Burnt Out at 48, On Fire Again at 50, Wonderful at 75: How Maggie Beer Came Back…
When Maggie Beer felt the sting of burnout at the stove of her Barossa Pheasant Farm Restaurant, she was at the peak of her first big wave of renown as a national culinary star. Suddenly it all stopped. But out of the ashes of that period of debilitation came what would turn out to be her biggest […]
Deborah Needleman: Career Pastorale
Something Deborah Needleman said to me when I sat down with her in New York earlier this year (just before Covid-19 turned the city and the world upside down) particularly struck a chord: “…in days gone by, a basket, woven by hand, was the diary of a person’s day”. For me, her words summoned up a time […]
Interviewing the Interviewer: Fran Kelly
When you speak to ABC journalist, Fran Kelly, the one word that keeps coming up is trust. It’s at the bedrock of who she is, and how she approaches her role as long-time presenter of the ABC’s flagship news program, “Breakfast”. Every day, Kelly’s professional starting point is her audience, and what they want and […]