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Roget’s Thesaurus

There is literally a word for the chaos of my desk. If I could just find the Roget’s

My collection of books, newspapers and other stuff has been growing very satisfactorily, despite the hopes of executives who introduced hot-desking.

  • Tony Wright

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My least favourite thing: The Age’s opinion summer series.

My least favourite thing

Age journalists and writers share their humorous, poignant and thought-provoking tales about the objects in their lives that they just can’t seem to get rid of.

The pants that were once magic.

I have magic pants that once transformed me. For many reasons, they now haunt me

Each time I buttoned them up I felt transformed from a twenty-something aspiring writer to a fully-fledged adult who knew things.

  • Nova Weetman
My least favourite thing.

I’ve never been able to wink, and Nonna’s creepy rabbit never let me forget it

No one in my family remembers where the porcelain rabbit money box came from, only that it has always been there.

  • Hannah Kennelly
Orange objects I can’t bear to touch.

When Heather was dying, questions formed in my mind that I had never entertained

There are three immovable orange objects in my house. One is very soft, one is very comfortable, and the third is a cheap piece of plastic that no one else would give a second thought.

  • Maher Mughrabi
Genevieve Novak

I’m not striving for better in 2025. I’m hitting ‘unsubscribe’

I resolve to be worse than ever in the new year.

  • Genevieve Novak
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2024 was the year of the “trophy boyfriend” thanks to Barry Keoghan (left), Travis Kelce and Adam Hyde.

How 2024 became the year of the trophy boyfriend

From Travis Kelce to Barry Keoghan and Adam Hyde, the “first boyfriends” of A-List women set the internet on fire this year.

  • Madison Griffiths
The people and animals that made 2024 special.

The year girl power got a joyous update

From pop culture and sport to royalty and the natural world, plenty of diamonds dazzled in the dust in 2024.

  • Neil McMahon
My alternative person of the year is Gisele Pelicot, centre, but my object of the year is the camera her husband used to record her many rapes, allowing her ultimately to bring him and 50 other men to justice; the other objects, clockwise from bottom left, are: Donald Trump’s ear bandage; Raygun’s Olympic uniform; the planter box that took down Barnaby Joyce; police officer Amy Scott’s courage award; Bruce Lehrmann’s metaphorical hat; and the bullet casings left behind by alleged killer Luigi Mangione.

The objects of 2024 and the people they made – or brought down

We know the supposed Person of the Year, but let’s look at the objects of 2024 – from the planter box that brought down Barnaby Joyce to the video camera that brought 51 men to justice.

  • Julia Baird
Detail of woman squeezing her belly Woman holding her stomach.?

Resolutions? I’ve broken a few. This year I’m going a different way

It’s been a difficult year. There were moments it felt like everything was cracking open. Next year, I want to shift focus away from what’s missing from my life.

  • Kate Halfpenny

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