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We tend to hold the view that certain members of society are with us for life.

‘The shock is startling’: Grieving the death of my GP

They’re not family, but they’re familiar – and it’s those who serve our communities whose loss can cut deeply.

  • Jonathan Seidler

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I saw two tiny feet – perfect, but far too small. Then I had to tell the mother

A pregnant midwife on night shift confronts her own worst fears during an emergency delivery of an extremely premature baby.

  • Oceane Campbell
Deborah Frances-White hosts the global hit podcast, The Guilty Feminist.

You’d be shocked by how much my siblings and I laughed when our father died

Never underestimate the power of comedy to make a statement.

  • Deborah Frances-White
Comedian Ruby Wax

‘I went out with a lot of gay men. I even married one’: Ruby Wax

The comedian, who’s touring Australia, shares her celebrity crushes, and the actor whose death still affects her.

  • Jane Rocca

After Port Arthur, Walter Mikac found a ‘superpower’. He’s sharing it with Izzy

Isabella was born five years after the tragedy in which Walter’s first two daughters and their mother were killed.

  • Amanda Hooton
Bound together: Kathryn Joy, Rebecca Burdon and Beverley Attard spent years searching for people with shared experience after their mothers were killed.

Years after their mothers were killed, these child survivors finally found each other

Trauma and tragedy linked these children who lost their mothers to domestic violence. They had to fight to find each other as adults.

  • Cassandra Morgan
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Rawson faced horror as a teen; Hamish helped him feel safe. Then the roles reversed

Rawson Kirkhope and Hamish Young went to school together in Launceston. A shocking domestic-violence incident cemented their bond.

  • Tim Elliott
Richard Castles and his wife, Emma, in February 2024, two months before she died suddenly.

My wife died suddenly aged 54. The next night she spoke to me in a dream

“Emma’s gone”, I texted one of my closest friends. To the shops? To another country? To another man? I clarified after he responded with confusion.

  • Richard Castles
“There’s not going to be a nice family Christmas after this. Are you comfortable with that?”

‘It is going to get really bitter’: Why family-will battles are set to explode

With more blended families and a record $3.5 trillion intergenerational wealth transfer expected over the coming decade, inheritance clashes are set to balloon.

  • Konrad Marshall
Gina Chick inherited a love of nature from her grandfather.

Gina Chick: ‘I am currently single, and it’s a weird thing for me’

The Alone Australia winner was in a relationship with a woman when she met the father of her child, much to her surprise.

  • Robyn Doreian

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