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Stephanie Wood

March 2024

  • Andrew Quilty

    Walk with ...
    Andrew Quilty: ‘Every person I would speak to touched on the close proximity between life and death’

    The award-winning photojournalist spent a decade in Afghanistan. Back in Sydney’s affluent east, he wrestles with the aftermath of war

December 2023

  • Painting: Sunny Day by Australian artist Clarice Beckett

    ‘I fret about the years that lie ahead’: the unique caring burden of single childless daughters

    A ‘highly naturalised’ assumption within many families about who will care for ageing parents can be a vexed issue for the daughters left carrying the load

July 2023

  • Carla Francis with one of her rescue cats

    ‘Cats are like mini gurus’: the feline path to inner peace

    By marrying Japanese philosophy with cat psychology, Australian author Carla Francis learned to pause, slow down and reflect

November 2022

  • A young goldendoodle resting on a sofa and looking at the camera

    ‘Our little $7,000 dog’: inside Australia’s oodle boom

    The desire for designer dogs has come with unexpected, sometimes ugly, consequences. But teddybear fur and puppy-dog eyes remain irresistible

February 2022

  • Boris Mihailovic, motorbike enthusiast and consultant to an electric motorbike company

    Guardian Australia Reads
    A bank heist, losing the vroom and an endurance swim

    We hear the stories behind Australia’s biggest bank heist, the (controversial) quiet sounds of electric motorcycles and 10-hour swims across the Channel

January 2022

  • An illustration of unclaimed urns of Wayside Chapel

    Guardian Australia Reads
    The unclaimed: the ashes left waiting in Sydney’s Wayside Chapel

    In the charity’s storeroom sit the cremated remains of seven former visitors – unclaimed, contested or forgotten. This is the story of three of them

December 2021

  • Chloë McCardel on Bondi beach

    ‘If I don’t end up in intensive care, it’s a bonus’: the beauty and pain of being the world’s best endurance swimmer

    From jellyfish in the Caribbean to hypothermia in the English Channel, swimming hasn’t been easy for Chloë McCardel – but can feel ‘so wild and free’

October 2021

  • The unclaimed urns of Wayside Chapel

    The unclaimed: the ashes left waiting in Sydney’s Wayside Chapel

  • Stephanie Ann Alexander AO is an Australian cook, restaurateur and food writer.

    Stephanie Alexander on eating with pleasure: ‘My remit is to go on trying to convince people’

August 2021

  • A man standing in a nighttime landscape looking at his phone, which is illuminating a sunny, bright beam into the sky.

    Self and wellbeing
    The ethicist will see you now: unravelling dilemmas at a decision-making helpline

    For 30-years, Ethi-call has fielded quandaries from parents, professionals and more – but the pandemic has ushered in a new raft of predicaments

April 2021

  • An aerial view of beachside mansions in Australia

    Sea changes: ‘My 84-year-old mother knows architect-designed McMansions now’

    Stephanie Wood
    After retiring to her little beachside holiday shack, Stephanie Wood’s mother watched a millionaires’ row spring up around her

January 2021

  • A cartoon illustration depicting the rising obsession with cabanas, carts and loungers among Australian beachgoers.

    Beach maximalism: a frenzy for cabanas and carts is taking over Australian shores

    Australian beaches are beginning to resemble campgrounds, pushing aside the little old umbrella users

September 2020

  • Spaghetti Carbonara

    Pasta and cream may be an Australian classic – but it has no place in a proper carbonara

    Perhaps Australia’s most hybridised pasta dish, the secret to a properly rich and glossy carbonara lies in really good eggs

August 2020

  • Dog running towards camera

    Stories from the dog park: 'In this new world of tangled worries, my puppy keeps me sane'

    Stephanie Wood
    Conversations amid canines reflect the loss and anxiety being felt in the pandemic. But there’s also connection and joy

July 2020

  • Morning mist over the Hawkesbury river

    The unmissables
    The Australian book you should read next: The Secret River by Kate Grenville

    We hold our breath as we read Grenville’s account of her convict ancestor, hoping for the harmonious ending we know cannot come

April 2020

  • A yoga training session during Coronavirus lockdown

    The good place
    Streaming the flow: 'Next yoga class I'll turn my webcam on'

    With studios closed due to coronavirus lockdowns, many teachers are leading classes online

July 2019

  • Stephanie Wood, the author of Fake

    The unmissables
    After falling for a con artist, I lost trust in the world – but I am anything but a damaged soul

    Stephanie Wood
    The author of Fake, Guardian Australia’s new Unmissable book, says her story is far more than ‘lonely childless woman who fell for a fraud’

December 2017

  • A Tuesday, May 24, 2011 image of a scarecrow in the James Street Reserve Community Garden in Surry Hills, Sydney. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

    Connecting communities: the gardens that offer more than plants and soil

    As a reflection of the wider city, the community garden’s role as a point of connection between the haves and have-nots is more crucial than ever
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