Link copiedShareShare resultsBy chief election analyst Antony Green posted Fri at 2:00pmFriday 2 May 2025 at 2:00pmFri 2 May 2025 at 2:00pm Updated 5m ago5 minutes agoMon 5 May 2025 at 11:07am updated 2h ago2 hours agoMon 5 May 2025 at 8:50am | Durack covers the northern wheat belt of Western Australia from Northam to Geraldton, as well as Carnarvon and the vast northern mining and pastoral regions of the Pilbara and Kimberley districts. Major centres in the north include Newman, Karratha, Dampier, Port Hedland, Broome and Derby. The area of the electorate is 1,410,947 square kilometres or 55.8% of the state. Close to Perth Durack loses Toodyay, Northam and York to the new seat of Bullwinkel. Gains the wheatbelt shires between Cunderin, Merredin and Mount Marshall from O'Connor. The Liberal margin strengthens slightly from 4.3% to 4.7%. (Victories by a party of government are indicated by thick coloured underlining.) As the map makes clear, there is a strong political divide between the Coalition voting and more heavily populated rural areas in the south, and the Labor majorities recorded at the 2022 election in the mining towns and indigenous communities of the north. (Click on polling place for results) Indigenous - Aboriginal Party of Australia CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) In 1975 he reunited with Carey at Grey Advertising in Sydney followed by The Campaign Palace in Melbourne In 1994 the Melbourne Art Directors Club Gold honoured him with the coveted Gold Award for The Most Outstanding Contribution Made By A Creative Person As he had left advertising some two years earlier to become a full-time food critic he wondered if they weren’t trying to tell him something as he retires from what he calls “the best job in the world” chief restaurant critic for The Sydney Morning Herald has penned this piece for SMH reflecting on his remarkable journey as he farewells his review column after 30 years I haven’t told anyone that I am stepping down from my role as chief restaurant critic of The Sydney Morning Herald Mainly because I know what they are going to say when they hear the news Why walk away from a weekly gig reviewing the best restaurants in town From a column that I’ve made my own since arriving from Melbourne in 1994 lobster mafaldine and dry-aged Maremma duck the hospitality industry has ridden the ups and downs of economic and global financial crises and soldiered on It makes it tough for a reviewer to be tough They’ve gotten me out of bed and to the desk for a long time now and it’s going to be very weird without this one I’ll probably be like the laboratory rat that still jumps on the treadmill and starts pounding away because it doesn’t know what else to do And I’m really looking forward to booking restaurants under my own name because at least I’ll be able to remember it when I turn up at the restaurant door When you run four or five false names across half-a-dozen online reservation systems When you know what it’s like as a youngster to be both hungry and lonely you have a special relationship with food that lasts all your life I was living in cheap lodging houses and eating half a can of soup a night it made sense to seek out ever better food The frustration when you can’t quite nail the description of a dish so that the reader can taste it and website in this browser for the next time I comment Register for Free and receive the Campaign Brief Daily Bulletin Type your email address in the space below Find out how our creek and waterway projects are supporting local wildlife and our city’s great outdoor lifestyle Our projects support the health of our local creeks and waterways the Brisbane River and Moreton Bay.  Keeping waterways healthy will help:  Our creek and waterway projects are part of our wider WaterSmart Strategy to improve the health of waterways. This strategy supports Brisbane’s liveability with a focus on sustainable water management.\r\n Download Brisbane’s Total Watercycle Management Plan to learn about how we're delivering sustainable water 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Thank you, Bruce Collis, for the fish, and Neil Perry and Richard Purdue for the purity and care of the grill Laksa in a dumpling at Ho Jiak Town Hall.James BrickwoodLaksa bombs, Ho Jiak Town Hall, SydneyAll the things you ever loved about spicy, coconut-creamy Singaporean laksa soup – but inside a dumpling? Ho Jiak owner-chef Junda Khoo sends out big floppy chicken and two types of noodles bathed in a spoonful of heavily reduced laksa soup jelly-soft pig jowl with maltose crackling.Jennifer SooBerkshire pig jowl with maltose crackling SydneyAdvertisementI’ve been eating Peter Gilmore’s intuitive elegant food since reviewing De Beers in Whale Beach in 1999 (“One of the most exciting chefs I’ve come across all year; everything works”) But it all really happened for him with the patronage of the Fink Group at Quay jelly-soft pig jowl was sent out with richly marinated prunes and smooth cauliflower cream and a crackling made from maltose toffee “one of the most exciting chefs I’ve come across all year; everything works” Comfort food for your inner noodle freak at Temasek.Steven SiewertChar kwai teow, Temasek, ParramattaI first reviewed this fast, no-fuss Singaporean family favourite in 1998 and called it a bloody gem. Now run by the founder’s son Jeremy Cho, it still is. I like it all: the dusky curry puffs stir-fried flat rice noodles soak up the dark crisp lap cheong sausage and decent small prawns smooth shells of cocoa butter.Jennifer SooAdvertisementJapanese stones Martin Benn has a love of beauty that drives him to create high-concept high-technique dishes that are works of art It won him three hats at Sepia in Sussex Street (2009-2017) The Japanese stones dessert (2011) was an extraordinary thing to eat smooth shells of cocoa butter cracked open to reveal soft hearts of chocolate Snail-on-snail-on-snail.Edwina PicklesLumache a l’escargot Potts PointBistrot 916 was a fever dream of French bistro romance where chef Dan Pepperell evoked a sense of Parisian tradition while at the same time sending it up His snail-shaped lumache pasta shells came lolling about with snails shallot and garlic butter that the French like to serve with snails A three-hat potato, every time.Edwina PicklesPotato and roe, Oncore by Clare Smyth, BarangarooAdvertisementThe signature dish at ritzy, high-level Oncore is a nod to Clare Smyth’s Irish upbringing – a whole potato. Cooked low and slow in kombu butter, it’s then topped with herring and trout roe and tiny fermented potato chips planted among baby shoots of sorrel, chives and rocket. With the uncompromisingly talented Alan Stuart leading the Sydney team, it’s a three-hat potato, every time. Ridiculously creamy and studded with goodies.SuppliedPork and century egg congee, Royal Palace, ChinatownRice congee is such a yum cha staple and late-night saviour that you forget to even think about it as you’re wolfing it down. Until such time as it is so ridiculously creamy and studded with goodies that you actually stop and stare, as if it just spoke to you. It did once, at a trolley-laden Royal Palace yum cha lunch, and I’ll never forget it. Terry Durack: Why I’m giving up the best job in SydneyRestaurant reviews news and the hottest openings served to your inbox And it makes a fittingly fabulous venue for Terry Durack’s last review 8 / 8A straight and simple dessert of stunningly sharp lemon gelato topped with lychee and ginger sorbet.Edwina PicklesPrevious SlideNext SlideGood Food hatGood Food hat16/20How we score It’s always slightly strange when you hear a familiar song in a different language but this version is Sono Bugiarda by Caterina Caselli it’s also a very good introduction to Neptune’s Grotto a romantically dark subterranean restaurant that says it’s all about northern Italian classics but actually sings them in another language entirely Wine chap Andy Tyson and chefs Dan Pepperell and Mikey Clift like to lay it on thick (their door handle is a brass seahorse) nonstop party played out in a series of candlelit Never mind that he looks like a margarine sculpture I’m expecting Gina Lollobrigida and Dean Martin any minute and walls panelled with sybaritic scenes of eating and drinking He’d love the mini martinis and Barolo Bombardier cocktails at the long bar and Tyson’s devotion to nebbiolo and chianti I’ve dubbed chef Dan Pepperell Mr Twisty before for taking what we know and giving it a culinary spin Using schmaltz (rendered chicken fat) in the traditional chicken liver crostini ($18) is a great little twist resulting in a few ridiculously rich bites on almost chewy bread Instead of a trad vitello tonnato with tuna sauce creamy smoked eel mayonnaise (remember the one at Bistro 916 with the crumbed brains?) spiked with crunchy deep-fried capers over paper-thin slices of poached veal girello as fresh crudo furled around a fruity chip-chop of smoked eggplant with smoked eel replacing tuna in the creamy dressing.Edwina PicklesIf you go for the platter of finely shaved salumi ($36) add on a grandma slice ($10) straight from New York’s Little Italy; a gnarly sugo-topped focaccia that tastes like something dug from the ruins of Pompeii The candles stuck in chianti flasks might suggest a casual approach to wine from a dandelion amaro to barolos from some of the great barolisti I’m told the smart money is on the tortelloni ($40) and it’s a fine dish of plump little green pasta packages of ricotta parmesan and truffle squatting in hazelnut-scented burnt butter sauce But it’s no match for the rich strands of tajarin ($39) a northern Italian pasta made with extra egg yolk that has been teamed with a fresh-tasting pomodoro sauce from the south Sharp lemon gelato topped with a lychee and ginger sorbet is served in a stainless-steel coupe.Edwina PicklesToo often cotoletta alla Milanese proves little more than the fact that people will eat anything as long as it is crumbed You could team it with cavolo nero ($15) but it’s too intense with anchovy so maybe head for a lovely tower of soft butter lettuce ($16) instead it feels right to keep things straight and simple with a little stainless-steel coupe of stunningly sharp lemon gelato topped with lychee and ginger sorbet ($14) Italy’s greatest hits are so popular around the world they can either be reduced to banal cliches This is an affectionate and masterly return to the classics; a bright romanticised remix that makes you listen more closely theatrical New York/Italian from a top team Drinks: Cool cocktails (Barolo Boulevardier) classy Italo/Australian wine list studded with gems After 30 years, Terry Durack farewells his column and signs off as chief restaurant critic of The Sydney Morning Herald. Catch up on his recent reviews here. This sweet and spicy spot sells 32 Indian-inspired ice-cream flavoursParramatta’s coolest hot spot Icy Spicy offers a tempting all-vegetarian menu, from chilli ice-cream to fried beetroot momo. Come for the cheesecake, stay for the community spirit at this interesting corner store“You walk in and you can get everything,” says the owner of Juno and Sons shop and cafe in Elizabeth Bay. Olympic Membership - Free Live Stream Sports & Original Series - join now! 🥇 Durack stopped off in London where she completed her training Compared with most of the mainly Europe-based field at the Games she appeared to be relatively ill-prepared the date of her first 100m heat she showed few signs of rustiness Having seen Wylie win heat three without difficulty Durack took to the water for the next race according to the Official Report – and set a new Olympic Record of 1:19.8 a comfortable 7.4 seconds ahead of runner-up Irene Steer and exactly seven seconds ahead of the time Wylie had set in the previous heat who swims a distinctively Australian crawl won as she liked,” repeated the Official Report as she came through in 1:20.2 this time finishing 6.6 seconds ahead of second-placed British swimmer Daisy Curwen eventually winning her race by 0.2 seconds from another Briton It looked set to be a two-way race for the gold medal between the two Australians and there was plenty of anticipation for the final which took place on the evening of 12 July there was little of the drama that had been expected while Wylie looked relatively comfortable in second place Durack had made history by becoming the first-ever female swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal she found herself much in demand to compete in events across Europe She and Wylie toured the continent together and also competed in the USA Durack broke a remarkable 12 world records and became an influential figure for female swimmers throughout the world Although she had been due to compete at the 1920 Games in Antwerp so 1912 remained her only appearance on the Olympic stage She retired in 1921 but became a coach in her native New South Wales before passing away in 1956 Remove items from your saved list to add more. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. ShareI haven’t told anyone that I am stepping down from my role as chief restaurant critic of The Sydney Morning Herald, until now. Mainly because I know what they are going to say when they hear the news. They’re going to tell me I’m stupid. Why walk away from a weekly gig reviewing the best restaurants in town? From a column that I’ve made my own since arriving from Melbourne in 1994? From all that charred Fremantle octopus, lobster mafaldine and dry-aged Maremma duck? Granted, I may well be crazy, but I think it’s time, for a number of reasons. “I’m really looking forward to booking restaurants under my own name”: Terry Durack.Dominic LorrimerIn my years on the beat, the hospitality industry has ridden the ups and downs of economic and global financial crises and soldiered on. This time feels different. Everyone is working so much harder, for less. It makes it tough for a reviewer to be tough. I’m also a bit over deadlines, to be honest. They’ve gotten me out of bed and to the desk for a long time now, and it’s going to be very weird without this one. I’ll probably be like the laboratory rat that still jumps on the treadmill and starts pounding away because it doesn’t know what else to do. And I’m really looking forward to booking restaurants under my own name, because at least I’ll be able to remember it when I turn up at the restaurant door. Hopefully. When you run four or five false names across half-a-dozen online reservation systems, it can be a struggle. (I know, the pathos – you can feel my pain, right?) I was born to be a restaurant critic. When you know what it’s like as a youngster to be both hungry and lonely, you have a special relationship with food that lasts all your life. In my teens, I was living in cheap lodging houses and eating half a can of soup a night. Food has always made me feel better. So when I started earning money, it made sense to seek out ever better food, and to pay attention to it. I found I also responded to the particular processes of dining – the rituals, the pacing, the timing, the tension, the theatre, the way staff members resolve issues with grace and humour, the smells, the spills, the whole shebang. And I love the writing side of reviewing. The frustration when you can’t quite nail the description of a dish so that the reader can taste it. The satisfaction when you can. I’ve had a great run. I’ve edited eight different Good Food Guides, I’ve won all the awards, written books and moved to London to review restaurants for The Independent on Sunday. Together with my wife and partner-in-crime Jill Dupleix, I’ve travelled the world, met some amazing and inspiring chefs and restaurateurs, and traced some of my all-time favourite ingredients back to their source. I’ve watched the restaurant scene shape itself from the cocky young self-taught Australian chefs of the 1980s and 1990s, to the private equity-backed restaurant groups of the next couple of decades, to the current explosion of small indie diners that reflect our many cultures. What a trip. The other thing that makes me feel good about this giant leap into the void is that there are now so many excellent voices reporting on the restaurant scene. In particular, I commend to you a young bloke called Callan Boys, who came along with fire in his belly 10 or 12 years ago and is now editing the Good Food Guide. You’ll be in good hands. Food critic Terry Durack and food writer Jill Dupleix.Nikki ToWhat I will miss, though, is a certain sense of duty I’ve had to you, my fellow diners. I’ve always gone out with the aim of finding somewhere great to eat. When I find something I really like, I think it’s been pretty obvious. If it doesn’t meet my expectations, then I’ve tried to let you know without crucifying anyone for cheap laughs or to get extra clicks online – something I despise. I am grateful right down to my socks for having such a great audience for my work. You’re an informed and slightly sceptical bunch who, in our correspondences, have generally proven to be wise, fair and funny. I’ve also had the support of some great editors, sub-editors, photographers and journalistic colleagues who have paid me the ultimate honour of trusting me to do it my way. Thanks all, it’s been a blast. You can still catch me in the pages of Good Weekend, but my final review for Good Food will run on Tuesday, December 17. And it’s a beauty. After that, do say hello the next time you see me in a restaurant. I’ll be the one at the bad table in the back corner near the loo. 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Durack set a world record in her heat of the 100m freestyle, and went on to win the final, with Wylie second. It was Australia’s only individual gold at those Olympics. Durack and Wylie both made individual US tours, both of which brought Durack into bitter conflict with authority. By temperament and talent, she had much in common with her later successor, Dawn Fraser.  The Australian Olympic Committee acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of all the lands on which we are located. We pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present. We celebrate and honour all of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Olympians. The Australian Olympic Committee is committed to honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to society and sport. Send help right to the people and causes you care about Your donation is protected by the GoFundMe Giving Guarantee Greg Durack raced through to claim the inaugural Australian Drag Racing Championship title for Top Fuel Motorcycle aboard his bespoke Kawasaki ZX12R Turbo bike which boasts what he calls a ‘Frankenstein’ set-up Durack punched well above his weight to claim the title his first ever ANDRA Christmas Tree trophies In the late 70’s I went to Ravenwood Drag Strip with a couple of university mates as a spectator so that was when it started and I thought this is something that I would like to do I had a couple of runs down the track but nothing serious as I commenced working in the mining industry in the early 80s in the WA Goldfields so opportunities were limited Back then we lived onsite or in nearby country towns After a stint in Papua New Guinea for three and a half years and that is where I really started drag racing at the Townsville Bohle Track in ’88 I ran a Kawasaki z1000J that I had hotted up which used to run low 11s which was also based on a 1000J that used to run low 9s I later returned to WA in ’92 and continued my racing at Ravenswood Why do you choose to compete in the Top Fuel Motorcycle category I commenced in Modified Bike before progressing through to Competition Bike with the second turbo bike I built I still hold the Perth Motorplex Track and Australian National records in both Modified and Competition Bike I then progressed to Top Fuel Motorcycle with the third turbo bike I built although spent the first couple of years in Competition Bike first sorting out the bugs this is the current bike I am campaigning now utilising the learning experiences from the first two turbo bikes; all fabricated here in Perth I can’t say it was really ever a set goal of mine to race in Top Fuel Motorcycle it was more like a drifted progression – it only really took me about 30 years to get there getting to run in the sixes with my current bike meant I could be competitive there against the nitro bikes I do like to be different by pushing the turbo bike The goal has always been to build a consistent fast and reliable bike and this remains the objective I have no plans to leave Top Fuel Motorcycle – testing yourself against the best What is it about your bike that makes it so successful The bike is purely bespoke; it is the third one I have built and has been developed from my previous experiences of running turbocharged drag bikes It is turbocharged with an alcohol methanol fuel injection running a primary drive belt off the crankshaft to a computer controlled pneumatic dry clutch which transmits the power through a three speed B&J Transmission The engine is based on a Kawasaki ZX12R motorcycle a ZX12R head – which is now billet and was made by Lou Cotter – on top of a Kawasaki Jetski STX15F bottom end which has provided a strong platform for the engine development With these changes our capacity has been increased to 1570cc and the bike also boasts JE Pistons It is modelled on what we call Turbo Funnybikes and is the only one of its type in the world running on this configuration Most Funnybikes are based on complete motorcycle engines with integral gearboxes and clutches in the crank cases on a weight basis I am at a disadvantage if you compare it to the Funnybikes we are seeing in the US and Europe at just over 1,000lbs compared to 700lbs respectively what I have built is a much stronger platform in the engine development clutch and transmission and so it can handle a higher level of power What was your favourite event of the 2021/2022 season and why but the favourite would be the Goldenstates as I won my first Silver Christmas Tree and also the recent ANDRA Grand Finals as we had a large field of entrants as with WA opening up again interstate racers came across so hopefully there will be more of that going forward has it sunk in yet that you are the National Champion What does it mean to you to have achieved the title I can say it was great winning the National Championship and it was great to claim my first metal Gold Christmas Tree I did win a Gold wooden plaque one in Darwin in 2013 which was great What was the highlight of your season aside from taking out the title The highlights of my season for me are found in progressing the development of the bike and running consistent 6.6s without any issues What are your plans for the upcoming season In the last couple of meetings of the 21/22 season I did have failing ignition leads which I didn’t pick up on early enough but we are now back on track ready for Darwin in June I have always been a bit conservative in pushing the bike too hard too quickly as I don’t like burning up parts and as I said thrashing between rounds as that burns up cash and I want to relax as much as I can at the track which I will now turn up over a couple of meetings and there is a new set of extreme turbo cams I had made which I reckon will be getting tested about mid-season and hopefully I can consistently lower my ETs I am definitely looking forward to next season and it looks like we will have a few more competitors in Top Fuel Motorcycle at the Motorplex especially if a few more eastern staters travel and I look forward to seeing and racing everyone Who would you like to thank for the roles they have played in your title season my wife Kimberley and our sponsors and supporters Clyde Carstairs from Bravo Resources and Dragon Bikes; Gavin Forbes from FME; Grant Bojanjac from Per4manz Turbochargers; and also Lou Cotter for designing and manufacturing zx12 billet heads Thanks also to the Perth Motorplex team who have always been great supporters of Top Fuel Motorcycle and to all of my fellow competitors – I hope to see you in the lanes in the near future For the complete listing of ANDRA champions, please click here. posted 20 Mar 2022Sunday 20 March 2022 at 2:00pmSun 20 Mar 2022 at 2:00pm Updated 23 Jun 2022Thursday 23 June 2022 at 6:28amThu 23 Jun 2022 at 6:28am | Melissa Price (Liberal) since 2013. Minister for Defence Industry and Minister for Science and Technology. Durack covers the northern wheat belt of Western Australia from Northam to Geraldton, as well as Carnarvon and the vast northern mining and pastoral regions of the Pilbara and Kimberley districts. Major centres in the north include Newman, Karratha, Dampier, Port Hedland, Broome and Derby. The area of the electorate is 1,383,954 square kilometres. McNeiar is a proud Malgana woman from Gutharagudu, otherwise known as Shark Bay. She was born and raised in Geraldton, where she was a student of Rangeway primary school where she began her journey as an artist. One of her early jobs was to work in project coordination for local arts projects, where Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists began to be featured together in the same exhibitions for the first time. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time Lucy Durack is an actor and singer best known for her role in Legally Blonde: The Musical The 39-year-old opens up about her first kiss and how she makes a long-distance marriage work “We met in a car park in Melbourne and I remember thinking that I’d want to do my hair nicely if I was to bump into him again.”Credit: Josh Robenstone moved to Perth from South Africa with my grandmother Shirley and their four children; my mum was eight years old at the time He was totally in love with my grandmother; they were two lovebirds who wanted a less dangerous upbringing for their children where he worked as a draftsman and designed the house my parents still live in was named Patrick Michael but has a sister who got called Pat so he went by his second name Dad used to have a Tom Selleck moustache in the 1980s He wasn’t around much in my childhood because he worked in the oil industry as a FIFO worker To this day he’s a great dad who still wears a leather jacket and loves to ride his motorbike but I mostly spent time with Mum and my grandparents He is six foot three [190 centimetres] and I always felt protected by him He loved to push me and my sisters really high on the swing was a lawyer who died in a car accident when Dad was 17 and in his final year of high school The entire family went into shock and had to figure a way to support one another where he worked his way up to become a rig manager It was during a game of spin the bottle when I was part of the children’s chorus of the WA Opera Company’s Carmen We locked our chaperone out of the room to play the game I had a crush on Home Improvement’s Jonathan Taylor Thomas growing up; he went on to be the voice of Simba in The Lion King I also remember seeing Paul Rudd in the rom-com Clueless and crushing on him immediately My first boyfriend was Patrick Giles; I was 16 and he was in my political and legal studies class He asked me out for Valentine’s Day and we dated for three months We got back together when I was 21 but it didn’t work out Mr Fitzpatrick was my political and legal studies teacher I loved his class so much I started a law degree at Sydney Uni after drama school I didn’t finish it because I went back to theatre who encouraged me to enrol at WAAPA [the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts] I didn’t come from a performing arts family; I had no idea what WAAPA was He directed our school musicals and would make us mix tapes of songs from Rent Grease and Chess – shows he’d seen in New York – that I’d listen to non-stop I didn’t have many relationships until I met my husband Chris was brought in as a choreographer on my dear friend Matthew Lee Robinson’s Metro Street show in 2004 and had to choreograph me in one song We met in a car park in Melbourne and I remember thinking that I’d want to do my hair nicely if I was to bump into him again Our marriage works because we have the same passion and support each other I got the role of Glinda in Wicked in Melbourne and we had a long-distance relationship for 15 months while he was in Sydney his work took him to Sydney and I was on the Gold Coast Lucy Durack is in concert with David Hobson in Night at the Barracks A cultural guide to going out and loving your city. 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Australian swimmers Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie poolside in Stockholm in 1912 Photograph: AlamyThe 1912 Olympics were the first to include swimming events for women – the 100m freestyle and the 4x100m freestyle relay (it wasn’t until 1928 that women were permitted to compete in athletics events) Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie, friends and fierce rivals, travelled to Sweden only after public clamour and determined fundraising overcame the opposition of the New South Wales Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Association which prohibited women from swimming in competitions when men were present Durack shocked the sporting world by wearing close-fitting swimsuits rather than the heavy woollen outfits that were then regarded as suitable for women Durack and Wylie each won their heats and semi-finals with Durack setting a world record time of 1:19.8 in the heat In the final on 12 July 1912 she claimed the first women’s Olympic swimming gold in 1:22.1 Durack went on to break 12 world records between 1912 and 1918 but missed the chance to defend her Olympic title in 1920 after suffering serious illness shortly before the Games Both Durack’s and Wylie’s names are still associated with swimming in Sydney – in 1999 Petersham pool was renamed after Durack, who lived in neighbouring Stanmore, and the baths in Coogee built by Wylie’s father, Henry, were officially named Wylie’s baths in 1978. Dame Mary Durack, or Mary Durack Miller, is one of Australia's best-known literary figures. The story of her family's history, beginning with the mid-19th century migration from Ireland, was published by Durack in 1959 and titled "Kings in Grass Castles". It included many of the pioneering families of Queensland and the North of Australia. It won her great fame. She published many other books and was a friend of numerous Australian writers and artists.   Her daughter Patsy Miller wrote the story of her mother's life from the many family sources available to her, including Mary's diaries. She gave Philip Clark a unique insight into the life and thoughts of one of our country's most significant literary giants.  True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack Published: 23h agoSun 4 May 2025 at 12:00pm Download the ABC listen app to hear more of your favourite podcasts Getting Canberra to understand the resentment felt across the vast swath of Western Australia that is the seat of Durack is the sitting member’s main job which stretches more than 1.6m sq km from Kellerberrin to the Kimberley coast and the Northern Territory border It’s the largest electorate in Australia and second largest in the world – behind Nunavut in Canada – but it’s home to fewer than 200,000 people more than half of whom live in regional towns along the coast who inherited preselection in 2013 from the former MP Barry Hasse Hasse used to hold the even more unwieldy 2.3m sq km seat of Kalgoorlie before it was split north and south into the seats of Durack and O’Connor in 2010 If Price started at the bottom of her electorate and headed north That’s assuming that all the roads are open – they’re frequently not The paved highway that guides grey nomads up the coast from Perth turns to gravel when you head more than a few hundred kilometres inland the fine copper dirt turns to sucking mud after the first hour of rain and the roads to rivers when the rain doesn’t stop for several weeks “I am lucky in that my electorate is quite well serviced with commercial flights,” Price says speaking to Guardian Australia from Geraldton airport There are few commercial flights between WA’s regional towns so despite being almost 200km outside the boundary Price hesitates when asked where she is based The days in between are spent in country hotels at various points in the electorate The vast size of the seat means any election is more than usually weighted in favour of the incumbent according to the political analyst David Black an emeritus professor at Curtin University The allowance for the sitting member includes a travel budget which means he or she has both the resources and the time to visit and become known in Durack’s 51 local government areas Price says she uses charter flights occasionally but prefers to keep that allowance on hand for emergencies, such as Cyclone Olwyn, which devastated the banana crop in coastal Carnarvon in March 2015. Asked how the Labor candidate, Carol Martin, manages the same task, a member of the WA Labor campaign team laughs. “We drive,” he says. Martin does have a higher profile than most candidates. The Yamatji and Noongar woman was the first Aboriginal woman to be elected in any Australian parliament and represented the Kimberley in the WA lower house between 2001 and 2013. She spent the first week of the campaign visiting remote communities, out of mobile range from both her campaign team and the media. But Labor is not the alternative party in Durack. That role is played by the Nationals, who under the Coalition agreement won’t run against a sitting Liberal member. Price wasn’t yet a sitting member in 2013, which is how the Nationals candidate Shane van Styn, who had taken a brief sojourn from his role as mayor of Geraldton –Durack’s largest town – was able to run against her and get 46% of the vote in two-party preferred terms. Read moreAbout 16% of Durack identifies as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander compared with the national population level of 2.5% It is home to most of WA’s 274 remote Aboriginal communities of which about 100 are considered to be both sizable and permanent There are 31 language groups in the Pilbara and 34 in the Kimberley many of which are the first and second languages spoken in communities (The Barnett government since clarified it would not forcibly close any remote communities but it is 12 months into shaping a policy of remote community reform, which could result in changes to service delivery.) That’s a tricky brief to balance with demands from Durack’s other key stakeholders in the mining The industries shift as you move north: wheat and wool in the wheatbelt agriculture and mining in the Midwest-Gascoyne from the red-and-white herefords at Merredin to the pale brahman that blend at dusk into the grey bitumen highways of the Kimberley There is a level of resentment in Durack at the impression it is being ignored whose residents feel that bearing the social impact of the mining boom while most of the country just got the economic benefit entitles them to the occasional prime ministerial visit Getting the city types in Canberra to understand this (to many Durack voters anything east of Adelaide is a city) is the sitting member’s main job “My challenge is to make sure that people in parliament understand the significant economic contribution that my electorate is making and that there was significant infrastructure and investment needed,” Price says The mining industry has been dealt a double blow, the iron ore price dropping to almost a third of boom-time prices and major projects in the Pilbara shedding jobs amid the shift from construction phase to general operations how are we going to transition this economy,” Price says The investment needed is not just in roads and rail but in smaller things that other communities take for granted such as an arts centre or a sporting ground that’s more than 40% covered in grass “The things that make a place somewhere you want to live not a lot more – cafes and restaurants that have started up in Karratha,” she says National parks in the Pilbara and in the proposed Kimberley national park are starting to attract international tourists Transitioning from a place southerners come to get rich to a place where people stay and have families is a key demand of the East Pilbara shire the largest local government area in the electorate knows something of the difficulty of managing the electorate having run as National party candidate in 2010 but she says it is frustrating trying to get attention for anything outside of the major centres of Geraldton Her own campaign effort involved a branded caravan and several spare tyres “Even when we were in the height of the mining boom and we were making the money for Australia people in Canberra still didn’t care,” Craigie says “And now that we have got a changing iron ore market so we are not making quite as much money There is an unknown connection issue between Cloudflare and the origin web server There is an issue between Cloudflare's cache and your origin web server. 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All articles from our website & appThe digital version of This Week's PaperBreaking news alerts direct to your inboxAll articles from the other agricultural news sites in your areaContinueOffered by Carl and Karen Simpson the Nutrien Harcourts GDL online auction saw six of of the 20 registered parties placing bids on the 715ha (1767 acre) property before being knocked down to the Gulf country buyers for the impressive $5.9m sale price Durack is described as gently undulating softwood scrub country There is also 190ha of well-established leucaena red chocolatey soils support a big body pasture including Biloela and Gayndah buffel bisset blue grass with a variety of legumes and natives The property is securely watered with nine dams Durack also has a frontage to the Don River There are 16 main paddocks and two holding paddocks with a laneway servicing the well shaded steel cattle yards two bathroom homestead is set in established lawns and gardens and boasts both front and back entertainment areas MORE READING: 'Adavale's Leopardwood Park heads to auction on April 21'. 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By continuing, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy Get your intro offer.  It looks like your email isn't registered yet—let’s get you set up We've sent a code to the below email.  A stress management and wellness app created by two stars of Australian theatre has revealed plans are underway to introduce the program into Aussie schools.  Hey Lemonade provides quick-three-minute evidence-based pep talks delivered by a range of well-known Australians to help people deal with modern-day problems.  Founded by theatrical stars Elise McCann and Lucy Durack the wellness app was only launched to the public in November 2022 and has already been downloaded close to 10,000 times.  Both McCann and Durack spent the first year on their mission to activate people’s optimism while dealing with life’s lemons by developing the content for the app and testing the app to make sure it works — something they say has really paid off as users are seeing amazing health benefits The founders then kicked things up a notch by applying to be part of a Kick-Start collaborative research project with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).  McCann says back in 2020 both she and Durack “Life was pretty stressful and we were both looking for additional support for the things that weren’t ‘serious’ serious but were serious to us,” she tells SmartCompany.  “We turned to meditation and wellness apps but we found them too woo-woo we weren’t sure if we were ‘doing it right’ we often didn’t respond to the voice and they required large amounts of time we didn’t have.  “We went for a walk and had a chat: and thought this is what we need – a quick talk with a friend to quickly nip that stress in the bud but it didn’t exist so we decided to make it ourselves!” McCann says the response to the app has been incredible get motivated or diffuse stress,” she says.  some days you can take 20 minutes to meditate or go for a run most days) you only have five minutes and really need a quick pep talk.  “So with Hey Lemonade we are focusing on that situation — and users are really responding to that tailorable alternative way to attain support and build resilience.” McCann says the goal was to provide a stress and motivation management tool to quickly deal with modern problems in a practical “We aim to be as specific to the issue our user is facing and as pragmatic as possible when providing solutions so that there is a sense of normalising the challenge and universality of these stresses that we all face,” she explains.   “We don’t position ourselves as the sole solution to everyone’s problems, we think Hey Lemonade is an important piece of an individual’s mental health tool kit. It is there to help calm you down, shift perspective and help you pull it together so you can keep going with your day. “There are dozens of meditation apps in the market but the field is crowded and the practice doesn’t work for everyone. In fact, many people are triggered by the words meditation and mindfulness.  “Motivation apps are a developing category but most are habit trackers or goal setters, they can be confusing, broad, and require lengthy sign-ins. So we are really trying to fill the gap for users looking for pragmatic, efficient, tailorable, relatable, evidence-based support.” To scale the Hey Lemonade app, Elise McCann and Lucy Durack successfully applied for the CSIRO Kick-Start program, an initiative for innovative Australian startups and small businesses. The CSIRO program provides matched funding support and access to its research expertise and capabilities to help grow and develop businesses.  In 2021, Hey Lemonade began working with an all-women team of scientists and after 12 months developing the study, they commenced the trial in July 2022.  The study sought to test the benefits of Hey Lemonade pep talks on users’ mood, stress and emotional health, and wellbeing, and quantify whether engagement with the app was effective in providing positive health benefits for individuals in real-world settings. “Despite the hundreds of wellbeing apps on the market, there is very little published evidence to prove that they legitimately generate positive health outcomes for users,” she says. “We really only wanted to make Hey Lemonade if it was going to be useful! So from day one we focused on research and ensuring we had a really strong evidence base.  “We utilise techniques from sports and organisational coaching and motivation; we brought on a team of psychologists and solution focussed coaching experts so that everything is really purposeful, and then we thought, let’s take it a step further and put it to the test; so we applied for a CSIRO Kick-Start collaborative research project. A study like this for a month-long, peer-reviewed project had not been done before, says McCann. “There is a lot of research into the benefits of pep talks in sports and organisational/ corporate arenas relating to performance and motivation, but there has never been a study into the effects of pep talks on individuals or its impact on everyday stress and motivation.” “Overall the findings discerned that listening to Hey Lemonade ‘pep talks’, over a four-week period, can improve mood, stress and ability to cope with general life hassles,” she adds.  “Those using the app over that period reported a 50% increase in feelings of calmness by week four, compared to participants in the control group who went without any intervention over the same period.   “Additionally the study saw a significant increase in feelings of vitality (aliveness and high positive energy) and a significant decrease in reporting of daily hassles (like managing family, bills, appointments, work, commuting), which is a strong predictor of overall wellbeing and health status in other research.  “Participants say that the app and talks left them feeling ‘motivated and more positive’, ‘inspired, calm, armed with practical advice to get through tough times’, as well as ‘clear minded and refreshed’.” “The results of the trial were published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research in April this year. Having this body of evidence is now our point of difference to many other wellbeing apps available that are more generic in nature.” McCann confirmed the founders are currently working on a program for schools. “We know that adolescence is a critical time for delivering prevention and intervention strategies for mental health and wellbeing as health-related behaviours established during this period are often carried into adulthood,” she says.  “So, Hey Lemonade is working in conjunction with the NSW Department of Education and the NSW Government to trial an innovative incubator program across one school term designed to support our youth – we are calling it Hey Lemonade High.  “Hey Lemonade High is proudly funded by the NSW Government as part of the NSW Education Department’s Student Wellbeing Innovation Fund.  “It will trial across year 9 and 10 cohorts in 15 schools throughout the state over the course of Term 4 this year. “We also have many other exciting plans for content, voices, collaborators, other unique demographics and ways we can find more innovative alternatives to infiltrate existing barriers for help through offering technology-driven, independently accessible, private, bite-sized support.” SaveLog in or Subscribe to save articleShareCopy link Share via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe The appearance of an abstract painting in a Perth auction catalogue has conjured the spectre of one of Australia’s most celebrated cultural controversies Among 144 relatively affordable works by artists including Sidney Nolan and Tim Storrier Burrup’s Glimpse of Ngarangani is a pleasant abstract the painting is estimated to fetch between $600 and $900 at GFL Fine Art’s auction on Sunday Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. 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Danielle Durack’s No Place will garner comparisons to the works of the members of boygenius Durack deals in sparse singer-songwriter tunes about heartbreak; she even considers boygenius one of her formative influences But digging deeper reveals that No Place is its own fully realized album The album begins in earnest about a minute in after the airy acoustic “Mistakes,” which is closer to a prelude to “By Now” than anything else; when “By Now” starts up it’s similar to “Mistakes,” Durack’s voice lilting above a soft guitar It sounds almost mournful before the drums come in ninety seconds in and provide some structure to the song; a minute later the song fills in even more building into a sweet folk-rock bridge before winding back down suddenly It’s the sort of minimalist pop song that might’ve found purchase on the radio in a time before the age of autotune; this is one of the modes Durack functions in No Place by Danielle Durack No Place is split near down the middle between plaintive lovelorn ballads and soft pop songs; in her best moments “By Now” exemplifies this right off the bat and the following “Broken Wings” hammers it home While it might seem like cheating to pick out the album’s lead single–one that’s been out since last October–as the easy standout The song shows off in four minutes Durack’s range beginning the first verse with just a guitar and Durack’s voice before the second verse brings in the full band and at the chorus “Broken Wings” is ripped wide open reborn as a straight-up rock song that finds Durack turning in one of the most impressive vocal performances on the LP circling back around and ending the same way it began and it’s the best song in Durack’s catalog The only song that at all nears the intensity of “Broken Wings”’ climax is “Don’t Know If I’ll Stick Around.” It’s here that Durack’s pop sensibilities come to the fore with an instantly memorable hook and a drum machine driving the song At the other end of the spectrum are songs like “Billy” and “There Goes My Heart,” which place more emphasis on Durack’s songwriting and heartwrenching delivery piano-based number that relies on the singer’s upper register; the song’s final verse sees Durack’s backing band joining her and adds layered vocals to close out No Place’s A-side on a triumphant note because the similarly piano-based “There Goes My Heart” immediately follows as that ten-minute duo could’ve easily become a drag “There Goes My Heart” is the sparsest on the record; placing an album’s two softest ballads back-to-back is always a dangerous move but Durack differentiates the two well enough No Place by Danielle Durack “There Goes My Heart” pushes Durack’s lyrics to the front; lines like “you’re calling me crying to tell me you’re sorry / to tug on my heartstrings and call me your darling / and that’s what I wanted but not what I asked for” are as honest and bare as the music behind them giving them a singular weight on the record as so many pretty singer-songwriter albums are; Durack’s lyrics do not fall into typical breakup tropes or standard heartbreak fare mostly due to her self-awareness and sense of humor While “There Goes My Heart” does display her more straightforward heartfelt lyricism–particularly the section excerpted above–other songs give a different impression of Durack as a songwriter “Now That I’m Alone” features the offhand admission that “I miss my dog,” a humorous and relatable reminder of the scope of what’s lost at the end of a relationship; “Broken Wings,” again It begins with a jab at ex-lover that’s really a jab at Durack herself: “You’re a special kind of tragic / so naturally I’m attracted to you.” As Durack continues she makes puns off of Cold Stone Creamery flavors; there’s a lack of self-seriousness here that pulls No Place off the edge of overwrought sentimentality that so many breakup records fall into and it only works to balance out the lines like “don’t take this the wrong way / but some days you’re just dead weight.” It’s clear or Lucy Dacus–she’s the first Danielle Durack that one day she’ll be as influential as those three Disappointing / Average / Good / Great / Phenomenal Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison The Alternative is ad-free and 100% supported by our readers. 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Email us at TheAltSubmissions@gmail.com Lucy Durack reprises her performance as Glinda the role she created in the original Australian production of Wicked who has played 800 performances of Wicked across Australia and Asia The cast also includes Steve Danielsen as Fiyero Emily Cascarino as Nessarose and Edward Grey as Boq.  Rounding out the ensemble are Justin Anderson For more information, visit WickedTheMusical.com.au The Arlekin Players production took four Off-Broadway honors May 4 A rundown of current Broadway shows and their planned show times and Ta-Tynisa Wilson will perform nearly 50 songs by the late singer-songwriter See clips of the numbers “Daydream,” "Flying Away" and "Jugglin'" from the new musical The play comes on the heels of a broader cultural conversation about Dahl's work and the prejudice that was embedded in many of his most beloved stories Pearson will be the first disabled actor to portray Joseph Merrick on screen The musical will play its final performance on Broadway May 18 The Harvey Schmidt-Tom Jones musical would go on to play over 17,000 performances at the Sullivan Street Theatre Thank You!You have now been added to the list Blocking belongson the stage,not on websites Our website is made possible bydisplaying online advertisements to our visitors Please consider supporting us bywhitelisting playbill.com with your ad blocker.Thank you