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The November 29 edition

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Rookwood Cemetery.

Ocean views, quiet neighbours and a $165,000 price tag: The other property boom

Like Australia’s housing crisis, high demand and land scarcity have led to another accommodation crunch: we’re running out of grave sites to bury our dead.

  • Tim Elliott
A man was flown to John Hunter Hospital aftr being attacked by a shark at Kylies Beach on the NSW Mid North Coast.

Chaos amid the calm: Woman killed, man mauled by shark on remote NSW beach

The couple, Swiss tourists aged in their 20s, had set out for an early morning swim at the unpatrolled Kylies Beach on the state’s Mid North Coast.

  • Riley Walter and Jack Gramenz
Melissa Reader: When my husband, Mauro, was dying of cancer, we had no conversations and no guidance to prepare us.

My husband didn’t plan the end of his life – I don’t want that for anyone else

Very few of us have made decisions about our final days. It’s not just a missed opportunity; it’s a collective blindness.

  • Melissa Reader

When I thought my cancer returned, I embraced life over death. Then, I got a shock

Even though I wasn’t afraid of dying, I had other fears.

  • Julietta Jameson
Port Melbourne resident Gisele Edwards was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year.

The suburbs with the highest and lowest rates of this deadly cancer

Pancreatic cancer is projected to become the second-deadliest cancer by 2030. Here’s where the highest and lowest rates are in Victoria.

  • Broede Carmody
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Baby boomers have always rewritten the rules. Now they are reinventing funerals

We may have little say over when we’re going to die, but an increasing number are seizing control over how they’ll be celebrated after the fact.

  • Sue Williams
John Laws was known as “golden tonsils” for his distinctive voice.

John Laws will be farewelled at a state funeral on Wednesday. Here’s what to expect

Here’s what to expect ahead of the funeral, and a quick history of the state services observed in Australia.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo

‘Soon we’d be parted forever’: Blanche d’Alpuget’s last moments with Bob Hawke

On the day the former prime minister died, not even his wife believed the end was near.

  • Derek Rielly
Health Minister Tim Nicholls spoke about the review at a press conference at Redcliffe Hospital.

Further probes possible after two deaths put health service in spotlight

Two young people took their own lives in the past five years after they were treated by a publicly funded service based at Robina Hospital.

  • Courtney Kruk

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