Lidia Thorpe:“The country doesn’t see the really generous,kind and caring person she is,” says Thorpe’s friend,Sissy Austin.

‘When someone says something nice to me,I just burst into tears’:Inside the mind of Lidia Thorpe

The independent MP knows she’s both loved and loathed,including within her own community – but wants to make it clear she’s more than “an angry black woman”.

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In Ashlee’s childhood of drug deals and violence,Grandma’s home was a safe haven

Marita fought her addict daughter for years for custody of her granddaughter,Ashlee.

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Mining her adolescent pain propelled Higgins into the hearts of music fans 20 years ago. Following her marriage breakdown,she’s reconnecting with them through song.

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Chris Kohler:When I was quite young,Dad told me that economics is really just mass psychology.”

‘I’m so glad he ignored me’:Alan Kohler on the advice son Chris didn’t take

Despite working for rival TV networks as finance editors,there’s no competition between this father and son.

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Scientists are preparing to release millions of baby corals onto the Great Barrier Reef. Will this be enough to save it?

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‘One of my greatest finds’:Odd discoveries in Nellie Melba’s home

Cigarettes,monogrammed crockery,handwritten letters … cataloguing the “time capsule” Victorian abode of the famed soprano opens a treasure trove of intrigue.

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