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Literature
Banning books? I’m all the better for the blood and gore of my education
My high school syllabus was a bloodbath of sex and death in which students were slowly marinated for six long years.
- by Richard Glover
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At Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens, it’s always gardening season
Every morning for 40 years plant-obsessives have been meeting at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens to take part in its volunteer program.
- by Robin Powell
How to transform a tough, urban space into a languorous jungle
The most beguiling thing about this inner-city courtyard is you don’t immediately sense the work involved
- by Megan Backhouse
Dad will love this photo, I thought. And then I remembered.
Four years on, the pain of loss can still return with a jolt.
- by Monica Dux
Separate beds make for a happy marriage
There’s an assumption that not sharing a bed is the death of a relationship but it’s more common that you think. Sex is great and all that, but have you ever starfished in your own bed for eight hours solid?
- by Bryony Gordon
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Never have our homes worked harder than they do right now.
- by Michelle Bateman
Opinion
Mental health
Going to a therapist is awkward but I pushed through
Any inkling of depressive thoughts in conversation is met by a suggestion to “go see a therapist”. But there is little discussion about how confronting it can be once you get started. There are no guidelines on what to say. And that can be daunting.
- by Abbir Dib
I’m well paid but bored in my job. How can I shake things up?
As a worker struggles with a career stalemate, Dr Kirstin Ferguson encourages him to consider the breadth of his transferable skills.
- by Kirstin Ferguson
Opinion
Cooking
How a very bad cook learned to do better
I started with chicken provencal, a “can’t fail” option suggested by a friend. I must have misheard the instructions: my version was a tinny and acid-flavoured failure.
- by Sian Powell
Teresa Palmer: ‘It was my dream to have eight children, like my nanna’
As a teenager, Teresa Palmer wrote in her diary that she had two ambitions: to be an actor and a mum.
- by Genevieve Quigley
‘I want my granddaughters to have a different experience from what I had’
Without their parents as role models, stolen generations children had no blueprint for giving and receiving affection. A new book examines female Elders’ experience of love and loss.
- by Jennifer Pinkerton