Greens and Katter’s Australian Party her, by all means, as I spoke to everyone.” As for human-made climate change, she dis- GOING are also contenders, although of KAP, Hanson Hanson, who believes in the death penalty, misses the 97 per cent of scientists in the field asks: “Have Katter’s ever won a Senate seat?” says she told Beck if she’d harmed her daughter, who believe it is happening as acting on self-in- ANYWHERE Still feisty. Still here. The seam of discontent “I’d be the one that pulled the trigger”. Beck’s terest. “These scientists now have jobs that they and resentment that Hanson tapped into in the reply? “Nothing. What could she say?” never had before,” she says. FOR A 90s is still here, too, and she plans to mine it for On release from jail, Hanson said she’d have “Look, they’re talking about temperature rises as long as she can. “I don’t intend going any- “rocks in my bloody head” to return to politics. in the next 100 years by two per cent. The weath- WHILE YET where for a while yet.” ■

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life, how you eat, how you love, how you feel better about yourself and cutting away the bullshit to what you need to know. “It’s part memoir as well and I’ve told personal stories about what I’ve lived through. I do write about anxiety because I’ve had it and I do write about PTSD because I’ve had it.” The best part? You won’t find any “bullshit words like wellness”. Swan says it’s time we get rid of the idea that we are supposed to feel good all of the time. “If you go through life and somehow think there are people in this world who jump out of bed in the morning, full of beans, full of energy and feel fantastic, that they wash their teeth in the mirror admiring their thin thighs and a flat abdomen and have these perfect children, well we know that is complete bullshit,” he says. “We have unrealistic expectations that we should feel great all the time but the reality is if we felt great all the time we wouldn’t actually know what feeling great means. You’ve got to hould I be on low carbs? Maybe MYTH BUSTING: feel crap to know what feeling great feels like.” Dr Norman Swan (above), high protein? Should I take sup- co-host of the ABC And crap is exactly how Swan feels most plements, what supplements? Is podcast Coronacast, has mornings. dairy really bad for you? What released a book debunking “I get up and wash my teeth and think I wish sort of exercise should I be doing, medical misconceptions. I had a flat abdomen like Brad Pitt and my mus- low intensity or high intensity? Picture: Janie Barrett cles are sore from the gym from the day before I’m not getting eight hours of and I feel crap, then one morning if I get up and if sleep a night, am I going to get dementia? I do feel really good you notice,” he says. SThere are plenty of things we get anxious “It’s about knowing there is light and shade in about when it comes to our health but most of your life, but if it is unrelenting and there is no them are a waste of time according to health light in your life then that is the first thing, a kind guru Dr Norman Swan. of self-diagnosis. Then it’s about working out For more than 30 years Swan has been deliv- what is it that’s causing that and reaching out for ering straight-talking advice and health infor- support is vital to do that.” mation as a broadcaster and doctor. He has Inspired by the questions he’s been asked by become synonymous with the ABC’s coronavi- health-conscious millennials, but not written ex- rus coverage and his podcast Coronacast has clusively for them, Swan busts countless health been wildly popular with listeners able to get myths in his book and spoke to Qweekend about their coronavirus questions answered. You’ve got five facts that may surprise you. Now the Scottish-born doctor, who trained as a paediatrician, has written a book – So You to feel crap OUR GREEKS GET IT Think You Know What’s Good For You? – that (sometimes) aims to settle anxious minds about what we do It’s widely known that the Japanese are the long- and don’t need to worry about when it comes to to know est lived people in the world but who comes sec- our health. ond may surprise you. Although not often in tip- “There is so much mythology around and so what feeling top shape, suffering widely from the likes of much to make you anxious, the key thing about diabetes and heart disease, Greek Australians the book is that there is a lot of stuff you just great feels are actually the second longest-lived people on don’t need to be anxious about,” Swan says. like the planet. “It’s the things I think are important in your So what is their secret?

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“Everyone would say it’s the Mediterranean BEST NOT TO STRESS diet and that’s why they live long, well it is part of the story but it is far from the whole story,” Swan says there is no doubt that millennials are Swan says. far more health conscious than previous genera- “If you look at older Greek Australians, sure tions. After years of talking to them and fielding they eat a Mediterranean-style diet, but this is their questions he says one of the areas that has actually about cooking and how you cook and consistently come up is stress and mental health what you cook with. issues. “A lot of Greek Australians will have a back- “They feel psychologically distressed a lot of yard where they will grow their own herbs, the time, so I picked apart where stress comes sometimes their own vegetables – so what they from,” Swan says. eat is fresh and the herbs they cook with is part “There is a whole section of the book on con- of the chemistry set of cooking. So when we trol, which is about having control over your life cook with olive oil, fresh herbs, fresh vegetables and how that doesn’t just affect your psycho- and other things like tomatoes and onions, and logical wellbeing but it affects your physical cooking the way they do, particular slow cook- wellbeing too.” ing, they are creating more powerful antioxi- The feeling of being out of control in a situ- dants than anything you could buy over the ation – whether something is grinding you at counter in a pharmacy in terms of antioxidants.” work or you have three kids at home and you’re Tending to a garden full of fresh herbs and looking after them by yourself – is something vegetables also provides the added benefit of in- most of us have experienced. cidental exercise. And the solution is simple … sort of. In addition to cooking slowly, consuming “That awfulness going off in your brain is ac- only small amounts of wine and little red tually affecting almost every system in your meat, plenty of our Greek body and regaining that Australians also have an- control is really, really im- other secret weapon in their portant,” he says. arsenals: God. If you’re stressed because The Greek Orthodox of a bad boss or bad work- Church has about 100 fasting place, while it might seem days per year – Swan is quick extreme, sometimes leaving to point out they’re not like is the best solution. the fasting days made fa- Those who work longer, mous by Michael Mosley – live longer so enjoying what they’re more like vegan fasts. you do is vital, Swan says. The fasting days mean “The story I write about they don’t eat meat, dairy or control is about my hopeless fish – the only thing on the father, who was a lovely per- menu is plants. “So you can’t son, but a hopeless father. just say I’m going to eat a He takes me to a carnival in Greek diet and I’m going to Glasgow and he’s got a live a long time, it’s actually friend that is a carnie who how you cook, it’s about hav- gets me a free ride on this re- ing days where you might ally scary almost big dipper not eat that much, it’s getting type ride,” he says. exercise – it’s a package of stuff,” he says. “I’m screaming as I go by and my father Signs of dementia can be detected decades STRESS RELEASE: thinks I’m having the time of my life and it was Dr Norman Swan discusses THE SLEEP MYTH before it is developed, Swan says. nutrition, stress and sleep a complete nightmare. That was my first experi- “Dementia causes abnormal sleep patterns so in his new book. ence with being out of control and I couldn’t For years Australians have been told they are it’s not at all clear whether abnormal sleep pat- do anything and I’ve never been on a scary not getting enough sleep. Anything less than terns is an early sign of dementia or it causes de- ride since.” eight hours and it’s a big fat fail. But sleep is kind mentia and it is much more likely to be the Also, it may sound like a buzz word but mind- of subjective, Swan says. former,” he says. fulness works, so if you’re stressed and can’t “Everybody is anxious about sleep,” he says. seem to relax, meditation could be the key. “We must get seven or eight hours’ sleep a FAT IN DAIRY WON’T HURT YOU day, but that’s kind of an average and I don’t A MAN IS NOT A CAMEL – IS HE? know anybody who gets seven or eight hours There is no question that some saturated fat is sleep a night. But we get anxious because we’ve bad for you, but the good news is that the satu- Another surprising fact uncovered in the book been told we’re going to get dementia if you rated fat found in dairy is not bad for you. is that, despite what we’ve been told, you don’t don’t get seven or eight hours sleep a night.” “There are all of these people drinking al- actually need to drink a million litres of water While there is no question that if you’ve got a mond milk and it’s fine to be drinking that if you per day. mental health issue poor sleep is a problem – are vegan and that is a perfectly legitimate thing “How many people do you see with a bottle mental health issues can cause poor sleep and to do, but if you like full-fat milk, knock yourself of water on their desk at work and they’re guz- poor sleep can make mental health issues worse. out,” Swan says. zling water all day? We’re told to drink three, “The whole thing about insomnia is it is self “There is no evidence that the saturated fats four, five, six litres a day,” Swan says. defined. If you are feeling unwell because you in dairy foods is actually bad for you.” “If you look at Ethiopian marathon runners can’t get enough sleep, then you’ve got insomnia Swan writes that fats come from whole foods they run their fastest and most efficient when but if you’re getting five hours a night and you’re and their effects are influenced by cuisine, they are 2 per cent dehydrated. feeling fine then you haven’t got insomnia.” whether we’re eating too many calories and the “If you’re thirsty, drink, but don’t Swan says while the poor sleep and Alzhei- state of our microbiome. “The thing with dairy If you like full force yourself.” mer’s link is well documented it may be misin- foods is they have other benefits, including With so many things worth get- terpreted. “It is true that if you look backwards powerful antioxidants, which actually work fat milk, ting anxious about, there’s five to at people with Alzheimer’s it is true that often against the saturated fat,” he says. “The other strike off the list. ■ they have not slept well but then you have to point worth making is that calcium consumed knock So You Think You Know What’s Good work out if it’s horse and the cart or chicken and from dairy is far more effective than calcium For You? by Norman Swan, Hachette, the egg.” found in over-the-counter supplements.” yourself out $40, out this week

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mani Haydar was five thing at all. As they were leaving, my cousin months pregnant when she apologised to my husband for banging the coffee lost her mother Salwa Hay- table. Within a few weeks, I learned that he was dar in a brutal act of domestic instructing the lawyers for my dad’s defence and violence perpetrated by her had visited my father in jail. I imagined this cous- father. In the aftermath of the in’s palm, which had slammed my coffee table, murder in 2015, Amani and resting between Dad’s thick brown fingers. The her siblings were faced with the loss of both same fingers that gripped the knife. The ones Aparents when their father Haydar Haydar was that had been covered in my mother’s blood. I sentenced to 18 years in jail. felt nervous and nauseous around Dad’s family In her new memoir, the Sydney mother of from then on. two, who is an award-winning artist, lawyer How could they shake his hand one day and and women’s health advocate, explores inher- drink tea from my mugs the next? ited trauma and the holes in the justice system for addressing and combating emotional abuse Unless they are well trained or have lived and coercive control. through it themselves, people are terrible at res- ponding to trauma. And if individuals are care- I lost count of the unbelievably cruel and less and uninformed (or, indeed, malicious), then insensitive responses my grief received. They the institutions we rely on when we’re vulner- made the grief bigger, impenetrable. able are an exponent of that carelessness, ignor- However, I also witnessed acts of empathy ance and malice. and kindness, and I collected those small ges- About a week or two after Mum’s death, I tures as evidence that there was still some love in went into the Centrelink at Bankstown with my the world. sister. I was still very jumpy and felt bare being A student who was enrolled in the same out in public. We stood in the loathed line. I re- course as Mum at Western Sydney University sented the building and everyone in it, but I tried started a fundraiser for us. Some of my husband’s not to show it. It is impossible to be happy or op- relatives donated money to the building of a timistic in a Centrelink queue, but I had to pre- water well in a developing country on Mum’s be- tend so that it wouldn’t be too depressing for Ola. half. Girls I went to high school with and hadn’t A friend had suggested we ask to see the social seen since sent flowers to my home. worker. Ola was an unemployed, full-time stu- A teacher from my Islamic Studies course dent studying design and architecture at univer- came to visit my husband and me. He took his sity and living at home before the murder; she shoes off at the door, as Turkish people always had been dependent on Mum. do, and when he sat on my couch, he asked Ola would have to take a break from study whether he could recite Quran for my mother’s the centre of my world. “Rahat El-sem’a,” one of TRAUMA: Lawyer Amani and live with me while I was on unpaid leave, Haydar, left, who has ruh (spirit). I said, “Of course”, a little taken them lamented. His son, a banker, thumped my written The Mother waiting to have a baby. When I got my first job aback that he was seeking permission. He recited coffee table with his palm to get our attention. Wound, a searing account at a law firm, I had thanked God I no longer softly, entirely by heart, and the words filled my He said, “I’m not justifying it, but she must have of her mother's murder needed to stand in a Centrelink line. Thanks to house. I will never forget those kind deeds, and I done something to make him do this!” by her father in 2015; Dad, I was lining up again, missing my little grey Amani, above, as a whisper a dua (prayer) for each of those people My sisters and I fell silent. It was becoming newborn with her mum office and the omelettes at the Dymocks cafe on whenever I think of them. apparent that Dad’s family were more upset Salwa in Sydney, 1988. George Street. My dad’s brothers and their families, on the about Dad being in jail than the fact that Mum, Main picture: Sam Ruttyn I don’t belong here. other hand, moped around visit after tedious who they had known for 28 years, was murdered It was overcrowded. Angry bodies wrapped visit, sat on my couch, perplexed. They com- by him. (My uncle) Amo Khalil said that in Islam right around the section where people sit and plained about everything from arthritis to prop- it was his duty to be like a father to us and that we apply for jobs on old computers. Arab women erty prices to the fact that the family reputation should ask him if we needed anything, but he hushed their babies, “Shh shh, ya mama,” and was now ruined – anything but the black hole at didn’t make me feel like I could ask him for any- bogans muttered under their breaths, “F..k this”.

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crushed between two trucks. As I run errands, I keep my eyes down, careful not to offend anyone or cut them off. What if they’re violent? What if they keep a knife or bat or gun in the glove box? I imagine the news reporting my freak death. A trifecta of inexplicable horrors. A big goofy picture of my face on the front of the paper. I’d die again of embarrassment. I climb into bed knowing that my husband, who is kinder to me than anyone, who I love down to my bones, is statistically the most likely person to harm me. I stare at the ceiling, won- dering whether Dad could have been insane. What restraint must he have exercised all those years in order to disguise the dangerous side of himself from us? How unwell could he have been? Did he feel guilty? It was hard to believe that the people under my roof could be so hateful or damaged that they might think to hurt me. Dad had already brought this within the realm of possibility. Couldn’t any of us just snap then? Are we all narcissists who simply haven’t chosen violence yet? My sisters lay in their beds asking themselves the same questions.

In shows like Law & Order, the victim of crime is pitied but not empowered. She is gripped by a mental illness, damaged by guilt or addicted to drugs. She does not know how things got so bad. A detective or a lawyer comes along, puts a hand on her shoulder, tells her, “You’re okay, it’s going to be okay.” They capture the bad guy, and in the final scene we see him spitting and ranting in the witness box, caught in a web of his own lies. Someone tall and blonde turns around, pleased. I was sweating around my hairline and my hips Leave Pay in a few months. She said I could sim- She rests her case. Scene ends, credits roll. were aching under the weight of my belly when ply lodge the claim online using the same refer- In the weeks after the murder, I fought with we finally got to the front. ence number I had used as a university student. that image of the victim of crime – weak and un- A smiling woman with a big blow-dry and a Like a lifetime membership. I had time; I didn’t able to cope. I didn’t have the option of not cop- loud raspy voice greeted us with an iPad in her have to do anything right away. For now, I could ing. In a few months I was going to be a mother, hand. She said, “So why are you here today?” focus on getting my sisters sorted. She handed plus I had siblings to take care of and a trial to “Hi, I’d like to be referred to your social work- me a stack of flyers and brochures. None of them prepare for. I had to keep going. er urgently, please,” I said quietly. were about domestic violence. I flicked through a stack of pamphlets about She waited for me to continue but I didn’t grief and counselling that had been given to me want to say anything else. Her finger hovered I try to watch TV but everything is fleshy and at the hospital the night everything happened. stubbornly over the iPad. There were boxes on violent. I develop a habit of eating whenever I We were calling it “the night everything hap- the screen. feel stressed or bored. When I eat too much, the pened” because everything else felt too literal. It “What is it about?” she asked, itching to heartburn returns, and I have to stop. I eat so would have made sense to call it “murder”, but tick a box. many cheese and tomato toasties, Nour says I ART THERAPY: Amani the lawyer in me felt wrong saying that without Haydar with her paintings I begged with my eyes that she wouldn’t will probably give birth to one. including a self portrait in “alleged”, even though Mum was dead and Ola make me say it out loud, in that long miserable I try to distract myself by being silly and which she holds a photo had seen the whole thing with her own eyes. We line, in front of all those people. In front of Ola. funny with my sisters, but I feel guilty for laugh- of her mother who holds couldn’t call it “the night Mum died” because she “We need to know why you’re here, darl,” ing. There’s a video of me somewhere dancing to a photo of her own didn’t just drop dead. All of the available words mother. It made the 2018 she insisted. Apple Bottom Jeans in my lounge room. I’m Archibald Prize finals; betrayed reality. I’ll have to get used to saying it. I put on my wearing a stripy pink onesie. My tummy is up to above, with mum Salwa Someone named Jann had called from the best neutral face and you-asked-for-it tone. my mouth at this point (to use one of my grand- on her first birthday, 1989. Homicide Victims Support Group and left me a “My dad stabbed my mum to death last week mother’s phrases). It bobs up and down in front Main picture: John Feder message in the days after everything happened. and we need help sorting out our living situ- of me while my sisters giggle in the background, I decided to call her back and see if my sisters ation.” There is no box for that, is there? begging me to stop moving so fast. and I could go to a meeting. If I was going to de- The smile dropped right off her face, joining I laugh, “The baby is sutured in, it can’t fall liver a baby into the world, I would need to start the squiggly patterns on the carpet. She looked out anyway!” working on my trauma. No one else could do down at her iPad, her manicure still hesitant When the fun ends, I am thrust back into re- that for me. Mum talked a lot about mental above the screen. I waited for a response as her ality, unable to escape a heightened sense of my health. She would be disappointed if I didn’t ac- eyes flicked from myself to Ola to her iPad, like own mortality, and the mortality of those Mum was cept help. ■ maybe I was making a bad joke. Like people ever around me. When I rest my eyes, scenes of blood This is an edited extract from The Mother Wound by go to Centrelink with good news. and gore paint themselves against my eyelids. dead and Amani Haydar, published by Pan Macmillan, $35, out “Oh, I’m sorry to hear that,” she said after a Everything is a near and imminent threat. Tuesday second. Tap-tap, tap-tap. “Please take a seat and When I feel a kick or contraction, I see myself Ola had wait to be called.” going into premature labour and not making it For help, please call: 1800 RESPECT When we were finally called, I took a deep to the hospital in time for the cervical suture to seen the (1800 737 732), the National Sexual breath and told the woman behind the desk be removed. When I wash the dishes, I see the whole thing Assault, Domestic Family Violence what happened. I just want to go home. We sort- knife slipping from my grip and plunging into Counselling Service. DV Connect, 24 ed out the things Ola needed, and I asked her if my arm. When I drive, my anxiety is so bad I with her hour helpline: 1800 811 811. there was anything I needed to do given that I confine myself to a tight and familiar radius. I Lifeline: 13 11 14, 24-hour crisis support. would be having a baby and claiming Parental see my car crumpled up against a pole or own eyes MensLine Australia: Mensline.org.au

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Timeless sounds Queensland’s William Barton is a maestro of the didgeridoo, who is about to premiere a new work and play across the state

Story PHIL BROWN

hen William Barton plays of my works there,” Barton says. “I have the didgeridoo the sound is always dreamt of returning to perform a deep and sonorous. It’s the combination of pieces from my current timeless sound of Australia. portfolio, which I have performed around WIn a 1953 essay entitled The Dreaming the world on some of the greatest stages.” the anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner Barton is a proud Kalkadunga man described the nature of time as it relates to from Mount Isa. He grew up playing the the Aboriginal belief system as being didgeridoo there and has been performing “everywhen” – a wonderful way of publicly since about the age of 12. describing the continuum of the Nowadays he uses his voice and the Dreamtime. The sounds of “everywhen” guitar to enhance his compositions. would have to be the didgeridoo. To hear him is to be Queenslander Barton is the master, a transported to that timeless world-renowned musician who has “everywhen” that Stanner become a cultural ambassador. spoke of. “When I’m on He played in Brisbane recently at the stage my music Brisbane Powerhouse’s 21st birthday encompasses celebrations and there was a hush when everything,” Barton he came on because everyone knew his says. “I become performance would be special – and it the air, the was. He explained that he was going to wind, the soul of evoke the smell of rain hitting rocks in the the desert and there’s really no one else who heartland. As a could do that musically. performer I am We’re lucky because Barton, 40, has a drawing on that few dates coming up. He lives in Sydney heartland.” nowadays but loves coming home. Today This year’s AFCM and tonight he is playing with the celebrates its 30th anniversary Queensland Symphony Orchestra in a and artistic director Kathy Stott says she’s concert entitled Epic Sounds – Music excited that Barton is coming to help That Soars. This coming week he will be celebrate. “I’m thrilled William is playing in Music for Stargazing at returning,” Stott says. “He is much Charleville as part of the Queensland loved by our festival audience. Music Trails program. Programming the didgeridoo in a Barton is also headlining at the chamber music festival brings an Australian Festival of Chamber Music late integral part of Australia’s cultural July 27. Tonight he will perform the world QSO Epic Sounds – Music That Soars, today at next month. heritage into beautiful focus.” premiere of a new work with the QSO – 3pm and 7.30pm, Concert Hall, QPAC; He shares a long history with the Barton last performed at the AFCM in Apii Thatini Mu Murtu (to sing and carry qso.com.au AFCM. He has been a regular at the 2012. He will perform in the Queens a coolamon on country together), a Queensland Music Trails – Music for festival and will perform at three major Gardens Concert on July 25, at the composition Barton describes as “a legacy Stargazing, Cosmos Centre, Charleville, June events during the AFCM this year. Townsville Civic Theatre for another piece”. “This piece is about reconnection 29-30; qldmusictrails.com “The festival holds a special place in concert on July 26 and at the Sounds Like … to our language, to our cultures, to each Australian Festival of Chamber Music, my heart because I premiered a number Paradise Dinner on Magnetic Island on other and the world we live in.” Townsville, July 23 to August 1; afcm.com.au

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See Are you Lonesome Composer Mozart; Opera Queensland’s The Marriage of Figaro conductor, Dane Lam and his wife soprano Sofia Troncoso; OQ CEO Patrick Nolan. Tonight Eagle Farm Racecourse, 5pm follow up to his previous hit, The Barber Country music and opera “It’s the authentic drama of of Seville. Mozart’s audience would have combine as the Brisbane Racing Club known that play. We still know it through hosts Opera Queensland’s final the piece that makes it a the operatic version by Rossini of course. performance of the production. It The Marriage of Figaro takes place features the arias of composers such years after that. It tells the story of how as Puccini and Verdi and songs by Slim perennial favourite” Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting Dusty and Dolly Parton. brc.com.au married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva, who tries to seduce Susanna but is taught Read I would have loved to have been at the lead role of Figaro and Jose Carbo and a lesson in fidelity. Everyone ends up The Family first performance of Mozart’s lavish, Shaun Brown are taking turns playing the living happily ever after which is a nice Doctor, Debra laugh-out-loud rom-com The Marriage count. The cast also includes Eva Kong, change. All this is set to the most amazing Oswald of Figaro. Of course that wasn’t possible Leanne Kenneally, the exciting young music by Mozart with an Italian libretto Allen & Unwin, $33 since it occurred in Vienna on May 1, mezzo soprano Xenia Puskarz Thomas, written by Lorenzo da Ponte. Fed up with the 1786, and I may be getting on but I’m not Hayley Sugars, Bradley Daley, Jud It’s one of the most popular operas justice system failing old enough to have been there for that. Arthur and Samuel Piper. Quite a cast. ever staged and continues to be so. It’s female victims of domestic violence, But just imagine sitting in the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and the authentic drama of the piece that this book poses the question: what if audience at the Burgtheatre with Mozart Opera Queensland Chorus will join in makes it a perennial favourite, according we took matters into our own hands? himself conducting, seated at the the fun at QPAC’s Playhouse next month to Nolan. “That is the key to Figaro’s A thought-provoking and confronting keyboard, as was the custom of the day. for this major opera event. I use the word enduring legacy,” he says. “Opera up read by the talented Offspring writer. Presumably the conductor of Opera fun advisedly because this opera is fun. I until that point centred on epic narratives Queensland’s forthcoming production of love tragic operas too but sometimes one about inaccessible characters – gods, The Marriage of Figaro, Dane Lam, will does tire of all that death and tragedy. demigods, mythical creatures. In Figaro, See be standing to conduct as is the custom of As Opera Queensland CEO and Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte introduced The World Press our day. Lam is an exciting young talent artistic director Patrick Nolan points out us to a unique musical language driven by Photo who is resident conductor and music The Marriage of Figaro is a rom-com. the drama of the story.” Exhibition 2021 director with Opera Queensland, one of “Mozart serves up the comedy of This production should look as good Brisbane Powerhouse, those happy silver linings of Covid. Lam Fawlty Towers, the Italian energy of La as it sounds with costumes by Marg New Farm, until July 18 came home to Brisbane and has stayed. Dolce Vita and the emotional potency Horwell who created the most amazing The exhibition showcasing His wife, the exciting young American and epic drama of The Sopranos,” Nolan frocks for Lorelei recently. the best visual journalism features soprano Sofia Troncoso, is singing in the says. “What’s not to love? It is full of real, Nolan describes it as “the opera that images of an unprecedented show and sharing the role of Susanna emotionally rich characters – flawed, changed the direction of the art form” – 12 months marked by the pandemic with another of our favourites, Brisbane funny, tragic, witty and very relatable.” that’s just one reason we should all see it. and worldwide social justice protests. soprano Katie Stenzel. Jeremy Kleeman Mozart’s Figaro is actually a sequel. The Marriage of Figaro, July 15 to 31, Register for free at and Timothy Newton are sharing the The original play by Beaumarchais was a Playhouse, QPAC. oq.com.au brisbanepowerhouse.org

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t’s like he’s having the worst day of his entire life,” my friend comments about our waiter’s rude, taciturn disposition. Directing us to a table seems like a ‘Iburden, while he takes and delivers our order with all the enthusiasm of a teenager being asked to clean their room. and lashings of pate and their signature sauce, I thought the days of the too-cool-for-school, while crackling-edged piggy pieces stand to aloof barista were over, but apparently not at the attention down the centre of the roll. It’s a joy. recently opened Coffee Stories in Toowong. Another signature is the gravlax ($18.50) – “I want to say something,” my friend one of the many dishes that comes with a continues, as we watch the waiter morosely gluten-free option. attend to other diners at the cafe. Coffee Stories The salmon arrives stained fuchsia from a But before we can, our food is silently curing in beetroot and gin and it’s pleasantly dropped at the table and the staff member Food firm, ready to be unfurled on to cream cheese- sullenly retreats back behind the counter. hhhhj spread sourdough scattered with juicy ribbons of It’s disappointing because the food at the Ambience the sea vegetable wakame. Coronation Drive cafe is good – very good in hhhkj Two poached eggs are also hiding in the fact. The menu begins with a proclamation on Service garden of dill, cucumber and microherbs on the how the fare is “not to be restricted by borders or hhjjj plate, but have been cooked just 30 seconds too cuisines” but instead is “all the foods that we strewn timber banquette under a bold, pop-art long leaving the yolk semi-set. The liquid yellow love at the most affordable prices”. Value mural, where you’ll be sheltered from the noise would have made a lovely sauce for the dish, but The result is a hefty array of breakfast dishes hhhhj of the main road and the wintry breezes, which gratings of cured egg yolk dusted across the covering all corners of the globe from miso Overall whip off the nearby Brisbane River. plate deliver the required richness. mushrooms on rye and croque madame to hhhkj With owner Harry Nguyen Vietnamese, the Coffee is from Toby’s Estate and comes with tiramisu waffles. There’s also an all-day offering banh mi seems the obvious choice. Fillings a good crema when made on milk, while there’s including toasties, banh mi with various fillings, include the likes of grilled pork sausage and also a range of filtered brews, plus cold-pressed and snacks such as spring rolls and panko- 573 Coronation Dr, lemongrass chicken, but it’s our crisp pork belly juices, teas, smoothies, shakes, beer, cider and coated shiitake; while at 11.30am lunch kicks in, Toowong version ($10.50) that has us almost forgetting inexpensive wine. moving from fish and chips and chicken 0423 051 459 about the surly service. While service is as dreary as a Covid-plagued schnitzel to pastas, burgers, salads and Open daily 7am-2.30pm The feather light bun with a crust that wet winter lockdown in London, Coffee Stories sandwiches. shatters like a broken heart is packed with delivers in all the other aspects. It’s all best enjoyed inside along the cushion- pickled carrot and radish, cucumber, coriander I just hope our waiter can turn a new page.

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offee wasn’t the sort of industry I expected to end up in but I love my job. I’ve been Katrina with Merlo Coffee for 20 years and in my current position as head of coffee since 2019. GUESS Originals C Eyewear Model GU8829 I look after the entire roasting team, Colour O1A, $180, quality control and purchasing all the florentineeyewear.com. coffee contracts for up and coming blends. Blowers au Australians love their coffee. When I started, Merlo was roasting 200kg a week, 7 News presenter, 44 now we do about 22 tonnes. I was born in Mackay and lived there until I attended high school as a boarder at Anglican Church Grammar School Interview ANNABEL FALCO (Churchie) in Brisbane. I have a brother Adam, 40, a project manager. Dad (Warren, 74) is a retired How would you describe your personal GET obstetrician/gynaecologist and when style? Polished with an edge. I was 16 my parents (with mum Janet, 73) moved to Vanuatu where my father Who are your style icons? Jennifer worked as a doctor for the Australian Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Miley Cyrus, STYLE government for about six years. From Kate Hudson. Katrina’s there they moved to Beijing, China. In retirement, they bought a hilltop palazzo What’s the oldest thing in your in Pieve di Teco in the Province of wardrobe? My christening gown made by Imperia in northern Italy, to spend six my mum. months of the year there and six months in Australia, though now they are stuck in What are your favourite brands? Australia because of Covid. I’m really petite, so anything that fits! I lived in Pescara in the Province of Bec and Bridge, Sheike, Abruzzo, Italy, for a year after high school Sophia Webster, Scanlan on an exchange program, where I went to Theodore, Mossman, Katrina Blowers a language school. I used to speak Italian Rebecca Vallance, and wearing her Sophia Webster Chiara heels. fluently but now it is a little bit broken. Bianca and Bridgett are all Picture: Mark Cranitch Some of (Merlo Coffee founder) Dean great for us vertically Merlo’s family was from Mackay and we challenged ladies. were good friends with some of his family Minimalist or clothes hoarder? so that gave me my shoe in the door of Have you ever made a style A little bit of both – I finished Merlo Coffee. While studying a Bachelor faux pas? Ha ha, all the growing at 14, so there are things of Business Management at the time! But there was a time in I could have kept forever but University of Queensland in 2001, my twenties when, after a have been told are a little past I started as a part-time picker packer at few drinks, I agreed to be a their prime. Sebastian blazer, Merlo on the corner of James and model in a hair competition. $799, McLachlan streets (Fortitude Valley). My long hair was chopped Heels or sneakers? Always, rebeccavallance.com I never thought about coffee as a into a very short pixie cut and always heels. I’m 158cm tall. career. For me, at the time, it was just dyed fire engine red. At the about getting a job. But I found same time, I was working as a Is there anything from your working at Merlo that I was waitress in a restaurant where wardrobe you’ve regretted learning a lot more about we dressed up in character, throwing out? I wish I’d kept my Clara pant, $399, business than I was doing a and I was Tinkerbell in a lime formal dress from Year 10 rebeccavallance.com university course. green tutu. Not a great combo of colours or (pictured left). Not because I want So I left uni after a style. What is the most sentimental item in to wear it again (good God no!), but couple of years and started When I was your wardrobe and why? A brooch and a because my mum made it and my daughter working full time with younger I didn’t What’s the most you have ever spent on necklace my kids made me for Mother’s would get a big kick out of seeing it. Merlo when I was 19. appreciate coffee, about a tonne an hour. just be that it’s grown on a different side of customer sales support. We plan to marry an outfit? I mix high and low, so the price Day when they were little. Christian Louboutin, After picker packer, In 2016, I became a mountain), roasted gradings (looking for at the end of this year. tag isn’t too eye-watering. However, I What would you buy if money were no Pigalle Follies 100 I moved into customer it was about the licenced as a Q Grader – defects like a single off bean), green bean When I was younger, I didn’t recently did splurge on a pair of classic Summer or winter fashion? Can I say in- object? A classic Chanel handbag. Patent-leather service and sales support, like a sommelier of gradings and being able to pick out appreciate coffee, it was more about the black Louboutin heels. between? I love wearing a T-shirt, jeans, pumps black, $975, caffeine hit to keep net-a-porter.com then purchasing officer, coffee. There are about different acids like phosphoric, citric, caffeine hit to keep me awake when I was heels and a blazer. How many pairs of shoes do you own? warehouse manager, me awake 100 people in Australia malic and acetic. Palate fatigue is studying through high school and What is the most surprising thing in your And do you have a favourite pair? I own operations manager and now with this qualification definitely an issue after a couple of days. university. wardrobe? Probably the number of cat-eye What kind of handbag do you use? A Sans maybe 50? I take very good care of them my current role. For the past five and I am the only one at There are also 100 theory questions Now, I drink about five cups a day sunglasses I own! I have a problem. I love Beast black and gold crossbody bag. It goes and store them in their boxes. My absolute months, my project has been Merlo Coffee. and you have to get a 100 per cent (piccolos, half coffee, half milk in a small crazy glasses. with everything and encourages me to favourite is a pair of Sophia Webster commissioning a new Italian roasting It involves six days of 22 exams, both overall to pass. There is quite a high cup). The industry is ever changing with carry less clutter. Chiara heels with butterfly wings on the plant with a 360kg roaster at our Eagle sensory and theory. It includes tasting and failure rate and you have to retake it different coffees coming out and different Top three wardrobe must-haves? A great back. They always make me feel like a Farm premises. It will be one of the scoring coffees out of 100, olfactory tests, every three years. processing methods. fitted blazer, statement heels and a stylish Denim or dresses? Dresses. One decision. party is imminent. biggest roasters in Australia, allowing us triangulation tests (picking the one coffee Working at Merlo is also where I met I love working with coffee and I can’t hat (important in Queensland, I have a But my absolute favourite thing to wear is a to roast 360kg of beans at a time or out of three that is different, which might my fiance Lauryn, 36, who works in see myself changing for a long time. Will and Bear one I live in now). power suit. @annabelfalco

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How would you describe your personal GET style? Polished with an edge. Who are your style icons? Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Miley Cyrus, STYLE Kate Hudson. Katrina’s

What’s the oldest thing in your wardrobe? My christening gown made by my mum.

What are your favourite brands? I’m really petite, so anything that fits! Bec and Bridge, Sheike, Sophia Webster, Scanlan Theodore, Mossman, Katrina Blowers Rebecca Vallance, and wearing her Sophia Webster Chiara heels. Bianca and Bridgett are all Picture: Mark Cranitch great for us vertically challenged ladies. Minimalist or clothes hoarder? Have you ever made a style A little bit of both – I finished faux pas? Ha ha, all the growing at 14, so there are things time! But there was a time in I could have kept forever but my twenties when, after a have been told are a little past few drinks, I agreed to be a their prime. Sebastian blazer, model in a hair competition. $799, My long hair was chopped Heels or sneakers? Always, rebeccavallance.com into a very short pixie cut and always heels. I’m 158cm tall. dyed fire engine red. At the same time, I was working as a Is there anything from your waitress in a restaurant where wardrobe you’ve regretted we dressed up in character, throwing out? I wish I’d kept my Clara pant, $399, and I was Tinkerbell in a lime formal dress from Year 10 rebeccavallance.com green tutu. Not a great combo of colours or (pictured left). Not because I want style. What is the most sentimental item in to wear it again (good God no!), but your wardrobe and why? A brooch and a because my mum made it and my daughter What’s the most you have ever spent on necklace my kids made me for Mother’s would get a big kick out of seeing it. an outfit? I mix high and low, so the price Day when they were little. Christian Louboutin, tag isn’t too eye-watering. However, I What would you buy if money were no Pigalle Follies 100 recently did splurge on a pair of classic Summer or winter fashion? Can I say in- object? A classic Chanel handbag. Patent-leather black Louboutin heels. between? I love wearing a T-shirt, jeans, pumps black, $975, net-a-porter.com heels and a blazer. How many pairs of shoes do you own? What is the most surprising thing in your And do you have a favourite pair? I own wardrobe? Probably the number of cat-eye What kind of handbag do you use? A Sans maybe 50? I take very good care of them sunglasses I own! I have a problem. I love Beast black and gold crossbody bag. It goes and store them in their boxes. My absolute crazy glasses. with everything and encourages me to favourite is a pair of Sophia Webster carry less clutter. Chiara heels with butterfly wings on the Top three wardrobe must-haves? A great back. They always make me feel like a fitted blazer, statement heels and a stylish Denim or dresses? Dresses. One decision. party is imminent. hat (important in Queensland, I have a But my absolute favourite thing to wear is a Will and Bear one I live in now). power suit. @annabelfalco

V1 - BCME01Z01QW JUNE 26-27, 2021 QWEEKEND.COM.AU 23 fter a Covid delay last year, this Brisbane couple managed to make their wedding day one of “love, emotion and laughter”. AQueenslanders Prudence Richardson and Tom Sweep – who have been together for nine years – were due to marry in August 2020 at Nightcap National Park at Nightcap Ridge in northern NSW. But when the pandemic border closures ruined plans for their guests from both states, they decided to postpone. Best The couple tied the knot on April 24 this year in front of 90 guests at the same venue. They held the ceremony in the rainforest and the reception by a fireplace inside. “The weekend festivities were all held in the day of beautiful Nightcap National Park at Nightcap Ridge – a completely secluded rainforest with no phone reception,” Prue says. “We had to make sure both NSW and Queensland restrictions covered us. I’m so glad their we postponed it, as we got to have the wedding exactly as we wanted. “We were pretty lucky and were able to rebook most things. Same venue, same set up, same everything.” The couple met at Brisbane’s “very romantic” lives Bowler Bar, and Sweep proposed at The Standard in New York. They danced their first dance to Lovely Day by Bill Withers, before honeymooning for a After postponing the week in Byron. “We will be doing Adelaide and Kangaroo big day due to Covid, Island later this year,” Prue says. this couple have now “The SA borders were closed a few weeks earlier to the lockdown, so we played it safe with enjoyed their dream our honeymoon.” hinterland wedding What was the standout moment of the day? Pictures The whole day was a dream, but the absolute LIBBY standout was the ceremony. It was such a surreal feeling – so much love, emotion and WILLIS laughter. Our best friend was our celebrant, which made it extra special. We both said our own vows too, which was something we will remember forever.

What would you do differently? Literally, nothing.

What would you spend more or less on? Wouldn’t change a thing. When we started planning we first decided what was important to us and what wasn’t, this helped us put money into the things we knew would make our day extra special and forgo the things that we didn’t really care about, like a cake.

One thing you wish people told you about planning a wedding? Everyone gives you all of the advice, but the best I got was: focus on the things that are important to you, enjoy every moment, don’t sweat the small stuff on the day, take time out with your partner on the day (photos were a great time for this), and have tissues on hand and good music.

Best advice for other couples planning a wedding? Have fun and celebrate the milestones along the way. Make it personal and special for you two, it’s all of those little details on the day that made

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The Groom Tom Sweep, 33 Profession Marketing director Parents Mike and Karen Sweep Groomsmen James it so special. Everyone’s days are so different and Kelder, Michael Wilson, personal – don’t feel like you need to follow the David Lyon, Tom Gazal same checklist as your second cousin. Suit Venroy The whole day was a Advice for other couples whose weddings are Entertainment Emotions around changing plans? impacted by coronavirus? Dan Clark Band We stopped planning as soon as things became dream … such a surreal Stay excited and have fun planning. Don’t let DJ Jackson Smith uncertain, so I think we knew it was most likely the stress and uncertainty overshadow that Caterer Fig Tree not going to happen. It’s a weird feeling not feeling – so much love, you’re planning the most incredible day of your Catering having any control over such a big moment in emotion and laughter life. Have the best time planning with your Photographer your life, but we are definitely so grateful we partner, whatever happens, happens. You’ll get Libby Willis made that call early. your dream day. Video Andrew Mckinstray What helped you get through the stress of Hens Night? changing plans? A boat, party bus and dinner down the coast. If you’d like your We just worked through all of our rebookings celebration with our close friends and each wedding featured in with Byron Bay Weddings and then any vendors other to celebrate that we weren’t able to be Bucks Night? QWeekend, email we booked ourselves. We also planned a little “just married”. Skirmish and poker night. [email protected]

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HIGHLIGHTS UPCOMING MELBOURNE EVENTS DISNEY: THE MAGIC OF ANIMATION AT ACMI: Until October 17: Discover the creativity and innovation of almost 100 years of Disney Animation in ACMI’s (the museum of screen culture) Winter Masterpieces exhibition. Shown in Australia for the first time, it features original sketches and rare artworks from 1928 to the present day, exclusive to Melbourne.

FRENCH IMPRESSIONISM AT NGV: Until October 3: In an international exclusive, the National Gallery of Victoria presents a major exhibition of more than 100 masterworks of French Impressionism in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, an institution renowned PLENTY TO SEE: (Clockwise from left) for its holdings of Impressionist art. Tom Roberts’ Shearing the rams; W Melbourne; Frederick McCubbin’s Down TREASURES OF THE NATURAL on his luck (1889); and food at Lollo. WORLD AT MELBOURNE MUSEUM: Until January 16: Impressions another favourite of mine and yes it is The world’s biggest, rarest, oldest and there too along with another classic, Still most fascinating treasures are coming glides the stream and shall forever glide, from London for the whole family to The show is quite also by Streeton. enjoy. Journey through the natural The show is quite wide in its reach as it world and marvel at the objects that of Melbourne wide in its reach reveals the many forms of impressionism changed the course of scientific in Australia and it’s wonderful to see more history. TAKE A DIP: as it reveals the than 50 works from the landmark 1889, W Melbourne’s wet deck; many forms of 9 by 5 Impressionism Exhibition which HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED Visit an extensive exhibition in the Victorian capital and (below) Arthur took its name from the dimensions of the CHILD: On now at the Princess Streeton’s The purple cigar box lids upon which many of the Theatre. No end date: and stay at a stunning and rather arty new hotel noon’s transparent might impressionism (c.1896). works were painted. That exhibition had This is the most awarded production in in Australia an almost spiritual place in Australian art the history of Britain’s Olivier Awards, PHIL BROWN history. winning nine awards including Best The gallery has cleverly juxtaposed New Play and Best Director. The play some of the works with those of artists has also won six Tony Awards on ow let me see if I but didn’t have to wait long because the design firm Hachem brings innovation and W Melbourne has distinctive restaurants intimate gallery than its big sister, the such as Monet and Whistler, drawn from Broadway, including best play. remember how this next day it was. Terrific! After lunch with a brand storytelling to life through their and bars and the all-day dining restaurant NGV International on St Kilda Rd nearby. the NGV Collection, to reveal the broader works. You book a friend at Hawthorne I caught a taxi to the evocative approach to this hotel, drawing Lollo is under the culinary creative She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian global context and explore synergies MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL: flight, go to the airport, W Melbourne. The driver had no idea on the city’s diverse and contrasting direction of celebrated chef Adam D’Sylva. Impressionism, which is on until August between the artists. If you love Australian From August 13: get on the plane and where it was – not his fault, it’s that new, character with vignettes of Melbourne’s The hotel’s cocktail bar Curious is a cool 22, features 270 artworks drawn from art, this exhibition is a religious experience. Baz Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge! is you’re off. It sounds having only opened in February. This arty streetscapes expressed in the artistic subterranean hideaway place and the major public collections around Australia Set aside at least an entire morning or now a Broadway sensation, and this simple but after not property was the perfect place to stay on touches. Those artistic touches begin in the signature Japanese restaurant Warabi is including the NGV’s. Whenever I go to afternoon to worship here or why not just August, it’s coming to Melbourne’s flying interstate for more than a year it felt my visit to see She-Oak and Sunlight: lobby with a vast lenticular art installation another attraction although it wasn’t yet Melbourne I pop in here to see one of my spend the whole day? There’s a great cafe, Regent Theatre. Nominated for 14 Nweird. Weird but good. Exciting, actually, Australian Impressionism at the Ian Potter (a painting method that gives extra depth open when I was there. Damn. favourite Australian paintings, Shearing and a lovely gift shop and there are some Tony Awards, this new musical mash and the fact I was going to test drive the Centre: NGV Australia at Fed Square. and dimension) by local painter and digital There are so many little touches that the Rams by Tom Roberts. exciting shows coming to the NGV and up extravaganza features more than 70 new W Melbourne and see a major The W Melbourne is only the second W artist Rus Kitchin which immerses us in a make this hotel special. Instead of calling It’s an extensive exhibition and soon you will be able to see this show and songs including many of the iconic hits exhibition of Australian Impressionism at (a Marriott brand), in Australia. Of course colourful canopy of Australian flora and separate numbers for in-room dining, probably the most edifying I have seen on then pop over to the NGV International to from the movie. the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) we have the first in Brisbane and it’s pretty fauna. There are murals and other arty housekeeping and so on there is just one Australian Impressionism. see the major exhibition French increased the anticipation. cool. Melbourne’s, on Flinders Lane, touches throughout. One of the most button to press that says “Whatever/ It features some of our finest paintings Impressionism and Goya: Drawings from MELBOURNE FOOD AND WINE This was just before the recent describes itself as a “luxury lifestyle hotel” amazing pieces in the hotel is the Wet Whenever”. I love that. including the one that was my late mum’s the Prado Museum, which are both due to FESTIVAL: July 30-August 8: lockdown but we lived in Melbourne for and I would have to agree. It’s luxurious Deck Apple up in the pool and bar area. And it’s important for me that there was favourite … the almost transcendental 1896 open this weekend. The event will return in July for a three years in the early 1990s and I kind of but it’s anything but stuffy. This 294-room This large stand-alone piece by artist a 55-inch LED TV with lots and lots of painting by Arthur Streeton, The purple So much to see in Melbourne that I am 10-day program that embraces winter love the place. And the weather. No, really. hotel brings a cool vibe to the $1.25bn Bruno, celebrates what was once a channels including all major international noon’s transparent might, a vision of the going back in a few weeks to take in the lot. in Melbourne as well as the state’s best I arrived in Melbourne on a sunny Collins Arch mixed-use precinct in a forbidden fruit. The graffiti covering it news channels. Hawkesbury River that has become a Can’t wait. produce and an array of winter-friendly Sunday to find it quite warm so I was a bit burgeoning section of Flinders Lane. reflects the street art below. It’s a brisk walk from here to The Ian touchstone in Australian art. The writer was a guest of NGV Australia drinks. miffed. I like Melbourne cool and dreary Australian architecture and interior Melbourne is a foodie’s paradise and Potter Centre: NGV Australia, a more Streeton’s Fire’s On, painted in 1891, is and Visit Victoria

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Biography Non-Fiction Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers Happy Endings Q+A Helen Vines Bella Green Monash University Publishing $34.95 Macmillan, $35 Australian writer Eve Langley’s first novel There’s nothing funnier than sex, or at PETER JAMES won a national literary prize. Published in least that’s true when Melbourne stand- 1942 to great acclaim, it was the story of up comedian and sex worker Bella Green The best-selling author releases his 16th Roy Grace book two sisters, obsessed with each other, is writing about it. This quick-witted, who dressed up as men to work on farms. straight-down-the-line memoir gives a Transgender identities and incestuous voyeuristic view into the sex industry that fixations are difficult subjects now, so the every suburban conservative secretly fuss about Langley’s wild creative mind craves. And unsurprisingly, it’s not all rose What are you reading now? I’m A book you wish you had read but was genuine. Biographers have long petals on beds and Richard Gere-style reading a really good thriller called haven’t got to? War and Peace. sought to relate The Pea Pickers to clientele. This honest look into the life of a The Holdout by Graham Moore. It’s The book you are most proud to Langley’s own, troubled life – from her hooker will make you laugh, cry and about a group of jurors who meet have written? I’m very proud of unorthodox family stories to years spent squirm as you realise having sex for again 10 years after making a Dead Simple – it was the beginning of in a mental hospital. Writer Helen Vines money is actually very un-sexy in reality. controversial judgment, which had a the Roy Grace series and I still have a meticulously picks through the evidence This book isn’t just a rollercoaster of massive impact on all of their lives. great fondness for it – but I am most to present a fresh and compelling account unbelievable stories, but also an Also Court Number One, a history of proud of Absolute Proof, which is a of childhood abuse and family cover-ups. educational experience on all the things the Old Bailey. thriller about what would happen if It’s not just for fans of Australian literature. no one wants to talk about. Is there a book that made you we had absolute proof of the ROBYN DOUGLASS RACHAEL ROSEL love writing? Graham Greene’s existence of God. I spent 28 years Brighton Rock. It’s so important to working on it. It’s the book I have me because it showed beyond doubt always really wanted to write. that crime fiction can be about big Your earliest reading memory? social issues. It’s not just about I was a big Enid Blyton fan in my early solving a puzzle, and it has these childhood. After reading Five on a fantastic and complex characters, Treasure Island I wrote to her to ask like Pinkie, who is a murderer but why none of the characters ever also a devout Catholic terrified of went to the toilet. I received a very eternal damnation. polite note back, explaining that she What’s the best book you’ve hadn’t thought that would’ve been of read? The best crime thriller I’ve interest. read is The Silence of the Lambs. What book do you re-read? I A book that had a pivotal impact regularly re-read both Brighton Rock Fiction Fiction on your life? Hemmingway’s A and The Silence of the Lambs. Klara and the Sun Mother May I Farewell to Arms – which transfixed What books are on your bedside Kazuo Ishiguro Joshilyn Jackson me and stays with me still – and Kurt table? Just My Luck, which is by Faber, $28 Bloomsbury Publishing, $30 Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. I Adele Parks, and The Black Art of first read the latter when I was 22 Killing by Matthew Hall. There’s also This sweet and sad novel from a Nobel When Bree wakes up in the middle of the and in film school. I loved it so much a book on forensics called All That Prize winner opens with Klara hoping to night to see a witch peering in her that I phoned Vonnegut up to ask Remains by forensic anthropologist be bought by someone she can serve. bedroom window, she assumes it is a him whether I could have the film and academic Sue Black, and Graham Klara is an Artificial Friend, a naturalistic, dream. That is until the next day when the rights. Amazingly, he took my call Norton’s most recent novel. autonomous robot powered by the sun. A witch appears at her children’s school and and told me that sadly it was already What are you writing now? I’ve young girl, Josie, takes Klara into her life. her baby son goes missing. With her son under option! just started work on the next Roy As Klara’s story unfolds we learn Josie is ill held hostage, Bree is forced to take part in The book you couldn’t finish? I’m Grace book, I’m 30 pages in. I’m also and growing weaker, and while Klara is unspeakable actions in a quest to keep her of a mind that life is too short to editing the scripts for a new play empathetic and programmed to son alive. With the help of her deceased continue with something you’re not based on the Roy Grace book understand human behaviour, some best friend’s husband, Bree tries to hunt enjoying. Salman Rushdie’s Looking Good Dead, which will start neurotic and therefore baffling events down the kidnapper before the worst Midnight’s Children is one. I also its UK tour in January, and working are beyond her hopeful powers of happens. While it becomes a race against struggled to get into The Girl with the with Russell Lewis on the scripts for reasoning. There are chilling echoes time to save baby Robert, there is also Dragon Tattoo – I put it down three ITV’s adaptation, Grace, starring here of Ishiguro’s previous big themes of unfurling a mystery about Bree’s wealthy times around the 40-page mark, but John Simm. love and sacrifice, particularly the husband’s past. This gripping thriller enjoyed it in the end, after being Find Them Dead by Peter James, dystopian Never Let Me Go, as Klara makes it hard to stop turning the pages, persuaded it was worth one more try. Macmillan, $33 tries to keep Josie alive. so don’t start it before you have to go out. 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deep dive into the world of HANDS ON: Matthew Evans, of SBS’s The Gourmet Farmer fame, believes we soil and why improving it is all need to start taking far better care vital to our future comes of our planet’s soil, exploring the issue from Matthew Evans, a in his aptly titled new book, Soil. former chef and food critic, Awho now lives with his family in Tasmania on Fat Pig Farm, which also impoverished soil, meaning that while a operates a cookery school and restaurant. plant can harvest the building blocks for His life on the Huon Valley holding south carbohydrate, protein and fat from gases in of Hobart features in SBS’s The Gourmet the air (carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen, Farmer and he’s written 13 books. hydrogen), all the vitamins are made by microbes, all the minerals are made Why have we become so careless with available to the plant through an our soil? I think we forgot how vital soil is, impossibly complex ecosystem under the and got carried away with our own soil, and vibrant soil life allows a plant to cleverness. With how we can manipulate produce tens of thousands of organic crops using machines and chemicals, compounds that provide our forgetting the fact that soil is a living, micronutrients. Impoverish soil, and we breathing superorganism. Nobody, or at end up with impoverished food. The good least very few people, actively damaged news is, we now know how to grow soil, but in our hurry and our hubris, we nutrient dense food (and your palate can overlooked how soil life is vital to our lives. usually tell the difference). The problem is farmers are still paid for quantity, not What can your average suburban dweller quality, so until that changes, there’s little do about it? Every bit of soil counts. The motivation to grow the food that’s best for bit that grows your pot plants. The bit you us, and the Earth. play cricket on. The farmland that grows your onions. We can all nourish soil by How will we continue to feed the growing growing plants, and support regenerative world population without change? We farmers who put soil at the top of their won’t. We lose, on average, 9kg of topsoil priorities by buying off them. for every meal that every human on Earth eats. Every breakfast, every lunch, every Does composting help? There is virtually dinner. Australia’s agricultural land has nothing that compost doesn’t help, when it lost half its topsoil since European comes to soil. It’s the magic ingredient that colonisation. So we have to rethink soil. fosters subterranean life, triggers more We have to realise it’s a massively complex, vigorous plant growth, stores carbon in gloriously prolific ecosystem that we can stable form underground and can even nourish and nurture so it can nourish and help release minerals from rock. That it nurture us. Or we can ignore its plight and also helps store water better in soil, and suffer health and environmental allows the free passage of air, means it’s consequences in the short term, and pretty darned special. potential population crashes in the long term. Focusing on yields has left soil Is a vegan diet part of the solution? A gasping and eroded. For too long we’ve vegan diet is a belief system that ignores looked at what we want to get from soil, soil. Soil doesn’t care if we want to eat meat and not enough on what soil needs to or not, and the problem with growing food survive. We need to re-envision our and looking after soil is that all food, Dirt music growing land, from the ground up. including plant-based food, can damage soil. Soil relies on an ecosystem to replenish We treat our soil very badly. A new book by commentator and Soil is an antidepressant? How does that its nutrients, and there’s no ecosystem on work? Amazing hey! There are microbes in land that doesn’t include animals. In fact, farmer Matthew Evans digs into what we can do about it. soil that release happy hormones from our growing grains and vegetables is generally body. You can inject them, and that was worse for soil than well-managed grazing, how the effect was first discovered, when and the best way to repair arable (cropping) of places, gradually eroded, or degraded compost, compost. In fact, there’s cancer patients were injected with a land is to return it to grass. Problem is that land. Not always, but mostly. People talk wonderful work pioneered in Australia that specific soil bacteria and it improved their we can’t eat grass, but a grazing animal can, about sustainable, but that means keeping shows we can increase carbon in soil, and quality of life. Then they found you get the and produce food for us in the process. All the poor soils we have. Regenerative all of soil’s billions of microbes, using same effect breathing the microbes in. that means is that plant-based food isn’t the agriculture looks to do better than that, modern techniques such as pasture That’s why so many people reckon they saviour of our soils. and actually heal soil and the ecosystems cropping, where seeds are direct drilled get a high from working in the garden, or that support soil. It’s all about ensuring into paddocks. It’s a very, very exciting even walking in a forest or a garden. Then What is regenerative agriculture and if it there’s no bare earth, that the living, time to realise that while in most of they found out you can get a big dose of works why isn’t everyone doing it? biological part of soil is constantly fed by Australia it takes nature 1000 years to happy hormones released from your body Regenerative agriculture is about healing having living plants growing, restoring build 1cm of topsoil, good farmers can do by eating certain soil microbes. So food the earth. Farming has, traditionally in lots balance in water and ecosystem function, the same in under a decade. that still has soil microbes on it, good and growing food at the same time. There’s microbes, can give your mood a lift. brilliant work being done around Australia, Modern industrial agriculture means that They’re so powerful, scientists are actually and around the world, in this space. we’re eating less nutrient-dense food than looking at using soil microbes in the our grandparents did. What’s changed? treatment of PTSD. Soil really Can growing food actually lead to healthy We’ve changed a few things. We grow is our friend. It’s a massively soil? Yes! It sure can. We know from varieties of grains, fruit and vegetables that ancient soils that we can increase fertility grow bigger, quicker using artificial Soil by Matthew Evans, Murdoch complex, gloriously of land for hundreds, if not thousands of fertiliser as the major input. They give us Books, $33. The author will be at prolific ecosystem years, using techniques I outline in the more carbohydrate, mostly, but we have to a free event at Mary Who? book. They can include terracing, biochar, eat more of them to get the same amount Bookshop, Townsville, at 6pm on that we can nourish the judicious use of manure and compost, of minerals and micronutrients. We’ve also July 2.

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feeling of relief and reassurance that everything is going to be okay. Its almost like a kid in a candy store or Timezone.

How has the pandemic influenced your music? It gave me the opportunity to write more music and explore my creative side a little more and time to work on my live Chris performance and add more dynamic to my set. It also gave me time to visualise how to take my music career to the next level by having music industry people in my corner. Tamwoy Earliest memory of music? Jamming the guitar when I was 10 years old on my island home of Badu Island in the Torres Strait, Musician, 25, Logan performing gospel songs in the company of my late grandparents, Miss Mauolo Tamwoy and Mr Peter “Sapua” Waria.

Most memorable concert you’ve been to? John Mayer – Brisbane Entertainment Centre 2019. Busby Marou – Black Bear Lodge 2016 – Thomas Busby and Jeremy Marou got me up on stage to perform with them unexpectedly.

What artists have most influenced you? John Mayer, John Butler, Gary Clark Jr, Leon Bridges and Guy Sebastian.

What makes you happiest? Being in great company of my closest family and friends, great food whether it’s traditional Torres Strait Islander food or a BBQ with the

PICTURE: CARMEN GEE MEDIA Bluetooth speaker cranking the best tunes … and maybe a few sneaky “lemonades”. What makes you laugh? I find anyone or think it – but for the size that I am, I am so What’s your greatest strength? anything funny to be honest. In more scared of harmless green tree frogs. Surrounding myself with like-minded What has 2020 taught you about life? If recent years I have found videos of animals people who are focused on positivity and you want to achieve anything in life, you such as dogs pretty hilarious! The one What’s the most surprising thing people achieving goals. get up and do it all by yourself. Surround thing that makes me laugh the most is wouldn’t know about you? I always have yourself around the right people and live being around my father, Mr Rupert to travel with my own pillow when sleeping And weakness? This one’s a tough one – everyday to the fullest. Be grateful to wake Reuben. There is never a dull moment away from home. allowing people (family or friends) to take up in the morning, and appreciate the little when you are in his presence. advantage of me. Or falling for traps in a things. And that music always wins! What new skill would you like to learn? situation where I am only used for my Who do you most admire? I admire the I would love to one day learn how to play success or financial gain. Tamwoy’s debut album Reality Is, is out now, most the company and conversations with piano and write a song to perform it live to ABC Music. The Acoustic Guitar Spectacular my Torres Strait elders and uncles. Simple an audience – I would also like to learn What song would you like played at your featuring Tamwoy, Michael Fix and Sarah conversations with them generally result in how to play a trumpet too. funeral? Boys II Men – One Sweet Day Koppen is touring Queensland from July 8 at life long knowledge and memories. I also (featuring Mariah Carey). Logan Entertainment Centre, until July 20 at admire my nephews and my nieces. What’s your most unappealing habit? Brisbane City Hall. For more shows and tickets Laughing or speaking very loudly in public How does it feel now you can perform to visit redchair.com.au/what-s-on/event/514- What’s your greatest fear? You wouldn’t places such as eateries and airports. live audience again? It’s that amazing acoustic-guitar-spectacular-2021

hen we go out for dinner I read the menus. A real candle. That made The classic case of this is the time we were often change tables, me smile because it reminded me of the in Hong Kong and we went to the Luk Yu sometimes several times. time my son threw his napkin on to the Teahouse in Central for lunch. This place is It doesn’t always go down table to go to the loo without realising that quite famous. I had always meant to go there Wwell but I can’t enjoy myself unless the candle was real rather than battery but never quite made it but this time we were everything is just right. driven. The napkin went up in flames which determined and we arrived bang on noon We went out to dinner to a flash caused quite a kerfuffle. hoping to avoid the lunchtime rush. But we restaurant at Howard Smith Wharves the But I had detected surprise and a little bit were obviously unfashionably early. other night. We were greeted upon arrival of consternation that I hadn’t initially done The place was empty and the waiter, who and I could see an empty table nearby. It as I was told. But the customer is always looked down his nose at us (possibly was outside, against a wall and dark and, of right as far as I’m concerned and to be fair because of our backpacks), led us to the course, it was where they had placed us. they did accommodate us in the end. worst table, next to the kitchen door. “Can “I’m sorry we can’t sit here,” I said and Maybe when I booked they could have we sit over there?” I said gesturing towards there was some surprise. Ambience is all asked where I wanted to sit? all the other much nicer tables. “No,” he Last Word well and good but I do need my dinner to be It always amazes me that when you barked. “They are for the customers.” visible. Anyhow we got a nice table inside arrive at a restaurant and see a sea of lovely “What are we, chopped liver?” I said. He PHIL BROWN and it had a candle on it too which helped us tables you somehow end up with a dud. threw the menus at us and walked away.

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