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His trumpet solo for nurse Petula showed trainee doc Albert fancied her
Australia’s first paediatric transplant surgeon, Dr Albert Shun, played an Irish standard to woo his future wife.
- by Lenny Ann Low
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New York’s $US140m family feud that’s like Succession – but starring women
A once-close Italian clan, a luxury jewellery brand – and a nasty legal battle.
- by Anne McElvoy
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Despite the odd uppercut, these muso siblings always play on
Their exchanges can be “brutal”, but a deep connection keeps drawing Emma Hamilton and her brother Thomas back to each other.
- by Dani Valent
Silverchair’s Ben Gillies and his wife met in school. They married 15 years later
“We kissed for the first time, got engaged, and two months later we were married.”
- by Robyn Doreian
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Libby’s an AFLW star, Harry’s an umpire – and her brother
Siblings Harry and Libby Birch have more in common than just footy.
- by Konrad Marshall
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Childcare
The cost of childcare is making me second guess having kids. And I’m not the only one
Subsidies alone can’t fix our childcare affordability crisis or our declining national birth rate. But increasing supply certainly can.
- by Millie Muroi
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‘My people had blood on their hands’: uncovering a shocking family secret
For decades, he’d railed against racism. Then David Marr discovered his own family was in the massacre business during Queensland’s frontier wars.
- by David Marr
Lin Utzon on life with her architect dad: ‘not a fantasist and dreamer but a fantastic builder’
As the Utzon family come to Sydney to celebrate the 50th birthday of their architect father Jorn’s celebrated Sydney Opera House, Lin Utzon talks to us exclusively from Denmark.
- by Jeni Porter
Sex and the City costume designer Patricia Field: ‘My mother was three times a widow’
The 81-year-old talks about losing her father as a child, her adventurist ex-girlfriend and why she’s happy to be single.
- by Jane Rocca
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‘High heels and a bustier?’ Richard Wilkins on his son’s fashion choices
Entertainment journalist Richard says his actor-model son Christian is “far better” than him. Now, their close relationship is entering a new chapter.
- by Lenny Ann Low
After trying to write about her mother’s death, Robyn had an epiphany
She was 11 when she came home from school to find her mum dead. But it took decades before this acclaimed author would attempt to tell her story.
- by Robyn Davidson