Lifestyle
Life & relationships
I was six and our PM was dead. It was time to escape my destiny
My father was wrong to tell people I’d be PM one day. These days, of course, parents would wish nothing of the sort on their kids.
- by Anson Cameron
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Opinion
Sunday Life
I’m losing patience with the endless stream of pandemic positivity
Achievers who exceed the Recommended Daily Allowance of Smug really should be strung up by the nipples till, oh, about the start of the next millennium.
- by Kathy Lette
‘I don’t need money, I don’t need sperm...It’s very liberating’
Some swear off romance once they hit a certain age. For others, however, finding new love in their 50s, 60s and beyond is glorious – and gloriously cliché-busting.
- by Fenella Souter
Opinion
Good Weekend
‘A classic self-mythologiser’: the larger-than-life story of Jock Zonfrillo
Celebrity chefs, Indigenous ingredients and the fallibility of human memory.
‘I’d be lost without her’: INXS’s Andrew Farriss on his ‘codependent’ Marlina
INXS keyboard player, solo artist and farmer Andrew Farriss met US dancewear retailer Marlina Neeley in Canada in 2006. Four months after their wedding in 2013, Marlina was diagnosed with breast cancer.
- by Michael Crooks
Pouring forth: how do wine trends begin?
It would be lovely if sellers could give growers five years’ warning, and alert them what people will be wanting more of, so growers could plant accordingly. But that’s not how it works.
- by Huon Hooke
‘Geez, you scrub up well’: compliment...or insult?
It could actually be a combination of a compliment and an insult – a “complisult”; a positive remark that’s loaded with negative subtext.
- by Danny Katz
Helen Goh’s jalapeño and cheddar scones
With a little acidity from the yoghurt, a clove of garlic, a handful of cheese and chopped jalapeños, these scones are packed with flavour.
- by Helen Goh
Neil Perry’s huevos rancheros
This tasty dish is such a great way to eat eggs whenever you feel a protein craving.
- by Neil Perry
The horror of a momentarily missing child
Whimsical, insightful, amusing: Paul Connolly’s Kitchen Sink Drama is a slice of domestic life, captured masterfully in only 100 words, with watercolour illustrations by Jim Pavlidis. This week, the aftermath of parents realising their six-year-old had been awfully quiet.
- by Paul Connolly
Opinion
Property prices
Will they ever own a home? The scariest thing about having adult kids
When your children grow up fears of them getting sick, making friends, learning to drive begin to lessen but these days are replaced by the million dollar question.
- by Kate Halfpenny