Rachael Lucas

Nov 27, 2024 | chicklit.nl | Rachael Lucas

Rilla gaat naar het huis van haar vader in Applemore. Sinds zijn overlijden is het huis onbewoonbaar en aan haar de taak om het huis op te ruimen, zodat de huur opgezegd kan worden. In haar jeugd kwam ze regelmatig naar het dorp en heeft daar ook vrienden gemaakt. Nadat haar zus bijna verdronken was, mocht ze van haar moeder niet meer naar haar vader in Applemore toe. Bij aankomst wordt ze al snel welkom geheten door oude bekenden.

Oct 7, 2024 | abc.net.au | Rachael Lucas

With its calm and picturesque canals lined with yachts and waterfront homes, the Victorian lakeside holiday haven of Paynesville appears immune to the poverty that is quietly gripping the nation. But as housing and cost-of-living pressures continue to affect the nation, an invisible number of Australians in towns like Gippsland's Paynesville are seeking help from the hunger relief charity Foodbank. The Paynesville Neighbourhood Centre is one of 500 Foodbank distribution outlets across Victoria.

Sep 13, 2024 | abc.net.au | Rachael Lucas

Like many young women of the 1970s who dreamed of getting married and having children, Kelly Delaney hastily wed the first eligible bachelor who came along. Escaping a traumatic home life with an alcoholic mother, Kelly, whose real name has been changed to protect her family's privacy, moved out of home at 16. She rented a small flat while working at a pharmacy.

Aug 3, 2024 | abc.net.au | Rachael Lucas

Paula Jorgensen made the move to a modest share house in the leafy, eastern Victorian town of Nowa Nowa in 2016, as a way of opting out of "heavy duty, extractive city life". In doing so, she was ahead of the wave of tree changers who made the move to regional areas during the pandemic, as lockdowns closed many of Australia's largest cities. Her life once included a marriage, mortgage and two cars.

Jun 1, 2024 | abc.net.au | Rachael Lucas

When Lesley Wheeler, 72, noticed rental prices on the rise in her outer Melbourne suburb of Frankston six years ago, she had a stark realisation that the only way she was going to survive retirement was to own her own property. "Four months prior to turning 65, I'd been told by some job service: 'Don't even bother looking for another job because at your age you won't get one and you're a woman'," she said. "I kind of realised that I was going to be stuck.