March 28 - April 3, 2015
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Culture
Food
Carrot, yoghurt and honey salad
Take the flavour of heirloom carrots, and reference them back to an heirloom recipe.
Books
Life
Travel
Myanmar’s new tourist wave
Myanmar is finding its feet as a tourist destination, and the best way to take advantage is to leave the ground.
The Quiz
Quotes
SPORT
“He took my personal car park.”
The Sikh priest complains about ex-footballer Ben Cousins’ erratic behaviour at a temple in Perth.
POLITICS
“He was inviting people to roll their eyes, grimace, groan. So Julie responded in exactly the way he wanted her to.”
The communications minister explains why Joe Hockey really wanted Julie Bishop to roll her eyes and hold her forehead in shame during his clumsy eulogy to Malcolm Fraser.
BUSINESS
“I’m happy to put that challenge out there, let’s cap our production right here and start acting like grown-ups.”
The Fortescue Metals boss encourages miners Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Vale to cap iron ore production. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission was unable to distinguish between being “grown up” and a “cartel”.
SURVEILLANCE
“WhatsApp or Wickr or Threema or Signal or Telegram – there’s a gazillion of them.”
The communications minister encourages journalists to use various messaging services that circumvent the metadata retention legislation he is advocating in parliament. Peter Dutton’s advice on beating border security was not forthcoming.
AVIATION
“You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.”
An investigator working on the Germanwings crash that killed 150 people in the French Alps explains that one of the pilots was apparently locked out of the cockpit before the crash.
MUSIC
“I’ve just heard the news … I regret this break-up and I hope the remainder of the band sticks together.”
The NSW opposition leader responds to news Zayn Malik has left One Direction. The likely impact on this weekend’s state election was unknown at time of print.
