Death
Victoria to widen access to assisted dying after ‘heartbreaking’ stories
Reforms designed to bring Victoria’s assisted dying framework in line with other states will be put to a conscience vote by the year’s end.
- Broede Carmody
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Father’s tribute to the kid everybody loved after school rowing tragedy
Melbourne Grammar School student Edward Millear, 17, died after suffering a medical episode while training alongside his rowing team.
- Alex Crowe, Bridie Smith, Caroline Schelle and Nicole Precel
Sarah gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Less than two weeks later, she died in a mental health ward
A new mother who died within days of being admitted to a private perinatal hospital for anxiety was left unwatched for hours, in breach of hospital protocol, before she was found dead.
- Erin Pearson
Curfews, time delays on alcohol delivery urged after woman drank herself to death
Kathleen Arnold, 30, was found dead with a blood-alcohol reading of .54. Her death prompted calls for a crackdown on alcohol home delivery services.
- Erin Pearson
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- Life insurance
The bureaucratic nightmare plaguing our super – and how to avoid it
Superannuation, and insurance inside super, are caught in a tangled web of rules that many people don’t know about until they’re trapped too.
- Bec Wilson
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Plan to convert Sydney golf course to cemetery a ‘fait accompli’, says MP
Carnarvon Golf Club’s general manager said he has the sense Golf NSW had “resigned itself to the future possible loss” of the club, as it fights for Moore Park.
- Max Maddison
Three years after her husband died, Geraldine Brooks finally confronted her grief
After the novelist’s husband Tony Horwitz died, she did a good approximation of being OK. She was not OK.
- Geraldine Brooks
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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Outpouring of grief for drowned teenager Tyler Jury
A 17-year-old boy is one of six to drown in WA in less than three weeks, adding to the state’s horror at the tragedies.
- Claire Ottaviano and Jesinta Burton
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