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‘Let’s do one more year’: At 90, Nancy and Betty still teach teen boys athletics
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‘Let’s do one more year’: At 90, Nancy and Betty still teach teen boys athletics

Over 50 years, through tragedy and other hurdles, Nancy Atterton and Betty Moore’s friendship has stayed on track.

  • by Tim Elliott

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Midnight Oil rocker Jim had one quality Christabel had never seen in a man
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Midnight Oil rocker Jim had one quality Christabel had never seen in a man

Author Christabel Blackman and her partner, Midnight Oil co-founder Jim Moginie, met at an age they least expected to rediscover love.

  • by Lenny Ann Low
In Ashlee’s childhood of drug deals and violence, Grandma’s home was a safe haven
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In Ashlee’s childhood of drug deals and violence, Grandma’s home was a safe haven

Marita fought her addict daughter for years for custody of her granddaughter, Ashlee.

  • by Melissa Fyfe
‘He is absolutely immune to my charms’: Wil Anderson on good mate Adam Spencer
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‘He is absolutely immune to my charms’: Wil Anderson on good mate Adam Spencer

Comedian, broadcaster and author Wil Anderson and comedian, maths geek and author Adam Spencer on their not quite “traditional” friendship.

  • by Lenny Ann Low
Whether he’s singing to five fans or 10,000, Dean gets blunt advice from brother Sean
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Whether he’s singing to five fans or 10,000, Dean gets blunt advice from brother Sean

Dean Lewis is a platinum-selling singer-songwriter, whose younger sibling Sean Loaney is his official videographer – and “voice of reason”.

  • by Lenny Ann Low
Simmone Logue and twin Joey on love, loss – and lunch with Alan Jones
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Simmone Logue and twin Joey on love, loss – and lunch with Alan Jones

Best friends as well as twins, the celebrity cook and artist have weathered depression, dementia and death.

  • by Nicole Abadee
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As refugees, they slept on the ground. Three kids, study and work is ‘nothing’
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As refugees, they slept on the ground. Three kids, study and work is ‘nothing’

When Noël fled the Rwandan regime, his long-time sweetheart Delphine followed.

  • by Amanda Hooton
These mates dreamt about retiring to Mexico – but found a little Aussie town instead
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These mates dreamt about retiring to Mexico – but found a little Aussie town instead

Peter Manwaring and Robert Carroll used to talk about retiring to a hacienda, but then they discovered Australian country town Molong.

  • by Sheriden Rhodes
When Dean was locked up, he told Felicia to move on with her life
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When Dean was locked up, he told Felicia to move on with her life

Miner Dean told his then fiancée, a former Miss Australia winner, not to wait for him when he was sent to jail for drug trafficking. Thankfully, she ignored him.

  • by Erin O'Dwyer
‘A bit jealous’: When mum and daughter go to uni at the same time
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‘A bit jealous’: When mum and daughter go to uni at the same time

Titania Henderson was a stay-at-home mum until she returned to study in her 50s. Her daughter Amy checked her essays; now they share a Melbourne studio.

  • by Susan Horsburgh
‘I don’t know why she’s stuck around’: Surviving the Dark Emu fallout

‘I don’t know why she’s stuck around’: Surviving the Dark Emu fallout

Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood have built houses, battled bushfires, weathered a media storm, separated from each other and – finally – reunited.

  • by Lenny Ann Low

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