Susan Horsburgh

Workmates in the 1960s, Iris and Moira met in the same aged-care home in Melbourne – happy to have a friend they knew before they were “old ladies”.

Same time, same table, same order: Ian and Scott met through their wives decades ago. Without ever planning ahead, they catch up over flat whites each week.

By Susan Horsburgh September 12, 2024 — 8.19am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Titania Henderson, 79, was a stay-at-home mum in her 50s when…

By Susan Horsburgh April 18, 2024 — 5.00am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the 1970s, Myfanwy Jones, 52, and Hilde Hinton, 55, used to play…

By Susan Horsburgh November 23, 2023 — 5.00am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Listen to this article 6 min Writer Rachelle Unreich, 57, has…

By Susan Horsburgh August 4, 2023 — 11.55am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the August 5 Edition of Good Weekend.See all…

By Susan Horsburgh June 30, 2023 — 8.55am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Egyptian-Australian Hazem Hamouda, 59, flew to Cairo in 2018…

Chrissie Foster, 67, fought the Catholic Church with her late husband Anthony for two decades after two of their three daughters were raped by their priest. Their youngest, Aimee, 38, escaped the abuse but not the fallout. Chrissie: “Sometimes it…

By Susan Horsburgh March 3, 2023 — 11.30am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. This story is part of the March 4 Edition of Good Weekend. See all 14 stories. When author and organisational psychologist Amantha Imber, 45, was growing…

Assigned male at birth, Georgie Stone, 22, was a toddler when she told her mother, Rebekah Robertson, 55, that she was a girl. Both actors, they have since fought to improve life for trans kids – between countless cups of tea. Georgie Stone says…

Educator Jane Kanizay has four kids; Gabby Kanizay is the self-confessed “naughty one” who has always pushed boundaries. In May, with her mum by her side, Gabby became the youngest Australian to climb Mount Everest. “Gabby is more confident than I…

By Susan Horsburgh June 24, 2022 — 4.00pm Melbourne artist and therapist Jen Davies and filmmaker Cath Murphy, both 60, bonded in year 7 over their “difficult” home lives. They still find solace in each other, almost 50 years later. Jen: We met at…

By Susan Horsburgh April 1, 2022 — 12.00pm Together, 90-year-old Melbourne twins Liliana del Porto and Lydia Marcuzzi have survived wartime bombing, a taste of Italian Hollywood and a total of five husbands. They’re happiest at home watching TV…

By Susan Horsburgh December 10, 2021 — 3.09pm Townsville artist Gail Mabo, 56, and the third of her seven children, dancer and didgeridoo player William Mabo, 29, share a famous family legacy, but it was both having triplets that really brought them…

By Susan Horsburgh Updated August 27, 2021 — 2.37pmfirst published at 1.39pm From the scars of childhood homelessness to creating beautiful homes, interior designer David Flack (left), 36, and film director Mark Robinson, 43, manage most things…

By Susan Horsburgh Updated June 25, 2021 — 4.14pmfirst published at 11.59am As a 1960s schoolgirl in rural Victoria, Glenda Maes, 66, idolised her hip home economics teacher, Cathy McCallum, 75, then followed the same career path. Today, the pair…

By Susan Horsburgh May 21, 2021 — 1.59pm Artist Mel O’Callaghan, 45, felt a magnetic pull to director-designer Clemens Habicht, 42, when he cycled past her one day. Since then, they’ve tackled the seemingly impossible, including the surrogate birth…

By Susan Horsburgh Updated May 14, 2021 — 3.24pmfirst published at 1.59pm Nurses Beverly Howard, 74, and Olga Learoyd, 70, have worked at Footscray Hospital in Melbourne for a combined century. Neither friend plans to retire – nor let tragedy stop…

By Susan Horsburgh Updated March 19, 2021 — 2.54pmfirst published at 11.49am Retired Melbourne IT manager Les Firth, 72, anonymously donated the sperm that led to the birth of contract administrator Alex Mallon, 32. At their first meeting in 2017,…

By Susan Horsburgh March 12, 2021 — 1.59pm After psychiatrist and former Australian of the Year Patrick McGorry, 68, met philanthropist Suparna Bhasin, 49, he embraced her case for exploring meditation and breathwork in treatments. He won’t,…