Rain, flash-flooding and snow weren’t enough to deter film’s A-list from walking – or wading – the red carpet at the 2013 BAFTAs last night. The stars took their fashion cues from the stormy weather, with the majority donning blacks, greys and dark blues. Anne Hathaway was a big winner on the night, taking home […]

The number of Australian kids who are not vaccinated is growing, putting all children at risk of potentially fatal diseases. Mum-of-two Zoe Arnold explains why there is no excuse not to immunise your kids. Picture this: a screaming infant sitting in a trolley, with his stressed mother pushing him as quickly as possible through a […]

The Academy Awards are just hours away and while Hollywood anxiously speculates about who will take home the prizes for best actor and actress, we’re more interested in who win another coveted title – best-dressed. Based on recent red carpet form, we think Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and our own Naomi Watts will be ones […]

The Queensland police union has sparked controversy by requesting tougher laws that could see pregnant women forced into institutions if they drink alcohol or take drugs. The union wants the power to lock up “risk-taking” mums-to-be to protect their unborn babies. Union president Ian Leavers has argued for the law change in a submission to […]

What do you do when your child breaks the rules? Shout at them? Take away their favourite toy? Post a humiliating photo of them on Facebook, which quickly goes viral exposing their wrongdoing to millions and staying online to haunt them for the rest of their lives? It seems extreme, but an increasing number of […]

Astonishingly it was only last week that France finally repealed a law dating from 1799 which banned women from wearing pants in public. The original law, introduced just after the Revolution by Paris’s then police chief, was intended to prevent women from dressing like men, lest they be mistaken for revolutionaries. The law was later […]

Women who are trying to get pregnant are more likely to conceive if they live near their mother, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Essex studied the records of 2000 women of the same age, income, fertility and social class who were trying to start a family of their own. They […]

Sydney’s fashion elite were out in force last week at the opening of the exquisite new Dior store, the first flagship store in the Southern hemisphere for the famed Paris fashion house. Dior has a lovely historic connection to Sydney: in 1947, Christian Dior sent seventeen of his preferred, ultra Parisienne “mannequins” to model his […]

WAGs – the wives and girlfriends of professional sportsmen – have a reputation to live up to when it comes to red carpet fashion and cricket’s finest didn’t disappoint at the Allan Border medal tonight. Australian captain Michael Clarke – who took home the main award for the fourth time – and his wife Kyly […]

Australian dental experts are calling for soft drinks to carry warning labels about tooth decay. New research from the University of Adelaide has found that 56 per cent of children aged between five and 16 consume at least one sugary drink, such as a soft drink or juice, each day. Australian Research Centre for Population […]