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The August 13 Edition

Indian-Australians: thriving, diverse and set to overtake the British as our dominant migrant group | Tosca Musk on her big brother Elon’s advice | Actors Georgie Stone and her mum’s fight for trans rights | Olympian gold medallist Keegan Palmer on skateboarding after nine broken bones | Saying goodbye to a mate given months to live

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Tosca Musk says a downside of her surname is that people assume she’s wealthy. “Elon and I are not the same person. Also, it’s not like he’s cutting me cheques.”

Tosca Musk on her big brother Elon’s advice

As the founder of Netflix-style streaming service Passionflix, Tosca Musk says her name is both an advantage and a liability.

  • Helena de Bertodano
A rehearsal in Melbourne’s east for an amateur Bollywood dance spectacular, celebrating 75 years of Indian independence.

Educated, ambitious, ever more powerful: How Indian migration is changing the nation

With Indian-Australians our fastest-growing migrant population, experts recommend understanding them beyond the prism of ‘curry, cricket and the Commonwealth’.

  • Konrad Marshall
Graham Caveney: after medical staff made an obvious error in a letter of diagnosis, he joked that they may have also mistakenly described his tumour as “malign” instead of “benign”.

‘We talked and laughed continually’: Farewelling a mate given six months to live

How do you say goodbye to a friend not long for this world? With words – and humour.

  • Mark Dapin
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‘Nothing about me, in any meaningful way, was male’: How Georgie’s mum kept her alive

Actors Georgie Stone and her mother Rebekah Robertson have fought to change laws and improve life for trans kids – in between countless cups of tea.

  • Susan Horsburgh
“I just want to be known as a kid who always had a lot of fun and was good at skating.”

‘Hesitation is how you hurt yourself’: Olympian Keegan Palmer’s golden advice

The 19-year-old Australian discusses how he felt winning skateboarding’s first Olympic gold medal, the meaning of life, and the worst of his nine broken bones.

  • Benjamin Law

Use an all-glass bathroom? You can see why I’d refuse

Our Modern Guru responds to a modern-day bathroom dilemma.

  • Danny Katz

Man vs food-container lids: My fate is sealed

Winning the battle to open a tin of beetroot, or sealed packs of cheese and crackers: shouldn’t it be a subject on the school syllabus?

  • Terry Durack

Riding the nostalgia wave

Paul Connolly’s Kitchen Sink Drama is a slice of domestic life, captured masterfully in only 100 words. This week: Echoes of the past.

  • Paul Connolly
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Karen Martini's buttermilk bang bang prawns.

Karen Martini's buttermilk bang bang prawns

This is lip-smackingly delicious, with the delicate prawns in crisp batter, then tossed in a spicy sauce, while the zing of finger-lime pearls and the numbing Sichuan pepper all up the ante.

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  • Karen Martini
Helen Goh's pineapple skillet cake.

Helen Goh's pineapple and ricotta skillet cake

Baking and serving a cake directly in an oven-proof skillet not only simplifies the process, it’s also an invitation for everyone to relax.

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  • Helen Goh
Marble Yakiniku.
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Melbourne: Marble Yakiniku

Marble Yakiniku is perhaps one of Glen Waverley's best-kept secrets.

  • Besha Rodell
Club Fontana.
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Sydney: Fontana

The team from Don Peppino's open Club Fontana at the Ron's Upstairs site.

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