Ruby Henderson-Leconte waves her arm across a map of Australia, taking in the vast swathe of the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. The arts administrator explains these are the lands of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankun

Maitland school student Alizetta Dawson was three years old when her eldest (and highly creative) sister, May, became interested in photography. May started using Alizetta as her photographic model and went on to take art and photography classes. Now

Jim Hall comes from a long line of English gardeners and his grandfather developed prize-winning gardens in Victoria's Goulburn Valley. But it was Jim's father, John, who led him down a different garden path to a passion for succulents and cacti in p

The village of Longford in Tasmania's north-east is noted for its many historic buildings, most built with the symmetry and classic proportions of the Georgian era. Visitors to the town located 27 kilometres south of Launceston come to wander around

Tetyana Malega is a professional graphic designer and amatour photographer who grew up and lived in Ukraine till the 2022 war began. After three months in the war zone, she was forced to leave her homeland and she's sincerely grateful to Australia fo

New friends, fresh challenges, many more opportunities and a host of other exciting prospects are foremost on the agenda for 16-year-old Caulfield Grammar School Year 11 student Maeve Sheldrick. Maeve grew up on a beef cattle and cereal crop farm nea

Not much is known about Robert Pitcairn before he arrived as an early settler in the remote settlement of Deddington, in north-eastern Tasmania, but one thing is certain. He knew how to build a handsome house. Nile Farm rises like a blazing edifice o

Mon Bowring is icing a lemon drizzle cake as she chats via phone from her home in the South Australian river port of Goolwa at the mouth of the Murray River. The cake is morning tea for the 'boys' who are helping to restore her 40-foot paddlewheeler,

Outback sculptor Milynda Rogers confesses she had no intention of creating the world's largest outdoor sculpture exhibition when she started planting her works along the road to her home on a station in central-western Queensland. In fact, her initia

What do you make when asked to bring a plate? Country cook Sophie Hansen, who lives with her family on a farm near Orange in the NSW Central West, off ers seasonally delicious answers to that perennial question in this, her fi fth cookbook. Drawing i

Blame the pandemic. Or perhaps a long, shared history of making drastic changes on a whim. Or just the desire to share 'an adventure'. Whatever the cause, it led theatre producer Kerry Comerford and her artist and designer husband, Mark Thompson, to

A ppearances can be deceptive, so you’d never know from the lush oasis Gayle and Dennis Scott have built around their home that they’ve literally carved it out of a rocky paddock. “The site was bare except for a few box trees,” Dennis says as he surv

When Janelle Marsden graduated from high school in Wangaratta and high-tailed it to Melbourne to study architecture, she never imagined she’d end up returning to north-east Victoria to live. However, that’s precisely how the cards fell and she’s very

When Canadian nurse Deanna Bitar and three friends arrived in Australia, it was meant to be for a working holiday. Fifty years down the track, Deanna is still here, married to her husband, Samih, for almost as many years and with no intention of ever

While most people would have found home schooling three teenagers enough of a challenge during the COVID lockdowns, journalist and author Siobhan O’Brien felt the need to stretch herself just a little bit further. First, she and her husband, accompli

Twenty-year-old Josie Golledge grew up in Australia’s “horse capital” — Scone in the New South Wales Upper Hunter. For the past three years, she has been living and working as a station hand on cattle stations in outback Queensland and the Northern T

As the ancient proverb goes, “fortune favours the brave”. It was a maxim Wangaratta furniture store owners Taylor and Casey McPhail embraced when their business was struggling at the beginning of 2020 as the first COVID lockdowns shut the country dow

As a child growing up on farm in northern Tasmania, restaurteur Hayley Self was notorious for stealing her mother’s Chanel perfume bottles and disappearing into the paddocks to pick herbs and wildflowers in endless attempts to create her own potions

Pastry chef Kirsten Tibballs’ name is synonymous with chocolate. As the director of The Savour School, both online and in Melbourne, she teaches her art to students from all over the world. She has her own TV show and is a regular on MasterChef Austr