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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 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

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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.

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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 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. Expect to see pop culture museum, situated in a baroque theatre in , MoBA’s acquisition, Lucy in the Sky with idols old (Elvis, Marilyn) and palace. It displays 250 globes mission is “to bring the worst of Flowers. Oh, the humanity. new (Justin, Taylor), creepy – terrestrial (earth), celestial art to the widest of audiences” clowns and pink unicorns, even (heavens) and planetary LOS ANGELES and, to this end, its curators are a koala chewing on gum leaves. (moon and planets) – spanning extremely accomplished. From Velveteria: The Museum Want more ? Kids will love a 500-year period. See how Dog (“a remarkable fusion of Velvet Paintings the glow-in-the-dark paintings the Australian continent takes of ski resort and wolf puppy”) velveteria.com in the black-light lair. shape over the centuries. to No Visible Means of Support Velveteria celebrates the folk Bizarre highlight: A screaming Bizarre highlight: The museum’s (“free from the constraints of art of painting on black velvet, Dame Edna, wearing a dress oldest terrestrial globe (circa their vase … pink carnations a practice dating back as far as printed with Munch’s Scream. 1536), made by Gemma Frisius.

FOUND!

Tree-pod dining in Koh Kood, Thailand Ever glanced up at the soaring canopy of an ancient rainforest and thought, “Wow, I’d like to have dinner up there”? No? Well, somebody did. Soneva Kiri Resort, located on the sparsely populated island of Koh Kood, has introduced tree-pod dining. It goes like this: you hop into a sturdy bamboo pod, hotel staff gently hoist it up to the top of the tree then acrobatic waiters use zip-lines to deliver food to your table in the sky. There’s something pretty magical about savouring chef Kevin Fawkes’s menu as the sun sets over the South China Sea. The dining experience is available for breakfast, lunch or dinner but whatever time you choose, you’ll want to go easy on the cocktails – it’s a long way down...

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CHECK IN Global Openings Akash Arora gives us three new reasons to travel to London, Singapore and .

▲ PARK HOTEL ALEXANDRA, ▼ H YAT T C E N T R I C SINGAPORE THE LOOP, CHICAGO parkhotelgroup.com/alexandra theloopchicago.centric.hyatt.com Take a break from Singapore’s busy A new brand of hotel from Hyatt, the Centric city centre at this new hotel with 442 chain sits one notch below the group’s contemporary rooms and suites. Located innovative Andaz luxury fag and has both near Hort Park in Singapore’s south-west business and leisure travellers in its sights. and surrounded by greenery, it’s still Housed in a 1927 Art Deco building in the only a 10-minute drive to Orchard Road – heart of downtown Chicago, the hotel is Singapore’s most famous shopping strip. You on the edge of the city’s theatre district and might not need to go there, though, thanks only a fve-minute walk from Grant Park. to the three-storey Alexandra Central The rooms – with clean lines and modern shopping centre – with its curved glass furnishings – ofer city views through façade – that is connected to the hotel. The windows that you can actually open if you guest rooms take inspiration from Mother want to let the famous Chicago winds blast Nature, with light wood fnishes, a neutral in. The hotel has six high-tech meeting palette and occasional splashes of green and rooms and a rooftop function area. You can rust. There’s a 25-metre infnity pool with a dine at Cochon Volant, an upscale French- swim-up bar, a 24-hour gym and the Crystal style brasserie open for breakfast, lunch and Club Lounge, which ofers personalised dinner, but there are dozens of options in the check-in and check-out services. vibrant Loop district. ▲THE LANESBOROUGH, LONDON lanesborough.com After a multimillion-dollar refurbishment, London’s grande dame is back in action. Some of the city’s most famous attractions, including Buckingham Palace and Hyde Park, are only a short walk away. But one look at the hotel’s on-site facilities and you might think the real drawcards are closer to home. Take, for instance, the hotel’s Venetian-style dining room, Céleste (above). Naturally lit during the day through a domed glass roof, it has one of Paris’s most famous chefs – Éric Fréchon – at its helm. Then there’s the Garden Room, where guests can enjoy Cuban cigars and Cognac dating back to 1770. Upstairs, the rooms and suites are painted in vibrant colours, such as apple green and canary yellow, and come with 24-hour butler service.

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Fragile beauty

Fancy yourself as a discoverer of unexpected life on the Great Barrier Reef? At last year’s ReefBlitz in Airlie Beach, one volunteer uncovered a rare intertidal spider – Paratheuma australis – more usually found around Hawaii, Florida, Cuba and Haiti. This year’s ReefBlitz is in Townsville on October 16 and 17, and will bring together more than 1000 volunteers, scientists and reef managers to record plant and animal species on the reef. The Great Barrier Reef is home to more than 1600 species of fish, 133 varieties of sharks and rays and more than 30 species of whales and dolphins but human influences continue to cut coral reef cover while climate change throws up twin challenges of increased ocean temperature and acidification. Sign up at the ReefBlitz website and help make a difference.

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Perfect time

Bani McSpedden finds the Swiss don’t miss.

THERE are watches and then there are timepieces GLENN BUSUTTIL to covet. The Traditionnelle Calibre 2755 from Swiss Senior Lounge Host, Qantas watchmaker Vacheron Constantin is defnitely one of the latter. It houses three major complications from the “Malta is the jewel in the world of haute horlogerie, the high end of watchmaking Mediterranean crown. that’s most fnely crafted and, yes, the most complicated. A great restaurant to try is It’s a distinctly classical watch comprising an astonishing Piccolo Padre in a converted 602 components – all required for the tourbillon, hours 18th-century Maltese villa and minutes, minute repeater and perpetual calendar overlooking Balluta Bay functions. The day, month and date displays are dial-side, along the Sliema-St Julian’s with leap-year indications on the back of the movement. seafront promenade. The dial is an 18-carat gold plate and the pink gold case is It ofers fantastic, cheap 44 millimetres in diameter. The price? Not inconsiderable meals with spectacular at about $919,000 – but what a watch! views. Seafood and wood- fred pizza are their jfarrenprice.com.au specialties. Try to book @baniwatch a balcony seat to enjoy the moonlit boat-flled

harbour at night.” Steve Dow

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ASK THE CONCIERGE MOHIT ANAND The Lodhi hotel, New Delhi

When friends are in town I take to some of India’s top designers, them for a drink at… Hauz Khas including Tarun Tahiliani and Village – a trendy part of New Manish Malhotra. Delhi with about 20 great The best place for a memento or bars. My favourites are Social, gift is… Cottage Emporium, a Out of the Box and Moonshine. multi-level store with traditional The crowd is friendly so it’s also objects from all over India. It’s good for solo travellers. a great place for gifts such as For business meetings I always marble coasters in the style of book a table at… Dramz whisky the walls of the Taj Mahal. bar in the Mehrauli district. It has Couples looking for a romantic a rooftop area with views of experience should… have a meal the historical monument Qutab at On the Waterfront restaurant, Minar. The seating is relaxed on the jetty section of The Lodhi with couches and the service is hotel. It’s a glass-enclosed room discreet, making this an ideal surrounded by a feature pool so place for meetings. it’s quite romantic. The restaurant that best shows For a cultural experience, head off Delhi is… Indian Accent at to… the National Museum, The Manor hotel. It’s world- where you can go through the renowned and is the perfect entire history of India, from place to taste authentic Indian the Mughal Empire era to the cuisine in a very refined setting. British Raj days. My favourite breakfast place When it’s raining… there’s no Built by the Mughals, is… Threesixty0 restaurant at shortage of shopping malls the Red Fort of Agra The Oberoi hotel. It has a lavish in neighbourhoods such as (top) is a UNESCO spread covering Western Vasant Kunj and Saket. World Heritage site; and Indian cuisines, including For a great daytrip… go to samosas at Chandni South Indian breakfast dishes Agra, home of the Taj Mahal Chowk market such as dosa. and the historic Red Fort – For the best coffee in town, it has beautiful architecture head… back to Hauz Khas Village and such rich history. to Kunzum Travel Café for Delhi’s The city’s most exciting outdoor best cappuccinos and lattes. experience is… in a rickshaw in If you want to go to shopping, Old Delhi’s Chandni Chowk don’t miss… the Janpath Market market, which looks just like it – in the centre of New Delhi – for used to 500 years ago. Pass clothes, fashion accessories and through the narrow lanes past all On September 12, the annual Qantas Pathfinders jewellery. Be sure to bargain as the roadside eateries, making a Charity Flight heads to Hamilton Island, raising the prices are always inflated. few shopping pit stops if you like. funds for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind For designer fashion, make your For the best indoor experience, Children. Tickets are $895 per person, including way to… the DLF Emporio mall in make your way to… the Kingdom return flights from Sydney to Hamilton Island, all the Vasant Kunj neighbourhood of Dreams in Gurgaon, an transfers, a cruise to Whitehaven Beach and a three- of South Delhi. The ground and adjoining city – it’s the Broadway course lunch with wine. Not only will it be a day to first floors have a huge array of India, with musicals that remember, you’ll help support thousands of children of international brands, such combine Indian music with and adults through education, therapy and cochlear as Gucci and Louis Vuitton, English scripts. It’s a brilliant implant services. ridbc.org.au/charityflight while the second floor belongs way to take in some culture.

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KICK ON ASK QANTAS

The Cup Q I’m flying to the US this runneth over month but I’m a fussy eater. How do I know In London for the Rugby World Cup? I’ll like the meals served Kylie Flavell nominates four great on the plane? places to enjoy a pre- or post-match bite and drink. A You’re in complete control! Using Select On the tiles: Duck & on Q-Eat via qantas.com or the Qantas Waffle in the “Gherkin” app, choose meals up to 12 hours before departure. Online orders include an exclusive dish; for Economy customers DUCK & WAFFLE ACE HOTEL this month it’s braised Blackmore Heron Tower, 110 Bishopsgate 100 Shoreditch High Street Wagyu beef with mushroom sauce, duckandwaffle.com acehotel.com/london polenta and green beans. September The views from the 40th foor of the iconic If you want to mingle with a cool crowd, sees the arrival of new menus and if “Gherkin” building are enough to warrant a Friday night at Ace Hotel is the place to be. you’re lucky enough to be fying in the trip here but it’s the promise of extraordinary The lobby bar has intimate nooks, communal First cabin, try Neil Perry’s Mirrool food and drinks that knocks it to the top of the tables, an art exhibition space and, if you get Creek lamb rack with creamed cavolo must-visit list. This is one of the few places in peckish while sipping beers and cocktails, nero, roast garlic and rosemary potatoes London that’s open 24 hours so it means you you can order from the menu of Hoi Polloi, and minted salsa verde – a dish inspired can do dinner or enjoy swanky post-club their restaurant next door. A happening space, by Rockpool Bar & Grill. In Business, munchies. One note: sneakers aren’t allowed. it’s easy to spend the entire night here. there’s a new salumi section, including prosciutto (from Sydney’s Quattro TONTERIA ELECTRIC DINER Stelle Salumi), stufed green olives, 7-12 Sloane Square 191 Portobello Road labne and crostini. And things are tonteria.co.uk electricdiner.com pretty sweet in Economy with Ruby & Where does Leonardo DiCaprio go when he’s Electric Diner is one of Notting Hill’s hippest Roy’s salted caramel chocolate mousse in town? Where might young British royals spots. It’s part of the Soho House group, which and organic rice pudding with vanilla. head when they feel like a dance? Where runs some of the most elite members-only can you have your tequila delivered by a toy clubs in London but this bar/restaurant boasts If you have a question for Qantas, train and be treated to burlesque dancers a cool decor and fashionable crowd minus please email us at and Mexican wrestling? Since it opened three the members-only door policy. Sit at the bar [email protected] years ago, this little tequila bar has been and nosh on a shaved rib-of-beef sandwich a favourite for VIPs. or fat-iron chicken with roasted broccoli. Bloom town Sydney’s David Jones Spring Flower Show just keeps on growing. Here are the numbers behind it.

Celebrating 30 years, the fower show – held at the David Jones store on Elizabeth Street, Sydney – will see 150,000 fowers from 36 diferent plants displayed in 25 arrangements across 17 shop windows. It will be the result of 10,000 hours of work by 30 forists. There will be 4 statement pieces, with the tallest arrangement 4 metres high, and 5000 Oasis foral foam bricks will be used to make the fowers go the distance. It was 90 days in the planning, including 14 days of setting up, and will go for 10 days (September 3-13), with more than 300,000 visitors expected. Flowers have been sourced from local farms as close as 36 kilometres away in Dural, NSW, and Dutch felds as far as 16,200 kilometres away.

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Governing passion

Curating an art show featuring the work of her Dame Quentin Bryce in her office at friend and fellow Queenslander William Robinson QUT, standing with Eagle Landscape, is a labour of love for Dame Quentin Bryce. a 1987 work by William Robinson

THE DAY before the opening of Inspirations, time,” explains Bryce, who since leaving to his friend, “has been able to make the her frst (and last, she insists!) art exhibition ofce in 2014 has chaired a taskforce aimed exhibition a strangely very centred one, as curator, former Governor-General Dame at tackling domestic violence. “The great even though it covers many years of time.” Quentin Bryce is in the William Robinson landscapes have caused us all to want to Picking the right colours of paintings “and Gallery, checking the hanging. “I’m not sure know more and understand more and fnd the right colour of the room – and the right that’s quite straight,” she says, narrowing her a depth of meaning. At the same time, you’re neighbouring paintings to tell a story… eyes in the direction of Poinciana and Fern just utterly enjoying the sheer beauty of the it’s been done very well here.” Garden, a 2015 work by her friend, the dual compositions, his mastery of colour.” In looking for a theme, “it kept coming Archibald Prize-winning Robinson. Since Speaking of which, the former GG (she back in my mind again and again that Bill the eponymous gallery opened in 2009, asks those she meets to drop the “Dame”) had spent 32 years as a teacher”, says Bryce Robinson’s vast and eclectic body of work has has chosen a vibrant deep-violet colour – of the exhibition that includes a couple of been exhibited there every year. Being asked Purple Pool – for the feature wall. The Robinson’s handwritten letters to his former to curate the 2015-16 show was “one of those room that houses the fve paintings from art students. “I have an enormous regard for invitations I couldn’t resist”, says Bryce, “but Robinson’s famed Mountain series “stands teachers and their infuence and I think we I was very conscious of my amateur status”. itself as an exhibition”, she marvels, adding owe them an enormous debt of gratitude.” The airy gallery sits inside Brisbane’s that she had “tears pouring down my face” To that end, she had the idea to Old Government House, a heritage-listed when she walked into the room after the make a short flm – which plays on a loop building that sits among ultra-modern arts, paintings had been hung. in one room – featuring primary school ftness and study facilities at Queensland On the morning before the opening, children from Brisbane’s Junction Park University of Technology’s lush Gardens Robinson is seeing the exhibition of 44 of his State School discussing his work. It was the Point campus. “I’ve known Bill’s art for a long works for the frst time and he’s as visibly frst school Robinson attended as a child. happy as his trademark low-key manner will allow. “I got an amazing surprise,” he says, Inspirations is showing at the William Robinson STORY BY JANE NICHOLLS after an hour of wandering through the Gallery, Queensland University of Technology, PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRISTIAN TIGER rooms. “The curator,” as he playfully refers Brisbane, until July 17, 2016. Admission is free.

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HOW TO...

…fall asleep on the plane

WE’VE all been there. The airport dash, the security clearance, settling into our seats – what to eat, read and watch? Sleep can seem a distant but desirable friend. So how to get some shut-eye with all this stimulation? Simple meditation, says Professor Leon Lack, a psychologist and director of the Sleep Research Laboratory at Flinders University in Adelaide. “Stop your thinking, such as what you’ll be served for breakfast, what you will watch on screen or what you’ll do on arrival,” The measure of a man he advises. “Focus on breathing. Don’t BUYING a suit used to mean trying Although there’s a near-endless try to control it. on a couple and buying whatever array of combinations, Matthew Become a passive seemed to work. But things have Keighran, managing director of Hugo observer of changed. Men are now more open Boss south-east Asia and Oceania, your breathing.” to trying new styles and patterns. says he’s expecting to see customers Alternatively, focus And if you’re going to drop a chunk opt for “leaner suiting silhouettes, your attention on of your salary on a good suit, you complemented by neat and slim shirt “non-provocative want it to fit perfectly and to have collars”. He also adds there’s a subtle elements”, such as a sense of individuality, right? shift towards standard shirt cuffs the background jet Enter the bespoke suit. More away from the double cuff, and noise. “Close your fashion houses are offering made- towards pocket squares “to lift the eyes,” says Lack. to-measure options and they’re no overall look”. “You will see a longer the preserve of the seriously You’ll need to allow 90 minutes hodgepodge of rich. Hugo Boss rolls out its custom for the consultation and six weeks for greys and shapes; service from its flagship Sydney your suit to be made in Metzingen, focus on one of store this month, giving gents the Germany. Prices start at $3000. them. If you lose it, opportunity to choose every element pick another.” On of their suit – from the fabric (more Hugo Boss long-haul flights, than 250 options) and buttons to 107 King Street, Sydney the professor says the lining and the jacket’s style. (02) 9223 9211 he has managed five hours’ continuous

sleep this way. MeadCaroline

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OUTBACK ANGELS STYLE WATCH

It’s a wrap WHAT do you get when you cross model Jessica Hart and hot Melbourne restaurant MoVida? A fabulous, limited-edition scarf. Hart, who joined Qantas as a trend consultant in June, nominated an Australian destination that “feels like home” to her. She chose Melbourne and Qantas then collaborated with Australian designers Macayla Chapman and Natalie Knoll of Bird & Knoll to design a cashmere-blend scarf that showcases the Victorian capital using shades of Hart’s favourite colours. The result is a dusky pink confection that features the “streetscape graffiti of Hosier Lane and its Help from above cornerstone restaurant, MoVida”, says Knoll. “It translates effortlessly from poolside pareo to Last year, the Royal Flying Doctor inflight cover-up,” adds Chapman. “It’s the Service assisted more than 280,000 perfect accessory for any journey.” Australians. We meet one of its pilots. The scarf is available from AS A mustering pilot, Shane Brook (above) qantasshop.com.au for $298. lived for eight years on a cattle station in south-west Queensland. He knows the perils of isolation. In his daughter Georgia’s frst three years, she had to be airlifted from nearby Tibooburra township to Broken Hill Hospital. Once, she’d swallowed the wrong medicine, another time she lost consciousness. On other occasions, Brook had two critically injured mates who needed to be airlifted. These events inspired Brook, 42, to become a Royal Flying Doctor Service pilot. Police killed in The RFDS, which started in Queensland the line of duty in 1928 as the AIM Aerial Medical Service, Download our new app will be honoured was the vision of Presbyterian minister John Our brand-new Qantas magazine iPad app in memorial Flynn and is the benefciary of a Qantas is now available FREE from the App Store. services across Foundation grant this year. The contribution (Our Android app is coming soon.) the country on will support RFDS pilots’ travel to simulation September 29 training so people in regional communities New content constantly added as part of can continue to have access to health care. National Police Every article at your fingertips Since 2007, Broken Hill-based Brook has Remembrance fown his King Air B200 to remote locations, Download one article at a time Day. In Victoria, always with a nurse on board and sometimes (no need to download the whole magazine) buy a blue ribbon a doctor. It’s crucial he remains emotionally and share with ease to help support detached, he explains, to fy safely. “As a the building of If you’ve never downloaded our app before, search public hospital father of two, the last thing I want to be told for “Qantas Magazine: For The Best Travel Information is that it’s a child the same age as my kids.” and Inspiration” at the App Store. Are you an existing emergency Occasionally, he’s drawn in. There was a subscriber to our old iPad app? You’ll need to search for facilities – a living 21-year-old woman whose head was severely this new app and download it onto your device as we’ll memorial to kicked by a horse on the cattle station on no longer be updating the old app. the state’s 159 which he once worked. The doctor urged fallen policemen Brook to fy faster. Months later, at a party, and women. the pilot was asked: “Do you recognise this remember.org.au girl?” She was smiling, back at work. “When it’s been pretty bad and everything goes

right,” says Brook, “then it’s all worthwhile.” Dow Steve Urrutia, Edward

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