Summer in Sydney
Amid bushfire’s smoke, there was kindness everywhere you looked
As the fires raged, we huddled in an evacuation centre with 100 other people: it was Armageddon-like.
- Samantha Selinger-Morris
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Splendour has been cancelled – but there’s plenty to see in Sydney this summer
From parks to pubs, there are plenty of places you can enjoy music this summer without needing to bring a tent.
- Nell Geraets
Four ways to tend to the garden you’ve been ignoring all year so far
Mid-summer may not be a peak period for gardening, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t small ways to make a difference.
- Megan Backhouse
How my fake ID led to a baptism of warm beer and rock’n’roll
What a week in Sydney that was: I caught the train home feeling like I had been dumped by a big, sweaty, wonderful wave.
- Callan Boys
Apocalyptic skies, a homecoming like no other
Returning to a very different city, I had a new job, an apartment, friends and was free to enjoy life for the first time in a long time: all solidified by an eerie beach experience.
- Kumi Taguchi
The single phone call that changed my world
On one hot summer morning 20 years ago, events on the other side of the planet intruded in the most shocking way.
- Nick Galvin
I wasn’t in on the matchmaking plan that worked a treat
The bride wafted by with a sly eye that was not for me but my later bride-to-be.
- Malcolm Knox
New fatherhood, collective grief and an endless summer on the road
The fatal felling of Phillip Hughes reinforced the fragility and preciousness of life for this cricket correspondent and first-time parent.
- Chris Barrett
Summertime and emigratin’ ain’t easy
Emigrating is an exhausting summer pastime. To do it once is challenging, twice could be considered madness. No more ping-ponging for us.
- Tim Barlass
It was 60 bucks with glassed-in fins and my mum gave me half …
A brutal, salt-ridden learning curve for the young Markus Zusak was well worth it.
- Markus Zusak
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