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Two days of operator meetings in Melbourne shape the WOMA 2027 agenda, from performance upgrades and cable faults to foundations and bolts. The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech, creators of the StrikeTape Ultra LPS retrofit. Subscribe to Uptime’s Substack newsletter. And check out Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” Youtube channel. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall. I’m here with Matthew Stead and Rosemary Barnes. And Rosemary, where are we? Rosemary Barnes: We’re in Melbourne, and we have been visiting future attendees and sponsors and people interested in, in the event to see what topics that we should be talking about. What are the hot topics of the moment? Allen Hall: Which is a very interesting two days, Matthew, in that, uh, we h- did meet with a number of operators based in Australia, but, uh, they’re also very worldly. They have talked to companies all over about operations and, and maintenance, and there are some really eye-opening topics- Mm that will be- Mm … at WOMA 2027 this year. Matthew Stead: Yeah. The thing that was interesting for me was [00:01:00]that actually the topics have changed each year. So, um, they’re evolving and the industry’s continuing to, to do better, and so that, that was really interesting. Performance upgrades was probably one of the big areas of, of new interest, I think. I think we heard with the pressure on pricing, uh, the market and so forth, you know, that, that 1% or 2% now is becoming more important. Um, so I think, uh, upgrades will definitely feature quite a lot. Um, balance of plant was also a big topic. Um, you just can’t ig- ignore the, um, transmission, you can’t ignore the transformers, you can’t ignore, uh, condensers and all these sorts of things, so yeah. Rosemary Barnes: Cables. Matthew Stead: Cables. Rosemary Barnes: Terminations. Terminations of cables. Specifically raised several times. Allen Hall: Yep. Yeah. It’s all about being more efficient, uh, getting more production, and then with the PPA prices, uh, that are changing- Matthew Stead: Mm … Allen Hall: rapidly, uh, everybody is paying more attention to the bottom line. Matthew Stead: Mm, mm. Allen Hall: Absolutely. There, there’s less cash running around, uh, chasing new development. It’s [00:02:00] more of a focus on making sure your, at least your existing assets are performing as, as well as they can be- Mm … which then opens up the, uh, Pandora’s box of opportunity. Mm. Because there are 1%’s all around a wind turbine. More specifically, uh, all the drive train issues, the blade issues, the generator issues, and even going into the substation. Mm. I, I was really shocked on BOP e- the, the one topic that came up, uh, yesterday and today was buried cables. Mm. Like- Matthew Stead: Faults … Allen Hall: faults. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. Junctions. Finding- Yeah … finding faults and what to do about them. Yeah. Yeah. But I think in addition to just wanting more revenue, I think people have, are getting more sophisticated about what actually matters and then the finances. You know, everyone’s focused so much on availability, and now people- Mm … are like, okay, yeah, like once you’re at a certain level of availability, gets harder and harder to get more. And actually, you know, not all availability is equal. Is good. It, it [00:03:00] depends. Yeah. Yeah, like you wanna, um, you wanna focus on how much you’re generating at the times when electricity prices are high specifically, which usually means during lower wind speed periods. Yeah. Which is actually good because that matches really well with what is actually possible. It’s, it’s hard to get more power out of the turbine if it’s at, you know, its rated power, then you’re not g- More efficiency is not gonna get you any more, um, power output, whereas lower in the power curve- Mm … um, when wind speeds are lower, there’s less electricity in the grid and so prices are higher. And so- Mm … yeah, I mean, that’s, that’s why people are really asking to know more about what efficiency upgrades are possible, better ways to operate, scheduled maintenance, um, all those sorts of things. Mm. So that will be really interesting. Matthew Stead: Raising the bar on sophistication. Um, but also life extension Allen Hall: Yes, a lot of discussion about life extension Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, end of life and life extension End of life Yeah, um- Matthew Stead: Foundations, structures Which is Allen Hall: tied to PPA. Mm. A lot of that [00:04:00] discussion I, at least I looked at it as, uh, if I had a PPA and I can continue with that PPA with an existing turbine, I want to do that. Mm, Matthew Stead: mm, Allen Hall: mm. But how do I do that and how do I know that that existing turbine can last another five years? It seemed to go in five-year blocks, like can we get to another five years and then another and then, then another. Wow. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. Once you get to 20, 20, 25 years, I think people like, uh, they, you know- It’s getting a little- Their original agreement might have been for 20, then they kind of just assume that there will be another five, and then after that they’re- Yeah … kind of reassessing cyclically and yeah, I know that people make plans for, you know, what components are replaceable, what would they have to get in, and I think that sometimes, uh, people doing those plans aren’t as familiar with the, you know, actual technical issues that are being faced. Like, is a blade a replaceable component? It may be early on in the life it sort of is, not easily, but you know, like a 25-year-old wind turbine, you know, good luck trying to order 10 new blades because you’ve got a, you know, an issue that’s- Allen Hall: Oh, well you, you need to read the news. Did you [00:05:00] see the news today about, uh, the, the wooden wind turbine blades as a replacement for aged blades? That, that’s happening- … in real time, Rosa. Rosemary Barnes: Okay. I know they- Yeah. Yep, yep. Okay. Okay. So that, that’s, that’s good. Making carbon new blade. E- even so, I don’t think that they’re- Okay. … gonna be, like, super-duper cheap, so you’re still gonna wanna be, um, doing a trade-off between y- you know, like, what kind of repairs. You might be able to change the way you’re operating to reduce loads. Um, you might be able to monitor to make sure that your blades are safe. You know, if you know that there’s an issue, um, you just wanna get some advanced warning before blades start falling off your, your tower. Mm. You know, and then you can push it further. Yeah. Whereas if you’ve got no information, then you have to be conservative and shut it down. Yeah. So yeah, I think there’s a whole lot that can be g- can be done there in that area. Matthew Stead: There was a point that came up today, which I think was close to your heart, on, you know, if you’re going to be going for 1% or 2% or 0.5% AEP improvement, how do you actually measure that and how do you set up a proper experiment? So- Rosemary Barnes: Yeah … Matthew Stead: I, I, I love that topic. [00:06:00] Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. No, it’s one that I, um, yeah, I deal with m- my clients I, I’m often… It’s one of the things that Pablo really loves to do, is to organize trials of that nature of new technologies and see if they work. But, um, yeah, asset managers are usually very, uh, focused on fast results. You know, they’ve got a, a big problem and they want a solution now, so they wanna just roll out the new technology over an entire wind farm. But if you do that, then it’s almost impossible. Unless you get, like, a huge benefit, like, uh, 10% gains or, you know, like reduce your failures by 50% or more, it’s really hard to actually- Mm pick that out if you just replace everything. Mm. Whereas if you do a really, really good, um, trial plan- Systematic. Yeah … and you match pairs very well so that you have, you know, a control for each turbine and there’s- so many variables in a wind farm. It’s not, it’s not as easy as just, like, randomly choosing 50% to do and not do. Mm. Mm. Mm. Like, you have to, you know, put some work into the trial design, and then, you know, like, do your statistical calculations ahead of time to know how long it’s gonna take you to get s- statistical [00:07:00]significance. So then you don’t just have a gut feeling about- Yep … how something went. You’ve actually got numbers, and then you can take those numbers to, you know, other wind farms that you’ve got- Yeah and, and know what’s going on much better. Matthew Stead: Worst study is an inconclusive study. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. Yeah, that’s true. Definitely. Allen Hall: Well, that comes back to the data analysis- Mm … which a lot of operators mentioned, and how much data there is and what to do with it, and it did seem like a couple of operators have chosen some AI tools, varying degrees, all the way down from Microsoft Copilot to something much more complicated. Uh, but I think there’s, uh, getting that d- to the last 1, 2, 3%, you’re going to need those tools- Absolutely … because what do you choose? Do you choose a blade? Do you choose a gearbox? Do you choose a generator? Do you go to the substation to get that percentage point or two Without having some really powerful tools- Mm. you may be wasting your time [00:08:00] and money. Matthew Stead: Mm. Allen Hall: Which is a, a, a very interesting, uh, aspect to wind energy because it’s such an industrial business that, uh, we haven’t used heavy computational tools, uh, un- until really now. Matthew Stead: Mm. Allen Hall: And maybe Australia’s at the forefront because of the PPA and negative pricing is that that will, uh, actually lead an industry. Because I haven’t seen a lot of that being used globally. Mm. So this is the first time an operator- Mm … that I’ve talked to has said, “We’re using it.” Matthew Stead: Yeah. It’s quite a different discussion, um, I think, you know, this year compared to previous years in that I think in the past it was getting to know what’s possible, but now it’s like real case studies are coming through. And a few of the people had some really good examples that we can talk about at the conference as to how they’ve actually been helped and how they did this and what the outcome was. I think, yeah, that would be really great content on that. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. I think it’s gonna be a good mix of people who have used third party tools and have experience with it, people that are doing it in-house and can share- Mm some of the kinds of results- Mm … that, that you can get just from analyzing your own- Mm … [00:09:00] SCADA data. Um, people talking about how they get the data that they want. Mm. ‘Cause it’s not always so easy. You would think that, you know, you own a wind turbine, you have a right to have all of the data that comes through it, but it’s not. Um, even if you do technically have a right, it’s, uh, it, it’s harder to actually get it than you might think. Mm. So yeah, sharing all, all those kinds of things. But I think also, like just as important as talking about the successes is talking about the, the gaps that– people still feel lots of gaps. Like, okay, we’ve got all the data, we’re collecting it. We know that there’s so much potential here- Mm … but we don’t really- Mm … know what we can do, or it’s hard for us to, you know- Mm … make headway in this particular pain point. And that is really useful for companies that are developing tools to know what are the, the problems. Mm. Because then they can e- you know, they’re well placed to fix them. Allen Hall: Mm. Which leads to the discussion we had with the operators and, uh, some of the suppliers for WOMA 2027. There’s a lot of interest. And as we’re sitting in the conference rooms, I’m thinking, we may not have enough room to [00:10:00] seat everybody. Uh, the WOMA 2027 website is up and running, and you can register now. So just go to woma2027.com and get started there. At the same point, we’ve had a lot of contact with, uh, pretty much everybody that wants to sponsor the event, and there’s only a limited number of ways to sponsor. So if you’re interested in doing that, you, you need to go to woma2027.com and look at those, uh, part- particular packages and see what- Mm fits your, your business. Uh- Going back to some of the, the comments we were just discussing downstairs about what we heard at 2026, like, which is only a couple of months ago, right? It’s back in February this year. Uh, there’s, they’re still discussing what happened at WOMA 2026- Mm. Which was very fascinating- Mm because I think Rosemary, you and I have been to conferences that I have not thought an iota … about what happened at those conferences. Just nothing interesting does occur. There’s no new, new information, there’s [00:11:00] no new science, there’s no new operator approaches. Rosemary Barnes: Mm. Allen Hall: But we’re gonna see a number of those- Yeah. Mm … come next March. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. Well, I think it’s partly because I don’t know what other conference organizers do, but, you know, we’ve had a exhausting few days here. You’ve come all the way from America, obviously, and, and Claire as well, also come over, our producer. Um, so, y- you know, like, we’re working really hard to make sure that the topics… Like, it’s not an accident that the topics are ones that people are talking about later, because we come here to make sure that we get the right topics. And it’s not just these meetings as well. People get in touch, and- Mm … anybody watching, listening, who has, you know, something that they wanna talk about, then definitely, you know, send us a message, and yeah, we’re working on the agenda. We’ll, we’ll have a draft agenda in the next couple of weeks based on what we’ve learned here, but then we’ve got the hard job of it’s not just that you have a really interesting topic, you need to have a really great speaker- Yeah … or several really great speakers, usually covering several different aspects of the problem. You know, maybe it’s, uh, yeah, an asset [00:12:00] owner, an OEM, and some, some technology provider, you know, all together giving different, um, yeah, perspectives. That’s, I think, what makes a really great session. Mm. So yeah, we need the ideas for the sessions, and we also need the ideas for great speakers. Matthew Stead: Yeah. Rosemary Barnes: Right. Matthew Stead: Yeah. I think we’ve, we’ve already matched a few of those dots, so- Yeah … I, we’ve heard people asking for certain topics they wanna hear about, and then we’ve heard other operators saying, “Well, this is what we could talk about.” So I think we’ve already- Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, yeah … got some great Matthew Stead: progress. Rosemary Barnes: It was, it was interesting ’cause we, we built up a list of, you know- Matthew Stead: Yeah Rosemary Barnes: frequently raised topics, and then you’d say it to the next person that you went to- Mm … and they’re like, “Oh, that’s not a problem for us because we’ve done X, Y, Z.” And you’re like, “Okay. Well, excellent. You can, you can present the solutions that we know that other people- Yeah. Yes … are, are looking for.” Yeah. So it has been… Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it’s definitely worthwhile coming, as, as tiring as it is. Yeah. Um, definitely worthwhile, and we’ll get a much better agenda for the- Yeah … for the effort. Matthew Stead: And I think, I mean, it has been tiring. Um, but what, what made it for me was one of the operators said that [00:13:00] this is the only conference they will go to So I think, I think we’re doing the right thing. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. Yeah. I, I think so. I understand too, like, you know, all of us, we kind of are forced to go to events because that’s where our, our clients and customers are, and so you need to see them. And yeah, like I’ve even gone to the extent of some events where I don’t particularly like the event, but I know everyone’s going. Mm. I just go and sit near the event for a couple of days and meet people at a cafe. So yeah, like we can’t get away from it. But if you’re an asset manager or, um, yeah, somebody in that kind of type of work, like you’ve got better things to do than listen to sales pitches aggressively thrown at you that aren’t relevant- Yeah to what you’re doing. So, um, yeah. Like I, I definitely love to hear that kind of feedback- Yeah … and wanna make sure that we get it every, every year. Like that’s- It’s, it’s Matthew Stead: encouraging. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah … yeah, that’s, that’s the point of the conference, so. Matthew Stead: Yeah. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. Matthew Stead: The other big topic was we would really love more OEM involvement. Um- Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. Everybody wants more- … a lot of the operators- … OEM involvement- Yeah … all of the asset owners. Matthew Stead: Yeah. Rosemary Barnes: Like we want to [00:14:00] hear from OEMs more, have them there. Um, so yeah, we’re, we’ll be trying to To get those sorted Allen Hall: Well, WOMA is a global conference, although it’s Australia-based and there’s a, a number of Australian operators. There are Danish, Americans, uh, plenty of Europeans. Uh, we’re gonna see some from Southeast Asia, I think, this year. Mm-hmm. And, and Japan hopefully will come. Uh, because it’s a, it’s a global conference, there’s global knowledge- Mm … and wind is such a big industry. You may not have the solution in the United States, it may be sitting in Australia, and we need to exchange those ideas. Mm. And that, that’s the point. So w- we are continuing to look for those world experts as we have received all the inputs of these are all the topics we wanna go hear about. Great. Now it’s on us three to go find some of those world experts and, and try to get them to Melbourne. Yeah. And I, I think that’s a great opportunity. So if we do call you and ask you to participate in WOMA [00:15:00] 2027, please take it seriously because- Mm … you will be bombarded with great questions- Mm … and contacts and information. Uh, it’s an event you won’t wanna miss. Yeah. And- But I would- … there’s opportunity there. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. I’d say we’re, we’re prioritizing OEMs, um, to, to get more participation, ideally to speak, but at least to be there. And we have heard from multiple asset owners in Australia that they want, they, they want to know what are some of the upgrades that they can do- Yeah … that you’re offering. They wanna know what’s coming next in terms of technology. They wanna know what are some of the non-Western options. So, you know, like it would be great to get some Chinese wind turbine, um, manufacturers as well. Like, they want all this information. They don’t want a slick sales brochure pitch that doesn’t give them any technical information. So we’re hopeful that we’ll be able to get, you know, some technical people to speak on, yeah, what are the upgrades you offer and how does it work- Mm-hmm … and show us a case study that demonstrates the improvements. Um, ’cause that [00:16:00] sometimes is really hard to get out of- Mm … out of OEMs. You know, that, “We’ve got this thing, it’s so amazing, you should get it.” Okay, well, what’s the business case for it? “Oh, well, we don’t have any numbers. Just trust us.” Matthew Stead: Yeah. Rosemary Barnes: Um, it’s so common to get a pitch like that. So yeah, any, any OEM that has any- anything like that, either for the next generation of wind turbines or for upgrading the current fleet, yeah, if you’re willing to bring the data, then people, they are desperate to hear this information. Allen Hall: Mm. Matthew Stead: Yeah. That came up so many times. Rosemary Barnes: Mm. Allen Hall: So what were the other, uh, topics that we’re… I’m just not thinking off the top of my head. I know foundations came up quite a bit- Foundations, yeah … which was an odd one, I think, because we haven’t seen that a lot in Australia. Yeah. But this year, foundations, foundations, foundations. Basically, the health of foundations. Yeah. Matthew Stead: Yeah. I think really there was a lifting of the maturity. Um, I think the topics were sort of showing that, you know, Maslow’s hierarchy and moving into the more of optimization rather than making do, and I think life extension around the foundations was a, a really good example of that. Allen Hall: And bolts. Matthew Stead: Bolts? Yeah, bolts. Allen Hall: [00:17:00] Everybody said bolts. Bolts. Matthew Stead: Bolts. Allen Hall: You think the world’s simplest device, we’ve been making bolts for nearly 1,000 years or at least a couple hundred. But it does- And, you know- … come up quite often … cable, cable Matthew Stead: terminations, again, some really Rosemary Barnes: basic- Yeah, that, really specific ones that were raised multiple times. Yeah. Um, yeah, which, which is great- Yeah … ’cause it gives us a good direction to go. But I do love how it changes so much every year- Yeah … ’cause it makes me feel like, okay, yeah, like we’re actually, you know, it’s worthwhile, um, putting on another event. Mm. Um, not just recording one event and then just, you know, like replaying that every year or something. Re-educating. Allen Hall: Yeah. Well, I, I think there’s a learning exercise that has happened over the past two years where people now are knowledgeable about those things we talked about- Mm … two years ago. Uh, was it, was it even two years ago? It was a year and a half ago when we first started this, so we’re, we’re not that deep into it. Although our third conference will be next March, uh, you just see more energy, more industry knowledge in some of the references that I heard, uh, in terms of other companies and the approaches they’re taking clearly came from WOMA. Matthew Stead: Yeah. Rosemary Barnes: Mm. Matthew Stead: Yeah, Allen Hall: yeah. Which is, which is [00:18:00] fascinating. Yeah. That’s Rosemary Barnes: good. I mean, we want- It, it is Allen Hall: sticking Rosemary Barnes: we want tech conferences to get better, right? That was the- No … the reason why we, uh, we started this conference was ’cause we didn’t think that it was sufficient, what we had available. So, you know, it’s not a bad thing if other conferences, um, get better. Yeah. Yeah. We should also mention that blades were, were raised a fair bit. We talked so much about blades in the previous years, and we will be talking about blades a lot again, including we’ve got a master class on the Friday. Uh, it’s… Yeah, we’ll go back to some of the basics about how the composite materials work and how a blade is designed and certified and manufactured, and, um- Lightning. Y- yeah, yeah, a little, a little bit about lightning. Um, I don’t wanna cover it too much because we did the master class on lightning- Right … last year. Mm. Um, yeah. And yeah, some of the common damage methods anyway. And of course- Mm … yeah, lightning is probably the most- … common, or I guess leading edge erosion is the most, and then lightning would be the most expensive. Um, yeah, so we’ll be, we’ll be covering all that and just try and raise the knowledge level a little bit, um, for [00:19:00] everybody to… It’s a very complicated kind of, uh, yeah, component. Matthew Stead: Yeah. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. Matthew Stead: And workshops. So each year we’ve run sort of workshops or roundtables or whatever, so we’re still thinking about the format for them, but, um, thinking about how we’ll reintroduce them again this year. You know, specific topics, specific questions, specific answers. Rosemary Barnes: Mm. Allen Hall: And the three of us will be in Hamburg in a couple of weeks at Wind Energy Hamburg, so if you see us and you’re interested in coming to Australia, that’s the place to grab us and- Yep … and shake us and say, “I wanna go to Australia. How do I do it?” Rosemary Barnes: Mm. Allen Hall: Uh, yeah. Yeah. Rosemary Barnes: Especially if you’ve got a, a t- technology that addresses some of those specific issues that we’ve mentioned- Mm … then, um, yeah, just know ahead of time that Australia needs, needs more information and more, um, solutions available to them. So, yeah. And Matthew Stead: that reminds me, we had a really discussion a- around safety and, you know, reasonable and [00:20:00] practicable, and discussion around all the lessons learned about how… or what is best practice on a site, what is best practice about how to manage risks and- Rosemary Barnes: Mm. Matthew Stead: Yeah. Yeah. I know you, you, you enjoyed that one. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, yeah, definitely. And we’re not talking about, like, safety the- Ear muffs or hats. The, um, rou- Yeah, the routine safety that if you- The goggles, yeah … yeah, trip over and graze your knee, then you need to let the site supervisor know. You, you know, it’s not that stuff, ’cause sites have that under control. That’s a given, yeah. Or at least the ability to get that under control. We’re talking about the bigger- Yeah … bigger things, you know. Like, uh, is there a issue that is causing blades to fall off turbines every now and then? Is there an issue that, uh, can lead to, you know, a fire? I, I think everyone, like- Yeah … a big fear of everybody’s. There’s never been, um, in Australia at least, there’s never been a wind turbine fire that has caused a bush fire, but it is a possibility, and it would be so bad for the industry. So, you know, it’s those things- Mm … that could be just terrible, preventing those before they happen. Mm. So that’s the kind of safety that we’re gonna mainly focus on. Mm. Although, you know, we’re not gonna [00:21:00] turn down questions on, um, some of the smaller stuff as well. Matthew Stead: Yeah. Rosemary Barnes: Mm. Matthew Stead: And we even thought about getting some lawyers- Rosemary Barnes: Yeah … Matthew Stead: you missed out on this discussion, Rosie. Okay. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. Matthew Stead: So Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. Lawyers, this is news to me. Well, I mean, are we talking contracts or, um- Matthew Stead: No, no … no … it’s really operations. I mean- Right … the environmental, um, issues- Oh yeah … the operational issues. Mm. You know, there’s, there’s a few things in there that the lawyers can add. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. I mean- … I’ve, I constantly find myself having to interpret, you know, legal, um, legal text and also anticipate, you know, it’s one thing about what’s the right engineering, but then there is also the legal interpretation of it- Yeah uh, as well, you know, in terms of contract law, but then also in, in terms of safety. Yeah. Um, yeah. Was this certification done correctly? You know- Yeah … that’s got some legal aspect to it. So yeah, that- Yeah … makes sense to me. Insurance is another one where I would say- Yeah, actually that came up … you know, like some, some people might think that that doesn’t sound interesting, but yeah, in- insurance is the other- Matthew Stead: Mm Rosemary Barnes: aspect that you [00:22:00] just can’t, um, you can’t get away from it. Like, you can’t just think that you’re, you’re doing your engineering without bothering about Mm … yeah, like finance and law and, um, and insurance. Those are things that- Mm … you spend a lot of time thinking about. Matthew Stead: Yeah. Mm. And I guess we would also love to hear, you know, about potential speakers, but we’d also love to hear any other topics that people are attending and want to know about as well. Rosemary Barnes: Mm-hmm. Allen Hall: Absolutely. And if you haven’t registered for WOMA 2027, which will be March 3rd through 5th at the Pullman in East Melbourne, right? East Melbourne, yeah. They just redefined it. It’s Pullman in East Melbourne. Uh, go ahead and go to woma2027.com and register now. Uh, Matthew and Rosemary, it’s great to see you in person again, and we’ll see you in a couple of weeks, uh, hopefully in, in Germany. Rosemary Barnes: Mm. Allen Hall: Very [00:23:00] exciting.
Five Sydney Swans players remain suspended for the rest of the 2026 AFL season for breaching the club's behavioural standards.Swans Isaac Heeney, Chad Warner, Nick Blakey, Riley Bice and James Jordon are also linked to a police investigation into sexual assault allegations at East Melbourne's Pullman Hotel on Monday morning.The players are yet to be formally interviewed or charged, and it is not suggested that any of them are being accused of sexual assault.
Vestas doubles second quarter profit and adds €4.7 billion in market value overnight. Plus EnBW finishes He Dreiht after a V236 blade break, the UK blocks Ming Yang’s Scottish factory, and India rules turbines are movable goods. The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech, creators of the StrikeTape Ultra LPS retrofit. Subscribe to Uptime’s Substack newsletter. And check out Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” Youtube channel. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! The Uptime Wind Energy podcast, brought to you by StrikeTape. Protecting thousands of wind turbines from lightning damage worldwide. Visit StrikeTape.com. And now, your hosts Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall, and I’m here with Rosemary Barnes, Matthew Stead, and Yolanda Padron. And three out of the four of us will be in Melbourne Australia talking to a number of operators and interested parties about WOMA 2027. Matthew, where will we be the couple of days we’re in Melbourne? Matthew Stead: So, um, first of all, we’ve got the Pullman, uh, East Melbourne, which is, uh, where the venue will be for, for 2027. Um, so that’ll be our home base. Um, we’ve got around about eight meetings planned already. So what we’re doing is we’re talking to the operators and a few other industry, um, players about [00:01:00] what we need to talk about, how we’re gonna move the industry forward in Australia. Uh, so it’s gonna be jam-packed, but there’s a little bit of time left on the Friday afternoon if there’s any late-minute, um, people that wanna get in contact and catch up with us, um, for next Thursday, Friday, or actually Friday. Uh, so yeah, it’s gonna be a, a jam-packed time. I think we’re gonna be tired, too many coffees, and talking to all the key, all the key operators, uh, about what they wanna hear about and how we can move the, the industry forward. Allen Hall: And if someone wants to put an input into the WOMA panel about what will be discussed at WOMA 2027, Matthew, how would they do that? How do they get ahold of you? Matthew Stead: Well, we have a wonderful website, and that’s got all the details you could ever want. Um, you can also register on the website, so please register. Otherwise, um, I’m sure we’re gonna be a sellout this year for sure. So woma2027.com. Rosemary Barnes: I just wanna add that when people talk to [00:02:00] me about the event, they always say how they love that the topics are so relevant, and the reason why that they’re so relevant is because we make sure to go around to operators and find out what are the issues that they’re really dealing with. So anybody that’s thinking of attending, even if you can’t, you know, meet us up, meet up with us in Melbourne, get in touch and tell us what are the, yeah, what are the topics that you’re struggling with that you’re not, um, you’re having trouble finding enough information, having trouble finding the people that can help you. And y- yeah, like we take all of that information, and that’s how we come up with our agenda each year. And yeah, I mean, for us, that’s the, the main thing is that this has to be really relevant, up-to-date information for the industry, and we need your help to make sure it stays that way. I Matthew Stead: mean, that’s what we’ve done the last two years, so this is– we’re just repeating the formula, um, listening to the operators and getting the good topics and the good speakers. Allen Hall: Well, Vestas has had a good quarter. Uh, the, for the last couple of years, honestly, s- [00:03:00] Vestas has been really thin on margins. There was questions about it continuing on. Rising costs mostly, uh, supply chains, especially during COVID, were bad. Uh, and, uh, but for the most part, the shareholders stayed attached. Well, that story is changing rapidly. The world’s largest turbine maker posted second quarter operating profits of $400- €46 million, more than double what the analysts had expected, and it’s raised its full-year margin guidance alongside half-year results for the first time in a decade. The shares climbed about 20% in Copenhagen, adding roughly €4.7 billion of market value in a single session. Now, the chief executive, uh, Henrik Andersen, ha- put it plainly to, uh, uh, in a couple of news sources that something much bigger is happening and Vestas is gonna be the, the leader in wind. That’s how I read it, that everybody [00:04:00]at Vestas was super happy with the, the change in direction and things were moving up steadily. But a 20% jump in a day is remarkable. You don’t see that in large industrial businesses like wind energy. Matthew, this has real implications on what happens next for Vestas because success like this usually means more orders. Matthew Stead: Yeah, I wonder what’s going on under the hood there. Um, I mean, Vestas is a quality company, although, although can I just do a quick segue? How many turbines were installed in Denmark in the last, uh, two years? Like last year and the year before? Allen Hall: I don’t know. How many? Matthew Stead: I believe it was eight turbines installed onshore in Denmark last year, and the year before it was 12. So, you know, maybe, maybe Vestas needs to focus on their own backyard a little bit as well. Allen Hall: I’m not sure there’s a lot of opportunity there. Yeah, onshore. Matthew Stead: How can you ever be full? I mean, there’s always, um, [00:05:00] uh, you know, um, you know, resiting or, um, you know, upgrades and- Rosemary Barnes: You know what? Allen and I are probably gonna get some time in Jutland, uh, later this year, um, and that area and the old wind turbines there was actually the inspiration for my whole YouTube channel. It just, ’cause there’s, you know, there’s turbines there from, the earliest one is, um, from the ’70s and still going. I think it’s one and a half megawatts, actually huge for, for that time. Um, and it was like community made, um, at Tvind. But anyway, I’m interested to revisit the site and have a look and see are these, you know, all these old turbines still there. It’s only, like six years since I went through and did the experience but for the most part, they don’t seem to be yet pulling down the, the small old ones and putting up big ones. There’s a lot of, a lot of them are community owned. Um, and yeah, I mean, Danish people love wind turbines, but there’s only so many that you can have onshore. Like, people are happy to live near them by, you know, the standards of people in other countries, but you don’t want [00:06:00] one in your literal backyard. I think that there is, there, there is a, a limit to how many more onshore wind turbines that you can get in that area and offshore expansion is the more likely way to go. Um, and also I think it’s, it’s, it’s good to recognize that if you have a domestic only or a domestic first strategy, that will only get you so far and then you have to expand, and I think Denmark did that really well. I think Germany a little bit less. I think that Enercon were a bit surprised, um, by their strategy. It, uh, they had a real hard time anyway when they had to transition away from mostly Germany to getting overseas. And obviously, like if you look at China, they have most of their installations are in China. They are trying so hard to get outside of China because it’s not, like even a market as big as China, it’s got decades to go before it will be full. Um, you can still recognize that that’s not your, like long-term strategy for growth has to involve expansion, I think. Allen Hall: I think Vestas, regardless of what happens in Denmark, is making a play for the United States. That seems to be [00:07:00] where a significant effort is happening at the moment and on offshore. Their– Vestas seems very excited about the offshore opportunities. Of course, there’s a ton of wind turbines gonna be installed in the UK and, and all around Northern Europe. Offshore, the opportunities to buy turbines, there’s only a couple that you could get today. Uh, uh, the GE Vernova offerings I, I don’t think are gonna fit the mold, and I don’t know if GE’s even actively selling. So their competitor realistically is Siemens Gamesa, which does seem like the smaller player at the minute versus Vestas, which is heavily pushing the V236 and will fill order books like crazy, I think, uh, just based upon the, the history they’ve had and everybody knowing who they are. So Also on the move in Australia, right? Vestas is huge in Australia right now. Rosemary Barnes: I think it’s really good that their, um, yeah, finances, uh, are [00:08:00] looking a bit better ’cause it’s been funny. Like, I tried early on in my wind career to invest in, you know, wind turbine manufacturers knowing that there would be immense growth, and I was right. There, there was immense growth. Not that that was so hard to figure out that there would be, but it did not lead to any kind of, um, return on, on anything, you know. Like, that did not keep pace with the just general market. Um, so I, I stopped trying to, stopped trying to invest to that. But it has been really, really hard for the companies to, you know, raise money or y- you know, do any of the things that they need to do because they’ve always, like, they’re growing, growing, growing, but finances has been so tight that it has been a real constraint on the amount of engineering that they could do, and I really hope that Vestas are gonna take this opportunity that they’ve got compared to, you know, a lot of the other manufacturers. Vestas do have really strong, um, innovation and, yeah, engineering capabilities for doing– you know, developing new technologies and improving them, and I really hope that they’re taking this opportunity to build that up. There are a lot [00:09:00] of very good engineers with a lot of experience in the industry in that area that are working in other fields at the moment because, you know, there’s been a lot of contraction in Denmark. So I don’t know, it seems like a really good time to hire back some of that really in-depth knowledge and, yeah, get a- get ahead of, you know, some of the future quality problems. We’re going through such a hard time at the moment from the fast development that happened in the 20-teens when there wasn’t a whole lot of money around. We’re dealing with quality problems now, so, you know, maybe we can get ahead and not have the next round of them if we can invest in just a lot more, uh, engineering capacity. Allen Hall: When you have success like Vestas has, usually the upper level management and some of the executive team starts getting pilfered, that they’ll get offers to repeat that success at another company, and it sounds like that process has started already. There’s a couple of executives that have recently departing or are in the midst of departing from Vestas. [00:10:00] I would see that continuing f- at least for the next six months, uh, because everybody wants to repeat that, right? If you can get a 20% increase in your valuation overnight, uh, I can, I can list a number of companies, regardless of industry, that would love to participate. Even in a 5% increase, that would be remarkable. So, um, Vestas is gonna have a hard time holding onto this. That’s just the nature of the business where things are successful, people will wander. And Rosemary, I, I think they’re– And Yolanda In, in my book, Vestas should sort of s-stand down and just make quality products. I’m not sure you sh-should tinker too much at the time being and just make the good stuff better. That seems like a way to really increase profits. Yolanda Padron: Yeah, I mean, solving a lot of the issues that– And, and that’s not just a Vestas exclusive thing, right? All of these OEMs have some sort of issue that maybe– I know Rosie’s touched a lot on, on it, where [00:11:00] you build this version A and then version B solves one of the small little issues, but now it creates another little problem, and then you have version C, and then everything just kinda has its own niche little issue, um, that really expands over time. So if they could solidify what they already have in, in a, in a model that, that would help them just even keep a lot of their customers, I think that’d be great, and it would help, certainly help them, um, not continuously, like, rotate around the customers, ’cause it almost feels like, at least in the States, right, you, you get GE to be really, really strong and have a huge market share, and then GE starts focusing more on gas turbines, so then they all go onto Vestas, and then they all go onto Ontara now. Um, and then just, you know, just kind of everybody starts cycling through them because they just kind of want something that’s better quality than what they’re getting in the long haul. Matthew Stead: Allen, you, you talked about you think there’s something big under the hood. I think you, you [00:12:00] thought that maybe Vestas was angling towards something or being quite bullish. Do you think that they might take over GE Vernova? Allen Hall: I don’t think they’re gonna grab Vernova, and I don’t think Vernova is for sale at the minute, but I wonder if Siemens Gamesa is, or Nordex. I mean, Nordex has done terrific the last couple of quarters and is making inroads in places that I didn’t think possible three, four years ago. Uh, the European marketplace is be- becoming really unique in that sense that there’s a lot of money being put out. But is there a sole perfect solution for Europe? Not at the minute, ’cause you got two competitors there, and then China trying to, to work its way in. Will the Europeans come together and form something more united, even if it’s just a partnership, a loose partnership, versus letting China on the shores? We’ll see. 64 of the largest machines that Vestas has builds are standing off the German coast, but one blade is missing a [00:13:00] piece. We’ll talk about that when we come back. Speaker: Are you overspending on lightning repairs? Most operators are because solving lightning damage is complicated. Weather Guard Lightning Tech helps operators reduce lightning damage. Our innovative StrikeTape lightning diverter protects over twenty thousand blades worldwide. Now, StrikeTape Ultra installs faster than ever. StrikeTape Ultra cures uptower in just fifteen minutes, even in cold weather. Visit weatherguardwind.com to schedule a call. Allen Hall: Well, Germany’s largest offshore wind farm is now fully installed, and EnBW confirmed this, uh, past week that all 64 of the Vestas V236 15-megawatt turbines are s- standing at the He Dreiht wind farm about 85 kilometers northwest of Borkum. Uh, 960 megawatts, [00:14:00] 2.4 billion euros invested. Man, these offshore projects are expensive to get installed. Uh, so it’s power for roughly 1.1 million households, and there’s no state subsidy behind any of it. And so this is a little bit of a u- unique situation. Uh, th- well, the one footnote about the wind farm is they had a V236 blade break and fall into the North Sea, and they had fished it out and I think I passed along s- pictures that I saw online of, uh, one of the police boats pulling the shear web out of the water I don’t know what to think anymore about some of these offshore blade issues. Obviously, Vestas is very conscientious about it and will be doing RCAs and engineering reviews and all the above to go identify what the problem is. But it does just lead to a little bit of a pause of do– what is going on for some of these offshore [00:15:00] wind blade installations or, or whatever’s causing these blades to break? Do we have a good handle on it? Yolanda, is– are we following up on all the design details so that we can prevent these things in the future? Yolanda Padron: I mean, I’d, I’d hope you’d be following up on the design, right? Like, and, um, but I think there is still a little bit of a disconnect from, from what we’ve seen, and again, not just Vestas exclusive, um, between the people who are designing and the people who are manufacturing, the people who are in operations, right? So, uh- The, from what we’ve heard, uh, this could have potentially been a, um, partially because of a transportation issue, which is what happens a lot in onshore. It’s a lot more common than we would like it to be. Um, and so that even goes beyond what would go on in the design studio and what would go on in the manufacturing and what would [00:16:00] go on even just for the people that are running the site, right? So, so some sort of, um, in between, uh, EPC error. Um, but yeah, I just think that, like in a lot of industries, there should be a lot more communication between all of these teams on the lower level, so that way a lot of these problems can, can be avoided. Allen Hall: I’m wondering if it’s actually an issue on the, the testing side. And, uh, the one question that just popped up, and we saw from the ORE Catapult, uh, survey that’s being conducted at the moment, and if you haven’t participated in that, you just visit ORE Catapult and answer some of the survey questions. But torsion on a blade, which is very difficult to test for, and it really isn’t tested for today, but does happen during the move and the transportation of these big offshore blades. Is it one area that we need to do a little more work in or maybe spend some more time focusing on it to see what is happening as blades are [00:17:00]moved? Rosemary Barnes: The thing about te- torsion is that it is much more significant as blades get longer. I can’t, I can’t remember the equation off the top of my head, which is, um, bothering me. But I think it scales with, like, the fourth power or something of, of length. And so whilst it was always a bit of a problem, it’s much more of a problem as it gets, as blades get bigger. I mean, they’ve never, like, fully tested a blade, and there was always a lot of reliance on, hey, y- you know, like we’ve tested certain things that is possible to test in a test facility on the ground. But they also rely on their decades of experience of how blades actually behave in the field. But, you know, remember, that’s a real lagging, lagging indicator because y- you know, their decades of experience is mostly with lots smaller blades. Now, blades are really different because they’re longer and different effects are, are taking over. It’s not just, uh, torsion, but it’s also the laminates get much thicker, and then y- you know, you, you have issues with the way that they’re curing, [00:18:00] and there’s a lot more just space for, um, defects to be present in a really thick laminate All of those things add up. Oh, yeah, then add in addition, like new materials, carbon fiber is new, and then new ways of producing it, you know, pultrusions, um, all kinds of different materials like balsa’s being replaced with foams and, um, like, you know, 10 times that number of what sounds like a small innovation, but all of these things have the potential for damage and don’t have a really long track record in the field to be able to kind of calibrate. We do need to remember that, like, when you do something new, things are gonna break, uh, sometimes, they’re gonna fail sometimes. If they don’t, then you’re definitely being too conservative, and your product is costing more than it should, and nobody wants more expensive wind energy, right? Matthew Stead: Rosie, Rosie, I, I know you’re doing some, some excellent work on, um, industry studies around erosion and temperature and so forth. Um, I just wanted to let a little secret out of the bag that, um, in the future there will also be some [00:19:00] other studies on torsion and blade twist and blade dynamics. So, um, just a few things are in, in train at the moment, which I can’t share, share, but, uh, watch this space around better understanding blade twist. Allen Hall: The Hydride wind farm runs on European turbines, but the next one might not. Two governments with two very different answers on who gets to build Europe’s wind fleet. Delamination and bondline failures in blades are difficult problems to detect early. These hidden issues can cost you millions in repairs and lost energy production. CIC NDT are specialists to detect these critical flaws before they become expensive burdens. Their nondestructive test technology penetrates deep into blade materials to find voids and cracks traditional inspections completely miss. CIC NDT maps every critical defect, delivers actionable [00:20:00] reports, and provides support to get your blades back in service. So visit cicndt.com because catching blade problems early will save you millions Well, two countries and two decisions, one question. In Scotland, the UK government blocked plans for the Chinese manufacturer Mingyang to build a turbine factory, uh, near Inverness on national security grounds. 1.5 billion pounds of investment, up to about 1,500 jobs. And First Minister John Swinney has asked the new prime minister to reconsider. And the UK energy secretary minister called that request irresponsible. Meanwhile, up in Denmark, Vattenfall has just won two offshore wind farms and will not say whether it will buy European turbines. Danish suppliers are not taking that quietly. So [00:21:00] the Scotland question about the Mingyang factory is at least being discussed again with the new prime minister in the UK. It does seem like there’s a lot to do and get the government formed and make all this stuff happen. But I don’t see a Burnham administration changing the outcome for Mingyang, but I could be wrong. At the, the same time, Vestas is pushing for a more Eurocentric focus and to really keep out the Chinese. Uh, something has to give here pretty soon. Matthew Stead: I actually think Mingyang should, um, set up a factory in Scotland. I, I mean, what’s wrong with that? I mean, uh, why is that a security issue? Rosemary Barnes: Set up the factory and put the, like, whatever you’re worried about, put protections in place for it, require it to be a local joint venture or whatever. You know, we’ve seen the blueprint in many of what used to be, you know, less rich countries. That’s how they, you know, got a head start on some of these technologies. It’s not like, I don’t think that China [00:22:00] has a head start on wind, wind turbine technology, but they certainly have different ways of doing things that, um, yeah, we could, we could learn from. But I think across the board, wind turbines, batteries, solar panels, whatever, let them set up factories, put the rules in place that mean that your country benefits from it and you’re getting the, you know, the information transfer. Yolanda Padron: Do you think that’ll, like, impulse a lot of these more established European companies to maybe start fixing some of the issues that they’ve known about for, for a while, um, particularly regarding the blades and everything that we’ve talked about earlier? Like, there’s enough competition there, so maybe they need to start looking a little bit more deeply into their problems. Allen Hall: Do we think that Chinese operations have been out front, forward, honest, I’ll even use, about their blade issues? Rosemary Barnes: No, but this is a good way to find out, isn’t it? Allen Hall: Governments decide who is allowed to build a turbine after a discussion on Scotland. Uh, but, but [00:23:00] occasionally, a court decides what a turbine legally is. India has just settled that question, and the reasoning should be of interest to anybody who ships machines across a border right after this. As wind energy professionals, staying informed is crucial and let’s face it, difficult. That’s why the Uptime Podcast recommends PES Wind Magazine. PES Wind offers a diverse range of in-depth articles and expert insights that dive into the most pressing issues facing our energy future. Whether you’re an industry veteran or new to wind, PES Wind has the high-quality content you need. Don’t miss out. Visit peswind.com today. A tax fight in India has produced a definition every turbine supplier should read. Is a wind turbine bolted to a concrete foundation movable goods, or is it immovable property? State tax authorities argued immovable, which would have [00:24:00] taxed erection and commissioning contracts at 18% instead of 5%. The Andhra Pradesh, uh, High Court disagreed, and on the 12th of August, the Supreme Court declined to interfere. The reasoning rests on something this whole industry takes for granted. A turbine can be taken down, moved, and put back up. So a turbine is a movable object, and it has less taxation. Bonus. So this is a really interesting discussion that’s happening in India because it’s probably symptomatic of things we’re seeing elsewhere across the world about taxation for wind turbines, right? That, um, if there’s a way to tax a wind turbine, we’re gonna try to do it. This is a unique way, uh, that happens in India where depending on if it’s permanent or movable, the tax rates are different. I, I guess that would apply to a lot of components inside a wind turbine too, Matthew, don’t you? Like the, the generator, the, the big heavy things, [00:25:00] gearbox, generator, blades, rotors, tower sections, would be taxed at a, a lesser rate. Matthew Stead: I agree with the court case that it’s all movable and, uh, you can actually buy turbines on the secondhand market, can’t you? I mean, if I wanted to buy, yeah, whatever, whatever, I could buy one and, and put it up in my backyard if I had a bigger backyard. Um, so yeah, I vote for movable. I vote for lower taxes. Yolanda Padron: The way that it would work a lot of times in the US is, I mean, it’s, you pay, the company itself pays a lot less than they would’ve over time, right? Just by pure, the, the regular kind of tax laws. Um, but the community, there’d be just direct donations to the community, so then they’d get, uh, like money would actually come into the community where the turbines were being built instead of just distributed around the state, which I mean, in a state as big as Texas, it gets, um, but easier for that c- um, that county to get a lot more, uh, funding than they would typically get if it was [00:26:00] through a big enough area. Um, but yeah, no, I agr- I completely agree with you guys that, that this should be a movable good. I mean, how many times have we seen, uh, even just a blade, um, that it looks like it’s, uh, just a, a failed blade that they have to go in and replace, and then they take it out, fix it, and then just bring it back to the same site or take it to another site across the country. And, and to that point, like if you were to h- judge it as something that’s immovable, would then any blade replacement just not be taxed? Because then it’s, you’re moving that one component and two, but it’s essentially the same turbine. Like, I don’t know how that all would make sense. Allen Hall: I think the Uptime Supreme Court agrees with the Indian Supreme Court that wind turbines are movable, and that’s good. Well, that wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. [00:27:00] Reach out to us on LinkedIn. And if you found value in today’s conversation, please leave us a review. It really helps other wind energy professionals discover the show. And don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. For Rosa, Yolanda, and Matthew, I’m Allen Hall. We’ll see you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy podcast.
Todays headlines include: Police say they are investigating a report of sexual assault, related to several Sydney Swans players at the team’s hotel in East Melbourne on Sunday night. American actress Hayden Panettiere has died, according to a statement from her family to the U.S. media outlet ABC News. U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea, accusing the country of declining to help the process of removing Iran’s nuclear capabilities. And today’s good news! Australian swimmer Lani Pallister has become the first person to ever beat U.S. phenom Katie Ledecky in an international 800m freestyle final. Hosts: Emma Gillespie and Lucy TassellProducer: Rosa Bowden Want to support The Daily Aus? That's so kind! The best way to do that is to click ‘follow’ on Spotify or Apple and to leave us a five-star review. We would be so grateful. The Daily Aus is a media company focused on delivering accessible and digestible news to young people. We are completely independent. Want more from TDA?Subscribe to The Daily Aus newsletterSubscribe to The Daily Aus’ YouTube Channel Have feedback for us?We’re always looking for new ways to improve what we do. If you’ve got feedback, we’re all ears. Tell us here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Sydney Swans AFL club has confirmed several players were involved in an "alleged incident" in Melbourne.The club issued a statement at the same time that Victoria Police released details of an investigation into a report of a sexual assault at an East Melbourne hotel.Details are thin, but here's what we know.
In this episode of Between The Lines, Chelle and Leanne chat with Australian author Penny Tangey about her delightfully funny cosy crime novel What Rhymes with Murder? The story begins with Frida, an exhausted new mother searching for something to break up the sleep-deprived blur of early parenthood. When she attends Baby Rhyme Time at her local library, it feels like a small but meaningful step back into the world. Then someone screams… and a body hits the floor. Suddenly the library becomes a crime scene, and Frida finds herself drawn into an unexpected amateur investigation alongside a group of unlikely sleuths. Between gossip sessions and plenty of coffee at their local café, the group begin piecing together what happened — without realising just how close they might be to danger. In our conversation with Penny, we talk about: The inspiration behind What Rhymes with Murder? Writing cosy crime with humour and heart The chaotic and identity-shifting experience of early motherhood How libraries and community spaces bring people together Creating an amateur detective who feels real, relatable and funny Penny Tangey brings warmth, wit and sharp observation to this story, blending murder mystery with the messy reality of new parenthood. If you enjoy cosy crime with quirky characters and plenty of humour, this is a great one to add to your reading list. About the Author Penny Tangey is a librarian, mother and former stand-up comedian living in East Melbourne. She has written several children's books with UQP, including As Fast As I Can, which won a Queensland Literary Award and the Readings Children's Book Prize. Her middle-grade novel Music Camp was published in 2025. What Rhymes with Murder? is her first novel for adults. Join Our Book-Loving Community Chelle and Leanne created Between The Lines because they love books and great conversations — and wanted to share both with you.
On this weeks program Chris interviews Tim Dow (Tim Rob Don Dow) and Stephanie Mulder (Yardbird Studio) from Mosey Guide about their slow travel walking and cycling guides for neighbourhoods in Australia, Europe and Asia, including their recent Northside Design Ride: A Leisurely Cycling Tour of Melbourne Design through the inner north organised for Melbourne Design Week. Tim and Stephanie talk about discovering and engaging with local destinations and developing the local guides and their future plans. Guides include A Merri Ride, Footscray, Thornbury and North Melbourne.Second guest is Michael, owner and digital creator of Fuji Roll, we chat about showcasing cycling in Melbourne, Sydney and overseas, documenting experiences, riding as prime method of transport, road conditions, creating instagram reels documenting local events and rides, including the Northside Design Ride, Smith Street, Collingwood, Macarthur Street, East Melbourne, Canning Street, Carlton North, and San Francisco Cycles, Golden Gate Bridge.Local news includes Off Course bike shop fire on 27 May 2026, Critical Mass: Big City Lights tour through Richmond, Abbotsford, Collingwood and Clifton Hill, Dixon Veloway maintenance closure: between Footscray and West Melbourne will be closed overnight on Wednesday 3 and Thursday 4 June from 7pm-5am for planned maintenance. Also we briefly mention Barnaby Joyce's connection to the rise of e-bikes: Why are e-bikes suddenly all over Australia's streets?Program MusicScratching, Malvern StarSparks, (Baby, Baby) Can I Invade Your CountryTrue Love Always, Bicycle RiderHONNE, BIKE
‘Murder in the Suburbs' are true crime cases committed by neighbours or even family with often the psychological reason of why they did it, researched and written by Emily Webb. A murder in the East Melbourne library seriously upsets the baby rhyme time session in Penny Tangey's murder mystery novel, 'What Rhymes With Murder'.
The Sunday Arts Magazine team chats with photographer and curator Gerard O’Conner, about his exhibition Party Hard showing at the Tasma Terrace in East Melbourne. The post Sunday Arts Magazine: Gerard O’Conner – February 8th, 2026 appeared first on Sunday Arts Magazine.
We are joined by Reed O'Loughlin - one of the Coordinators for the Friends of the Earth Nuclear Free Collective and David Noonan - Independent Environmental Campaigner, to discuss some of the latest developments under AUKUS.On 1 November, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency handed over regulatory oversight of relevant licences related to the Australian nuclear-powered submarine program to the new Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Regulator marking a significant shift in the way that nuclear activities and materials are regulated.. David Noonan discusses the imposition of military and nuclear risks posed by the AUKUS override of State & Territory laws that prohibit nuclear waste storage. You can read his submission to the 'AUKUS ‘Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Regulations – public consultation'.Upcoming events:Protest the Indo PacificKeeping WA Nuclear Free6pm Wednesday 19 NovemberThe Buffalo Club, 54 High St, Freemantle, WAOrganised by Nuclear Free WABook Launch 'Search for Security: AUKUS and the new militarism'6pm Thursday 20 NovemberMelbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, 110 Grey St, East Melbourne, VICOrganised by No AUKUS Coalition VicLet's Talk About AUKUS6pm Tuesday 25 NovemberFood Coop, Kingsley St, Acton, ACTA night of conversation, food and music with Dr.Jim Green and friends.Organised by Beyond Uranium Canberra.
A coalition of multifaith leaders convereged on East Melbourne's synagogue to remind the public that an attack on a place of worship is an attack on all of humanity.
A week of evil in Victoria culminates with Erin Patterson now a convicted triple murderer. Childcare worker Joshua Dale Brown is charged with 70 counts of child abuse. Angelo Loras is charged with arson against an East Melbourne synagogue. The latest developments on Tim’s News Explosion. Contact:Email: me@timwilms.comMessage: https://t.me/timwilms Wilms Front Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/wilmsfrontFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/timwilmsfrontGab: https://gab.com/timwilmsTelegram: https://t.me/wilmsfrontMinds: https://www.minds.com/timwilms Support the Show:Membership: http://www.theunshackled.net/membershipDonate: https://www.theunshackled.net/donate/Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/TheUnshackled The Unshackled Links:Website: https://www.theunshackled.netSubstack: https://theunshackled.substack.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TUnshackledTwitter: https://twitter.com/Un_shackledGab: https://gab.ai/theunshackledTelegram: https://t.me/theunshackledMinds: https://www.minds.com/The_UnshackledMeWe: https://mewe.com/p/theunshackled Music and Graphics by James Fox HigginsVoice Over by Morgan MunroSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Premier Jacinta Allan visits East Melbourne synagogue days after antisemitic attack, several rate cuts expected after this week’s RBA meeting. Plus, China pushes to include AI in broader trade relationship with Australia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
DJ Albo picks his favourite dad-rock. Emerald and Tom talk about recent news on protests for Palestine (9:17) - former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas might lose sight in an eye after police intervened in a peaceful protest, and UK catches fire after Bob Vylan and Kneecap speak out at Glastonbury. Then they are joined by Greens spokesperson for early childhood education and senator for Victoria, Steph Hodgins-May (47:06), to discuss the horrifying revelations of abuse and neglect in the childcare industry. Why is childcare an industry? How can we restore faith? Is the answer another Royal Commission? Finally, a call to action (1:20:28). NOTE: This episode was recorded before the Federal Government provided additional information about proposed childcare reform legislation, including that new entry permissions for authorised officers will relate to CCS fraud, rather than safety. It was also recorded before the arson attack on a synagogue in East Melbourne. ---------- Just released on Patreon - “Talking Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, Live in Brisbane” The show can only exist because of our wonderful Patreon subscriber’s support. Subscribe for $3/month to get access to our fortnightly subscriber-only full episode, and unlock our complete library of over SEVENTY-FIVE past bonus episodes. https://www.patreon.com/SeriousDangerAU ---------- Links - Dedicated advice hotline regarding alleged child sex abuse cases in Victorian childcare centres: 1800 791 241 https://www.vic.gov.au/childcare-centres-investigation Steph’s socials and contact info - https://greens.org.au/vic/person/steph-hodgins-may Contact Greens MLC Anassina Gray-Barberio: https://greens.org.au/vic/person/anasina-gray-barberio Sexual assault support lines: 1800 Respect National Helpline: 1800 737 732 Lifeline (24-hour crisis line): 131 114 Full Stop Australia: 1800 385 578 Bravehearts: counselling and support for survivors of child sexual abuse: 1800 272 831 Child Wise: counselling provider: 1800 991 099 Hannah Thomas’s call to action - support: PARA: https://para.org.au/give-support/ Addi Road Community Centre: https://addiroad.org.au/donate/ Redfern Legal Centre’s statewide Police Accountability team: https://rlc.org.au/donate Produced by Michael Griffin https://www.instagram.com/mikeskillz Follow us on https://twitter.com/SeriousDangerAU https://www.instagram.com/seriousdangerau https://www.tiktok.com/@seriousdangerauSupport the show: http://patreon.com/seriousdangerauSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Todd and Jasper are back to recap a narrow King's Birthday Eve loss, talk Koby Bewick hype and lead in to the Cats on Saturday.
Questions continue over funding for a multi-billion dollar Medicare pledge. Captain Cook statue vandalised in Fitzroy Gardens, East Melbourne. Listen to the news from today's live program (1-2pm). - 総選挙が迫る中、数十億ドル規模のメディケア公約の財源をめぐる議論が続いています。メルボルンのランドマークである、キャプテン・クックのコッテージが、今日未明、何者かによって落書きされる事件が発生しました。午後１時から放送されたラジオ番組のニュース部分をお届けします。2025年2月25日放送。
Today we are exploring male infertility, from causes to treatment options.This podcast is sponsored by Genea Fertility. Genea has been helping create families for almost four decades. Their world leading IVF science and technology delivers success rates consistently higher than the national average, ensuring your patients have the best chance of a healthy baby. Referral and patient resources can be found at genea.com.au'Dr Chandrika Parmar is an immensely experienced fertility specialist and gynaecologist, practicing fertility medicine and IVF in Melbourne for the last two decades.She operates from Epworth Freemasons Private Hospital in East Melbourne and performs clinical fertility services from Genea East Melbourne.
Today we are exploring the role of GPs in fertility management.This podcast is sponsored by Genea Fertility. Genea has been helping create families for almost four decades. Their world leading IVF science and technology delivers success rates consistently higher than the national average, ensuring your patients have the best chance of a healthy baby. Referral and patient resources can be found at genea.com.auWe also discuss how GPs can navigate ethical issues around fertility treatments and patient care.Associate Professor Alex Polyakov is the Medical Director of Genea Melbourne City, a highly skilled obstetrician, gynaecologist, and fertility specialist based in East Melbourne and joins us today.
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Welcome back to No Place Like Homb. In this episode, Larissa and Jess are thrilled to welcome guest, Narelle Tunks, a mother and seasoned healthcare professional with an impressive background in paediatric nursing, midwifery, and fertility nursing. Narelle started her career as a paediatric nurse at the Royal Children's Hospital before returning study and completing a postgraduate degree in Midwifery. Narelle's journey has offered the opportunity to work as a Midwifery Educator in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, providing training to local Tanzanian midwives and nurses in rural communities. Recognising the need for more support in Tanzania, Narelle went on to establish a Not-for-Profit Organisation and through collaboration with the Australian NGO Global Development Group, Kangaroo Mother Care was born. Narelle served as a Midwife and former Nurse Unit Manager at the Epworth Women's Hospital in East Melbourne and has worked in rural outback communities across Australia. Her extensive experience in different healthcare settings has equipped her with a unique perspective on maternal and child health.
On this week's episode I am super excited to be reintroducing one of our lovely guests that we have had on the podcast again Dietitian and Founder of Love What You Eat, Zoe Nicholson. Zoe has been working as a Dietitian in private practice for almost 20 years now working from Melbourne Victoria. Over the 20 years Zoe has been privately practicing she's conducted nutrition seminars and workshops for various workplaces or corporations, created ongoing content and written her own Dietetic blogs. Zoe Founded the organisation Love What you eat in 2004 where before COVID- 19 had 5 practices across Melbourne including in Malvern, North Melbourne, East Melbourne, Coburg and Kew). Zoe also started what's called the Moderation Movement back in 2014 with Counsellor Jodie Arnot which has now gathered nearly 40 thousand followers on Facebook. The Moderation Movement has been such a great movement for people really being able to help people explore their relationships with food and body through interactive workshops and events. Zoe works from a size inclusive and non- dieting approach to health that helps people heal their preoccupation with food or movement so that they can live a life that happily incorporates the best parts of it. On this week's episode we will be speaking about the reasons as to why all foods have value from a dietetic perspective. Where Zoe will explore how people can become so preoccupied with Diet Culture and really miss out on the best parts of enjoying food. Zoe will also go through the importance of addressing all aspects of food and wellbeing. Zoe has had appearances on 774 ABC Melbourne, Channel 10, 3AW, GOLD FM radio and numerous media contributions including the Herald Sun, Women's Weekly and Body + Soul. Zoe acknowledges that so many people are just wanting to feel normal around food and heal their relationship with food. So on that note, please enjoy our lovely guest Zoe. Podcast Summary: 1. Food trends overtime 2. Not making decisions around food based on external information 3. The Dessert Scenario and the value of foods such as chocolate 4. Why the body needs sugar 5. Giving yourself options with food 6. The importance of experiencing joy with food Links to Zoe: Instagram:@zoe.dietitian.lovewhatyoueat Website: https://lovewhatyoueat.com.au/ Love what you eat on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lovewhatyoueatdietitian/ Moderation Movement on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moderationmovement Links from the episode: BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/ BodyMatters Instagram: bodymattersau Butterfly Foundation Helpline: Call their National Helpline on 1800 33 4673. You can also chat online or email
Stranger in the Streets: V. 011 Guest: Ian Location: Fitzroy Gardens, East Melbourne, Victoria. Follow and connect with The Hope Initiative on; Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hopeinitiativepod/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@thehopeinitiative Music by Jess Fairlie - jessfairlie.com Made by RUKKUS - instagram.com/makearukkus
Stranger in the Streets: V. 009 Guest: Milla Location: Fitzroy Gardens, East Melbourne, Victoria. Follow and connect with The Hope Initiative on; Instagram YouTube Music by Jess Fairlie Made by RUKKUS
Stranger in the Streets: V. 008 Guest: Thibaut Location: Fitzroy Gardens, East Melbourne, Victoria. Follow and connect with The Hope Initiative on Instagram Music by Jess Fairlie Made by RUKKUS
Stranger in the Streets: V. 005 Guest: Alberto Location: Parliament Gardens, East Melbourne, Victoria. Follow and connect with The Hope Initiative on Instagram Music by Jess Fairlie Made by RUKKUS
On this week's episode I am delighted to be introducing you to our next special guest Dietitian and Founder of Love What You Eat Zoe Nicholson. Zoe has been working as a Dietitian in private practice for almost 20 years now working from Melbourne Victoria. Over the 20 years Zoe has been privately practicing she's conducted nutrition seminars and workshops for various workplaces or corporations, created ongoing content and written her own Dietetic blogs. Zoe Founded the organisation Love What you eat in 2004 where before COVID- 19 had 5 practices across Melbourne including in Malvern, North Melbourne, East Melbourne, Coburg and Kew). Zoe also started what's called the Moderation Movement back in 2014 with Counsellor Jodie Arnot which has now gathered nearly 40 thousand followers on Facebook. The Moderation Movement has been such a great movement for people really being able to help people explore their relationships with food and body through interactive workshops and events. Zoe works from a size inclusive and non- dieting approach to health that helps people heal their preoccupation with food or movement so that they can live a life that happily incorporates the best parts of it. On this week's episode we will be speaking about healing the relationship that we have with food and body as the foundation for health. Where Zoe will explore how people can become so preoccupied with Diet Culture and really miss out on the best parts of enjoying food. Zoe will also go through the importance of addressing body image concerns when wanting to address the food side of wellbeing. Zoe is now recognised as one of Australia's leading dietitians with appearances on 774 ABC Melbourne, Channel 10, 3AW, GOLD FM radio and numerous media contributions including the Herald Sun, Women's Weekly and Body + Soul. Zoe acknowledges that so many people are just wanting to feel normal around food and heal their relationship with food. So on that note, please enjoy our lovely guest Zoe. Podcast Summary Diet culture on our relationship with food There is no one right way to eat The intuitive eating process Addressing body image concerns with a professional Seeking a non diet approach Dietitian Choosing to trust your body over dieting Links to Zoe: Instagram: @zoe.dietitian.lovewhatyoueat Website: https://lovewhatyoueat.com.au/ Love what you eat on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lovewhatyoueatdietitian/ Moderation Movement on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moderationmovement Links from the episode: BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/ BodyMatters Instagram: bodymattersau Butterfly Foundation Helpline: Call their National Helpline on 1800 33 4673. You can also chat online or email
Welcome to Episode 132 of The Numbers Game. Today we're joined by Spiro Drossos, Managing Director of Barry Plant Eastern Group. We discuss Melbourne's evolving property market, the effects of interest rate hikes, and the vital role of client relationships. Spiro also shares insights on team training and the leap from being a salesperson to a business owner. About our Guest Spiros Drossos: Spiro Drossos is the Managing Director of Barry Plant Eastern Group and a three-time winner of Victoria's Salesperson of the Year Award. He leads offices in Manningham, Eltham, Whitehorse, and Ivanhoe. A proven leader in the Australian real estate industry, Spiro has set multiple sales records and has led his team to numerous accolades, including being the Number 1 office in the Barry Plant Group 13 times since 2008.On this episode, we discuss:The loosening real estate market in Melbourne and its implicationsThe impact of interest rate hikes on property investors in MelbourneImportance of building relationships and personalised service in real estateStrategies for effective training and development for real estate agentsTransitioning from a salesperson to a business owner: mindset shifts and delegationRole of technology and databases in modern real estate businessThe significance of likability and capability in building client relationshipsManaging and retaining high-performing sales agents: challenges and strategiesSuccessful integration strategies for acquisitions and mergersTailoring training programs to different levels of experience and skillMaintaining a work-life balance and setting boundaries as a business leaderThe constant need for growth, improvement, and continuous learning in real estateConnect with Spiro Drossos on LinkedIn or you can visit their websiteCheck out the free resources from Inovayt here.Send us an email: hello@thenumbersgamepodcast.com.auThe Numbers Game is brought to you by Future Advisory & Inovayt.Hosts:Nick ReillyJason RobinsonMartin VidakovicThis podcast is produced by VIDPOD.
We talk with Michael Townsend the Principal from McGrath St Kilda in Melbourne about the upcoming Block series taking place in his suburb of Hampton East. We also try to work out a reserve price that might be on the houses when the auctions take place in November. ► Subscribe here to never miss an episode: https://www.podbean.com/user-xyelbri7gupo ► INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/therealestatepodcast/?hl=en ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070592715418 ► Email: myrealestatepodcast@gmail.com We include content that looks at Real estate development and Real estate industry insights. We include content on home buying tips and commercial real estate. Also real estate market analysis and real estate investment strategies. Including residential property market and real estate trends. Also real estate finance and real estate agents and brokers. Plus real estate technology and real estate law and regulations, and real estate development and real estate industry insights. And real estate investing for beginners, real estate market reports and real estate negotiation skills. #sydneyproperty #Melbourneproperty #brisbaneproperty #perthproperty
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In this episode of the Build Hatch Podcast, we had the opportunity to hear from the Director of Emily Armstrong Architects. In this episode we talk about: Growing up in Melbourne and realising, in year 12, she wanted to pursue architecture. Being good at maths and science and having a creative streak, led Emily to the profession. Her experience of studying architecture at University – expectations vs reality. Being interested in food, Emily has started to develop a product line of breakfast cereals. Falling in love with the business side of architecture and the organic growth that led to her establishing Emily Armstrong Architects. The typical process Emily's clients go through. Architecture and client trends since the Covid pandemic. Emily also does interior design including custom cabinetry and lighting. The whole idea that someone can encourage you to see something from a different perspective, but also, translate that to the nuts and bolts. Guiding clients in a direction – encouraging and influencing. The Grey Street residence project, a heritage Victorian Terrance in East Melbourne. The current economical climate and how this has impacted the building and construction industry. Emily's experience working with builders and her tips for finding a good match. When not working Emily enjoys creating with food and hopes to travel again soon. The future for Emily Armstrong. Emily's favourite design trends at the moment. Sit back and enjoy this helpful interview with Emily Armstrong Architects. Links: Build Hatch Follow @buildhatch on Instagram Connect with Emily on LinkedIn Emily Armstrong Architects
Many patients at risk of HIV (e.g., men who have sex with men or those how travel to high HIV prevalence countries) regularly attend General Practice for a broad range of health conditions which gives GP unique opportunities to prevent transmission in the community. This podcast features two GPs Dr Michael Burke and Dr Miriam Grotowski and a community representative Jimmy Yu Hsiang Chen to inform GPs when and how to offer testing, PrEP, PEP for HIV utilising evidence-based guidelines and extensive practice experience. Assessing HIV risk part of sexual health prevention activities detailed in the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Guidelines for preventive activities in general practice. 9th edn, updated. East Melbourne, Vic: RACGP, 2018. (last update 08-12-2021). The panelists discuss: • How to recognise at-risk patient groups for HIV/STI testing • Identify challenges and solutions for discussing and providing HIV prevention in General Practice • What tailored GP tools and resources can make HIV prevention in General Practice faster and easier. Helpful links: Sexual Health Infolink (SHIL) https://www.shil.nsw.gov.au/ SHIL's aim is to promote the sexual health of the NSW community through providing accurate and timely information and referral options. The service specialises in HIV and STI risk assessment, testing, treatment and support. SHIL also provide specialist support to nurses, doctors, counsellors and other professionals who are caring for people with sexual health problems and are open from 9:00am to 5:30pm, Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays). ASHM Decision Making in PrEP tool https://www.ashm.org.au/resources/decision-making-in-prep/ This 2-page Decision Making in PrEP tool provides a prescribing pathway which summarises the key eligibility and recommended assessment for primary care providers in Australia who wish to prescribe PrEP and the ongoing patient education and monitoring requirements. NSW Sexual Health Clinics finder: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/sexualhealth/Pages/sexual-health-clinics.aspx RACGP On-demand webinar PrEP webinar https://www.racgp.org.au/racgp-digital-events-calendar/online-event-items/on-demand/prep-prescribing-for-gps This 1 hour CDP endorsed webinar teaches the 5 steps all GPs can use to use quickly, safely and easily to prevent HIV infection. Australian STI Management Guidelines for Use in Primary Care https://sti.guidelines.org.au/ The Guidelines are an online resource for primary care health professionals. They provide concise information to support the prevention, testing, diagnosis, management and treatment of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) for adults and adolescents and are frequently cited and referenced by other guidelines. The Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS National)– Free to GPs https://www.tisnational.gov.au/ The Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS National) is an interpreting service provided by the Department of Home Affairs for people who do not speak English. The TIS National immediate phone interpreting service is available 24 hours a day, every day of the year for the cost of a local call for any person or organisation in Australia who needs an interpreter just call 131 450.
Francesco Crifo is a passionate advocate of pizza. He describes himself as a pizza chef and not a pizza maker and says that despite the abundance of pizza restaurants in Melbourne, there is still a real lack of knowledge about pizza, their bases, flours, toppings, and potential. To this end he has established his pizza academy where he offers a masterclass and an e-book to share the knowledge gained from growing up and working in pizza restaurants in Catania and Milan before coming to Melbourne. Francesco opened Roccella with Bernie Cuteri and Joe and Bruno Ceraso in East Melbourne and happily works there (even on his days off!) with his wife and a largely Italian staff. They opened nine weeks before we went into our first lockdown in Melbourne and had to quickly pivot to takeaway pizza, pasta and salads which was a godsend for East Melbourne locals and continues to be a popular local hangout. Francesco strongly believes that chefs must cook what their diners want and not what they themselves want to cook. He has four different pizza doughs (including an activated charcoal dough made from coconut shells) and he knows his grains and fermentation processes inside out. And the toppings? Francesco is all about balancing flavours and textures, salty and sweet, so that every bite is absolute deliciousness. There's an impressive offering, but just to give you an idea of the thought that goes into his food, Francesco told me that he even has pineapple on one of his pizzas. But not with tomato, ham and cheese. Because the combination of pineapple and tomato, “is not correct.” Francesco's Smoky Ananas has smoked and charred fresh pineapple, fior de latte, 24-month aged prosciutto, Stracciatella, vincotto glaze and cracked pepper. Delicious! Francesco gave me a tour of the restaurant before we sat down in the beautiful East Melbourne room filled with archival photos of the area in the early days and overlooking the lush Fitzroy gardens.
In this episode of the Conceive Baby Podcast I'm speaking with a special guest who I've had the pleasure of working with for a number of years, to help support patients towards their healthy pregnancies and whose name is really synonymous with fertility. That's renowned gynaecologist, IVF and Fertility Specialist Dr Lynn Burmeister. Dr Lynn Burmeister is a renowned gynaecologist IVF and Fertility Specialist and the owner and Medical Director at No. 1 Fertility. Dr Burmeister holds the highest degree for a fertility specialist, a CREI, which is a 3-year degree on top of her obstetrics and gynaecology training. She spent two years of this specialised training working with world fertility leader Professor Zev Rosenwaks. Since then, she has worked in obstetrics and fertility for more the 20 years and recently opened her own clinic, No.1 Fertility, in Collins St Melbourne in 2018. No.1 Fertility now also has clinics in East Melbourne, Geelong and Epworth Richmond and they are absolutely beautiful. If you have watched our Instagram lives, you would know we are both passionate about helping women and couples create healthy egg and sperm to improve chances of creating a healthy pregnancy and we've had many discussions over the years about optimising egg and sperm health. But today we're going to be talking about what happens next. What happens after you've done this great prep work. You've had an egg collection and now you're leaving your precious egg and sperm and your hopes of a future baby, with your fertility clinic. What actually happens to your egg and sperm after they're collected? What can be done to help ensure they have the best chance of becoming your future baby. And how can new AI technology support the best outcomes. Instagram Interviews Lunchtime Fertility Chat at Emerald City with Lynn and Tasha https://www.instagram.com/reel/CBrVZKJBecr/ Fertility Diet Q&A with Lynn and Tasha https://www.instagram.com/reel/B_jZ9JIhC-M/ Creating and Fertile You with Lynn and Tasha https://www.instagram.com/reel/CCalQMxhzi1/ The Precious 90 Days Q&A https://www.instagram.com/reel/CD8mJ3nBP6o/ The Precious 90 Days Q&A No. 2 Lynn and Tasha https://www.instagram.com/reel/CCiefNcFXSv/ Women's Health Week Q&A with Lynn and Tasha https://www.instagram.com/reel/CFEtB6PFbZ6/ Boosting Fertility Q&A https://www.instagram.com/reel/CHUyXSHFV9B/ Eat Your Way to a More Fertile You https://www.instagram.com/reel/CK_DU13l3lE/ Work with Dr Lynn Burmeister Dr Lynn Burmeister https://www.drlynnburmeister.com.au/ Number 1 Fertility https://www.number1fertility.com/
Whether it's plan A, plan B or plan C, there is a path to your baby. In this episode of the Conceive Baby Podcast, I speak with Dr Genia Rozen about the evolving world of fertility preservation. We discuss egg freezing, embryo freezing, sperm freezing and uterine tissue freezing. How they work, what the the benefits are and when they may be appropriate for you. Genia Rozen is Gynaecologist and Fertility specialist from Melbourne. She trained at the Royal Women's Hospital, where she now works as a consultant. Her private practice is based in East Melbourne and the Peninsula. Genia has a special interest in medical fertility preservation and is the deputy head of the well-known Fertility Preservation Service at RWH. Dedicated to the field of reproduction and oncofertility, she is also undertaking a PhD aimed at helping women conceive after cancer. I hope you enjoy this inspiring discussion! You can find out more about Dr Rozen at her website www.geniarozen.com.au/ And more about Fertility Preservation at the Royal Women's Hospital www.geniarozen.com.au/fertility-preservation/
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We chat with Melbourne's most popular Italian restauranteur Dominic Bonadio live from his establishment Il Duca in East Melbourne. Dominic chats about his 50+ years in the industry and some of the memorable guests and experiences along the way, including an encounter with Sir Paul McCartney.
Conceiving a baby can be easy for some and a roller coaster for others. The struggle is real and having the right support and guidance through the often challenging journey is critical.“Family is important to me so I want to do my best to help others succeed in their dreams to become parents. I have over 20 years experience in helping people achieve pregnancy. I specialise in all aspects of female and male fertility."Dr Lynn Burmeisterowner and Medical Director at No. 1 Fertility says her goal is to provide the best patient care and fertility treatment at an affordable cost. Her clinics have the best and latest technology with state-of-the-art equipment and world leading scientists.She has worked in obstetrics and fertility and Has the highest degree for a fertility specialist called the CREI which is a 3 year degree that She completed after training to become an obstetrician and gynaecologist.She spent two years completing this degree at the world-renowned Cornell University studying and working with world fertility leader Professor Zev Rosenwaks.She opened No.1 Fertility in 2018. and now has clinics at East Melbourne, Collins Street, Melbourne, Geelong and at the Epworth in Richmond.Her mission is to get you pregnant quickly by providing expert treatment and best science.Having a baby is the greatest gift and Dr Burmeister is committed to making that happenI'm not a miracle worker and I tell all the patients that, but I do like the complexity of a fertility patient because there are so many aspects that you have to get right,” she says.“With IVF, every little step along the way – the health of the eggs, the health of the sperm, how the embryo is made in the laboratory, how the embryo is put back into the patient – if it's not right, could mean that that patient might not be able to have a baby.”There must be no greater job than giving life and helping others to bring a little human into the world..
There are only few people on the planet who understand bone better than Prof Peter Ebling. Professor Peter Ebeling, AO, is Head of the Department of Medicine in the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. He was also inaugural Director of the Australian Institute of Musculoskeletal Science (AIMSS). Professor Ebeling has 28,000+ citations; and has over 450 peer-reviewed publications, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 153 publications over the last 5 years. In 2015, Professor Ebeling was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for his distinguished service to medicine in the field of bone health. Professor Ebeling's research interests include musculoskeletal health and diseases; public health aspects of vitamin D; post-transplantation osteoporosis; osteoporosis in men; and biochemical bone turnover markers. Peter is clinically available as an Endocrinologist through the Jean Hailes for Women's Health Clinic in East Melbourne and also holds a role as head of the department of medicine for Monash University at Monash Health. Show Sponsor: POLAR Polar are a sports technology company who build world class heart rate monitors and GPS watches for people who take their health, fitness and sports performance seriously. Polar have an incredible heritage. Headquartered in Finland they have been the global driving force behind scientific wearables for over 40 years. They are the pioneers in and world leaders in heart rate measurement technology. Their products provide you with 24/7 monitoring to enable you to plan better, train smarter, recover fully … so you can be at your physical best. Coming from the heart of the Nordics, they have the experience, insight, and history of quality, design and innovation which is unparalleled. Worn by some of the best athletes on the planet, we're very excited to have Polar as a partner here so you can also access their heart rate monitors, watches and training platform. As a starting bonus, the team at Polar are offering 15% off. If it's time for you to check out a new heart rate monitor or watch to help improve your performance, head across to Polar.com and use the code TPPS on selected products Join the The Physical Performance Show LEARNINGS membership through weekly podcasts | Patreon If you enjoyed this episode of The Physical Performance Show please hit SUBSCRIBE for to ensure you are one of the first to future episodes. Jump over to The Physical Performance Show - https://physicalperformanceshow.com/ for more details. Sponsor: Precision Hydration If you've ever struggled with hydration issues like cramp during long, hot sessions, it's worth checking out precisionhydration.com. Follow @Brad_Beer Instagram & Twitter The Physical Performance Show: Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter (@tppshow1) Please direct any questions, comments, and feedback to the above social media handles.
What a day! 6 AM train from Warrnambool. Some nice views of dawn as we were leaving town. Mist in the paddocks and that. Was feeling a bit agoraphobic on the train and thought about coming straight home, but screw that! Got to the apartment and checked-in. Woman was on the phone to the manager about a bad review they got about the check-in process, and kept me waiting for like 5 mins while they discussed this. Bit weird. Was nice once I was checked in. A little space like that would be cool to live in. Man, East Melbourne is so nice. The spectre of Sophie and my past life looms large though. Met Caroline in the park for an L&P and plum picnic, and then walked to yo-chi for fro-yo. Very good! Nice to hang out with Caroline. Probably the first civilian outside of a pretty small bubble that I've spoken to socially in a year a more? Was cool. Then, walked to Abotsford convent. Met Eleanor and took a stroll. Bumped into Jason and he let us into some cool spaces. One had these beautiful stain glass windows. So shiok. Lovely to chat with Eleanor a while. She's similarly unsure about Get Back. Had to rush off from that meet up to get back to yo-chi to meet Luyuan. I was flustered from walking all day and being late and looking like crap, so I was a bit less cool than I'd hope to have been. So great to meet an internet acquaintance again. Hadn't done that in a while. They were super-cool. I told them again that I wish they'd do a podcast because I love their speaking voice. We had fro-yo, then walked to and around the cemetery. My phone and watch lost battery at this point so is got no credit in the fitness app for this walking. Hope I wasn't too stalker-ish towards Luyuan - I had a lot of questions about things they'd posted about over the last couple of years. Haha. After parting from Luyuan, I walked another several kilometres back to the apartment. Got a 400 Gradi pizza from the Tribeca IGA because I thought I'd be too tired to go out for dinner on Victoria Street or to Hollywood Hill. Got home and realised that the apartment didn't have an oven! I ate a bunch of chips and chocolate charged my phone and watch. Really sucked not having battery when I wanted to be out and about! I kind of forgot that one could sign-in manually at places, so I felt basically locked out of everywhere. Ha. Did some urban-swiping on the dating apps. Very different to the scene in Warrnambool. Interesting! Very nice day. Very grateful that such nice people took the time to meet up with me and hang out. Mood: 7.5. Energy: 7.
CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses pregnancy and abortion so listener discretion is advised if this is a subject that you may find distressing.In this interview, we have used the term ‘women' but we note that trans-men and gender diverse and non-binary people also experience pregnancy and abortion.Show Notes Ep 219 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb:On 16 July 2001 a disheveled man with murder on his mind arrived at the entrance of the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne and shot dead security guard Steven Rogers.What unfolded after the murder was a groundswell of action and years of legal wrangling to fight for abortion safe access zones that went all the way to Australia's high court.Our guests are Clinical psychologist Dr Susie Allanson and writer and lawyer Lizzie O'Shea.Susie was working at the clinic that day of the murder as she did every day in her role as a clinical psychologist, counseling people about their reproductive options, including accessing abortions. Susie would often arrive at work at dawn to avoid the onslaught of protesters who'd congregate outside the clinic each day harassing those who were entering and over the years she and the other clinic staff had numerous threats against their personal safety.Lizzie represented Fertility Control Clinic in the Supreme Court case to stop the harassment of staff and patients outside abortion clinics.They've detailed how one man's murder changed the future of women's rights in their book Empowering Women: From Murder & Misogyny to High Court Victory (Wilkinson Publishing).Like us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram or TwitterSupport us on PatreonVisit our BookshopListen on Apple PodcastsListen on Google PodcastsListen on SpotifyIf you've been affected by anything discussed on this episode you can phone Lifeline on 13 11 14.Support is available for people experiencing violence and abuse. For phone counseling, call 1800RESPECT 1800 737 732. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/australiantruecrime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The German Lutheran Church in East Melbourne is "A Congregation joined in prayer and fellowship". On Easter Monday, we touched base with Jörg Hildebrand, Deputy chairman of the church council, to find out more. - Die Dreifaltigkeitsgemeinde Melbourne ist "Eine Gemeinschaft in Gebet und Geselligkeit". Mehr dazu, in einem Interview zum Ostermontag, mit Jörg Hildebrand, Stellvertretender Vorsitzender des Kirchenvorstandes.
On Sunday 28 March, Lansdowne Street in East Melbourne was transformed into a place bursting with colour, dancing, and music in an event that commemorates the 200th Anniversary of the Greek War of Independence. - Εκατοντάδες ομογενείς της Μελβούρνης παρακολούθησαν την Αναπαράσταση του Όρκου της Επανάστασης του 1821. Το SBS Greek βρέθηκε εκεί.
This week I chatted to Ella May Cannon. We chatted about all things acting, auditions, living in LA, a very exciting project she has coming up and some fun rapid fire questions which turned into an insightful conversation about authenticity. So, grab a coffee and enjoy! :) BIO: Ella May Cannon is an Australian Actress best known for her roles of 'Rachel' in iZombie and 'Peyton' in the upcoming film Trees of Peace. Ella was born in East Melbourne, Australia, and grew up on a small farm with her parents and younger brother. Ella began acting professionally at 17 and initially began showcasing her talents through theatre. Her first leading role was that of Electra in the NIDA production The House of Atreus, shortly followed by Grace in the Wax Acts Theatre Company's original play The Innkeeper. After many years of studying her craft in numerous institutions, Ella has followed her career pursuits as a professional actress all over the world from Australia, Los Angeles, Mexico and Canada. After completing production on Trees of Peace, which is gaining considerable success on the festival circuit already, she has since gone on to film 3 back-to-back leads in feature films for major networks in the midst of the covid pandemic. Her past credits include roles on the Australian all-star series 'Neighbours', 'Winners and Losers', and CW's fan-favorite series 'iZombie' and 'Supernatural'. Instagram: @ellamaycannon
Join us for a fascinating look into GDM, or Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, where we understand the what, how, and why, risk factors, treatment, and most importantly, uncover the myths and misconceptions on who is likely to get GDM. A must listen for all mamas!You can find Emily in East Melbourne, Vic + consults are conducted via zoom or in person, so is accessible no matter where in Australia you reside.Touch base with Emily here: OB/GYN & High-risk Pregnancy Specialists in Melbourne - EMOGOB/GYN & High-risk Pregnancy Specialists in Melbourne - EMOGIn the interview she also mentions the HAPO study: The Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) study: paving the way for new diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes mellitus - PubMed (nih.gov)And Pregnancy Diabetes Australia: Pregnancy – Diabetes Australia
Ann-Kathrin Pfeiffer is a German teacher and Language Coordinator at the "East Melbourne and German Language Centre" and has a master's degree in Comparative Religious Studies. Studying different religions, cultures and languages has taught her not to judge her fellow human beings too hastily, but to take a closer look and ask if she can learn more about them. - Ann-Kathrin Pfeiffer ist Deutschlehrerin und Sprachenkoordinatorin am "East Melbourne and German Language Centre" und vergleichende Religionswissenschaftlerin. Das Studieren verschiedener Religionen, Kulturen und Sprachen hat sie gelehrt, nicht voreilig über ihre Mitmenschen zu urteilen, sondern genauer zu gucken und nachzufragen, ob sie mehr über sie erfahren kann.
We talk to Pastor Christoph Dielmann from the German Lutheran Church in East Melbourne about Advent, Christmas and the coronavirus. And why it makes him sad "that those who spent the lockdown in relative comfort actually complained the loudest". - Wir sprechen mit Pastor Christoph Dielmann von der Deutschen Evangelischen Dreifaltigkeitskirche in East Melbourne, über den Advent, Weihnachten und das Coronavirus. Und warum es ihn traurig stimmt, "dass die, denen es im Lockdown am besten ging, am lautesten geklagt haben".
The East Melbourne and German Language Centre survived the first lockdown. Then came number two for Melbourne. We asked the office manager and German teacher Ann-Kathrin how the language centre copes. - Das East Melbourne and German Language Centre hat den ersten Lockdown überlebt. Dann kam Nummer zwei für Melbourne. Wir fragten die Office-Managerin und Deutschlehrerin Ann-Kathrin, wie das Sprachzentrum damit zurechtkommt.
Yasmina Buhre from Cologne is the new parish worker at the German Lutheran Church at 22 Parliament Place in East Melbourne. The former theatre actor came to Australia in 2006 and is married, with two children (6 and 9 years old). - Yasmina Buhre aus Köln ist die neue Gemeindepädagogin der evangelisch lutherischen Dreifaltigkeitsgemeinde, East Melbourne. Mehr dazu, in einem Gespräch mit der 2006 eingewanderten, ehemaligen Theaterschauspielerin.
Whether it's plan A, plan B or plan C, there is a path to your baby. In this episode of the Conceive Baby Podcast, I speak with Dr Genia Rozen about the evolving world of fertility preservation. We discuss egg freezing, embryo freezing, sperm freezing and uterine tissue freezing. How they work, what the the benefits are and when they may be appropriate for you. Genia Rozen is Gynaecologist and Fertility specialist from Melbourne. She trained at the Royal Women’s Hospital, where she now works as a consultant. Her private practice is based in East Melbourne and the Peninsula. Genia has a special interest in medical fertility preservation and is the deputy head of the well-known Fertility Preservation Service at RWH. Dedicated to the field of reproduction and oncofertility, she is also undertaking a PhD aimed at helping women conceive after cancer. I hope you enjoy this inspiring discussion! You can find out more about Dr Rozen at her website http://www.geniarozen.com.au/ And more about Fertility Preservation at the Royal Women's Hospital http://www.geniarozen.com.au/fertility-preservation/
Rob Adams, Director City Design and Projects, City of Melbourne Professor Rob Adams AM is the Director City Design and Projects at the City of Melbourne and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. With over 46 years' experience as an architect and urban designer and 35 years at City of Melbourne, Rob has made a significant contribution to the rejuvenation of central Melbourne. He and his team have been the recipients of over 150 local, national and international awards including receipt of the Australian Award for Urban Design and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Award 2014 for its adaptation and resilience projects, on four occasions. Adams has also been awarded the Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award in 2008 and the Order of Australia in 2007 for his contribution to architecture and urban design. In 2016, Adams was conferred with a Doctor of Architecture from the University of Melbourne. Some key projects he has worked on include: Postcode 3000, Council House 2 (CH2) – Australia's first 6-star green commercial office building, Birrarung Marr, Swanston Street, Melbourne City Square, Return to Royal Park, the Open Space and Urban Forest Strategies and numerous community buildings including Docklands, Boyd, East Melbourne and Kathleen Syme Libraries. His team is currently involved in two major city-shaping projects, the Queen Victoria Market Renewal and the Melbourne Metro Rail Project. Adam's recent focus has been on how cities could be used to accommodate and mitigate rapid population growth and the onset of climate change. He has published and presented extensively on the subject of 'Transforming Cities for a Sustainable Future'. Podcast produced by Zak Willsallen of Complete Podcasting Services. Podcast created by Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell. Podcast released on 2 February 2020.
Rob Adams, Director City Design and Projects, City of Melbourne Professor Rob Adams AM is the Director City Design and Projects at the City of Melbourne and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. With over 46 years' experience as an architect and urban designer and 35 years at City of Melbourne, Rob has made a significant contribution to the rejuvenation of central Melbourne. He and his team have been the recipients of over 150 local, national and international awards including receipt of the Australian Award for Urban Design and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Award 2014 for its adaptation and resilience projects, on four occasions. Adams has also been awarded the Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award in 2008 and the Order of Australia in 2007 for his contribution to architecture and urban design. In 2016, Adams was conferred with a Doctor of Architecture from the University of Melbourne. Some key projects he has worked on include: Postcode 3000, Council House 2 (CH2) – Australia's first 6-star green commercial office building, Birrarung Marr, Swanston Street, Melbourne City Square, Return to Royal Park, the Open Space and Urban Forest Strategies and numerous community buildings including Docklands, Boyd, East Melbourne and Kathleen Syme Libraries. His team is currently involved in two major city-shaping projects, the Queen Victoria Market Renewal and the Melbourne Metro Rail Project. Adam's recent focus has been on how cities could be used to accommodate and mitigate rapid population growth and the onset of climate change. He has published and presented extensively on the subject of 'Transforming Cities for a Sustainable Future’. Podcast produced by Zak Willsallen of Complete Podcasting Services. Podcast created by Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell. Podcast released on 2 February 2020.
Rob Adams, Director City Design and Projects, City of Melbourne Professor Rob Adams AM is the Director City Design and Projects at the City of Melbourne and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. With over 46 years' experience as an architect and urban designer and 35 years at City of Melbourne, Rob has made a significant contribution to the rejuvenation of central Melbourne. He and his team have been the recipients of over 150 local, national and international awards including receipt of the Australian Award for Urban Design and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Award 2014 for its adaptation and resilience projects, on four occasions. Adams has also been awarded the Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award in 2008 and the Order of Australia in 2007 for his contribution to architecture and urban design. In 2016, Adams was conferred with a Doctor of Architecture from the University of Melbourne. Some key projects he has worked on include: Postcode 3000, Council House 2 (CH2) – Australia's first 6-star green commercial office building, Birrarung Marr, Swanston Street, Melbourne City Square, Return to Royal Park, the Open Space and Urban Forest Strategies and numerous community buildings including Docklands, Boyd, East Melbourne and Kathleen Syme Libraries. His team is currently involved in two major city-shaping projects, the Queen Victoria Market Renewal and the Melbourne Metro Rail Project. Adam's recent focus has been on how cities could be used to accommodate and mitigate rapid population growth and the onset of climate change. He has published and presented extensively on the subject of 'Transforming Cities for a Sustainable Future’. PlanningxChange is a contributor to the Urban Broadcast Collective. For further information including previously published podcasts please visit www.planningxchange.org. This podcast is offered as PX59. This podcast was released on 2 February 2020.
On this weeks program Chris talks to Robert Jamieson about using the word crash not accident, along with a free-ranging conversation about South east Melbourne transport issues. We discuss the new City of Casey Walking and Cycling Strategy, The Bike Nerds (Episode 71, Jessie Singer), The Spokesmen podcast (Episode 214, Journalists: it's crash not accident), Jeff Speck TED Talks on Walkable Communities and Transport Alternatives: Crash Not Accident campaign.Local news and events includes Abbotsford Convents Open Spaces Festival 2019 that saw hundreds of people ride and walk to the convent area, Eyewatch Moreland seeking witnesses to a crash at Lygon St/Glenlyon Road intersection on Tuesday 5 November, Albert and Lansdowne streets in East Melbourne getting a protected intersection for cyclists and Moreland Councils next meeting on Wednesday 13 November having two important bicycle-related agenda items. See Extend the Upfield Bike Path to Upfield: Extension of path to Western Ring Road stymied by Metro Trains, VicTrack and Cycling options on Sydney Road - Advocacy options (pdf)
Activist Rodney Croome discusses the latest political developments regarding the Religious Freedom debate in Australia.Ari Milecki and Lara Gerrand from Women's Health East in Melbourne discuss Women's Health Promotion and current campaigns, including The Speaking Out Program, The Together For Equality and Respect Partnership and 16 Days of Activism.Since our interview with Rodney Croome, the Morrison Government released the Ruddock Review Report and Labor matched the Greens' policy to amend the Fair Work Act to outlaw religious schools discriminating against LGBTIQ staff.
I wrote this blog in February suggesting that I thought investment-grade apartments were intrinsically under-valued. Well, according to Jarrod McCabe, director of Wakelin Property Advisory, “the investment-grade apartment market in Melbourne is showing signs of growth this year”.My view that apartments are intrinsically under-valued has become even stronger over the last 6 months and I would like to share a few reasons why.House prices have appreciated significantly over the past 5-10 years and maybe that’s changingAs this chart suggests, house price growth has become significantly stronger than apartment growth over the last nine years. The median house price appreciated by 6.8% p.a. on average over that period compared to 4.1% p.a. for apartments.Since citing this chart in February, anecdotally, it would appear that demand for investment-grade houses in Melbourne’s blue-chip suburbs peaked towards the end of 2017. Buyer demand in this sector of the market has been less buoyant in 2018. This suggests that perhaps this growth cycle (all markets move in cycles) has ended. Maybe the trend will turn around and apartments will generate stronger growth than houses?Tightening credit means people can borrow lessThe credit environment is very tight (as I have noted many times previously) and that has put downward pressure on people’s borrowing capacities. I estimate that most people’s borrowing capacities has reduced by between 20% and 40% (sometimes more) over the past few years. This means more people will be priced out of the housing market (in prime locations) and be forced to consider invest in a one or two-bedroom apartment instead.Supply of new-build apartmentsThe supply of new-build apartments will have an impact on overall median data and supply-demand fundamentals. However, the geographical concentration of new developments is what you must consider. Capital city data is less meaningful.For example, in Melbourne, there has been a lot of new apartment development in Prahran and South Yarra but that seems to be slowing down now. However, suburbs such as Richmond and East Melbourne currently have a lot of large construction projects in progress and this will likely have a negative price impact on established, investment-grade apartment prices in those locations in the shorter-term.Property price growth is rarely linearThis week, I was reviewing the performance of a property that a client has invested in recently. The property is located in Richardson Street, Carlton North. The chart below tracks its sales transactions from 1975 through to 2018, some 43 years of data.You will notice that over this time there have been three growth cycles. The first cycle lasted 18 years and generated 12.9% p.a. of growth. After that period the property didn’t do very much for 11 years. And then the most recent growth cycle has been for 14 years generating 12.7% p.a. This property may continue to appreciate for a few more years to come – maybe this cycle hasn’t ended – no one knows.Importantly, the overall appreciation of this property over the last 43 years averages out to be 9.6% p.a. – which is what you would expect from a quality investment-grade property. In the long run, I think it is reasonable to assume that this property will continue to generate similar returns over the next 43 years.However, my point is that property prices very rarely move in a perfectly linear fashion. They move in cycles. And whilst this is only one property and, admittingly, isn’t enough data to make a statistically compelling case, it does demonstrate this concept perfectly. It is difficult to prove this concept with a reliable volume of data/statistics as median price data tends to smooth out these asset-specific variations.The change we are experiencing now is not newCredit is certainly a lot tighter today than it was 5 years ago, and this has put a temporary dampener on the property market. However, think about all the changes that the Richardson Street property has endured over the past 43 years. The introduction of capital gain tax and temporary abolition of negative gearing in 1985, interest rates of 18% p.a. in the early 1990’s, three economic recessions, the introduction of GST in 2000 and a couple of massive share market crashes to name a few.There’s always going to be changes and challenges, but these tend to have short term consequence. The immutable laws of supply and demand always dominate in the long run. This current “credit crunch” will be no different. Quality properties with all the right fundamentals will generate quality returns in the long run. Stick to the fundamentals.Mean reversion is an undeniable long-term trend in all marketsThe quality of any investment-grade asset (be it a share or property) always shines through in the long-run. Put differently, the long-term return on investments tends to always revert to its average return in the long run (called mean reversion). This means that a period of sideways (or no price) movement will be typically followed by a period of very strong growth and vice versa. Therefore, it is a reasonable assumption that if you invest in an asset or sector of the market that has delivered below average returns for an extended period of time, that you can reasonably expect that a period of above average returns will present itself sooner rather than later.The difficultly is that no one in the world has a proven model to reliably predict when these cycles will occur. Therefore, for now, all you can do is invest in fundamentally sound assets and have patience. That said, I believe that there is growing anecdotally evidence that the investment-grade apartment market in Melbourne is closer to a period of “above-average” growth. I just don’t know exactly when that period will begin.This blog is a prelude to next week’s topic. Because next week I am going to write about whether you should invest in an apartment or house i.e. which makes a better investment.
Today we have a special guest on the show. So, if you like kids and elephants your in the right place for a great story. I personally was touched by this book. And I am looking forward to speaking with Aston Heath.Aston was born in East Melbourne in 1972. From an early age he enjoyed travelling and picking up languages. He has spent most of his adult life in the Middle East working for a multinational company where he developed a deep desire to follow his passion leaving the corporate world behind. Now he spends his time between Australia, Middle East and Thailand. He gains inspiration from rescued elephants and writing books that help others to simply try again. His books, Mosha the Elephant Who Just Would Not Give Up (Elephants of Thailand Book 2) and Elephants of Thailand: The Smiling Elephant are great for amputees and those who have amputee loved ones.
Today we have a special guest on the show. So, if you like kids and elephants your in the right place for a great story. I personally was touched by this book. And I am looking forward to speaking with Aston Heath.Aston was born in East Melbourne in 1972. From an early age he enjoyed travelling and picking up languages. He has spent most of his adult life in the Middle East working for a multinational company where he developed a deep desire to follow his passion leaving the corporate world behind. Now he spends his time between Australia, Middle East and Thailand. He gains inspiration from rescued elephants and writing books that help others to simply try again. His books, Mosha the Elephant Who Just Would Not Give Up (Elephants of Thailand Book 2) and Elephants of Thailand: The Smiling Elephant are great for amputees and those who have amputee loved ones.
Today we have a special guest on the show. So, if you like kids and elephants your in the right place for a great story. I personally was touched by this book. And I am looking forward to speaking with Aston Heath.Aston was born in East Melbourne in 1972. From an early age he enjoyed travelling and picking up languages. He has spent most of his adult life in the Middle East working for a multinational company where he developed a deep desire to follow his passion leaving the corporate world behind. Now he spends his time between Australia, Middle East and Thailand. He gains inspiration from rescued elephants and writing books that help others to simply try again. His books, Mosha the Elephant Who Just Would Not Give Up (Elephants of Thailand Book 2) and Elephants of Thailand: The Smiling Elephant are great for amputees and those who have amputee loved ones.
This episode of This Must be the Place is the first of our ‘walking tours’ – we are revisiting the walks of the 1980 book “Melbourne on Foot: 15 Walks Through Historic Melbourne”. This episode starts with David speaking with one of the authors of that book, Professor Graeme Davison of Monash University, about the genesis of the book in general. They are then joined by Elizabeth to discuss the Richmond tour specifically. (Confusingly this all takes place in St Kilda, ahead of a walking tour included in a later episode). Back in time, but later in the episode, Elizabeth and David retrace the 1980 tour of the inner suburb of Richmond. While some things have changed since then (beginning with tram routes, and also a cable tram station that has since been swallowed up by Punt Road), many of the houses and landmarks of Richmond’s layers of history remain. The tour takes in Richmond’s genteel hill area (now home to many urologists and cosmetic surgeons), down to the flat and the mix of 19th century housing and factory buildings (many of them now disguising, ‘iceberg house’ style, James Bond style apartments behind), and the civic buildings and shops of Bridge Road. It also takes in what is now known as the Dogs in Space house (reference to the 1987 film), but in 1980 was noted as an unusually large house for such a small street. Graeme had written ‘The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne’ while living in Canberra. On his return to Melbourne, some of the walks in the book originated as urban history material both for his students and for himself. They were also partly inspired by the book ‘Chicago on Foot’ and the Chicago school tradition of urban walking. Plus, they were also pitched at a wider readership. The authors – who comprised a mix of academics and of community activists - consciously did not pick (then) fashionable suburbs such as East Melbourne or Parkville, but instead encouraged readers to visit parts of the city that they perhaps overlooked or were reluctant to see historic merit in. Graeme’s 4th year dissertation was on Richmond and he was once picked up by the police there, for looking shifty with a bag. It was that kind of place then. Nowadays many of us probably couldn’t afford to live in places like Richmond, but you can still take a walk there. Or visit a urologist, as you see fit.
Hello and welcome to Eden Exchanges. Today we spoke to Peter Raja, Franchisor for Jim's Real Estate in Melbourne's East. Peter recalled his first job and the insights from the retail sector, the move to real estate and his opportunity of a lifetime. Listen as Peter lists the benefits of owning a Jim's Real Estate franchise and the priceless moments with a good work life balance. Also what's required and how to get in touch.
Hello and welcome to Eden Exchanges. Today we spoke to Peter Raja, Franchisor for Jim's Real Estate in Melbourne's East. Peter recalled his first job and the insights from the retail sector, the move to real estate and his opportunity of a lifetime. Listen as Peter lists the benefits of owning a Jim's Real Estate franchise and the priceless moments with a good work life balance. Also what's required and how to get in touch.
In this week's episode, I interview Fiona Harrison a Doula, Naturopath and Massage Therapist who works at Fertile Ground Health Group in East Melbourne. Fiona shares the birth story of her second son Tenzin at the Mercy Birth Centre. Fiona went through the team midwifery group practice at the birth center. After finding out her baby was breech at 37 weeks, Fiona describes how she under went an ECV (External cephalic version) to successfully turn the baby into a more optimal position for birth. ECV is a procedure where an obstetrician manually encourages the baby to change position while the mother lies in a tilted bed. This procedure is carefully monitored to make sure that the baby is not under stress. With a successful ECV, Fiona was able to birth her baby at the birth center with the assistance of a close friend, her husband, and her midwife. She discusses utilising the various treatments offered by her colleagues at Fertile Ground such as Mother roasting as well as taking homeopathic, having acupuncture administered and eating a variety of easily digestible foods. Topics covered in this episode: external cephalic version, breech babies, pregnancy induction massage, mother roasting, acupuncture, birth centre birth. To help out the show: Leave an honest review on iTunes, Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe on iTunes or download our mobile app.
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