AceFoodDesk – Jack Brown loves walking through a garden to look for anything that is edible. The Indigenous chef is on a mission to get more native Australian ingredients used in everyday cooking
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Mr Brown, who is trained in traditional French cuisine, believes Australians aren’t making the most of the ingredients on offer. “ We have all of this beautiful produce available to us,” he said. “ I see chefs sprinkle lemon myrtle and chucking some finger lime here and there, but we’re not giving our native ingredients justice.”
Mr Brown uses fresh ingredients he picks daily.(ABC Central West: Tim Fookes)
Street food inspiration
Born in Melbourne, Mr Brown spent his childhood travelling the world with his family, experiencing a variety of cultures and international cuisine. “ I did my high schooling in Singapore and was fully submerged in the street food scene,” he said. “ Singapore has multi-culturalism and the fusions and influences in food is incredible. “ Friends of mine would get me to try new foods like char kway teow, char siu pork, and stingray wrapped in banana leaves.
“ Each time I was really surprised that I enjoyed it.”Creating dishes using fresh ingredients is essential for Mr Brown.(ABC Central West: Tim Fookes)
Life in the kitchen
When he returned to Australia Mr Brown dreamt of being a rockstar and began studying the electric guitar at the Australian Institute of Music, but his love of food kept growing stronger.
At the age of 17, Mr Brown was working a part-time job as a kitchen hand at an Italian restaurant in Hornsby.
One day, when a chef called in sick, he got the opportunity to cook and jumped at the chance. “ I’d been watching what the chefs were doing and I knew I was ready for it,” Mr Brown said. “ I loved seeing the flames hitting the roof and it was the culture of the kitchen that was really appealing to me.” From there Mr Brown’s career in the kitchen took off, taking him to restaurants across Sydney and into NSW’s Central West.
Mr Brown draws on his background to create dishes with native ingredients.(ABC Central West: Tim Fookes)
I did an apprenticeship for four years and was so lucky to be working with people who inspired me with stories and learning about what restaurants were doing,” he said.
“It was like a magical world for me. “ The more I got interested in food, the more I tried to create my own style.”
Jack’s unique style
Mr Brown begins his days trawling through the garden at the Zin House restaurant in Mudgee, looking for ingredients to use for that day’s dishes. He gets on his hands and knees to pick marigold leaves, amaranth, cucamelons and native saltbush.
“ Being Indigenous influences all of my cooking,” Mr Brown said.
“While I’ve been trained in classic European styles, we have this huge disconnect from what we have in Australia at the moment. “ We have all of these beautiful products available to us and we should be using them.”
Jack Brown spends every morning picking vegetables ahead of the day’s service.(ABC Central West: Tim Fookes)
Mr Brown is determined to see more native Australian ingredients used in dishes — not just in fine dining restaurants but in everyday cooking.
“We’re not giving our native ingredients justice and many of them are in abundance,” he said. “ I see so many opportunities like using wattle seed in our lattes and warrigal greens instead of spinach.”
Indigenous inspiration
When Mr Brown came across a tree full of bunya nuts on a drive around Mudgee, his mind immediately started to fill with ideas on what he could do with with it. “ The bunya nut is the largest pine nut in the world and most Australians wouldn’t know what this tree looks like,” he said. “ I’ve made bunya nut ice cream, a bunya nut miso caramel, and a dish that we made from grated down bunya nuts.” While training in traditional French cuisine, Mr Brown got used to creating duck liver parfait, but he is now experimenting with an emu liver parfait as well. “ It sounds unappealing, but I want to change [a diner’s] mind once they put it in their mouth,” he said. “ I don’t want to make it too scary to eat, but my role as an Indigenous chef is to bring all these ingredients into a fine-dining setting and to make people understand what these ingredients are.” Mr Brown dreams of one day owning his own restaurant, and wants to inspire more Indigenous people to pursue a cooking career. “ I was once in a position as a young person not knowing what I wanted to do with food, but the more people understand where their food comes from, the better people start to cook,” he said. “ I dream about changing the mindset of what Australian cuisine is.”
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AceNewsDesk – When cleaners found a woman’s body in December 2022 tucked at the back of an apartment complex car park in Brisbane’s north, police struggled to identify the remains.
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The body was hidden behind the concrete block wall of a storage cavity — tightly wrapped and partially buried.
“It was very clear that there was foul play involved,” explains Detective Sergeant Jo Bakker from the Homicide Investigation Unit.
“You don’t find skeletal remains in the manner in which these were located as a regular occurrence.”
Jo Bakker says it’s clear there was “foul play involved”. (ABC News: Chris Gillette)
Limited information was shared with the public as police pleaded for leads a month later: Caucasian, aged between 30 and 55, 155-165 centimetres tall, size 10, dark brown hair, prescription glasses.
“In this particular instance, identification was really problematic,” Sergeant Bakker says.
“If you don’t have that, then you don’t have the capacity to find out who that person is, and how they live within society, or who ultimately might be responsible.”
It was months before a DNA breakthrough gave the victim back her name.
Forensic clue leads to victim’s family
In June last year, Donna Truscott received an email that she initially thought was a scam.
Donna Truscott was shocked to be contacted by a Queensland police detective.(ABC News: Craig Hansen)
“ Good morning Donna, I am trying to get into contact with you in relation to an investigation in Queensland,” it read.
“It was signed off by a homicide detective,” she recalls. The sender had copied in email addresses Ms Truscott had used over decades.
“And I thought, no, this isn’t a joke.”
The detective later explained that family DNA, which Ms Truscott had uploaded to an online website, returned a match to an unknown homicide victim.
“It was a bit of a blur,” she recalls. “I was shocked.”
Within weeks, police confirmed Ms Truscott’s aunty was the victim’s distant relative.
That forensic clue became part of a vast family tree, which helped genealogists track down the deceased woman’s father and confirm her identity.
“I am pleased to report we can put a name and a face to this tragic discovery,” Detective Superintendent Andrew Massingham said at a press conference in August.
“The woman as you now know has been identified as Tanya Lee Glover – G-L-O-V-E-R.”
Ms Truscott heard the key development on the news.
“We were shocked but relieved to know that she had been given a name and a face,” Ms Truscott says.
“She had her identity back.”
Despite not knowing Ms Glover or her immediate family, Ms Truscott couldn’t move past one question: “How did she just drop off the face of the earth?”
How did Tanya get there?
The unit block in Alderley, Brisbane where Tanya Glover’s remains were found.(ABC News: Jemima Burt)
“ Once we worked out who Tanya was, we learned that she obviously didn’t live at that address,” says Sergeant Bakker of where the body was found.
“Then, the primary focus of that investigation becomes, well, how does a person who lives elsewhere get to be there?”
Ms Glover’s last known address is around 5 kilometres away in Brisbane’s inner-city, where she rented an affordable housing unit for people with high needs and disabilities. Ms Glover lived with a hearing impairment, vision loss and received a pension.
Her Fortitude Valley home is run by Brisbane Housing Company (BHC), a not-for-profit jointly owned by the Queensland government and Brisbane City Council.
The same provider also operates the building at Alderley, where Ms Glover’s body was found.
Peter Bell was the property manager for Tanya Lee Glover’s unit complex.(ABC News)
Peter Bell worked for BHC for more than a decade, six years of which he spent onsite at Tanya’s place.
“In those days, it was Monday to Friday, nine to five,” he says.
As property manager, Mr Bell was tasked with overseeing tenancies and keeping the peace.
“There was a lot of alcohol abuse and drug abuse there.”
Mr Bell saw overdoses and suicides on the job. He’d have to call police and “breach” tenants with a penalty notice when they did the wrong thing.
“Tanya wasn’t one of those though,” he says. “She was lovely … and she had a beautiful smile.”
It’s the first time anyone who knew Ms Glover has spoken about her disappearance.
“I thought it was odd that all her clothes and everything was still there, but that’s what happens when you go to mental health [services],” Mr Bell says.
“A lot of people went off to mental health [services] and things like that — community care, or hospital a lot of times too — and her rent was being paid.”
The affordable housing block is split into studios and boarding rooms. All areas are carved up by tall security fences and pocked with CCTV cameras.
Mr Bell remembers Ms Glover staying in the boarding house, sharing a kitchen area with six other residents.
He thought she was visiting family when she disappeared back in 2009 and recalls trying to ring her mother multiple times, but he’s unclear whether they spoke.
Homicide detectives investigating the death of Tanya Lee Glover.(ABC News: Chris Gillette)
Like Mr Bell, Ms Glover’s parents never reported her missing. Police say they fell out of contact with their daughter, didn’t know where she lived, or that she was managing her mental health.
Sergeant Bakker is reluctant to speak on behalf of Ms Glover’s family, who have been concerned about her public portrayal.
“What I can say is, to them, it wasn’t unusual to not have contact for extended periods of time,” she says.
“I think she was more intelligent than people might have given her credit for, given her visual and hearing impairment.”
‘Clean out her belongings’
Tanya Lee Glover was staying in a boarding house.(ABC News)
Ms Glover was last seen on August 26, 2009, when she turned up for a job capacity assessment in person. Police understand she had a medical appointment on January 8, 2010, before she was killed around 10 days later.
Mr Bell says residents would have rent deducted automatically through Centrelink and believes Ms Glover’s payments continued for months.
When the then-38-year-old didn’t return to the boarding house, Mr Bell moved her possessions into storage and looked for a new tenant.
“According to RTA [Residential Tenancies Authority] rules, we can take the bond if they owe any rent … and re-let the room,” he explains. “Clean out her belongings and store them safely for a few months in case she turned up again.”
Police are trying to uncover how Tanya Lee Glover’s body ended up under the Alderley unit block.. (ABC News: Chris Gillette)
He says he wasn’t alarmed about Ms Glover’s disappearance, given it was common for residents to suddenly leave without notice.
“It certainly never entered my head that anything bad would have happened to her,” Mr Bell says.
While Mr Bell acknowledges a duty of care in his role, he believes tenants value their independence.
Police files from the investigation.(ABC News: Chris Gillette)
“ If we told the police about everyone that left … we’d be swamped with police,” he says.
“There’s too many of them really [at the complex] to do that with.
“We ask them if they want to be linked up with community organisations and things like that when they sign their lease, and it’s up to them then.
“I’m not a mental health worker, I’m a property manager.”
The neighbour
Lee says Tanya was “there one day, gone the next”.(ABC News: Sissy Reyes)
Lee has lived at the same complex for almost two decades and disagrees.
“It’s absolutely — what’s the word? — depersonalising everything,” says Lee, who doesn’t want to use her real name publicly.
The 69-year-old claims she showed Ms Glover how to get free food from Wesley Mission and a nearby church.
“You cannot just empty a room [and] not have any thought for the person that was in there,” she says.
While Lee agrees many tenants would do “the midnight flip” and leave, she says Ms Glover’s belongings were left behind.
“I saw those coming out of the room after she’d gone, so I knew she hadn’t moved willingly,” claims the pensioner. “Well, that’s the way I put it.
“She was there one day, gone the next … It just seemed wrong to me.”
BHC told 7.30 in a written statement that, “If there are any suspicious circumstances determined during an abandonment, BHC would contact the Queensland Police Service.
“Sometimes there are no obvious signs that a resident has vacated their tenancy, particularly if rental payments continue without interruption and concerns are not raised by friends, family or neighbours,” the company wrote.
The Valley
Fortitude Valley is Brisbane’s party and nightlife precinct.(ABC News: Meghna Bali )
Both Lee and Mr Bell say they don’t know what happened to Ms Glover more than a decade ago, but can easily remember how the Valley would spill over with drugs, booze and crime.
Mr Bell recalls non-residents would be found squatting within tenants’ rooms at the affordable housing complex.
“It was easy back then because they didn’t have the extra height on the gate, and if they got into the common area just out here, they’d be able to get onto the stairs and just do whatever they wanted upstairs,” Lee says.
“It was just scary.
“I never went out late at night-time.”Jo Bakker and seven homicide investigators are working on the case.(ABC News: Chris Gillette)
BHC acknowledged that some residents manage complex needs including disability, trauma, mental health, and challenges linked to drug and alcohol abuse.
Sergeant Bakker says there’s no evidence Ms Glover used drugs or alcohol.
“We believe that she lived a fairly simple life, you know, enjoyed reading, enjoyed looking at DVDs, enjoyed walking,” she says.
“She had maybe a couple of friends but wasn’t overly social.”
Ms Glover’s neighbour Lee keeps a small circle, too.
Inside her studio, the hallmarks of a life lived are on display: family photos, Harry Potter pillows and a treasured set of wind chimes.
Three small fans whirr against Brisbane’s heat. Lee explains how, these days, residents have an electronic fob to swipe through the security gates.
Police have announced a $500,000 reward for information leading to a conviction.(ABC News: Chris Gillette)
“ Everybody says it’s like a prison, but I don’t think so,” she says.
A 2022 study from the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics found people with disabilities are more than twice as likely to be victims of violent crime than other Australians and less likely to see their cases end up in court.
“Being as low as what Tanya and I are, we’re just undercurrents,” says Lee.
“They don’t care.”
Sergeant Bakker hopes a recently announced $500,000 reward and her seven homicide investigators will prove otherwise.
“I can tell you that we’ll continue to work through this case until there’s nothing left to do,” she says.
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Yesterday marked 56 years since we made the switch from needing two shillings to make a florin and twenty shillings to make a pound and needing to pay a three pence (pronounced threepence) and a two pence (tuppence) halfpenny, with dollars and cents.
How much easier it is to have to pay $6.55 than 6pound, 5s 5d.
It’s taken – at first glance – less than two years for Australia to be reduced from a “lucky country”, where most people enjoyed prosperity and freedom to indulge their pleasures in sport, leisure activities and relatively satisfactory working lives, to a nation of bickering, backbiting, oppressed, fearful and confused people who wonder what’s going to happen next. How has it come to this?
Firstly, as a nation, Australia has largely turned its back on God, preferring the “pleasures of sin”, if you like. I know that won’t make me many friends, but it is the plain truth. God blesses a nation that honours Him; those that don’t reap what they sow.
Secondly, the Australian people have generally become very gullible, comfortable and ill-prepared for such events as these. There have been the droughts, fires and floods, and I don’t intend to downplay the severity of these, but they didn’t affect the whole population at the same time.
Thirdly, the Australian people have gradually been moved from a position where the government served them, to a sudden sharp change of course where the government now holds the reins. The course has been changing, the plandemic provided a jolt that made it easy for the authorities to finally establish the control they sought.
Fourthly, combining the second and third points, the people made the mistake of trusting the governments and the mainstream media to provide them with honest and factual information. The people’s gullibility and the authorities’ dishonesty and malevolent intent then allowed the current situation to evolve quite rapidly.
Where to from here? That’s up to us. The authorities have no intention of getting life “back to normal”. That was never their intention. and it never will be. The whole thing has been about totalitarian control, which will be the result unless people worldwide decide otherwise.
Is this world reaping what it has sown? I was just pondering some of the blatantly anti-Christian legislation passed in Victoria and other states recently, and measuring it against the scripture that says, “Blessed is that nation whose God is the Lord”, and glimpse how far removed from that we are.
The world turns its back on God, then curses and blames Him when things go wrong. It just doesn’t work that way. God isn’t a bellhop to be summoned by a snap of the fingers when we need something to improve our comfort. He’s given us a blueprint for right living, and we ignore it at our peril.
Denying His existence is all very well – that’s just something you’ll have to explain to Him when you eventually meet 😔
In the meantime, the fate of the nations is actually in the hands of the church within those nations: “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their terrible ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14)
Is that maybe why governments around the world are doing their utmost to destroy the church – because they don’t really want the nations healed? Could be – it’s much easier to rule with an iron fist when people are completely defeated.
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