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The author and her father during their trip to Nepal.

I left my husband and kids at home to go trekking with my dad. It changed our relationship

We’d struggled to have deep conversations, until we were alone, thousands of miles from home.

  • Susan Reoch

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Each year at Christmas, Tanya’s family throw out ideas for the next year’s theme, making sure it’s budget-friendly and appropriate for all ages.

It began as a joke but Tanya’s family keeps up this quirky Christmas tradition

The festive season is a time for observing traditions – no matter how personal or unusual.

  • Shona Hendley
From left: Sean, his sister Samantha and brother Steven as children with Santa.

One year, my mother ‘cancelled’ Christmas. Then something magical happened

As adults, we can be a bit obsessed with the perfect day. But this is what our kids really want.

  • Sean Szeps
Superstar couple: Nathan Cleary and Mary Fowler.

‘I want to be a father’: Nathan Cleary echoes Mary Fowler’s sentiments on the future

Nathan Cleary discusses his dream of starting a family with Mary Fowler and his future beyond 2027.

  • Michael Chammas
Kathy Hodgson is fighting to have her birth certificate changed.

A false birth certificate and a DNA test: Kathy’s fight to have her real identity recognised

On top of the trauma of discovering she is adopted, Kathy Hodgson is battling bureaucracy to overturn an official lie.

  • Claire Moodie
Blake Johnston: “I’m a lot like Mum in that I’m sensitive and empathetic.”

In a world of toxic masculinity, this is how I’m raising my sons to be good men

Mental-health advocate and surfer Blake Johnston says his world-record surf was inspired by his own dad’s struggles.

  • Robyn Doreian
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The September 7 Edition

In our cover story this week, Jimmy Rees discusses his “graduation” from kids’ TV star to comic, and why he thinks he’s grown funnier since becoming a father.

Actor Bryan Brown says everything he learnt about fatherhood he learnt from his mother.

Bryan Brown met his dad just 10 times. He was determined to turn up for his kids

“It was like he was just another man, not my father,” the famous actor recalls this Father’s Day.

  • Peter FitzSimons

On my first Father’s Day since losing Dad, the reality of becoming an orphan hits hard

Even as an adult, the deaths of both parents can make you feel like a child again.

  • Genevieve Quigley
Jimmy Rees, with sons Lenny, Mack and Vinny: ‘I have to bring on the stern dad sometimes.’

Jimmy Rees: ‘My 10-year-old son is the harshest critic of my comedy’

After leaving his Jimmy Giggle alter ego behind, the one-time university dropout is celebrating his pandemic-era success as a “grown-up” comic with a national tour.

  • Jane Rocca

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