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Bright young things The future stars of ballet express themselves through Dance Dialogues.

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August 2015 | QANTAS 151 iQ. Who Knew?

What’s one thing about you that would surprise people? I’m lifestyle conservative. I like to be up and working early in the morning, I sleep normal hours, I’ve never taken any illicit drugs and I’m married to my frst girlfriend. What’s your idea of absolute happiness? Post-coital afternoon naps. Can I say that? If you could have dinner with two famous people, who would you choose? I know it’s nauseating but I’ve managed to weasel my way into drinking/eating situations with nearly all the people I most admire. I recently had a very pleasant dinner with Ian McEwan and Zadie Smith. How cool is that? What travel experiences remain on your bucket list? I’ve not travelled much so most of them are still on the list. Paros, Kakadu, Tokyo. What’s your most treasured possession? My back-up hard drive. How do you switch off? By drinking gently or exercising hard. What’s your guilty pleasure? Ha! I have a whole bit of stand-up about this question, most of it unprintable. So I’ll just say… wine. What quality do you most admire in people? I admire people who can think clearly, alter opinions and smile generously. If you could turn back time, what would you change in your life? Even the tiniest adjustment of any decision or action would fundamentally alter all that happens after it – so although I would wish to alter absolutely nothing, I would inevitably alter absolutely everything. What is your greatest achievement? I’m proud that I got quite good at the piano What is your greatest strength? without much guidance. Tim Minchin I like people and think I’m quite good at Who is your personal hero? understanding them. I don’t think I have one. Expecting humans What is your greatest weakness? to be heroes ends in disappointment. I’m unable to give short answers. This one, Where would we find you at a party? Tim Minchin is a comedian, actor, for example, could have fnished at the end Talking too much around a table. composer, songwriter, pianist, musical of the last sentence but instead continues What’s your most Australian trait? director and huge rock ’n’ roll megastar on, apparently unconcerned by the absence My inability to respect authority fgures (the last bit is his). Now, this is what of purpose or meaningful content. who expect respect without earning it. you don’t know. What scares you? If you were an animal what would you be? The acceleration of perceived time as we I would be a hairy, ginger man. age, the speed at which my children are If you were down to your last $20, what growing up and the potential death or would you spend it on? injury of people I like. Bread, cheese, very cheap wine. What’s your favourite karaoke song? How would you like to be remembered? “I Will Survive”. As kind. What virtue do you admire most in people? Generosity – of spirit, fnance, time. Tim Minchin wrote the music and lyrics INTERVIEW BY DI WEBSTER If you could do any other job, what would it be? for Matilda the Musical, which is currently PHOTOGRAPHY BY BOB BARKER I’d teach. playing at ’s Lyric Theatre.

152 QANTAS | August 2015 iQ. Books & Music

REVIEWS BY PAUL ROBINSON THE PLAYLIST

LONG HAUL SHORT HAUL LAYOVER MEG MAC Singer-songwriter

Though she won Triple J’s Unearthed competition for unsigned artists only last Zero Zero Zero Motherland R&R year, Meg Mac’s big, soulful Roberto Saviano Jo McMillan Mark Dapin voice has already earned Allen Lane, $32.99 John Murray, $29.99 Viking, $32.99 her comparisons to Adele. The indie singer Roberto Saviano’s Gomorrah In a Midlands town, 13-year-old He spent “formative” years in gathered a huge following lifted the lid on the machinations Jess helps her mum, Eleanor, sell Aldershot (the “Home of the on her recent US tour, of the Camorra (Neapolitan the socialist Morning Star. But British Army”), was embedded when she opened for Mafia) and his exhaustively Eleanor’s communist ideology with the Australian Defence D’Angelo. Here she shares researched Zero Zero Zero is past its use-by date in 1978 Force Academy in Canberra and the songs she listened to – a nickname for A-grade England. The offer of a teaching has written and/or edited several on the road. “They seemed cocaine – will do the same job behind the Iron Curtain offers military histories. So Dapin is to match the scenery out of to the global trade of the drug. a way out of their precarious no stranger to subject matter the tour-bus window,” she Following links between South existence. But as life in East of a martial nature. He puts his says. And she got to hear American cartels and mercenaries Germany palls, Jess begins to knowledge to good use in this her frst choice in person to European crime families, realise her mother hasn’t backed tale of dirty deeds in the south every night… militias and warlords, the Italian a winner and Eleanor finds Vietnamese town of Vung Tau, investigative journalist tracks trouble in paradise. Mixing where GIs and Diggers take a horror story of murder and a coming-of-age and mother- time out from the war. When D’Angelo corruption. A fervent crusader child relationship story with a crooked American MP shoots “Betray My Heart” against “respectable” western commentary on the Cold War an already dead man in a brothel, financial institutions that launder is a complex and curiously other MPs, local gangsters and Hiatus Kaiyote drug dollars daily, Saviano has compelling device. McMillan’s the Viet Cong get involved in “Breathing Underwater” garnered enough death threats debut about life on the losing a power struggle over who’s to warrant round-the-clock side of history is both pulling the strings. Fast-paced Tame Impala military-police protection for the melancholic broken dream and uncompromisingly visceral, “Let it Happen” past eight years. A terrific read. and humorous adventure. this is a top-notch thriller. Kimbra “Goldmine”

Camille “Jolie Bruine” LIE ON THE BEACH China Rich Girlfriend been bought by the producers Kevin Kwan of The Hunger Games), incredibly Jarryd James Allen & Unwin, $29.99 wealthy Nick Young is set to marry “Do You Remember” middle-class ABC (American- Imagine having a lazy $250 born Chinese) Rachel – but she Bon Iver million to drop on a painting or soon discovers she has some rich, “Heavenly Father” your very own 747, accessorised elite relatives herself. This satirical with a karaoke lounge and an soap opera mines a rich stream Ibeyi operating theatre – plus surgeon. of social climbing and status- “River” Welcome to the unimaginable symbol acquisition to the beat opulence of China’s super-rich. of high-society protocol. And Little Dragon In this hilarious sequel to Crazy Kwan’s explanatory footnotes “Twice”

Rich Asians (movie rights have are as funny as the story itself. Ben Smith

154 QANTAS | August 2015 iQ. Technology

Pebble Steel Samsung approx $260 Gear S getpebble.com $449 With up to a week samsung.com of battery life, the The Gear S looks handsome Pebble like a smartphone Steel is a great shoehorned into choice for the a bangle but it traveller who wants offers some nifty to spend time features. Its 3G relaxing instead data connection of recharging. means you can It’s also the only make phone calls, smartwatch that send texts, receive supports both email and browse iOS and Android. the internet without However, you’ll need being connected to to make a few your smartphone. compromises: The built-in GPS the screen is pairs with navigation a monochrome, apps such as Nokia non-touch display Here for turn-by- and you can turn direction, live only have eight traffic news and apps installed public-transport at one time. information for more than 900 cities.

LG Watch Urbane Apple Watch approx $600 From $499 lg.com/us apple.com The most watch- Everything about like smartwatch the Apple Watch is we’ve seen doesn’t beautiful, from the skimp on high-tech Up to stylish metal casing functions. The wi-fi and multiple band feature works well the minute options, through for forwarding to the clever user calls and relaying IT SEEMS new models of the smartwatch are being released more interface and notifications when often than you actually remember to check the time. Championed by seamless iPhone your Android phone Apple and other consumer-tech companies, these devices function integration. It works is in another building as extensions of a smartphone, serving up bite-sized portions of brilliantly as a travel – or halfway across information and ensuring you don’t miss calls and notifcations while companion, too; the globe. The your mobile is in your pocket, bag or another room. While Apple more airlines, hotel Google Now feature has only just joined the fray, smartwatches have been around for chains and holiday- displays flight a few years. The current generation is far more polished and booking services information and feature-rich than early devices but one thing that’s yet to change have introduced issues reminders for is the battery life. If you’re upgrading from a regular wristwatch, apps for the Apple scheduled events the nightly charging is hard to get used to. Watch than and meetings. for its rivals.

REVIEWS BY JENNETH ORANTIA PHOTOGRAPHY BY EDWARD URRUTIA

August 2015 | QANTAS 157 iQ. Technology

girls and women. For global surfng news I go to surfersvillage.com and the WSL, worldsurfeague.com. Do you follow any bloggers? Mindvalley has a blog and I also follow an American thought leader called Chris Cade. Real books or e-books? I’m an old-school tactile kind of reader but I’ve downloaded a couple of books from the thought-leading websites I subscribe to. You’ve mentioned Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. Any other social networks? I have a Facebook page but I tend not to be very active on it because there are about nine fake Layne Beachleys out there. It’s very difcult to shut them down. Your best social-media moment? I got a message from Twitter telling me that Channing Tatum follows me… Have you ever regretted a tweet? No, I think before I tweet. Wi-fi or no wi-fi on the plane? Oh please, no wi-f. Being on a plane is one of the times you can truly disconnect from the world and get work done. What technology do you take on the plane? My iPhone and my computer because it’s hard for my iPad to keep up with the fow of emails I have. What’s your worst technology habit? Television in bed. Bed is where you’re supposed to shut down, disconnect and be calm and relaxed. My husband [musician Kirk Pengilly] insists on having a television in the bedroom. Another bad habit, being an environmentalist, is forgetting to shut my computer down at night. Do you ever have technology-free time? Sunday is my day of. I tend to not even What’s your latest technology purchase? WELL CONNECTED respond to texts or phone calls. I would have to say my MacBook Pro. I’m Apple or Android? heavily reliant on it. My life is stored on it! Apple. My husband is a tech wizard and What apps do you use the most? Layne Beachley a Mac user so he’s the frst one I refer to Every morning I use my Hurley Surf whenever I have technical issues. I was Coastalwatch app to check surf conditions. once a PC user but he brought me to the I also use Instagram (@laynebeachley), dark side. Twitter app Echofon (@LayneCBeachley), When her ofce was literally What technology do you covet? Evernote and CalorieKing. Because ofshore, seven-times world surfng A girlfriend of mine has a device called I do the 5:2 diet, I’m always converting champion Layne Beachley had little Livescribe. It’s a pen that records what you kilojoules to calories. There are also a few need for technology. Now, the charity write and syncs with your computer. So meditation apps – I like Simply Being and founder and environmental if you lose your notebook, electronically Silva Meditate. Putting yourself through campaigner can’t live without it. it’s still there. It’s a really cool little device. a guided meditation on a plane is a really What do you believe has been the best valuable way to utilise your time. technology invention? What websites do you go to? In my life, the mobile phone. I remember Mindvalley.com, which is a thought- when we didn’t have them and I enjoyed leadership, health and wellbeing site. the freedom of that. But I also remember Then there’s LinkedIn and my foundation, having to sit at home between 10 and two aimforthestars.com.au – we provide INTERVIEW BY DI WEBSTER waiting for a phone call and then sending fnancial and moral support for young PHOTOGRAPHY BY CAROL GIBBONS responses via fax machine.

158 QANTAS | August 2015 iQ. Motoring

BMW i3

There’s a lot of hype about electric cars but they tend to be better in the concept than the execution. Does the new BMW change all that?

WHEN fossil fuels won the auto industry’s tussle between electricity, steam and internal combustion almost a century ago, the environment wasn’t high on the world’s Without centre list of concerns. Now that it is, petrol- and door pillars, the i3’s diesel-powered vehicles are inching closer interior feels much to their inevitable date with the scrap heap. more spacious It might have happened sooner if there was an electric car people wanted to drive. Despite advances in battery technology, the internal combustion engine would continue to prevail until electric cars became as appealing as they were politically correct. The all-electric BMW i3 – a $63,900, four-seat city car – may be the breakthrough. The i3 entices with useful range (the battery lasts up to 130 kilometres) and easy recharging on the road. The BMW-partnered ChargePoint network gives owners access passenger cell to dispense with centre to public fast-charging stations, of which there door pillars, opening up an interior that’s are more than 100 nationally and counting. amazingly spacious, though confgured FANTASY DRIVE Better yet are the i3’s old-fashioned qualities strictly for four. The tall driving position such as performance, handling, practicality commands a view over a bright, airy cabin, MUNICH, GERMANY and comfort, all in a package that’s both where compressed natural fbres and LED forward-looking and familiar. lighting all convey lightness and luxury. There’s plenty of innovation within the Every kilogram saved from the hardware i3’s functional, futuristic skin. The novel and interior helps with fuel efciency and construction comprises an aluminium can be invested in more battery capacity. platform that contains all the running The 230kg lithium-ion battery pack resides gear, suspension and wheels. Attached in the i3’s foor, feeding an electric motor to this is a tough passenger cell moulded under the foor that powers the rear wheels. from carbon-fbre-reinforced plastic. The i3’s weight of 1195kg is comparable to The structural backbone provided a conventional luxury hatchback. It’s designed by the aluminium platform allows the from the ground up as a city commuter but a clever extra-cost option (at $6000) is the “range extender” – a two-cylinder petrol Engine 360V DC electric motor engine that also fts beneath the cargo foor Transmission Single-speed automatic and serves solely to generate electricity and With a top speed set at “only” 150km/h, Power/torque 125kW/250Nm increase battery range to about 300km. the i3 isn’t built for Germany’s unrestricted 0-100km/h 7.2 seconds The driving is diferent – and delightful. autobahns. However, dozens of the country’s Fuel economy (av) 12.9kWh/100km Acceleration is brisk, while lifting your foot major cities now enforce low-emission Price $63,900 of the accelerator brings quite pronounced zones (umweltzones) in their central districts. braking as the regenerative motor captures In the zero-emissions i3, you’re free to explore and stores energy. Within a few applications, the historic charms of BMW’s hometown of it comes to feel natural. If this is motoring’s Munich – just make sure your car has a TÜV REVIEW BY MICHAEL STAHL future, petrol-heads need not despair. emissions sticker on the windscreen.

160 QANTAS | August 2015 iQ. Mind Games

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What phrases do the word pictures represent? Tough puzzle, simple rules: each row, column and 3x3 box must ❶ ❷ contain the numbers 1-9.

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François Clouet’s 1566 Portrait of Charles IX is on display as part of the Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria

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WHAT Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great WHERE National Gallery of Victoria WHEN Until November 8 ngv.vic.gov.au With more than 500 works by artists including Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez and Van Dyck, this exhibition showcases one of the world’s fnest collections. It’s also an insight into the life and times of the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, Catherine the Great.

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WHAT Chocolate Winterfest WHERE Latrobe WHEN August 9 chocolatewinterfest.com.au Just a 10-minute drive from Devonport and home to quaint cafés, boutiques and the one- day chocolate fest, Latrobe is Culture by numbers worth a detour. More than 35 Winterfest activities will take A host of exciting cultural and sporting events are taking place across 24 venues in the place in Australia this month – from the Melbourne International town. Get ready for chocolate- Film Festival to the Netball World Cup. Here’s our top 15. themed masterclasses and high teas and check out the chocolate- painted “living statues” outside COMPILED BY AKASH ARORA the Latrobe Memorial Hall.

168 QANTAS | August 2015 Since 1963 there have been 15 Netball World Cup championships. Australia has won 10 NSW and New Zealand, four QLD VIC

WHAT Netball World Cup WHAT Mercedes-Benz WHAT Melbourne WHERE Sydney Fashion Festival International Film Festival WHEN August 7-16 WHERE WHERE Melbourne nwc2015.com.au WHEN August 23-28 WHEN Until August 16 After 24 years, the harbour city mbff.com.au miff.com.au is again the host of the Netball Frock up for six days of catwalk Some of the most intriguing World Cup. Catch all the action shows as some of Australia’s top movies from Cannes will at Sydney Olympic Park as 192 fashion designers – from Alex screen at the 64th Melbourne players from 16 countries take Perry to Toni Maticevski – come International Film Festival. part in 64 matches over 10 together for the 10th anniversary Among the highlights is Yorgos days to determine the world’s of Brisbane’s Fashion Festival. Lanthimos’s The Lobster. Starring best. How will the reigning Events include QueensPlaza Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz, champions, Australia’s High Tea Fashion Trends (August it’s set in a dystopian future Diamonds, fare against stif 26) and the Fleet Fashion where single adults are turned competition from New Zealand, Boutique (August 24-27) at the into animals and hunted if they England and South Africa? State Library of Queensland. can’t fnd a mate within 45 days.

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WHAT Bledisloe Cup Festival WHERE Sydney WHEN August 6-8 rugby.com.au Witness one of the most exciting rivalries in sport as the Qantas Wallabies take on the All Blacks on August 8 at ANZ Stadium. But there’s more to the Bledisloe Cup than the match. Meet the Wallabies in Darling Harbour (August 6) or watch some Australian rugby greats tee of at the Bledisloe Cup Corporate Golf Day (August 7) at Manly

Israel Rivera Israel Golf Club. George Wu’s bridal and evening gowns will be on display at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival, Brisbane

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WHAT Mountain Bike Grand Prix WHAT Melbourne Writers Festival WHAT Remember Me: WHAT Darwin Festival WHERE Canberra WHERE Melbourne The Lost Diggers of Vignacourt WHERE Darwin WHEN August 15 WHEN August 20-30 WHERE Museum of Western WHEN August 6-23 rockytrailentertainment.com mwf.com.au Australia, Perth darwinfestival.org.au WHEN The fourth round of the Louis de Bernières – author Until August 30 Darwin Festival is back for Mountain Bike Grand of bestselling novels Captain museum.wa.gov.au the 36th time with an eclectic Prix gets into gear at Stromlo Corelli’s Mandolin and Red During World War I, hundreds of 18-day program of events, Forest Park in Canberra. Dog – will kick of the 30th Australian soldiers stopped at the ranging from comedy and The competition will be tough Melbourne Writers Festival French village Vignacourt, where dance shows to art exhibitions as some 350 of the country’s with a keynote address at the many posed for portraits for Louis and plays. The highlight of strongest mountain bikers race city’s Town Hall. More than Thuillier and his wife, Antoinette. the festival is Prison Songs – circuits of more than 8km for 400 writers and thinkers Now, almost 100 years on, 74 a multimedia concert featuring up to seven hours in a real test will participate in the festival, prints selected from the 800 live music and starring singer- of endurance. There’s plenty which coincides with the launch glass-plate negatives donated to songwriter Shellie Morris, for spectators, too, including of Bernières’s new book, The the Australian War Memorial actor Ernie Dingo and cabaret picnics and free races for kids. Dust that Falls from Dreams. feature in this moving exhibition. artist Kamahi Djordon King.

The Barossa Gourmet Weekend’s program features classes from top chefs

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WHAT Barossa Gourmet Weekend WHAT Glow Winter Arts Festival WHERE Barossa WHERE Melbourne WHEN August 14-16 WHEN August 13-23 barossagourmet.com glowfestival.com.au Barossa Gourmet Weekend is Spread over Melbourne suburbs celebrating its 30th anniversary such as Prahran, Malvern, this year with more than 30 Armadale, Toorak, Windsor and leading restaurateurs and South Yarra, this 11-day event winemakers displaying (and features more than 50 free and expertly using) the best of the ticketed events – from theatre region’s produce. Get ready performances to art shows. for long luncheons, cooking There’s an open-air ice-skating demonstrations, masterclasses rink and the team behind the and visits to farmers markets Gertrude Street Projection brimming with seasonal Festival will light up Greville

local produce. Street, Prahran. Nathaniel Mason

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WHAT Dance Dialogues WHAT SALA Festival WHERE Thomas WHERE South Australia Dixon Centre, Brisbane WHEN August 1-31 WHEN August 28 to September 5 salainc.com.au queenslandballet.com.au Since it was established in 1998, Dance Dialogues is a collection the annual South Australian of short pieces choreographed by Living Artists Festival has emerging artists and performed celebrated the diverse talent by Queensland Ballet company’s of painters, photographers, youngest dancers. Watch out sculptors and textile artists for La Mente, a seven-minute across the state. The month-long neoclassical piece by Vito event is the largest visual-arts Bernasconi, set to composer festival in the country, exhibiting Max Richter’s “On the Nature the works of more than 5000 of Daylight”, and Memorybox, artists – young and old – across Sydney musician and artist Caitlin Park will fly north for Darwin Festival a 10-minute act by Jack Lister. 500 venues in South Australia.

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WHAT The Marriage of Figaro WHERE Sydney Opera House WHEN August 6-29 opera.org.au Soprano Nicole Car takes on the role of Rosina, the countess in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro – an 18th-century opera in four acts. A sequel to The Barber of Seville, it recounts one day in the palace of Count Almaviva in Spain. Rosina is in love with the count, who’s smitten by the countess’s maidservant Susanna, who in turn is engaged to Figaro – and so it goes on. Colin Farrell in The Lobster, a film for which he binged on junk food to gain 18kg

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