The March 15 Edition

Faster than Usain Bolt at the same age:The Ipswich schoolboy turned $6 million man

Meet Queensland teenager Gout Gout:A-grade student,prefect,Mario Kart fiend – and,at 17,the talk of global sprinting.

  • byKonrad Marshall
With surgical enhancement to breasts – a powerful erogenous zone – “a woman may gain the power to elicit male desire,but in so doing she relegates herself to the erotic sidelines.”

Forget ‘crowd-pleasing’ breasts – for more joy,focus on feeling:a surgeon’s view

A doctor contemplates what is,she believes,the most exploited – and serially underestimated – female body part of all.

  • byGabriel Weston
A grand old grapevine from Langmeil’s Freedom Vineyard in South Australia’s Barossa Valley. The shiraz vineyard,planted in 1843,is the oldest in Australia – and possibly the world.

‘More ancient than most of Europe’s’:The astonishing secret of our old vineyards

Why do some of Australia’s gnarliest grapevines come from older,purer stock than France’s finest?

  • byLuke Slattery
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A family walks up a hill to a football field in the Las Manchas area of La Palma through an area entirely carpeted with volcanic ash.

From seaside idyll to ‘worthless black land mass’:Life after a volcanic eruption

A photographer visits the Spanish island of La Palma after its 2021 volcanic eruption – and finds residents warily traversing a blackened moonscape.

  • byJonathan Browning
Mum and Millie:there’s one thing the author wishes she could tell people who might “glance our way and feel a pang of sympathy”.

People might feel sympathy for Millie and me. There’s one thing I wish they knew

For a doting parent,the first weeks of school for a child with additional needs take on their own special focus.

  • byTatyana Leonov

David drew up a plan to woo fellow architect Kawai:500 Solomon Islanders helped

After meeting Kawai Yeung in 2009,David Kaunitz strove to win her over. Today,the couple specialise in humane architecture for disadvantaged communities.

  • byLenny Ann Low
“Many statues celebrate people who are not – it seems to me – worth celebrating.”
Dicey Topics
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Long before he won a Nobel Prize,this author lugged bodies around in a hospital

Tanzanian-British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah on running out of money – and his take on the toppling of statues of controversial historical figures.

  • byBenjamin Law
Modern Guru
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A woman on the train almost falls on my lap. Is it wrong to right her?

Your brain’s emergency reaction overrode all your worry hormones,writes our Modern Guru.

  • byDanny Katz

Sick of black activewear? Look to Princess Di for inspiration

The former Princess of Wales’ kaleidoscopic approach to Lycra has returned to the mood-boards of stylists and fashion-followers everywhere.

  • byDamien Woolnough
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For ‘blokecore’ fashion followers,soccer jerseys are kicking goals

Plus:get ready for the weekend with these fresh diversions.

  • byDeborah Cooke,Sharon Bradley,Frances Mocnik,Damien Woolnough,Barry Divola andDani Valent
Danielle Alvarez’s puttanesca rice-stuffed tomatoes.

Puttanesca rice-stuffed tomatoes

The pasta sauce’s pantry ingredients flavour the filling of these “gorgeous red orbs”.

  • byDanielle Alvarez
Prawn and chive dumplings (right) and scallop and prawn dumplings.

Is this suburban yum cha spot serving Melbourne’s best dim sum?

Melburnians should be grateful for Chef Wong’s beautiful dumplings and exemplary egg tarts,writes Dani Valent.

  • byDani Valent
Mister Grotto is set among a new strip of venues on Australia Street.

Mister Grotto is the ‘smart-casual fish shop that’s long been missing from Sydney’

The Continental Delicatessen crew blend South American cuisines with North Carolina fish camp vibes at this inner west seafood bar.

  • byCallan Boys

Safety in numbers:Shiny restaurant precincts on the rise in Melbourne and Sydney

Like it or not,it makes sense,and not just for the property developers.

  • byTerry Durack
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Good Weekend Quiz

Trivia buffs:test your knowledge.

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