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Senaste Nytt... Prenumerera på nyhetsbrevet så missar du inget med anknytning till Lars Wallin & The TribeLars, Australien, aboriginer och didjeridu.. Wolgan Valley Resort & Spa to open, NSW Emirates Hotels and Resorts will open the much-anticipated Wolgan Valley Resort and Spa on 1st October 2009. No expense has been spared for this luxury resort tucked away in the Blue Mountains, just a two hour drive west of Sydney. Inspired by the acclaimed Dubai-based Al Maha Resort & Spa, this homestead-style resort is set within its own private conservation and wildlife reserve. Accommodation consists of 40 free-standing suites, each with their own outside decks and private swimming pool. Guests can experience Aboriginal interpretive tours, nature walks, wildlife spotting and horse riding trips along with all the resort’s spa, gym, tennis courts and outdoor swimming pool. Rates for a Heritage Suite are A$1,950 per night based on two sharing (approx £1,000) with a reduced rate of A$1,660 per night if the guests stay for 3 nights or more. There is an introductory special of three nights for the price of two until 23 December 2009. The rate includes gourmet breakfast, lunch, dinner, non alcoholic drinks and two selected nature based activities per day. www.emirateshotelsresorts.com New boutique hotel opens - The Australasian, South Australia The 150-year-old Australasian Hotel in the picturesque Fleurieu Peninsula heritage town of Goolwa - located where the Murray River meets the sea - has been given a new lease of life as a luxurious boutique hotel. During six years of meticulous renovations, the owners have completely refurbished the hotel to create five exquisite and unique guest suites and a beautiful dining room. The four suites - the Island, Parlour, Juliet and Quirky rooms - are all luxuriously decorated with a different theme and provide wonderful views over Goolwa's historic main street, wharf and the river. As its name suggests, the downstairs Garden room opens out onto a tranquil garden for guests to enjoy. The in house chef creates Asian-influenced modern Australian dishes, which are complemented by a range of local beers and wines, and can be enjoyed in the dining room or in the guest's suite. Price from A$275 (approx £140) per night, including breakfast. www.australasian1858.com Luxury resort opens on the gateway to the Whitsundays, Queensland Opening 20 June 2009, Peppers Coral Coast is the only five star resort in Airlie Beach. The new property will provide visitors with a luxury base from which to explore the Whitsunday Islands. The apartment style resort offers one, two, three bedroom apartments and three, four bedroom houses with a maritime feel and panoramic views over Airlie Beach and the Whitsundays beyond. A stunning resort pool, fine dining in Tides Restaurant and a day spa will all be part of the experience. Opening offer from A$179 (approx £90) per night for a one bedroom apartment. www.peppers.com.au/Coral-Coast Sebel Deep Blue opens on Great Ocean Road, Victoria The revamped Deep Blue hotel will shortly open as The Sebel Deep Blue Warrnambool from 1 July 2009. Less than three hour’s drive from Melbourne, The Sebel Deep Blue is perfectly positioned on a peninsula on the Great Ocean Road. Deluxe suites and penthouses are included in the hotel’s 75 guestrooms, and all accommodation offers vistas of the Victorian coastline. The resort’s unique positioning on top of a natural mineral aquifer, 800 metres underground, enables The Sebel to provide geothermal room heating, as well as supply to four mineral rich, private hot deepwater pool rooms in the Bath House and gymnasium. The Sebel Deep Blue Warrnambool is the latest venture by the group and follows the A$20 million (approx £10m) renovation and re-opening of The Sebel Surry Hills Sydney in April 2009. Sydney’s latest 4.5-star hotel is Australia’s first hotel to feature an in-ground glass aquarium lobby. The impressive 41,000 litre in-ground aquarium is home to 20 multi-coloured, Japanese Koi fish including the hotel’s mascot ‘Albie’. Situated close to Sydney’s trendy shopping and dining precincts, guests can relax at the redesigned Townhouse Bar & Restaurant. From A$153 (approx £75) per night. www.mirvachotels.com/sebel-deep-blue-warrnambool & www.sebelsurryhills.com.au ‘Wild Bush Luxury’ to open in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia A new addition to Australia’s growing array of world-class exclusive tourism experiences, Arkaba Station, in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges, is the latest property in the ‘Wild Bush Luxury’ portfolio, which includes the award-winning properties, Bamurru Plains and Sal Salis Ningaloo Reef. Arkaba Station is a 60,000-acre working sheep station, located on the edge of the world-famous geological amphitheatre, Wilpena Pound, and the Flinders Ranges National Park. Currently a five-bedroom heritage homestead, built in 1851, the station is undergoing a Wild Bush Luxury ‘makeover’ ahead of the re-opening in early November 2009. Offering a unique five-star Outback experience for guests, experiences include a three-day Overland Guided Walk, wildlife viewing, sheep station activities, horse riding guided by an Aboriginal elder, four-wheel-drive trips, scenic flights, mountain biking and Indigenous cultural experiences. Packages including all meals, beverages, activities and accommodation from A$775 per person (approx £380), per night. www.arkabastation.com Million Dollar Spa Near Completion, Tasmania The Harmony Hill Wellness and Organic Spa Retreat in southern Tasmania is due to open in August 2009. The spa and wellness retreat will offer one, three, five and 10-day programmes in Detox, Relax and Re-Vibe. Owners Ami Nakamura and Alfred Merse have searched the globe for specialists in iridology, kinesiology, Ayurvedic medicine, chi energy healing, lymphatic drainage and nutrition. Products used within the spa will be 100% Australian Certified. Harmony Hill is set on 42 acres on top of a mountain in Margate, just 25 minutes’ drive from Hobart. It will feature five spa treatment rooms as well as two double spa accommodation cottages, which have been designed using Hexagon Feng Shui principals. The three day Detox Retreat costs A$1,990 per person (approx £1,000); a five day Detox Retreat costs A$3,300 per person (approx £2,600) and includes two spa treatments (two), daily yoga classes, pilates, all meals, accommodation and transfers. www.organicspa-retreat.com Cloudland opens in Brisbane, Queensland With a retractable glass roof, the sky is literally the limit for Brisbane’s newest development – Cloudland – which has opened in the city’s vibrant Fortitude Valley precinct. Cloudland opened its doors late March this year and the unique roof, which opens at the touch of button, is not the only thing that makes this new venue special. Spanning four levels, patrons are visually stunned by 5,000 plants sprawling a 14-meter interior wall; a 10 metre waterfall; imaginative pieces like a solid hand-carved ‘China white’ marble bar; and a glass bar made from 19,000 glass balls threaded by hand. Cloudland offers a mostly organic menu and an extensive wine and cocktail list. Three years in the making, this dining and bar experience combines over-the-top decoration and futuristic design inspired by nature and the outdoors. www.cloudland.tv Ones to watch – Australian designers in Sydney and Perth, NSW and WA Australia is bursting with new designers and Sydney is now home to a confident fashion and design culture which recently is establishing itself here, especially when it comes to womenswear. ? Libby Lombardo – one of Sydney’s newest fashion entrepreneurs www.teesub.com launched last year, focusing on the designs from emerging homegrown graphic artists. ? Willow – The newest notable name to arrive in Sydney’s chic designer shopping district, Paddington (or Paddo as the locals call it), is Willow – the first stand-alone boutique for Kit Willow Podgornik’s five-year-old brand. Fans of her lace up boots, signature corsetery and silk dresses can mainline the total experience here. The shop doubles as an art gallery displaying the ‘transient wallpaper’ work of innovative artists like Sydney photographer Elli Ioannou, who shoots backstage at the designer’s shows. www.willowltd.com Perth Fashion Festival – Taking place from 4-10 September, Perth gives Sydney and Melbourne’s fashionistas a run for their money with the annual Perth Fashion Festival. A week-long celebration of WA’s glamour and creativity, the festival will showcase the latest Spring/Summer collections. www.perthfashionfestival.com Boat race with a difference – the Henley-on-Todd Regatta, Northern Territory On the dry sands of the Todd River, the Henley-On-Todd Regatta is a day of fun where teams and individuals race ‘boats’ in the dry bed of the Todd River in outback Alice Springs. Taking place on 22 August, spectators watch seemingly sane people race in bottoml'eights', 'oxford tubs', 'bath tubs' and 'yachts' through the deep coarse sand. The event has its origins in 1962, when Reg Smith, an Alice Springs local, and his work colleagues proposed holding a regatta based on the famous Henley-on-Thames, a race between Cambridge and Oxford Universities. www.henleyontodd.com.au For more information about Australia visit www.australia.com The 'lost city' found in Sydney, NSW A top-secret art grotto and unique abandoned space has been reborn in Sydney. The Paddington Reservoir, now located on Oxford Street, consists of two 1,023 square metre chambers built in 1866 and 1878 respectively. It was decommissioned in 1899, and became a garage. In 1993, the roof caved-in, leaving the site derelict but for feral cats and a shadowy graffiti movement who, under the cover of night, filled the walls of the 1023-square-metre site with stunning frescoes and murals. With almost A$10 million (approx £4,950,000) worth of restoration work complete, the new Paddington Reservoir Gardens opened on 29 March. The park is now home to a stunning Romanesque sunken garden with a lake of contemplation at its centre and a hanging garden canopy around the perimeter and an eastern chamber left empty but for the wall art. This blank canvas ‘cultural precinct’ will host markets, art and film festivals and retail. www.onlysydney.com.au New Hotel Soho indulges in Adelaide, South Australia Clarion Hotel Soho is a new boutique hotel located in central Adelaide with just six rooms per floor of which there are five. Opened in late 2008, the hotel boasts a roof top pool and a mouth watering seven-course degustation menu at the in-house restaurant, Decant. Produced only with locally sourced produce, the ever-changing menu features Kangaroo Island haloumi, Spencer Gulf prawns and Boston Bay mussels. The wine list features wines from nearby Adelaide Hills, Barossa Valley and Limestone Coast. Designed by award-winning Australian architects Loucas Zahos, every whim has been anticipated. Balcony suites from A$310 (approx £150) per night and studios from A$225 (approx £110). www.clarionhotelsoho.com.au The Slow Coach – a horse-drawn restaurant, Victoria For the first time since the end of the early 1900s, luxurious horse-drawn touring is back in fashion in the region of Healesville, just under an hour east of Melbourne. The horse-drawn restaurant travels at a pace that allows guests to take in the sights and sounds of the area as the Slow Coach passes many original old buildings during the meander through Windsor, one of Australia’s very first settlement towns. Seating up to eight people, the carriage has been luxuriously restored while modern Australian cuisine is served. www.slowcoach.com.au Mundaring Truffle Festival, WA Western Australia grows more French black truffle than the rest of Australia put together and the Mundaring Truffle Festival, to be held this year on 8 - 9 August, is an ideal opportunity to taste and learn about the fabled fungi from some of WA’s and Australia’s top chefs and food producers. The festival will be headlined by two Truffle Master Classes, which offer a rare opportunity to learn from two of Australia's most acclaimed chefs, Peter Gilmour of Quay restaurant in Sydney, as well as passionate truffle aficionado Alain Fabregues, owner-chef of The Loose Box restaurant in Mundaring. www.mundaringtrufflefestival.com “Windermere” Station Stay, Queensland “Windermere” is the most recent addition to Queensland’s station-stays. Located just outside of Winton nearby to the world famous Lark Quarry and Bladensburg National Park, the 30,000 acre working cattle station is easily accessible to Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways and is adjacent to the National Park. Guest accommodation is in 10 bedrooms in the shearer’s quarters and there are also sites for camping and caravans. Guests can explore the nearby Western River, which is home to a large variety of birdlife and a great spot to fish for yellow belly. "Windermere" offers a true blue Aussie station stay; there are plenty of animals to feed and a Stockman’s Museum has been set up in the original quarters. www.windermerestation.com.au Internationally Acclaimed Chefs Savour Tasmania Tetsuya Wakuda will team with three other highly regarded international chefs during Savour Tasmania (27-31 May). Local and visiting epicures will feast through a series of four dinners. Emmanuel Stroobant of Saint Pierre in Singapore will cook at the acclaimed Henry Jones Art Hotel (A$160 per person - approx £80) on 27 May. Tetsuya’s Taste of Tasmania dinner (A$185 per person - approx £90) will be held at the Meadowbank Estate on 28 May. Two British-based chefs, Shane Osborn (the first Australian to win a Michelin star and head chef at Pied a Terre, London) and Marcus Eaves (head chef at London’s L’Autre Pied, a sister of Pied à Terre) will unleash their combined skills at Marque IV on 29 May (A$160 per person - approx £80). On Saturday 30 May the four chefs will combine their skills at the Henry Jones during the Field to Feast. Savour Tasmania will include Home Cook Master Classes, as well as a Red Wine Weekend. www.savourtasmania.com.au Brits vote Melbourne Cricket Ground in Seven Sporting Wonders of the World, Victoria Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) has been voted among the Seven Sporting Wonders of the world in a poll of British sports fans. Placed seventh in the survey by Barclays Spaces for Sports, the 150-year-old 100,000-seat stadium has been the scene of many high-profile international sporting events, including the 1956 Olympic Games (the first ever Olympics to be held in Australia), the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the 1992 World Cup Final in cricket. Australia’s largest stadium, ‘The G’ (as it is known by the locals) is also home to the brand new, state-of-the-art National Sports Museum, and has hosted concerts by legendary artists such as the Rolling Stones and Madonna. www.mcg.org.au Darwin makes a splash with new wave lagoon, Northern Territory Darwin is now the new place to catch a wave as a new A$17million (approx £8,370,500) wave lagoon opened on 2 May. Producing 10 different wave pattern ratings, with heights of up to 1.6m, the pool is part of a redevelopment of Darwin’s vibrant waterfront and offers safe swimming for all the family. The wave lagoon will open daily and admission is A$8 (approx £4) for Adults and A$5 (approx £2.50) for children. Boogie boards or water tubes are also available. www.waterfront.nt.gov.au Darryl Dikarrna Truck Appeal Didjeridumästaren drabbades av hjärtattack. 
White Cockatoo didjeridu master Darryl Dikarrna drabbades av en allvarlig hjärtattack i Mars 2009 och håller just nu på att återhämta sig. Som ett resultat av rehabiliteringen är Darryl i stor behov av en 4WD Toyota för att kunna transportera sig mellan arbete, familj och kulturella uppdrag i Arnhem Land Innan hjärtattacken, när han inte var upptagen med kulturella och ceremoniella uppdrag arbetade Darryl på tegelstensfarbriken, Mud-Brick Factory i Maningrida. Darryl sparade till inköpet av en Toyota. Nu när Darryl inte kan arbeta finns inte längre möjligheten att köpa den efterlängtade och välbehövda bilen. 
Vi uppmanar och ber ödmjukt därför alla fans till Darryl och The WhiteCockatoo om ett litet eller stort bidrag så att Darryl kan köpa sin Toyota. Bidragen kan sättas in direkt på Darryls bankkonto. Alla som ger bidrag kommer att namnges på whitecockatoos hemsida. Darryl's målsättning är AUD$10,000 - US$6,000. Kontakta oss via email info@whitecockatoo.com Så får du Darryl's bankuppgifter 
21/2 Australiendag på Frölunda Kulturhus i Göteborg.  Lars Wallin på Slitz Top-5 lista över nätets just nu bästa musik. December 2008. Spring till närmaste kiosk, köp magasinet och läs mer... myspace.com/larswallin 
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