Matthew Evans was a successful chef and food critic before giving it all up to move to Hobart and run his own farm. For Evans, it’s all about eating and drinking local produce, which he points out to Monocle on a walk…
As far as the firms over the next four pages are concerned, if you want a job done properly you do it yourself. Be they making bikes, furniture, microphones, ferries or guitars, these are companies that all revel in the…
Australia’s drinking and dining scene is thriving. Monocle Films visits three restaurants in Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart that share a passion for good food and honest ingredients.
Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is the nearest inhabited landmass to Antarctica and that’s why scientists flock to the city that is at the frontline of environmental research. Add to this adventurous tourists and food pioneers…
Adelaide is aiming to replicate the commercial success that the Guggenheim brought to Bilbao – known, appropriately, as the “Bilbao effect” – with its own cultural attraction under the working title of Adelaide Contemporary…
Tasmania is a quiet force on the design scene but government backing, a decent museum and a school saved from closure are helping to put it on the world map and attract clients from abroad. We visit the studios of five…
An Antarctic programme under the spotlight, New Zealand's parliamentary election and how a Vietnamese refugee has become the governor of South Australia.
We sample seafood at a one-time grocery store and try mezze at a former 1950s beauty salon that’s now a Turkish taverna. There’s even time to wet your whistle with some lively Italian aperitivos. Don’t worry about breakfast…
Despite ideal conditions for producing sea salt, this remote Aussie island used to import from the UK. Today the pair behind its only salt farm are savouring their success.
