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Potato, Herb and Roasted Chickpea Salad, with Orange Vinaigrette and Tzatziki

This month’s recipe is a tasty potato salad with a Mediterranean flavour, perfect for spring. Rather than a mayonnaise base, I’ve made it light and zesty with orange vinaigrette and an abundance of herbs. I use seaso...

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Salty’s: Tangibly Exciting

There is something in the air, can you feel it? Multiple days without any new COVID cases in New South Wales and some scorching hot weather have triggered an awakening. Instead of Corona, there is now a tangible exciteme...

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Between the Living and the Dead

As the weather improves, we are reminded daily of the changing of seasons. Be it the Jewish Day of Atonement Yom Kippur, the Christians’ All Saints Day, the Hindu Five Days of Diwali, The Prophet’s Birthday or Hallow...

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Safe Injecting Space Planned for Mackenzie’s Bay

Drug addicts will be able to legally consume any form of illicit drug at Mackenzies Bay after Waverley Council declared the beach an open-air safe injecting space. Hardcore junkies, professional footballers, and recreati...

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Alleged Crimes of the East

Friendly call to La Perouse, Bondi blitz Officers from Eastern Beaches Police’s Crime Prevention Unit visited ‘The Loop’ at La Perouse on a mission to build relationships with the local community. People came and c...

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Beware the Rabbit Hole

I was recently chewing the fat with my neighbour when the topic turned to kids and screen time. She asked me if I’d seen the film The Social Dilemma? At that time I hadn’t, and when I asked her about it she responded...

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The Unreliable Guide to…Virtual Travel

The Unreliable Guide loves to travel, so the restrictions caused by the pandemic have been depressing. I know we shouldn’t complain; at the time of writing, poor Melburnians can’t even leave the house, while we are s...

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Local Musician: Earl Weir & Krystal Rivvers

Earl Weir is a muso’s muso. You can see it in his eyes. One gets the feeling that if the apocalypse did come, you could still find him strumming away on some sort of stringed instrument, pieced together with tin cans a...

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COVID-19 Pandemic is Nothing to Sneeze At

For many generations the “she’ll be right mate” attitude has been part of the Australian culture. It helped our fathers and forefathers cope with the trauma of two world wars where they fought and succeeded in keep...

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The Spin Doctor’s Wife: Infertility, Infidelity and Infamy

Clovelly author Theresa Miller writes about the complexities of modern life and relationships in her new novel The Spin Doctor’s Wife, set against the backdrop of the Eastern Suburbs. The story is a lively and insightf...

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The Beast.