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A couple of years ago, I decided to improve myself physically and mentally. I did that by setting a couple of new year’s resolutions. One was…

It was 2003 and the Peter Falconio case was fresh in our minds. As 22-year-olds itching for adventure, my wife and I, together with one of…

When I was very young, my family and I emigrated from Albania to Melbourne. As a child of refugees settling in Australia after the second world…

Keir Starmer has said he “deeply regrets” a speech in which he described the UK as being in danger of becoming an island of strangers without…

I’d completely forgotten it was my little sister’s 40th birthday, so that morning I hurriedly arranged to send some flowers to her house. She died before…

I was towards the end of a nine-week trip, travelling solo around the world. After that long abroad, I was just exhausted. So when I went…

It was 1996 when my husband was transferred to the small rural town of Healesville for work. In inner-city Melbourne, where we’d been living, we had…

It wasn’t my first period but it was within the first year of getting my period. I was only 13 years old and, when you first…

It was Christmas Eve, 1977. I was 20 years old and working on the desk at a credit union as a teller. Management thought it was…

I was visiting the US as a 23-year-old with my mother and her sister. On a whim, the three of us decided to road trip across…