Where are you originally from? A place called Cooma. It’s quite a small, rural town, but it has grown since I was a kid. I wouldn’t know the population right now. I’d say it’s about 6,000. Where a...

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If there’s one thing going for Melbourne folk/art-pop four-piece Mayfair Kytes, it’s that they’re extremely easy on the ears. Having recently released their debut album, Animus – a dense mosaic of flourishing...

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Samantha Barakat Light lives in Clovelly and runs Body Catalyst, a fat reduction and body-sculpting clinic in Bondi Junction. She shares her local favourites with The Beast… How long have you lived here? My husband and...

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When Bondi local Greg Bishop isn’t saving backpackers from treacherous rips, removing cats from trees or pulling fair maidens from burning buildings, he’s finding home buyers and owners the best rates for their mortg...

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When Mal Ward found out that his son, Johnno, was seriously ill with childhood liver disease, he made a decision: rather than sit around feeling sorry for himself, he would start fundraising for the very people that were...

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Larissa Sinfield lives in Bronte and works as an associate dentist at The Dental Spa in Bondi Junction (where she practises under he maiden name, Larissa Knodler). She shares her local favourites with The Beast… How lo...

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When ENT surgeon Dr William Mooney isn’t plying his trade at Prince of Wales Hospital, he’s busying running his Face Plus Medispa empire. The Bondi resident shares his local favourites with The Beast… How long have...

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It’s hard to imagine what it is like for refugees leaving their war-torn homeland in hope of a better life in another country and the life-threatening risks they take in an effort to realise that dream. We are sometime...

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Where are you originally from? I was born in Wollongong, but moved to a small country town, Wauchope, when I was seven. I grew up on a farm there with my parents, older brother and little sister. And Wauchope is just nea...

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Sydney-based musician Elizabeth Rose is an Australian artist with conviction. If there ever was a testament to her growth from talented local artist to bold, statement making, self-assured creative, her first full-length...

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