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Smoke from nearby bushfires billows across Moruya in January 2019.  

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 in the Grass was cancelled in a tough year for Australian music festivals.

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
Deadheading flowers encourages energy to be directed towards growing new blooms.

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
Ryan Adams at the Metro Theatre, January 2002. Back of author’s head potentially pictured in crowd.

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.

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LIfe’s a beach for Kumi Taguichi.

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
Dr Tim Galvin

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
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Malcolm and Wenona Knox on their wedding day.

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
Taking a break from covering the cricket during Australia’s 2015 Ashes tour of England.

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
Tim Barlass and his family moved to Sydney from Twickenham for the lifestyle.

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
Markus Zusak with his dog Frosty.

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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