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IT’S been 50 years since a young Marion Adamson stepped aboard a ship and into a world that would revolutionise music in the UK. The Mollymook retiree is a pioneer of Radio Caroline, England’s illegal offshore radio station made famous with the release of the movie The Boat That Rocked. And rock it did! “ThoseContinue reading “Wild times aboard the boat that really rocked”

THEY had been joking about it all through their pregnancies, but Shoalhaven sisters Danielle Harris and Chloe McLeod didn’t expect their babies would actually be born on the same day. At 9am on February 10, Danielle gave birth to baby Anaya Madison Star and, six hours later, Chloe delivered baby Ryder Luke in the sameContinue reading “DOUBLE DELIGHT FOR SISTERS”

Big John, named after its first owner and Joe Meli’s father, still bobs proudly in Ulladulla Harbour where it has been moored for more than 50 years. The 18-foot clinker is used by Joe and his older brother Fred two or three times a week and almost daily when their grandchildren come to visit. “IContinue reading “50 years on, Big Joe is still afloat”

Australian woman Emily Richardson married an Egyptian Muslim man 17 years ago and the couple are now raising their two sons to be “respectful and accepting of other people’s beliefs”, splitting their lives between the bustling metropolis of Cairo and a pristine beach hamlet on the South Coast of NSW.   “Our similarities are much greater thanContinue reading “Raising Aussie Muslim boys to ‘be part of the solution’”

Twice a week Pam Burridge and up to 10 women, all aged in their 40s or 50s, go in search of “that perfect wave” on the New South Wales South Coast. Some are trying it for the first time, while others are going back to their teenage years – before careers and families consumed mostContinue reading “WOMEN ARE HAPPIER WHEN THEY SURF: PAM BURRIDGE”