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Carolyn Webb

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 5, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Carolyn Webb

    This family has been selling showbags since 1947. These are their favourites (opens the original)

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    Life is sweet when your family runs showbags stalls at the Melbourne Royal Show – and Samantha Atkinson doesn’t disagree. When she was a child in the 1980s and ’90s, Atkinson was like a kid in a candy store with free access to Barbie, Cadbury and her favourite, Hubba Bubba chewing gum showbags. She doesn’t try to play it down. “It was amazing,” she says. “I’d just go behind the counter and take them.” Now Atkinson’s own daughter, Asher Gilbert, 12, has her pick of bags, of which her favourite is

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Carolyn Webb

    Poultry fanciers’ show dreams fail to hatch after bird flu scare (opens the original)

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    As an elder statesman of poultry-fancying, Alf Woods is mentoring someone in the craft, and you could say his protege is a chick off the old block. Woods, who has been a poultry competitor for almost 90 years, is cock-a-hoop that his 10-year-old great-grandson, Blair, is egg-cited by the hobby. “It’s a passing of the baton to a younger person, and I think it’s great,” Woods said. Blair’s first competitions this year including winning best junior at the Pekin Bantam Club of Victoria’s annual show

  3. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Carolyn Webb

    Russell faced two years of hell after saving his neighbour (opens the original)

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    A series of “blood-curdling” screams sparked Russell Harrison to rush to his female neighbour’s aid one summer afternoon, 11 years ago. As a veteran of the US Army including the elite Special Forces, Harrison says he is inclined, “to run towards trouble”. However, on this day, that trouble resulted in him being attacked and then subjected to two years of police and coronial inquiries. Harrison remembers crossing the road after hearing the screams and following a stranger whom he’d spotted dartin

  4. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Carolyn Webb

    He survived being hit by a tram. Now he plans to run a marathon (opens the original)

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    Minutes after Ben Turner was hit by a tram, all indications were that he had died. Ambulance officers who arrived at the scene that Friday night, in South Melbourne, in 2005, found that the 29-year-old’s heart had stopped and he wasn’t breathing. Paramedic Mick Stephenson says Turner was lying face-down between the tram tracks in Kings Way, his face smashed, and with one leg flung over his head. Stephenson says Turner’s chances of successful resuscitation were next to none. “If your heart stops

  5. Article · Aug 23, 2026 · Carolyn Webb

    After four decades, Sascha and Kate are still singing each other’s praises (opens the original)

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    At her first rehearsal with the Australian Children’s Choir, Sascha Davis knew no one and felt nervous. It was 1987 and she was seven years old. Then she spied a smiling girl, about her age, called Kate Howard. “She tapped the chair next to her and said come and sit next to me,” Davis recalls. The girls sang together for the next decade and became lifelong friends. “We got on like a house on fire,” Davis says. “We went to different schools and it was only the choir we had in common, but we’re st

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