february-2010

EMPIRE OF THE SUN 

A WONDERFUL WEEK IN NZ 

Seven days of free fun 

in Queenstown 

Australia’s pop darlings on sweeping the 

ARIA Awards, family and fame 

FREAKY FASHION 

We try on the top 25 labels showing 

at Tokyo Girls Collection 

WOK’S COOKING? 

WOK’S COOKING? 

Taste-test Melbourne’s Chinatown 

with Elizabeth Chong 

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contents. 

features 

22 star struck 

We talk to the brightest star of them all, Empire of the Sun 

30 go guide 

Head to the surf city this month as the champs take on the 

Quiksilver and Roxy Pros 

34 adrenaline 

Find out how to enjoy all of Queenstown’s riches while 

holidaying like a pauper 

40 hub 

We go backstage with the Adelaide Festival’s artistic director 

44 hot spot 

For a fabulous holiday for all, check out Phillip Island’s 

new attractions 

50 people 

We catch up with footballer Preston Campbell and his 

latest star-studded project 

54 in focus 

Two matchmakers reveal how to show single life the door 

58 eat beat 

Take a bite of Chinatown this Chinese New Year with 

Melbourne’s celebrity chef Elizabeth Chong 

64 retail therapy 

We prowl the catwalk for a fashionista’s best buys at 

Tokyo Girls Collection 

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: TV host Julia Zemiro talks 

music; local hero Preston Campbell; join celebrity 

chef Elizabeth Chong for lunch in Chinatown 

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Photo: Cormac Hanrahan 

regulars 

2 ceo’s welcome note 

4 events 

7 10 minutes with... 

Sarah Wilson 

8 style fi le 

11 cheers 

12 good taste 

14 the word 

16 how to 

18 information desk 

20 fi t to go 

68 brain teasers 

in the air with jetstar 

77 jetstar news 

78 starkids 

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88 where we fl y 

90 your wellbeing onboard 

92 international adventures 

COVER ILLUSTRATION: 

DEBASER 

58 

98 introducing our 

domestic airports 

103 domestic destinations 

focus 

105 gift ideas 

106 have a bite 

110 entertainment 

CONTENTS 


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TRUE BLUE 

Th e fi rst ever Australian Film Festival is in 

the spotlight this month. We speak to festival 

director Barry Watterson, who’s no stranger 

to directing successful fi lm festivals having 

helmed Australian Film Week and the Coogee 

Arts Festival. He’s also a playwright, creative 

producer and professional fi refi ghter. 

Why is the time right to launch the 

Australian Film Festival (AFF)? 

Australian fi lmmakers turn out great fi lms 

that get lost among the huge marketing 

machines of other countries. We want to 

showcase Australian fi lm content with a view 

to building long-term audiences. We hope 

to establish the AFF as a major screening 

event, and reconnect Australian audiences to 

Australian fi lms. 

What can we expect from the fi rst AFF? 

Lots of fun! Th ere’s a series of street festivals, 

indoor/outdoor screenings, fringe events, fi lm 

education, the Australian Film Walk of Fame 

inductions and, of course, we’ll be awash with 

Australian fi lm stars. 

What makes Australian fi lms/visual 

productions stand out from the rest? 

Australians have an unusual take on the 

world, a unique voice with a distinctive sense 

of humour. Our fi lmmakers are some of the 

best in the world and work on projects all over 

the globe. 

Which are some of your favourite works? 

Happy Feet appearing right on Clovelly Beach 

is a very special free event for everyone. 

Th e Popcorn Taxi opening-night fi lm event 

and closing-night Australian Short Film 

Festival. Birthday is a gripping psychological 

thriller starring Kestie Morassi (Wolf Creek, 

Satisfaction), Girl Clock is a hilarious take 

on turning 40, and Penelope is the fi rst 

Australian/Croatian fi lm production. 

What else is on your plate in 2010? 

We launch into a series of fi lm development 

projects, there’s a few theatre projects in the 

pipeline, and we’ll be creating some fun events 

for everyone to take part in. 

Th e Australian Film Festival is on 24 Feb – 7 Mar 

at Ritz Cinema Randwick, 43-47 St Pauls St, 

Randwick, Sydney, 

tel: +61 (2) 9399 

5722 for info. 


Summer 

Sizzlers. 

Make the most of the warm 

weather with red hot festivals 

and art, wine and surf events 

Franz Ferdinand 

(Future Music Festival) 

WORDS ANNE LOH 

27 FEB–8 MAR BRISBANE PERTH 

SYDNEY MELBOURNE ADELAIDE 

Future Music Festival 

Gathering the best performers in electronic 

music, hip hop, pop and indie rock, the Future 

Music Festival brings 10 hours of live music 

across the nation. Expect Empire of the Sun, 

The Prodigy and more to rock the house. 

Tickets from Ticketmaster on 136 100. 

23 FEB–21 MAR BRISBANE 

Brisbane Comedy Festival 

Laugh yourself silly at this year’s bigger 

and better Brisbane Comedy Festival at the 

Brisbane Powerhouse. With Aussie favourites 

Adam Hills, Wil Anderson, Frank Woodley and 

Peter Hellier, as well as Irish boys Jason Byrne 

and David O’Doherty, it’s sure to be a laugh a 

minute. Tickets from +61 (7) 3358 8600. 

Wolf and Rabbit 

(Experimenta Utopia Now) 

12 FEB–14 MAR MELBOURNE 

Experimenta Utopia Now 

Free your mind at this International Biennial 

of Media Art where 25 works from around the 

world poke fun at boundaries. Akousmafl ore is 

a garden of living musical plants and You Were 

in My Dream draws you into an enchanted 

forest with fairytale creatures. BlackBox, The 

Arts Centre, 100 St Kilda Rd; free. 

23–28 FEB HOBART 

Clarence Jazz Festival 

One of Tasmania’s favourite music events will 

see festival ambassador and saxophonist Paul 

Williamson jamming with special guests, the 

Janet Seidel Trio, as well as every other band 

performing. Don’t miss the three day-three 

night concert series. Outdoor concerts are 

free. Tel +61 (3) 6245 8600 for a program.

Josh Thomas 

(Brisbane Comedy Festival) 

Lyttelton Summer Festival 

19–28 FEB CHRISTCHURCH 

Lyttelton Summer Festival 

Now that the Festival is expanding from a 

weekend to 10 days, get ready for a Puppetry 

Picnic, a brunch in the Lyttelton Rose Garden 

featuring local produce, wine tastings, coffee 

tours, a Swap-O-Rama-Rama for up-cycling 

your old clothes, photographic exhibitions and 

band performances; it’s for the whole family. 

’TIL 27 MAR SYDNEY 

Twilight at Taronga Zoo 

Take advantage of long summer days by 

packing a picnic for the weekend concerts 

at the zoo. There’s the Choir of Hope and 

Inspiration (12–13 Feb) and Saint-Saëns’ 

Carnival of the Animals with an additional 

Australian verse. Tickets from Ticketek at 

132 849. 

Photo: Mark Watson @ Highlux 

Gass 

John 

Often I Find That I Am Naked 

(The Garden of Unearthly Delights) Photo: 

12–28 FEB ADELAIDE 

The Garden of Unearthly Delights 

Part of the Adelaide Fringe, this outdoor 

festival is home to venues featuring comedy, 

magic, music, art, cabaret and other acts 

bound to delight. Don’t miss Fiona Sprott’s 

Often I Find That I Am Naked about the state 

of dating for Australian women. Rundle Park 

– East Terrace, tickets from 1300 374 643. 

26–27 FEB PHUKET 

Phuket International Blues 

Rock Festival 

Popular crowd faves Charlie Musselwhite from 

Memphis, Tennessee, Richard Clapton from 

Sydney and The Prodigal Sons from Norway 

return for yet another sell-out event. Proceeds 

go to children’s education causes. Tickets 

available from www.thaiticketmajor.com. 

Photo: Nauska 

Lepisto & Lehti 

(WOMADelaide) 

BOOK NOW! 

5–8 Mar 

WOMADelaide 

Four days and three nights, 500 artists, 

27 countries — that’s the scale of this 

year’s WOMAD in Adelaide’s Botanic Park 

that’s bound to send world music lovers over 

the moon. 

6–7, 13–14 Mar 

Tastes of Rutherglen 

Over two weekends, 20 wineries in North- 

East Victoria will throw open their doors with 

a special entrée and local wine combo, wine 

dinners, produce markets and live bands. 

11–14 Mar 

Heart of Gold International Film Festival 

Th ose in need of some loving feeling should 

fi nd their way to Gympie on the Sunshine 

Coast for the country’s most signifi cant 

feel-good festival of uplifting fi lms. 

Chicken of God 

12–14 Mar 

Boost Mobile Surf Sho 

Th e fi rst international surf competition 

on Bondi Beach in over 20 years has surf 

superstars Kelly Slater, Taj Burrows and Mick 

Fanning showing their best moves, as well as 

live music and beach activities… all free! 

FEBRUARY 2010 5 

EVENTS

Sarah 

Wilson. 

Congratulations on your new gig — 

what’s this channel about? 

It’s a new channel geared towards those 

interested in learning about the world via 

the way other people live — like a good 

chat over tea! It covers relationships, 

health, fashion, and general wellness and 

happiness. I love shows such as Twiggy’s 

Frock Exchange, where women come and 

swap their clothing and get a wardrobe 

makeover. Then there’s Four Weddings, 

where four women review each other’s 

weddings and, in the process, reveal how 

different women tick under pressure. 

You also have a pretty funny blog. Why 

did you decide to become a blogger? 

Journos and media personalities, these 

days, can’t just work with one medium. We 

have to have work across TV, radio, print and 

online if we’re to remain relevant. Blogging 

allows me to communicate with people who 

care about my message, which is about 

checking out ways to make life better. I’m on 

a mission to fi nd out! 

What feedback do you get? 

Interestingly, a lot of the comments are 

from blokes in their 20s and 30s who feel 

the same way I do about relationship issues, 

the meaning of life and happiness. I fi nd this 

extraordinarily refreshing! 

You’re also a columnist with Sunday 

Life magazine, how does writing one 

infl uence the other? 

Blogging gets you in a good writing vibe, so 

it makes the column an easier ride — I angst 

about writing for its broad readership… 

Am I revealing too much? Coming across 

too weird? Does anyone care what I think? 

Blogging is more personal, so I can explore 

things with a more esoteric bent. 

Has hosting the hugely successful 

Masterchef inspired culinary 

greatness in you? 

I’ve always cooked 

because I love to eat. 

Also, I fi rst entered 

journalism as a 

restaurant reviewer in 

Melbourne’s Sunday 

Magazine 10 years ago. 

I’ve probably cooked 

less since the show. It’s 

a bit like how plumbers 

have dripping taps… 

You’ve become an ambassador for FebFast, 

a campaign asking Australians not to drink 

alcohol for the month of February. Tell us 

the reasons behind your support. 

I’ve worked in and around health and women 

much of my career and it upsets me greatly 

to see how young women, in particular, are 

abusing their health with alcohol. I think we 

need to talk about this, about why we drink, 

why we need the distraction and the comfort. 

I really think we need to start thinking about 

other ways to socialise that don’t revolve 

around drinking. I love wine, and I love the 

ritual of catching up with friends over a 

glass of pinot gris on a hot night. But 

recently I’ve realised how even one 

glass of alcohol affects my health. 

It taxes our liver and our skin, 

our weight and our hormones. 

Because I’m recruiting pretty 

much all my friends to join 

FebFast it won’t be tough 

abstaining. We’ve planned a 

list of non-booze activities 

for the month. 

What will you do 

with the money 

saved from not 

buying alcohol? 

My friends and 

I are putting it 

towards renting 

a house up 

the coast for 

a weekend 

where we’ll eat 

super well and 

do morning 

yoga and surf 

all day. 

After being in the eye of the Masterchef storm, 

the former Cosmopolitan editor returns to our 

TV screens as the host of Lifestyle YOU 

INTERVIEW RACHEL FARNAY JACQUES 

How does it work to raise money? 

People register via www.febfast.com.au 

and get a fundraising page where friends 

and family can donate. You kick-start the 

donations by paying a AU$25 registration 

fee, which also gives you heaps of discounts 

and free offers. The money raised goes 

towards helping young people with serious 

alcohol and drug problems. 

What do you do in Sydney to 

relax and fi nd inspiration? 

Most mornings I head to 

the beach and meditate 

as the sun comes up. 

I head out of town 

for a bushwalk on 

weekends. Rocks, 

trees and galahs 

make me very 

happy! 


10 MINUTES WITH...

Heart Felt. 

SURE BET 

Now there’s a way to 

take the guesswork 

out of gift-giving. The 

Smartbox gift certifi cate 

concept exceeds expectations by putting the power to choose 

in the hands of the recipient. Each gift certifi cate comes with 

at least 50 choices nicely explained in a glossy guidebook. 

There are seven booklets to consider — from Temptations 

for Two (AU$69.95) where couples can choose a trip to a 

chocolate lounge or Belgian beer cafe, to Smartbox Extreme 

(AU$349.95) where he can choose a drive in a Lotus or a 

helicopter ride. Call 1300 825 112 to order. 


This Valentine’s Day, fi nd the 

perfect love token 


ANIMAL ATTRACTION 

Support Animal Lovers by Neo Tokyo, 

a Melbourne-based fashion label which 

gives a minimum of 20% of proceeds 

to the World Society for the Protection 

of Animals (WSPA). With three active 

campaigns on the books — bear bile 

farming, whaling and orangutan 

Displacement — you’ll be helping to 

end animal suffering everywhere. 

Go to www.neotokyo.com.au for 

more information. 

THE SMELL OF ROMANCE 

There’s nothing like a sweet scent to 

put you in the mood for love, and 

the new range of “fragrances 

of passion” by Ecoya 

Soy Candles, such as 

Forbidden Fling and Sweet 

Madness, will do just that. 

Available in travel tins with a burn 

time of 15 hours (AU$14.95; call 

1300 730 180 for stockists). Or 

give the gift of “love”, the certifi ed 

organic botanical perfume by 

Miessence, which has been handblended 

in the traditional way with 

fl oral notes like Indian frangipani, 

Egyptian jasmine and Indian 

Ambrette seed (AU$138 for 10ml; 

call +61 (7) 5539 2011 for stockists).

GIRL’S BEST FRIEND 

If it has to be diamonds, let it be Daintree 

— A Touch of Diamonds from The Natural 

Source. This light moisturising body 

whip contains real Australian diamonds 

from Western Australia’s Argyle mine 

region, which have been crushed and 

made into perfect spheres. They’re then 

blended into the cream which is made 

using naturally derived organic and 

naturopathic plant active ingredients. 

AU$65; call 1300 889 008 for stockists. 

HEART TO HEART 

There’s no better 

way to show you’re a 

couple than with 

his-and-her jewellery sets. 

Check out the Be My Sweet 

Heart necklace set from Inori (AU$87 

and AU$77; stockists on 

www.inori.com.au), makers of stainless 

steel jewellery. Or give her your heart 

— symbolised by this 

hand-painted enamel heart pendant 

by Moi Moi Fine Jewellery (AU$100; 

call +61 (2) 9261 0200 for stockists). 

HORSING AROUND 

Stone Men has made it cool for grown men to 

wear galloping horses as a design motif again. 

Or try koi fi sh, a forest or a balmy sunset. In 

a comfortable blend of 90% cotton and 10% 

elastine with a soft cotton waistband in white, 

these square-cut jockeys ensure comfort 

where it counts. AU$35 from stonemen.com. 

PLAY TIME 

Think it’s time the both of you take off 

on a holiday? Give a not-so-subtle hint 

by purchasing Jetstar vouchers, which 

can be used towards fl ights and come in 

denominations of AU$25–500. Imagine the 

excitement when the voucher arrives! Order 

on Jetstar.com. 

LIFE AS ART 

Does your man fancy himself an art collector? Artist and owner of The Big 

Cactus gallery Tania Iggulden can be commissioned for special projects such as 

portraits or even an artwork depicting the moment you both met. How’s that for 

a grand romantic gesture? Prices start from AU$150 (71x36cm). 64 Darley St, 

Mona Vale, New South Wales, tel: +61 (2) 9940 0212, www.thebigcactus.com.au. 

NAUGHTY AND NICE 

Sally Jones is an Australian lingerie designer 

whose collections are stocked throughout 

Australia and around the world. She dishes up 

lingerie-buying tips to men looking for a romantic 

gift and talks about her latest collection. 

What advice can you give to men buying 

lingerie as a romantic gift for the fi rst time? 

If the man is a novice when it comes to buying 

lingerie for his beloved, I always suggest a 

nightdress or babydoll with matching briefs — 

ensuring it’s not too sheer and noting that briefs 

are often better than a g-string. Full or half briefs 

can be extremely sexy, especially with lace. Soft 

lace indicates high quality and comfort. 

What’s the one thing men always get wrong? 

Th e biggest mistake can be to buy what you want 

to see her in but something she’d never buy 

herself such as a half-cup bra if she’s a full bust, or 

mini g-string if she always wears briefs. Again, a 

safer option would be to buy beautiful lace briefs 

which look sexy yet fl atter at the same time. And 

never attempt an underwire bra if you do not 

know her exact size — a better alternative could 

be a soft cup bra or camisole. Girls love to wear 

camisole sets as pajamas either before bed or even 

around the house. 

What’s a lingerie trend in 2010? 

People are starting to wear lingerie to be seen, 

whether as practical silky slips worn under sheer 

JUICY MOMENTS 

Let these seduberries do the talking. 

In an Australian world-fi rst, these 

Tasmanian strawberries grown in a 

heart-shaped mould will defi nitely 

create memorable sweet talk and 

make your wooing all the more… 

er, delicious. First harvest will be 

available in time for Valentine’s Day. 

Could a punnet of seduberries be 

the new long-stemmed roses? 

Tel: +61 (0) 448 417 857. 

dresses, or sheer 

baby dolls to be 

worn over other 

layers. Th is can be 

a very fl oaty and 

feminine look 

and means girls 

can show their 

lace off outside 

the bedroom. 

Full briefs have 

also returned 

as the more 

popular option to 

a g-string as they’re pretty and feminine, and 

often more fl attering. 

Tell us about your 2010 collection. 

Made with stunning combinations of French 

laces, embroideries, silks and tulles, my Parisian 

Romance collection features 10 stories, each 

refl ecting a diff erent romantic mood through 

unique colour and material pairings. We’re also 

launching a new honeymoon collection called 

Vintage Bride which features bras, suspenders 

and briefs, babydolls and kimonos in French lace 

and silk and untraditional colours such as dusty 

pink and blue, trimmed with traditional pearls 

and cameos. 

Prices range from AU$40 for a lace g-string to 

AU$400 for a silk nightdress. Tel: +61 (7) 5576 7317 


STYLE FILE

Fizzy Occasion. CHEERS 

Add some pop to your Valentine’s Day 

with one of these new sparkling wines 

WORDS ROBERTA MUIR 

Croser 1999 Late Disgorged 

has just been released after nine 

years on yeast lees, giving it a 

creamy complex palate. The subtle 

fruit and freshness, good acidic 

backbone and dry, savoury fi nish 

are due to the cool, humid climate 

of South Australia’s Piccadilly 

Valley. One of Australia’s great 

sparklers. RRP AU$50. 

Jacobs Creek 2006 Reserve 

combines a hint of creaminess 

from extended bottle age with the 

fresh fruit fl avours and aromas 

of cool-climate chardonnay and 

pinot noir. This wine delivers the 

value-for-money we’ve come to 

expect from the Jacobs Creek 

label. RRP AU$20. 

Brown Brothers 2008 Limited 

Release Prosecco from Victoria’s 

King Valley (Australia’s home of 

Italian varietals and wine styles) 

is this popular producer’s fi rst 

prosecco. With a fresh acidity, 

hints of pear and green apple 

and lingering citrus notes, it’s 

a perfect aperitif. 

RRP AU$18.90. 

BUBBLE TALK 

Matt Skinner is an 

international wine writer, 

consultant and educator 

who believes that wine is 

for everyone, and enjoying 

it is a right, not a privilege. His 

book, Th irsty Work, has been published in 17 

countries and 10 languages. We ask him for his 

take on the world of bubbles. 

What non-traditional varietals are you 

seeing in good sparkling wines lately? 

Locally we’re starting to see some great examples 

of the Italian grape prosecco such as Dal Zotto’s 

and Brown Brothers’. Th ere’s also more and more 

quality Spanish cava being imported. 

Preece Moscato 2009 with just 

6% alcohol, is the perfect natural 

“light” wine. Intensely fragrant with 

explosions of tropical fruit and a 

gentle spritz, it’s great with fruit 

desserts, Asian fl avours or blue 

cheese. RRP AU$15.99. 

Aja (pronounced Asia) Blush 

is a simple, slightly sweet, 

Moscato-style wine designed 

specifi cally to match Asian 

fl avours. When the occasion calls 

for something other than beer 

(the natural accompaniment 

to spicy food) this vibrant pink 

fi zz with rose, musk and Turkish 

delight aromas, and raspberry 

fl avours may be just the thing. 

RRP AU$20. 

What foods do you like to match 

with bubbles? 

Japanese food, where the delicate textures 

and range of fl avours — sweet, sour and 

salty — are a great match. I’m also a huge fan 

of great sparkling wine with fi sh and chips, as the 

bubbles and high acidity cut through the oil of 

fried foods. 

What do you think are the best value 

Aussie sparklers? 

Either Banrock Station Brut NV or Jacobs Creek 

Reserve Pinot Chardonnay NV for sheer value at 

around AU$10 a bottle, and then Yarra Burn Pinot 

Noir Chardonnay NV and Brown Brothers Prosecco 

2008 for amazing value and style around AU$20. 

Tim Knappstein NV Sparkling 

Shiraz from South Australia’s 

Clare Valley has an aroma of rich 

berry fruit over yeasty characters 

from 18 months spent on lees in 

the bottle. It has fi rm, fi ne tannins 

from aging in old barrels and a 

great balance of sweetness on the 

fi nish. RRP AU$23.99. 

Veuve Clicquot NV Rosé in a 

limited edition Sakura ice jacket 

is bound to impress. Pinot noir 

gives this wine depth, intensity and 

power, while chardonnay adds a 

soft elegance and pinot meunier 

contributes fruity roundness. The 

neoprene sheath keeps the bubbly 

at an ideal temperature for up to 

two hours — perfect for a romantic 

picnic! RRP AU$110. 

And what bubbles do you drink when 

money’s no object? 

Louis Roederer Cristal 1990. It’s tough to get now 

and costs a bomb, but on the few occasions I’ve had 

to drink it, it was close to perfection in a glass. 

Any tips for getting the most from 

sparkling wine? 

Drinking sparkling from the right glass enhances 

the aromas and fl avours; one of my favourite 

sparkling wine glasses is Plumm’s vintage 

sparkling glass. 

What’s your favourite “champagne” cocktail? 

A classic Bellini — great white peach purée 

and prosecco. 


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CAFFÈ SOSPESO 

Six-month-old Caffè Sospeso is a café with 

a conscience. It serves only free-range 

chicken, eggs and pork; certifi ed 

fair-trade coffee, organic teas and 

chocolate; and it’s committed to the use of 

cruelty-free animal products and organics 

wherever possible. Its benevolence extends 

to helping disadvantaged members of 

Eat well, feel great 

at these benevolent 

Melbourne eateries 

WORDS ROBERTA MUIR 

the local community too by involving the 

generosity of others. In Naples, caffè sospeso 

is a tradition whereby a customer pays for 

two coffees, receives one and leaves the other 

“in suspense”, then when someone down on 

their luck wanders in, they can ask if there 

are any sospesos available. 428 Burwood Rd, 

Hawthorn, tel: +61 (3) 9819 1515. 

LENTIL AS ANYTHING 

This vegetarian restaurant, started in 

2000, now has three outlets (including the 

Collingwood College canteen). A non-profi t 

business mostly staffed by volunteers, Lentil 

asks customers to decide what their meal was 

worth (or what they can afford) and donate 

anonymously into a box on the counter. They 

also provide support and training for new 

migrants, refugees, youth and others looking 

for a break in the hospitality industry. 41 

Blessington St, St. Kilda, tel: +61 (3) 9534 

5833 and 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, 

tel: +61 (3) 9419 6444.

FROM TOP: Help Mission Australia’s 

youth hospitality program by going 

to Charcoal Lane; try its duck dish; 

spread some cheer at Caffè Sospeso 

CHARCOAL LANE 

Charcoal Lane, in Fitzroy’s eclectic Gertrude 

Street, is a modern Australian restaurant 

in every sense of the word. Part of Mission 

Australia’s hospitality training program for 

disadvantaged and unemployed youth, with 

a focus on young indigenous Australians, it 

offers training in front of house and kitchen 

skills delivered by the William Angliss 

Institute of TAFE. Menu items include native 

Australian ingredients, such as kangaroo 

fi llet with native peppers and bush tomato 

tart with rosella jus. Best of all, all profi ts 

from the restaurant go back into the 

program. 136 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, 

tel: + 61 (3) 9418 3400. 

A TASTE OF 

SUCCESS 

Talented kids 

from the KOTO 

Hospitality Training 

College for street 

kids in Vietnam and the 

Sunrise Children’s Village 

in Cambodia, many of whom have known real 

hunger, are now being given the opportunity 

to study hospitality in Australia. Le Cordon 

Bleu Australia general manager Nick Gurner 

tells us about the scholarship program that 

has made this possible. 

When does the program start? 

We off ered the fi rst scholarships in 2009 

— with the two recipients commencing study 

in 2010. 

Why did you choose these two 

organisations to work with? 

Both KOTO and the Sunrise Children’s Village 

do so much for disadvantaged children in 

their respective countries; this was a chance 

for Le Cordon Bleu Australia to recognise 

their achievements and give students who 

demonstrate a real desire to pursue a career in 

hospitality the opportunity to continue their 

education to a tertiary level. 

Where in Australia will these kids 

be studying? 

Narith Horm, from Sunrise, will be at our 

Adelaide campus and Nguyen Th uy Ha, from 

KOTO, will be at our Sydney campus. 

What will they be learning? 

Narith will undertake a Bachelor of Business 

in International Hotel Management. Ha will 

study for an Advanced Diploma in Hospitality 

Management, which includes signifi cant 

practical training in cuisine or pâtisserie. 

How long do the courses take? 

Both take around three years and include 

signifi cant portions of placement with Le 

Cordon Bleu industry partners. Th is ensures 

that our graduates complete their studies 

ready for their career. 

What happens when they graduate? 

Th ey’ll return home to work in the hospitality 

industry. Th e qualifi cations are recognised 

internationally though, so they could work 

anywhere in the world. 

What are the goals of the 

scholarship program? 

To assist and provide an opportunity to 

talented hospitality trainees who otherwise 

would not have the chance to progress their 

careers, and by doing so promote hospitality 

as a career in countries all over the world. 

Eat at KOTO, 59 Van Mieu St, Hanoi, Vietam, 

tel: +84 (4) 3747 0338 



THE WORD 

Jump-Start 

Ready. 

Entrepreneur 

Peter Sheahan is putting his multi-million 

dollar experience — he founded two 

successful companies before he was 

30 years old — into his book Making It 

Happen, telling it like it is and how it should 

be done. We pick his brains. 

Tell us about your new book Making 

It Happen? 

This book is for people who have an idea 

and want to turn it into reality. We’re not 

short of good ideas, we’re short on people 

who know how to execute them. My new 

book is a step-by-step guide to executing. 

In a nutshell, how did you “make it 

happen” for yourself before you hit 30? 

I had intelligent risk-taking as my 

foundation. Not all the risks I took paid 

off, but I kept taking them nonetheless. 

Next comes commercial savvy. I started 

talking about my services and generally 

approaching everything I did from the 

Learn how to take a 

good business idea and 

make a success out of it 


Peter Sheahan also wrote 

Flip and Generation Y 

perspective of what value it would bring to the 

people I was trying to engage. The fi nal thing 

would be my obsessive attention to my craft 

and the work ethic which supported it. 

What are three steps people should take to 

make their good idea a reality? 

One: take the time to think about, further 

develop and make some very rough plans 

about your idea and what you want to do with 

it. Two: you need 

to language your 

idea as an offer. In 

other words, what 

will your business 

be selling and why 

is that valuable 

to someone 

else? Three: 

do something, 

anything to start. 

The action will 

generate clarity, 

opportunity and 

momentum.

MAKE BUSINESS SENSE 

IN EVERYDAY LIFE 

 

Five books show you how to grow your 

personal wealth or start a small business. 

SIX PIXELS OF SEPARATION 

Th e internet is indeed the future and with this 

book by Mitch Joel, who’s been called “the 

rock star of digital marketing”, get the tools, 

tactics and insights you need to reach 

a global audience and tap into an online 

market. Hachette Australia, AU$35, 

ISBN 9780446559386. 

STEVE MCKNIGHT’S FROM 0 TO 130 

PROPERTIES IN 3.5 YEARS 

For those with a dream of becoming a real 

estate mogul, here is Steve McKnight’s updated 

book on how you too can grow your property 

investment portfolio. Th e advice on how to 

get started is even for those with little or 

no capital. Wrightbooks, AU$32.95, 

ISBN 9781742169675. 

THE NAKED ENTREPRENEUR 

A true account of how Maria Elita, aka Th e 

Spiritual Dominatrix, turns the life of 

What’s new about the behavioural research 

in your book? 

The research into how we form our sense of 

identity and how we’re attracted to people, 

products and brands which support that 

identity. This area of research is not new, but 

the use of MRI machines is bringing new light 

to it and offering all of us a much greater 

insight into how we can use it. 

Which is your favourite case study? 

Tom’s Shoes. Blake Mycoskie, a former 

contestant on The Amazing Race, was 

shocked by the poverty and the inability of 

Argentinean children to afford basic footwear, 

burnt-out businessman Troy Hazard around 

through “soul whipping”. Find out what her 

message of love and light is. Wiley & Sons, 

AU$29.95, ISBN 9781742169323. 

GETTING STARTED IN SMALL 

BUSINESS FOR DUMMIES 

Always fancied yourself as a business wizard? 

Well, this book will tell you how you can start 

your own small business and all the minutiae 

involved in getting it off the ground and 

rolling. Wiley & Sons, AU$19.95, 

ISBN 9781742169627. 

REAL MONEY ADVICE 

FOR FAMILIES 

With the GFC, we’ve all been hearing about 

“fi nancial literacy, getting out of debt and 

creating wealth”, this book has condensed 

it all down to four steps targeted at families 

and have called it “Th e Family Survival Plan”. 

Particularly useful for those facing a change 

in their lives, such as redundancy or a new 

addition to the family. Luna Group, AU$24.95, 

ISBN 9780980628401. 

and they were not allowed to attend 

school without shoes. He made over the 

Argentinian shoe, the alpargata, and for 

every pair sold, he donated a pair to the 

poverty-stricken children. He used 

social-networking sites to make it easy for 

fans to spread the word. He got massive 

coverage, not just in print but TV as well. 

He was featured in an AT&T ad. And he had 

designer Ralph Lauren create a special line 

of Tom’s Shoes. 

Making It Happen is published by 

Random House Australia, AU$34.95, 

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Chris Bray says: “This Cradle Mountain in 

Tasmania photo won TIME magazine’s ‘My 

Australia Photography Competition’. By putting 

someone in the shot, not only do they provide a 

sense of scale, but looking at the photo you can 

immediately imagine what it must be like being 

there. And it obeys the ‘rule of thirds’, has good 

depth of fi eld, and features red!” 

Snap Happy. 

Which came fi rst, photography or 

adventure expeditions? 

Adventure. I grew up sailing around the world 

with my family on our homemade yacht for fi ve 

years but I was soon taking photos of all the 

cool experiences along the way. 

You’re a member of ‘The Society for Human 

Performance in Extreme Environments’, 

which examines the effects on the body of 

jobs like astronauts and polar explorers, but 

how do extreme cold and hot conditions 

affect photographic equipment? 

Almost as much as it does the photographer! 

Cold shortens battery life so you have to bring 

spares and even re-warm them in your jacket. 

Hot and humid conditions can make your 

lenses fog over; rain and snow sticks to lenses; 

and volcanoes — stay away from them — the 


Adventurer Chris Bray, Australian 

Geographic photographer and Canon’s 

Australian ambassador for digital 

photography, offers some tips for 

taking great photos 

INTERVIEW RACHEL FARNAY JACQUES 

ash that rains down is actually fi nely ground 

rock and scratches glass and gets 

into everything! 

When it comes to chasing that spectacular 

photo or fi nishing the expedition goal, 

which wins out? 

If an arctic wolf or a polar bear pops out from 

behind a rock, it doesn’t matter how far behind 

schedule we are, I’ll pull out the camera and 

keep taking pictures! Usually though it’s a 

balance — tempting as it is to spend hours 

trying to get the perfect shot, sometimes I have 

to remind myself that getting to the end safely 

before food runs out is the main thing. 

How did you learn photography? 

The slow, hard way: reading books, practising, 

trial and error. I got my fi rst camera at a garage 

sale when I was about eight, and I’ve been 

inspired to try and take better photos ever 

since I got that fi rst roll of fi lm back. 

What is your preferred tool for action 

adventure photography, versus landscapes? 

I fi nd the 10-sec “self timer” on cameras 

limiting, so to get those awesome “isolation 

shots” — where my partner and I are both off in 

the distance — I always bring a timer remote. 

You can set it to take 20 photos, 1 second apart, 

starting in four minutes — pretty cool. And for 

landscapes, it’s all about getting a wide-angle 

lens to fi t in those sweeping vistas! 

Which is your favourite place 

to photograph? 

Anywhere that’s new, preferably wilderness 

with animals running around, all drenched in

glorious morning lighting. Snow or ice never go 

astray either! 

What photography gear do you never leave 

home without? 

Spare memory cards and batteries! And, even 

though I bring a serious digital SLR camera, I 

always try to bring a trusty little compact pointand-shoot 

style camera — ideally waterproof 

and shockproof like the Canon Powershot D10 

— for those moments you’d otherwise miss. 

Your fi ve tips on how to take better 

holiday snaps? 

1. Rule of thirds: Avoid putting your subject in 

the middle — mentally divide your scene into 

thirds (both horizontally and vertically) and 

position key parts of your photo on these 

division lines. 

2. Anything but eye-level: Crouch down low and 

look up, climb high and point down. Try weird 

and wonderful angles! 

3. Fill-fl ash outdoors: Don’t be afraid to use 

your fl ash in daylight. It can lighten shadows 

under someone’s hat, add a sparkle to their 

eyes, and so on. 

4. Leading lines: Strong lines or curves fl owing 

into a photo help lead the viewer’s eye 

through the scene to your subject. A fence 

line, a trail of footsteps, a pathway — it’ll draw 

their gaze into your photo. 

5. Depth of fi eld: If you’re using a compact 

camera, use ‘landscape mode’ if you want the 

foreground and the background in focus (for 

a mountain scene), and use ‘portrait mode’ 

to help your subject stand out against a 

blurry background. You control this effect on 

your DLSR camera by setting the aperture: 

Smaller F# = smaller depth of fi eld. 

Five common mistakes people make when 

taking photos? 

1. Wonky horizons: Check your camera isn’t 

crooked before you take the photo! 

2. Camera shake: The slightest bit of camera 

movement can turn a photo blurry, so hold 

the camera properly, rest on something, or 

use a tripod. 

3. Distracting backgrounds: Position yourself so 

that your subject is in front of a simple, plain 

background — not busy colours or with poles 

seeming to protrude out of people’s heads. 

4. Too many, too boring: Before you take a 

photo, think to yourself “Why am I taking 

this photo?” Too often we come home from 

holidays with several hundred mostly useless 

photos. After you decide a scene is worth 

capturing, rather than taking 60 photos in 60 

seconds, spend a minute carefully setting up 

one nicely composed photo. 

5. Using fl ash on distant objects: Built-in, or 

‘pop-up’ fl ashes can’t reach beyond about 

fi ve metres. So unless you’re trying to 

illuminate something in the foreground, 

you’re better off turning the fl ash off, and 

making the camera use the ambient light if 

you want a properly exposed photo — keep 

the camera steady though! 

CHRIS BRAY ONE-DAY 

PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE: 

MELBOURNE @ Melbourne Zoo 

• Saturday 6 March 

• Sunday 7 March 

BRISBANE @ Conrad Treasury 



ADELAIDE @ Adelaide Zoo 


SYDNEY @ Taronga Zoo 


AUCKLAND @ Butterfl y Creek 

wildlife park 

• Saturday 10 April 

PERTH @ Perth Zoo 

• Saturday 24 April 

• Sunday 25 April 

What does your one-day photography 

course cover? 

I combine practical and theory sessions, 

covering everything from basic composition 

through to depth of fi eld, lighting, lenses, 

histograms and pro tips. All fully catered 

and held in amazing locations around 

Australia, our small, friendly groups allow 

plenty of one-on-one time. It’s perfect for 

beginners right through to keen enthusiast 

photographers looking to get serious. Go to 

www.ChrisBray.net. 


HOW TO...

INFORMATION DESK 

Tune Into 

Life. 

Re-charge your batteries and inspire 

better living at these retreats 

WORDS RACHEL FARNAY JACQUES 

Darlington Beach Holiday Park 

Kids and parents will love the huge variety of 

fun and free activities on offer at this holiday 

park. Nestled within 110 hectares of beautiful 

bushland and beside the beach, it’s just two 

hours south of New South Wales’ Ballina Byron 

airport. From night wildlife spotting, Dreamtime 

stories and didgeridoo lessons to BMX bike 

trails, circus and hip hop dance classes, they’ll 

be spoilt for choice. Accommodation ranges 

from luxury cabins to authentic camping 

experience. 104–134 Eggins Drv, Arrawarra, 

NSW, tel: +61 (2) 6640 7444. 

Seaspray Resort & Spa 

Offering kids of all ages a memorable 

holiday is the one-year-old Seaspray, 40 

minutes’ drive from Rockhampton Airport on 

Queensland’s Capricorn Coast. Junior chefs 

will love the Kids in the Kitchen program 

(AU$35 per child) while the adventurous 

can run away to Circus School (AU$20 per 

child). On 24–26 Feb, they’re introducing 

Girlfriends Time Out — three days of surfi ng 

and bellydancing lessons, yoga and tai chi, a 

makeover and plenty of yummy meals (from 

AU$367 per person, a fi ve-share room) — so 

mum feels special too. 6 Lakewood Plc, Zilzie, 

QLD, tel: 1800 077 768. 


Peninsula Hot Springs 

Melt stress away with a visit to Australia’s only 

natural thermal mineral springs and day spa 

centre, an hour from Melbourne, on Mornington 

Peninsula. After three years of development, 

it now offers up to 39 delectable bathing 

experiences and a smorgasbord of pampering 

treatments to revitalise body and soul. Take a 

dip in the health-giving waters, choose from 

massages, facials, mud and salt treatments, 

foot and hand treatments, and ancient healing 

stone therapy, then visit the café. Springs Ln 

(formerly Devonport Drv), Rye, Mornington 

Peninsula, Vic, tel: +61 (3) 5950 8777. 

The Spa at Noosa Springs 

Put some rocket in your pocket with the NASA 

technology now available at Spirit Spa within 

The Spa at Noosa Springs. In just two hours 

(AU$200), therapist Maggie Cairns guides 

the Eternale system — based on decades of 

research conducted in the fi eld of bioenergetic 

technology — to detect emotional and 

physical imbalances, then fi xes them using 

micro-current pulse stimulation on the wrists, 

ankles and forehead. Cairns attests: “It’s a 

truly life-changing experience for the modern 

world.” Links Drv, Noosa Heads, QLD, tel: +61 

(7) 5440 3355. 

Kids in the Kitchen 

at Seaspray Resort Spa 

INSET: Pool fun at Darlington 

Beach Holiday Park 

SAMUDRA RETREAT 

When you combine surfi ng lessons and yoga 

sessions with 100% organic vegetarian food, 

you just know you’re going to go home feeling 

diff erent. And sure enough, this was the 

outcome after three days at one of Samudra’s 

new yoga-surf retreats in Dunsborough, 

in south Western Australia. With retreats 

ranging from one day to a month, passionate 

couple Lisa (surf coach) and Sheridan (yoga 

teacher) guide attendees, from beginners to 

more experienced levels, through daily surf 

lessons and twice-daily yoga sessions. 

Samudra Café, winner of the Best 

Vegetarian Restaurant – WA in the Lifestyle 

Food Channel’s I Love FOOD Awards in 

2009, has a delicious, innovative vegetarian 

menu for the most part sourced from its own 

biodynamic garden. After the day’s lessons, 

head back to your luxurious accommodation 

at Smiths Beach Resort, overlooking the 

famed Yallingup surf breaks. 

Sheridan says their philosophy is: “To 

pass on our experience — to give people the 

opportunity to see beyond what they’re doing 

every day — so when you go back to your life, 

you can integrate what you’ve learnt at the 

retreat to live a more sustainable life.” 

Th eir all-inclusive package of AU$1,495 per 

person includes all lessons, surf gear, meals 

and twin-share accommodation. Upcoming 

retreats on 5–12 Feb, 12–19 Mar, 30 Apr 

– 7 May and 4–11 Jun. 226 Naturaliste Tce, 

Dunsborough, WA, tel: +61 (8) 9779 9977.

FIT TO GO 

White Out. 

JONO BRAUER (28) 

Sport: Alpine skier 

(slalom and giant slalom specialist) 

After winning gold, silver and bronze 

in the giant slalom at the World Cup in 

March 2009, you promptly tore an anterior 

cruciate ligament. Tell us about your 

recovery plan immediately after? 

Recovery started the morning after my crash; 

post surgery I had one goal in mind and that 

was getting to the [Olympic] Games healthy. 

I’ve been battling with some pain in my knee 

but recently I had some treatment from the 

world-renowned Steadman Hawkins Clinic in 

Vail, Colorado, which, coupled with some rest 

and a new knee brace courtesy of DonJoy, 

seems to be doing the trick. I really just have 

to manage my knee and the load that I put 

it through. 

With injury an almost annual occurrence 

since 2006, what kind of work can be done 

in the gym to perfect your technique? 

There’s a multitude of things I do in the gym 

including power lifting, strength training, cardio, 

anaerobic training, co-ordination and core 

work. It’s impossible to completely replicate 

skiing in the gym but we try and train similar 

movements to replicate it as best as possible. 


Photo: www.heading4.com.au 

Left to right: Lachlan Hay, Jono Brauer 

INSET: Nate Johnstone 

We meet three Australian athletes keeping fi t and our 

hopes for 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic burning bright 

INTERVIEWS JURIS GRANEY 

NATE JOHNSTONE (19) 

Sport: Snowboard half-pipe 

In just one season you’ve leapt from 27th 

in the World Cup to become Australia’s 

best half-pipe exponent in more than a 

decade — what’s your secret? 

It’s just hard work and training and riding with 

the best snowboarders in the world, which 

brings out the best in you and pushes you to 

ride at their level. While I’m home I go to the 

gym every day and surf whenever I can. When 

overseas I try to get down to the gym most 

days but we usually do little sessions, focusing 

more on recovery and stretching so we don’t 

get tired for training the next day. 

Murphy’s Law states that now the 

Olympics beckons, the chance of injury 

escalates — how do you block out 

thoughts of injury? 

I just have to think it’s not a problem and 

there’s no injury factor to what I’m doing. But 

it can be hard sometimes because the tricks 

that we’re doing have a high risk of injury, so 

there’s always that thought in your head that 

if you don’t land a certain trick, it can be make 

or break. 

LACHLAN HAY (23) 

Sport: 1,000m speed skater 

Just what does a speed skater’s training 

regime look like? 

I warm up for an hour before ice training for 

1.5 hours, go home for a sleep, food and to 

recover. Then it’s to the gym for a weight 

session or an imitation session where we 

focus on technique on the land and try 

imitating what we do on the ice. Those 

sessions are about 2.5 hours, sometimes 

seven days a week. So it’s pretty hard; there’s 

not much time for running around shopping or 

going anywhere because, as you can imagine, 

recovery is pretty important. 

Last season started with an ankle injury 

but ended with you establishing a new 

Australian record for the 1,000m. Tell 

us about your injury management and 

prevention program. 

Yeah, I had an ankle injury where I cut it open 

just nicking the tendon, there was a lot of 

strengthening work which was backed up 

with regular physio and stretching sessions. It 

worked and got me back on the road. 

Photo: Red Bull Photofi les/Mark Watson


It’s 

Following a year of blinding success, we talk to 

Empire of the Sun’s Australian frontman Luke 

Steele about making music and chasing dreams 

always diffi cult to measure success 

and the perilously subjective waters 

of the music industry are especially murky. 

But, when the monolithic U2 strutted on stage 

in Paris to “Walking on a Dream” in late 2009, 

Australia’s pop superforce Empire of the Sun 

received an undeniably golden nod. A wordless 

invitation into the inner circle. 

In hindsight, that recognition proves little 

more than a bookend for a project that has 

pursued everything on the grandest of scales. 

The bold, the brash, the ecstatic. Yet, for all 

of the fantastical video clips, genre-bending 

soundscapes and unabashedly eccentric 

couture, the beginnings of Empire of the Sun 

were decidedly more low key. 

Two of Australia’s up-and-coming 

WORDS ADAM BAIDAWI 

songwriters, Luke Steele (then of Sleepy 

Jackson fame) and Pnau’s Nick Littlemore 

were introduced at a bar by a mutual contact 

and instantly bonded. Writing together 

whenever they could fi nd themselves on 

the same side of the country (Steele was 

based in Perth, while Littlemore worked out 

of Sydney), Empire of the Sun was a labour 

of love and collaboration. 

In the 18 months since the release of their 

debut album, Walking on a Dream, frontman 

Luke Steele has transformed from a promising 

local songwriting talent into an enigmatic, 

globetrotting, larger-than-life curator of 

electro-pop aesthetic. Littlemore’s story is 

much the same: he’s busy recording a new 

Pnau studio album — with Elton John’s help.

STAR STRUCK 


Illustration: DEBASER 


STAR STRUCK 



Luke Steele seizes 

the day after 

Empire of the 

Sun won Best Pop 

Release and Best 

Group at the 2009 

ARIA Awards 

Photo: Getty Images 

It’s a late Tuesday morning in Perth 

when we sit down, the kind of predictably 

picturesque day when the city smiles like 

the relaxed, bronzed beauty she is. When 

we spoke a few months earlier, Steele and 

his musical partner in crime were riding 

a high: “Walking on a Dream” the single 

was charting in innumerable countries, 

including Japan and New Zealand, while 

shoring itself as a multi-platinum cult hit 

in their homeland. More notably, the duo 

were about to make their long-awaited 

live debut at the 2009 Parklife festival 

in Brisbane. The landscape has shifted 

dramatically since. 

It’s been two months since they 

cleaned up at the ARIA Awards (taking out four 

categories, including the coveted Album of 

the Year). In rather affable (though not wholly 

unsurprising) fashion, I fi nd that Steele has 

retained his authentically Perth-tinged downto-earth 

charisma. “What happened there?” 

he grins wryly. “It’s funny: you go to the shops 

and like, middle-aged mums and truckies are 

coming up just going, ‘Good on ya!’” 

Modesty aside (did I mention that Steele 

was also named GQ’s Man of the Year?), it’s 

clear that the ARIAs rubber-stamped the duo’s 

domination of the Australian music scene. 

They had scaled the mountain and that night, 

they reached the summit. Yet, infamously, it 

was Steele alone who was there to take it in. 

Illustration: DEBASER

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Rumours of a tiff between Steele and 

Littlemore began circulating after the latter 

inexplicably disappeared just before their 

debut tour. Steele readily admitted that he 

was missing for months, and that he was 

somewhere overseas. The whispers reached 

fever pitch at the ARIAs, with Littlemore still 

nowhere to be seen, and Steele noticeably 

lost for words when asked about it at his press 

conference. “We never had a fi ght,” he shrugs 

as I ask again, “but we had different plans on 

touring. Nick didn’t want to tour for three or 

four years. I’m more rapid — the show needs 

to stay on the road. You want to play these 

songs that everyone was singing all summer, 

you know?” 

So what of the future of the band? Who are 

Empire of the Sun? “It’s still me and Nick,” he 

assures. “It’s part of the journey. But, I guess, 

only the future knows.” 

So, for the time being, Steele is steering 

the ship himself, performing and promoting. 

Littlemore is accredited with producing. 

They’ve just released the deluxe edition 

vinyl box set of Walking on a Dream and 

the single“Half Mast”, yet another pop song 

destined to become an anthem. Indeed, terms 


like “anthemic” and “iconic” have all too often 

been cited when it comes to this group. 

So what was different about Empire of 

the Sun for Steele who boasts an impressive 

musical CV — he grew up in a musical family 

(sister Katy fronts indie rockers Little Birdy); 

he’s been signed to a major record label 

for the better part of a decade; and 

he’s contributed to numerous bands 

and collectives? 

He pauses, pensive: “Chemistry. I think 

Nick and I have always had this pretty rare 

chemistry. Empire of the Sun didn’t have 

any timeframe. It just happened when it was 

meant to happen. I’ve never really done that. 

With an album, you usually strangle the life 

out of it, and tie it up in the corner and go, 

‘You’re fi nished, alright?!’” he grins waving a 

stern fi nger. 

When he’s not keeping impossibly busy 

— current projects: a “highly mechanical” 

heavy blues solo album, a closing song for 

an upcoming Australian fi lm and Sleepy 

Jackson’s new album — Steele’s focus lies 

fi rmly on his family. 

He met his wife Jodi, a former glossy 

magazine editor, after commenting on 

Luke Steele plays live 

with dancers and backing band 

on the water stage at the 

Parklife Festival, Melbourne 

her “rather eccentric” cocktail at a Perth 

nightspot. His pet name for her is “Snappy 

Dolphin”. “She’s so effi cient and professional 

— snappy — she gets things done pretty 

quick. And being such a beautiful woman 

— she’s kind of like a dolphin.” The couple had 

their fi rst child in 2008, a daughter named 

Sunny Tiger. 

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STAR STRUCK 


“It’s amazing how much it [parenthood] 

makes you become an adventurer. You can’t 

pull out the same trick each day. You have 

to invent. I’ve invented so many things: the 

fl ying dummy, the tiger that comes out of the 

kitchen… it’s the greatest thing to happen to a 

guy and a girl.” 

2010, he tells me, will fi nally see the family 

move overseas, a plan which fell through two 


years ago, “when Snaps fell pregnant”. In March, 

they’ll likely fi nd themselves in New York. “I’ve 

always felt very at home there. I feel it’s the 

right time to work with people that are a lot 

better than me, who have been to a lot more 

places and seen a lot more things than me.” 

And so, Steele fi nds himself once more 

on the verge of big things, only on a scale 

infi nitely more grand. He’s just striving to keep 


L to R: Tony Mitolo, Luke Steele and 

Surahn Sidhu of Empire of the Sun 

arrive with Jodi Steele (Luke’s wife) 

at the 2009 ARIA Awards at Acer Arena 

LUKE STEELE’S 

FAVOURITE DESTINATION 

Coromandel, New Zealand: 

“It’s where all of my cousins live. Skiing, 

fi shing, surfi ng, writing songs, drinking nice 

New Zealand wines and teas — all of the 

good things.” 

up with his own mind. 

“All of the visions and the imagination have 

turned into this ocean. It’s great when you’re 

months and months behind your mind, but 

when it turns into years — you’ve got a lot 

of work to do each day, you know?” He sits 

up straight suddenly, eyes bright. “You wake 

up thankful to talk and walk and you’re ready 

to go.”

STAR STRUCK 


“It’s amazing how much it [parenthood] 

makes you become an adventurer. You can’t 

pull out the same trick each day. You have 

to invent. I’ve invented so many things: the 

fl ying dummy, the tiger that comes out of the 

kitchen… it’s the greatest thing to happen to a 

guy and a girl.” 

2010, he tells me, will fi nally see the family 

move overseas, a plan which fell through two 


years ago, “when Snaps fell pregnant”. In March, 

they’ll likely fi nd themselves in New York. “I’ve 

always felt very at home there. I feel it’s the 

right time to work with people that are a lot 

better than me, who have been to a lot more 

places and seen a lot more things than me.” 

And so, Steele fi nds himself once more 

on the verge of big things, only on a scale 

infi nitely more grand. He’s just striving to keep 


L to R: Tony Mitolo, Luke Steele and 

Surahn Sidhu of Empire of the Sun 

arrive with Jodi Steele (Luke’s wife) 

at the 2009 ARIA Awards at Acer Arena 

LUKE STEELE’S 

FAVOURITE DESTINATION 

Coromandel, New Zealand: 

“It’s where all of my cousins live. Skiing, 

fi shing, surfi ng, writing songs, drinking nice 

New Zealand wines and teas — all of the 

good things.” 

up with his own mind. 

“All of the visions and the imagination have 

turned into this ocean. It’s great when you’re 

months and months behind your mind, but 

when it turns into years — you’ve got a lot 

of work to do each day, you know?” He sits 

up straight suddenly, eyes bright. “You wake 

up thankful to talk and walk and you’re ready 

to go.”

The best board riders on the 

planet are gathering to tackle the 

Gold Coast’s famed Snapper Rocks 


WORDS BILL PALMER

Kelly Slater competes 

during the fi nal of the 

2008 Quiksilver Pro 


Surfing 

on the Gold Coast is 

not just a pastime — it 

borders on being a religion. Indeed, it even has 

a suburb to celebrate the fact that it’s paradise 

for surfers. And while Surfers Paradise itself is 

more famous for its funparks than its surf, the 

beaches to the north and south are home to 

some of the best surfi ng in the country. This 

month they’ll be home to the best surfers in 

the world. 

The point break of Snapper Rocks, on the 

Queensland/New South Wales border, will 

be transformed into a temporary surfi ng city 

as it plays host to two of the world’s premier 

surfi ng contests, the men’s Quiksilver Pro and 

the women’s Roxy Pro. 

With more than 60km of picture-perfect 

coastline stretching from South Stradbroke 

Island in the north to the Tweed Coast in the 

south, surfi ng is the lifeblood of the region. So 

it comes as no surprise that surfers from the 

Gold Coast dominate the world rankings. 

The world’s top three men’s surfers all live 

within a few minutes of Snapper’s famed 

waves: world number one Mick Fanning, 

second-ranked Joel Parkinson and number 

three Bede Durbidge. Three-time women’s 

world champ Steph Gilmore is also a local. 

There are no entry fees to watch the 

Quiksilver or Roxy Pros — just park yourself 

on a sand-dune or hill overlooking the beach 

and soak up the action. While the contests 

are offi cially held at Snapper, there is a roving 

commission for organisers to chase the waves. 

If Snapper isn’t fi ring, the competition can 

be staged anywhere from North Stradbroke 

Island to Cabarita in northern NSW. 

Most of the time, organisers make an 

early-morning decision whether to move the 

event and, if the surf really sucks, there’s the 

Photo: Courtesy of Quiksilver 

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QUIKSILVER PRO 

potential for organisers to call a day off 

as long as they still have reserve days up 

their sleeves. You can keep up with any 

developments by listening to local radio 

stations or checking on-line. 

However, if the Surf God Huey is 

smiling, most of the action should be staged at 

Snapper, just a short stroll around Greenmount 

Headland from dozens of accommodation 

options in the surfi e suburb of Coolangatta. 

During the contest each year Coolangatta 

goes into party mode, building to a crescendo 

on fi nals night when the winner traditionally 

shouts the bar. Organisers have worked hard 

to turn the event into a festival of surfi ng and 

summer living, with a music festival added to 

the entertainment line-up. 

To the uninitiated, the scoring system for 

competitive surfi ng is similar to that of diving 

or gymnastics. Judges give surfers a score 

out of 10 for each wave they catch during the 

competition, which pits surfer against surfer 

in a knockout format like a tennis tournament. 

The best two waves of each heat count. 

Perfect 10s are rare but they do happen 

— last year’s Quiksilver Pro winner Joel 

Parkinson chalked up two on a pulsating fi nal 

day as Kirra Point was lashed by cyclonic 

3m seas. For Parkinson, the world number 

two, the event holds a special place. As a 

Coolangatta local, it’s his home event and one 

he has won twice. 

Home ground advantage is a huge boost 

for Parkinson and the other locals. Fanning 

has won here in 2005 and 2007; Parkinson 

won in 2002 and 2009. After leading the world 

ratings for much of last year, Parkinson is 

desperate to win the world title which has so 

far eluded him and can think of no better place 

to start than Snapper Rocks. 

Spectators line the beach 

during competition 

INSET: Meet new Aussie 

young gun Julian Wilson 


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QUIKSILVER PRO 

“There’s always something special for me 

about this fi rst event of the year,” he says. 

“For starters, it’s in my backyard and I get to 

have all my family and friends on the beach 

supporting. You can hear the crowd when 

you’re out there competing so you always 

know if you’ve got a good wave. And it has 

turned into a festival-like event with so many 

things to see.” 

On the women’s side, Gilmore should again 

start as favourite. The girl nicknamed “Happy” 

grew up a short drive down the road on the 


Stephanie Gilmore surfs to 

victory during a tough quarterfi 

nal match-up against former 

ASP World Champion Australian 

Chelsea Hedges during the 2009 

Roxy Pro Gold Coast 

Tweed Coast, but 

even outside of 

competition you 

can fi nd her carving 

up out the back 

with the boys 

at Snapper. Not 

surprisingly she 

rates the Roxy Pro, 

an event she fi rst 

won as a teenager, 

as her favourite. 

“I’m probably 

a little bit biased 

because it’s my 

home break,” she admits. “Overall, it’s one of 

the best-run contests and it’s a great set-up 

for the fans. You can get up to 10,000–15,000 

people on the beach at any one time and it’s 

just an awesome atmosphere. 

As she succinctly puts it: “The Gold Coast 

really is one of the meccas of surfi ng.” 


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Adelaide, Cairns, Melbourne, Newcastle and 

Sydney, and from Tokyo, Osaka, Auckland 

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SANDBOX 

• Th is year’s Quiksilver Pro is held on 

27 February – 10 March. 

• Snapper Rocks is just south of Coolangatta 

and less than 10 minutes’ drive from Gold 

Coast Airport. 

• Best accommodation options are at 

Coolangatta, Tweed Heads and Kirra 

— advance bookings are essential and can 

be made at Jetstar.com. 

• Visit www.quiksilverpro.com.au or 

www.roxypro.com.au for more info. 

• To learn more about the history of 

surfi ng, visit the Surf World Gold Coast 

surfi ng museum, located at 35 Tomewin 

Street, Currumbin. 

DID YOU KNOW? 

In Quiksilver Pro history, every winner has 

been Australian except one — surfi ng legend 

Kelly Slater.

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Take our one-week tour of Queenstown 

for a great holiday of freebies and bargains 

WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY JOANNE LANE

Queenstown’s 

snow-capped peaks are famed for being 

home to bungy jumping, zorbing and other 

shrieking adventures. But if you want a holiday 

where you don’t have to pay for every highoctane 

moment, then consider this guide to 

discovering the mountains’ best-kept secrets. 

Jet boating and bungy might be off the menu, 

but there’s still enough mountain biking, gold 

panning and fl y-fi shing on crystal clear lakes 

to raise your thrill barometer on one of the 

world’s great natural stages. 

Day1 

CLOCKWISE: Cycling Lake Wakatipu; 

wander the Frankton Arm Walkway 

around Lake Wakatipu; hiking the 

Saw Pit Gully track 

Walking Lake 

Wakatipu 

Queenstown lies on an inlet of 

Lake Wakatipu, a spectacular 80km 

S-shaped expanse that starts at the tiny town 

of Glenorchy, stretches south-east towards 

Queenstown and then south to Kingston. 

Photo: Lonely Planet Images 

The lake is part of the geology that has 

formed much of Queenstown’s adventure 

tourism character. The high mountains on 

its shores provide access to activities such 

as skiing, biking and hiking while the rivers 

draining it are used for jet boating and 

bungy jumping. 

An ideal way to explore the lake is to 

walk or bike the tracks along its shores. A 

particularly popular route is the Frankton 

Arm Walkway, from Park Street through the 

pretty Queenstown gardens to Frankton (8km, 

60–90 mins). 

Southland farmer David Dumbleton has 

holidayed in Queenstown for 30 years on the 

Frankton Arm of Lake Wakatipu and never tires 

of these tracks. “One can spend a whole lifetime 

walking around the edges of Lake Wakatipu and 

never exhaust the magic of the place,” he says. 

“And it’s all for free!” 

If you prefer to bike (NZ$30/50; AU$24/40 

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QUEENSTOWN 

a half-/full-day), consider extending as far as 

you dare along the gorgeous lakeside stretch 

to Kingston (48km). This is the terminus of 

the historic Kingston Flyer steam train and 

you can look around it or even board for a 

ride (children free; adults NZ$44/AU$35, 90 

mins). The train is currently under receivership 

but it’s hoped operations will restart soon. 

Day 2 

Free Skyline views 

The Skyline Gondola complex 

dominates Bob’s Peak (790m) 

overlooking Queenstown, and is a 

must for some of the best views you’ll ever 

see. I choose to see them for free, so I skip the 

NZ$23/AU$18 cable-car ride from Brecon 

Street and follow the Ti Ki Trail to the top. 

After a 45-minute walk through tall Douglas 

fi r trees, I feel I’ve more than earned the views. 

There’s a restaurant, Maori shows and some 

adrenaline-charged activities up here — the 


Luge cart-ride, the Ziptrek Flying Fox and 

AJ Hackett’s Ledge Bungy and Sky Swing. 

Again, I feel no need to pay, as I get an 

empathetic adrenaline rush just watching 

people throw themselves off the ledge 400m 

above Queenstown. 

The other place to enjoy free bungy 

madness is at the original Kawarau Bridge site, 

60km away near Cromwell. English tourist 

Lucinda Carling, at 65, is not too old to bungy 

— the oldest jumper was 94 years — but is 

happy just watching from the viewing deck. 

“Bungy jumping at Kawarau Bridge is a 

thrilling ‘must see, don’t have to do’ experience. 

Just watching provides enough of an adrenaline 

rush for me, and it’s a free day’s entertainment. 

A variety of viewing positions, especially from 

behind the take-off, allows for close audience 

participation,” says Carling, as another die-hard 

plunges the 43m into the gorge. 

Day 3 

Hiking in The 

Remarkables 

In winter, these mountain 

slopes buzz with paying skiers 

but in summer, mountain bikers and walkers 

take over. Watching the play of light across 

their fractured peaks is fascinating but getting 

into them is even better, particularly on the 

SPLURGE 

Spoil yourself with our top picks. 

JUMP: With AJ Hackett to leap off a bridge at 

the Kawarau Bridge (43m), Nevis Bungy (134m), 

Nevis Arc (300m swing), Ledge Bungy (47m) or 

Ledge Sky Swing (400m over Queenstown). 

Tel: +64 (3) 442 4008. 

EAT: Splurge on local food and wine at Gantley’s 

Restaurant. 172 Arthur’s Point Rd, Arthurs 

Point, tel: +64 (3) 442 8999. 

FLY: A scenic fl ight will reveal views of the peaks, 

fi ords, glaciers, forest and tussock lands. Contact 

The views from Bob’s Peak 

are free, or sign up for the 

Skyline Gondola ride 

INSET: Watch as the hardy 

throw themselves 

off Kuwarau Bridge 

2.5km hike to pretty Lake Alta (1,800m). 

The track starts at The Remarkables’ ski 

fi eld base facility (1,586m), although the 28km 

road from Queenstown is part of the fun, with 

the last bumpy 14km on an unsealed section. 

It’s possible to extend the trek past Lake Alta 

to the Double Cone summit (2,300m). Look 

out for fl owering alpine plants during the 

summer months. 

Arrowtown 

Travel just 20km from 

Queenstown to step back into 

the 1860s gold-mining era. Quaint 

Arrowtown is a world away from the extreme 

adventure hype, with period buildings such 

as post offi ces and stables dotting the main 

street along with shops and cafés. It’s a great 

place to buy souvenirs, enjoy local wine or see 

a fi lm in the boutique cinema. 

Day 4 

Air Wakatipu, tel: +64 (3) 442 3148, or Sunrise 

Balloons, tel: +64 (3) 442 0781. 

DRINK: Enjoy a frosty drink at the Minus Five 

Bar. Steamer Wharf, Queenstown, tel: +64 (3) 

442 6050. 

SLEEP: Blow your budget with a night at the 

Remarkables Lodge. 595 Kingston Rd, tel: +64 

(3) 442 2720. 

SHOP: Decorate yourself with funky designs 

from Th e Bead Shop. 2b Shotover St, tel: +64 (3) 

441 8466. 

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You can learn about local history at the 

Lakes District Museum (NZ$5/AU$4) or get 

recommendations for local activities. Museum 

director David Clarke says there are plenty of 

low-cost things to do, but a shopping highlight, 

particularly for families, is the Remarkables 

Sweet Shop. It’s “an Aladdin’s cave of jars full 

of the old traditional sweets like blackballs, 

humbugs and aniseed balls,” he tempts. 

I get in touch with the town’s multicultural 

past at the Chinese mining settlement by the 

Arrow River and then head out on one of the 

area’s hikes. The Sawpit Gully trail (2-3 hrs) 

passes through forest daubed with profusions 

of wild strawberries, daisies and dandelions 

and then crosses tussock-covered slopes to 

an old stone miner’s hut before dropping back 

down to the Arrow River. Other fun, low-cost 

activities here include gold panning, fi shing, 

reading under a waving willow or fl oating 

downstream with the local kids in inner tubes 

procured from a garage. 

Day 5 

Day tramps 

Glenorchy at the head of Lake 

Wakatipu is a scenic 48km 

drive from Queenstown. It’s 

surrounded by glacier-fed rivers that are great 

for fi shing and ancient forests for hiking, such 

as in the Fiordland and Aspiring National Parks 

that provide access to some of New Zealand’s 

most famous multi-day tracks. These include 

the Routeburn (32km, 3 days), Greenstone 

(37km, 2-3 days), Caples (23km, 2-3 days) 

and Rees/Dart (57km, 4-5 days) hiking trails. 

To undertake a full hike you must pay 

a booking fee with the Department of 


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QUEENSTOWN 

Conservation for overnight accommodation 

on the way, however day hikes on all these 

tracks are free. While you won’t get up into the 

heights and passes for views of glacial lakes 

and snowy peaks, the wire rope bridges along 

the Caples River are fun to bounce across and 

there’s plenty of easy walking for kids on the 

lowland areas. 

Mountain biking 

to Macetown 

I head back to Arrowtown’s 

Chinese settlement today on 

a mountain bike (NZ$50;AU$40/day) to 

Day 6 

tackle the 13.1km off-road track to Macetown, 

an abandoned gold mining settlement 21 river 


Tackle off-road 

trails to Macetown 

on a moutain bike 

crossings upstream. One of these was used to 

fi lm the Lord of the Rings scene when Arwen 

stops the Nazgûl fording the river, so I feel like 

I’m riding into the movie itself. Unfortunately 

I don’t see Arwen, but there are other riders, 

4WDers and the occasional runner tackling 

the bumpy route. 

Fly-fi shing 

at Glenorchy 

On my last day I go fl y-fi shing 

(licences NZ$21/AU$17 for 

24 hours) near Glenorchy for rainbow and 

Day 7 

brown trout. It’s magic to watch the fl y fl ash 

across the water and as dusk falls, it becomes 

achingly beautiful. It seems a fi tting end to a 

FIND IT 

Queenstown i-SITE 

Visitor Centre 

Clocktower Building, cnr 

Shotover and Camp Sts, 

Queenstown, 

tel: +64 (3) 442 4100 

Outside Sports 

Bike Hire 

36 Shotover St, 

Queenstown, 

tel: +64 (3) 441 0074 

Skyline Gondola 

Brecon St, Queenstown, 

tel: +64 (3) 441 0101 

Arrowtown Visitor 

Information Centre 

and Lakes District 

Museum 

49 Buckingham St, 

Arrowtown, 

tel: +64 (3) 442 1824 

Department of 

Conservation 

Queenstown Regional 

Visitor Centre 

38 Shotover St, 

Queenstown, 

tel: +64 (3) 442 7935 

Glenorchy Information 

Centre 

Mull St, Glenorchy, 

tel: +64 (3) 409 2049 

week in which I’ve hardly spent a cent 

and left only footsteps, ripples, bike tracks 

and exclamations. 

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via Christchurch and Auckland; JetSaver 

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An Australian Tradition

This 

year’s 2010 

Adelaide 

Festival of Arts features 

a heart burning brightly 

on the cover of its 

program, refl ecting 

artistic director Paul 

Grabowsky’s belief 

about the arts “going 

straight for the heart”. 

“It’s a commanding 

image for me of what makes 

me an artist: the opportunity to 

move people, to make them feel things,” says 

the jazz performer and former Steve Vizard 

sidekick. “My vision for 2010 has been to 

create a festival that captures the hearts and 

minds of the people of Australia.” 

It’s the 50th anniversary of this biennial 

event, and the jam-packed program is one 

of the largest in its history with more than 

250 performances, events and exhibitions 

across 33 venues throughout Adelaide from 

26 February to 14 March. 

There’s something for everyone, from the 

opening pyrotechnics of Groupe F’s A Little 

More Light — a free community event at 

8.45pm on Saturday, 27 February in Adelaide’s 

Victoria Park — to the exhibition A Brilliant 

Tradition which celebrates the achievements 

and events of the Festival’s 50 years’ history, 

from 26 February in the Festival Theatre foyer. 


We speak with the man 

tasked with creating 

the 50th anniversary 

line-up of Australia’s 

largest multi-arts festival 

WORDS HEATHER MILLAR

The Australian premiere of Hungarian 

composer Gyorgy Ligeti’s only opera, La Grand 

Macabre, is being performed on and inside a 

giant naked sculpture of a woman on 26 and 

28 February and 3 and 4 March, in the Festival 

Theatre. The co-production between opera 

companies from Belgium, Rome, London and 

Barcelona is directed by controversial Spanish 

theatre group La Fura dels Baus, which 

produced the opening ceremony for 

the 1992 Olympics. 

“I saw this ingenious production in Rome 

earlier this year and I simply knew we had to 

have it for Adelaide,” explains Grabowsky. “Le 

Grand Macabre is Ligeti’s only light opera and 

in my opinion, the most important opera of 

the late 20th century. And the stagecraft is like 

nothing we’ve seen before in Australia.” 

Then there’s US jazz great, 76-year-old 

saxophone player Wayne Shorter, who 

Grabowsky describes as “one of my favourite 

musicians in the world” and “the greatest jazz 

musician of them all”. The nine-time Grammy 

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Jin Xing 

Dance, Wayne Shorter, London 

Sinfonietta, Julia Zemiro, Groupe F 

HUB 

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award-winner will perform with his quartet 

for one night only on 6 March in the Festival 

Theatre. “Personally, I couldn’t be prouder. 

He’s been an infl uence on my music since 

I was a teenager. It’s a dream come true!” 

says Grabowsky. 

Elcho Island’s Chooky Dancers, who found 

fame on the internet with their version of 

the Zorba dance, will perform a new work, 

Wrong Skin — a Yolngu tale of forbidden love, 

skin and clan — directed by Nigel Jamieson. 

“I found them on YouTube, like about 10 

million other people,” says Grabowsky. “This 

new work explores the pressures faced by 

remote Indigenous communities determined 

to maintain their identity and culture, while 

fi nding a place for their children in the 

contemporary world.” 

The London Sinfonietta is presenting two 

programs exclusive to the Adelaide Festival. 

Chief executive Andrew Burke says that the UK 

contemporary music ensemble “is excited to 

be exploring new collaborations and supporting 

new composing and performing talent”. 

One such collaboration is with the Young 

Wagiluk Group, from East Arnhem Land, 

who will perform the manikay song cycles 

— “one of the great treasures of Indigenous 

Australian culture,” according to Grabowsky. 

The collaboration, called “Tract”, is part of the 

group’s second program Wind & Glass on 28 

February in the Adelaide Town Hall. 

For Grabowsky, the Aboriginal works are 

a signifi cant part of the festival. “A lot of the 

work that I have commissioned involves, in 

various ways, Aboriginal people... theatre, 

dance, music, visual art. To bring together the 

people who represent the oldest music on the 

planet, together with the cutting-edge of new 

music today, is a very important moment in 

Australian music history,” he says. 


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Throughout much of the festival, 

RocKwiz host Julia Zemiro will hold court 

inside the Famous Spiegeltent in Elder 

Park, where she will interview secret 

musical guests. “We’ll be interviewing a 

different musician every night, hearing 

them play... two songs that infl uenced them, 

three of their own songs and a mystery song,” 

explains Zemiro. 

“In this new show, Julia will lead the audience 

into the inner working life of a performer, why 

they do what they do, and what their processes 

are,” adds Grabowsky. Julia Zemiro’s Comfort 

Zone is on 26–28 February, 3–7 March, and 

10–13 March 2010. 

Want more? The Spiegeltent will also feature 

the return of burlesque show La Clique and jazz 

band The Necks. Other performances not to 

be missed include Shanghai Beauty by China’s 

Jin Xing Dance Theatre, and Good Morning Mr 

Gershwin, a fusion of video technology, hip-hop 

moves and classic George Gershwin songs by 

France’s Montalvo-Hervieu Company. 

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Chooky Dancers 

ONE FOR THE FAMILY: 

CIRCUS OZ 

Th e exhilarating 

new show from Circus 

Oz opens in a ballroom. 

However, in true Circus 

Oz style, this elegant scene 

soon descends into a manic 

comic knockabout cyclone 

of absurd acrobatics 

and non-stop action. 

Expect rubberlimbed 

tumbling, 

duo juggling, chair 

balancing, teeterboard, 

hoop diving, group bike and 

amazing aerial 

rope performances. 

Barely Contained is on 24 

February–14 March at 

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PHILLIP ISLAND 


Phillip Island offers much more 

than just birds and motorbikes 

WORDS ELIZABETH QUINN 

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: You won’t believe 

your eyes in The Shrinking Room; peer into 

tidal pools for surprises; meet David at Panny’s 

Factory; come face to face with the residents of 

Churchill Island Heritage Farm; say hello to the 

natives at the Koala Conservation Centre 

The 

once-sleepy holiday destination 

of Phillip Island is well and truly 

waking up. The nightly penguin parade and the 

annual Grand Prix are still the biggest shows 

in town, but visitors to this stretch of coastline 

are discovering the other face of the island, 

with its promise of fun for everyone from 

families and foodies to adventurers. 

The new Koala Conservation Centre 

features an interactive visitor education foyer, 

while elevated boardwalks provide close 

encounters of the furry kind, sign-posting the 

presence of individual treetop inhabitants as 

they sleep peacefully in the breeze. 

Churchill Island Heritage Farm at 

Newhaven has its share of loveable residents. 

This working farm, with its heritage buildings 

and gardens, provides daily demonstrations 

of old-style farming practices, and its animal 

nursery is a magnet for children of all ages. 

Don’t miss the farmers’ market held here on 

the fourth Saturday of the month. A ‘3 Park 

Pass’ is an economical option for families and 

includes a visit to the Penguin Parade.

CHURCHILL ISLAND HERITAGE 

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IS A MAGNET FOR CHILDREN 

OF ALL AGES 

For a new perspective on family-friendly 

attractions on the island, stop by at A Maze’N 

Things fun park on the road to Cowes. From 

the moment you enter the Anti-Gravity Room, 

your view of the world is turned on its head. 

Optical illusions play games with your mind 

in the Mirror Maze with its seemingly endless 

twists and turns, while the Shrinking Room 

sees children become giants and adults turn 

into oompah loompahs. 

Take the Rhyll-Newhaven Road to the 

Rhyll Trout and Bush Tucker Farm where 

Paul Mannix has spent the past seven years 

designing, building and adapting his vision of 

a family- and environmentally-friendly tourist 

destination. First, 

catch your fi sh: the 

hard part is deciding 

whether to take 

it home and cook it yourself or have it 

cooked for you while you wander through 

the newly established Bush Tucker Trail, 

featuring more than 6,000 native plants and 

22 different species. 

From the indigenous to the indulgent: the 

mouth-watering range of chocolates at the 

famous Panny’s Phillip Island Chocolate 

Factory is made from the fi nest Belgian 

Callebaut chocolate. Gaze in awe at the 

life-sized depiction of Michelangelo’s David 

HOT SPOT 


(with strategically placed spearmint leaf). An 

interactive exhibition educates and prepares 

the taste buds for the chocolate rush 

beyond its doors. Visitors learn that good 

quality chocolate should never be chewed 

but will melt within 60 seconds, while poor 

quality chocolate will take fi ve minutes to melt 

in the mouth. And, as Panny rightly asks, “why 

test your patience on an inferior product?” 


CLOCKWISE: Chef Patrick 

O’Grady; tuck into the fresh 

seafood on offer; buy seafood 

and cook it yourself 

Those who appreciate the fi ner things in 

life will fi nd much to love about Phillip Island. 

Take a detour to The Purple Hen winery in 

Rhyll, with its distinctive avian logo on display 

on the tasting room-cum-café wall. A small 

but stylish grazing menu encourages visitors 

to settle in as they admire the fl oor-to-ceiling 

view of Westernport Bay and ponder the big 

questions… such as which award-winning 

Purple Hen wine to take home. 

Stock up on homemade provisions at The 

Island Food Store in Cowes, tucked away 

in a cul-de-sac next to Coles’ car park: just 

follow the aroma of freshly baked muffi ns 

and good coffee. A short drive to Ventnor 

will take you to The Island Primary Produce 

Store, an old-fashioned butchery that only 

sells meat produced on the property. For 

butcher-turned-farmer Ted Walsh, meat “is my 

passion: it’s what I do.” 

Passion is a word used often by the 

residents of Phillip Island. “We want people to 

know we’re here, to know there’s good food in 

Phillip Island,” says Patrick O’Garey of Infused 

Restaurant and Wine Bar in Cowes. Offering 

modern Australian cuisine in elegant yet casual 

surroundings, Infused is the place for a special 

night out or all-day grazing. The alfresco wine 

bar area is a magnet for passing beachgoers 

on their way home. Oysters are a house 

speciality: in summer, more than 100 dozen 

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are served in a variety of ways, from natural 

through to tempura style with chilli jam. 

Now that you’re fed and watered, 

it’s time for those with an adventurous 

streak to experience the excitementfuelled 

activities Phillip Island has to offer. 

Depending on how wet you want to get, you 

can learn to surf, experience the sea spray 

in a jet boat ride, or strap yourself in with an 

experienced racing driver for a taste of the 

Grand Prix circuit. (Go 26–28 February to 

catch the Superbike World Championship, 

when Aussie lads Troy Corser and Chris 

Vermeulen do battle with Noriyuki Haga and 

James Toseland.) Or for an eye-popping point 

of view, board a Phillip Island Helicopter for 

a scenic joyride — doors are optional! 

FIRST LOVE 

Due for release in April 2010, First Love is a 

documentary about three young girls from 

Phillip Island and their journey towards 

becoming professional surfers. One of the girls, 

India Payne, lists Flynns and Woolamai as her 

favourite surfi ng spots on the island. When 

she’s not training at the local gym or away from 

home competing, she likes to do what most 

15-year-old girls do: spend time at the beach 

hanging out with friends. “I just love being by 

the water,” she says. 

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accommodation is as diverse as its range of 

visitors. The Waves Apartments in Cowes are 

situated across the road from the foreshore 

and feature a spa bath, kitchenette and 

two bedrooms that sleep up to fi ve. Recent 

renovations include premium accommodation 

for couples with 180-degree bay views. 

Holmwood Guesthouse is situated just 

around the corner, nestled among the 

eucalypts. Guests can choose one of three 

beautifully appointed ensuite rooms in the 

guesthouse, or one of two self-contained 

cottages that sleep up to four people. Freshly 


squeezed orange juice and a cooked breakfast 

are provided for guesthouse residents, while 

cottage dwellers get a breakfast hamper. 

Whatever you’re after, the Phillip Island 

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PEOPLE 

INDIGENOUS RUGBY LEAGUE 


When the Indigenous All 

Stars vs NRL All Stars match 

takes the fi eld, it will be more 

than just a thrilling game 

WORDS CRAIG TANSLEY 

Front row (L to R): 

Jamie Soward, PJ Marsh, 

Nathan Merritt, Preston Campbell, 

David Gallop (CEO of the NRL) 

Second Row (L to R): 

William Johnstone, Jharal Yow Yeh, 

Justin Hodges, Scott Prince, 

Neil Henry (Indigenous All Stars Coach) 

Third row (L to R): Greg Inglis, Carl Webb

might be the proudest night 

“This for our people on a sports 

fi eld since Cathy Freeman won her Gold 

Medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000,” 

forecasts Preston Campbell, full back with 

the National Rugby League’s (NRL) Jetstar 

Gold Coast Titans. 

On 13 February, 17 of Australia’s fi nestever 

Indigenous rugby league stars will do 

battle with the greatest non-Aboriginal 

and Torres Strait Islander players from 

Australia and New Zealand on the second 

anniversary of Prime Minister Kevin 

Rudd’s apology to Australia’s Indigenous 

people. The brainchild of Preston 

Campbell, this game will rank as one of 

the great sporting moments in Australia’s 

history. But that’s only a small part of it; 

this game promises to go far beyond the 

realms of any sporting fi eld. 

“We’re hoping that this game helps 

Indigenous communities,” Campbell 

says. “We’ve been looked at as a 

minority group for a long time, but we’ll 

be able to hold our heads very high 

that night. We’ve been working to raise 

awareness of our culture to Indigenous 

people themselves. Growing up I 

didn’t know much at all about my own 

people, so we want to make young kids 

proud of who they are. We also want to 

promote harmony across all cultures 

and better understanding.” 

All money raised from the game 

will go to community projects and 

the game will represent the start 

of a week-long initiative by the NRL to help 

Indigenous communities. 

The game, to be played at Gold Coast’s 

Skilled Park, will feature the best Indigenous 

team ever assembled, many of whom are the 

biggest stars in the NRL competition. Players 

include Melbourne’s Greg Inglis, Australian 

halfback Jonathan Thurston, dual football 

international crowd-pleaser Wendell Sailor 

and Jetstar Gold Coast Titans’ co-captain 

Scott Prince. They’ll take on the best players 

from Australia and New Zealand, including 

Australian captain Darren Lockyer and 

vice-captain Cameron Smith, New Zealand 

captain Benji Marshall and vice-captain Adam 

Blair, and the most favoured non-Indigenous 

player from every one of the 16 NRL clubs. 

For most Indigenous players picked, 

the game will be the fi rst time they’ve ever 

represented their people, something 

they say ranks up alongside any other 

sporting achievement. 

Left to right: Scott Prince, 

Sid Domic and Preston Campbell 

with Sid’s jersey artwork 

IT’S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER 

WHERE YOU COME FROM AND HOPEFULLY 

WE’LL HELP YOUNG INDIGENOUS KIDS 

TO BELIEVE IN THEIR CULTURE, THEIR 

ABILITIES AND THEIR IDENTITY 

PEOPLE 


“Anybody who knows me knows how 

passionate I am about my people,” Manly star 

George Rose says. “This rates with any other 

honour in the game.” 

For Wendell Sailor, “It’s important to 

remember where you come from and hopefully 

we’ll help young Indigenous kids to believe in 

their culture, their abilities and their identity.” 

“Every time I play I’m not only representing 

my team, I’m also representing my family 

name and my Aboriginal culture,” Greg Inglis 

says. “They represent who and what I am.” 

Campbell says playing for a team 

representing his race for the very fi rst time 

means more to him than anything. “It’s hard 

to compare playing for your football team 

in the NRL with playing on behalf of all the 

Indigenous people in Australia,” he says. “Each 

week you’re playing for two points in the NRL, 

but here it feels like you’re playing for more 

— it’s almost like it’s life and death for many 

of our people. It’s trying to show Indigenous 


PEOPLE 


people there’s options out there, 

that we all come from the same 

place, that we’re all in this together.” 

Campbell had long dreamed of 

uniting the game’s elite Indigenous 

players together in the same team 

to represent their people, but he’d 

never dreamed they’d be playing such a 

formidable opponent. “When I fi rst came up 

with the idea I thought maybe we could play 

the Cook Islands or Papua New Guinea, but 

I’d never even contemplated playing a team 

like this,” he says. 

But what makes the concept even more 

exciting is that for the fi rst time ever, the 

public have actually picked the teams 

themselves. Fans have been asked to vote for 

their favourite players on-line, meaning for 

the fi rst time in Australian sporting history, the 

fans themselves choose the national teams to 

represent them. 

The Indigenous team will wear artwork 

and logos on their playing jersey designed 

by former NRL star Sid Domic, whose design 

incorporates boomerangs, the Southern Cross 

and symbolic elements representing the 

coming together of cultures and communities. 

“To think that arguably the best Indigenous 

side ever put together on a rugby league fi eld 

to represent their people will take the fi eld 


Preston Campbell 

shielded in my design is such a big honour,” 

Domic says. “It’s the biggest highlight in 

both my rugby league and art careers.” 

Oh, and as to who might win this contest, 

well, the players are being awfully tactful 

about it. “There’s so much more at stake 

than the game,” Campbell says. “It’s about 

the communities we’re going to be helping, 

but ah, gee, it’d be the icing on the cake to 

beat them, wouldn’t it? Yeah, we’d love to beat 

them, but as long as it’s competitive. They’ll 

have a killer team but then I wouldn’t want to 

have to tackle some of our blokes either.” 

Karl Webb 

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IN FOCUS 

VALENTINE’S DAY 

Photo: Photolibrary 

54 FEBRUARY 2010

Photo: Photolibrary 

If you’re ready to change your 

single status, read on for tips and 

tricks from two dating experts on 

romance (and how to hook up) in 2010 

WORDS UTE JUNKER 

fi nding love is high on your list of 

If new year’s resolutions, here is some 

fresh advice from two people for whom 

matchmaking is their profession. Here’s 

what Trudy Gilbert of Elite Introductions 

and Dan Bacon, the creator behind 

themodernman.com, have to say about 

how to meet someone special. 

How to meet someone 

and break the ice 

Trudy: There are available people 

everywhere. It’s all about your attitude. 

Every day is an opportunity to potentially 

meet someone — it could be in the lift, or 

where you get your coffee every morning. 

Dan: If you want to fi nd a girlfriend, simply 

have fun with humour 

start talking to women everywhere you go. 

You’ll be surprised at how open (and how 

fl attered) most women are that you had the 

confi dence to walk up and start talking to 

them. Women really aren’t as scary and mean 

as many think they are. 

Creative fi rst dates 

Trudy: Today, people don’t want to be seen 

making too much of an effort — they prefer 

a low-key approach. Organising an activity 

— rollerblading, sailing, a coastal walk — is a 

lot more interesting than the standard dinner 

and drinks. 

Dan: The innovative part of the fi rst date 

should come from your personality, not where 

you go. We tell men to use their charm to get 

their date to laugh, talk about herself and 

enjoy the date. Catching up for a coffee, a 

drink, or a bite to eat at a casual restaurant is 

a good idea. Trying too hard will scare a lot of 

women off. 

creative first dates are a hit 

Photo: Dreamworld 

DAN BACON’S 

7 DATING SECRETS 

1. Realise that 

women do 

want to be 

approached: 

You’ll be 

surprised at 

how receptive 

most women 

are when you 

walk up to start a 

conversation. 

2. Focus on being social, 

rather than trying to pick up: Women 

can smell desperation a mile away. 

3. Be real: If you put on a false persona, 

women will notice and it will turn them off . 

4. Read her signals of interest: If a woman 

is continuing to talk to you, chances are, 

she likes you. If she didn’t like you, she’d 

excuse herself and leave. 

5. Use fl irting: If you think a woman is 

interested in you while chatting to her, give 

her a smirk and squint your eyes at her 

for about 1-2 seconds. She’ll immediately 

understand that you’re saying, “You like 

me… and you know that I know it. 

Th is is fun!” 

6. Get her talking: One of the secrets to 

keeping conversations going is to get the 

other person talking about their life, their 

stories and their opinions. Don’t just 

reply politely — make her laugh, by 

playfully making fun of some of the things 

she talks about. 

7. Move things forward: As well as 

approaching in the fi rst place, it’s also the 

man’s role to move things forward to a 

phone number, a kiss or a second date. 

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IN FOCUS 


Most romantic places 

to take a date 

Trudy: Somewhere by the water; a cosy, 

out-of-the-way wine bar; a beautiful park 

— take a gourmet picnic. 

Dan: Sunset dates are very romantic. If you 

can fi nd a great bar, restaurant or café that 

overlooks a nice beach, take your date there 

for some relaxed conversation and laughs 

about an hour before sunset. 

How to guarantee 

a second date 

Trudy: Understand that the fi rst date is not 

the time to reveal everything about yourself. 

I compare a fi rst date to a job interview — it’s 

about a controlled release of information. Be 

careful how much you disclose: you want to 

leave them wanting to know more about you. 

Don’t share all your bad habits — people need 

to appreciate the positive fi rst. 

Dan: To get a second date, the woman needs 

to be attracted to you — and the easiest way to 

ensure that is to be confi dent and use humour. 

Most romantic 

destinations 

Trudy: Anywhere with great atmosphere, 

good food and the chance to be romantic. 

Staying at one of those beautiful lodges in 

(Tasmania’s) Cradle Mountain, where you 

have great views and a fi replace, is lovely. 

Dan: Experiencing new and exciting 

things is an ideal way to form a unique 

bond with your partner. So try something 

different. If you’re from a cooler state, 

a tropical destination like Phuket or 

Honolulu is perfect. Otherwise, an exotic 

destination like Japan can be great. 

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SINGLES TOGETHER 

Try some new ways to meet other singles 

Fit 2 Date brings single people together for 

outdoor workout sessions. “Over the four-week 

course, you expand your social network, create 

new friendships and get an awesome workout,” 

says Fit 2 Date founder, Erica French. Fit 2 Date 

runs in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Gold 

Coast and Perth. Visit www.fi t2date.com.au. 

Dream Date is a Valentine’s Day party (on 

February 13) for singles — with a diff erence. 

“Our thrill rides are guaranteed to kick-start 

conversation,” says Jennifer Neville, events 

manager at the Gold Coast’s Dreamworld theme 

park. She’s confi dent that the mix of rides, live 

entertainment and games will lead to a romantic 

rush. More details are at www.dreamworld.com.au. 


Cradle Mountain Lodge at the 

entrance to Lake St. Clair National 

Park is romantic all year 

make friends at Koala 

Adventure Island 

Skyecandy is a video dating service that operates 

via Skype. Launching on 3 February, the service 

operates 24 hours a day. “It’s not a long process, 

like a lot of dating services,” say founder Melonie 

Ryan. “You see straight away what they look like, 

so you’re not being misled by a photo.” Visit 

www.skyecandy.com. 

Koala Adventure Island is designed as a place 

for the over-18s to make new friends. Ben Malin, 

operations manager of the Whitsunday Islands, 

says, “We run a lot of group activities, including 

volleyball and nature walks, and it’s such a 

friendly atmosphere,” he says. Visit 

www.koalaadventureisland.com. 

TRUDY GILBERT’S 

7 DATING SECRETS 

1. Be comfortable 

with yourself: 

Know you 

have a lot 

off er, and 

believe you’re 

a good catch. 

2. Practise the 

four Cs: Be 

curious, courteous, 

confi dent and (for men) 

chivalrous. Old-fashioned manners are in. 

3. Be genuinely interested in getting to 

know your date. 

4. Understand what you want in a 

partner, so you can recognise it when 

you see it: Focus on essential qualities — 

reliability, honesty, genuineness — rather 

than superfl uous stuff like their height or 

how much they earn. 

5. Don’t underestimate the importance of 

body language and eye contact. 

6. Learn the delicate art of attraction, or 

fl irting: Th ere’s nothing wrong with letting 

someone know you like them. 

7. Don’t be negative — don’t complain 

about problems or talk about your ex. 

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MELBOURNE CHINATOWN 


Celebrity chef Elizabeth Chong takes us to 

her favourite Melbourne Chinatown eateries 

WORDS VANESSA MULQUINEY PHOTOGRAPHY CORMAC HANRAHAN

CLOCKWISE: Elizabeth Chong in 

the heart of Chinatown; the rustic 

Hutong Dumpling Bar; Shoya’s exquisite 

sashimi; Hutong Dumpling Bar’s 

delectable xiao long bao 

Knowing 

I’m about to spend 

the day sampling 

the best dishes in Melbourne’s Chinatown with 

one of Australia’s most loved celebrity chefs 

as my guide, I have a light breakfast and, given 

my track record with chopsticks, don’t wear 

white. As I spot a petite and smiling Chong 

confi dently walking up Little Bourke Street, I 

can’t help but notice her chic white shirt. This 

is one lady who knows her way around a pair 

of chopsticks and has no fear. 

While Chong is instantly likable, warm and 

the ideal dinner party guest, when it comes to 

food, there’s no nonsense about her. I know 

I’m in experienced hands when she pulls 

out a schedule which lists chronologically 

the restaurants we’re visiting, the time and 

duration at every restaurant, and the dishes 

we’ll be sampling. I’m only too happy to oblige. 

While walking to our fi rst restaurant, she 

tells me she came to Australia from her native 

Guangzhou when she was three years old 

and inherited a love of food and cooking from 

her father, who was a well-respected foodie 

in Melbourne. She reminisces about her old 

stomping ground. “From age three, this really 

was my home away from home,” she says, 

pointing out the church she attended with her 

family on Sundays before tagging along with 

mum to do the food shopping. 

There are traces of her family throughout 

the heritage-listed Chinatown streets. We 

pass Celestial Lane, which in the 1840s was 

known as Celestial Alley and mainly occupied 

by European tradesmen. By 1860, the Chinese 

had moved in and set up lodging houses which 

were quickly fi lled with new Chinese arrivals 

(including, later, Chong’s father). 

Our fi rst restaurant is Hutong Dumpling 

Bar, famous for its xiao long bao or soup 

dumplings (AU$8.80). Dedicated dumpling 

chefs stand behind glass and effortlessly 

sculpt enough tasty morsels for the lunchtime 

crowd, who watch on in anticipation. 

Raymond Lee, the manager, says the 

dumplings are a must-try menu item — that 

is providing you can get them in your mouth. 

“Very gently pick up the xiao long bao with 

chopsticks, dip it into the vinegar sauce 

and ginger, and place it on the spoon,” 

instructs Chong. “Nibble the side of the 

dumpling and suck the broth out and pop 

the whole thing in your mouth.” The result 

is a very hot (don’t forget to blow on it), 

fl avoursome meaty taste. How does the 

broth get inside the dumpling? Chong 

explains: “A frozen block of stock is placed 

inside the dumpling, they’re then steamed 

and the stock melts.” Genius. 

Next stop is Melbourne’s yum cha legend, 

Shark Fin House. Not usually a fan of 

Cantonese delicacies, I’m hesitant to bid 

farewell to the delicious xiao long bao, but 

who can say no to Chong? “It’s the busiest 

yum cha in Melbourne,” she claims. With 

four restaurants dotted around the city that 

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serve up more than 140 items, this is the 

place to come for a Sunday yum cha fi x. 

The atmosphere rivals any Hong Kong 

yum cha joint: loud and chaotic. Chong 

comes for the deep-fried pork dumplings 

(hum sui gok, AU$4.10). The literal 

translation is “salt water dumpling”, but 

there’s no salt water in sight. Regulars 

affectionately request “footballs”, given the 

dumplings’ shape, and the staff know exactly 

which dish they want. 

As with many yum cha dishes, the pork 

stuffi ng is quite rich with a heavy sauce. 

Chong recommends eating the football 

without dressing or sauces. “Chilli sauce 

is too overpowering, but if you must, add a 

little XO sauce which goes quite nicely.” 

And don’t forget to keep chugging bo li 

cha (black tea); the Chinese believe that so 

long as you drink tea, you can eat as much 

as you like. No yum cha visit is complete 

without dessert: egg tarts (AU$4.10). 

“They’re made with a traditional puff pastry, 

not a short crust like some nearby bakeries.” 

What results is a crunchy explosion of 

sweetness and an empty plate. 

We leave the Shark Fin’s cacophony for 

the subdued interior of Japanese restaurant 

Shoya. “I admire the precision of Japanese 

chefs; every dish they serve is a piece of 

art,” says Chong. “Shigeo [executive chef 

and director] is amazing.” And many would 

agree with her, including Iron Chef master 

Kandagawa, who said of his Shoya visit, 

“Out of the Japanese restaurants all over 

the world I’ve visited, Shoya is amazingly 

authentic and makes me feel like I’m 

at home. It’s not inferior to any quality 

restaurants in central Tokyo.” 

THE CHINESE 

BELIEVE THAT 

SO LONG AS YOU 

DRINK TEA, YOU 

CAN EAT AS MUCH 

AS YOU LIKE 

CLOCKWISE: Chong tucks 

into hum sui gok; zucchini 

fl owers; egg tarts 

INSET: Sashimi too 

pretty to eat 

Chef Shigeo remains modest when the Iron 

Chef is mentioned. “The master chef’s visit 

was unannounced; he simply walked up to me 

at the end of the meal and praised my style 

and the quality of the food saying he would 

return,” says chef Shigeo. “And he did; every 

day of his Melbourne stay.” 

As our sashimi moriawase (AU$19.80 

entrée, AU$42.80 main) arrives at the table, 

all eyes are on us. For the past 15 minutes the 

other patrons have watched Shigeo cut every 

piece of fi sh with surgical precision. “Wow. 

Japanese really is the most visually exciting 

food,” says Chong. 

Sitting on a bed of shaved ice are carefully 

arranged pieces of king fi sh, tuna, salmon, king 

dori and a single sea urchin with a gold leaf. It’s 

really too beautiful to eat, but we must. If raw 

fi sh isn’t your thing, there are plenty of rice and 

noodle dishes to choose from. Special lunch 

and dinner sets are good value; prices start 

from AU$24.80. 

Ready to be rolled out the door, I look at 

the schedule. We have two more places to 

visit and the next is my favourite restaurant. 

Well, I’m pretty sure it would be my favourite 

if I could get a table. The award-winning 

Flower Drum’s reservation list is dotted 

with local and international celebrities, and 

is as famous as its baked mud crab in shell. 

I thought this dish was a myth, but it turns 

out it actually exists. 

We take our fi rst bite with eyes closed and 

a collective “Mmm” fi lls the table; a sound 

the waiters are used to hearing. “The crab 

meat is cooked in turmeric sauce together 

with a hint of onion and garlic then baked 

in a blue swimmer crab’s shell and topped 

EAT BEAT 



EAT BEAT 


with a touch of curry cream,” says our 

waiter, who adds that a glass of Coldstream 

Hills Reserve Chardonnay is the perfect 

drop to accompany the crab. For all its 

celebrity fans and awards, including being 


Bamboo House’s smoked 

duck sirloin presented with 

a fl ourish 

recognised as one of the world’s 

top 50 restaurants by Restaurant 

magazine for four consecutive 

years, the Flower Drum comes 

up trumps — there’s little 

pretension here, they’re too busy 

dishing up high quality food. 

Although the a la carte menu 

is pricey, there’s a fi ve-course 

lunch banquet (including baked 

mud crab) from AU$88. 

Our fi nal stop is the legendary 

Bamboo House, where Alex 

Tseng was the fi rst to include 

regional Chinese dishes on the 

menu. The secret to his 28year 

success? “Keeping our 

regular customers happy, dishes 

reasonably priced and, of course, 

the food,” says Tseng. He joins 

our table like a long lost friend 

and says we’ll be eating tea 

smoked duck sirloin (AU$36 for 

half a duck), Chong’s favourite. 

I muster up space for some 

pieces inside a steam bun. “The 

duck is marinated and steamed with ginger, 

star anise and ‘secret’ ingredients, left to cool 

and then smoked using tea leaves, pine needles 

and rice,” explains Tseng. He has also prepared 

some steamed zucchini fl owers. There’s an a la 

carte menu as well as four banquet options 

(AU$48–$70 and all include Peking duck). 

With full tummies we bid farewell. 

Although Chong’s shirt is still crisp and white, 

I’m glad I wore black. 

Elizabeth Chong is a chef with more than 34 

years’ experience, TV personality and author. 

She conducts culinary and heritage tours of 

Melbourne’s Chinatown and her 2010 tours 

commence in March. Tel: +61 (3) 9819 3666 

or (0) 419 889 570. 

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tel: +61 (3) 9662 3655 

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Japan 

has become one of the 

world’s fashion meccas 

thanks to the worldwide recognition of 

giants such as Comme des Garçons, Issey 

Miyake and Kenzo. 

It was back in 1982 that Japanese 

design fi rst made a real impression on the 

fashion world, when some 12 designers 

showed their collections in Paris at the 

prêt-a-porter shows. Their unique aesthetic 

combining monochromatic minimalism with 

unusual angles had a huge impact on the 

contemporary fashion world. 

However, ask anyone who has walked 

around the trendy Harajuku, Shibuya, 

Daikanyama or Naka-Meguro districts on the 

weekend where the most impressive place 


Fashionistas looking to nourish all their senses at once 

can head to Tokyo’s outrageous biannual fashion show 

WORDS MANAMI OKAZAKI 

to see fashion is and they’ll tell you it’s on the 

streets, not in the high fashion boutiques. 

The average Japanese girl is so incredibly 

style-conscious that the streets are like a live 

catalogue of creative experiments, from the 

sophisticated to the eccentric, representing 

everything from androgynous skater-style 

street labels to the ultra chic and sexy 

glamour look. 

Given that the biannual Tokyo fashion week 

is closed to the public, and usually restricted 

to industry buyers and press, it comes as 

welcome news that there’s a show that 

incorporates the energy and fl amboyance of 

Japanese female youth fashion. Best of all, 

it’s open to the public. Tokyo Girls Collection, 

held on 6 March at Yokohama Arena, is an 

event that features 25 of Tokyo’s most popular 

youth-orientated fashion labels and is a 

carnival-styled extravaganza that pulls in over 

23,000 attendees. 

The entertainment includes everything from 

singers and local celebrities to over 70 of the 

most popular models, actresses and idols. 

It’s also unusual in that it gives attendees 

the chance to buy the outfi ts being paraded 

down the catwalk, by labels such as Double 

Standard, Alba Rosa and Cecil McBee, by 

tapping away into their phones. The clothing 

ordered via mobile internet arrives nicely 

packaged on doorsteps the next day. 

This event features clothing that currently 

adorns the racks of numerous malls and 

boutiques, in all their pastel-coloured glory,

THE AVERAGE JAPANESE GIRL IS 

SO INCREDIBLY STYLE-CONSCIOUS 

THAT THE STREETS ARE LIKE A LIVE 

CATALOGUE OF CREATIVE EXPERIMENTS 

and even if you have no intention of furiously 

making purchases over your mobile phone, 

the raucous and choreographed shows are a 

true spectacle to watch. 

Yukiko, an attendee of the 2009 Autumn/ 

Winter event — an LCD-backlit extravaganza 

featuring drag shows and live make-up demos 

— buzzes with excitement. 

“Sugoi tanoshikatta! So much fun!” she 

glows with a post-shopping adrenaline buzz 

— without a single bag in sight. “Japanese girls 

have so much energy and creativity, and we 

love to buy clothes. It’s the best fashion event 

for girls who like funky and fresh fashion!” 

“I’m not really interested in haute couturestyle 

fashion or business wear, I just want to 

see the kind of clothes that I like. And I like the 

models — they are the girls I look up to.” 

Most of the models on show are the 

“cute-type” girls with names such as 

Angelababy, Melody and Coco often seen 

in magazines and the Japanese media, 

refl ecting the national obsession with all 

things adorable and kitschy. 

The show itself is run by girlswalker.com, 

a mobile phone portal fashion site with 

seven million users, conceived by an 

enterprising start-up called Xavel branding 

inc., and it enables shoppers to buy trendy, 

affordable clothing from each of its partner 

labels. Tapping into the formidable consumer 

force of the young, female technologically 

savvy shopper, its users are mainly women 

aged 20 to 34. 

Tokyo Girls Collection glittering fi nale 

INSETS: Jill by Jill Stuart modelled 

by Angelababy; Lip Service 

RETAIL THERAPY 

TOKYO GIRLS COLLECTION 


Photos: ©TOKYO GIRLS COLLECTION by girlswalker.com 2009 AUTUMN/WINTER

RETAIL THERAPY 

TOKYO TOKYO GIRLS COLLECTION 

The concept is not exclusively Japanese. 

There are other m-commerce companies 

springing up elsewhere, such as Shoptext in 

the US which enables text-message shopping. 

Condé Nast’s Lucky magazine experimented 

with the idea of selling products via text 

in its September 2006 issue. Polo Ralph 

Lauren, keeping an eye on Japanese 

trends, opened a mobile site in August 

2008, making it the fi rst luxury retailer to 

veer in the m-commerce direction. 

Milkfed, a cute and casual women’s 

clothing range based in Japan and 

founded by fi lm director Sophia Coppola 

with best friend Stephanie Hayman and 

Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, is one of the 

brands that regularly shows at Tokyo 

Girls Collection. 

Milkfed representative, Ms Ito, 

considers the event successful on 

many levels: “I think Tokyo Girls 

Collection is a ground-breaking 

method of buying clothes, where you 

can instantly purchase items that you 

see at a fashion show. 

“I think initially, it’s people that 

live in rural or provincial areas who 

utilise Girls Walker. Also, people 

come to Girls Walker to look for 

things that have sold out in the 

stores. Using this event, there can be a 

synthesis between the ‘real clothes’ (i.e. casual 

and affordable brands) that are representative 

of Japan, the image and the products. Because 

it widens the image of Milkfed, we were able to 

broaden the range of new customers.” 

Other brands on show are top casual girls 

labels such as the surfer-inspired clothing 

label Alba Rosa, Another Edition and Topshop. 

Beams, founded by Yo Shitara, is a 

high-quality, casual brand with a cult following. 

Known for its logos and T-shirt designs, Beams 

sets fashion trends internationally, with shops 

in New York, Paris and London. 

Also showing is Cecil McBee, an ultra-girly 


CLOCKWISE: Kitson; Milkfed 

modelled by Juliana; Rope 

brand that takes the aesthetic of femininity 

to the max. It’s the most popular shop in the 

Shibuya 109 department store, and emulates 

the latest trends in Tokyo. 

Conservatism has no place in the young 

Japanese girl’s wardrobe, and the show is a 

real representation of what happens on street 

level, before the girls inevitably lose their pink 

frilled, bedazzled ways. 

Besides witnessing a new shopping 

phenomenon that has taken Japan by storm, 

Tokyo Girls Collection is the best place to 

see incredible fashion trends and Japanese 

female youth culture in a completely 

over-the-top spectacle. 

The March Spring/Summer 2010 event is 

the 10-year anniversary, and promises to be 

the most extravagant, outrageous yet. 

Tokyo Girls Collection — Spring/Summer 

Yokohama Arena, ¥5,000–7,000 (AU$58–81) 

for tickets at http://gw.tv/tgc/ 

Jetstar flies to Tokyo from Cairns, 

the Gold Coast and Sydney, and from 

Auckland and Christchurch. Jetstar Light 

Fares from AU$329 one-way. 

Aren’t you entitled to a little Star 

Treatment? Fly StarClass to Tokyo. 

Book online at Jetstar.com 

Photos: ©TOKYO GIRLS COLLECTION by girlswalker.com 2009 AUTUMN/WINTER

BRAIN TEASERS 

SUDOKU 

Sudoku. 

The objective of Sudoku is to fi ll in the missing 

squares so that each row, column and 3x3 box 

contains the numbers 1 through to 9. To get 

you started, here are a few tactics... 

Scan each horizontal and vertical band 

consisting of three 3x3 boxes. It’s often 

easiest to start in a spot with the most 

numbers already given. If you can fi nd the 

same number in two rows, you know that 

number must be in the third (the same goes 

SUDOKU EASY SUDOKU MODERATE 

1 

5 3 

8 7 5 

9 5 3 2 

5 6 7 

8 3 4 5 

4 7 

6 9 8 2 4 

9 3 2 8 


Grab a pencil, put on your thinking 

cap and join the craze! 

for columns). Now see which intersecting 

rows and columns can be eliminated because 

they also contain that number. (This method 

is called slicing and dicing.) 

Some Sudoku fans like to pencil in possible 

answers in the corners of individual squares. 

Once you have a few numbers fi lled in, you 

may also fi nd it handy to jot down a list of 

missing numbers for each row, column and 

box. Good luck! See page 71 for answers. 

6 2 

2 5 1 

4 8 9 6 

9 1 2 4 

5 9 

6 3 7 

2 3 8 1 

9 4 

5 6 4 8

1. Who plays Nelson Mandela in the new 

Clint Eastwood fi lm Invictus? 

2. What colours are the fi ve Olympic rings? 

3. What is the name of Robbie Williams’ 

latest album? 

4. In Indian cuisine, which vegetable is 

referred to as “aloo”? 

5. Flying Jetstar, which city would you be 

visiting if you fl ew into Suvarnabhumi 

International Airport? 

6. Which Hollywood starlet helped design 

a heavily criticised fashion collection for 

Emanuel Ungaro last year? 

7. Peter Lalor was the central fi gure 

during which signifi cant Australian 

historical event? 

8. On the geologic time scale which 

period comes fi rst, the Cretaceous or 

the Jurassic? 

9. Which actress, who won an Oscar 

for Monster’s Ball, is named after 

a now-defunct chain of US 

department stores? 

10. The new movie The Road, starring Viggo 

Mortensen and Guy Pearce, is based on a 

book by which American author? 

11. In relation to the government’s carbon 

legislation, what do the initials ETS 

stand for? 

12. Which famous sportswear brand 

was founded by and named after 

Adolf Dassler? 

13. In the fi lm The Sound of Music, how 

many von Trapp children were there? 

14. Which ARIA Award-winning band 

comprises Luke Steele and 

Nick Littlemore? 

15. English soccer star Robbie Fowler was 

signed as a marquee player by which 

A-League team for the current season? 

16. Who wrote the children’s books Possum 

Magic and Where Is The Green Sheep? 

17. Which healthy food was pioneered 

by the Swiss physician Maximilian 

Bircher-Benner? 

18. What is the more common name for the 

Union of Myanmar? 

19. Who is the celebrity husband of actress 

Tasma Walton? 

20. What is the name of the largest living 

species of lizard, native to Indonesia? 

21. Igor Sikorsky is most famous for 

pioneering which form of transport? 

22. What is the common name for the 

aurora borealis? 

23. Flying Jetstar, which city would you be 

visiting if you took a stroll along the 

banks of the River Torrens? 

24. Which super-model is mother to Leni, 

Henry, Johan and baby Lou? 

25. What is the name of the shaved-scalp 

haircut worn by monks? 

26. Who plays Edward Cullen in the 

Twilight movies? 

-question 

quiz. 

27. Which birds were traditionally used in 

coalmines to detect dangerous gases? 

BRAIN TEASERS 

TRIVIA QUIZ 

28. Who wrote the medical works Beyond the 

Pleasure Principle and The Ego and the Id? 

29. Which part of the human body is 

affected by gingivitis? 

30. Love apple is another name for which 

common food? 

31. Which Shakespeare play features the 

characters Prospero, Ariel and Caliban? 

32. Who provides the voice for Mr Fox in 

the new Wes Anderson movie Fantastic 

Mr. Fox? 

33. What is the collective term for helium, 

neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon? 

34. Who is coach of the new Western Sydney 

Football Club, due to join the AFL in 2012? 

35. Which two alcoholic drinks are 

used to form the basis of a 

Manhattan cocktail? 

36. What is the name of a word that imitates 

the sound of the word it describes, 

such as “meow”? 

37. The musical Cats is based on Old 

Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by 

which famous US poet? 

38. In the Gospel of John, whom does Jesus 

miraculously bring back to life four days 

after his death? 

39. What was a Trabant? 

40. This month marks the start of the 

Chinese New Year. Which animal presides 

over 2010? 


7 4 9 6 5 1 3 8 2 

6 3 8 9 7 2 5 1 4 

1 5 2 4 8 3 9 7 6 

9 8 1 2 6 7 4 5 3 

3 7 5 1 4 9 6 2 8 

2 6 4 5 3 8 1 9 7 

4 2 3 8 9 5 7 6 1 

8 9 7 3 1 6 2 4 5 

5 1 6 7 2 4 8 3 9 

Sudoku Moderate 

9 4 5 2 1 3 7 6 8 

8 2 7 6 5 9 4 1 3 

6 3 1 8 4 7 9 5 2 

4 1 9 7 8 5 3 2 6 

5 6 3 1 2 4 8 9 7 

2 7 8 3 9 6 1 4 5 

3 8 2 4 6 1 5 7 9 

1 5 6 9 7 8 2 3 4 

7 9 4 5 3 2 6 8 1 

20. Komodo dragon 

21. Helicopters 22. Northern lights 

23. Adelaide 24. Heidi Klum 

25. Tonsure 26. Robert Pattinson 

27. Canaries 28. Sigmund Freud 

29. Gums 30. Tomato 31. The 

Tempest 32. George Clooney 

33. Nobel gases 34. Kevin Sheedy 

35. Whiskey and sweet vermouth 

36. Onomatopoeia 37. TS Eliot 

38. Lazarus 39. East German car 

40. Tiger 

Sudoku Easy 

ARROW CROSSWORD 

Preliminary 

rounds 

Proverbially 

industrious 

insect 

Bestow 

__ Stravinsky, 

composer 

1. Morgan Freeman 2. Blue, yellow, 

black, green and red 3. Reality 

Killed the Video Star 4. Potato 

5. Bangkok 6. Lindsay Lohan 

7. Eureka Stockade rebellion 

8. Jurassic 9. Halle Berry 

10. Cormac McCarthy 

11. Emissions Trading Scheme 

12. Adidas 13. Seven 14. Empire 

of the Sun 15. North Queensland 

Fury 16. Mem Fox 17. Muesli 

18. Burma 19. Rove McManus 

Trivia Answers 

K A F G 

HEATS L W 

R M P O R E 

ANT OWEN 

AWARD G 

I G O R D I P 

H SCHEME 

TABOO MEG 

N N Y L O N S 

Arrow Crossword 

ANSWERS 

Lee __, 

country 

singer 

Duo 

Intrigue, 

plot 

Prohibited Pantyhose 

Incendiary 

crime 

Cash dispenser 

(inits) 

__ over, read 

carefully 

__ Wilson, 

Marley & 

Me star 

Flirtatiously 

modest 

Move 

smoothly 

Seed case 

Plunge 

__ Ryan, 

You’ve Got 

Mail actress 

Political 

protest 

march 

__ Stefani, 

Hollaback 

Girl singer 

Course of 

treatment 

Clothespins 

BRAIN TEASERS 

CROSSWORD & ANSWERS 


BRAIN TEASERS 

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WITH 

77 Jetstar news 

78 StarKids 

81 

 

88 where we fl y 

90 your wellbeing onboard 

92 international adventures 

98 domestic airports 

103 domestic destinations focus 

105 gift ideas 

106 have a bite 

110 entertainment 

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starkids 

Generous Christopher 

donated his birthday 

money to StarKids 


A young Aussie’s generosity 

helps vulnerable kids 

in Thailand 

WORDS WORLD VISION 

Christopher, 

an 11-year-old from Brisbane, had been 

saving his birthday money in the hope that 

he would “see something special”. 

Onboard a Jetstar fl ight with his 

grandparents and younger siblings, Jordan 

and Rebecca, Christopher read a story 

about StarKids in Jetstar Magazine. He 

then asked Geraldine, his grandmother, 

if it would be all right to give his birthday 

money to the children who “needed it 

more” than him. 

Christopher told his grandmother it 

was something he really wanted to do, 

especially when he realised how much 

difference just one Australian dollar 

can make in some countries in Asia. 

Geraldine has always encouraged 

Christopher, Jordan and Rebecca to 

care for people less fortunate than 

themselves, so she was extremely 

Children of all ages can begin 

to recover from trauma and 

rebuild their lives at a World 

Vision education centre 

proud of Christopher for donating his 

birthday money to such a worthy cause. 

The Jetstar crew on the fl ight were also 

inspired by Christopher’s generous act. They 

invited Christopher and his grandfather, a 

retired airline pilot, to visit the cockpit, as a 

small way of showing their appreciation and 

admiration for Christopher’s selfl ess act. 

Christopher said he was surprised people 

thought so much of his gesture. He said he 

thought all kids would offer up their pocket 

money or birthday money if they knew what a 

difference it might make. But he also thought 

going to see the pilots in the cockpit was 

“really cool”. 

Since the fl ight, Jetstar’s CEO Bruce 

Buchanan has written Christopher a letter, 

and included a certifi cate of appreciation 

and a Captain Jetstar teddy, to say “thank 

you” for Christopher’s support of StarKids. 

Christopher is looking forward to fi nding out 

how his birthday money donation has helped

JETSTAR STAFF CATCH THE 

STARKIDS FUNDRAISING BUG! 

Late last year, Jetstar staff from the Melbourne 

and Avalon offi ces took part in the 2009 Great 

Australian Run around Albert Park, raising over 

AU$1,700 for the StarKids program. Th e Sunday 

event, opened by Olympic gold medallist and 

middle-distance champion Cathy Freeman, 

saw more than 3,000 people brave the soggy 

Melbourne weather, chasing their best times for 

the 15km run. Head offi ce staff in Melbourne 

Jetstar staff gearing up for the Great 

Australian Run INSET: Almost there... 

children supported by StarKids on projects 

like the Assistance Support and Protection 

(ASAP) project in Thailand. ASAP works 

to provide a range of support services and 

education programs to vulnerable women 

and children, to help keep them from falling 

prey to human traffi ckers in this part of Asia. 

Jetstar staff are supportive and genuinely 

passionate about the StarKids projects in the 

region, and in Australia. They’re doing their 

bit to ensure this partnership with World 

Vision is having a positive impact on the lives 

of vulnerable children in the areas where 

Jetstar works. 

Recently, staff have been hard at work, 

fundraising for StarKids and helping to raise 

its profi le. 

StarKids is a partnership between Jetstar and 

World Vision raising money for projects in 

Australia and South-East Asia that positively 

impact children and families living in poverty. 

also held a fundraiser barbecue recently, 

donating the proceeds raised from lunchtime 

sausages and drinks to StarKids. 

Jetstar staff are genuinely passionate about 

the impact being made through StarKids, and 

hope that this is one bug their passengers also 

catch! Passengers are always welcome to donate 

to StarKids via the envelope in your seat pocket 

which can then be passed to cabin crew. 

YOU CAN HELP 

Vulnerable children need our help. 

The StarKids partnership between 

Jetstar and World Vision was 

formed to help children enjoy a 

brighter future. 

You can support StarKids by 

donating loose change in the 

donation envelope located in your 

seat pocket. 

Let your small change 

create change! 

ABOUT STARKIDS 

Tim Costello, CEO World Vision 

How did StarKids come about? 

StarKids is a humanitarian partnership 

between World Vision Australia and Jetstar. 

Th e partnership supports community-based 

development projects in Australia and across 

Asia and aims to improve the lives of families 

living in poverty. It’s about giving children a 

brighter future. 

What does StarKids aim to achieve? 

StarKids aims to raise AU$3 million 

in three years. Th e support given to 

World Vision through StarKids will 

go towards transforming the lives of 

vulnerable children. 

How can Jetstar passengers help? 

Your donations would be most welcome! 

Please place your small change (all currencies) 

in the StarKids envelope located in your seat 

pocket. Th e money collected from Jetstar 

passengers will be given to World Vision 

Australia for community development 

projects in Australia and Asia. You can also 

donate online at www.jetstar.com/starkids 

Where can I get more information about 

World Vision projects? 

Visit www.worldvision.com.au 

or www.jetstar.com/starkids for 

more information. 



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MYANMAR 

 

Jakarta 

Shantou 

Hong Kong 

Macau 

Haikou 

Taipei 

 

Yangon 

 

Bangkok 

Manila 

Siem Reap 

 

Phnom Penh 

Ho Chi Minh City 

Phuket 

Kota Kinabalu 

Penang 

 

 

Medan Kuala Lumpur 

Kuching 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JAVA Surabaya 

Bali (Denpasar) 

Perth 

Darwin 

Osaka 

 

 

Tokyo 

Melbourne 

(Tullamarine) 

Cairns 

Brisbane 

Gold Coast 

Sydney 

Auckland 

 

Christchurch

Fiji 

Honolulu 

Perth 

WESTERN 

AUSTRALIA 

Darwin 

NORTHERN 

TERRITORY 

SOUTH 

AUSTRALIA 

Adelaide 

Melbourne 

(Avalon) 

 

Cairns 

Whitsunday Coast 

(Proserpine) 

QUEENSLAND 

Melbourne 

(Tullamarine) 

Townsville 

NEW SOUTH WALES 

VICTORIA 

TASMANIA 

Launceston 

Hobart 

Queenstown 

Auckland 

Wellington 

Christchurch 

Hamilton Island 

Mackay 

Rockhampton 

Newcastle 

Sydney 

Sunshine Coast 

Brisbane 

Gold Coast 

Ballina Byron 


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SAFETY, SECURITY & COMFORT 

Jetstar is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qantas Airways Limited and places the 

same emphasis on achieving standards of excellence in safety and security. 

QANTAS GROUP SECURITY 

The risk-management challenges facing 

today’s airline industry remain complex. We 

are continually addressing assessed security 

threats and risks to minimise vulnerability. The 

application of risk-management principles, 

innovation and a commitment to excellence 

all contribute to creating an effective security 

environment. A dedicated Qantas Group 

Security Operations Centre monitors global 

security 24 hours a day. 

Many of our security measures are not 

apparent to the public. However, during 

check-in and boarding you may have noticed 

security measures such as: 

• Random explosive trace detection of 

passengers and their carry-on luggage. 

• Laptops and aerosols being subjected to 

enhanced inspection at screening points. 

• Increased vigilance at passenger screening 

points and increased guarding of our 

aircraft and terminals. 

Further measures apply to flights to the 

United States: 

• Additional carry-on baggage searches just 

prior to boarding. 

• Random baggage searches at check-in 

and boarding. 

• Passengers selected at random for patdown 

inspections, including the removal and 

checking of shoes. 

CARRY-ON BAGGAGE 

Rules are needed to protect you from the 

threat of liquid explosives. Liquids, aerosols 

or gels in your carry-on baggage must be 100 

millilitres/grams or less and must be sealed 

in a transparent independently resealable, 

one-litre plastic bag. You are only allowed 

one plastic bag. You may still carry on board 

prescription medicines. Baby products and 

non-prescription medicines that you need for 

the flight are also allowed. Proof of need may 

be required. Please Note: These restrictions do 

not apply to checked-in baggage. 

SAFETY FIRST 

Seatbelts must be fastened during take-off, 

landing and when you are seated in case your 

aircraft encounters turbulence. Luggage 

must be stored in the overhead locker or 

under the seat in front of you. The back of 

your seat must be upright and the tray table 

fastened when the aircraft is taking off and 

landing. Please remain seated after landing 

until you are invited to leave the aircraft. 

Sleeping on the aircraft floor is not permitted. 

Please read the safety instruction card in 

your seat pocket, noting emergency exits 

and location of life jackets. Please watch 


the safety demonstration prior to take-off. 

In an emergency, the crew will give specific 

instructions. They may speak assertively and 

will require your cooperation. 

SMOKING 

Government regulations prohibit smoking on 

all flights operated by Australian-registered 

aircraft. There are smoke detectors in all 

toilets and penalties for regulation breaches. 

THE IMPORTANCE OF BLOOD 

CIRCULATION AND MUSCLE 

RELAXATION DURING FLIGHTS 

If you have concerns about your health and 

flying, Jetstar recommends you seek 

medical advice before flying. When you’re 

sitting upright and are inactive for a long 

period, several things can happen: 

• The central blood vessels in your legs can 

be compressed, making it harder for the 

blood to get back to your heart. 

• Muscles can become tense, resulting 

in backaches and a feeling of excessive 

fatigue during and even after the flight. 

• The normal body mechanism for returning 

fluid to the heart can be inhibited and 

gravity can cause fluid to collect in your feet, 

resulting in swollen feet after a long flight. 

• Some studies have concluded that 

prolonged immobility may be a risk factor 

in the formation of blood clots in the legs 

– Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). Particular 

medical conditions may increase the risk 

of formation of blood clots if associated 

with prolonged immobility. Medical 

research indicates that factors which may 

give you an increased risk of DVT include: 

• Personal or family history of DVT 

• Recent surgery or injury, especially to the 

lower limbs or abdomen 

• Blood disorders leading to increased 

clotting tendency 

• If you are older than 40 

• Oestrogen hormone therapy, including 

oral contraceptives 

• Pregnancy 

• Tobacco smoking 

• Former or current malignant disease 

• Obesity 

• Dehydration 

• Heart problems 

• Varicose veins 

Compression stockings can assist in 

preventing swelling of the ankles and feet 

and they may improve the blood return 

to the body from the lower legs. These 

stockings can be purchased from medical 

and surgical supply companies and 

need to be individually fitted to your leg 

measurements. During your flight, move 

your legs and feet three or four minutes per 

hour while seated and move about the cabin 

occasionally. 

CABIN PRESSURE 

If you are suffering nasal congestion, an ear 

infection or allergies, Jetstar recommends 

seeking medical advice before flying. 

A cold, flu or hay fever can impair your 

sinuses. Swollen membranes in your nose 

could block the Eustachian tubes between 

your nasal passages and your middle ear 

chamber. This can cause discomfort during 

changes in cabin pressure, particularly 

during the aircraft’s descent. 

• To “clear” your ears, try swallowing and/or 

yawning. This helps open your Eustachian 

tubes, equalising the pressure between 

your middle ear chamber and your throat. 

• When you are flying with an infant, give 

them a dummy or feed them during the 

aircraft’s descent. Sucking and swallowing 

will help the infant equalise the pressure in 

their ears. 

CABIN HUMIDITY / DEHYDRATION 

Humidity levels of less than 25% are 

common in the aircraft cabin. This is due 

to the low humidity levels of the outside 

air supplied to the cabin. Low humidity can 

cause drying of the nose, throat and eyes 

and it can irritate wearers of contact lenses. 

We recommend that you: 

• Drink water frequently during flight. 

• Drink coffee, tea and alcohol only in 

moderation – these drinks act as diuretics, 

increasing dehydration. 

• Remove contact lenses and wear glasses if 

your eyes are irritated. 

• Use a skin moisturiser to refresh the skin. 

MOTION SICKNESS 

This ailment is caused by a conflict between 

the body’s senses of vision and equilibrium. 

Air turbulence increases its likelihood 

because it can cause movement of fluid in 

the vestibular apparatus of the inner ear. 

If you have good visual cues (keeping your 

eyes fixed on a non-moving object), motion 

sickness is less likely to occur. 

JETSTAR SECURITY POLICY 

Jetstar has a strict policy on denying 

boarding to any passengers who are 

inappropriate in flight or on ground in 

comments or behaviour. Jetstar does not 

accept any inappropriate comments as 

“jokes”. All matters are referred to relevant 

authorities for prosecution. Jetstar will seek 

to recover all costs incurred as a result of 

inflight incidents from those involved. 

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biggest city in the world with a 

bustle to match. 

 

 

 

 

 

FROM THE AIRPORT 

Bali CBD 15km from Denpasar’s 

Ngurah Rai Airport 

Travel time Kuta Beach is around 

10 mins by car 

Taxi Approx IDR30,000 (AU$3.50) 

Shuttle Bus Most hotels offer 

complimentary pick-up 


Jakarta CBD 20km 

from Soekarno–Hatta 

International Airport 

Travel time Around 30 mins by car 

Taxi Approx IDR120,000 (AU$14) 

DAMRI Bus IDR15,000 (AU$1.80) 

to any city bus station 

ON THE GO 

1. Bali and Jakarta Taxis 

Get your hotel to order one for you 

and for the return trip too. 


TRACY KIDD 

Event specialist, 

Bali Bliss Weddings 

BALI 

Great place for dinner: Head 

to Arena Pub in Sanur. It’s 

where all the expats and locals 

eat when they want fantastic 

fare at a reasonable rate. Bring 

your appetite! 

Best place to party with the 

gang: Try something different 

at the newly opened Blue 

Eyes nightspot to experience 

both local and international 

bands and DJs. Lots of fun and 

dancing are guaranteed. 

Must-buy gift: Good ol’ thongs 

and sarongs. Don’t roll your 

eyes, you know everybody loves 

them really. 

Survival tip for tourists: 

Hire a personal driver for your 

holiday, it’s the best way to 

travel and helps support a 

local person. 

Must-eat: Go local and enjoy 

a dish of delicious nasi goreng 

(fried rice) with a cold Bintang 

beer to wash it down. 

Best idea for a family outing: 

A fun day on Nusa Lembongan 

Island — there are lots of great 

activities ranging from water 

sports and local village tours to 

just chilling out by the pool. 

Most romantic spot: Villas 

Sungai and Sungai Gold are the 

perfect sanctuary for wedding 

couples, honeymooners and 

small families seeking luxury 

accommodation, privacy, 

on-call service and a high 

standard of cuisine. They’re 

a welcome retreat. 

BANGKOK & 

PHUKET 

THAILAND 

Thailand is a fascinating 

country with beautiful 

landscapes and spectacular 

monuments. Bangkok bustles 

with energy while Phuket is a 

beach-lover’s paradise. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Bangkok CBD 30km from 

Suvarnabhumi International Airport 

Travel time Bangkok CBD is around 


Taxi Approx THB300 (AU$10) 

Airport Express THB150 (AU$5) 

and taking around 60 mins 


Patong Beach 32km from Phuket 


Travel time Patong Beach is 

around 45 mins by car 

Taxi Approx THB400 (AU$13.30) 

Shuttle Bus Every 30 mins at 

THB52 (AU$1.80); takes 60mins 

ON THE GO 

1. BTS Skytrains Will get you to all 

the major points in Bangkok. 

2. Tuk Tuk For short distances only. 

Tuk-tuk public transport 

JULIAN MOSS 

CEO of ASM Liquor 

BANGKOK 

Great place for dinner: 

Experience dinner in the sky 

at Vertigo (Banyon Tree) or 

Sirocco (State Tower Hotel). 

The rooftop views, atmosphere 

and food are all outstanding. 


gang: Go to Nana Plaza, check 

out Carousel or Anglewiteh 

followed by the Long Gun in Soi 

Cowboy. These venues have 

fantastic atmosphere and are 

lots of fun for the whole gang. 

Must buy (money no object!): 

Visit the River City shopping 

complex. This is the largest art 

and antique centre in South- 

East Asia and is full of original 

and authentic art works. 

Insider’s tip: Be aware of taxi 

scams. When you arrive at the 

international airport, go up to 

level two for a taxi that will cost 

around THB300 into the city. 

Unusual fact: Bangkok is in 

the Guinness Book of World 

Records as the longest place 

name in the world (163 letters). 

The offi cial name for Bangkok 

is: Krungthepmahanakornamo 

rnratanakosinmahintarayuttha 

yamahadilokphop nopparatraj 

athaniburiromudomrajaniwes 

mahasatharn amornphimarna 

vatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanuk 

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Must-eats: Chicken feet soup, 

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with fi sh sauce, peanuts, egg 

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CHRISTCHURCH 

& AUCKLAND 

NEW ZEALAND 

Christchurch is billed as New 

Zealand’s “most English” city, 

with fabulous gardens while 

harbourside Auckland is the 

most cosmopolitan with the 

largest Polynesian population. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Great Barrier I. 

 

 

 

 


Christchurch CBD 11km from 

Christchurch International Airport 

Travel time CBD is around 


Taxi Approx NZ$32 (AU$25.60) 

Shuttle bus NZ$12 (AU$9.60), 

taking 20–30 mins 


Auckland CBD 20km from 

Auckland International Airport 



Taxi From NZ$60 (AU$48) 

Shuttle bus NZ$30 (AU$24), 

taking 45–60 mins 

ON THE GO 

1. The Shuttle Free seven-day 

central Christchurch bus. 

2. Jafa Cabs A bicycle with bench 

seats for two; free in the Auckland 

central business district. 

Cathedral Square, 

Christchurch 

RICKI HUDSON 

Marketing, 

Backpacker 

Campervans & Cars 

CHRISTCHURCH 

Best breakfast: For great eggs 

Benedict, yummy bagels and 

the best cup of coffee in town, 

check out C4 on High Street. 

Best night out: The Dux de 

Lux, between Hereford and 

Worcester Streets, is a great 

place to meet people, chill out 

in the garden bar with a locally 

brewed award-winning beer and 

have a boogie with live music. 

Unusual fact: Hagley Park 

in the central city is the fourth 

largest central city park in 

the world. 

Local delicacy: The Fudge 

Cottage in the Arts Centre 

makes the best homemade 

fudge in the country. Have a 

free taster, you’ll see the girls 

walking around town with trays 

in colonial attire. 

Most romantic spot: 

Anywhere along the Summit 

Road on the city’s Port Hills. 

During the day you’ll see 

the Canterbury Plains, the 

Southern Alps, the Kaikoura 

Ranges, the Pacifi c Ocean, the 

city and Lyttelton Harbour, 

depending where you stop. 

At night, the city lights are 

amazing and seem to mirror 

the stars. 

I love Christchurch 

because: It’s one of the few 

metropolitan cities that you 

can go for a surf or a swim with 

the dolphins in the morning, 

ski in the afternoon, stop at 

hot springs and a world class 

winery on the way back, and 

then have a fantastic night out 

at the end of the day. 

HO CHI 

MINH CITY 

VIETNAM 

The largest city in Vietnam, 

this is the country’s 

economic capital and cultural 

trendsetter with a population 

of high-energy people who 

effortlessly meld tradition with 

the contemporary. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


CBD 7km from Tan Son Nhat 



20mins by car 

Taxi A taxi voucher from Visitor 

Information for US$12 (AU$13.10) 

Shuttle Bus Most hotels offer 

complimentary pick-up 

ON THE GO 

1. Taxi Ask the drivers to turn 

the meters on; there are 

taxi-motorbikes as well. 

2. Walking The best way to dash 

up alleys and down one-way streets 

but we only recommend this for 

District One. 

3. Cyclos A one-person seat 

powered by a cyclist; you’ll be 

nose-level with the exhaust fumes 

and action. 

The General Post Offi ce was built 

by the French in the 1880s 

NADINE VRINS 

Senior project 

manager, Altus 

Page Kirkland 

Great places for dinner: The 

Temple Club, located on the 

second fl oor of a colonial villa 

in the city centre, serves nice 

Vietnamese food. For a more 

local experience, go to the 

rooftop of the same building 

to fi nd the 3T barbecue 

restaurant. It has a large menu 

of meat, fi sh and vegetarian 

dishes ready for you to prepare 

at your table. 

Best night out: La Habana 

club. This Cuban-Spanish 

bar/lounge in District 1 is 

well known for its Cuban 

cocktails and Friday night live 

entertainment from Juram and 

his band. Afterwards, go around 

the corner to the famous 

nightclub Apocalypse Now. 

Favourite local festival: Tet, 

the Lunar New Year, is the 

most important festival for 

Vietnamese people. Festivities 

may continue for a week or 

more with every effort made to 

indulge in eating, drinking and 

enjoyable social activities. 

Survival tip for tourists: If you 

want to cross the road, just start 

walking and ignore all traffi c 

around you. Don’t hesitate or 

you’ll be there all day! 

For history: The Cu Chi tunnels 

are one of the most famous 

battlegrounds in Vietnam; they 

hid fi ghters and villagers. 

VISA REQUIREMENTS 

Passengers are advised to make 

themselves familiar with the relevant 

visa requirements for international 

travel and that visa requirements 

may differ between countries.

The Blue Pearl - Uniquely New Zealand 

Blue Pearl Gallery 

746 Colombo Street 

Christchurch 

Ph: +64 (3) 366 4567 

pearls@nzbluepearls.co.nz 

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A U C K L A N D 

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HOP ON, HOP OFF sightseeing all-day bus pass! 

Auckland Museum 

SKYCITY 

Mission Bay Victoria Park Market 

Auckland Zoo, Kelly Tarlton’s Antarctic 

Encounter & Underwater World... 

plus many more! 

Parnell Village 

CENTRAL CITY DEPARTURE TIMES EVERY 30MINS! 

Ferry Building Civic Theatre Sky Tower: 

9am – 4pm 9.40am – 4.40pm 9.45am – 4.45pm 

FULL TIMETABLE IN YOUR LANGUAGE AVAILABLE FROM DRIVER 

$35 $80 

FAMILY PASS 

ALL DAY BUS PASS $15 

$55 $20 

CHILD 

2 DAY 1 HOUR 

PASS TICKET $24 GROUPS OF 

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HONOLULU 

HAWAII 

Honolulu, on the island of 

Oahu, is one of the world’s 

most exotic capital cities. 

Encapsulating a modern 

vitality with the delightful 

charm of old Hawaiiana, it 

reverberates with Aloha, the 

spirit of welcome. 

 

 

 

 

 

 


CBD 14km from Honolulu 




Taxi Approx US$40 (AU$43.70) 

VIP Stretch Limo From US$70 

(AU$76.40) for two people 

Airport shuttle US$9 (AU$9.80) 


Bus Every 30 mins at US$2 

(AU$2.20) for bus number 19 and 

taking around 1hr 10 mins 

ON THE GO 

1. Buses Hotel shuttle buses, public 

buses and quaint open-air trolley 

buses — Oahu has an excellent 

bus network. For a fl at fee of US$2 

(AU$2.20) you can travel any 

distance, including bus changes, to 

all attractions. 


 

 

Statue of Duke Kuhanamoku, 

founder of surfi ng 

ETHAN CHANG 

Events & activities 

manager, Outrigger 

Waikiki on the Beach 

Best breakfast: Boots and 

Kimo’s in Kailua has great 

pancakes with macadamia 

nut and haupia (coconut) 

sauce. Don’t forget the 

Hawaiian-style pulehu ribs. 

Great place for dinner: Duke’s 

restaurant at the Outrigger 

Waikiki is right on the beach and 

has the best views in Waikiki. It 

offers great food, reasonable 

prices and an all-you-can-eat 

salad bar. The signature hula pie 

dessert is a must. 


gang: Mai Tai bar at the Ala 

Moana shopping center on a 

Friday night. There are happy 

hour prices all night, plus great 

music and no cover charge in a 

safe and friendly atmosphere. 

Insider’s tip: If you’re 

travelling with three or more, 

consider catching a limo from 

Honolulu International Airport 

and arrive at your hotel in 

Waikiki in comfort and style. 

The limos waiting outside with 

taxi signs on their roofs charge 

the same as regular taxis 

(about US$40 per trip to and 

from the airport) and can seat 

about seven, while shuttles 

stop by every hotel until you 

reach your destination and 

charge per person. 

Unusual fact: Traditional 

Hawaiian leis were made by 

weaving leaves together, not 

fl owers. Flower leis were fi rst 

made by visiting cattle men who 

found beautiful fl owers growing 

in the mountains and then 

strung them together to impress 

their wives and girlfriends. 

OSAKA & TOKYO 

JAPAN 

Osaka is home to modern 

architectural wonders and a 

prolifi c creative scene. 

Tokyo is Japan’s largest city 

and capital with many intimate 

and fascinating suburbs. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Osaka CBD 38km from Kansai 


Travel time 50 mins by car 

Taxi Approx ¥17,000 (AU$200) 

Limousine bus Every 45 mins at 

¥880 (AU$10.30), takes 50 mins 

Nankai Express Train Every 

30 mins from ¥1,390 (AU$16.30), 

takes 30 mins 


Tokyo CBD 66km from Narita Airport 

Travel time 60–90 min by car 

Taxi Approx ¥20,000 (AU$234.40) 

Limousine Bus ¥3,000 (AU$35.20), 

takes 60–90 mins 

JR Narita Express Every 30–60 mins 

at ¥3,000 (AU$35.20), takes 60 mins 

ON THE GO 

1. The subway Easy to use, 

effi cient and takes you everywhere 

you want to go. 

2. Bicycle Many Kansai hotels offer 

bicycle hire due to the easy terrain. 

Annual Danjiri 

festival in Osaka 

CHRIS ROWTHORN 

Lonely Planet Japan 

author and travel 

consultant 

OSAKA 

Best night out: The Dotombori 

area of Osaka’s Minami 

district has one of the world’s 

thickest concentrations of 

bars, clubs and restaurants on 

the planet. You won’t believe 

the characters you see in the 

nightly human parade through 

the narrow streets of the area. 

Survival tip for tourists: On 

Fridays and the 20th of every 

month, you can get unlimited 

rides on city subways and 

buses for only ¥600 (AU$7.50). 

This is part of the city’s 

“No-My-Car-Day” campaign 

to encourage people to use 

public transport. 

Unusual fact: Osaka Aquarium 

has the world’s best collection 

of sharks in its main tank. There 

are two whale sharks, leopard 

sharks and even a tiger shark. 

Must eats: You can’t 

visit Osaka without trying 

okonomiyaki (savoury 

pancakes) and tako-yaki 

(octopus dumplings). The best 

place to try these delights is in 

the Dotombori area. 

Best place to hang out 

with the locals: Head to the 

Amerika Mura area of Minami 

to check out what the kids of 

Osaka are up to. You can join 

the fray in the famed Triangle 

Park — it’s the eye of Osaka’s 

fashion hurricane. 

Favourite local festival: Head 

to the Tenjin Matsuri festival on 

25 July to see festival barges 

on the river and mobs of rowdy 

Osakans carrying portable 

shrines and fi reworks.

Kayaking in Kallang Basin 

SINGAPORE 

An island nation with a multicultural 

society, Singapore is 

a sophisticated microcosm of 

Asia. This garden city buzzes 24 

hours a day with dining, nightlife 

and shopping options. 

 

 

 


CBD 20km 

Travel time 20–30 mins by car 

Taxi Approx S$20 (AU$15.60) 

with a surcharge of S$3–$5 

(AU$2.40–$3.90) 

Airport Shuttle Services Most 

hotels S$9 (AU$7) one way 

MRT train Every 10–15 mins from 

Terminal 2 and 3 from 5.30am– 

11.18pm, takes 27 mins to reach the 

city for S$1.70 (AU$1.30) 

ON THE GO 

1. The Hippo An open-top 

double-decker bus that allows you 

to hop on and off whenever you like. 

S$23 (AU$18) for a 

one-day pass. 

2. MRT Air-conditioned 

subway throughout the island. 

3. Trishaw A three-wheeled bicycle 

with carriage from the old days. 

A 45-min ride is S$25–45 

(AU$19.50–$35.10). 

4. Buses A user-friendly network 

with route maps at every bus-stop. 


 

 

 

 

JASON DELL 

Group executive chef, 

The Society Group 

Best breakfast: I enjoy Sunday 

brunch at The Fullerton Hotel. 

The selection is impressive, 

the freshness of the food 

is magic and the service is 

faultless. Highly recommended! 

Great place for dinner: The 

Cliff restaurant at Sentosa 

Resort is a true highlight, 

offering meals that are to die for. 

Best buy for under AU$50: 

A famous Singapore Sling 

cocktail from the Long Bar at 

Raffl es Hotel to savour colonial 

history from a bygone era. It’s 

a magical setting and you can 

enjoy crushing the shells of the 

peanuts beneath your feet on 

the wooden fl oor. 

Survival tip for tourists: 

Sand fl y repellant, water, a hat, 

sunglasses and an umbrella will 

all come in handy. 

Must-eat: Fresh fruit from the 

local hawker stalls. 

Local delicacy: Chilli crab, 

especially from the original 

seafood restaurant on East 

Coast Road. I crave those little 

fried buns they serve with it to 

soak up the delicious juices. 

I love Singapore because: It’s 

always warm, there’s plenty of 

sunshine, the streets are clean, 

there are lots of green parks 

and the choice for eating out is 

just fantastic. 

VISA REQUIREMENTS 

Passengers are advised to make 

themselves familiar with the relevant 

visa requirements for international 

travel and that visa requirements 

may differ between countries. 

INTRODUCING OUR 

AIRPORTS 

Let us give you a head-start 

ADELAIDE 

CBD 6km 



Taxi Approx AU$18 

Skylink Bus Every 30 mins–1hr: 

AU$8.50 adult, AU$3.50 child, 


Airport parking AU$4–$90 

(30 mins–72 hrs) 

AVALON 

Geelong CBD 20km 

Melbourne CBD 55km 

Travel time 15 mins (Geelong); 

40 mins (Melbourne) by car 

Taxi Approx AU$45 Geelong; 

approx AU$80 Melbourne 

Avalon Airport Shuttle Meets all 

fl ights. From AU$17 adult, AU$14 

child (Geelong); AU$20 adult, 

AU$10 child (Melbourne). 

Airport parking Short-term from 

AU$3; long-term from AU$20, 

additional days from AU$5 

BALLINA-BYRON 

CBD Byron Bay is 23km, Ballina 

is 5km 

Travel time Byron Bay is 

20 mins by car. Ballina is 

7 mins by car 

Taxi Approx AU$10–$15 

to Ballina, approx AU$65 to 

Byron Bay 

Saddle up for a spin around 

South Bank, Brisbane 

upon your arrival 

Airlink Bus Meets most fl ights: 

AU$20 adult (AU$35 return), 

AU$12 children under 13 

years (one-way), and taking 

around 35 mins 

Airport parking AU$2-AU$12 

(1 hr–24 hrs) 

BRISBANE 

CBD 16km 




Bus Every 15–30 mins: AU$14 

adult, AU$8 child, under 4 years 

free and taking about 30 mins 

AirTrain Every 20 mins to CBD: 

one-way AU$14.50 adult, return 

AU$27 and taking around 22 mins 

Airport parking AU$5–AU$30 


CAIRNS 

CBD 8km 

Travel time CBD is 10 mins by car 


Australia Coach Shuttle Every 

hour: AU$10 adult, AU$15 couple, 

AU$5 child and taking around 

20 mins 

Airport parking AU$3–16 

(2–24 hrs) 

Photo: Tourism Queensland/Barry Goodwin

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DARWIN 

CBD 13km 

Travel time CBD is 15 mins 

by car 


Darwin Airport Shuttle 

Meets all fl ights: AU$10 (adult) 


Airport parking AU$3–12 

(up to 24 hrs); AU$10 (weekly) 

GOLD COAST 

Surfers Paradise 20km 

Travel time Surfers Paradise is 

around 30 mins by car 


Con-X-ion Shuttle bus Booking 

required +61 (7) 5556 9888: 

AU$22 adult, AU$13 child (4–13 

years), children under 4 years 

travel free, and taking around 

45 mins 



Airport Lounge Check in for free 

movies, newspapers, snacks and 

drinks when you book and pay 

online at jetstar.com 

HAMILTON ISLAND 

Travel time from airport to 

accommodation is a few minutes 

Shuttle bus Complimentary for 

hotel guests 

HOBART 

CBD 17km 



Taxi Approx AU$36–$42 

Airporter shuttle bus Meets all 

fl ights: AU$12 adult, AU$5.30 

child aged 4–15 years, children 

under 4 years free, and taking 



(24 hrs) 

LAUNCESTON 

CBD 16km 





Airporter Shuttle bus Meets all 

fl ights: AU$14 adult, AU$5 child, 

children under 4 years free, and 

taking around 15 mins 



MACKAY 

CBD 6km 

Travel time CBD 15 mins by car 


To Airlie Beach Take a taxi to 

the bus terminal in Wellington 

Street and then a bus service by 

Greyhound or Premier; approx 

AU$22 one way adult 


(24 hrs) 

MELBOURNE 

CBD 23km 



SkyBus Every 10 mins: AU$16 

adult, AU$6 child (4–14 years ), 

takes 20 mins 

Airport parking Short-term 

from AU$3; long-term 

from AU$29 

NEWCASTLE 

CBD 20km 




Shuttle Bus Door-to-door 

service (from AU$35) through 

Newcastle Information Services 

at +61 (2) 4928 9822. Port 

Stephens Coaches (public bus) 

every hour: AU$6.50 adult, 

AU$3.50 concession taking 

35 mins 


(1 hr–24 hrs) 

PERTH 

CBD 12km (domestic terminal) 

and 17km (international terminal) 


Taxi Approx AU$26 (domestic) 

and AU$33 (international) 

Perth Airport City Shuttle 

Explore Cockle Bay, 

Sydney 

Every 30 mins (domestic) and 

45 mins (international): 

AU$15 adult (domestic), 

AU$20 (international); taking 

15–35 mins 

Fremantle Airporter AU$35 

(booking required) 

Transperth Bus 37 From 

domestic terminal to Kings Park 

via the city AU$3.20 


carpark from AU$3.70; long-term 

carpark from AU$17 

ROCKHAMPTON 

CBD 5km 

Travel time CBD 5 mins by car 


Airport parking Free (24 hrs) 

SYDNEY 

CBD 8km 

Travel time CBD around 



Bus Every 20–30 mins: AU$8 

adult, AU$4 child and taking 


Trains Every 10 mins 

(weekdays) AU$15 adult and 

taking around 13 mins 



SUNSHINE COAST 

Travel time Noosa is 

30 mins, Maroochydore 

is 10–15 mins by car 

Taxi Approx AU$56 to Noosa; 

approx AU$28 to Maroochydore 

Henry’s Bus Service Meets all 

fl ights: AU$20 adult, AU$10 child, 

children under 4 years free, and 

taking around 45 mins to Noosa 


(2–24 hrs) 

TOWNSVILLE 

CBD 5km 

Travel time CBD around 10 mins 


Airport shuttle Booking required 

+61 (7) 4775 5544 to the Strand 

and city, Sunferries, the Transit 

Centre and Coral Princess: AU$8 

(adult), and taking around 

10–15 mins 


carpark, AU$4–$24 

(2 hrs–12 hrs). Long-term 

carpark, AU$12–$72 (1–6 days); 

thereafter AU$10 per 24-hour 

period or part thereof 

WHITSUNDAY COAST 

CBD 30km from 

Proserpine airport 

Travel time CBD around 

35 mins 


Whitsunday Transit AU$15 

adult share-ride (one way; AU$28 

return), AU$9 child (one way; 

AU$16 return), children under 

4 years travel free. Meets all 

fl ights. For information, call 

+61 (7) 4946 1800 

Airport parking Free (24hrs) 

Photo: Tourism New South Wales/Pierre Toussaint

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Every day’s a 

beach holiday in 

Surfers Paradise 

INSET: Rides galore 

at Dreamworld 

GOLD COAST 

EMMA (8) AND 

LOUISE (4) 

The Jetstar staff 

member I’m related 

to is my cousin, 

Louise Laing, 

managing editor of 

Jetstar Magazine 

The one thing we always pack for the fl ight is: 

Our DS with the game Fashion Dogz. 

The best way to stay entertained on the 

plane is: Watching kids shows on the DVD player, 

especially the latest release ones. 

The kids of the Jetstar 

team share their favourite 

domestic destinations 

The place to eat the yummiest breakfast is: 

Pancakes in Paradise, Surfers Paradise. We really 

love the hot chocolate with whipped cream on top 

and also the pancakes with hot chocolate fudge. 

The coolest place to go with your whole 

family is: Movieworld. I really like the Batwing 

Spaceshot and my sister Louise loves getting wet 

on the Wild West Falls. 

Don’t go home without trying: The Giant Drop 

at Dreamworld. But be warned, it’s very fast 

and scary. 

The best spot to take a star-jump photo is: 

Jumping into the pool at the hotel where we 

stayed. The pool was so deep it was even over 

dad’s head. 

australian focus 

We love going for walks to: The beach at 

Surfers Paradise. All of my family walks along the 

beach collecting things and playing in the sand. 

The best place to visit to see animals is: 

Defi nitely Australia Zoo. It’s great because you get 

to pat the koalas. 

Holidays with my family are fun because: We 

go to the water parks as a family. 

If I had to describe the Gold Coast in three 

words I would say: Fun, exciting, adventurous. 


Photo: Tourism Queensland/Amber Toms 

Photo: Tourism Queensland/Dreamworld

australian focus 

The best thing about Byron Bay is: It’s on 

the beach. The best places to chill out are the 

beaches and cafés. But if you’re up for a drive, the 

theme parks like Movieworld and Wet’n’Wild are 

not too far away. 

The one thing I always pack on a fl ight is: My 

iPod — I think it’s really important to have music 

on the plane; it makes you feel relaxed and gets 

you in the mood for your holiday. 

The coolest place to go with my family is: 

The theme parks — there’s fun for everyone, 

mum and dad, even my little sister who is not as 

adventurous as me. She goes on the safe, smooth 

rides that make you feel like you’re going to fall 

asleep, like the merry-go-round. I go on the really 

wild rides that give you butterfl ies in your tummy 

— the crazier and scarier the ride, the better! The 

really fast ones are my favourite. 

Don’t go home without trying: The seafood 

— so delicious and fresh. I love prawns but I make 

someone else peel the shell off for me! 


BYRON BAY 

JADE (11) 



to is my aunt, Denise 

Renny, product delivery 

manager — commercial 

services 

BRISBANE 

ELLIZA (2) 



to is my mum Fiona 

Demetriadis, cabin crew 

The coolest place to go with your whole 

family is: To the Suncorp Stadium, not far from 

the city centre. We went to watch my uncle 

Labinot Haliti play in his A-League soccer team 

the Newcastle Jets against the home team 

Brisbane Roar — he scored the fi rst goal of the 

nail-biting match which ended 1–1. It was a fun 

and exciting night. 

The best spot to go swimming is: Streets 

Beach at South Bank Brisbane — it’s Australia’s 

only beach in the middle of the city. It overlooks 

the brilliant Brisbane River and has a sparkling 

clean, crystal clear lagoon with white sand 

beaches and palm trees. It’s safe for me to swim 

because there are no waves or rips, and it’s 

patrolled by professional lifeguards seven days a 

week. And it’s free! 

The one thing I always pack for the fl ight is: 

A big packet of lollies, which I share with all the 

other kids onboard! 

Kayaking around the front of the 

Cape Byron lighthouse in Byron Bay 

The best spot to go swimming is: Byron 

Bayside Beach — the water is so clear and clean, 

and it’s not cold like it is at home in Melbourne. 

I saved my pocket money for: The theme park 

and to buy a snow globe because I collect them 

from all the places I visit. I also bought heaps of 

lollies and a few showbags. 

Pool at South Bank, Brisbane 

Don’t go home without trying: 

A mouth-watering delicious steak at the 

Breakfast Creek Hotel, a 15-minute drive from 

Brisbane Airport, in Breakfast Creek. People in my 

family say the Breakfast Creek Hotel is the most 

famous watering hole in Queensland. 

Holidays with my family are fun because: 

We get to see and explore different places around 

Brisbane, like hopping onto the CityCat Ferry. 

Holidays with my family are: Fun, because we’re 

all together but not at home. Everyone is relaxed 

and not stressed. The most fun we had together 

other than the theme parks was walking around 

the market in Byron. 

If I had to describe Byron Bay in three words I 

would say: Beach, sun, fun! 

CityCats operate from 5.35am until 12.30am 

every day and the entire fl eet is fi tted with WiFi 

technology. (You need only one ticket to use 

buses, trains and ferries within the zones printed 

on your ticket). I love the Brisbane River! 

The best spot to take a star-jump photo is: 

In front of the South Bank Wheel of Brisbane 

(Brisbane Eye). 

Photo: Tourism New South Wales/Sharyn Cairns 

Photo: Tourism Queensland/Barry Goodwin

Aircraft Model 

1:200 scale (by Rise Soon) 

$40.00 

Airbus A330-200 

Coffee Mug 

$9.50 

Boeing 717-200 1:130 scale 

Aircraft Models 

(by Rise Soon) $38.00 ea 

Captain 

Jetstar 

$15.00 

Golf Balls 

$39.50 per doz 

gift ideas 

Backpack 

$22.00 

Baseball 

Cap 

$12.00 

Airbus A320 1:150 scale 

Tucson Watch 

$59.90 

(men & ladies) 

Merchandise available for purchase only through 

Jetstar.com/jetshop. Please note that these prices do not 

include postage and handling. All prices are in AUD. Prices 

subject to change without notification. These are just some of 

the items available. 

To see our full range visit Jetstar.com/jetshop 

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Domestic Australia & To/From New Zealand 

Sunrise Choices 

Breakfast Cereal with Milk 3.00 

(Only on flights to/from New Zealand) 

Snack Choices 

Mainland “On the Go” Cheese & 4.00 

Crackers 

Pringles 4.00 

Sanitarium Up & Go 3.50 

(choc ice or banana & honey) 

While’s Nibbles Assorted Nuts 3.50 

Brookfarm Cranberry & 3.00 

Macadamia Bar (gluten-free) 

Authentic Nissin Cup Noodles 5.00 

(Hot chicken soup filled with yummy noodles) 

Meal Choices 

Classic Fresh Sandwiches 6.50 

St. Dalfour Gourmet & Healthy Meal 6.00 

(Served room temp: Pasta & Vegetables – vegetarian, 

Wild Salmon & Vegetables – gluten-free, Chicken & 

Vegetables – gluten-free) 

Gourmet Chicken Wrap 7.00 

(Chicken mixed with basil pesto, mayonnaise and 

sundried tomatoes with lettuce in a soft tortilla. 

Served cold) 

Meat Pie & Sauce 6.00 

(Available only on selected flights over 2.5 

hours, please ask your cabin crew member) 

Hot Meal of the Day 10.00 

(On flights to/from New Zealand) 

Sweet Choices 

Oven-baked Gourmet Muffin 4.00 

Domestic New Zealand 

Snack Choices 







Pringles 4.00 

St. Dalfour Gourmet & Healthy Meal 6.00 

(Served room temp: Pasta & Vegetables – 

vegetarian, Wild Salmon & Vegetables – 

gluten-free, Chicken & Vegetables – gluten-free) 

Sweet Choices 

Cookie Time Chocolate Fix 3.00 

Oven-baked Gourmet Muffin 4.00 

Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate Bar 3.00 

The Natural Confectionery 3.00 

Please ask your crew member for today’s choices. Products and prices 

may vary on some services. 

Jetstar apologises should your choice not be available 

on this flight. 

Warning: Products may contain traces of nuts. 

Note: Credit card facilities may not be available on all flights. 

Jetstar apologises for any inconvenience. 

Australian Domestic: We accept AUD, Visa, MasterCard and 

American Express. Credit cards are accepted for purchases up to 

AU$50 per flight per card. Minimum credit card charge AU$5. (You 

may be asked to provide photographic identification to use a credit 

card.) AU$0.50 surcharge for all credit card payments. 


Byron Bay Cookie Bar 3.00 

(White choc chunk & macadamia nut – 

gluten-free or triple choc fudge) 


The Natural Confectionery 3.00 

Company Mini Dinosaurs 

M&Ms 3.00 

Beverage Choices 

Non Alcoholic 

Coke or Diet Coke 3.00 

Lemonade 3.00 

Solo 3.00 

Orange Juice 3.00 

nudie Cloudy Apple Juice 3.50 

NutrientWater 3.50 

Still Spring Water 3.50 

Café 

Jasper Coffee – Fairtrade and 3.00 

Organic 

Company Mini Dinosaurs 

M&Ms 3.00 

Beverages (Non Alcoholic) NZ$ 


Still Spring Water 3.50 

L&P 3.00 


Apple Juice 3.00 


Lemonade 3.00 

Café 

Nature’s Cuppa Tea – Fairtrade and 3.00 

Organic 

Jasper Coffee – Fairtrade and Organic 3.00 

While’s – Café style Hot and Creamy 4.00 

Cappuccino 

Nestle Hot Chocolate 4.00 

New Zealand Domestic: We accept NZD only. We regret we do not 

accept credit cards. 

To/From New Zealand: We accept AUD, NZD, Visa, MasterCard 

and American Express. Credit cards are accepted for purchases up 

to AU$50 per flight per card. Minimum credit charge AU$5. AU$0.50 

surcharge for all credit card payments. 

International: We accept AUD, USD and the currency of the country 

you are travelling to/from — notes only. Credit cards including Visa, 

MasterCard and American Express are also accepted for purchases 

up to AU$75 per flight per card. Minimum credit card charge AU$10. 

(You may be asked to provide photographic identification to use a 

credit card.) 

Unless otherwise stated, all prices are in Australian Dollars. 

Nature’s Cuppa Tea – Fairtrade 3.00 

and Organic 

Nestlé Hot Chocolate 4.00 

While’s – Café style Hot and 4.00 

Creamy Cappuccino 

Beer 

Heineken 7.00 

Pure Blonde – Low Carb Beer 7.00 

Victoria Bitter 6.00 

Wine 

Hardys Nottage Hill Sauvignon Blanc 6.50 

Hardys Nottage Hill Shiraz 6.50 

Yellow Sparkling NV 7.00 

Spirits Pre-mixed 7.50 

Bundaberg Rum & Cola 

Slate Bourbon & Cola 

Gordon’s Gin & Tonic 

Smirnoff Vodka Ice Red 

Johnnie Walker Scotch & Cola 

Beverages (Alcoholic) 

Beer – Speights Gold Medal Ale 6.00 


Hardys Nottage Hill Shiraz 6.50

International 

Snack Choices 

Pringles 4.00 






Mainland “On the Go” Cheese & 4.00 

Crackers 


Miso Soup (Japan flights only) 3.00 

Meal Choices 

Classic Fresh Sandwiches 6.50 

Light Meal (ex-Cairns) 6.00 

Light Meal (not available on all flights) 10.00 

Full Meal 15.00 

Please ask your crew member for today’s choices. Products and prices 

may vary on some services. 











An alternative menu may be offered on some fl ights. Please ask your cabin crew. 

Sweet Choices 

Byron Bay Cookie Bar 3.00 


The Natural Confectionery 

Company Mini Dinosaurs 3.00 

M&Ms 3.00 

Beverage Choices 

Non Alcoholic 


Lemonade 2.50 

Ginger Ale 2.50 

Solo 2.50 

Soda Water 2.50 

Tonic Water 2.50 


Apple Juice 2.00 

Still Spring Water 600ml 3.50 


Oolong Tea (Japan flights only) 3.00 

Café 

Jasper Coffee – Fairtrade and Organic 3.00 

Nature’s Cuppa Tea – Fairtrade 3.00 

and Organic 




and American Express. Credit cards are accepted for purchases up 

to AU$50 per flight per card. Minimum credit charge AU$5. AU$0.50 

surcharge for all credit card payments. 

International: We accept AUD, USD and the currency of the country 

you are travelling to/from — notes only. Credit cards including Visa, 

MasterCard and American Express are also accepted for purchases 

up to AU$75 per flight per card. Minimum credit card charge AU$10. 

(You may be asked to provide photographic identification to use a 

credit card.) 


Nestlé Hot Chocolate 4.00 

While’s – Café style Hot and 4.00 

Creamy Cappuccino 

Beer 

Heineken 7.00 

Victoria Bitter* 6.00 

Pure Blonde – Low Carb Beer* 7.00 

Asahi Beer (Japan flights only) 7.00 

Wine 


Hardys Nottage Hill Shiraz 6.50 

Yellow Sparkling NV 7.00 

Sake 180ml (Japan flights only) 6.00 

Spirits 

Straight up: 6.00 

With mixer: 7.00 

Bundaberg Rum 

Gordon’s Gin 

Smirnoff Vodka 

Johnnie Walker Red 

Jim Beam Bourbon 

DID YOU KNOW? 

You can pre-pay your meals and enjoy 

unlimited non-alcoholic drinks, such as 

water, juices, soft drinks, tea and coffee 

(cappuccino excluded) during your 

international fl ight? 

It’s easy! Just select the FEED ME option 

for $30 each way when booking at 

Jetstar.com 


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Recommended Combinations (Not available on domestic New Zealand flights) 

Sandwich Combo 1 

Sandwich, Pringles and a can of 

soft drink only 

$ 13.50 

Jet Snack Combo 

Gourmet Snack, Byron Bay cookie bar and 

a can of soft drink only 

$ 12.00 

Wrap Combo 

Chicken wrap and a can of 

soft drink only 

$ 10.00 

Please ask your crew member for today’s choices. Products and 

prices may vary on some services. 












Sweet Treat 

Coffee or tea (excludes cappuccino & 

hot chocolate), muffin 

$ 7.00 




and American Express. Credit cards are accepted for purchases 

up to AU$50 per flight per card. Minimum credit charge AU$5. 

AU$0.50 surcharge for all credit card payments. 

International: We accept AUD, USD and the currency of the 

country you are travelling to/from - notes only. Credit cards 

including Visa, MasterCard and American Express are also 

accepted for purchases up to AU$75 per flight per card. Minimum 

credit card charge AU$10. (You may be asked to provide 

photographic identification to use a credit card.) 


Sandwich Combo 2 

Sandwich, chocolate bar and 

a can of soft drink only 

$ 12.50 

Thirst Quencher 

Premium or low-carb beer 

(excludes VB & Speights), nuts 

$ 10.50 

International 

Combo 

Wine (excludes sparkling), 

cheese and crackers 

$ 10.50

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AUSTRALIAN FAVOURITES, 

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PG-13 110mins 

Starring Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, 

Marcia Gay Harden 

A teenage girl escapes her small-town 

life and fi nds adventure when she 

joins the Roller Derby. 

MOVIES – International Long Haul Flights 

LAW ABIDING CITIZEN 

R 108mins 

Available with Japanese subtitles 

Starring Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx 

A man decides to take justice into his 

own hands after his family’s killer is 

set free. 


WHERE THE WILD 

THINGS ARE 

PG 101mins 

Starring James Gandolfi ni, 

Max Records, Forest Whitaker 

Max runs away from home and 

travels to an imaginary world 

inhabited by strange creatures. 

GENTLEMEN BRONCOS 

PG-13 89mins 

Starring Michael Angarano, 

Jemaine Clement, Jennifer Coolidge 

A teenage writer’s story is stolen by a 

professional author and turned into a 

sci-fi novel and movie. 

TINKERBELL AND THE 

LOST TREASURE 

G 80mins 

Available dubbed in Japanese 

Voiced by Mae Whitman, Lucy Liu 

Tinkerbell leaves Neverland to restore 

fairy dust to the world. 

MOVIES TV 

MUSIC GAMES 

ON YOUR PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYER 

Not available on all fl ights. All movies indicate Australian ratings. Currency quoted is AUD. 

AMELIA 

PG 104mins 

Available in closed captions 

Starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere 

Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, set 

out to be the fi rst person to fl y solo 

around the world. 

Australian Favourites 

BRIGHT STAR 

PG 119mins 

Starring Abbie Cornish, 

Ben Whishaw 

An unlikely romance inspires a 

poet’s work, but can love conquer all 

obstacles in their way? 

Japanese Films 

THE HOVERING BLADE 

PG-13 120mins 

Available with English subtitles 

Starring Akira Terao 

A father is determined to hunt 

down the men responsible for his 

daughter’s brutal murder. 

LOVE HAPPENS 

PG-13 109mins 

Available dubbed in Japanese 

Starring Jennifer Aniston, 

Aaron Eckhart 

A self-help guru falls for a fl orist — 

can they give love a second chance? 

KENNY 

M 99mins 

Starring Shane Jacobson, 

Eve von Bibra 

Kenny Smyth is an unappreciated 

porta-loo delivery guy juggling life 

and sewage with charm and humour. 

ROOKIES 

PG-13 138mins 

Available with English subtitles 

Starring Ryuta Sato 

A high school teacher teaches his 

baseball team the importance of 

having a dream.

TELEVISION 

Jetstar’s Escape 

Jetstar’s Escape 

The A-Team 

Plus… 

Wonder Woman 

Knight Rider 

Burn Notice 

Plus... 

CSI 

Lie To Me 

The Closer 

Drama 

Reality & Comedy 

Classic Teen Kids Tv 

MUSIC CHANNELS 

NOVA NEW MUSIC FIRST 

A320: Channel 1 


VEGA PLAYING THE 70S 

80S & BEST NEW SONGS 


A330 and A321: Channel 4 

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Gossip Girl 

Plus… 

90210 

Let’s Get Inventin’ 

Vampire Diaries 

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ROCKSTAR 



STAR STRUCK 



MADE IN JAPAN 


NOSTALGIA JAPAN 


The Gruen Transfer 

Plus... 

The Big Bang Theory 

Ben 10 

Plus… 

Dexters Lab 

Ed, Edd & Eddy 

GAMES 

Flight Of The Conchords 

Plus... 

We Can Be Heroes 

The Simpsons 

The Powerpuff Girls 

Plus… 

Foster’s Home For 

Imaginary Friends 

Johnny Bravo 

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HOW I MET YOUR 

MOTHER 

A smitten Robin gets back together 

with an old fl ame who hurt her in the 

past. After she gets crushed again, 

Barney, in his own style, helps her 

realise she is awesome. 

THE MENTALIST 

Patrick Jane goes head to head with 

a “psychic” he suspects of murder. 

Intent on proving the so-called 

psychic is a fraud, Jane arranges a 

séance to expose him. 

BACK TO YOU 

Chuck has a date with a sexy realtor, 

Marsh helps Gary get the station’s 

weatherman job and Ryan gets 

mistaken for a murder suspect. 

CHEESE SLICES 

Will travels to Cyprus to see the 

making of traditional haloumi and 

discovers a fresh whey cheese called 

Anari. Find out how to cook with 

this cheese. 


MOVIES TV 

ON YOUR CABIN SCREEN 

TV – Flights from Australia (excludes all short haul international services) 

THE NEW ADVENTURES 

OF OLD CHRISTINE 

After Christine convinces Matthew to 

let her come with him to his friend’s 

party, she learns about her brother’s 

world outside of their home. She 

decides to meddle in his love life. 

ROCKWIZ 

This special is hosted by Julia Zemiro 

and shot in The Gershwin Room at 

St Kilda’s Esplanade Hotel in 

Melbourne with guest stars Tina 

Arena and Jeff Martin. 

MERCURIO’S MENU 

Paul Mercurio is your tour host and 

resident cook as he escorts viewers 

around Australia, visiting farms and 

fresh food producers in some of the 

most idyllic locations. 

TV – Flights to Australia (excludes all short haul international services) 

THE REAL…HONG KONG 

Hong Kong is a unique fusion of 

Western and Eastern cultures where 

the ancient and the ultra-modern sit 

side by side. 

PUSHING DAISIES 

The assistant to renowned scent 

expert Napoleon LeNez is found 

dead after a scratch-and-sniff book 

explodes, and Ned et al try to fi nd out 

who the bomb is intended for. 

BOARDING PASS 

EP.1 

Your ticket to the action sports world 

of surf, skate and snow featuring 

some of the best names in the most 

exotic destinations. 

THE BIG BANG THEORY 

Koothrappali’s parents arrange a 

blind date for him but complications 

arise when his date shows more 

interest in Sheldon. 

BOARDING PASS 

EP.2 

Your ticket to the action sports world 

of surf, skate and snow featuring 

some of the best names in the most 

exotic destinations. 

Get your headsets onboard with a bonus 

protective case and tune into channel 1 for 

English and channel 13 for Japanese. 

THE SIMPSONS 

Homer buys the 1,000,000th ice 

cream cone at a local shop, he 

ends up on Kent Brockman’s news 

program. Ned Flanders wants to 

clean up Springfi eld’s airwaves. 

Movie 

UP 

An elderly man decides to fulfi l a 

lifelong dream and sets off on an 

adventure to South America when 

he fi nds a young stowaway named 

Russell onboard his fl ying house. 

MYTHBUSTERS 

The team tests theories about prison 

escapes, including a blast from the 

criminal past. Hang on for a heck of 

a ride. 

Movie 

JULIE & JULIA 

A woman who is feeling lost and 

unfulfi lled, reinvigorates her life by 

spending a year cooking her way 

through Julia Childs’ French recipe book 

and blogging about the experience.

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