by Glen Williams There’s something about Mary, and there’s certainly something about her beautiful look-alike sisters Jane Stephens and Patricia Bailey. Warm, friendly, poised and with an overwhelming sense of the importance of family – its little wonder Princess Mary is so grounded. When I first spotted Jane and Patricia I was convinced it was […]

True blue singer John Williamson fought back tears when he sang to a worldwide audience of millions at his mate Steve Irwin’s memorial service. Flying home after the service, the bush balladeer realised how easily his friend’s precious legacy could be lost … unless like-minded people stepped forward to help fulfil Steve’s conservation dream. Within […]

Steve Irwin often spoke with his hands. Every “Crikey” or “Get a look at this little beauty” that tumbled from his mouth was punctuated with a flourish. It was with these hands — “as big as an orangutan’s,” says his widow, Terri — that Steve grappled with the crocs that made him an international star. […]

Not long ago, he was on top of the world, newly married to movie star Nicole Kidman. Now, singer Keith Urban is locked up in rehab and everyone wants to know why. J Randy Taraborrelli investigates. The scene unfolds in West Hollywood, California. A woman parks her Mercedes in front of a gym, gets out […]

Exclusive extract from The Consequences of Marriage by Isla Dewar (Headline). These days, the allotment, with its winding brick paths, small white picket fences and vibrant flowerbeds, was a little neglected. Weeds had pushed up through the cracks in the path, and the small shed where the tools were kept, and where Bibi sat by […]

[Photographed by Rob Palmer.] Materials 1 bundle of 2mm round rattan core cane tape measure scissors kitchen string 2 x bundles of raffia 2.5m thin coloured ribbon flowers/foliage (either fresh or artificial) Method Measure and cut the cane into 1m lengths. Arrange the cut lengths into a circular form, about 3cm thick, ensuring the cut […]

Surrounded by her family and friends, actress and singer Belinda Emmett, 32, lost her eight-year battle with cancer at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital at dawn on Saturday, November 11. Belinda, a popular actress in the TV series Home and Away and All Saints and wife of comedian Rove McManus, the host of Network Ten’s Rove […]

For the first time, and in her own words, Schapelle Corby reveals the daily hell of living inside Bali’s notorious Kerobokan prison. Schapelle, who is serving a 20-year sentence for smuggling 4.1kg of cannabis into Indonesia, tells of rats giving birth in her shoes, of sanitary towels being left on her toothbrush and of how […]