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From heart break to hope • Four months after fire tore through the Clarence Valley in northern NSW, Susan Chenery finds a community offering each other hope and slowly healing and rebuilding together.
Rebuild our towns
Thank you, fireys • This summer brought fires like Australia has never seen before, and also revealed the formidable spirit of strong and selfless people.
Messages of hope
The long road to recovery • As the fires subside, the real work begins. Genevieve Gannon looks at the efforts to help our land recover.
Wildlife wipe-out
Helping hand
Shelter from the firestorm
Fireproofing our future • If this year’s fire season is a harbinger of things to come, there needs to be some urgent planning. Samantha Trenoweth meets fire experts devising smart solutions to our catastrophic problem.
Harry’s leap of faith • After months of talks, neither Prince Harry nor Her Majesty got what they wanted. Inspired by his mother, Harry followed his heart, but where does this leave the monarchy? Juliet Rieden unpicks an unprecedented royal split.
Money matters
Shooting for the stars • As she takes super sleuth Phryne Fisher to the big screen, Essie Davis talks to Susan Horsburgh about childhood bullying, the magic of Tasmania, and the fraught choice between career and family.
THE MAKING OF A MURDERESS • Six months after being jailed for murdering her ex-boyfriend, Robyn Lindholm was charged with murder again. Genevieve Gannon asks: is this killer the deadliest woman in Australia?
Under her spell
Beach buddies • The Albatross Nippers are flying high. Lizzie Wilson meets a team of junior surf lifesavers with special needs who are as fearless and resilient as their namesake.
I finally feel that I’m free • In a candid interview, Mastermind host Jennifer Byrne talks to Juliet Rieden about the society scandal that rocked her childhood, her royal and rebel ancestors and the sunshine son who convinced his parents to wed.
When pink meets teal • Jill Emberson was a courageous campaigner for those, like her, whose lives are cut short by ovarian cancer. Shortly before her death she spoke with Genevieve Gannon of love and life, and the hope that her work will lead to better outcomes for women with cancer.
Turning 60 is rather fabulous • Dame Kristin Scott Thomas is known for playing frosty, posh Brits but behind the aristocratic cheekbones, Louise Gannon meets the real KST who learned her craft in France, loves babies and laughing, and refuses to reveal the name of the lady who keeps her skin so radiant.
MAHA the KING OF CHAOS • He was once a petulant playboy prince, now he’s one of the world’s richest and most unpredictable rulers. William Langley investigates the eccentric world of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn.
Court of contrasts
Playing for keeps • Footballer Mat Rogers has triumphed over loss and heartbreak. When he returns to TV for Australian Survivor, he tells Tiffany Dunk, he’ll be doing it for the most important people in his life: his family.
My friend Jackie, by Carly Simon • On paper, they’d seem unlikely friends. But when former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis met free-spirited singer-songwriter Carly Simon, a rare and wonderful friendship was born. In a new book, Touched by the Sun, Carly reveals the intimate time she spent with Jackie in the decade before her death in 1994 and the deep kinship they...