Our next issue’s travels started in the very centre of Australia where we met Jan Heaslip, matriarch of Bond Springs station near Alice Springs. Jan has called the station home for almost 60 years and has been a passionate advocate for education for bush children for all of that time. She’s weathered all the challenges of remote living from drought and fire to floods and accidents. We also travelled to western Queensland where Erika and David Marsh and their family welcomed us to their home on a cattle station, then to the South Australian coastal town of Victor Harbor where we caught up with old friends Tania and Keith Norman, whose previous home at Encounter Bay and houseboat on the Murray River were featured in the magazine. Our travel story is a road trip up the Western Australian coast and our Australian abroad is Caroline Gabriel, who runs a bed and breakfast in Delhi, India. The issue is also packed with design and decorating inspiration, so please join us for Australian Country 27.1!

Our travels begin in Victoria where we joined hatted chef Jung Eun Chae at the micro restaurant she has created in her home in Cockatoo on Melbourne’s periphery. A bit further afield at Woodend in the Macedon Ranges, we visited a former TV producer and her partner who have restored a cottage and transported a Melbourne dance studio to create a home and B&B on their property. We’ve a garden feature from Manjimup in Western Australia’s Southern Forests region and a profile on a Christmas tree farm at Tamworth in the NSW north-east. Our travel feature is a road trip through south-west Queensland with stops to soak in the waters of the Great Artesian Basin, fossick for opal and walk in the tracks of dinosaurs. Plus, there’s a story about a restored homestead in Cunnamulla. The issue is also packed with design and decorating inspiration.

Our travels begin in Strathalbyn, the gateway town to South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula where Sally and Rory McGregor have made their home. Then we travel to Geelong in Victoria where author Fiona Lowe lives and works. We chat about her writing career and latest novel, The Accident, her passions for cycling, baking and entering her cakes in country shows. We also head to Rylstone in the NSW Central West, where the Evans family has created not one, but two amazing gardens on their farm, and up to the NSW MidNorth, where the residents of Wherrol Flat and Caparra create an annual roadside scarecrow trail for the amusement of passers-by and as part of an October long weekend fair that raises funds for the local hall. Our travel feature takes us to the truly stunning Yarra Valley in Victoria, just over a hour’s drive from Melbourne’s CBD. The issue is also packed with design and decorating inspiration.

Our travels begin in wine country in South Australia’s Currency Creek where the Shaw family has based their winery. Then we hop over to Tasmania’s north-east, where we visit Ken Richards and Garry Harris at their mid-19th century Kilgour House in the village of Longford. Next stop is the Yarra Valley in Victoria, where Tinne and Pieter Van Beeck have created their home and stunning accommodation options called Glenlowren. We also head to Rylstone in the NSW Central West, where the Evans family has created not one, but two amazing gardens on their farm. Our travel feature takes a bucket-list trip through the Red Centre from Alice Springs to Uluru via the West MacDonnell Ranges and Kings Canyon. The issue is also packed with design and decorating inspiration.

Our travels begin in wine country in South Australia’s Clare Valley with the gorgeous Battunga homestead at Watervale. Then we hop over to Tasmania, where we visit Carol Westmore in the stunning red-brick 1826 homestead she has restored near Deddington in the state’s north-east. Next stop is at Strathmerton on the Victorian side of the Murray River, where Jim and Julie Hall have built the truly extraordinary display garden that is Cactus Country. On the road again, we head to central-western Queensland where Milynda Rogers, a talented self-taught sculptor, has created a 200-kilometre-long sculpture trail that has put the tiny outback town of Aramac on the map. Winter is on the way, so we have a heating feature to solve all your needs to keep warm. The issue is also packed with design and decorating inspiration, so please join us for 


We start in Alice Springs where we meet retired nurse Deanna Bitar and her husband Samih at the extraordinary home they’ve owner-built on a hill overlooking the beautiful Macdonnell Ranges. Our travels then head to Victoria where we visit a gorgeous garden at Tatong and the house Janelle Marsden built overlooking the vines of Porepunkah’s Feathertop Winery, both in the north-east of the state. We then venture south to Willow Grove in the foothills of the Baw Baw Ranges for a heartwarming story about how the collaboration of two women has injected new energy into their businesses as well as fresh perspective on their personal lives. Our travel story covers the Great Ocean Road and we also visit Tasmania for a profile on restaurateur and fragrance-company founder Hayley Self. The issue is also packed with design and decorating inspiration.

Our travels start in western Queensland where tour operators Alan and Sue Smith welcome us to their historic homestead on Rosebank station. Back on the coast, there’s a story about a family who live and work at Montville in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, while in NSW we visit the stunning garden Lucy and Richard Marshall have created at Merribee in the Shoalhaven region. Our travel feature takes us on an artists’ trail to Bathurst and surrounding villages. The Australian abroad is Douglas Blain, who has been responsible for the restoration of a brace of boutique hotels in London as well as several historic properties in his home state of Tasmania. Still in the island state, we’ve a story about a team of skilled heritage conservators and tradesmen — bricklayers, stonemasons, plasterers, carpenters and joiners — who are restoring historic buildings in and around the village of Oatlands. The issue is also packed with design and decorating inspiration, so please join us for 


Our travels start at Nowra on the NSW South Coast with a visit to the home of artist Bonnie Porter-Greene. We then head to Armidale in the New England region, where a creative couple have built a quirky and colourful garden on acreage not far from town. In South Australia, we visit The Laurels, a 130-year-old farmhouse at Mylor in the Adelaide Hills, while in Queensland, we profile a gorgeous home at Montville in the hills behind the Sunshine Coast. Our travel features take us on a road trip through the opal fields of north-western NSW and on an artists’ trail to Bathurst and the surrounding villages. The issue is also packed with design and decorating inspiration

Our travels start in the NSW Southern Tablelands where we meet Sue Collings at her home that combines a cottage built during the influenza pandemic of 1918 with a barn added during the Covid crisis of 2020. We also visit artist James Gulliver Hancock and his partner, musician and co-director of Berry’s OpenField festival, Lenka Kripac, at their house in the bush at Brogers Creek in the NSW Illawarra region. There’s also a wonderful home at Paradise in WA’s south-west and an extraordinary 1880s house and garden at Crafers in SA’s Adelaide Hills. Our travel story takes us on a road trip through NSW, there’s a peek inside landscape architect Michael Bligh’s own garden at his home on the outskirts of Goulburn in the NSW Southern Highlands, and our Australian abroad story introduces avalanche technician Matt O’Rourke, who grew up in Cooma but these days lives at the Canadian ski resort of Whistler with his “hero” rescue dog, Eva. The issue is also packed with design and decorating inspiration.

Our travels start in the NSW New England region where we visited the Webb family at the cottage they have restored on their farm near Uralla. Plus we visit antique dealers Jane Crowley and her father, Athol Salter, at their neighbouring homes in the Southern Highlands town of Bowral. Then we head to the ACT to visit glass artist Brian Tunks at his showrooms at Pialligo and learn how the former classicist takes his inspiration from the glass and pottery found on archaeological digs. Next up is central Victoria, where Lisa and Paul Mack have created a beautiful home among the gum trees. We’ve also a story from the south-west of Western Australia, a travel story from Kangaroo Island in South Australia and a gorgeous garden two generations of the Crowden family has built high in the hills in north-west Tasmania. The issue is packed with design and decorating inspiration.

This issue's travels start in the NSW central west, where we were lucky enough to visit food entrepreneur Simmone Logue at her home near Oberon, during which she prepared a lunch inspired by local produce. From there, we headed to South Australia where we visited a homestead and garden in the Coonawarra region and went on a road trip across Kangaroo Island. In Tasmania, we caught up with Alistair and Kerry Houston, who run the Ship Inn in Stanley and have painstakingly restored a stone former bond store as their home. Our Australian Abroad welcomes guests to her art workshops in France and we’ve a profile on a young family who have made a brave move to the bush. Our fashion feature is inspired by a glamping weekend and the issue is packed with design and decorating inspiration.

We start in the NSW central west, where artist Janelle Matus and her husband, Peter, welcome guests to their farm where they breed sheep for meat. Then we head south to meet a stylist at her home near Berry. We’ve a story from South Australia’s Barossa Valley, plus there’s a gorgeous garden feature from Tasmania’s Tamar Valley. There’s design and decorating inspiration on every page and for the creatively minded, a story about a writing residency hosted by expat Australian author Lisa Clifford in her adopted hometown of Florence in Italy. We’re celebrating summer with our fashion story and our travel feature takes us on a road trip across the top of Tasmania.

We’ve another wonderfully diverse story list for your reading pleasure. We start in South Australia, where the Ness family has been farming at Strathalbyn for six generations. Then we visit a gorgeous house in Emerald in central Queensland where the owner has completed a revamp pretty much single-handed, using her considerable design flair, ingenuity, eye for a bargain and op shop finds. There’s also a story from Millthorpe on the Bathurst Plains of NSW, where a visiting doctor has restored an old bakery, plus there’s plenty more design and decorating inspiration. We prepare for the festive season with our Christmas Gift Guide providing inspiration for even the hardest to please and our travel feature takes us to outback Queensland, in the tracks of dinosaurs. 

If you’ve ever dreamed of moving to the country, or even just visiting it, Australian Country is the magazine for you. We pride ourselves on bringing you real stories about real people from the places other country titles overlook. Australian Country celebrates the wonderful people who live in rural and regional Australia, the amazing food and fibre they produce and the creative pursuits they enjoy. We bring you stories about country homes ranging from sprawling homesteads to cute and quirky cottages, all built with love, a sense of tradition and a dollop of good old bush ingenuity. There are also travel, fashion and recipe recipes, plus decorating inspiration, all deeply rooted in the wide brown land we’re proud to call home.

We’ve another diverse story list for your reading pleasure. We started in Stanthorpe, Queensland’s “coolest town”, where we’ve visited the stunning garden Tracey and Bert Steginga have created in the part of the state that truly enjoys four seasons. Then we headed over the border to Tenterfield to visit Annie and Chris Jones at Glenrock, their home with its expansive grounds bordering a chain of lakes. In South Australia, we caught up with Jane Doole at yet another beautiful gardenesque setting at Willunga in the McLaren Vale wine district. We’ve also stories from Rutherglen, another wonderful wine-producing region, in Victoria’s north-east. Our service feature covers all the ways to keep warm for winter. There’s design and decorating inspiration throughout the magazine and real stories from real people to reflect our authentic vision of rural and regional Australia. 

We’ve an exciting story list for your reading pleasure. We’ve been to Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills, where we visited The Cedars, the former family home and studio of the renowned artist Hans Heysen. We also visited Highfields in south-east Queensland, where horticultural consultant and garden tour guide Brian Sams has sculpted an impressive garden into a sloping site. We visited two country homes in NSW, plus we ventured to WA to cover a very special event. Our travel feature took us to the wilderness of Tasmania’s north-west, for a walk on the wild side, with a few creature comforts. Our service feature focuses on the latest accessories for the bathroom. There’s design, shopping and travel inspiration in all our features, so if you’re planning a road trip, or even a move to the country, we’ve got it covered.

We’ve an exciting story list for your reading pleasure. In NSW, we travelled to Moree, where we visited artist Nick Osmond at his home and studio in an 1890s former rectory, then on to Yetman, where interiors stylist Lillie Holcombe and her farmer and banker husband, Henry, shared their formula for celebrating the festive season with their son, Eustie, on the farm. Next stop was Rosscommon station near Mungindi where interior designer Clare Warby and her husband, Scott, and their two children live in a riverside homestead. Then we headed over the border into south-east Queensland for our travel story about the bountiful produce and opportunities in the Scenic Rim region. We also caught up with writer Leonie Kelsall on her family farm in South Australia’s Murraylands. And in case we didn’t know it, Christmas is coming and we’ve a gift guide to please even the most difficult people to buy for. There’s design, shopping and travel inspiration in all our features, so if you’re planning a road trip, or even a move to the country, we’ve got it covered.

We’ve a bumper crop of features for your reading pleasure. We’ve been to Boonah in south-east Queensland to visit author Tabitha Bird at home in the glorious foodie and holiday destination of the Scenic Rim. Plus in NSW we caught up with You’ve Got to Be Kidding’s Todd Alexander and Jeff Ross and their menagerie of animals in their new home in the hills of the Upper Hunter Valley, and we stopped over in Muswellbrook to shoot Houghton Regis, the early 1900s home that Tracy and Jason Adams have painstakingly restored. In South Australia, we reconnected with our old friend Evelyn Neis in her new barn-style home in the Adelaide Hills, while down in Tasmania, we met Anna and Rowan Clark on the farm where they create an amazing crop maze to celebrate the end of each year’s harvest. Our travel feature ventured to the south coast of NSW and the many wonderful opportunities that await visitors to Narooma, Tilba and Bermagui. There’s design, shopping and travel inspiration in all our features, so if you’re planning a road trip, or even a move to the country, we’ve got lots of inspiration and many areas covered.

Australian Country is a magazine that lets you escape. This luxurious title delves into the world of sprawling homesteads, charming properties, working farms, contemporary cuisines, tasteful interior design and outdoor living ideas, with everything from antiques and collectables to recipes in between. Australian Country is dedicated to highlighting the best of the Australian country life, made for the people who are passionate about country living by the people who are passionate about country living because we understand that a love of country runs deeper than just a passion for decorating. The magazine provides readers with the inspiration to capture the essence of the country lifestyle, no matter where they live — whether city, coast or country.

We’ve travelled far and wide (thank goodness, at last we can) in search of some great stories for your reading pleasure. We headed to the Monaro region of NSW to visit artist Lucy Culliton with her menagerie of rescue pets and visited Jim and Libby Litchfield at Hazeldean, the property that has been in Jim’s family since the early 1860s. In South Australia, we travelled to the south-east to meet Karren and John Hunt at the home they have created at Bordertown. We also ventured to Esperance on WA’s southern coast where author Fleur McDonald farms, writes and inspires a charity to addresses the very serious issue of domestic violence. We’ve also been to the NSW Southern Highlands to visit the garden that inspires the work of botanical artist Elaine Musgrave and her horticulturalist husband, Les, and to Canowindra to see the quirky home Jackie Yeo has built behind her landmark emporium, Finns Store. We’ve fashion for the cooler months and a feature on the latest gadgets and accessories for your kitchen.

In this issue we welcome the new year with a fresh assortment of features from all over rural and regional Australia. In South Australia, we visit artist Dzint Jurevicius and his wife, Ruth, who have a home and gallery on Hindmarsh Island at the mouth of the Murray River, and we also explore the historic Yallum Park at Penola, in the Coonawarra wine district. In Queensland, we catch up with Mel Manley, one of the driving forces behind the Forget Me Not Foundation, which works to stop child trafficking into orphanages for financial gain, mainly in Nepal, India and Uganda. Her home and its splendid garden in the Sunshine Coast hinterland is a tranquil shelter from these difficult times. In NSW, we venture to Dennarque Estate, one of the foundation properties at Mount Wilson in the Blue Mountains. Its splendid gardens were designed by Charles Moore, who was the director of Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden for 48 years. We also head to the central-west, where Wendy and Kim Muffet have built an eco-friendly home and retreat on their 50-acre (20-hectare) organic farm. Our travel story focuses on the Parkes and Forbes region, while our service feature looks to the sanctuary that is the bathroom and all the fittings, fixtures and accessories that make it a haven for relaxation. We’ve design and decorating inspiration as well as a good measure of down-to-earth country wisdom in every story.

We’ve traversed Australia from coast to coast in search of some fabulous stories about rural and regional people and their lifestyles and businesses. We started with the wonderfully adaptable and intertwined Munsie family in Warialda in northern NSW, where we learned about their lives on the land and the many diversifications that keep their businesses thriving. Then we visited their rellies, the fabulous artist Kate Owen and her husband, Mick, at their home and studio in nearby North Star. Over the border in Queensland, we feature a stunning subtropical home at Maleny in the hills behind the Sunshine Coast, while we also ventured to South Australia, where Naomi Hughes lives in Aldinga and runs a homewares store and B&B in the Temperence Precinct. It’s hard to believe Christmas is just around the corner, so if you’ve been caught napping, you’ll be keen to have a look at our gift guide, which unearths lots of wonderful, quirky treats guaranteed to please even the most difficult recipients on your list. We’ve travel, shopping and design inspiration in all our regular features.

In this issue, we’ve traversed Australia from coast to coast in search of some fabulous stories about rural and regional people and their lifestyles and businesses. We start with a handsome homestead in tranquil Toodyay in WA’s Avon Valley and end up on the other side of the country in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast hinterland where ceramicist Mel Lumb has a gorgeous home and studio. We head to the country music capital of Tamworth, NSW, where artist Carina Chambers celebrates a different dimension of country life with her works inspired by a childhood spent on a farm surrounded by a menagerie of animals. A bit further up the New England highway we visit Tina and Tom Skipper, custodians of land at Guyra that has belonged to their family since 1838. Then we track south to Tasmania’s Huon Valley, where The Australian/Vogel’s literary award-winning novelist K. M. (Kate) Kruimink lives with her family on a farm. If the past few months have taught us anything, it’s about the value of being more self-reliant, so our service feature looks to the garden and the many tools and services that are available to help us grow our own food and flowers. We’ve travel, shopping and design inspiration in all our regular features.

In this issue, we again showcase the amazing diversity of the Australian countryside with stories from the coast to the outback. We start in Victoria, where we visit Virginia and Bernie McIntosh at their beautiful Romswood peony farm in the Macedon Ranges. Then we head to Gippsland, where George Manis and his partner, Robert Buchan, have restored a gorgeous cottage and garden in Korumburra. Next stop is Echuca, and historic Wharparilla homestead on the banks of the Murray River. In NSW we revisit artist Leeanne Crisp and her partner, chef and sculptor Janet Jeffs at their home and studios in the shearing shed and barn on Ballalaba, near Braidwood. We detour to the south coast where Christina Kennedy has devoted 20 years to creating a sensational native garden on Horse Island then travel to South Australia where Tania and Keith Norman seem to be living the dream with a home at Encounter Bay and houseboat Alexia on the Murray River. In Queensland we visit Doug Beattie at his historic home, Winnathoola in Roma and we profile the Mason family, who have created the landmark Smitten Merino label in Tasmania. Our fashion story looks to the coming cooler months with a session at the Hillbilly cider shed, the service feature heads to the heart of the home, the kitchen and reveals the latest news in appliances, fixtures and fittings. Our travel section kicks off a series about regions affected by the bushfires with a trip up the Bells Line of Road to Bilpin. Plus there’s lots of other decorating and lifestyle inspiration on every page.

This issue embraces the wonderful diversity of the Australian countryside with stories from the coast to the outback. We start in Victoria, where we visit Lee and Daryl Elliott in their charmingly restored cottage in Horsham. Then we head to East Gippsland where interior designer Katie Riddell and her husband, Hamish and daughter Sophie have created a pint-sized weekender in a spectacular hilltop location. In south-west Queensland we visit Roma and artist Sandra Allen at her home and studio on the family farm and meet Doug Beattie, who is slowly restoring the grand old dame of a Queenslander that is Winnathoola. Further north we detoured from Springsure to Kolane station, where Angela and Andrew Schwarz have restored their homestead. Even further west near Barcaldine we catch up with the Doneleys on historic Dunraven station, which has been in their family for 110 years. Our service feature looks at bathrooms and there’s lots of other decorating and lifestyle inspiration on every page.

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Australian Country is a magazine that lets you escape. This luxurious title delves into the world of sprawling homesteads, charming properties, working farms, contemporary cuisines, tasteful interior design and outdoor living ideas, with everything from antiques and collectables to recipes in between. Australian Country is dedicated to highlighting the best of the Australian country life, made for the people who are passionate about country living by the people who are passionate about country living because we understand that a love of country runs deeper than just a passion for decorating. The magazine provides readers with the inspiration to capture the essence of the country lifestyle, no matter where they live — whether city, coast or country.

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