Ms Pitt suffered burns to 64 per cent of her body and life-threatening injuries in September 2011 when she became trapped by a fire in West Australia’s Kimberley region while she was running in a marathon organised by Racing the Planet. Ms Pitt, 26, had four fingers from her left hand and her right thumb […]
What do Wayne Swan and Greg Combet have in common with Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor? Yes, they all played prominent roles in the Gillard minority Labor government and announced their various departures following Julia Gillard’s knifing last year. But like the former Prime Minister herself, each of these men are penning their own accounts […]
It was those words, and 13-year-old Jordan’s determined self-sacrifice, that saved his younger brother Blake’s life. Now, his father John Tyson is campaigning to make sure that both Jordan’s memory and bravery are formally recognised with the posthumous award of Australia’s highest civilian honour, the Cross of Valour. “Jordan couldn’t swim,” John wrote on website […]
But like so many others, Richelle was battling mental illness – and tragically after years of depression, she took her own life on March 9. The Weekly‘s story on Jessica Marais and her battle with bipolar, was all too familiar for Richelle’s younger sister, Hayley, 24, who says there are striking similarities between the actress […]
Michael Dean, the US Navy’s director of ocean engineering, told CNN overnight that the acoustic noises which prompted a narrowing of the broad search patterns to a smaller, specific area of the southern Indian Ocean in early April instead came from “man-made sources”, most likely either the device used to locate the sounds or the […]