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She brought Jane Austen’s classic Emma to life, and took home an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. She founded the popular lifestyle blog Goop, created a best-selling cookbook and starred in a PBS food and travel series called Spain… on the Road Again. But it seems that none of this warrants consideration for the job […]

Channel Nine’s The Today Show host Lisa Wilkinson put the Prime Minister on the spot on Monday morning when she asked him what he thought was his biggest achievement as the country’s Minister for Women. Channel Nine’s The Today Show host Lisa Wilkinson put the Prime Minister on the spot on Monday morning when she […]

UPDATE: The 37 year-old woman identified as the mother of 7 of the 8 children found dead has been arrested over the deaths of the children in the Cairns home. The woman, taken to hospital on Friday with stab wounds, is under guard at a Cairns hospital. The children were aged between 18 months and […]

The Chairman of beyondblue Jeff Kennett made the announcement on Thursday after the doard ratified Ms Gillard’s appointment at a meeting last Tuesday. Mr Kennett said: “We are particularly honoured that Julia Gillard has seen fit to join our organisation as we continue to serve those in the community suffering depression and anxiety and who are at […]

A homeless man in the UK is being rewarded for his good Samaritan behaviour after he offered his last few dollars to a young woman who had been stranded on her way home from a night out. The man, known only as Robbie, has now become the beneficiary of UK student Dominique Harrison-Bentzen’s, 22, campaign […]

If you are a parent there is a very good chance that you have heard the song from the phenomenally successful animated film Frozen, “Let it Go”. And for that, the director says "sorry."

The two women, aged 35 and 30, and 15 others were taken hostage in a dramatic 17-hour siege at the Lindt Café in the heart of Sydney’s CBD on Monday morning. This morning Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn confirmed the two pregnant women had been assessed and both were in a stable condition. One of the […]

It was a moment of relief for Marcia Mikhael's family and friends. The image of her being carried out alive of the Lindt cafe in the early hours of this morning put an end to the distress and pain they had been feeling for close to 17 hours

NSW Police say that a story about a man warning people of an impending terrorist attack in Sydney on New Year’s Eve is a hoax. Sources say the story circulating around the community talks about a Sydneysider who finds a wallet and returns it to the owner – often described as being a Middle Eastern […]

Sydney mother-of-three Katrina Dawson was one of the two hostages killed in the siege in Sydney’s Martin Place early Tuesday morning. The 38-year-old barrister – who specialised in commercial, bankruptcy and corporations’ law – worked at Eight Selborne, had three children, aged eight, five and three. Ms Dawson was pronounced dead after being taken to […]