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Simon Cunich and Stuart Harris
A minuscule spider brought together documentary filmmaker Simon Cunich 31, and former litter collector and citizen scientist Stuart Harris, 51, resulting in a collaboration and friendship that’s still reaping rewards.
A minuscule spider brought together documentary filmmaker Simon Cunich 31, and former litter collector and citizen scientist Stuart Harris, 51, resulting in a collaboration and friendship that’s still reaping rewards.
Comedians Denise Scott (left), and Judith Lucy, collaborated on a project with colleague Lynda Gibson – and bonded for good when Gibson’s cancer became terminal.
IT professional Glen Parker was keen on nurse Cat Fung, for years, but she kept fobbing him off.
Anita Pahor, 45, founding patron of the Red Cross Society of Women Leaders, met Tania Harris, 48, a pastor, at theological college.
Comedian Ellen Briggs and her husband Alex, a MotoGP mechanic for star Italian motorcyclist Valentino Rossi, are separated by his job for much of the year.
Animal conservationist Bob Irwin, 77, was mourning the loss of his first wife when he met Judy, 61, in 2000. They slowly bonded over their mutual love of wildlife, went on to marry, and now live on a rural Queensland property.
MK1 and Shamoun, 38 are best mates – but after one argument, they didn’t talk for two years.
Amy is Rugby Union’s first full-time female referee. Her twin brother Paul set up the first school for teaching English on Nauru.
Veteran actor and producer Bryan Brown, 69, and his daughter, actress, writer and director Matilda Brown, 29, enjoy working together, but over the years they haven’t always seen eye to eye.
In 2014, environmental officer Glen Turner was shot dead. Since then, the friendship between his partner, Alison, and his sister, Fran, has deepened.
Comedian and actor Akmal Saleh, met his social-worker wife, Catie, at a party. It soon led to an unromantic marriage proposal.
Former champion athlete Paul Crake met his wife, Daniela Zanon, a year before an accident left him in a wheelchair.
Former ballerina Marita Alexander instilled a love of writing in her daughter, author Nicole.
First published in Good Weekend on November 28, 2009
Linda Burney, the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the House of Reps, and Lynette Riley, a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, have been best friends since teachers college.
Permaculturist Jordan Sly and rock band frontman Elliott Hammond: musical soul brothers separated at birth.
Contemporary artists Gillie and Marc Schattner are widely known for their anthropomorphic dog and rabbit sculptures.
Juris Greste, 80, and his wife Lois, 78, ran a global campaign to free their journalist son Peter from a jail in Egypt.
When radio host Gus Worland, 47, asks Jack, 16, how he is, he doesn’t simply accept, “Fine”.
Inspired by his guitar-hero dad, Ryo Montgomery has been described as the world’s best ukulele player.
Jacobson, a novelist, and Sebbens, an actor grew up together in Darwin and now live in Sydney.
Frid and Zlatkin have been best friends since arriving in Melbourne from Russia as five-year-olds.
Duncan Ransom, 35, is a virtual reality specialist, and was part of the Oscar-winning visual effects team on the 2013 film Gravity. His wife, Alison, 25, is a model. They met in London and live in New York.
Matthew Evans met Sadie Chrestman on a blind date in 2007. But shortly after, he moved to Tasmania to become television’s “gourmet farmer”.
When the tragedy of losing a child struck these two mothers, a suburban Greek church brought them together.
First cousins Lisa Darmanin and Jason Waterhouse will be sailing together in the Nacra 17 class at the Rio Olympics.
Claudia Luca, 31, was unable to conceive children naturally. Her mother, Antonietta Di Maggio, 54, volunteered as a surrogate.
Writer and poet Fiona Wright was battling anorexia when she made a new friend in university administrator Susan Wijngaarden.
Brothers Del Larkin, 43, and Aya Larkin, 49, have not always been around for each other. But nowhere is their relationship more solid than on stage as frontmen for reformed Australian alt-funk band Skunkhour.
Hans Post, 90, is a former SS soldier and his wife, Gina Behrens, 82, is a Jew who escaped Germany during World War II. Both have been peace activists.
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