excitedly (forgive our youthful insensitivity) ask Mum if school would be closed tomorrow. Although our house was on a hill and we could always get to school, the kids coming in fr ...

MARTINA GEMMOLA Photographer Martina, who took the images of Emma and Tom Hawkins’s house on page 82, loves escaping to the Grampians. “There was a lot of freedom growing up wi ...

A SALVE FOR GRIEF Jetting my way back through the clouds to coastal Victoria from Queensland following my father’s funeral, I opened the March edition of Country Style and took a ...

to Jo Ellem, who has won a pair of Peggy & Twig Elizabeth earrings, made from a freshwater pearl and nine-carat gold, valued at $500. Turn to page 29 to see Peggy & Twig designer E ...

QUEENSLAND Port Douglas Carnivale, May 20-22 Presented by the Douglas Shire Council, Port Douglas Carnivale invites tourists to the tropics for a weekend of art, music, food and fa ...

NSW Woodland Studio & Farm Suffolk sheep, Audrey the alpaca, passing kangaroos, wombats, ducks and rabbits – these are just some of the locals you’ll meet at Woodland Studio & ...

STYLE GUIDE Stylist Steve Cordony (whose spectacular renovation of his country home, Rosedale Farm, is a perennial source of inspiration) has teamed up with Brickworks to take the ...

IT’S DUSK AS I SIT DOWN TO WRITE TO YOU. The light is golden and the shadows long. The silver birches still have a few leaves, but every night it seems the patterned bark is beco ...

STEPHANIE STANHOPE WOULDN’T CALL HERSELF A FEMINIST but, as the NSW leader of the largest and most influential women’s organisation in Australia, she’s at the forefront of de ...