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Sami Muirhead: love comes knocking

Do you ever wonder if the universe is watching? A twist of fate delivered to me a little stray dog and memories that will be some of my favourites of 2026. Let me start at the beginning. It was 4.30am and raining. I was worried my dogs were going to go More

Ashley Robinson: beware, outraged hypocrites ahead

Last week, I wrote about people booing racehorses, which I found quite bizarre More

Sami Muirhead: elixir for the soul

I have a new love language. It is bird song and it is More

Ashley Robinson: boo who? Boo you

I thought I had seen everything until a couple of Saturdays ago when More

Jane Stephens: a religion for the modern ages

Running is the religion of our era, with footpaths being pounded by more More

Ashley Robinson: America and its baffling contradictions

I really struggle to get my head around the US being described as More

Sami Muirhead: the good, the bad and the comfy

The most curious question I have been asked in many years was lobbed More

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Ashley Robinson: leave the time (and cows) alone

And here it is: my annual column about daylight saving time. On the first More

Jane Stephens: let’s all have a little respect

When a young humpback whale washed ashore at Alexandra Headland last month, it More

Ashley Robinson: for the love of clowns

I saw a bizarre story on the Sunshine Coast News site that caught More

Sami Muirhead: a season of change

“Things can change in a day. A day can change in a season More.

Ashley Robinson: troublesome technology

We had a bit of excitement in the ‘burbs last weekend. I was having More

Jane Stephens: the height of rudeness

We live in an age of linguistic caution. We think before commenting on More

Ashley Robinson: old age needs adjustments

If you have been kind enough to be reading my column over the More

Sami Muirhead: the woes of a third-born child

Who hasn’t forgotten to pick up their child? Well, I did just that More

Ashley Robinson: make moments to remember

I have never been much of a fan of Father’s Day, Mother’s Day More