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A Holocaust survivor worries about the ‘never’ in ‘never again’

1 week ago | afr.com | Fiona Buffini

Fiona BuffiniPremium Content, Features EditorMay 8, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The New York Times story on February 8, 1945, is four paragraphs. It’s tucked next to an advertisement for raincoats and a Quaker dress.
Trobriand Islands, Bougainville, Woodlark Island with True North

Jan 28, 2025 | afr.com | Fiona Buffini

Life & LuxuryTravelA journey around Papua New Guinea’s remote south-east combines luxury cruising with some of the world’s finest snorkelling and diving. There are more than 600 islands in PNG. Many of the dive spots are new to True North’s crew and passengers. Liam BartonFiona BuffiniPremium Content, Features EditorJan 29, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Magic Pill book author explains why it’s not a weight-loss drug

Nov 21, 2024 | afr.com | Fiona Buffini

PolicyHealth & EducationLunch with the AFRAfter a lifetime of being overweight, best-selling author Johann Hari lost 20 kilos on Ozempic, but he says it’s much more than a weight-loss drug. Johann Hari’s new book recounts the weight he lost by using Ozempic. John DavisFiona BuffiniPremium Content, Features EditorNov 22, 2024 – 11.20am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Big super pushes boards on culture after WiseTech, MinRes dramas

Oct 27, 2024 | afr.com | Fiona Buffini |Hannah Wootton

Industry superannuation funds are demanding more scrutiny and accountability from Australia’s biggest companies on their culture and governance practices, as scandals wipe billions of dollars in value from WiseTech Global and Mineral Resources. Aware Super, which owns 1.18 per cent of WiseTech, will meet with the board on Monday, days after founder Richard White stood down following weeks of salacious revelations about his relationships with women that wiped $8 billion from its market value.
How to drink yourself sober with this one little $1 pill

Oct 10, 2024 | afr.com | Fiona Buffini

Oct 11, 2024 – 1.28pm or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Emma, 59, developed a drinking problem the same way many people do. It just crept up on her. The mother of five with a corporate banking job would open a bottle of wine when she started cooking dinner. Then, she started looking for recipes that required wine.
a year later, for many Australian Jews it’s still October 7

Oct 4, 2024 | afr.com | Fiona Buffini

Oct 5, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Lillian Kline’s grandparents chose Australia because like many other Eastern European Jews they saw it as the “goldine medina”, the golden country. “My grandfather told us that upon landing off the ship in Port Melbourne, he picked up a newspaper that had a cricket player on the front page.
In Israel’s north, waiting for Hezbollah to attack

Jun 27, 2024 | afr.com | Fiona Buffini

Jun 28, 2024 – 9.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Sitting in a bunker in Kfar-Vradim in northern Israel, former software executive Sivan Yechieli, 60, says the war with Hezbollah has already started, and Israel is losing.
Six killed in stabbing attack at Sydney’s Bondi Junction mall

Apr 12, 2024 | afr.com | Nick Bonyhady |Jessica Gardner |Fiona Buffini

“The devastating scenes at Bondi Junction are beyond words or understanding,” Mr Albanese said at a press conference in Canberra just after 7pm. “Australians will be shocked this evening. This was a horrific act of violence.”Mr Albanese praised the efforts of emergency services workers, including the senior policewoman who acted alone in “obviously very dangerous” circumstances to shoot the attacker dead. The attacker on an escalator inside Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday.