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Dame Teresa Rees obituary

Teresa Rees, professor emerita of social sciences at Cardiff University, who has died of cancer aged 74, was an enthusiastic and effective campaigner for gender equality, and played an important role in bringing about change in universities…

Dame Edna was my nanny

The year is 1959 and the place is Melbourne. A 25-year-old actor with a fondness for Samuel Beckett, booze, poetry and outrageous pranks has just got married for the second time, to a beautiful ballet dancer. Keen to escape the…