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‘I cry in the pantry’: Missy Higgins nailed teenage angst – now for midlife woes. ✍️ Melissa Fyfe⁠ 📸 Mia Mala McDonald ⁠ smh.com.au/national/the-s…

Spurs fans are loving 'Big Ange'. If only Tottenham Hotspur’s head coach Ange Postecoglou was shown such respect here. ⚽️ smh.com.au/national/the-a… ⁠ ✍️ Vince Rugari 📸 Ryan Pierse/Getty

When former Olympian Michael Klim was diagnosed with a debilitating disease, it rocked him to his core. After finding a path to acceptance, he wants to help others reach a similar place. ⁠ smh.com.au/national/the-a… ⁠ ✍️ Luke Benedictus⁠ 📸 Josh Robenstone

22 breweries nationwide have closed or gone into voluntary administration in the past year. Welcome to the rise and fall (or stall) of the craft-beer boom. 🍺 smh.com.au/national/the-a… ⁠ ✍️ Konrad Marshall⁠ 📸 Photograph by @simonschluter ⁠ Digital alterations by Ollie Towning

Tenpin bowling’s GOAT, Jason Belmonte, is an Aussie. His technique’s a global game-changer. smh.com.au/national/the-a… ⁠ ✍️ Amanda Hooton⁠ 📸 Pip Farquharson 🎳 Jason Belmonte

“I’m still quite shy,” says Allegra Spender, the federal member for Wentworth. With her eye on tax reform, she's preparing to enter a thorny national debate. ⁠ ✍️ Deborah Snow⁠ 📸 Tim Bauer smh.com.au/national/the-j…

Despite having billions behind it and broad public support, Australia’s renewable energy rollout is facing headwinds in the very communities it needs on board. For the transition to succeed, they need a bigger stake in it.

Comedian and actor Aaron Chen on how he chooses work (and his tatts), being intimidated in a Korean spa – and eating 40 cheeseburgers with a mate. smh.com.au/national/a-pig…

Dr Rachael Gunn (aka B-girl Raygun), 36, will be wearing the green and gold for breaking’s Olympic debut in Paris, but if it weren’t for her husband, Samuel Free (aka B-boy Sammy The Free), 39, she’d never even have tried a head-spin. smh.com.au/national/on-an…

More and more Australians are walking the Camino de Santiago, often as a pivotal reset in their lives – and returning transformed. smh.com.au/national/austr…

Amid a housing crisis, the number of “ghost homes” haunt those desperate to address the accommodation shortage.⁠ ⁠ In Good Weekend, Greg Callaghan explores why homes in our cities sit unused and dilapidated, often deliberately so – and asks: Where’s the political outrage?⁠

Now available in book form for the first time, this collection of 52 quizzes come in a portable size for on-the-go solving. ⁠*This product is for pre order with estimated dispatch late June. thestore.com.au/products/gw-th…

Australia’s cocaine use is soaring. Why? Australia, it seems, is awash with cocaine, despite its high price and record police hauls – not to mention hospitalisations and deaths. ⁠ smh.com.au/national/the-j… ✍️ Tim Elliott

She’ll face the GOAT and a very fast upstart. Can Ariarne Titmus beat them? ⁠ smh.com.au/national/the-j… ⁠ ✍️ Amanda Hooton⁠ 📸 Taek Yang, Courtesy of Harvey Norman⁠

Ann Patchett almost binned Aussie Meg Mason’s novel. Now, they’re ‘profound friends’ smh.com.au/national/ann-p… ⁠ ✍️ Amanda Hooton⁠ 📸 James Brickwood

‘I finally make sense to myself’: Em Rusciano on her late ADHD and autism diagnoses ⁠ smh.com.au/national/i-fin… ⁠ ✍️ Benjamin Law 📸 Abbie Davis

A former local returns to the small NSW town of Muswellbrook, where he finds an expanded open-cut mining sector, a hollowed-out community and dust – everywhere. ⁠ ✍️ Ryan Butta 📸 Chris Elfes smh.com.au/national/do-yo… ⁠

Attention-seeker or renters’ champion? Max Chandler-Mather is the Greens MP driving pollies up the wall with his no-holds-barred take on the housing crisis. ✍️ Jane Cadzow⁠ 📸Paul Harris ⁠ smh.com.au/national/the-j… ⁠ ⁠

The secret to finding la dolce vita? Staying in the same place for a month. Barry Divola set up a home base in Rome’s Trastevere neighbourhood. ⁠ smh.com.au/national/the-s… ⁠ ✍️ Barry Divola⁠ 📽️ Anna-Lisa Backlund Footage and photographs: Getty