After Port Arthur,Walter Mikac found a ‘superpower’. He’s sharing it with Izzy

Isabella was born five years after the tragedy in which Walter’s first two daughters and their mother were killed.

  • Amanda Hooton

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Bound together:Kathryn Joy,Rebecca Burdon and Beverley Attard spent years searching for people with shared experience after their mothers were killed.

Years after their mothers were killed,these child survivors finally found each other

Trauma and tragedy linked these children who lost their mothers to domestic violence. They had to fight to find each other as adults.

  • Cassandra Morgan

Rawson faced horror as a teen;Hamish helped him feel safe. Then the roles reversed

Rawson Kirkhope and Hamish Young went to school together in Launceston. A shocking domestic-violence incident cemented their bond.

  • Tim Elliott
Richard Castles and his wife,Emma,in February 2024,two months before she died suddenly.

My wife died suddenly aged 54. The next night she spoke to me in a dream

“Emma’s gone”,I texted one of my closest friends. To the shops? To another country? To another man? I clarified after he responded with confusion.

  • Richard Castles
“There’s not going to be a nice family Christmas after this. Are you comfortable with that?”

‘It is going to get really bitter’:Why family-will battles are set to explode

With more blended families and a record $3.5 trillion intergenerational wealth transfer expected over the coming decade,inheritance clashes are set to balloon.

  • Konrad Marshall
Gina Chick inherited a love of nature from her grandfather.

Gina Chick:‘I am currently single,and it’s a weird thing for me’

The Alone Australia winner was in a relationship with a woman when she met the father of her child,much to her surprise.

  • Robyn Doreian
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Sarah Wheeler during her six-month solo 5500km outback trek on horseback in the town of Nyngan,New South Wales,

Sarah rode 5500 kilometres on horseback for her parents. This is what she learnt

After losing her mother to gastrointestinal cancer,Sarah Wheeler rode for nine months,talking to people she met along the way about grief.

  • Nick Newling
The author as a teen in the mid-1980s,when she met a 26-year-old man who seemed “amused” at their first meeting.

At 15,she thought it was a ‘regular’ relationship. Today,the word ‘grooming’ springs to mind

As a teenager,having a 26-year-old boyfriend was thrilling. Thirty-five years on,that “love” takes on a very different hue.

  • Sonia Orchard

The February 8 Edition

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‘Things work differently in Bali’:When Amanda’s son died,she learnt a difficult lesson

Amanda Lennon learnt via text that her son Aston had died in Indonesia. In the aftermath,she found that Australian money and connections were of little use.

  • Andrew Hornery