GALAH (2025)

04/07/2025

Issue 12 has been out in the world for a few months now, and the more I go back to it, the more I love it. There are so many clever people thinking differently and brilliantly about their lives outside of the big cities in this one. So many bold, beautifully told and photographed stories.

And so, this July, we’re going to celebrate a few of them with a 12 Days of Issue 12 series, starting with some words of wisdom from Galah’s Agony Aunt (see post to follow).

Thank you to every contributor whose work made this issue such a keeper (as every Galah is) and to editor Helen Anderson, who brings it all together.

Annabelle x

Issue 12 is available to purchase at many good stores around the country and from our own online one (link below).

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03/07/2025

Win a three-day pass to this year’s Byron Writers Festival for yourself and two friends.

Galah is a proud media partner of the Byron Writers Festival, taking place from 8-10 August, and we have 3 x three-day festival passes (worth $330 each) to give away to one person. Imagine gathering a couple of friends and spending three days together in Byron Bay, talking, thinking, reading, and listening to brilliant writers speak about interesting things.

All you have to do for a chance to win is tag the two friends you’d love to join you in the comments. On 24 July we’ll select a winner at random, then send that lucky person their three passes.

Have you seen the lineup of speakers? It is (as always) stellar; From Michelle de Krester to Andrew Denton, Robbie Arnott (Galah is sponsoring his session in conversation with Naima Brown on Friday morning, 8 August), Esther Freud, Zoë Foster Blake, Gina Chick, Nadine Ingram, Tom Keneally, Thomas Mayo and Kerry O’Brien to Ben Shewry; and that’s just a few of the bright and brilliant writers coming to speak this year.

Good luck and happy reading,
Annabelle x

Images: K Holmes.

03/07/2025

Tomorrow morning we’ll send latest instalment of We bought a Hotel to our newsletter subscribers.

“Saltash Farm is a big, beautiful, complex creature. It’s a heritage-build in a village protected by the National Trust. Saltash needs to both fit in and stand out. It has to feel old, familiar, but look new and fresh. It’s a wild contradiction, and that takes some putting together. I no longer talk about when it will open. I say only that it will take as long as it takes to do it well.”

For the full update, make sure you’re on our mailing list (subscribe via the link below).

See you in the morning.

Image - The Saltash Farm site as viewed from Carcoar Railway Station.

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02/07/2025

What’s on around the country this week;

◦ Two Girls from Amoonguna - Featuring new work by Arrernte and Southern Luritja artist Sally M Nangala Mulda and Western Arrarnta artist Marlene Rubuntja, this exhibition encompasses video, bush-dyed, hand-sewn soft sculptures and paintings. At Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW, until 24 August.

◦ East Gippsland Winter Festival - The fifth annual instalment of the East Gippsland Winter Festival opened last weekend. It’s a month-long program of family-friendly events and activities including lantern parades, live ice-carving demonstrations, neon dance parties, guided koala tours and bike rides. East Gippsland, Vic, until 20 July.

◦ Sculpture on the Farm Dungog - Tickets are on sale for this three-day celebration of Australian contemporary sculpture in the Hunter Valley. It features guided tours, artist talks and workshops with sculptors competing for $57,000 in prizes. At Dungog, NSW, 29-31 August.

The 2025 Exhibition of finalists in the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize () is currently on display - The exhibition is free, and open to the public from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, Thursday to Sunday, between 21 June and 6 July, at Ravenswood School for Girls – Gate 3, 10 Henry St, Gordon NSW. The artworks can also be viewed through a virtual Exhibition tour.

Written and edited by Galah Weekly's (wonderful) Editor Dean Southwell. Head to the link below to read this week’s round up in full.

Do you have an event we should be including in an upcoming 'What's on'? Let us know via a DM, and we'll make sure it lands on Dean's desk.

Image - Ode to Peaches and Cleaning, by Lilli Strömland (), winner of the emerging artist section of the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize.

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30/06/2025

Chilled Out

Here are a few of the headlines from this week’s Galah Weekly. To read in full please head to the link in our bio. Better yet, subscribe while there so you receive our weekly newsletters every Sunday morning.

* Sydney-based artist has won the $35,000 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize for her chromogenic print artwork, Moss Water Ice Temperature Rising.

* An innovative 95-year-old SA farmer is using waste vegetable oil from restaurants to power his home generator.

* Cash-strapped regional councils in South Australia are seeking state government help as they try to support farmers through drought.

* The federal government is changing the way it calculates methane emissions from feedlot cattle after research showed the existing method might have overstated their methane emissions by as much as 56%.

* A Rockhampton woman who has fostered 280 children in the past 47 years, as well as raising four of her own, is the driving force behind a thrift store offering help to those struggling to meet basic needs.

Image - Moss Water Ice Temperature Rising, by Janet Laurence, winner of the professional artist category in the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize. It fits a chilly theme this week.

26/06/2025

Some news from Galah-land

I’ve just hit send on a newsletter explaining some big news and changes for Galah. In short, Galah's magazine – at least with me at the helm – will come to an end after the next two issues.

It takes a lot of energy to run the good ship Galah. It's energy that, for the past five years, has come to me freely, like a miraculously self-replenishing well that I can keep dipping my bucket into. But recently, something has shifted – as if there’s a small hole in the bucket.

At first, I tried to plug the hole with thoughts like “everything ebbs and flows, just ride it out until the energy returns”. But then it hit me, with the same intense clarity I had when I started Galah: that it was time for me to think about finishing. I love beginnings, I love building, but managing is not where I excel.
So I've done an audit of the fuel in my tank. And when I look at the fuel that Galah magazine requires, I can see I have what it takes to make two more issues. Two more fabulous issues.

For the full story, the why and the what's next, please head to the link below.

https://digital.galahpress.com/newsletter/

Annabelle x

Ps - Hugh Stewart took this portrait of me some months ago. It’s me dreaming of beginnings and building, not managing.

26/06/2025

Are you subscribed to my monthly newsletter? To all of our Galah newsletters? If not, please sign up via the link below, and you'll get my monthly Editor's Letter tomorrow, which I’m currently writing and will deliver some big Galah news.

From the moment you subscribe onwards, you'll also receive our Sunday morning 'Galah Weekly'—a newsletter we put a lot of thought, love, care and work into so you start every week with a handle on what's good and newsworthy across the country, plus Jeremy Valentine's monthly gardening column, Neil Varcoe's monthly updates on the hotel he is creating in Carcoar and Sophie Hansen's Yes, Chef!

See you in the morning, Annabelle x

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26/06/2025

Are you subscribed to my monthly newsletter? To all of our Galah newsletters?

If not, please sign up via the link in our bio, and you’ll get my monthly Editor’s Letter tomorrow, which I’m currently writing and will deliver some big Galah news.

From the moment you subscribe onwards, you’ll also receive our Sunday morning ‘Galah Weekly’—a newsletter we put a lot of thought, love, care and work into so you start every week with a handle on what’s good and newsworthy across the country, plus Jeremy Valentine’s () monthly gardening column, Neil Varcoe’s () monthly updates on the hotel he is creating in Carcoar and Sophie Hansen’s () Yes, Chef!

See you in the morning, Annabelle x

25/06/2025

Every Sunday in Galah Weekly (which you can subscribe to via the link below), we send out a 'what's on' round-up (as well as all the regional headlines you need to know). Here are this week's highlights:

◦Through the Heart … An exhibition by regional photojournalist Jacklyn Wagner captures the profound human stories behind the catastrophic floods that struck the Northern Rivers region in February and March 2022. At , 27 June-10 August.

◦ Neon Coral Confetti Townsville artist Lisa Ashcroft explores environmental stewardship and the artificial regeneration of the Great Barrier Reef in an exhibition she hopes will prompt viewers to consider their responsibility as the guardians of the environment. At , Qld, until 4 July.

◦ Turner & Australia This exhibition is billed as the first to examine the influence of English Romantic artist JMW Turner on Australian art. It includes key Turner works beside examples from the generations of artists since who have been influenced by his work. At Gippsland Art Gallery , Sale, Vic, until 4 August.

◦ Sawtell Chilli Festival If food with a bit of fire is your thing, the offers more than 100 exhibitors, food vendors, stallholders, cafes, bars, and restaurants lining First Avenue in the Coffs Coast town. The day also includes the Aussie Chilli Championship. Sawtell, NSW, 5 July.

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Written and edited by Galah Weekly's (wonderful) Editor Dean Southwell.

Do you have an event we should be including in an upcoming 'What's on'? Let us know via a DM and we'll make sure it lands on Dean's desk.

Image - Scarlatti and the View, 2016, by Melbourne artist Rebekah Stuart in Turner & Australia at Gippsland Art Gallery. Collection Gippsland Art Gallery © The artist.

19/06/2025

In tomorrow morning’s Yes, Chef! Dining’s Francesco Zarrelli’s recipe for a team-building lunch with his friends at on a sunny winter’s day: slow-roasted lamb shoulder with garlic herb potatoes and radicchio salad.

Plus how and why he came to be running a contemporary Italian restaurant in Orange, NSW and what he’s loving cooking and eating at the moment.

Link in bio to subscribe.

Yes, Chef!

12/06/2025

In tomorrow morning's In the Weeds column, Jeremy Valentine writes (beautifully, as always) about the surreal nature of opening your garden to thousands of visitors and turning your private world into a public park even for a day. There’s also a lost (crucial) key, lamingtons and all the good things growing and living in this very special place at this time of year.

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06/06/2025

There's great synergy between Country Education Foundation of Australia and Galah. We both believe in the vital importance of investing in our rural and regional communities, and we couldn't be happier that they were our official charity partner for the Galah Regional Photography Prize.

At the Photography Prize announcement party, before we announced the winners, we asked CEF's Deputy Chair, Peita Burton-Taylor to tell us a little about the foundation. She spoke about how education changes lives, families and communities and how since it began at her parents' kitchen table on their farm near Boorowa NSW, the foundation has supported over 8000 young people from rural and regional Australia access education through financial support, but also mentoring and community backing from their own home towns.

"We know that when we give a young person in the country an opportunity you don't just change their life you change the life of their family and community," Peita said, also making the point that rural and regional kids face increased burdens in accessing education and this is where CEF comes in, "We know our regional students need to travel hundreds of kilometres to get to campuses and spend thousands on accommodation. Many need help with laptops and tools."

"Now CEF is in 49 communities across Australia with over 430 volunteers helping with fundraising and mentoring...99% of our students are on track to complete their studies and 81 per cent want to return to regional areas on completion of their studies."

Thank you for your support, Peita and team. But mostly, thank you for the extraordinary impact you are making across the country. Please visit their page at and their website to read more stories, meet some of the students they support, and ideally, consider making a donation to help them do even more.

All donations made to CEF up until 30 June will be matched up to $250,000 so the impact of your generosity will be doubled.

Image Eadie and Flo (1) by Karen Webb.

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