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‘Adrenaline drove me’: Dai Le on how she achieved the impossible
In the face of doubters, the former journalist and refugee summoned up lessons learnt battling cancer to deliver an epic upset at the May election.
- by Matthew Knott
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The private pains – and joys – of playing Harry Potter
Gareth Reeves, who plays Harry Potter on stage, has a shoulder strapped together with elastic tape. His physio likens his injuries to those “typical of trapeze artists”.
- by Nick Miller
Antoinette Lattouf’s mission to make Australia’s media less white
Told to shed her western Sydney accent and that she could make mistakes because TV networks needed “brown women”, the journalist decided to take action.
- by Matthew Knott
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‘Australia broke my heart’: Why Yassmin Abdel-Magied may give up her citizenship
The writer, social advocate and now Londoner says the treatment meted out to her in Australia broke her heart and her relationship with the country.
- by Latika Bourke
‘Risk is built in’: Chris Lucas on the serious business of food
One of Melbourne’s most prolific restaurateurs tells Peter Barrett what it’s like to open four restaurants in a pandemic, and what he still hopes to achieve.
- by Peter Barrett
Herding cats with Anna Collyer to keep the nation’s lights on
There are two organisations at the heart of the complex web of governments and public and private institutions that provide our power. Anna Collyer runs them both.
- by Nick O'Malley
The economist who does all the ‘weird’ saving experiments so we don’t have to
The “patron saint of saving”, Jessica Irvine, concedes her budgeting obsession borders on the weird but it’s also an altruistic way of paying her bills.
- by Melanie Kembrey
‘Less arrests, no more drinking snake blood’: Have Peking Duk finally grown up?
For the better part of a decade, they’ve been Australia’s most chaotic dance act, but Peking Duk might just be undergoing some personal growth.
- by Thomas Mitchell
True North: Inclusion is the highlight of Sonja Hood’s footy life
“The crowd went wild, the cheer squad went wild and those boys went wild ... It showed the true power of diversity.”
- by Wendy Tuohy
‘There’s a real positive energy in the air’: Justin Hemmes on Sydney’s post-pandemic revival
“We have police wanting safe, vibrant neighbourhoods. We have local government activating unused and outdoor areas,” says the billionaire hospitality boss.
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‘Keep moving’: New NSW environment minister ready to embrace challenges of job
Newly appointed NSW environment minister James Griffin says there is one topic of conversation that is banned from his family dinner table: politics.
- by Laura Chung