Face forward
ABC TV’s Portrait Artist of the Year is a reality competition series where artists of all levels compete to paint prominent Australians. Given artists have only four hours to craft their portraits, it’s a race against the clock. And a tough ask. So to win is something special.
Us Northern Sydney folk are swelling with pride as the winner of season 2 of the show was Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School student and Northern Beaches resident Jasmine Lancaster Merton.
The dreaded e-bike
Drive through the Northern Beaches, and I pretty much guarantee you will come across a youth on an e-bike (likely no helmet and also holding a surfboard) roaring happily through the main roads with not a care in the world.
The front-page suburb
In early October, the Financial Review put our neighbourhood on the front page. Gordon, down 20%. East Killara, down 16.7%. And across at
