The Bondi Markets have been running since 1991, organised by two local Rotary Clubs who donate their profits to local and international causes.

Tucked away at the end of Oxford Street in a large pedestrian shopping mall, the markets stock a variety of goods, from collectibles, retail clothing, jewellery, sunglasses and furniture, to plants and homemade arts and craftwork.

The Bondi Junction markets are held from Thursday to Sunday (10am04pm) in the Oxford Street Mall.

Friendly, family atmosphere with buskers performing in the street, a good children's playground, and lots of cafes, shops and restaurants nearby.

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FOX8 has announced the names of the young beauties who will compete in the highly anticipated fifth season of Australia's Next Top Model.

The 13 finalists were selected from the thousands of modelling wannabes who auditioned in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Newcastle, Townsville and the Gold Coast.

"The finalists are an incredibly strong group of young girls and the race to the end will be both extremely competitive and challenging," said Priscilla Leighton Clark, founder of Priscilla's Model Management and one of Top Model's judges.

The 13 finalists are:

Adele Thiele (18 from NSW)

Cassi Van Den Dungen (16 from VIC)

Clare Vanema (16 from SA)

Eloise Hoile (20 from SA)

Franky Okpara (18 from WA)

Georgie Kidman (16 from VIC)

Laura Mitchell (20 from WA)

Laura Tyrie (18 from WA)

Leah Johnson (18 from VIC)

Lola Van Vorst (20 from NSW)

Mikarla Hussey (18 from NSW)

Madison Wall (17 from QLD)

Tahnee Atkinson (16 from WA)

2008 was a big year for Top Model: the series came under fire when its winner Demelza Reveley was accused of bullying another contestant, and again when host Jodhi Meares refused to partipate in the live season finale and later quit.

The series returns to FOX8 in April with new host Sarah Murdoch.

MY BET IS ON CASSI FROM NSW (picture attached)

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Successfully running the Australian Surf Movie for the last six years Tim Bonython noticed that there are some amazing surf films out that really needed to be seen on the big screen.

Films that aren’t crazy big waves being surfed by crazy men or surfers doing crazy maneuvers. These films are skillful works of art. Artistic moving pictures in surfing.

It is this whole new genre that has slowly bloomed into the surfing domain with high-end surf shops with lots of cool boards, books, surf, art & stuff. You look into their DVD rack you see only those cool films by Thomas Campbell, Andrew Kidman with retro films & classics.

So Tim decided to create a new style of film festival, one suited to these kinds of films.

In its first year of touring, the Souled Out Surf Film Festival will feature "UNDER THE SUN" by Cyrus Sutton which is an artful portrayal of the growth of Australian surfing between Surfers Paradise and Byron Bay. The second support film is SURFING 50 STATES - two young Aussies venture off to America with the simple idea of surfing the US in all 50 states, what ever it takes. This film has just been accepted into the X Dance Film Awards.

So there you have it the birth of what will hopefully be a annual event the SOULED OUT SURF FILM FESTIVAL:

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