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Classic TV show: Rake<\/p>\n

Streaming on ABC iview, Netflix, Prime Video and Stan<\/p>\n

When I moved overseas, Rake<\/a> became my comfort show. I loved seeing my hometown of Sydney on screen \u2014 albeit a limited version of it, mostly concentrated at a well-loved cafe in Kings Cross and the space between Martin Place, the Supreme Court and St Mary’s Cathedral.<\/p>\n

That pleasure is still there today, and the show \u2014 about a cheeky, verbose criminal defence barrister who cannot be tamed \u2014 remains a balm for me.<\/p>\n

Loosely inspired by real-life barrister Charles Waterstreet, Rake ran for six seasons from 2010 to 2018. The early seasons see Richard Roxburgh<\/a>‘s Cleaver Greene in court each week, defending cannibals (Hugo Weaving<\/a>), shock jocks (Rachel Griffiths) and high-powered embezzlers (Don Hany). Along the way, Cleaver \u2014 and oddly enough his son, Fuzz (Keegan Joyce) \u2014 picks up plenty of lovers and enemies, leading him all the way to a new life in Canberra.<\/p>\n

But beneath the banter and an endless stream of petty gripes are stories of friendship: between Cleaver and his gentle best friend Barney (Russell Dykstra), and his bemused ex-wife Wendy (Caroline Brazier), and even his long-suffering assistant Nicole (Kate Box).<\/p>\n

If you can’t help falling for the wrong kind of person, perhaps you’ll also fall for Cleaver Greene.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Hannah Story<\/p>\n

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Her neuroses haven’t vanished, but Barnett is learning to live more comfortably with them on her fourth album.<\/p>\n

Album: Courtney Barnett \u2014 Creature Of Habit<\/p>\n

Out now on Mom + Pop<\/p>\n

The scruffy guitars and droll lyrical observations that first skyrocketed Courtney Barnett<\/a> into one of Australia’s hottest indie rock exports are now enriched with the perspective of 11 years’ growth and hard-won experience.<\/p>\n

Her neuroses haven’t vanished, but Barnett is learning to live more comfortably with them, embracing healthier coping mechanisms we could all learn from.<\/p>\n

Right now, when the world often feels like too damn much, it’s comforting to know there’s somebody like Barnett in your corner, mining magic from the mundane with more musical wit and charm than most could muster.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Al Newstead<\/p>\n

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ABC reporter Dominique Bayens says the case of the Nannup Four is the one story she’s never been able to shake.<\/p>\n

Podcast: Expanse: The Nannup Four<\/p>\n

Out now via ABC<\/p>\n

In July 2007, four people \u2014 Simon Kadwill, Chantelle McDougall, their six-year-old daughter Leela and friend Tony Popic \u2014 disappeared from a farm in Nannup in a remote corner of south-western WA.<\/p>\n

A note left behind stating they had gone to Brazil to escape EMF \u2014 electromagnetic fields, which they believed were harming their health \u2014 only added to the mystery surrounding their disappearance. With no evidence the group left the country, their fate remains unknown. Did they die in a suicide pact? Or was it murder?<\/p>\n

In Expanse: The Nannup Four<\/a>, reporter Dominique Bayens revisits the 20-year-old case. She traces Chantelle’s evolution from a bubbly teenager growing up in Wodonga to a reserved and isolated young mother living on the other side of the country with the prickly and controlling Kadwill. The search for answers uncovers disturbing acts of manipulation, deception and stolen identity as it becomes obvious Kadwill, a conspiracy theorist with followers all over the world, is not who he says he is.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Nicola Heath<\/p>\n

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Everyone has their own way of eating soondubu jjigae but Hetty Lui McKinnon likes hers with a bowl of rice to spoon into the stew as she eats it.\u00a0 (ABC News: Juliette Steen, Hetty Lui McKinnon)<\/p>\n

If you are looking for something new to cook that’s cheap and healthy but also exciting and satisfying, look no further.<\/p>\n

Hetty Lui McKinnon has done what she does best with this soondubu jjigae \u2014 created an achievable at-home version of a beloved dish that is rich, vegetarian and requires just a few ingredients that, on eating, appears more than the sum of its parts.<\/p>\n

With easily adjustable spice-levels to suit all palates, a short shopping list and a 10-minute prep, this gorgeous Korean stew will have you going back to make it again and again.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jo Joyce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Classic TV show: Rake Streaming on ABC iview, Netflix, Prime Video and Stan When I moved overseas, Rake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,457,291534,134,136,291532,291533,2708,427,35022,248450,31516],"class_list":["post-597360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-courtney-barnett-album","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-nannup-four-podcast","tag-rake-tv-show","tag-streaming","tag-tv","tag-weekend","tag-what-to-watch-this-weekend","tag-whats-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}