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Becky Bannar and Lana Rosenbaum started Mahlia Interiors four years ago in Melbourne and have quickly become one of Australia’s leading bone inlay retailers, amassing a dedicated community of fans along the way.  Image: Team Tonkin To anyone who knows the pair, this is no surprise. They live and breathe Mahlia and when you hear the way they talk about inlay furniture, you can’t help be drawn into this colourful world.  With a background in branding and marketing coupled with their experience and love of all things interiors and design, Becky and Lana launched Mahlia Interiors at a time when...

Gillian Anderson Interview Gillian Anderson: ‘There were times when life was really bad’ The actor formerly known as Dana Scully is now a self-help guru. How did she beat self-doubt and her ‘intolerant’ inner voice? Decca Aitkenhead Saturday 11 March 2017 The history of India’s independence and the creation of Pakistan had been unfamiliar to Gillian Anderson when she took the role of Lady Mountbatten for her new film Viceroy’s House. The actor had once hired a private history tutor, a dozen years ago, to fill in some gaps of history she was hazy on – “Stuff that just wasn’t in my brain”...

“Everybody knew there were trees in Lake Pieman – but how many, and what condition they were in, was another question. A couple of beers and an audacious plan later, we decided to find out.” Tasmania’s Lake Pieman. Photo: Adam Gibson A man-made reservoir, created by the damming of the Pieman River, Andrew found that Lake Pieman also happened to be home to a magnificent underwater forest brimming with large quantities of rare Tasmanian timbers. But getting to the timber supply certainly wasn’t easy; from a feasibility study to consulting historical aerial photographs of the site (pre-flooding), as well as...