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How a creative couple turned a rambly old house into a country garden dream
The garden designer and the still life artist looked far and wide, but found a tightly held community and saw it was something special.
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‘Women make great plumbers, too’: Why 21-year-old Lara became a tradie
Lara Smyth already has her career trajectory laid out – and it involves joining her mum’s plumbing business.
- Emily Chantiri
Warning issued over ‘potentially unsafe’ homes in Melbourne’s south and west
The regulator has said allegations were so concerning it had taken the unprecedented step of naming a builder under investigation
- Grant McArthur
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- Shoddy Sydney
‘This is out of control’: The 750 tradies who bought fake qualifications from criminals
Building defects cost Sydney home owners and taxpayers $700 million a year. Some of the problem begins with who is engaged to do the work.
- Harriet Alexander and Max Maddison
Inside comedian Dave Hughes’ much-loved family home in St Kilda
In 2010, comedian Dave Hughes “accidentally” purchased a 1930s Spanish mission-inspired house at auction. It’s since been transformed.
- Effie Mann
Angus Taylor’s plan for scissor gang to cut red tape
Government regulation and bureaucratic rules are in the Coalition’s sights as part of its plans to boost the national economy.
- Shane Wright
Kanittha can barely imagine returning to the office. It’s on the 29th floor
Friday’s earthquake emptied Bangkok into the streets and now darkens routines that involve living and working dozens of storeys above ground.
- Damien Cave, Muktita Suhartono and Richard C. Paddock
A ‘signal’ is picked up in the rubble and the call goes out for quiet
It is three days almost to the moment since the under-construction office tower collapsed in Bangkok. But miracles can happen, and the staging area is buzzing.
- Zach Hope and Veena Thoopkrajae
Town waiting for answers after 10 of its men go missing in Bangkok tower collapse
Aye and her brother are holding vigil beside a four-storey mound of rubble in Thailand, hoping to get news for worried families in their home town 1000 kilometres away.
- Zach Hope and Veena Thoopkrajae
Why cake queen Katherine Sabbath ditched inner Sydney for the suburbs
Her first home was the moment she had been waiting for – the icing on the cake after a decade of saving hard for a deposit.
- Jane Rocca
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