The weather is getting colder and once again, we have nothing to wear – but this year looking great doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Westfield stylist Jo Blankfield says this season’s new trends are not only easy to incorporate into your wardrobe – they also compliment last year’s trends. Her first piece of advice? […]

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.

The good news is that men will one day do as much housework as women. The bad news is that day is 39 years away. An international study by academics at Oxford University in the UK found that, if men continue to pick up household chores at their current rate, they will be doing their […]

The Weekly’s Deputy Editor Jo Wiles on why we shouldn’t be shocked by the thigh-grazing mini-skirts proudly worn by today’s young women. I’m accustomed to seeing legs. And, flesh. And, pelmet-skimming skirts. As an art student in the late sixties — the heyday of the mini, Mary Quant, Biba and The Beatles, I showed so […]

Jamie Durie has travelled the world but he’s never found anywhere like Dunedin on New Zealand’s South Island. I’ve been to New Zealand more than 15 times but every time I go back, I’m blown away all over again by the rare forms of plant life found there, the friendly people and the spectacular cities […]

Every woman wants their wedding to be unique and special, but in this day and age is it actually possible to pull off an original wedding without being called a copycat? “Wedding poaching” is on the rise and from the flowers to the wedding album, more and more couples are poaching ideas from other weddings […]

As the sex scandal surrounding the International Monetary Fund chief rages on, Bryce Corbett questions whether the French have it right when it comes to sexual mores. The arrest in New York at the weekend of International Monetary Fund chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has caused shockwaves around the world, and once again raised the topic of […]

A US woman provoked outrage across the world last week when she admitted to injecting her eight-year-old daughter with Botox on national television. Kerry Campbell was unrepentant in the interview, claiming her daughter Britney had asked for the anti-wrinkle injections to boost her confidence in child beauty pageants. ”It’s a tough world in the pageant […]

In summer, red-hot pokers are, well, just too red, and sometimes yellow too — great lumbering things with blooms often more than a metre high, that look gaudy in all the summer glare. Yes, they’re hardy — so indestructible they really need a semi-trailer to back over them to daunt them. But despite their magnificence, […]