Carbo is lonely with Ben and Melissa gone on honeymoon so he ends up on a bender with Warney and drunkenly allows Warney to move in fearing Ben and Mel would want their o ...

It's Ben and Mel's wedding weekend and it starts off well with Ben on his bucks night and Mel having an unofficial hen/pajama party. But the stripper hired for Ben turns ...

Rachel meets her ex-boyfriend Daniel at the advertising campaign launch of Rampart of which Jake is also involved. She soon discovers that flowers that she thought Jake s ...

Rachel sees Sammy having lunch with her old boyfriend Owen and hatches a plot with Jake to get Sammy and Nathan together. Meanwhile, Julie goes back to consult psychic Bo ...

Dave and Nathan are at loggerheads because of Nathan's actions towards Sammy and the disappearance of Chel is not helping. So Ted starts by offers Nathan advice on saving ...

Dave throws the party of all parties for Ben and Melissa's engagement which distracts him from news that Chel is attending the renal unit several times a week. Nathan pan ...

Dave's mother Chel is overwhelmed by a surprise birthday party thrown in her honour by the Rafters. At the end of the party Rachel discovers marks on Chel's arm which Che ...

Artemis prepares for her first day of work at the Boat Club but Carbo worries when she becomes friends with fellow bar worker Lexi. Meanwhile, Nathan's attraction to Layl ...

Carbo's former childhood neighbour, Artemis from Lesbos in Greece, comes to stay with Carbo's mother Rita. But Artemis has a wild side and it takes all Carbo's wits to ke ...

Dave's mother Rachel engineers an electrical fault ruse to get him to come and see her. She tells him that his father died very young and that she was hospitalised in a p ...

Dave finally tells the rest of the family about this early childhood and his mother and buoyed by their enthusiasm he goes seeking further information but is devastated w ...

Rachel takes some artistic photographs of Julie as her body changes but not all the family wants to see the results. Dave gets close to Ben's dog Doorknob and is distraug ...

Dave begins to have nightmares about a dog after Ben's adopted dog keeps making a beeline for him. Is the nightmare telling him he has to address the issue of finding out ...

Sammy's mother Trish returns to Australia and promptly has a breakdown and also has nowhere to live so she heads to the Rafters. Melissa moves back into Ben and Carbo's h ...

Ted and Marjorie's romance continues to blossom until he meets her opinionated lesbian daughter Susannah and her pregnant partner Abbey. Rachel gets trapped in a building ...

An older married customer at the flower shop gets to know Carbo very well until he realises she is stalking him. Meanwhile, Dave and Julie anxiously await the results of ...

Rachel tries her hardest to resist Dave's new electrician Jake's flirting but finds herself falling for his charms just as Libby begins to have feelings for George. Ben i ...

Ben is determined to get a promotion to Bar Manager at the Bar but must compete against another more qualified manager to get the coveted job. Rachel goes on a number of ...

Nathan receives a job offer from Tim Connelly and Dave feels betrayed when he thinks about taking it. Julie believes Dave is being ripped off by Warney but Dave refuses t ...

Ben blames Carbo for another near-failure to get Mel back, but keeps up the wooing, while in fact his own excessive zeal scares her off. Julie has clockwork morning sickn ...

As Julie remembers her mother's anniversary along with Ted and the family Nathan tries to re-connect with Sammy on their first wedding anniversary. But later Julie is in ...

Julie's hormones are playing havoc with her usual ability to give sound advice to her family. Ben decides to declare his love to Mel on national television with comic res ...

Rachel's boyfriend Rob's enthusiasm for playing happy families startles Rachel and causes her to break up with Rob. Will Ben get another chance with Mel after fate puts h ...

Ben faces a gut-wrenching dilemma. Should he tell Melissa the truth about his drunken night with Kat? He talks to Kat who promises not to tell Melissa but can he trust he ...

Fred is incensed when a new security firm threatens his smuggling activities at the docks and brings in a time-honoured scam to outwit them. Meanwhile Danny resorts to ad ...

Ted ventures back into the dating world but goes a little too far with his double dates. Dave becomes concerned about Rachel's new man Rob as Rachel gets to know Rob's tw ...

Bet is becoming increasingly frustrated by Fred's ventures - such as temporarily getting rid of her washing machine in order to accommodate a freezer full of boxes of had ...

Rachel tries to move on with her life after George gives her an inspiring boom but gets mixed results but it does net her a potential new older mate. After appointing Nat ...

Nathan continues his search for a job opportunity in property and finds out that his old colleague Damien has been bad-mouthing him. Ben goes on jury duty and meets Cat a ...

Sick of not getting anytime alone, Nathan and Sammy arrange a romantic rendezvous at a vacant property but are discovered by Nathan's boss Carl who promptly fires him. Ho ...

The Rafters feel their bodies let them down. Ben is ashamed an armed hold-up made him literally piss his pants, yet the suggestion of therapy is even scarier. Dad Dave's ...

Shortly before Christmas Dave wants more quality time for Julie and him, so he enforces domestic chores roster. Alas that exposes everyone to a practical breakdown, a mys ...