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BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS Throughout the 1850s and ’60s, they set about constructing a cluster of bluestone buildings on the holding, which at its peak covered 23,000 acres (9307 hectares) of prime freehold and leasehold grazing land.

BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE PHOTOGRAPHY ROSS WILLIAMS, STYLING BRONTE CAMILLERI When Robyn and John Oliver bought Clear View in the Adelaide Hills, they became not just the eighth family to own the property, but also the custodians of a century-long traditio

BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS Sunshine and blue skies mean our arrival at Hells Gates is more like venturing into paradise than travelling through a terrifying approach to what was once one of the most reviled destinations on earth: Sarah

BY TAMARA SIMONEAU PHOTOGRAPHY GEORGE ROSS, MAX ROSENSTEIN & MARCUS WILSON SMITH “Frances Mayes was the main inspiration towards my love of everything Italian. I must have read her book a billion times, and sobbed through the movie of the same name o

BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE PHOTOGRAPHY KIM SELBY They say you never know what’s around the corner. The adage proved true for Helen and Peter Wallace, when they moved from Melbourne to the Gold Coast in 2010 for what they imagined would be semi-retirement. “

BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS “I didn’t do it for you,” artist Criss Canning candidly admits as she ushers us into the kitchen at Burnside, the home she shares with her nurseryman husband, David Glenn, in the central Victorian goldfields.

BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE PHOTOGRAPHY ANASTASIA KARIOFYLLIDIS, STYLING SIMONE BARTER “The house led me from favouring a colonial country look to finding a passion for all things with a distinctly French provincial accent.” The old saying that every cloud h

Princess Anna, just over a year old, died on a cold January day, struck down by a sudden illness in the darkness of winter. The year of the tragic event was 1319. And yet, despite the many centuries gone by, the unfortunate child is still with us. To

BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS It may not have been the most romantic of gifts, but Kylie Warrington says it quickly became one of her most treasured. When her then fiancé, Peter, excitedly ushered her outside their Canberra home to reveal

BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS It’s the kind of question that will win pub bets. Which country consumes the most gin? Not the Netherlands, which is allegedly the home of genever, the ancestor of the aromatic spirit. Nor is it the UK, where