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Jan 3, 2025 | 
smh.com.au | Michelle Brasier
By Michelle Brasier January 4, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The time: summer of 2000. The furniture: neon and inflatable. The place: Wagga Wagga, teen pregnancy capital of Australia. I’m sporting thongs, board shorts and two-layered spaghetti-string tank tops. I’ve got a blue Sony discman playing Britney’s album and I’m sharing headphones and minimum chips with my friend in the 40 degree sun.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
geelongadvertiser.com.au | Michelle Brasier
Heartbreaking and hilarious, Australian comedian Michelle Brasier’s memoir My Brother’s Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag moves between grief and joy, reminding us that life’s too short to be taken seriously. In this exclusive extract from the newly-released book, Brasier recounts her terrifying experience on a 2022 flight from hell, while on her way home from the Edinburgh Comedy Festival … That time I was in a plane crashWe’re on our way home from Edinburgh 2022. We’ve done Montreal.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
cairnspost.com.au | Michelle Brasier
Heartbreaking and hilarious, Australian comedian Michelle Brasier’s memoir My Brother’s Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag moves between grief and joy, reminding us that life’s too short to be taken seriously. In this exclusive extract from the newly-released book, Brasier recounts her terrifying experience on a 2022 flight from hell, while on her way home from the Edinburgh Comedy Festival … That time I was in a plane crashWe’re on our way home from Edinburgh 2022. We’ve done Montreal.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
futurewomen.com | Future Women |Michelle Brasier |Eden Timbery |Kate Kachor
It’s been 17 years since Arianna Huffington collapsed from exhaustion at her desk, broke her cheekbone and woke in a pool of her own blood. After that, The Huffington Post founder built a new empire aimed, very ambitiously, at ending stress and burnout. But while one reformed media mogul has made wellness her main mission (and mealticket), how have the rest of us been faring? The bad news is, in 2024, working Australians are fried.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Michelle Brasier
By Michelle Brasier August 30, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There are people in the rooms that don’t usually have people in them. I have to knock before I go in. It feels like a share house. Mum hasn’t cooked for ages. The neighbours are feeding us well. In a country town, when your father dies, everyone knows. And everyone wants to help out in some way.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michelle Brasier
It is hard to pinpoint a particular moment when I knew I loved Tim Lancaster from Tangambalanga (real place). When I first saw him looking at a dog? When he first draped a coat over my shoulders on a cold night? We met the traditional way: in a production of Legally Blonde the musical. I was playing Elle and he was playing Warner, the arsehole who breaks up with her and inspires her to get into Harvard Law School. (What, like it’s hard?) Tale as old as time.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
ca.style.yahoo.com | Michelle Brasier
Photograph: SuppliedIt is hard to pinpoint a particular moment when I knew I loved Tim Lancaster from Tangambalanga (real place). When I first saw him looking at a dog? When he first draped a coat over my shoulders on a cold night? We met the traditional way: in a production of Legally Blonde the musical. I was playing Elle and he was playing Warner, the arsehole who breaks up with her and inspires her to get into Harvard Law School. (What, like it’s hard?) Tale as old as time.
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Aug 5, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Michelle Brasier
Listen, 2020 wasn’t my best year. I spent a lot of time in my bathtub – actually, a large clear storage tub in the bottom of my shower – eating bread I certainly didn’t make, and watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Clear plastic, I discovered to my horror, is a material that fares best when it doesn’t have your flesh pressed right up against it. So I made a healthy decision to buy some workout equipment online and slowly wean myself off bathtime.
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Mar 2, 2023 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Michelle Brasier
"If I didn’t live in the shadow of this ticking clock, I wouldn’t know the value of its minutes," writes Michelle Brasier. Photo / 123RFOPINION:After losing half my family to cancer, a fate which I likely share, I have no time to waste worrying. It’s 2007. It’s a few days after my 18th birthday. My father has just been diagnosed with cancer. And even though I’m 18 and desperate to be an adult, on the phone I cry and for the first time since I was about five years old, I call him “Daddy”.
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Michelle Brasier
It’s 2007. It’s a few days after my 18th birthday. My father has just been diagnosed with cancer. And even though I’m 18 and desperate to be an adult, on the phone I cry and for the first time since I was about five years old, I call him “Daddy”. When I was young, when it was socially acceptable for me to call anyone Daddy, if I ever got into trouble, if Dad ever raised his voice, he would immediately go for a drive and come back with apology McDonald’s. Nuggets speak louder than words.
