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5 gift ideas for Mother’s Day, for any budget

With Mother’s Day coming up this Sunday 12 May, you can choose from a selection of gifts available at Fed Square’s retail stores and dining destinations. From First Nation designed homewares to artisanal teas featuring native ingredients or a special Mother’s Day Lunch at one of Fed Square’s award-winning restaurants, there are plenty of choices to show your mother-figure how special they are – whatever your budget.

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‘Kara Meta’ loose leaf teas, with Indigenous flavours. Mabu Mabu. From $17

Kera Mata Aba's Tea. Available from Big Esso by Mabu Mabu, instore or online.

Mabu Mabu’s range of handmade small-batch pantry items is titled ‘Kara Meta’ (meaning ‘home’) and include bespoke teas in stylish tins. Flavours include a refreshing native peppermint gum and river mint (Blak Mint), a warming native spiced chai, featuring wattleseed, cinnamon myrtle and pepperberry, and Aba’s Tea – named after chef Nornie Bero’s Grandma Aba – featuring wild hibiscus, lemon myrtle and dried strawberry gum: a wonderful stress reliever.

Available online or instore at Big Esso by Mabu Mabu.

Ngarga Warendj insulated travel mug. shopKHT. $44.99

Ngarga Warendj insulated travel mug. Available online or instore at shopKHT, Upper Square. $44.99.

Taungurung artist Mick Harding started his art and design wares business Ngarga Warendj (meaning ‘Dancing Wombat’) in 2005, and the family business has now grown to offer a range of artefacts and home living products, featuring authentic First Peoples designs. This gorgeous, insulated travel mug is perfect for a morning hot beverage on the run.

Available online or in-store at shopKHT.

Girls On Tops – Laura Dern Tee. ACMI Shop. $59.50

Girls On Tops – Laura Dern Tee. Available online or instore at the ACMI Shop. $59.50.

Since wowing us as tough-as-nails paleobotanist Dr Ellie Sattler in Jurassic Park (1993) to her stint as fierce lawyer Nora Fanshaw, and THAT monologue, in Marriage Story (2019) Laura Dern is the ultimate in strong women role models. So why not give your ultimate strong woman role model the gift of Dern’s name emblazoned on a bold statement tee?

The Girls On Tops range of tees feature the names of iconic women in film – from Greta Gerwig to Tilda Swinton to Lulu Wang.

Available online or in-store at the ACMI Shop.

Rhiannon Gill ceramics. NGV design store. From $45

Rhiannon Gill ceramics. Available at the NGV design store. From $45.

Rhiannon Gill is a self-taught ceramicist based in Wollongong on Dharawal land. Made by hand in small batches, Gill’s functional homewares are all unique and utilise handcrafted glazes, making them an enduring keepsake.

Mother’s Day Lunch. Taxi Kitchen. Victoria by Farmer’s Daughters. $85-90pp ($50pp for kids at Taxi Kitchen)

Taxi Kitchen's Mother's Day lunch is a three course bespoke menu.
Victoria by Farmer's Daughters offers a provenance lunch for Mother's Day.

Head out for a special meal this Mother’s Day. Both Taxi Kitchen and Victoria by Farmer’s Daughters have special Mother’s Day lunch set menus – with an $85pp provenance lunch, showcasing the best of Victorian produce at Victoria by Farmer’s Daughters, and a three-course bespoke menu featuring a choice of four entrees and mains, and three desserts, available at Taxi Kitchen.

Enjoy Hiramasa kingfish with buttermilk, yuzu kosho and shiso, Szechuan spiced duck and a passionfruit souffle – or perhaps Portarlington mussels, baked Goulburn Valley trout finished with a delectable Tart Tatin.

Book at Taxi Kitchen for Mother’s Day lunch.

Book at Victoria by Farmer’s Daughters for Mother’s Day provenance lunch.

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