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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
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I never celebrated exercise, until I was in hospital thinking I might never be able to again
In April last year I did the bowel cancer screening test sent out in the mail. To my shock – I had no symptoms – it came back positive. I was 54. This wasn’t part of the plan.
- Simon Castles
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- Succession planning
The final paper trail: How to make your executor’s job easier
Where there’s a will, there’s an executor – the person who manages your estate when you’ve died. Who do you choose for this important role, and how can you help smooth their way?
- Madeleine Heffernan
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- Home
The jet-skis of suburbia are more popular than ever. I can’t believe leaf blowers are allowed to exist
The noise of a leaf blower sounds like 1000 mosquitoes whining their way to the core of my brain. You can’t even go camping without someone pointlessly waving one around.
- Jo Stubbings
- Explainer
- Healthcare
‘A second chance’: How do organ donations work?
Every year, hundreds of Australians receive a lifesaving organ donation. What’s it like to gift a kidney or have a change of heart, literally? And how do transplants happen?
- Madeleine Heffernan
- Opinion
- Opinion
Like Dezi Freeman’s victims, I made life and death decisions daily. They never leave you
A woman thanking me for saving her life, following a hunch and finding a missing person – there are moments from my job that will be with me forever.
- Jason Doyle
- Opinion
- Web culture
I confess, I’m a lurker: How the utopia of my youth went horribly wrong
When I was compulsively sharing and being shared with, I was expressing the person I wanted to be. Now, I just silently observe the lives of others.
- Wendy Syfret
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- Opinion
It’s 40 years since 1986. Suddenly, I feel very old
Our peers knew us as the Headbangers. My mum joined People for Nuclear Disarmament. Every memory is a timepiece.
- James Hughes
More of us are living alone – but it doesn’t necessarily mean we’re lonely
If I was inclined to, I could walk around the house nude, without even a sock to mar my eruption of atavism. But I’m not inclined to.
- Anson Cameron
Have we all traded our anonymity for convenience?
Paranoia about being watched much of the time no longer feels like the ramblings of just tin-hatted conspiracy theorists.
- Brodie Lancaster