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Bitter Lemons

The official history of Australia may have forgotten colourful rogues like Tom Ley, but Mudgee painter Michael Bourke has painted a biographical suite of scenes that tell his life story in almost cartoonish images.

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January 10, 2025

Life Sentences

Flash Madam

Caroline Hodgson took the name Madame Brussels to become the ‘flash madam’ of Melbourne in the post Gold Rush era. Her business sense for buying real estate and flair for style and comfort attracted …

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January 3, 2025

Life Sentences

The Queen of Celebrity

For decades, Kitty Kelley has held the reputation as the queen of celebrity biography in the US, writing juicy and revealing accounts of the lives of Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, The Bush …

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December 20, 2024

Sunday Life · Culture

River Queen – Di Morrissey profile

Author Di Morrissey is renowned for her romance novels, yet she remains refreshingly grounded.

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December 15, 2024

Illawarra Flame · Culture

Barefoot Boho Queen – Gina Chick profile

Even people who did not watch Alone Australia on SBS know Gina Chick – she’s become one of those rare figures who transcends the television show that propelled her into the public sphere. That’s …

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November 24, 2024

Society · Guardian Australia

Sharing the Care

I thought when my mother went into aged care my daily work would be over. I was wrong...

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October 21, 2024

Good Weekend · Society

Merci Mission

How to convince your French mother to appreciate the art of gratitude? With difficulty - and then, self-reflection.

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October 12, 2024

Culture · Plus 61J Media

A New Book About Kindertransport

Book review: The Kindertransport – What Really Happened, by Andrea Hammel. A robust correction of the Kindertransport legend. This book gets to the truth of a poignant project afflicted by bureaucratic prejudice and by …

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January 26, 2024

Life Sentences

By George

In George Harrison, The Reluctant Beatle, veteran rock journalist and biographer Philip Norman (author of the definitive Beatles book, Shout!) gives us an access all areas portrait of a paradoxical figure who found fame …

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January 18, 2024

Life Sentences

To Bee Or Not To Bee

One of the most puzzling and flamboyant women on the streets of Sydney in the twentieth century, Bee Miles became the stuff of legend, a celebrity in her own lifetime, but also a troubled …

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January 5, 2024