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“I thought finding love again would never happen, so the fact I’ve had that joy twice in my life makes me feel fortunate.”

‘I thought finding love again would never happen’: How Rove found happiness after grief

How growing up with strong women taught the comedian about love, grief and resilience.

  • Jane Rocca

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Carissa Smith was adopted from South Korea as a baby and has embarked on a search for her birth parents.

‘Difficult questions’ need answering: Adoptees hope for closure with probe into South Korean program

A former magistrate will the lead the country’s first-ever probe into alleged failures in the Australian-South Korean adoption program.

  • Lisa Visentin
In this day and age, the opportunities to embarrass oneself or view the embarrassment of others are legion.

I was embarrassed by a school mistake. But heart rates were normal without today’s madness

There are many things the digital age has delivered that make life better, but there is a cultural shift I am sure will send us all to the funny farm.

  • Nicola Redhouse

I’ve farewelled my old house, and the people we were when we lived there

I will never again meet the baby that my son was, nor the three-year-old. Leaving this house feels as though I am leaving those ages behind, but the truth is they are already gone.

  • Sean Kelly
Until the community was locked out, Joseph Kantor loved to play on the fields of Rose Bay Secondary School in North Bondi.

Don’t fence our schools in. Where else will the children (and grown-ups) play?

Remember when we used schools as our after-hours playgrounds? We need them back.

  • Jen George
It was apparently vital that the entire school know about the lost shoe.

The missing shoe and my Monday hell: How an app avalanche is killing parenthood

One parent of a child said they were alarmed to receive a message titled “Unexplained student absence” regarding the child they had dropped off at the school gates that morning.

  • Shona Hendley
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Will Australia’s new online porn rules prove to be a watershed moment?

Elijah was 10 when his friend typed ‘porn’ into a search engine. He was afraid – but unable to look away

Australia now requires strict age verification for anyone wanting to access pornography websites. But will this really stop children from seeing online porn?

  • Cassandra Morgan
Mother and daughter Ingrid and Nicola Padovano in their flower fields.

Ingrid gets the most precious gift of all on Mother’s Day

On their flower farm, Ingrid Padovano and her family have been preparing for one of the biggest days of the year.

  • Emily Kowal
Persafoni Pavlidis, Jim Pavlidis’ mother, pictured in her photo ID in 1962, the year before she left Greece for Melbourne on the ship Patris.

The night my mother died, she gave me a gift that changed everything

I’ve always felt guilt about Mum’s life, not out of a sense of personal responsibility for her hardship, but because there was never a chance that her potential could flourish.

  • Jim Pavlidis

Do you have an emotionally immature parent?

Dismissive, self-centred and ruled by their emotions, these parents are in the spotlight now that their kids are adults and can recognise concerning patterns from their childhood.

  • Abby Seaman