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Jo Starling says discovering fishing helped her manage PTSD after a sexual assault in her 20s.

Jo was brutally assaulted in her 20s. Finding fishing ‘saved her life’

Women are finding friendship, community and deeper purpose by taking up hobbies - sometimes in male-dominated fields - in midlife.

  • Riley Wilson

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Chloe Covell’s character in the new Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game.

The Aussie teen handpicked by Tony Hawk to be in his new video game

Teenage Olympian Chloe Covell will be in the new Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 + 4 video game after the skating veteran picked the Aussie star to be a playable character.

  • Billie Eder
Jessie Tu tried skateboarding for a while, but valued her wrists more.

Skateboarding made me realise: I’m a writer – I need my wrists

I wanted to learn something new, something hard, and be gracious at sucking at it. And everyday I got on that skateboard, I fell. I fell several times each hour. I broke my wrist twice.

  • Jessie Tu
Ruby Trew at URBNSURF on November 7.

The 15-year-old who could break a 120-year-old Olympic record

She starred on a skateboard at the Paris Games, but Ruby Trew is just as at home on a surfboard. And she hopes to compete in both sports at Los Angeles in 2028.

  • Cindy Yin
Chloe Covell performs a kickflip.

Snoop Dogg, jet-skis and kickflips: The life of skater Chloe Covell after Paris

Fresh from her Olympic debut, teenage skater Chloe Covell is back in Australia for the Sydney leg of the Street League Skateboarding.

  • Billie Eder
Ivy Lim took up ballet as an adult, and now attends the classes run by her daughter and dance teacher Zara Lim.

You should start that hobby you’ve always wanted to try. Here’s why

For adults, starting a new hobby can be a daunting task. This is why you should make the leap, as told by three people who have done the same.

  • Gemma Grant
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Ava Godrey is one of the skateboarding stars of Queens of the Concrete. She is pictured with documentary maker Eliza Cox at Riverslide park by the Yarra.

Queens of Concrete: Life after the Olympic skateboarding dream

Australian Arisa Trew triumphed with a gold medal at the Paris Olympics, but the journey for girls in skateboarding isn’t straightforward, as a new film shows.

  • Cara Waters
Jess celebrates at the medal ceremony.

This is Australia’s greatest performance at an Olympics – thanks to our women

My enormous head bursts with patriotic pride when I look at the medal ladder.

  • Andrew Webster
Five hours. Four gold medals.

If you blinked – or slept – you’d have missed it. And it was a ‘wild, wild feeling’

Mark it down in the record books: this was the greatest day at the greatest Games in Australian Olympic history. It was a golden blur.

  • Jordan Baker
Keegan Palmer launches himself in the men’s park skateboarding competition.

They’re the king and queen of skateboarding – and they’re from the same town

At 21, Keegan Palmer is a two-time Olympic skateboarding champion, but the “younger generation” is nipping at his heels.

  • Jordan Baker