Now to Love

A couple of years ago I split from my husband of seven years and then I got into another relationship soon after which has recently ended, coinciding with my divorce being finalised. I feel like I’ve hit rock bottom. I cry all the time and I’m so desperately sad. I don’t see the point in […]

According to global statistics, the popularity of online dating is at an all-time high. With the “desperate and dateless” stigma long gone, many are swapping the club scene for computer screens as a fun and efficient way to find love. In fact, a US survey commissioned by dating website Match.com found that during 2009-10 more […]

Mia Freedman talks about making her kids’ wardrobe look good, no matter what life brings. The best advice I ever got about motherhood is this: If someone gives your child an item of clothing you don’t like, make it disappear. Because kids have a finely tuned radar for knowing just how much you hate that […]

He hasn’t got a working prototype yet, but a UK man has invented a wristband that would theoretically change colour when his wife is suffering from pre-menstrual tension (PMT). Karl Dorn, 43, a plasterer from Essex, has called the device “Help for Husbands”. He said it would work, in theory, by monitoring the body temperature […]

There are not many actresses that polarise Australian audiences the way Nicole Kidman does. But there is little doubt that in Rabbit Hole (of which she is also producer) Nicole puts in a career-best performance and deserves her Academy Award nomination. Based on David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Rabbit Hole is about a couple who […]

To the delight of the public, several Australian banks have decided to abolish mortgage exit fees in the past few weeks, but it's not all good news.

Supermodel, mum and businesswoman Elle Macpherson returned to her roots this week for a modelling stint in Sydney. Elle, who turns 48 next month, jetted into her homeland to take part in the launch show for the new Virgin Blue uniform, designed by Project Runway winner Juli Grbac. To unveil the stylish uniforms, Virgin Blue […]

The recent months have been a huge challenge for Anna Bligh. As she faces the daunting task of dealing with the devastation in Queensland, Jordan Baker reveals the premier’s personal that side so few of us know. It’s the Saturday after Cyclone Yasi hit North Queensland and residents of Ingham have had no power or […]

Once a brilliant Test cricket star, Shane Warne is now making millions by turning his controversial private life into a public spectacle, writes Sue Smethurst. On Australia Day morning, Shane Warne rolled out of bed and did what any self-respecting international playboy would do. Ciggie in hand, he grabbed his phone and tweeted to his […]

Fifty years after the Kennedy presidency, the family who had it all is still making headlines. Sharon Krum reports on the efforts to ban a new Kennedy TV mini-series that has been branded “sex-soaked bunkum”. The news footage is 50 years old, but it still has the power to move us. Those grainy images of […]