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Indigenous culture is very much part of the Australian tourism brand — we see Indigenous art and motifs used extensively in marketing campaigns. But do Indigenous communities and businesses benefit from this branding? Professor Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa woman from Mardoowarra River (aka Fitzroy River) in Western Australia's Kimberley region. She's also the Director of Madjulla — a not-for-profit community development program which has been spearheading a new kind of 'luxury’ tourism with Indigenous Australia at its heart. 

We're all familiar with the grand mansions that dot the British Isles. At their height, they hosted hundreds of staff serving their aristocratic, industrialist (and slave-owning) inhabitants.  Today, these buildings are more likely to host film and tv crews or tour groups. This is a marked contrast to their teetering fate by the end of the Second World War, with many left in ruins, sold off, or simply demolished as aristocratic families fought over the scraps of empire. But many others did survive and bounced back with gusto. Adrian Tinniswood joins Blueprint to tell this tale. He's the convenor of Buckingham University’s Country House Studies program, and is author of Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House.

In many of Australia's capital cities, middle-ring suburbs have homes sitting on large plots of land, which are perfect for small-scale urban farms. And with many front and backyards sitting unused, a new Melbourne-based initiative is seeking to sow seeds for change. Growing Farmers is a new community organisation pairing trainee urban farmers with residents who want their empty yards to become flourishing, small-scale market gardens. Recently, Jonathan met host Sapphire McMulla-Fisher at her farm in Melbourne's outer-north, along with Growing Farmers' president Alice Crowe.  

And Colin Bisset's Iconic Design this week is a mighty little box that revolutionised how we store food. The best way to buy food is undoubtedly fresh from the farm but it's hard to imagine our lives without the convenience of tinned and frozen foods. And, of course, those that come in a Tetra Pak. It's the cardboard container that's more complicated than that sounds, and which revolutionised the transport and sales of everything from milk and fruit juice to soups and even wine.

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