WITH more and more media focus being on unemployment, poverty, the global financial crisis and how long it all might last for, it seems like now is a good time instead to be thinking about wealth and what it means. According to the latest research by George Kinder of the Kinder Institute in the United […]

**”Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I’m half-crazy, all for the love of you” — ‘Daisy Bell’ by Harry Dacre.** If I were to choose one bush that would give flowers for most of the year, or even all year round in frost-free climates, tolerate drought and grow from a cutting stuck into the […]

There are many lessons to be learned from the global financial crisis. The good, the bad - here's what you can take away from it.

Fraser Island is one of Australia’s great natural wonders and one of the best places in the Southern Hemisphere to see humpback whales

You may have lost your job or worry that you one day will. There's ways to bounce back from such an unfortunate event.

A department store in London is expecting to be inundated with orders for miracle “fat-busting” undies, which it’s selling for £30 ($60). In May this year, John Lewis’ online store sold out of the knickers within an hour and the company’s London department store sold out in one day. New stock went on sale July […]

When Aussie cricket star Mitchell Johnson’s mother recently made ‘unkind’ comments about his fiancee, thousands of other young men probably groaned in embarrassed compassion for the guy! Having a mum who speaks out of turn; a permanently needy sister or maybe in-laws who won’t butt-out, is all part of being in a family. And an […]

This gorgeous looking model is none other than Lindsay Lohan. These promotional shots, taken for Fornarina’s autumn/winter line, show the actress/singer turned model looking sexy and showing off her long legs. To see more of Lindsay’s Fornarina campaign, click here. Her face does seem usually freckle-free. Could she have had them airbrushed out? Your say: […]

For many years, the first thing I did when I came home was eat a passionfruit. When I was small, a passionfruit vine grew over our outdoor toilet, in the days before the last of the Brisbane suburbs were connected to the sewerage system. By the time I was in high school, our passionfruit vine […]