'Is it a back to the future situation where we are returning to times when extended family rather than professional childcare took up the slack of raising young ones?', Sarah Macdonald asks Dr Jenna Price in the lead up to her article in the Good Weekend.

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Is logging off the new black? Twenty years after Mark Zuckerberg and his mates started Facebook in a Harvard dorm room, tech watchers are beginning to ask: have we passed peak social media?

✍️ David Swan⁠
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They’re on call before school, after school and on date night. They’re paying school fees and house deposits. Grandparents have become the unpaid bedrock of Australia’s childcare system.
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✍️ Jenna Price
📸 Wolter Peeters

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At 66, Neil Perry thought he’d be retired. Instead, he’s transforming Double Bay
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✍️ Michael Koziol⁠
📸 Domonic Lorrimer⁠

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Just six seats a night: What’s driving the teeny-weeny restaurant trend?

✍️ Dani Valent⁠
📸 Bonnie Savage

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No kids, car or mortgage: How 2024 Venice Biennale artist Archie Moore makes a living.

⁠Interview by Benjamin Law ⁠
Photo by Janie Barrett

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At 19, Tom Nash was feeling a bit 'fluey'. Within months, he'd lost limbs. In the 18 months he spent in hospital, his mate Chris visited him every day. ⁠
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Story by Katie Cunningham
Photo by Joshua Morris

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Sydney's gay hate crimes and the lawyer, Nicholas Stewart, representing victims.

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A 170-kilometre-long desert skyscraper? A subterranean city? Inside MBS’s Saudi dream.
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✍️ Nick Bryant⁠
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‘A bit of a slow-motion train wreck’: 3AW’s Tom Elliott on his infamous father’s fall.

✍️ Konrad Marshall
📸 @kristofferlespaulsen
📻️ 🎤@tomelliott3aw

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On the cover of today's Good Weekend in NSW: the luminescent Julianne Moore who, at 63, is securing some of the best acting roles of her career – and has life lessons to share.⁠
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⁠✍️ Tom Shone
📸 Charlotte Hadden/Headpress

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She’s a sociopath – and a therapist. This is what Patric Gagne wants you to know about her
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Illustration: The Project Twins

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When American biochemist Jennifer Doudna discovered the master key for editing DNA, she opened new scientific frontiers full of promise – and peril. She also co-won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Photo: Christopher Michel

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Joel Taylor was a promising young bodyboarder until a rogue wave left him paraplegic. He didn’t get back into the surf for nearly two decades. Now he’s the para surfing champion of the world.

✍️ Tim Elliott
📸 Paul Harris

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Filmmaker Matty Hannon was taking a solo bike trip along the west coast of the Americas when he stopped at a surf break – and the tide turned.
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More people than ever before are living solo. But forget lonely-only, cats-and-wine clichés: many are flourishing – not in spite of their solo dwelling, but because of it.⁠
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Canadian John Stewart, was a celibate Hindu monk when he met his future wife, Karina, at an ashram in India in 1982. What followed was a very slow courtship – and a masterclass in patience.
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✍️ Nicole Abadee
📸 Dominic Lorrimer

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In a groundbreaking Australian study, Shannon Turner and 34 other terminally ill patients used psychedelics for their end-of-life treatment. They lift the lid on what it was like.
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✍️ Kate Cole-Adams⁠
📸 Brian Cassey
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‘That unguarded moment’: Tips from Ralph Heimans, the Aussie portrait artist adored by royals.

🎨 Ralph Heimans
✍️ Amanda Hooton⁠
📸 Photo of Ralph Heimans in his studio:⁠
James Brickwood

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‘What’s bubbling underneath’: Hunter Johnson’s quest is to help teen boys how to master emotion and empathy ♂️
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The Man Cave⁠
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✍️ Melissa Fyfe
📸 Josh Robenstone⁠
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