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Page 36 A concierge’s guide to Delhi Page 40 Dame Quentin Bryce turns curator Page 42 How to sleep tight on your flight The view from The Tamarind restaurant, overlooking the Sunshine Coast hinterland QNews. Page 26 Sunshine boast The best dining from Yandina to Noosa. September 2015 | QANTAS 23 QNews. From the CEO CONSERVATION It’s been an eye-opening experience for me. What I’ve learned is that, as well as creating new opportunities for women throughout your business, you also have to challenge yourself and your company to take on what’s known as “unconscious bias” – ways of thinking and working that might be holding women back without you even Wildlife savers and smugglers and allows realising it. IN OUR story Wild Things (page local people and national For Qantas, it’s a journey 68), we’ve detailed how to see governments to develop their There’s a great article in this of change. We’ve done well in some of the most extraordinary own natural resources – rather issue about inspirational recent years when it comes to animals in the world, including than have them plundered.” women in business. And it’s having women leaders at the mountain gorillas in Uganda. The aviation industry is well timed, because breaking highest levels of the company, John Scanlan, secretary-general working with CITES to raise down the barriers to women including three members of our of CITES (the UN’s Convention awareness of the devastating reaching their potential in executive committee. Those on International Trade in efects of illegal trade in wildlife. business is one of the most women are, in turn, wonderful Endangered Species of Wild How can you help (apart from important priorities for role models for the young, Fauna and Flora), says taking booking that holiday)? Don’t Australian companies today talented women we have coming such a trip supports endangered buy illegally sourced natural – Qantas included. up through the ranks. We’re species: “Well-managed products, get too close to wild also one of the only airline wildlife-based tourism actually animals or walk of tourist trails AUSTRALIA has made some groups in the world to have serves to drive away poachers and degrade fragile habitat. good progress in recent years a female chief pilot – Captain but the gender gap is still far Georgina Sutton at Jetstar. too big. Fourteen per cent At the same time, we know fewer women than men are we have to do more to increase participating in the workforce the number of women in in Australia and, on average, mid-level management roles women are paid 17 per cent and to make sure we have less for the same work as men. the fexibility that helps both Closing these gaps is both the women and men fnd the right thing to do and the smart balance they need to be at thing to do, with the potential their best. to lift Australia’s GDP by 11 per The crucial thing is to get cent. The facts show that diverse everyone behind the overall companies perform better, make goal of closing the gender gap better decisions and are better and redouble our eforts so that places to work. women know they can thrive, A few years ago, I was grow and lead at Qantas. If we proud to become part of the can do that, we’ll be an even Westward bound Male Champions of Change – stronger company, not to Heading to Perth? Swing by the city’s coolest new music venue, a group of men leading major mention a national carrier that Jack Rabbit Slims (133 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge). Decked out organisations dedicated represents the true diversity in 1950s style like its Pulp Fiction namesake, it hosts rock and indie to gender equality. The MCC of modern Australia. music acts and serves fries and alcoholic milkshakes until 5am. was formed by Australia’s If you don’t overindulge on Saturday night, head to Forrest Place on Sex Discrimination Sunday for the Perth Home Grown market (11am-4pm). It’s the go-to Commissioner, the amazing destination for fruit and veg, baked goods and other local products. Elizabeth Broderick, who Plus: check out the new Perth Domestic Business Lounge when says, “we need powerful men to you’re at the airport. It has a state-of-the-art business centre, step up beside women to create Alan Joyce a dedicated dining area (including a gourmet pizza oven), a more gender-equal world”. CEO, Qantas a full-service bar and all-day barista service. Jack Lawrence 24 QANTAS | September 2015 QNews. FINE DINING The toast Confit of ocean trout with quinoa, of the Coast miso and roe at The Tamarind (left); Rickys’ cured ocean trout Morag Kobez reveals the fve best restaurants with mandarin, radish and herb on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. crème fraîche (below) ▲THE TAMARIND 88 Obi Lane South, Maleny 1300 311 429 spicersretreats.com Arrive early for your booking and take in the rainforest setting, with tranquil rockpools, waterfalls and a chorus of birdsong. Like the architecture of Spicers Tamarind Retreat in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, its restaurant has a stylish Western take on Eastern cuisine. The fve-course banquet leans towards the traditional, including a tom yum bisque and a red pork curry with snake ▲THE SPIRIT HOUSE beans. But the degustation ▲W A S A B I ▼SAILS pushes the boundaries, with 20 Ninderry Road, Yandina 2 Quamby Place, Noosa Heads 75 Hastings Street, Noosa Heads dishes like pan-seared scallop (07) 5446 8994 (07) 5449 2443 (07) 5447 4235 and local squid, samphire and spirithouse.com.au wasabisb.com sailsnoosa.com.au XO broth. Or keep it simple It’s not so much a meal as a Long before the frst bite, There is no better spot to dine and order the signature whole sensory experience, especially everything about this Japanese on Hastings Street. Book well barramundi to share. at night when fickering candles restaurant – from the enviable in advance; beachfront tables are your guide through the selection of wine, sake and are in hot demand for their rainforest to the restaurant’s whisky to the earthy handmade Laguna Bay views. With four striking entrance. Chill ceramics – foretells the Champagnes available by the in outdoor dining pavilions impeccable attention to detail glass, it would almost be rude redolent of a Thai temple, that follows on the plate. not to order a fute of bubbles screened by bamboo and Specialty vegetables and herbs with some freshly shucked surrounded by bubbling are harvested daily from the oysters. Chef Paul Leete has fountains and lily-flled ponds. restaurant’s nearby Honeysuckle been in the kitchen for more The vibe may be unmistakably Hill farm, while the sashimi is than 15 years so whatever Thai but the menu meanders the freshest and most beautifully follows – from beer-battered fsh happily around south-east Asia, ▲ RICKYS RIVER BAR presented fsh in these parts. to scallop ceviche – is a safe bet. with a modern twist. Start with + RESTAURANT Hervey Bay scallops with red 2 Quamby Place, Noosa Heads curry foam and nutmeg or (07) 5447 2455 Bangalow pork belly with citrus rickys.com.au caramel sauce. Whole crispy Open to the river on three sides, fsh with tamarind chilli sauce Rickys’ exclusive position on combines sweet, spicy and sour the banks of the Noosa River favours in perfect harmony, is a big drawcard, as is the matching the overall experience. hospitality from staf. Add to the equation an approachable, Qantas is returning to the contemporary menu and Sunshine Coast, with flights you’re sorted. The wood-fred between Sydney and Mooloolaba prawns, with white Maroochydore starting on polenta, fontina and soft herbs, December 21. For bookings, go down very well indeed. visit qantas.com. 26 QANTAS | September 2015 QNews. LONDON KIDS’ CLUB AMSTERDAM Hunterian Museum at the Museum of Bags and Purses Royal College of Surgeons tassenmuseum.nl/en hunterianmuseum.org Curate this A mecca for handbag fetishists A ghoulish tribute to the and budding designers, this pioneers of surgery and If the kids are sick of staring at Old Masters, give traditional museum occupies a canal anatomy, the Hunterian galleries a miss for Tony Magnusson’s ofeat picks. house on Amsterdam’s grand fascinates even as it induces Herengracht. Spanning half bouts of fainting. This vast a millennium, the 5000-strong collection of human and animal collection includes plenty of specimens, surgical instruments eye-popping designs kids will and related paraphernalia appreciate, from Judith Leiber’s will make every visitor grateful cat-shaped evening bag to a Lulu they were born after the advent Guinness red plastic-lips clutch. of anaesthetics and asepsis. There’s a restaurant, high tea Its centrepiece is the Crystal is available by reservation and Gallery; eight soaring glass the shop sells a well-edited cases containing some 3500 selection of bags from Dutch preparations collected by and international designers. the 18th-century surgeon Bizarre highlight: An armadillo extraordinaire John Hunter. shoulder bag from Argentina. Bizarre highlight: A drilled, VIENNA or trepanned, Roman skull The Hunterian’s Crystal Gallery holds the skeleton of a 2.3m-tall “giant” from 400AD. Globe Museum of the Austrian defy gravity in this unlikely the 13th century. Owners Caren National Library BOSTON still life”), it’s a painfully visual Anderson and Carl Baldwin have onb.ac.at Museum of Bad Art reminder that self-delusion is amassed some 4000 works and Modern-day Marco Polos should museumofbadart.org rarely a substitute for talent. display up to 420 at any one set their GPSes for this unique Located in the basement of a Bizarre highlight: MoBA’s first time.