Now to Love

In a Woman’s Day exclusive, the gorgeous television star tells Clare Rigden she can’t wait to walk down the aisle with her fiancé, Matt Kingston. It has been an enormous year for Winners & Losers star Melanie Vallejo. A hit series, a move from Sydney to Melbourne to work on it, an engagement, and soon, […]

Children as young as two are being prescribed anti-depressants. Elizabeth Burke looks at the arguments for and against medicating sad children. When anti-depressant drugs like Prozac and Zoloft became mainstream in the late 90s there was outcry against the desensitisation of people, a loss of dealing with human issues without drugging and sedating, and of […]

Ever had one of those days? Things are out of control at home, the house is a mess, you're struggling to get the dinner on the table and the kids keep wrestling and fighting on the sofa.

Ivan can’t help attracting attention, as well as cutlery and other metal objects! Like most active six-year-old boys, Ivan Stoiljkovic enjoys rollerblading and kicking a soccer ball around the garden. He’s also learning how to play the accordion. But young Ivan has a special quality that sets him apart from most little boys his age. […]

Three kids are enough for this online Lothario, who married his a 14-years-older US lover. He chose nappies and sleep deprivation over clubbing and hanging out with mates when he fell in love at 16 and became a dad soon after his 18th birthday. Now, three-and-a-half years later and father to three children, James Barry, […]

With quintuplets and a toddler to look after, sleep isn’t an option for these two Australian mums. Rosemary Nolan and Melissa Keevers’ Brisbane home looks much like any other house in their suburban street. There’s a swing in the front yard, shoes outside the front door, and you can hear the giggles of their 21-month […]

The pop princess tells Woman’s Day how she went from plus-size poster girl to perfect 10. After devoting 18 months to shedding a whopping 20kg, Ricki-Lee Coulter has spent the past six months working out to re-sculpt her curvaceous body – losing another 5kg in the process. The perky pop star has gone from strength […]

Isabella and Christian steal the scene with their high-spirited street dancing. Her name is Isabella, but as far as her mum is concerned, her little girl is Princess Personality. The playful four-year-old recently turned a walk to her dance class into a high-energy performance, and her theatrics drew plenty of attention. While Princess Mary and […]

Oprah Winfrey’s publicity-shy ‘rock’ finally breaks his silence – to declare his love for her to the world. It was a day full of surprises, tears and special guests. But among the movie stars and music legends who appeared on Oprah’s Surprise Spectacular last week, one guest did more than any other to take Oprah […]

Past The Shallows by Favel Parrett, Orion, $26.99 This is an extraordinary book, part psychological family drama, part mystery, part painful rite of passage, all engulfed in the wild isolation and natural richness of the Tasmanian coast. Favel Parrett’s intimate knowledge and understanding of this rugged heel of the world seeps through every pore of […]