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Jenell Quinsee, pictured with Claire, told the...
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In our year-in-review special, Weekly sports reporter Lance Jenkinson looks back at 10 big sports moments of 2013 ...
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One of Victoria’s last suburban pony clubs, which has a unique reason for remaining barely 10 kilometres from Melbourne’s CBD, celebrates its 50th birthday...
BOOKS: Football history in black and white
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A life-long love of oysters and chocolate may be part of the reason Vera Grace Ewart celebrated her 100th birthday last Friday.
Vera marked the...
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It could be a script: beautiful young girl chafes against the academic expectations of her high-achieving parents and runs away to become a Bollywood...
PROFILE: Pallavi Sharda living Bollywood dream
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Jessie Deane has threaded more than a million stitches...
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Cancer patients who have no support can depend on June Hansen.
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