The Australian Defence Force is investigating military personnel’s connections to offensive sexist and anti-Muslim Facebook pages and posts. Townsville-based soldiers are apparently connected to pages with anti-women titles like “Big Tits Don’t Count If Ya Fat” containing posts referring to local women as “sluts”, Fairfax Media reports. The offensive Facebook posts have come to attention […]

St Kilda AFL star Stephen Milne has been charged with four counts of rape following a Victorian police review of allegations made against him in 2004. Police allege a 19-year-old woman was raped in a darkened bedroom just after midnight at the home of Milne’s team-mate Leigh Montagna after a club family day. The woman […]

Serena Williams has sparked outrage for making critical comments about a 16-year-old rape victim saying she “shouldn’t have put herself in that position”, but the head of Australia’s rape crisis authority says unfortunately “victim-blaming” views are shared by a large section of the population. Speaking with Rolling Stone magazine, 31-year-old tennis star Serena questioned the […]

The man who fatally punched teenager Thomas Kelly during a night out in Sydney’s Kings Cross has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Kieran Loveridge, 19, entered the plea at Sydney’s Central Local Court this morning. He was originally charged with murder, but the prosecution accepted the lesser plea. Loveridge was accused of assaulting five males, including […]

Crystal chandeliers, diamonds, Arabian Knights, lolly shops – this is like no other kids’ party you’ve seen. Most mums want their child’s first birthday to be a special event. A few presents, some music and games, perhaps a couple of glasses of wine for the grown-ups. But Mia Akiki isn’t most mums. Mia was determined […]

A family favourite is firmly off the menu for this shell-shocked Aussie dad, writes Letitia Rowlands. It was a delicious dish that Margot Green had cooked for her family countless times. But eating his grandmother’s chicken nasi goreng almost killed Shane Barnbrook when a small bone he swallowed perforated his bowel, causing a catastrophic infection. […]

Family and friends of murdered Melbourne woman Jill Meagher have appeared in court to voice the impact the horrendous crime has had on their lives. The husband, father and mother of the ABC employee who was attacked in Melbourne last September, submitted emotional victim impact statements at the plea hearing for the man who admitted […]

In the battle for readership in the magazine wars of the 1990s, Nene King stood out for her instinct, ambition and ruthless energy ... then everything changed, as Michael Sheather reports.

Labor Politician Anna Bligh has been diagnosed with cancer. The 52-year-old has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after having a tumour removed from a lymph node in her neck last week. “I am very grateful for the excellent care I have received from the staff of St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, and the loving support […]

When aspiring marathon runner and mother-of-two Trish Staine started experiencing unbearable back pain, the last thing she expected was that she was pregnant. But just 24 hours later she was cradling a baby girl. The 33-year-old US mum, who initially put the extreme pain down to a two-hour half-marathon training session, said she had no […]