Ed Nolle brews sour beer at Dollar Bill Brewing in the Australian beer capital of Ballarat. In 1870, as Australia’s gold rush tailed off, Ballarat had more than 500 pubs - panning for gold is clearly extremely thirsty work! The gold is mostly gone but Ballarat is still a beer centre, with a culture of brewing nurtured by local Federation University which offers courses in malting and brewing. Ed and wife Fiona are the people behind Dollar Bill Brewing - it’s craft beer by name and it’s also crafted with love, care and passion.

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Giorgio De Maria owns Sydney's Paski Vineria Popolare with Mattia Dicati and chef Enrico Tomelleri. What's led Giorgio to this point, running a bar and dining room focused on Italian natural wines and simple food that looks forward as well as back? A hint: time in Japan was crucial to looking at his Italian homeland with fresh eyes.

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Everyone in Australia is living on unceded Aboriginal land but not many hospitality businesses put that fact at the core of their identity. Brendan Keown owns Yarra Falls, a Melbourne bar developed in consultation with Traditional Owners. He's come a long way from the 14-year-old who loved polishing glasses in an Irish restaurant and it's fascinating to hear about the journey.

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We check in with the new CEO of the Restaurant & Catering Industry Association. What does Belinda Clarke think the big issues are and what is she going to do about them? Staffing, costs and the reputation of hospitality all get an airing.

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Gayan Pieris is executive chef at Many Little and Polperro on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. He grew up in Sri Lanka in the middle of rice fields, eating rice at every meal, and with harvest cycles determining the rhythms of work and play. Today, Sri Lanka is struggling with runaway inflation and a depleted economy, leading to food and fuel shortages. We talk about growing your own produce in good times and hard times, and the endless joys and discoveries of rice.

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Australia's only Nepalese pub is The Chowk, in Hobart. We chat to owner Kiran Thapa, a serial entrepreneur who also owns a flower farm in Tasmania and works in financial services. The pub is his first hospitality business but Kiran is running it like he would run any other enterprise, with strategy, planning, data and consistency at the core, as well as offering cultural connection and a warm experience.

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After years of having a few lamb on the vineyard to eat the weeds amongst the vines on their property, Brent Old (Coole Acres Organic Lamb) realised an opportunity. He set about finding the right breed of lamb, and the means needed to farm organic Dorper lamb that now not only services the local food-loving community but has caught the attention of chefs and butchers in Sydney too.

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It's tough out there for hospo with prices hikes causing ructions and stress. But what if there were other ways of doing things? We chat to old mate of Dirty Linen Simone Watts. Farmer, chef and systems changer, Simone can see a pathway to cheap, accessible lettuce and more!

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We head to Canberra to talk to Brodburger's Joelle Bou-jaoude. As we speak, she has staff driving around the nation's capital hunting for lettuce to put in their much-loved burgers. How do you deal with shortages and ever-increasing prices when your project is to serve high-quality affordable burgers to an invested community?

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In a wide-ranging and rich discussion with chef Mertcan Döğüşgen, we continue chatting food costs and pricing. Mertcan used to work at Attica and he's just clocked up a year running his own kitchen at Little Andorra in Carlton North. We hear about his journey from Turkey to Melbourne and consider the life-changing impact of fatherhood on career ambitions.

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