EXCLUSIVE lead to his extradition to the US. When asked whether he believes Assange: We are insurers of the people America will drop their case against him, Assange says it will not happen. “Probably not,” he says. “I hope not in the sense that if you’re doing BY Adam Hunt concentration of media ownership and believes that a strong independent good journalism by its nature it’s often controversial. If you’re doing It’s 7pm on a Friday and I’m waiting for my call to be connected to media sets the parameters for political debate. good work exposing very dark organisations, they will try and make the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where WikiLeaks editor Julian “Our policies are concerning media and protection of journalistic their counterattacks.” Assange has been a political prisoner for over a year. sources and protections of rights of Australians from surveillance in If Assange is extradited to the US, he believes he could be subject to Assange is lead candidate for Victoria in the Senate in this weekend’s Australia,” he says. the same treatment Bradley Manning endured when first arrested and Federal Election and, if elected, plans to act as an overseer in the Upper “We live in a ‘mediaocracy’. Those are the parameters of political House where his central role would be to supervise the main parties and held in solitary confinement. debate - what is important politically is set by the quality and courage of “We only need to look at the treatment of Bradley Manning to hold government to account. our media.” understand the seriousness of what that would mean in practice,” he Assange’s personal assistant answers. We exchange pleasantries and Newspaper circulation in Australia shows that News Corp titles says. “I’m not scared of being in prison - I have been in prison in the UK briefly discuss the weather. “We don’t get to see much sun here,” she account for 59 per cent of the sales of all daily newspapers, a monopoly for 10 days in solitary confinement.” says, before handing the phone to one of the most controversial figures in Assange describes as unhealthy. “But that said, it would be simply unwise to throw myself into the modern history. “The situation for Australia, with all but two of the major Australian situation that Bradley Manning is in.” “The role of the WikiLeaks Party is to be insurers for people in the cities having only one daily newspaper and the lion share of them owned As more people share details of their lives on the Internet and voice election,” says Assange. “We’re not a party of government - we do not by News Corp, is quite unhealthy,” he says. “That is one of the worst want to be a party of government. Our role is to make the bastards concentrations of media ownership anywhere in the world. public opinion, Assange gave his view on how things could evolve in the honest and not to join us. “Rupert Murdoch appears to see the function of journalism not as future. “The Senate itself was always meant to be a house of oversight - it has freedom of expression but freedom of extortion.” “As the Internet has merged with society, society has also merged unfortunately due to the dominance of the two major parties, become a Assange emphasises the influence Rupert Murdoch and News Corp with the Internet and while that has produced very important freedoms, house of deal-making. We want to bring that original purpose back to the have on political discourse. it has also meant that nearly all important communication we have is Senate.” “In Australia, it’s quite clear from the way The Daily Telegraph intercepted on bulk,” he says. The WikiLeaks Party is running Kellie Tranter and Alison Broinowski has been covering the election and the Herald Sun that Murdoch has “Two billion interceptions per day are being permanently stored and for the Senate in NSW, and Assange is urging the citizens of NSW to provided that he is going to try and get Tony Abbott elected,” he says. indexed in the bowels of an unaccountable foreign spy agency. That is a vote for them. “So we see it as very important to try and improve the quality of the titanic power inequality that is so severe that it appears to be distorting “WikiLeaks, the publisher whose ethos has inspired the party, has Australian press, and by using the Senate position to bring up subjects the rule of law in the West and could lead to quite a grim future – a seven-year reputation for fearlessly finding the truth and fearlessly that are otherwise not being well reported.” William Binney describes this as a totalitarianism.” publishing it,” he says. “The only smart thing to do in NSW is to vote Assange has been the subject of an arrest warrant for almost three But Assange isn’t against global connectivity, and says it has seen the for WikiLeaks in the Senate.” years following allegations of sexual misconduct in Sweden, under laws creation of a new political will shaped by the propagation of opinion Assange believes there has to be another party in the Senate that specific to that country. around the world. is not represented in the House of Representatives, arguing a party “I have been detained for something like 997 days now in the UK, “Now on the other hand, the same technological tendencies of of supervision is needed to monitor the major parties and expose that’s a pretty strange situation where you can be held in solitary everything being wired and networked together is producing another wrongdoing. confinement, under house arrest and not allowed to leave the country important phenomena, that is the creation of a new body politics,” he “[Once a party] gets into government it will use its power over the without ever having been charged,” he says. says. expenditure and various Australian bureaucratic institutions - from the Critics of Assange highlight his failure in travelling to Sweden to face “So as everyone is communicating with each other, they’re also military up to health and social security - to give sweet deals to its mates questioning in an effort to clear his name. But he says it is normal for exchanging their views about what is right and what is wrong and that is and pursue its ideological agenda,” he says. police to visit other countries if seeking to question a suspect. creating a new source of political will. “That has to be monitored and scrutinised and misbehaviour exposed. “The more interesting question is why Sweden hasn’t come here “Supportive phenomenon has led to a doubling of political parties in That’s what WikiLeaks does in the investigative journalism outlet and which is normal in other cases?” he asks. “Why hasn’t Sweden Australia. The last time [that happened] was in response to the Great that’s what we intend to do in the Senate.” guaranteed to the state of Ecuador that it will not extradite me to the Depression, but Australia is not going through an economic crisis – so The WikiLeaks Party champions freedom of the press and US? Such diplomatic guarantee in extradition is normal.” what’s happening? It seems that there is a new political awakening in safeguarding people from surveillance. The party is opposed to the It has been speculated that the Swedish case against Assange could Australia.” Council commits to Bronte House Sustainable this would fit into the sustainable schools program where we teach BY Paul Gregoire our heritage item preserved. It’s a pity garden pops kids how to use worm farms, Waverley Council has committed to other councillors didn’t feel the same Published fortnightly and distributed to Bondi Beach, Bondi, continue ownership and preservation way about the Boot Factory.” up at Bondi how to plant native plants, and Bondi Junction, Dover Heights, Waverley, Tamarama, of Bronte House, ending uncertainty But Ms Betts said the repairing how to grow vegetables,” she Clovelly, Randwick, Rose Bay, Coogee and Maroubra. about the future of the heritage house. lease has worked in the past and that BY Robert North said. Distribution enquiries call 9212 5677. Published by the Council has resolved to undertake the tenants “do repairs up to a certain Bondi Beach has received The ecoPOPS reduce the Alternative Media Group of Australia. While every effort is any major renovations deemed value”. a touch of green with the high temperatures which occur made to ensure accuracy of content, The Bondi View takes to be not best carried out under “We have always known that the installation of a temporary pop- in metropolitan areas due to no responsibility for inadvertent errors or omissions. the repairing lease, including the roof would be much more expensive. up sustainable garden at Roscoe reduced levels of vegetation and ABN 48 135 222 169 replacement of the roof with an It would fall outside that repairing St Mall. high levels of heat absorbing expected cost of $250,000 from Known as an ecoPOP, the Group Publisher: Lawrence Gibbons lease,” she said. materials, such as concrete and Council’s maintenance expenditure. small freestanding garden bed Group Manager: Chris Peken The Bondi Boot Factory, one of “Council wants to protect and was designed by sustainability asphalt. Group Editor: Marcus Braid only two remaining boot factories in value this cherished piece of local coach Michael Mobbs. “If the Council gets enough Bondi View Editor: Daniel Paperny Sydney, was sentenced to demolition heritage, so it can be enjoyed by future Featuring edible plants, of these out, they will be able to Editors: Peter Hackney and Adam Hunt after a rescission motion was rejected generations,” said Waverley Mayor ecoPOPs have a solar-powered cool the streets and reduce the Contributors: Paul Gregoire, Robert North, Bernadette in April to save the site. Sally Betts. pump and worm farm, all use of air conditioning, and in Anvia, Karl Hand and Jonathan Mimo “I’m rather distressed that again “We are going to repair the roof wrapped in corrugated iron. Arts Editor: Leigh Livingstone a significant item of heritage value is return reduce the use of coal fired and we have no intention of selling The design has been successfully Contributing Arts Editor: Emma Salkild now being slated for demolition,” said power,” said Mr Mobbs. Bronte House.” implemented at a number of Live Music Editor: Sharon Ye Ms Masselos. Greens Councillor Dominic Aya Larkin, a Bronte resident and locations around Australia since Dining Editor: Jackie McMillan Liberal Councillor Angela Burrill Wy Kanak praised the decision musician, welcomed the decision to hitting the market earlier this Advertising Managers: David Sullivan, said the Boot Factory was in a to test the initiative on a limited preserve the heritage value of Bronte year. Toni Martelli, Robert Tuitama and Debra O’Kane degraded state when Council acquired basis before installing permanent House. Waverley Mayor Sally Design: Joanna Grace it in 1984. “I commend them for it - I know Betts hopes the temporary infrastructure. Publisher’s Assistant: Deeksha Chopra “Despite Council repairs and there’s going to be some costs that rate installation will educate the local “I am hoping with the proper Distribution Manager: Danish Ali restoration over many years there payers are going to bear, but I think are major structural issues with the community about environmental consultation that the community Cover Photo: Chris Peken - Alex Hammerton and Sam Levy ultimately it retains the character of building,” she said. sustainability. will support the further display Email: [email protected] what is a beautiful suburb,” he said. “For this reason, spending funds on “If we can show the and trialling of appropriate Advertising: [email protected] Labor Councillor Paula Masselos the Boot Factory now would not fix community that you can have installations throughout Contact: PO Box 843 Broadway 2007 said it is “good that Council wants to the structural issues.” a little garden, which you don’t Waverley,” he said. Ph: 9212 5677 Fax: 9212 5633 Web: altmedia.net.au keep Bronte House in a pristine state”, have to spend an awful lot of But Mr Wy Kanak said some but questioned what the repairing time on, then maybe more people members of the local Aboriginal If you have a story you’d like to tell us: lease will mean in the future. will start planting vegetables and community are concerned the [email protected] “What they’ve done now is set a native plants,” she said. corrugated iron design may precedent for any significant repairs Ms Betts believes ecoPOPS, that would ordinarily be happening which only take an hour to attract too much heat and cause under a repairing lease, which would construct, could be dismantled the plants to burn. now become Council’s liability which and moved between local schools The temporary Bondi ecoPOP actually counteracts what a repairing as a hands-on educational costs $5,500, and will remain at altmediagroup altmediasydney lease is all about,” she said. resource. Roscoe St Mall until the end of “It’s a good thing we want to keep Bronte House “We immediately saw that September.

3 Taking Wentworth forward BY daniel paperny “I am the youngest councillor at Woollahra, so I bring a Gen Y Speaking days out from Saturday’s Federal Election, Liberal MP Malcolm perspective to the chamber. This is vital if Council is to reflect the values and Turnbull said political leadership is as much about policy performance as it is aspirations of the whole community. about adaptability and management. “I have worked with local activist groups and in the gay community in “Effective leadership today requires us to be more open-minded ... we Wentworth to bring new and fresh perspectives to the table.” have to be more prepared than ever to abandon our long-held assumptions Mr Robertson said a reliance on the private sector to provide childcare and practices,” he said. has resulted in poorer quality care through higher staff-to-child ratios and a Economic management is a key focus ahead of the election, with Mr chronic shortage of services offered for children aged 0-2 in Wentworth. Turnbull affirming the Coalition will restore budget discipline and remove Mr Robertson advocates for increased public investment in renewable the cost of unnecessary regulation on Australian business. energy alternatives and an emissions trading scheme. “There is a tendency in government to add regulations but never get rid of He said the Greens would take on climate change by committing to a the old ones, so it tends to grow and grow like toxin,” he said. reduction of up to 50 per cent on carbon emissions by 2020. The Coalition’s aim is to increase productivity, reduce cost of living “We inhabit the continent most vulnerable to the effects of climate pressures and slash the 21,000 new regulations imposed under Labor. change,” Mr Robertson said. “Talk to someone in the child care or aged care industry [and you can see] “Wentworth covers an area particularly susceptible to sea level rise. As our the huge additional amount of regulation that has been imposed on them,” population density increases in Wentworth, our public open spaces will be Labor Candidate Di Smith Greens Candidate Matthew Mr Turnbull said. under even more pressure. Robertson Regarding local issues, Mr Turnbull said is passionately committed “We should resist the push for more built form in these spaces and engage to fighting for more responsible environmental and economic policies in the public in the design and care of native plantings.” Wentworth. Ms Smith said the success of Labor’s environmental policy distinguishes “I am a politician who was born and bred in this community,” he said. them from other parties. “I’ve played a constructive role at the federal level in government as a “Since our government introduced a carbon pricing scheme last year, reformer, particularly with these huge water reforms we undertook in 2007. emissions from electricity production have fallen to a 10-year low while “The national plan for water security really revolutionised the way water’s hydro power, wind power and other renewable sources of energy are on the Chris Peken Photo: managed, particularly in the Murray-Darling Basin.” rise,” she said. Labor Candidate Di Smith said voters should look to the leadership “Our policy in that area is working and that sets us apart.” displayed by the Rudd Government since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, But Ms Smith is adamant the focus for Labor is first and foremost on which helped Australia build an economy the envy of the rest of the world. education. “Life is better under a Labor government - Labor builds up Australia,” she “Education [is] the basis on which you build a country,” she said. said. “It’s about training the next generation and we are committed to “The Rudd Government steered us through [the Global Financial Crisis] implementing the Gonski reform whereas the Coalition [will] only support ... we didn’t go under and that’s absolutely due to the good management of the first two years, not the four recommendations of the report and I don’t the time.” think you can trust an Abbott government even to do that. Greens candidate Matthew Robertson said state and federal governments Ms Smith said she would make childcare a tax deduction, arguing it would have increasingly focused on economic development, overlooking heritage be “a win-win situation” for parents and childcare workers. protection in Wentworth. Leading up to this Saturday’s ballot, Ms Smith compared the Wentworth “We have many heritage items of national significance, and many heritage election to a relay. streetscapes that are simply divine,” he said. “I believe that Wentworth can be won,” she said. “As a Greens Councillor [for Paddington Ward], I have championed “A friend once said to me as we get older, the races we run become less heritage protection in Woollahra. sprints and marathons, they become a relay. Get ready to take that baton.” Federal MP and Liberal Candidate Malcolm Turnbull

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New petition It comes against a background of rapidly rising HIV rates in North Eveleigh affordable news in brief seeks ACON NSW, with a 24 per cent jump in housing announced New initiative targets to ensure the landmark’s new HIV cases recorded in 2012. families, fitness longevity. The chiming bells reforms BY Marcus Braid With ACON receiving over are under contruction adjacent to The Cook+Phillip Park marked the end of the BY Peter Hackney Federal Member for Sydney Tanya $10 million in State Government Carriageworks – was a brilliant area Aquatic and Fitness Centre first stage of an extensive Concerned community funds each year, New ACT-UP Plibersek has placed affordable to live in. and Ian Thorpe Aquatic restoration project, with activists have started an spokesperson Tony Pincombe housing front and centre of her “It’s a great community to be and Fitness Centre have scaffolding to come down in electronic petition on Change. said it had to be accountable – election campaign, announcing 88 a part of. It’s close to transport, introduced new Family October. Sydney Lord Mayor org, calling on NSW Health but Mr Pincombe said he didn’t new affordable rental homes to be it’s close to job and educational Timetables in an effort Clover Moore said: “Expert Minister Jillian Skinner to necessarily want to see ACON built at North Eveleigh. opportunities,” she said. to encourage families to stonemasons, tradespeople investigate GLBTI health and defunded, like its equivalent The dwellings will be built “This affordable housing is for spend more quality time … staff and consultants wellbeing organisation, ACON. organisations in Queensland and with grants from the Rudd Labor people who may qualify for public together and experiencing have worked passionately Activists from the Australian South Australia. Government’s National Rental housing or they may be slightly the benefits of an active and tirelessly to restore the spin-off of the AIDS Coalition Last year, the Queensland Affordability Scheme, with City West above the public housing cut-off but lifestyle. Darren Crumpler, 140-year-old sandstone to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) Government pulled the plug Housing to receive over $9 million still struggling to pay the $500 a week Metro Manager of the two clock tower.” say ACON is wasting millions on funding for the Queensland worth of incentives over 10 years to rent that you would pay for any City of Sydney sites, which Indigenous Constitution of dollars of taxpayers’ money provide low-cost rental housing. are managed by the YMCA, Association for Healthy house in the inner city these days.” push unites each year. Communities (QAHC) for “We know that one of the most Sam Galvin, Development said the aim is to make it ACON, which was originally failing to stem rising HIV rates challenging issues in the inner city Manager at City West Housing, said easier for families to spend The push to recognise the AIDS Council of NSW, and alleged misuse of public is affordable housing,” Ms Plibersek there were 300 more dwellings in the quality time together. “We Aboriginal and Torres are dedicated to providing a Strait Islander people in has expanded to encompass a funds. said at the North Eveleigh site last pipeline, including 104 units at Green ‘third place’ away from the the Constitution is uniting wider GLBTI health role, and In July, the South Australian Thursday. Square and around 100 in Glebe. pressures of work and home Australians across the promotes itself as the state’s peak Government defunded the “We want to have a community “The original target was 61 units where families can connect political spectrum, new GLBTI group. Adelaide-based equivalent, the with a range of different income as part of the Housing Affordability and be active together,” he research shows. The latest “We believe the organisation AIDS Council of South Australia levels and unless we make sure Fund agreement, so we’ve increased said. Mr Crumpler said it data from the ABC’s Vote has become self-serving, (ACSA). that we provide affordable rental that yield by 27 units to create an was especially important for Compass shows most incompetent, corrupt, ineffective “This petition is about accommodation, we’re going to have extra 27 additional households in families to exercise together, Australians, across the and unaccountable to those they reforming ACON not abolishing a city which people can’t afford to affordable accommodation, which is given that 63 per cent of political divide, believe are funded to serve,” said the it,” said Mr Pincombe. live in.” brilliant,” he said. Australian adults and 25 per New ACT-UP petition, which ACON CEO Nicolas Parkhill 2,000 new homes Indigenous Australians cent of children were now should be recognised in our had 140 signatories at press time. refused to comment. across the country classified as overweight nation’s founding document. “We submit that ACON fails Ms Skinner did not are planned to be or obese. Visit www. “This is an issue that unites to serve the NSW HIV-positive respond by deadline, but a substantially completed cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au for Australians,” said Tanya community and fails in its charter spokesperson said the Minister by June 2014. Another more information. to educate on the consequences or a departmental official would round of $1 billion Hosch, Deputy Campaign Town Hall clock tower Director of Recognise, the of unsafe sex and the realities of respond this week. worth of incentives, over chimes again movement to recognise living with HIV.” New ACT-UP hopes to collect 10 years, is currently the first Australians in the The petition, which alleges a 500 signatures by the end of underway and will The clock tower at Sydney Constitution. “We need to cut in services for HIV-positive the month. According to NSW deliver a further 10,000 Town Hall chimed for the first seize the momentum and people, also calls for an audit of legislation, petitions with 500 homes by June 2016. time in 532 days on Tuesday, following 17 months of … propel our country to a ACON’s finances, “particularly or more signatures trigger a Ms Plibersek said restoration work designed referendum.” monies spent on entertainment, parliamentary response from the North Eveleigh – where alcohol, catering and travel”. relevant minister. the 88 new rental homes Tanya Plibersek at the North Eveleigh site

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Back to the future? her, dare I say, because there’s a nasty streak in her which is getting off on the fame aspect and Cycleway objection Ms Vithoulkas said it seemed “unusual” that By Peter Hackney she’s simply switched from demonising Asians to O’Connor Marsden did not interview anyone from Madonna or Kylie? demonising Muslims. “irrelevant”, admits the City’s planning department or the Lord Mayor’s “Dannii. Because I like imitations.” “She knows she can’t get any attention by going office during its investigation. Lady Gaga or Nicky Minaj? off at Asians and Aboriginal people anymore.” Lord Mayor’s office Last month, Ms Vithoulkas raised separate “Nikki Webster, because I’m an old-fashioned Hence, Pantsdown is back, warning voters that BY Peter Hackney concerns about O’Connor Marsden, questioning girl. And she needs the help.” they must be careful when voting for the Senate in A spokesperson for Sydney Lord Mayor Clover whether the company’s investigations were Like many drag queens, Pauline Pantsdown this weekend’s Federal Election. Moore has admitted staff in her office were in adequate. She pointed out that O’Connor is good with a quip. But unlike most (and “Basically, all the micro-parties got together error when they linked a resident’s Development Marsden cleared former NSW Mining Minister Ian in common with the aforementioned ladies) for this conference run by ‘preference king’ Glen Application (DA) and his alleged opposition to the Macdonald over the granting of a controversial Pantsdown is also a bona fide pop star. Druery. And they agreed, to varying degrees, to Bourke St cycleway. coal mining license, which was later found to be In 1997, Pantsdown made #5 on Triple J’s feed preferences to One Nation,” says Pantsdown. Surry Hills resident Luke Harper, owner of corrupt. annual Hottest 100 poll with ‘Backdoor Man’ – a “It’s crazy time! If you vote for the Sex Party, an historic four-storey terrace house on Bourke A probity report by commercial law firm Clayton parody single featuring voice recordings of right you could be voting for Pauline Hanson. If you St, alleges his 2011 DA for internal home wing politician Pauline Hanson, set to a disco vote for the Animal Justice Party, it’s a vote for improvements was knocked back due to his Utz found O’Connor Marsden had failed to carry beat. Pauline Hanson … With 22 parties favourably perceived opposition to the cycleway. out “a robust investigation”. In 1998, her follow-up Hanson parody ‘I Don’t preferencing Pauline Hanson in the NSW Senate A briefing note prepared by the Lord Mayor’s A spokesperson for the Lord Mayor this week Like It’ reached #10 on the ARIA charts, giving race, a below-the-line vote is the only safe vote.” office, obtained by Mr Harper, said: “The terrace stood by O’Connor Marsden, insisting: “The City is Australia one of its unlikeliest and most amusing But is there just a part of small part of is owned by Luke Harper, a key objector to the satisfied with the quality of the work undertaken by hit singles. Pantsdown that hopes Hanson does win? After all Bourke St cycleway proposal and his architects O’Connor Marsden.” Pantsdown has been pretty quiet since then, – no Hanson, no Pantsdown. are Cracknell and Lonergan ... who have proven But the spokesperson admitted Mr Harper’s “No. The idea of a Hanson balance of power give or take the occasional benefit show or difficult for Council staff to work with in the past.” alleged objection to the Bourke St cycleway had ‘Where are the now?’ segment, but something’s is a real nightmare, not a laughing matter – as The note was circulated to all Clover nothing to do with his DA and should not have inspired a comeback: for the first time in a long unintentionally amusing as Pauline might be at Moore Independent Team councillors. Council time, there’s a real chance Pauline Hanson could times. been noted. unanimously rejected Mr Harper’s DA, despite be elected to public office. “I just hope she gets a job. After fifteen years of “The line was irrelevant and shouldn’t have the City of Sydney’s planners recommending its “She only needs about two per cent of the vote, unemployment, relying on government funds and been included in the briefing note. Staff in the Lord and the dodgy preference deals she’s done could making money as a serial election candidate, it’s approval with conditions. Mayor’s office have been instructed to only include be enough to kick her the rest of the way,” says time she got a new Centrelink officer.” Mr Harper subsequently took the matter to the relevant information in briefing notes.” Pantsdown (real name Simon Hunt, a lecturer in NSW Land and Environment Court, which ruled in Mr Harper alleged the Lord Mayor was corrupt. Media Arts at UNSW). his favour. “I believe Clover Moore is unprofessional The City commissioned conduct reviewers “There’s a very real possibility we’ll wake up and corrupt. I believe she sought to settle a O’Connor Marsden to investigate allegations by on Sunday with Pauline Hanson in the Senate.” score through the assessment of my DA,” said And what’s wrong with that, you might ask? Mr Harper that matters unrelated to his DA were taken into account – but O’Connor Marsden found Mr Harper, who advised he was preparing Sure, Hanson demonised Aboriginals and submissions to the Independent Commission Asians through the ’90s and issued hysterical there was no undue influence. Against Corruption (ICAC). warnings that Australia could one day be run by a Mr Harper’s case has now been taken up by half-human, half-machine lesbian Chinese-Indian Councillor Angela Vithoulkas, who says the matter Mr Harper added that he was never against the Prime Minister called Poona-Li Hung. But that must be revisited. Bourke St cycleway and had only objected to the was years ago, right? Isn’t she just that nice lady “It is entirely appropriate to have this matter planned removal of several trees. from Celebrity Apprentice these days? looked into with fresh eyes by a professional O’Connor Marsden did not respond to requests Not quite, contends Pantsdown: “I don’t like auditor,” said Ms Vithoulkas this week. for comment. Pauline Pantsdown on Seven’s Morning Show

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Socialist Alliance opinion Outdoor Environment has forced from them a conscience targets public ownership Marriage vote, and a whole lot of words, but Project unveiled at Bronte BY Jonathan Mimo about policies, which is frustrating no action. BY Daniel Paperny the Bronte EEC staff, Council While the two major parties people.” equality is a We’ve heard plenty about how Waverley Council has officers and the Ken Brown are expected to dominate the vote Mr Boyle’s vision is to bring the human right each politician has to go through launched an Outdoor Landscapes team worked hard on Saturday, the Socialist Alliance mines, banks and energy industry a personal journey to reach Environment Project for children to make the project happen. have put forward a candidate BY Karl Hand under public ownership to address enlightenment about the issue, and at the Early Education Centre “Without the hard work and likely to stir debate. Time’s up, Kevin! Dragging this is supposed to explain why in Bronte. the belief in this project, none of climate change and increase social your feet on all sorts of issues has Peter Boyle, the national co- politicians, who themselves voted to Operating since 1980, the this could have been possible,” convenor of the Socialist Alliance, investment. probably cost you this election, and ban marriage equality in 2004, are Early Education Centre (EEC) she said. has a strong history of socialist When pressed whether his marriage equality is high on the list. at 42 St Thomas St in Bronte now legislating for it. “We are extremely thankful radicalism since the 1970s. He goals were more idealistic than The key issue of marriage Who do they think they’re caters to children aged 2-5 for the valuable funding that we is hoping to raise awareness on realistic, he acknowledged it is equality in this election, and having kidding? I’m tired of hearing stories years. the issues of refugees and climate difficult for the public “to conceive a ban in place in 2013, makes of personal transformation from Unveiled on Tuesday, the have received which has made change, while holding the Labor of taking these institutions Australia look like an international politicians; this is about human project will see the development this project a reality.” and Liberal Party to account. into public ownership due to backwater. Western democracies rights not the consciences of of a new play space with a Council received various The Malaysian migrant said a fear they couldn’t be run have been resolving this matter all politicians. creek bed, sandstone, timber grants to help fund the initiative, over the globe for ten years now, he wants to shape the agenda for democratically or efficiently”. This last six years has taught features, and a variety of native with $13,669 received from the even with conservative governments. Sydney and leave an impression But Mr Boyle insisted the public me one thing. The only thing that plants and greening at the State Government Communities on public consciousness. Australia is being viewed centre. should have the “confidence makes the government act on issues Building Partnerships Program “We are actually trying to internationally as a bunch of ‘hicks’ of injustice is relentless campaigning Director of the Bronte EEC to shape and strengthen these while the rest of the world is taking and $5,000 received from the put on the agenda, not from an for justice. So, no matter who wins Heather Azzopardi said the Sydney Airport School Grants institutions”. action to end discrimination. this election, the heat on the street initiative encourages children ideological point but from a point program. of view that it is a necessity … we “These ideas are just outside When Mr Rudd declared that he is going to continue until we have to experience wonder for the Federal MP for Coogee can’t move forward on climate the square,” he said. would legislate for marriage rights justice and an end to discrimination. natural environment. change or a series of other things The Socialist Alliance have within 100 days of being re-elected, “A lot of parents use our Bruce Notley-Smith said the unless we confront the interests thrown their support behind it became clear to us that our rights centre as a starting point for State Government Communities of the mining companies and the Greens candidate for Grayndler, are nothing but a political plaything. their children,” she said. “[The Building Partnerships Program If the issue mattered to him so banks,” he said. Hall Greenland, by not running a initiative] is a way for them to was in its fourth year and much, why withhold it from us Mr Boyle hit out at the candidate in that electorate. connect with nature.” focussed on providing places for pending his re-election? Why not act campaign run by both major For the Sydney electorate, Mr Robert Nock, a Waverley the community to thrive, grow to legislate now? Council Family Support Worker parties, insisting their campaigns Boyle remains realistic about his and meet with one another. have been frustrating for the As a marriage rights campaigner, at Bronte EEC, said the centre chances and said the campaign and one of the convenors of “Nothing that I ever grew up public. allowed staff members to is an “introduction process and a Sydney’s regular marriage equality with compares with the fantastic “They have been shadow “reconnect with their youth” by calling card”. rallies, I think that the ALP’s environment that is built here,” boxing around the reality they interacting with the children, inaction on this issue is a sign of he said. “Waverley Council is have closed up their policies on “My objective is to use this to responding to each child’s a weak and stagnant government, known for its early childhood their main issues to the point talk to people as a platform … we individual needs and providing and voters are reading that lack of development centres [and] I’m where they are arguing personality will be following this up in the a nurturing environment for courage as a sign of bad faith. questions and whose numbers are local elections that come up next children. glad to have played a little part Six years of campaigning for right,” he said. and then the state elections,” he Councillor Angela Burrill said in assisting it.” equality under a Labor government “They are avoiding a discussion said. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

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Nine vie for the seat of Sydney AFTRS opens by Marcus Braid “[The Opposition] are in cohorts with Rupert Murdoch to Nine candidates will vie for the seat of Sydney at Saturday’s federal doors over weekend eliminate the Greens, who over 1.5 million people in this country the Hollywood Reporter. election, with sitting member Tanya Plibersek calling on voters to vote for.” BY Bernadette Anvia trust in her ability to deliver. The Australian Film Ms Totterman said AFTRS Socialist Alliance candidate Peter Boyle said deporting asylum has earned its prestigious Speaking at REDWatch’s candidates forum in Waterloo on Television Radio School seekers to Nauru or Papua New Guinea was “cynical”. ranking. Monday night, Ms Plibersek listed the initiatives and investment “It’s a way of diverting attention through divide and rule,” he (AFTRS) is opening its doors to the next bright young things “[AFTRS] has a high calibre made by the Labor Government over the last three years. said. “It has been used forever and ever. I think we should get rid of in the Australian media industry of alumni, second-to-none The government has built over 1,000 affordable rental properties mandatory detention … it’s expensive and wasteful. this weekend. facilities and the high standard since 2010, spent $16 million on upgrading Annie Green Court for “[Labor] just made it up this year. Behind this of course, there’s The AFTRS Open Day of the courses consistently the homeless, $170 on the Sydney Cancer Centre at RPA and $56 much greater suffering that comes from the wars that we have had a weekend, held from September delivered by the school million on implementing the ‘education revolution’ in local schools. hand in. Because we want to flog off more and more coal and gas, we 7-8, provides potential students such as the tertiary level “I think that I’ve worked well for the people of Sydney over the are going to be creating future refugees. If Papua New Guinea is full, the opportunity to meet undergraduate course, The last 15 years and I ask you to put your faith in me for another three,” what’s next?” with academics, attend info Foundation Diploma - the only Ms Plibersek said. Independent Jane Ward has focused her campaign on the cost of sessions, view facilities and tertiary level undergraduate “I haven’t just been working as you’re local member, I’ve been living, arguing the “cost that builders have to pay is so high that they ask for any help necessary with course in Australia specifically working as a minister in a Labor Government. The challenge of can’t build affordable housing”. their 2014 applications. for emerging filmmakers,” she achieving something is not just believing it, but it’s how you deliver “Thousands of dollars need to be taken off so that they can “AFTRS’ Open Days are an said. things and how you deliver real change.” actually make some profit,” she said. opportunity for those interested The Open Day weekend Ms Plibersek, the Federal Minister for Health and Medical Fellow Independent Joanna Rzetelski said she believes there needs in either a career in the screen allows those interested in Research, easily reclaimed her seat at the 2010 election, garnering to be more diversity in parliament. and broadcast industries or media to become acquainted 43 per cent of the primary vote despite suffering a 6 per cent swing “We only have two parties … Kevin Rudd’s announcement about those who are just curios with the campus that was against her. She is the favourite to prevail over Liberal candidate, Garden Island - how was this consulted?” or interested in the behind once traversed by the likes Sean O’Connor and Greens candidate, Dianne Hiles. the scenes machinations of of Jane Campion, Robert “My job is delivering and doing the things that are possible within filmmaking,” said Head of Connolly, Daniel Nettheim, a federal system of government, knowing always that a democracy Marketing and Promotion, and Academy Award-winning relies on 22 million Australians giving you a mission to lead the Carolina Totterman. cinematographers Dion Beebe nation,” Ms Plibersek said. “We only open the doors of and Andrew Lesnie.

“Life is a lot more complex than slogans. Tony Abbott is great Chris Peken Photo: the studios up like this once- Open from 10am to 3pm on with his three-word slogans but I think sometimes we get caught with a-year so it is a once-a-year both days, AFTRS will also be slogans on the left as well.” opportunity for a behind the hosting an exclusive directing Ms Hiles, an accountant and the co-founder of Children Out Of scenes look at how films, TV demonstration in Studio 1 on Detention, said the major parties had used the “hysteria” surrounding and radio come to life.” Saturday only with the Director asylum seeker policy to divert attention. Situated adjacent to Fox of Babe, Chris Noonan. “It’s a question of proportionality,” Ms Hiles said. “This whole Studios, AFTRS boasts cutting “Open Day is the perfect refugee issue has been blown completely out of proportion. edge technology accessible opportunity to get a feel for for its 300 plus students. The what it’s like to be a student at “It is taking out attention off things that really matter, such as commitment to teaching led Australia’s national screen arts climate change, the social conditions for Aborigines, single parents to a ranking in the Top 20 Film and broadcast school,” said Ms and students living in poverty while they have to work all hours to Liberal candidate Sean O’Connor Labor candidate Tanya Plibersek Schools in the world, judged by Totterman. get their degrees.

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Fringe Festival has finger on Sydney’s femoral BY Luke Cox At least the ‘Oprah’ House sees a lot of use. The down,” says Kerri Glasscock, who sits on the board of to have our festival garden at the Seymour Centre. How Sydney came to have a concert hall as live entertainment industry recently bragged that it the Sydney Fringe Festival. There’ll be light installations and free music every its main icon is a mystery. The Opera House’s had a bigger market share than sports, but with small “It’s really important to embrace the fringe Friday and Saturday,” says Glasscock. construction is a fable embedded in our history. venues struggling, it is clear where audiences are elements of a city, because that’s where all the She continues, “The idea is that you can start your Building took ten years longer than it was supposed heading. A handful of large venues that can put on interesting work is developed.” night there, come and talk to a volunteer and see what to and ran an insane $95 million over budget. To this touring acts and mainstream musicals are taking the The tragedy here is that excellent venues, which their picks of the night are. We want them to come day it is still incomplete. The acoustics in the opera lion’s share of entertainment profits. Which is quite are run by dedicated people and support the local arts back there afterwards as well and have a drink and hall are less than world class and the brutal interior natural, except the gap between them and Sydney’s scene, struggle to get by. Tone Bar was an excellent enjoy a free gig. It should be a really fun space to get speaks volumes of everything there is to love and hate smaller venues is growing. example. The fantastic little club that was reputed for into with the festival.” about this crazy city. “There’s a heavy focus in this town of top end supporting the artists that played there got off to a From the Seymour Centre audiences have the great start, only to be muscled out of its property at opportunity to explore the festival precincts. These the end of its first lease, by a corporate-backed cesspit will be scattered throughout the inner-west and city of iniquity. area and each of them will host their own form of The Sandringham Hotel is another example. Once fringe culture. an institution in Newtown, after rental problems the Marrickville’s Factory Theatre is the home of doors were closed - it has now been replaced by the stand-up comedy this year. Balmain’s Night Garden Newtown Social Club. will play host to radiant light installations. Also this These sites have a great reputation for supporting year Slide in Darlinghurst has joined the party. These local artists, but have been forced to market their are just a few examples - altogether there are 30 venue towards the big end of town, creating a space venues to visit. that will compete with the Enmore Theatre by The Sydney Fringe Festival is not only supporting booking more established acts. They’ve had to do this artists, it is also supporting Sydney’s communities. because there simply isn’t enough of an audience for “When you go to the Adelaide Fringe it feels smaller shows. like the whole city’s in festival mode,” Glasscock “So often you get these bigger venues getting the continues. patronage all year round, and the problem with that “The idea of having the smaller focused suburbs is is that all these smaller venues, they’re the ones that that hopefully it will feel as if that suburb is in festival are developing artists and developing careers and mode when you visit there.” developing new material,” says Glasscock. The biggest pay off though, is that by seeing what “If we don’t manage that and support that, then is being created at grass roots level, you get an idea there won’t be any artists to get up on the big stages of what kind of shows will be onstage at The Opera in a few years to come.” House in a few years time. This ‘top down’ mentality has an adverse effect on “Your finger’s on the pulse of what’s actually going audiences as well. There are plenty of funky people on in the population,” says Glasscock. out there who are really interested in getting out to “That’s where artists develop new and creative see some good stuff on stage, but because the gap is work on a regular basis. Fringe is a chance for so wide, they don’t know where to start. audiences to get out and find new artists and celebrate The Sydney Fringe is the perfect place. that!” (LC) “We’re really excited about this year. The centre Sydney Fringe Festival, Sep 6-29, Various of the festival is now Broadway, so it makes sense locations, Free-$30, (02) 9550 6087, 2013. The Pretty Things Peep Show at Factory Theatre, Marrickville

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food is great for cold nights, the Pork Cutlet ($30) meant even the re-purposed table of artfully arranged with a side of moussaka (should be a dish unto driftwood had been converted into an impromptu itself) warms, coupled with the healing powers of a dining area in the white Donna Hay style space. With Rosemary Mule ($17). Taramasalata ($10) is the best one person guarding our table, the other entered I’ve had, it’d be a crime to get this wrong; while Whole the melee for drinks and food; only to be advised Artichoke ($10) swimming in lemon butter was a new of a thirty-minute wait, with many menu items no experience – messy but enjoyable. Showing Greek longer available. Several beers, ciders and Mantra food’s versatility, the Bonito with White Anchovy Chardonnays ($13/glass) later, our wait had stretched ($25) is light and summery – this fish is like a stronger, over an hour, with the dining ambience spoilt by a sharper tuna. Roasted Brussels Sprouts ($12) with crescendo of beeping buzzers. The buzzer system flakes of Parmesan and creamy tahini paste will put to also meant our entrée of Sydney Rock Oysters bed those green veg. fears. The wine list is pages long, ($23/6) arrived with our main of DIY Fish Tacos with lots of Greek options and quotes from the Bible Watsons Bay ($21), complete with barely pliable tortillas and all the trimmings. Even the coastal pub staple of Beer and Basil Fawlty. We finished with Wine Poached Pear Battered Fish & Chips ($24) was a little lacklustre, Anatoli ($16) with custard, semolina and caramelised almond, Hotel bested by a bowl of Char-Grilled Split Corn on the a cute and tasty dessert that puts all textures onto By Alex Harmon Cob ($8). Despite a free jug of apologetic cider, I’d find the one spoon. The Eastern is doing well but Anatoli The Eastern has grown up: El Topo, Chimmi’s and Coming to this hotel, perched on Sydney’s South it hard to recommend this one unless it’s raining, even The Publican offer relaxed dining and drinks, while might need a bailout – get down there. Head, on a sunny winter’s day wasn’t the most original considering the magic view… Anatoli is sophisticated, with elegant Greek food in Level 1, The Eastern, 500 Oxford Street, Bondi idea I’ve ever had. You see on the day I dined, nearly 1 Military Road, Watsons Bay (02) 9337 5444 a fine dining setting. As the middle child, it’s a little Junction (02) 9387 7828 anatolirestaurant.com.au 1500 other people also took in lunch, across the watsonsbayhotel.com.au neglected, but it could have been the rain. Greek Greek $-$$ variety of indoor and outdoor spaces it offers. This Pub Bistro $$-$$$

$ - mains less than $15 $$ - mains between $15-$22 $$$ - mains between $22-$30 $$$$ - mains over $30 in Sydney. Pipis ($18) with chilli, Tasting Paddle ($15/5 x 90ml), or let transport you far from the garlic and ginger disappear quickly, the barman triangulate you a beer corporate grind. They have a sense EASTERN SUBURBS Rhupy ($17) is fruity and fresh with sauce, to Seafood Paella ($15) with but my favourite is 5-hour braised - mine was a fruity Coopers Extra of generosity that sees a simple homemade rhubarb chutney. plump prawns. Desserts like Mud Lamb Kleftiko ($16) wrapped in Strong Vintage Ale ($7.00/310ml). gozen lunch morphed into a 249 Bondi Road, Bondi Cake ($9.50) are fairly pedestrian, Fat Rupert’s warm, house-made pita bread with The menu rejuvenated my love for degustation, with salad, miso soup, (02) 9130 1033 fatruperts.com.au but with good prices and a million The Flying Squirrel has flown tzatziki and an accompanying glass pub classics, like moist Chicken agedashi tofu and chawanmushi; and Tapas, Pan-Asian $$ dollar view, it’s hard to complain. the nest and a new bar named of Covers D’Or Pinot Noir ($10). Schnitzel Parma ($20) judiciously that’s all before your actual lunch after a ravenous dog has moved Vue Bar Level 1, 80 Campbell Parade, Bondi Round up a posse to take advantage coated with Napoli sauce, grilled selection! Yachiyo Gozen ($21.50) in. Although the décor’s the When getting seen at Ravesi’s Beach (02) 9130 5166 of the generous sharing plates. eggplant and melted cheese, and with sushi rolls, sashimi and same, Rupert’s menu is more goldfish bowl wears thin, head to vuebar.com.au served with beer-battered fries. 69 Perouse Road, Randwick tempura is my favourite, but it’s big. sophisticated. There’s Smoked a secluded bar with one of the Tapas, Italian $-$$ 9398 7994 thecubbyhouse.com.au Buffalo Wings ($8) are excellent, Tempura Gozen ($14.50) delivers a Rainbow Trout Miang ($15) – a Thai best panoramas of Bondi Beach. The Cubbyhouse Tapas, Cocktails, Modern Australian $$ and the Pulled Pork Burger ($18) good selection of deep fried; or opt street food snack, served in a betel Get cosy amongst whitewashed Former rugby league player Hassan is all kinds of juicy - great against for health with their ever-changing leaf with roasted peanuts and lime furniture, fairy lights, candles and Saleh has turned his hand to wine DARLO, KINGS X Weston’s Twist Winter Spice Cider - the most tasty and tactile dish I’ve even a blanket if it’s too cold. Start bars. He’s a movie buff, so kick off & SURRY HILLS ($5.60/310ml). Sashimi Gozen ($17.50) - last had in ages. Warm Sesame Cabbage with Sicilian Olives ($5.50) and with Dusk Till Dawn ($15), a tequila, 122 Flinders Street, Darlinghurst month it was delicate red gurnard Salad ($10) wins the award for cocktails - the Lava Lamp ($16) is a lemon and Licor 43 concoction The Local Taphouse (02) 9360 0088 thelocal.com.au and indulgent blue fin tuna, great ‘most unlikely to be delicious’ (but spicy orange-infused martini that’s from his cinematic list. His biggest You’d be forgiven for thinking you’d Pub Bistro $$ with Ginban Daiginjo-shu Sake it is). Cocktails break boundaries - sure to warm you up on a winter’s score is getting Cypriot Chef Chrys struck craft beer nirvana at this Katsu Yachiyo ($19/100ml). Shiver Me Timbers ($17) combining night. The menu pizzas and tapas, Xipolitas in the kitchen, as one of sensitively renovated Darlo pub This tiny Devonshire Street spot is 208 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills whiskey, citrus and Kalhua manages from tasty and plentiful Risotto his female relatives hand-makes that boasts 21 lagers, ales and ciders my current work lunch favourite, (02) 9690 2424 yachiyo.com.au to work a treat, while Grand Arancini Balls ($11) with Bolognese arguably the best Haloumi ($14) on tap. Go the whole hog with a mostly because it manages to Japanese $$

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Duck Prosciutto ($18) arriving with octopus, broccoli in a venue that makes you feel like part of the family. and shaved duck yolk on a blood orange cloud (read: There’s a real chef in the kitchen – my first clue was marshmallow). For night owls like me, the location the super-fine eschallot vinaigrette dice accompanying means plenty of 4-hour parking, and the option of a freshly shucked Pambula Oysters ($3.50/each). Daniel 6-course Tasting Menu ($70/head) to deliver more Mulligan, who recently jumped ship from Pilu at bang for your buck. It’s full of hits like Fried Green Freshwater, aces both seafood and Italianate flavours, Tomato ($15) with hay-smoked goats cheese (Leigh from Black Cobia Fillet with Cloudy Bay Clams, likes his smoke) which would make any vegetarian Artichoke and Chicory ($30) to silky Kipfler Potato smile; and tasting portions of the wilder combinations, Gnocchi with Pork and Fennel Ragu ($24). The wine like Beer Braised Short Rib, Citrus Gel, Pencil Leeks list offers up prices that suit a midweek tipple – like and Salted Beer Lollipop ($36), whose intensity might the 2011 Yalumba Bush Vine Grenache ($36) – but not work for everyone as a main. Lawyer and former Nick Davies’ craft beer list is where the real magic Dancing with the Stars professional Amanda De Carlo The Welcome is at. From bottled beers, like the pretty To Øl lights up the floor, attracting a tribute - in the form of Eurodancer ($12/330ml), to 20 on-tap options (with One Six Eight a doughnut pre-dessert - from partner Leigh. Honey Hotel the chance to taste before you commit) it’ll keep you Jack Daniel’s Ice Cream, Chocolate Honeycomb, occupied for hours. Try them restaurant-style with a After growing to love Chef Leigh McDivitt’s cooking Raspberry Sorbet and Salted Caramel Fudge ($16) is “I’m sorry I led you into temptation,” simpers Mimi clever plate of Seared Scallops, Pea Puree, Quail Egg, during his five-year stint at my local, the 3 Weeds his love-note to the rest of us – and I’m smitten – and (our Adele look-a-like waitress, with a Manchester Pancetta and Pilu Bottarga ($21), or pull up a pew in Hotel, I was quick to visit his first solo venture in with Xanadu Cane Cut ($52/bottle) too. accent) as she lays down the cutlery for Ricotta the friendly front bar. the vicinity of Observatory Hill. The unusual location 6/168 Kent Street, Millers Point (02) 7900 4857 Fritters ($14.50). Dotted with chocolate chips and 91 Evans Street, Rozelle (02) 9810 1323 offers diners the opportunity to make business onesixeightrestaurant.com.au drizzled with warm apple blossom honey, they’re the thewelcomehotel.com lunches a bit more exciting, with whimsical dishes like Modern Australian $$$$ crowning glory on a wonderfully unexpected pub meal Modern Australian, Seafood, Pub Bistro $$$$

ROCKS & CBD radish was my favourite). thin dragon fruit surrounding a Yuzu ($16) I get stuck into nicely Cheese ($11) with tortilla chips. I secret to the slate-like interior of Basement, 375 Pitt Street, Sydney Souffle ($14). Portion sizes dictate blackened Spit Roast Chipotle followed it with a plate-sized 400g the honeycomb is a labour-intensive NaruOne (02) 9261 2680 that you should order from every Wings ($10) and addictive grilled Angus Rib Eye ($32) served on cooling process that sees it slid At the blaring K-pop end of Korean, Korean $-$$ section of the menu, which adds up corn Elote ($10). Drinking Negra the bone with the marrow cleverly from cool spot to cool spot on there’s this underground Pitt Street Sake Restaurant & Bar at bill time. Modelo ($9) I promptly declare revealed, black cherry and roast stainless steel. Penelope Ransley’s hang. It’s brightly lit, and none-too- “This is not a job, it’s more like a 12 Argyle Street, The Rocks it’s taco time. Al Pastor ($6) – spit eschallot jus and hand-cut duck impressive resume includes fine fancy, but worth checking out for sickness,” explains Sake Sommelier (02) 9259 5656 sakerestaurant.com. roasted pig with pineapple salsa - fat chips. Not being a mainstream dining big hitters like Est., Tetsuya’s scrubs up best on the pliable (pork beer gal, I took it in with Czech and Sepia, as well as Iggy’s, known the late-night 3am kitchen and Wayne Shennen, describing au fat) tortillas. Cernovar ($4), and Ninth Island for excellent bread. Now it’s the Korean double fried chook. the labour of making sake. His Modern Japanese $$$$ The Basement, 7 Macquarie Pinot Noir ($32/bottle), which pillowy Citrus Marshmallows ($2/ enthusiasm for the restaurant’s La Lupita Boneless Fried Chicken Half and Place, Sydney (02) 9251 2797 lasted into a better-than-average each) rolled in toasted coconut and namesake drink is infectious, so With photos showing anyone who’s Half ($33) gives a plain version thebasement.com.au pub dessert: a whopping slab of ephemerally light Sour Cream and that’s crunchy and pleasantly oil- my adventure begins with Yuho anyone in the jazz world, you might Mexican $ warm Chocolate Cake ($7) packing Mascarpone Brioche Buns ($4.50/ free, while the rest is smothered Junmai ($8/glass), whose baked be wondering why The Basement a clever chipotle punch. each). High quality ingredients in sweet and sour sauce. Throw in apple notes suit Kingfish Jalapeno has given Attila Yilmaz’s popular INNER WEST 68 Victoria Road, Rozelle make a Ham and Cheese Croissant cans of OB Golden Lager ($5) and ($22). Yuho Junmai Ginjo 55 ($110/ Mexican pop-up permanent digs? (02) 9555 1900 rubylotel.com.au ($6.50) a near religious experience a sizzling pot of Seafood Spicy Soft bottle) demonstrates sake can have Halfway through a Mariachi Monday Ruby L’otel Pub Bistro $$$ – just like the honeycomb, it’s the Tofu Soup ($15). Round out your the same depth as red wine – good night, I’m convinced this pairing will On a bleak winter’s night Ruby Penny Fours way it shatters that matters. midnight feast with Bulgogi With against Buta No Kakuni ($28) – a breathe new life into Sydney’s world L’otel was jumping. Sliding between “Violet Crumble should just 141 Norton Street, Leichhardt Rice ($14), thin shreds of marinated twelve-hour pork belly braise with a music scene. After Rio Bravo ($5) rowdy groups doing ten-buck meals stop,” I mutter through an earth- (02) 9572 8550 beef, barbequed to within an inch of gooey 64-degree egg. Knife work is with chilli salt and lime unpuckers with ten-buck beer jugs, I settled in shattering mouthful of Leatherwood facebook.com/PennyFours its life, with free banchan (the spicy uniformly excellent, down to paper- my lips from a super-tart Margarita with a pot of chalky Baked Goats’ Honeycomb ($3). Apparently the Bakery $

2010 Cuttaway Hill Estate Chardonnay ($40) FOOD NEWS BAR FLY - grown less than a hundred kilometres away. Personable Restaurant Manager Anita Bartkowiak has really worked hard to find THE WINE LIBRARY local gems for her beverage list, and she’s succeeded with the Pigs Fly Apple and Pear “It’s a pick up joint,” co-owner Todd Garrett said Cider ($8.50). It’s from Bowral (75km away) sometime back when we were on radio together. and goes down well with Berry Woodfired Unfortunately I haven’t had that luck. I like to sit at Sourdough (73km away) and Clyde River the end of the long zinc bar, on the U-bend and chat Oysters ($12/4) from Batemans Bay (208 km up the staff. That way I’m more likely to learn about away). Design your own South-Coast-on-a- the wine. That’s my recommendation to you too. The plate shared meal from a short list of small Wine Library is recognised as one of the best wine ($12) and larger ($18) plates. My picks were bars in Sydney. The place is haunted by Paddington Flanagans Seared Scallops ($12) with house-made (hot) and Woollahra locals (and a ring-in like me) - it’s a sambal, and moist Swordfish Belly ($18) with long, lean, sexy and sophisticated room for all ages. Dining Room sweet soy and pickled apple. Good social So leave your pick-ups for somewhere else, and media integration means you can see Chef concentrate on your Semillon, Shiraz or Sherry. Or Sydney’s Endless Summer does have some advantages, Arman Uz (ex-Efendy) score a beautiful whatever else takes your fancy from the insanely and it is hard not to count them as you sit in gleaming kingfish on Friday, and then eat it on Sunday as good international wine list. There’s always cocktails sun facing a straight golden surf beach, while (on Kingfish Sashimi with Fennel and Blood Orange ($18). and ice-cold beer, but when in Rome I say… paper) it’s still officially winter. Throw in that you’re Now there’s a reason to travel… 18 Oxford Street, Woollahra (02) 9328 1600 in a gently renovated 1940s beachside kiosk eating Thirroul Beach Promenade, The Esplanade, Thirroul wine-library.com.au from a menu focused on locally caught seafood from (02) 4268 1598 flanagansdiningroom.com.au Shellharbour, against Southern Highlands wine – the Seafood $$

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GREATER SYDNEY reaching for another piece. The into a generous plate of Moorish Savoury Soy Bean Milk ($4.50) Sardines ($14) looking at bobbing During September, Sake is embracing a month-long New Shanghai might be another matter - it’s tart boats and the gently lapping waves like cultured yoghurt; whilst the of Middle Harbour. B’Stilla ($14.50), sakura (cherry blossom) festival. Expect to find Mornings at the original New Savoury Deep Fried Dough Fritter those tasty filo fingers stuffed with sakura-inspired cocktails, decorations and cherry Shanghai in Lemon Grove Plaza will ($3) is a doughnut without the almond chicken and dipped in blossom festival dishes that utilise Japanese spring ease any breakfast tedium. We’re sweet. fragrant orange sauce, have thankfully flavours. They’ll be offering everything from Cherry all down with yum cha, so brekky Shop 20, Lemon Grove Plaza, 427- travelled with him. You could sit on Blossom Bento ($45) lunches to Sakura saké flights dumplings shouldn’t be strangers. 441 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood tapas, but you’d miss the highlight – a to a signature cocktail, the Sakura Royale. The Steamed Pork Bun ($2) and (02) 9415 3536 newshanghai.com.au steaming Sweet Lamb Tajine ($27.90) www.sakerestaurant.com.au Steamed Vegetarian Bun ($2) are Chinese $ with lamb so tender you’ll use your Also in the ArgyleXchange complex, The Cut Bar & Grill has just announced Grant Croft as their new Head both ripper ways to start the day. Afous fork to split it over Cous Cous Chef. Grant comes from popular Bowral fine diner, Congee ($2) is basically savoury Omar Majdi (ex-Souk in the City) ($5.90) with Harissa ($4.90) to heat porridge, best with Preserved Egg Biota Dining. His new menu will be introduced over has widened his native Moroccan things up. coming weeks, but I’m told it includes a modern take on and Lean Meat ($4.50). Fried Egg to take in a little Spanish. A good Level 1, 81 Parriwi Road, Mosman the Cherry Ripe. Pancake with Pork Floss ($4.50) or choice I thought as I sipped Turkey (02) 9969 8000 afous.com.au www.cutbarandgrill.com Cheese ($4.50) will have everyone Flat Rose ($35/bottle) and tucked Spanish, Moroccan $$$

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devastating memory one BRAD CHECKS IN second, then flick back to JASON BYRNE FRED frivolous silliness, is sublime. Many Australians know Irish of care into it.” This is bare bones theatre Director Stollery provides comedian Jason Byrne for After 11 years of performing reliant squarely on a creative and critical ‘third his magic tricks, but he is at the Melbourne Comedy performance, writing and eye’, and together, they have definitely not a magician, “If Festival and touring Australia, spawned a one-woman tour direction. The fact that Fred you go onto YouTube and you there is still one thing Byrne de force that is unmissable. works so successfully is a real see me doing all those stupid has on his to-do list. Equally noteworthy is testament to the talent and magic tricks, you’ll see real “I’ll get huge big false teeth Chappell’s script. Her magicians saying, ‘this is really and I’ll get interviewed like hard work that Lisa Chappell work explores the most bad magic man, really bad that. I’ll just sit on Morning TV and Christopher Stollery have morbid crevices of the stuff’. I just go, ‘what the?’ I’m with huge teeth and go ‘hullo, put into their craft. The show human imagination, but obviously just making fun of good morning’.” (LC) is relentlessly dark, but also her storytelling stubbornly it!” he says. Sep 19, Enmore Theatre, extremely funny. It strikes a remains in the realm of jokes Byrne has been working on TV 118-132 Enmore Road, balance between the horrific and laughter. This is a perfect and radio for over 15 years $60, (02) 9550 3666, and the hilarious, creating (and intense) representation and on the live comedy circuit enmoretheatre.com.au an emotional effect that is of trauma, mental illness and for almost as long. He painfully unsettling but entirely the human instinct for survival. is in fact, a tried and entrancing. (SW) true, international Chappell’s acting is Until Sep 8, Old 505 stand-up comic that exceptional. Her ability to Theatre, 342 Elizabeth puts in the hard yards. portray the insanity of being St, Surry Hills, $27+bf, “There’s always a Brad checks out of his along in a cascade of lost in an agonising and venue505.com theme to the show. marriage because it’s over – effervescent banter and I always try and find well it has been for at least cringe-worthy antics - out what’s going on a month anyway - so now in Australia at that agonising but with laughs he’s free to do the social aplenty. A keen social watcher, point, and weave all networking thing. He hooks that in as well,” Byrne she reads the male psyche up with Di, who’s had work painfully well. If this is ‘men continues. done and unsure if she’s still behaving badly’, then social “It’s a pretty hectic married to a bloke who wants networking can only expand show, you know, to rearrange Brad’s face. Then where basically I there’s Rebecca, an old flame your horizons. try and kill myself from uni days who’s definitely Double billed with Summer as much as possible. married. of Blood, schlock horror Then at the end When current wife Maggie and plenty of blood – think people always leave turns up unannounced, Brad’s Wes Craven meets the Marx the show and say, ‘Do two worlds - online and real - Brothers. (GW) you reckon he made collide, bringing fresh meaning Until Sep 7, Tap Gallery, 278 all that up?’ Nobody to the word, ‘awkward’. Palmer Street, Darlinghurst, knows that I put a lot Paula Noble’s play bubbles $30-40, tapgallery.org.au HAPPY AS LARRY Of course you have a personality; his happiness, giving him more control the slogan on your tote bag declares over his life, and he began to wonder it. Your personality is undefinable, if this was the same for other city non-perceivable, and above all, could dwellers. In our modern cities, it would never be placed into a system of nine seem that we have everything we could personality types. ever need, but do we really know how If you agreed with that, you probably fall to be happy? into category number four: Individualist. The cast of characters comes from If you disagreed, perhaps you are the nine personality types to create number nine: Peacemaker. an uplifting exploration of the elusive Shaun Parker, director and nature of happiness. choreographer of Happy As Larry, This sonic and visually astounding show studied the Enneagram Personality combines elements of ballet, break- system for ten years and has turned dance, roller-skating and pulsating dance his discoveries into a physically driven, set to a pop-infused classical score by uplifting performance. Nick Wales and Bree van Reyk. (AE) When Parker realised that he fell into Sep 10-14, Seymour Centre, City Rd The Performer category, he became & Cleveland St, Chippendale, $20-75, more aware of the influence it had on (02) 9351 7940, seymourcentre.com

Arts Editor: Leigh Livingstone Contributors: 22 STAGE Alastair Wharton, Alex Britton, Alexandra English, Alexis Talbot-Smith, Music Editor: Chris Peken Andrew Hodgson, Angela Stretch, Anita Senaratna, Chelsea Deeley, 24 SCENE Live Music Editor: Chelsea Deeley Cheryl Northey, Craig Coventry, Emily Jones, Gavin Fernando, Greg Webster, Hannah Chapman, James Harkness, Joseph Rana, Katie 25 SOUNDS Davern, Katie Mayors, Kim Shaw, Leann Richards, Lena Zak, Lisa Ginnane, Luke Cox, Luke Daykin, Lyndsay Kenwright, Marilyn Hetreles, 26 SCREEN For more A&E stories go to Mark Morellini, Mel Somerville, Michelle Porter, Nerida Lindsay, Nick a&e www.altmedia.net.au Hadland, Ruth Fogarty, Sam Crassweller, Suzy Wrong, Tom Wilson 21 JERUSALEM Set design in particular is a highlight of this production. Tom Bannerman’s conversion of the stage into a dramatically evocative backdrop is absolutely essential to the storytelling. The creation of five different Matthias Engesser Photo: entrances is intelligent, and along with lighting, mood is established long before the first actor appears. At the heart of Jerusalem is a tale about land rights and commercialism. It has interesting parallels with contemporary Australian issues involving Aboriginal communities and how they are situated within the economy. This English play makes arguments about territorial ownership in relation to ancestry and money, and how these tensions manifest socially. If Butterworth’s ideas had been applied in a localised context, their impact could have been even greater. Instead, the show is left unmodified from its foreignness, which gives an eccentric and exotic quality but demands more from the audience, as its cultural specificity is at times challenging and complicated. (SW) Until Sep 14, New Theatre, 542 King St, Newtown, $17-32, newtheatre.org.au

examines them within a modern MISS JULIE relationship. It is a union divided MURDER ON THE NILE Jean and Christine are a by age, class and privilege. The power of an Agatha the performance of Christie’s seemingly committed couple The lead performances make Christie work lies in its intrigue murder mystery. Some actors working in the home of a the play gripping. Brendan and suspense. Her tales are appear slightly miscast, but all Cowell brings a larrikin-like powerful politician. While he is eminently captivating, and are able to communicate the ease to Jean, creating subtle Photo: Michele Aboud away, they are in charge of his beloved by audiences across plot perfectly, so that drama and yet humorous moments. Taylor impetuous daughter, Julie, who is generations and continents. tension inherent in the play is Ferguson, in her theatrical very aware of her sexuality and The Genesian’s production of actualised to great effect. debut, is intense and fearless Murder On The Nile tells a witty attraction to Jean. The Genesian has always been as Julie, showing the extreme and compelling story, with “I know you’re just being playful, reliable in delivering great emotional whims of the teen. colourful characters that retain entertainment, and Murder On but it’s a dangerous kind of When these polar opposites appeal 76 years after inception. The Nile is no exception. Some game to play,” Jean warns Julie. interact, it reveals the dark Design elements are basic but things never change, and this Based on August Strindberg’s side of relationships; the dire charming. The set is evocative much-loved company is one of 1888 play, Simon Stone’s consequences when certain of 1930s art deco, conveying them. (SW) adaptation of Miss Julie boundaries are crossed and a sense of languid luxury Until Oct 5th, The Genesian has translated well to a innocence is corrupted. (MP) ROMEO AND JULIET that is romantically nostalgic. Theatre, 420 Kent St, Sydney, contemporary Australian Until Oct 6, Upstairs Theatre, Shakespeare’s timeless tale be, by either kowtowing to the The director and players are $22-27, landscape. In two acts, Stone Belvoir St Theatre, 25 Belvoir of star-crossed lovers will be expectations of generations past mindful that clarity is key in genesiantheatre.com.au extracts the universal themes St, Surry Hills, $45-65, (02) given a fresh treatment as part or rejecting them and forging of sex, love and power and 9699 3444, belvoir.com.au of Sydney Theatre Company’s something new.” newest rendition of Romeo and Williams’ interpretation Juliet this September. explores darker themes of Following his STC debut rebellion and chaos as the with last year’s Under Milk spirited protagonists defy Wood, 27-year-old co-resident

traditions and escape their Mark Banks Photo: director Kip Williams leads a suffocating world of wealth. Photo: Ellis Parrinder Photo: talented young cast and crew However, he insists romance in the production, with Eryn will still anchor the play as it has Jean Norvill in her first STC across the centuries. appearance as Juliet and Dylan Young as Romeo. “In this hyper-superficial “I think it’s a great thing for this universe…they meet each show that the people making it other and strike up an authentic are pretty close to that point in connection,” says Williams. life that Romeo and Juliet are “There’s something eternal at,” says Williams. about that idea of love at first “The play offers the audience sight.” (EJ) an opportunity to invest in Sep 17-Nov 2, Drama Theatre, that period in your life when Sydney Opera House, as an idealist you can decide $50-$95, (02) 9250 1777, what your future is going to sydneytheatre.com.au

THEATRE & Martin Dysart who examines him. delightful off-Broadway hit. in. (LZ) Mr Percival. is one laughter-filled ride that PERFORMANCE Producer Elliott Marsh says, Directed by Adam Cook and Until Sep 8, Theatre Royal, 108 King Adapted for the stage by Tom starts and wraps up with brilliant “Universal themes such as youth starring Henri Szeps and Douglas St, Sydney, from $59-85, 9224 Holloway, the play stars Joshua paint-splattering drumming, and EQUUS Celebrating 40 years in society, coming of age, the Hansell, the play tells the story 8444, ticketmaster.com.au Challenor and Rory Potter in a whole lot of tom-foolery in since its debut in London, media and its effect on society, of a fictional meeting between STORM BOY Sydney Theatre alternating roles as Storm Boy, between. Peter Schaffer’s Equus is coming religion, sex, crime, mental Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis Company and Perth’s Barking Trevor Jamieson as Fingerbone Jaws drop, eyeballs roll, and the to Sydney as part of the illness, parental influence on during the final days of Freud’s Gecko Theatre Company have Bill and Peter O’Brien as the senses take a spin as the three children and the question of teamed up for a new production Sydney Fringe, thanks to new life, set against the backdrop of boy’s father Hideaway Tom. (KM) bald men covered in uniform ‘what is normal’, resonates in to celebrate the 50th anniversary independent Sydney production England’s decision to enter World Until Sep 8, Sydney Theatre blue serenade their way into some aspects within all of us and of Colin Thiele’s much-loved house Nomadic Artists. Featuring transcends cultural boundaries.” War II. Australian children’s classic. Company, Pier 4/5 Hickson Road, audiences’ hearts by blending Martin Portus and Michael (LK) The dynamic dialogue between Set on the windswept coast of Walsh Bay, $25-30, 9250 1777, comedy, music and multimedia Brindley, this show is said to be Sep 11-28, The Forum, 21-23 Szeps’s Freud and Hansell’s South Australia, the tale follows sydneytheatre.com.au theatrics to come up with an act one of the greatest British plays. Norton Street, Leichhardt, $28, Lewis centres mostly around a young boy who befriends a BLUE MAN GROUP are that thrills all age groups. (JR) The story centres on young man, equusonstage.com.a God and religion, with plenty of cast of curious characters as he sensationally awe-inspiring, and Until Sep 8, Sydney Lyric Theatre, Alan Strang, who brutally blinds FREUD’S LAST SESSION psychoanalysis, humour, history roams the Coorong, including visually spectacular. This literal Pirrama Road, Pyrmont, $49-140, six horses and the psychiatrist, lives up to its reputation as a and powerful rhetoric thrown Fingerbone Bill and the pelican shake-your-booty extravaganza bluemangroup.com.au

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THE NAKED CITY TALKING THROUGH YOUR ARTS THE FATBERG Though the web can be characterised as predominantly SELL IT LIKE IT IS commercial, it is also a place where web images can begin to THAT ATE SYDNEY! incorporate multiple practices into a generally more accessible True blue’ is the blue depth of space. Matisse observed that a on-screen presentation, up for sale. Sacrificing the one thing square metre of blue is more blue than a square centimetre of that is central to the way that art is traditionally bought by the same blue. experiencing it up-close and personal. What is culturally necessary is to broaden ways of seeing. With increasing enterprises selling art online, buying has never Electronic technology is to be reckoned with. The electronic been more palatable and predatory. medium is physical; it is material. It is valuable to explore its possibilities through the lens of innovative practice. In more art fairing Carriageworks will make use of colour from What relation of the image on the page to the ‘real’ size of the artists represented by 80 leading galleries, from 11 countries, image? Is the image size shown at 100 percent, or is it a link which include Germany, China, Japan, South Africa and England. via a compressed thumbnail representation? Does it pre-load The inaugural Sydney Contemporary 13 is a bi-annual art-expo, with an alternative version of the image, a section of the larger designed to showcase emerging and established artists and their image or a miniature of the full image? These factors describe saleable works. the online art sellers’ designer conception of image and are not It was in June this year that Sydney Contemporary organisers simply meaningless physical features of an image online. Whether made a controversial decision not to sack VIP Guest Manager, intentionally or not, such features indicate specific rhetorical and Ian Dawson, for not paying six artists for works sold on ideological strategies employed to realise a sale. consignment. It is in the spring of September we will get to The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ recent findings place the arts see if the organisation’s key objective in supporting artists and and recreation services sector as being the second highest in maximising sales will be upheld. (AS) online web presence with a little under half having a social media Sydney Contemporary 13, Sep 19-22, Carriageworks, 245 presence - which rates more than any other sector. Wilson St, Eveleigh, $15-60, sydneycontemporary.com.au

By Coffin Ed, Miss Death & Jay Cockatoo Island where it would be Katz installed for the duration of the event. A metaphor for not only the indecency of It was Frank Zappa who once said the food that we waste and our fouling that “art was making something of the environment, it would also out of nothing and selling it”. provide an almost playful, interactive With the 19th Biennale of Sydney environment for those that chose to looming large for March of next climb on board! year we thought it appropriate Kiddies and adults alike would be to throw our creative hat in encouraged to don colourful hazmat Ensemble (Variation 2) by William Kentridge, 2011 the ring and suggest a truly suits and explore the fatberg like unique attraction that could well some kind of miasmic jumping castle, redefine this event. squelching their way across its vast You might have already guessed that expanses and revelling in the sheer INTRA-SECTIONS we are talking about the “Fatberg”, the yuckiness of it all. Sydney loves a light A plethora of colours, shapes, each other in superbly pleasant massive 15 tonne ball of congealed fat show and at night the ‘berg’ would media and form feature in the chaos, which evokes the recently dredged from a London sewer. become a canvas for all manner of Verge Gallery’s Intra-sections playfulness and joy of childhood. Supposedly the size of a double-decker visual projections, illuminated to the exhibition. The show focuses From the shining gold mass bus, the humungous blob took an extent that it would even be visible on boundaries and borders and of Kim Connerton’s Pre-Life excruciating ten days to remove from from the International Space Station. the pieces merge and separate standing in the sun together, randomly creating an explosion to the pastels of Aqua Mucosa, By the Biennale’s end the fabulous the drain, which had reduced to a five of light and sensations. Intra-sections is a challenging and percent capacity. fatberg would have been totally The art works range from curiously enticing experience Although it was dismantled in sections embraced by both the Sydney artistic a gelatinous blue jellyfish which encourages introspection we have it on good authority that community and the public at large. impersonation with tendrils and reverie. It continues the it was later reassembled at a secret Goyte would be commissioned to that trail on the floor, to green tradition of unique artistic landfill site, purely for a series of well write a song about it, Clover Moore splodges of paint spilling on the expression which is typical of deserved happy snaps with the sanitary would present it with the keys to the walls. A silly string sculpture adds the Verge Gallery. (LR) workers involved in the salvage. There city and even James Packer would put to the visual eccentricity. The Until Sep 7, Verge Gallery, City it sat in all its gruesome glory for at in a bid to have it installed as a foyer installations intertwine and twist Rd, Jane Foss Russell Plaza, least a couple of days, whilst everybody feature in his Barangaroo Casino. around the space, over lapping, University of Sydney, Free, contrasting and complementing verge-gallery.net from advanced bioengineers through Rather than return the big ball of ‘Power Play’ by Sally Clarke, 2012, photo by Luminere Imaging to archivists from the British Museum bacteria to some God-forsaken landfill examined it. Even London’s eccentric site on the outskirts of London, the Lord Mayor Boris Johnson paid the Biennale could reap a veritable fortune fatberg a visit, declaring it an icon of by marketing tiny lumps of the berg the urban grotesque that should be in thousands of lava lamps on sale TICKET WOMBAT preserved for generations to come. in the MCA gift shop and at Coles There’s a new way for arts enthusiasts to Members of Ticketwombat.com can simply As far as we know the mighty fatberg Supermarkets throughout the state. become informed and gain entry to events in register for free and enter as many draws is still intact, a seething, writhing Truly, art for the people! Sydney, Ticketwombat.com. It’s an innovative as they like or as co-founder Philippa Bird ecosystem of bacteria, methane and just THE HIT LIST: In a couple of weeks events website that encourages users to join points out, “If they want to get tickets good old-fashioned ‘gunk’. You might time this column will have racked up draws to win free double passes to events. without entering a draw then they can Helmut Lottenburger, founder of the site, become what’s called a City Explorer.” be disgusted, but it is after all a living number two hundred and to celebrate noticed that while there are many event This option entitles users to Quick Tix - one thing and not since Jeff Koons’ “Puppy” we are staging a special night at the sites in Sydney, “none of them give you the exclusive double pass a month - and also bloomed for all to see in front of the Mu-Meson Archives in Annandale on possibility to find an excuse to go to an the chance to win last minute tickets for a Sydney MCA, has a man or woman- Thursday September 12th, along with event that you didn’t know about.” monthly fee of $4.90. made creation been so utterly alive. the original FBi Naked City crew of Ticketwombat.com provides Sydneysiders A further benefit of the site, says Imagine the sensation that the fatberg Jay Katz, Miss Death and Coffin Ed with a platform where they can learn about Lottenburger, is that events organisers, “are would create if it was shipped to and some incredible video footage of new events and actually gives them the able to promote an event but don’t have to Sydney for next year’s Biennale and Sydney now and then. opportunity to attend an event in the form pay for it.” (PG) floated down Sydney Harbour towards Details at: www.mumeson.org of a free double pass. ticketwombat.com

24 SONS OF THE Heidi Lenffer’s voice stops and starts down a considering some of the recording was done EAST - SONS OF crackly phone line from the Blue Mountains. in a dark, Roman quarry with the image of THE EAST “Did you say something about a stampede?” a crazed Roy Orbison in mind. There are Sons of the Easts’ she asks, probably thinking she’s heard wrong. noticeably more guitar solos than the last self-titled album is “Yes,” is the reply, “I wanted to know how album, and Lenffer says everyone contributed about playing music Splendour [in the Grass] was last week? Last more in regards to lyrics this time around. together. Resounding time I saw Cloud Control play there was a This was also the first time the band has soulful rhythms mix effortlessly into stampede on the hill.” worked in the UK and with producer and mix songs that invoke many feelings at once. “Oh!” laughs Lenffer. “Not this time, although engineer Barny Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, This indie folk band has got the elusive there were no hills, so maybe that’s why. Editors, Kasabian), leading to some interesting combination right - using technical ability “This time our set was a mix of old and new and sometimes unexpected results. to create songs that sound beautiful and songs,” she explains, “A bit of a risk, but we Pressed to describe Dream Cave – it’s like took the plunge, and the crowd sang along to make the audience feel its magic. Delving pushing on your eyelids until colours, shapes the old ones and managed to get into the new through the depths from Miramare and and lights start appearing inside your head ones too. It was a great reaction.” deeper into Façade, the album finishes – play Dream Cave at the same time and with California, bringing you back from its It’s no surprise that the crowd reacted so listeners have the perfect soundtrack to soul searching, into a contented place of enthusiastically to Cloud Control’s new album, make an all-round audio-visual-hallucinatory understanding. Sons of the East are an Dream Cave. Three years have passed since example of very human folk music and their debut, Bliss Release, and for fans it may experience. This is the music that colours and how therapeutic music can be. (SP) have seemed like a lifetime, but after just one lights move to, although, it isn’t recommended listen they will realise it was worth the wait. for the sake of eyeball light-receptor safety. “We were worried that we’d taken too long Cloud Control’s new album is full of eerie to come up with new music,” Lenffer says. desperation, otherworldly harmonies, killer “We couldn’t have written any faster. We’re a guitar riffs, and is so good. WHITE LIES – BIG slow-working band, we really work through, Dream Cave is available now. (AE) TV and sometimes overwork, the songs.” Sep 12, The Metro, 624 George St, Sydney, Slightly less The band’s sonic progression is a darker $38.90 (02) 9550 3666, CLOUD CONTROL brooding than Cloud Control, which makes sense metrotheatre.com.au. past albums, Big TV is White Lies’ Sydney Live Music Guide Glen on Saturday. Following piece Lurch & Chief will be sensational sounds of the latest album full of LIVE WIRE The Great Gatsby Night, rocking Bondi’s Canteen in Celtic world will soar monster melodies and appropriate 80s Dead Letter Circus: original EP as well as their with some tracks from Saturday will be all about support for their new EP around The Concourse synths. On this album, White Lies are in High on the release of chart topping debut album their 2012 Moreland’s Ball. jazz in its barest forms Wiped Out. Experimental Concert Hall. Australian line with other deep vocal-led alt-rock their second studio-length This is the Warning. The guys have their live groups like The National and The Vaccines, with a free day of sounds and harbouring a loyal fan flute supreme Jane Rutter although in the past they’ve been album The Catalyst Fire, Thu, Sep 5th, Metro Theatre presence down to an art including appearances base, the appeal of this will lead this enchanting compared to the Editors and Depeche the prog-rock princes will The Woohoo Revue: with a tour hungry work from a selection of outfit comes from its blend display, as the stories of Mode. The west-Londoners break up the play a show like no other. They have been described ethic in both their own budding Northern Beaches of garage-esque sounds history will be told through album into uneven thirds with short eerie After the album peaking as “pandemonium in a shows and a number of musicians. Acts performing with catchy hooks and some classic compositions. galactic soundscapes in Space i and Space at number two on the pin-striped suit,” but The festivals including the on the day include the lyrical creativity. On their Expect appearances from ii, although the substance of other songs ARIA charts, the boys Woohoo Revue are most hallowed Falls Festival. This quintet John Edward as well biggest tour to date, you songs such as She Moved promises this isn’t an outer-space concept from Brissy are definitely definitely as skilled as they night is going to be mental, as the Brass Baton bands. have no excuse to miss thro’ the Fair and I Dreamt album. Standouts are There Goes Our Love going to provide a stellar are crazy. These manic get your dance on. Sat, Sep 7th, Glen St Theatre this show as they rock the That I Dwelt in Marble Halls, Again and Getting Even; both with driving set of the soaring vocals Melbournites are bringing Fri,Sep 6th, Venue 505 Lurch & Chief: With their venue to its core. as well as renditions of hooks that hold their own. (KD) from Kim Benzie as well the brass with their fusion Jazz in the Glen: A whole single We Are The Same Sun, Sep 8th, Canteen, Bondi some classical tunes. as psychedelic guitar riffs. of dance floor madness and day of jazz is whats in store surfing the radio waves An Irish Fantasy: A Wed, Sep 11th, The Expect some from the skilled swinging harmonies, for the annual Jazz in the currently, Melbourne six- matinee like no other, the Concourse, Chatswood (CD) THE HIDDEN UNIVERSE If you’re overdue for an Although audiences are THE GATEKEEPERS Israel’s occupation of history of the conflict and existential crisis, this’ll do it. seated and protected by 3D Palestine is a tricky issue to also some commentary on the The Hidden Universe is the first glasses, there are times when Australian 3D documentary cover fairly in any film but effect the occupation has had it seems that hair is brushing this documentary does a on the people involved. made for IMAX and it takes the stars, knocking them out full advantage of the giant good job of finding a unique The Gatekeepers aptly weaves of constellation as they swirl. screen. Not as giant as the perspective on the issue, while a humanistic commentary Hold on tight in case you fall actual universe, obviously; that also providing some surprising on the occupation into a place is insane. Imagine how into the spluttering, fiery Sun, insight. complicated political narrative small you’d feel in front of the or onto the person in front. Director Dror Moreh while maintaining a narrow screen, multiply that by infinity, It’s so pretty out there interviews six former heads enough focus for the film to and then - feel that? That’s audiences might cry. (AE) of Israel’s domestic secret be accessible. brain imploding. WWWW service agency, the Shin Bet. An insightful, noble attempt to unmotivated and weary, is Through their experiences bring this complex issue to the big screen. (AW) joined by a star-studded cast heading the agency these six men reveal much about the WWWW RED 2 including Anthony Hopkins, Red 2 is the action-comedy John Malkovich, Helen Mirren sequel to the worldwide 2010 and Catherine Zeta-Jones, hit bringing former black-ops who collectively fail to fuel CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce much interest. Willis) out of retirement. He Light on laughter and an travels the world with his elite team in search of a missing over-complicated plot makes portable nuclear device which Red 2 hard to follow, dull and threatens the balance of world unengaging. Shoot-outs, car power. Survival is the objective chases and senseless violence as terrorists, assassins and will intermittently enthral but corrupt government officials the blandness is prevalent. are on their trail. (MM) Bruce Willis looking WW½

ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL Screening as part of the 8th crime in a world of social inequality The Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF) is now in Sydney Latin American Film Festival, and economic extremes. its seventh year and is finding “new ways of behaving Rock, Paper, Scissors (Venezuela) is This gritty, social drama is not badly” according to Stefan Popescu, Festival Director one of the standout films of this for the faint of heart, but it’s as and Head of Programming. year’s program, not least for its enlightening as it is entertaining. Opening night kicks off on September 5th with outstanding cinematography. (RF) legendary cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s latest The story unfolds over one day Sep 7, Dendy Opera Quays, offering The Dance of Reality and closes on September in Caracas – one of the murder Circular Quay, $18.50, 8th with the Australian premiere of The Canyons from capitals of the world. sydneylatinofilmfestival.org writer Brett Easton Ellis and director Paul Schrader. When an affluent father and his WWW½ These two features bookend a program packed with son walk into a diner, their fates controversial cinema including Rob Zombie’s The Lords become irrevocably tied to that of of Salem, Michael Cera in Magic Magic, and Unlawful a young woman employed there. Killing, a documentary that was banned in the UK and A domestic crisis leads the father buried by the rest of the world. to briefly leave his son in her care “We’ll see if we get arrested for this one,” says and it’s in this careless and ill-timed Popescu. moment of separation the boy SUFF has also introduced Best Worst Films Bingo! becomes inextricably drawn into a Screening the best cinematic disasters including The catastrophic turn of events. Room, Troll 2 and Birdemic 2: The Resurrection along with The girl and boy hail from opposite bingo games and prizes to be won by the audience. ends of the track and as their (AW) tragedy unfolds, we witness the Sep 5-8, Factory Theatre, 105 Victoria Rd, wider story of the pervasiveness of Marrickville, $14-120 (festival pass), suff.com.au

JOBS The story of Apple walk and mannerisms. Edgy and sinister, this Elysium boasts incredible is an intriguing and perhaps film is set in New York City and its genius entrepreneur With a fantastic soundtrack ‘teenage flick’ has all the special effects and some great weird love story set in Europe where wretchedly narcissistic and founder Steve Jobs is and skilled cinematography, elements of a dark fairytale. action sequences in a rich, and revolving around the lives parents musician Susanna one widely circulated. This this film is a pleasure. (ATS) Legions of fans will be beautifully detailed world. of Virgil Oldman (Rush) and (Julianne Moore) and art film follows Jobs’ rise from WWWW enchanted – but the rest of Damon, Foster and Alice Braga, Claire Ibbetson (Sylvia Hoeks). dealer Beale (Steve Coogan) college drop-out to CEO. us will feel underwhelmed, to their merit, hold a quickly The Best Offer may be a are battling it out for custody Audiences may arrive at this THE MORTAL as we’ve seen it all before unravelling film together tad slow but is a thought- of their 6-year-old daughter film with strong doubts – it INSTRUMENTS – CITY in the Twilight and Harry by the tips of their bionic provoking, darkly funny and Maisie (Onata Aprile). would be easy to create OF BONES Hollywood has Potter franchises. (MM) fingers. An interesting take superbly acted movie that Moore and Coogan play an over-sentimentalised mesmerised movie-goers WWW on an aging concept. (TW) enthralls with a sublimely their terrifying characters so glorification of the Apple with slayers of giants, dragons, WW½ soothing yet haunting music convincingly that you should company and casting Ashton witches and vampires and ELYSIUM It’s 2154 and score by Ennio Morricone. (JR) end up hating them, and Kutcher as Jobs seems a now the anticipated The humans have killed Earth. THE BEST OFFER WWW Aprile, who is mostly silent curious choice. Although Mortal Instruments – City of The super-rich have built Geoffrey Rush is a tour de throughout the film conveys still a cliched biopic, Jobs Bones. Based on Cassandra and fled to Elysium; a giant force, breathing life and charm WHAT MAISIE KNEW more in her giant brown eyes challenges the presumptions. Clare’s best-selling novel, space station, while the sick to any character. is a beautiful and harrowing than could ever be said out Kutcher nails Jobs in every this action fantasy revolves and poor have been left to Co-starring Donald Sutherland adaptation of Henry James’ loud. (AE) way, right down to the around demon slayers. live in cities-turned-slums. and Jim Sturgess, The Best Offer novella of the same name. The WWWW

26 FREEWILLASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Cataglottism” LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The current chapter CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The only dis a rarely used English word that has the gof your life story may not be quite as jthing standing between you and your ARIES (March 21-April 19): “A good story same meaning as French kissing -- engaging in epic as I think it is, so my advice may sound goal,” writes American author Jordan Belfort, ashould make you laugh, and a moment liberal use of the tongue as you make out. But melodramatic. Still, what I’m going to tell you is “is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself later break your heart,” wrote Chuck Palahniuk I don’t recommend that you incorporate such something we all need to hear from time to time. as to why you can’t achieve it.” I don’t entirely in his book Stranger Than Fiction. From what I an inelegant, guttural term into your vocabulary. And I’m pretty sure this is one of those moments agree with that idea. There may be other can tell, Aries, the sequence is the reverse for Imagine yourself thinking, while in the midst for you. It comes from writer Charles Bukowski: obstacles over which you have little control. you. In your story, the disruption has already of French kissing, that what you’re doing is “Nobody can save you but yourself. You will But the bullshit story is often more than happened. Next comes the part where you “cataglottism.” Your pleasure would probably be put again and again into nearly impossible half the problem. So that’s the bad news, laugh. It may be a sardonic chuckle at first, as be diminished. This truth applies in a broader situations. They will attempt again and again Capricorn. The good news is that right now you become aware of the illusions you had been sense, too. The language you use to frame your through subterfuge, guise, and force to make is a magic moment in your destiny when you under before the jolt exposed them. Eventually I experience has a dramatic impact on how it all you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. But have more power than usual to free yourself of expect you will be giggling and gleeful, eternally unfolds. The coming week will be an excellent don’t, don’t, don’t. It’s a war not easily won, your own personal bullshit story. grateful for the tricky luck that freed you to time to experiment with this principle. See if you but if anything is worth winning then this is it. pursue a more complete version of your fondest can increase your levels of joy and grace by Nobody can save you but yourself, and you’re AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Is the truth a describing what’s happening to you with beautiful dream. worth saving.” kclear, bright, shiny treasure, like a big and positive words. diamond glittering in the sunlight? Does it have TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus musician SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The cosmos an objective existence that’s independent of LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This is Correct Your First David Byrne was asked by an interviewer hhereby grants you poetic license to be our feelings about it? Or is the truth a fuzzy, b eImpr essions Week. It’s a perfect time for you brazen in your craving for the best and brightest convoluted thing that resembles a stream to compose a seven-word autobiography. to re-evaluate any of your beliefs that are based on experiences . . . to be uninhibited in feeding your of smoke snaking through an underground In response, he came up with ten words: mistaken facts or superficial perceptions. Are you obsessions and making them work for you . . . cavern? Does it have a different meaning for “unfinished, unprocessed, uncertain, unknown, open to the possibility that you might have jumped to be shameless as you pursue exactly and only every mind that seeks to grasp it? The answer, unadorned, underarms, underpants, unfrozen, to unwarranted conclusions? Are you willing to what you really, really want more than anything of course, is: both. Sometimes the truth is unsettled, unfussy.” The coming days would question certainties that hardened in you after be an excellent time for you to carry out similar just a brief exposure to complicated processes? else. This is a limited time offer, although it may a glittering diamond and at other times it’s assignments. I’d love to see you express the During Correct Your First Impressions Week, be extended if you pounce eagerly and take a stream of smoke. But for you right now, full advantage. For best results, suspend your essential truth about yourself in bold and playful humble examination of your fixed prejudices is one Aquarius, the truth is the latter. You must have pursuit of trivial wishes and purge yourself of a high tolerance for ambiguity as you cultivate ways. I will also be happy if you make it clear of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. P.S. This your bitchy complaints about life. your relationship with it. It’s more likely to that even though you’re a work-in-progress, you is a good time to re-connect with a person you reveal its secrets if you maintain a flexible and have a succinct understanding of what you need have unjustly judged as unworthy of you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): At the last cagey frame of mind. and who you are becoming. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This is a good time to iminute, Elsa Oliver impulsively canceled her vacation to New York. She had a hunch PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s a good time GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The French word ffree yourself from a curse that an immature soul placed on you once upon a time. I’m not that something exciting would happen if to indulge in wide-open, high-flying, sillage means “wake,” like the trail created l C talking about a literal spell cast by a master of instead she stayed at her home in England. anything-goes fantasies about love -- IF, that is behind a boat as it zips through water. In English, the dark arts. Rather, I’m referring to an abusive A few hours later, she got a message inviting . . . IF you also do something practical to help it refers to the fragrance that remains in the accusation that was heaped on you, perhaps her to be a contestant on the UK television those fantasies come true. So I encourage air after a person wearing perfume or cologne inadvertently, by a careless person whose show Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? In the you to dream about revolutionizing your passes by. For our purposes, we will expand own pain made them stupid. As I evaluate the days and weeks that followed, she won the relationship with romance and intimacy -- as the definition to include any influences and astrological omens, I conclude that you now have equivalent of $100,000. I’m not predicting long as you also make specific adjustments impressions left behind by a powerful presence the power to dissolve this curse all by yourself. You anything quite as dramatic for you, Sagittarius. in your own attitudes and behavior that will who has exited the scene. In my astrological don’t need a wizard or a witch to handle it for you. But I do suspect that good luck is lurking in make the revolution more likely. Two more tips: opinion, Gemini, sillage is a key theme for you to Follow your intuition for clues on how to proceed. unexpected places, and to gather it in you may 1. Free yourself from dogmatic beliefs you monitor in the coming days. Be alert for it. Study Here’s a suggestion to stimulate your imagination: have to trust your intuition, stay alert for late- might have about love’s possibilities. 2. Work it. It will be a source of information that helps you Visualize the curse as a dark purple rose. See breaking shifts in fate, and be willing to alter to increase your capacity for lusty trust and make good decisions. yourself hurling it into a vat of molten gold. your plans. trusty lust.