We reveal why this Sydney teen flew 6000km to add more J-Lo style hump to her rump. Helen Andreski searched through hundreds of online celebrity photos, feverishly clicking “save” on all of her favourites. But it wasn’t the gorgeous dresses or hairstyles that caught her attention – it was the bums! “I like the way […]

Being the mother of twins and a full-time carer, Josie Gagliano found it hard to make time for herself. But the busy mum has turned it all around with a new outlook on life and new found love for herself. As the mother of six-year-old twins, a daughter and a son, who has mild autism, […]

The High Court has unanimously ruled that the ACT’s Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 can not operate concurrently with the Federal Marriage Act 1961. The judgement read: The Court held that the Federal Parliament has power under the Australian Constitution to legislate with respect to same-sex marriage, and that under the Constitution and Federal […]

While most 16-year-old girls are worrying about their weight and obsessing over boys, Jordyn Archer was saving children who had been trafficked for sex.

This grateful NSW teen has a sobering warning for her partygoing peers. Aussie teenager Jasmine Baker thought she was dying after drinking a potentially lethal cocktail during Schoolies Week celebrations in Bali. “I’ve never been more frightened. I honestly thought, ‘This is it,’” she tells Woman’s Day. Back in her hometown of Empire Bay on […]

What began as an ambitious plan to transform cancer care, by creating an integrated and patient-focused centre of excellence has now become a reality, with the newly opened, state-of-the-art Chris O’Brien Lifehouse. “It is about nine years since Chris, as the director of the Sydney Cancer Centre at RPA had the initial conversations with the […]

South African icon Nelson Mandela has died surrounded by friends and family in his Johannesburg home. The death of the 95-year-old former president was announced by the South African government this morning. “Fellow South Africans, our beloved Nelson Mandela, the founding president of our democratic nation, has departed,” South African president Jacob Zuma said on […]

When you ask Australian TV presenter Tracey Spicer who her role model is, it doesn’t take her long to answer. “My dear mum… beautiful, bold and bolshie. I miss her every day,” she says. Tracey’s mum Marcia died of pancreatic cancer in 1999; a devoted wife, loving mother, a feminist before her time and someone […]

This Brisbane girl was a child herself when she adopted four children – and now she’s added one of her own. When her boyfriend’s mother passed away from a brain aneurism, Emma Gosbell didn’t think twice about adopting his four younger siblings. She was only 17 at the time but Emma knew she couldn’t bear […]

Jennifer McNamara was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer on the 8th of March 2005. “I don’t think anyone ever forgets the date that they were diagnosed,” she recounts. “It was three days before my mother’s birthday and when I turned up, wanting to tell her in person, she knew something was wrong.” […]