Close to the bone
Erik Thomson has got his old job back. He played ever-personable patriarch Dave Rafter in hit Australian family drama Packed to the Rafters for six seasons from 2008. Now, he and television-wife Rebecca Gibney and much of the rest of the cast are returning in a reunion six-episode season headed to streaming platform Amazon Prime.
The original show ended with Dave and Julie selling up in Sydney and heading off around Australia with then infant daughter Ruby. Since then, they’ve settled in the country town of Buradeena while the older Rafter kids are still facing challenges in the big smoke. The family’s rural-urban divide has
