Ego Lemos 1 Sep 2010, 1:51 am

Multi-talented East Timorese artist Ego Lemos was in Australia at the 2010 Darwin Festival last week. Lemos is internationally known for his award winning song, Balibo, which was the soundtrack to the movie of the same name. He has also recently released his debut solo album, O Hele Le, which features beautiful folk songs in Tetum, the East Timorese national language. Aduki spoke by phone with Lemos about his achievements as a musician and environmental campaigner for the Timorese people.

Remix "Stick this in your memory hole" 31 Aug 2010, 6:36 pm

Tristain Clarke's "Stick this in your memory hole" was released under a "Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial 2.5 Australia license" (more info) in 2007, one of the first printed titles in Australia to be issued under such a CC license. As we reach the remnants of the book's stock and want to make space for new titles we thought it was about time we let the book out into the wild and gave the public an opportunity to embrace CC and remix culture and attempt to remix a book.

This could take a variety of forms... You could remix the actual words within the book, or you could remix the physical book itself... That is up to you...

Where can you get a copy? You can get a physical copy here for the cost of postage only or you can get an eBook copy here.

Of course we would love to see the results of your remixes, so email us photos/videos/descriptions your creations.

Voting extended! 25 Aug 2010, 3:41 am

Due to demand and a raft of new businesses emerging over the past few weeks, we've decided to extend voting until the 20th September. Winners will be announced on October 31st.

Funky pies donate prizes 24 Aug 2010, 7:00 pm

Those lovely folks at the scrumptious Funky Pies have donated 5 x $50 vouchers for use in their online store or Bondi beach cafe into the prize kitty for a randomly selected handful of voters...

So if you haven't voted already... Get to it!

Help the Adelaide Vegan Festival and get a Veg*n Shopper 23 Aug 2010, 8:09 pm

The Veg*n shopper was a very popular title and there have been several requests for aduki to reprint or rework the title and we are looking into that, but in the meantime we found 6 copies lurking in a corner of our distributors warehouse so we thought we should make them available to all of you who keep asking for them...

But there's more!

We're releasing these titles as 'pay-as-you-feel', you pay what you feel they are worth. Before you make up your mind on that front, we should mention that all proceeds from the sale of these 6 books will be donated to Adelaide's Vegan Festival on 14th November, so dig deep as there are only six and likely to go very quickly!

Head over to our campaign page to get involved.

Casting off discrimination: Suvash Darnal and Bidhya Chapagain 15 Aug 2010, 5:49 am

Sarah Hunt explores the relationship between Nepalese and Australian media, and talks to some Nepalese journalists visiting Melbourne.

Journalism isn't an easy profession - just ask Mark Latham. Recently, however, I met a group of journalists who inspired me to believe that reporters can create social change.

Mocopan Coffee & Competition 10 Aug 2010, 9:47 pm

Christina and I were invited to the opening of a new roaster at Mocopan's factory in Preston last week, as lovers of coffee and intrigued to learn more about the process, we dashed along!

Quorn arrives in Australia 10 Aug 2010, 9:14 pm

OK, I know Quorn is not Vegan (it has eggs in it) but for all our vegetarian readers it is a long overdue product to our shores that I grew up on as a child growing up in the UK with a vegetarian father.

Advertise in The Australian veg food guide 2011 2 Aug 2010, 10:09 pm

We've had several questions about whether we're accepting advertising in the forthcoming 'Australian veg food guide', it's not uncommon for restaurant guides to contain advertising (for example The Age's Cheap Eats guide) and it enables us to keep the cover price as low as possible and to invest more in promoting the title, so we've decided to formalise the process and our advertising rate card now contains details for those interested in advertising within the guide. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you are interested.

Download the rate card

The 2010 awards are open! 16 Jun 2010, 7:25 pm

As part of the lead up to the release of 'The Australian Veg Food guide' we are teaming up with Uproar to stage another awards to find your favourite Vegan, Vegetarian and Veg friendly restaurants, businesses and products, voting closes on 20th September and the winners will be announced in the food guide as well as on associated websites.

If you vote, not only will you get the satisfaction of helping and promoting your favourite products and businesses, but you will also be in the running for several wonderful prizes! They currently stand at a handful of restaurant vouchers, but more will be added over the next few months, so keep an eye on our special awards section at www.aduki.net.au/awards.

If you are a business interested in submitting prizes to the awards then let us know, we have an attractive package of enticements to thank you for your support...

Cast your vote!