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The November 29 edition
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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
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- Sharks
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
- Opinion
- Real life
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
- Exclusive
- Cancer
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
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 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
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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