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Romance isn’t quite dead in our house. We like to watch
In fact, romance is streaming episodically into our lounge room. Who needs to go out for date night?
- by Julie Power
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My father and my sister died within months of each other. This is what I did next
The realisation that I’d never be able to hear their voices again led to what you might call my “a-ha” moment.
- by Dimity Brassil
Children’s mental health is worsening. Where is the minister for primary kids?
Bek desperately wants to see her 12-year-old son succeed, but he suffers from debilitating anxiety and has barely been to class for three terms.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
By pulling away from my mother, I could rub the stain of her difference from my skin
Growing up, Nina Wilton felt pressured to lean into her whiteness and away from her Asian heritage – until she was able to discover who she really was.
- by Nina Wilton
‘You must tell no one’: The secret Brendan’s dad wanted kept for a lifetime
Brendan was nearly 30 when he finally tracked down his biological mother. Then came an even more stunning revelation.
- by Brendan Watkins
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A treasure rescued from a Victoria Park grandstand roof changed my life
When I was 13 my younger cousin Victor gave me a Ross Faulkner football that had been purloined from the roof of a grandstand at Victoria Park. It was my ticket into a culture I craved to be part of.
- by Jim Pavlidis
Surge in same-sex couples reporting living together since marriage equality, study says
The research also found more same-sex couples had children in 2021 than in 2016.
- by Wendy Tuohy
‘Where they should be’: Children orphaned in Christmas Day crash to stay in WA home town
The generosity of strangers has helped three children return to as normal a life as possible after one of Western Australia’s most horrific tragedies.
- by Daile Cross and Ashtyn Hiron