Good Weekend's best features of 2020

Good Weekend's best features of 2020

Every year,Good Weekend publishes the definitive stories on the people,places and issues that matter to Australians. Here,we revisit some of our reader favourites from 2020.

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True love is six weeks in hotel quarantine
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True love is six weeks in hotel quarantine

Border closures are testing actor Anthony LaPaglia's two-year marriage to his Melbourne-based wife,Alexandra Henkel.

  • byLucy Manly
'You never know what strength you've got':Anna Swan's long road back from brain trauma

'You never know what strength you've got':Anna Swan's long road back from brain trauma

Her father is Australia’s best known health journalist,her brother one of Washington’s fastest-rising media stars. But Anna Swan showed grit beyond them both in the aftermath of a catastrophic accident on a family holiday to Italy.

  • byEliza Harvey
Move over,Blue Poles:Jeff Koons is about to deliver us his startling new artwork

Move over,Blue Poles:Jeff Koons is about to deliver us his startling new artwork

From petal-covered puppies to pornographic romps and startling stainless-steel balloon animals – including that record-breaking rabbit – Jeff Koons is the art world’s slickest provocateur. Now,he’s bringing a new kind of love to Melbourne.

  • byNick Bryant
Hot off the presses:Good Weekend's best summer books

Hot off the presses:Good Weekend's best summer books

Warmer days are upon us and the holidays beckon. What better way to further warm the heart than with a good book on the beach?

  • byNicole Abadee
Yule love this:Good Weekend's Christmas gift guide

Yule love this:Good Weekend's Christmas gift guide

Have you been good? Does it matter? Indulge yourself and others this season:Santa’s pretty forgiving this year.

  • byFrances Mocnik
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Years of sun worshipping leads to skin cancer diagnosis for NRL WAG
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Years of sun worshipping leads to skin cancer diagnosis for NRL WAG

Behind the lens of her family-filled Instagram,Braith Anasta's fiancee Rachael Lee has suffered a serious health scare.

  • byLucy Manly
On the first day of Christmas,my true love reignited my love of Advent calendars

On the first day of Christmas,my true love reignited my love of Advent calendars

Forget the paper-and-chocolate calendars of your youth. Advent calendars these days are filled with gin,socks and jam. Take your pick.

  • byPatricia Maunder
True colours:the dating app giving gay men in China a new sense of freedom

True colours:the dating app giving gay men in China a new sense of freedom

Many gay people in China face disapproval from their families – and the communist state. But one social networking app has finessed the difficult dance with authorities by focusing on business,not activism.

  • byYi-Ling Liu
Half the crowd,twice the price,but the New Year's Day party must go on

Half the crowd,twice the price,but the New Year's Day party must go on

Two of the hottest tickets in town are preparing decadent New Year's celebrations despite the limits imposed by COVID-19.

  • byLucy Manly
Hemmes yet to meet the parents
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Hemmes yet to meet the parents

Madeleine Holtznagel is reportedly living in a Coogee penthouse the pub baron owns but the model hasn't introduced him to her parents.

  • byLucy Manly