Media icon and former Australian Women’s Weekly editor Ita Buttrose has been named Australian of the Year. The publishing legend and Alzheimers awareness and fundraising advocate received the honour at a ceremony at Parliament, ahead of tomorrow’s Australia Day celebrations. Ita was honoured for “brilliant and groundbreaking media career” and “championing medical education and healthcare”. […]

Four-legged fundraiser Bundy has a top speed of 283 km/h and a love of sausages. This motorcycle-riding canine – who has helped raise millions of dollars for charity – is on her own important crusade this year. To continue raising prostate cancer awareness and visiting terminally ill children, seven-year-old stumpy tail cattle dog Bundy needs […]

A distraught grandmother says her daughter has siphoned her bank accounts to build luxury villas in Fiji. Queensland great-great gran Mary Douglas-Crandley cringes with embarrassment at the prospect of disclosing her family’s sordid secret. But heartbroken pensioner Mary, 82, is swallowing her pride to warn others of the perils of power of attorney privileges. Mary […]

My daughter Olivia was due to start school and I attended the parents information session to find out how best to prepare my baby girl for big school. I walked into a full room of mother’s looking me up and down and I immediately knew what they were thinking. I had my daughter when I […]

Before push-up bras, camisoles and corsets there were “breastbags” but until recently not one of the medieval garments have even been recovered. This month, archaeologists have found what they believe to be the world’s oldest bra hidden under the floorboards Austria’s Lengberg Castle. Radiocarbon analysis shows the undergarment — made of linen decorated with lace […]

Aesha Mohammadzai was just a teenager when her Taliban husband sliced off her nose and ears after she tried to escape their abusive marriage. Now, three years later, she is half-way through a life-changing procedure to rebuild her face. Aesha, now 22, is living in the US and is six months into facial reconstruction surgery. […]

A woman born in the Edwardian era could be forgiven for defining herself solely as a wife and mother, but there was much more to Dame Elisabeth Murdoch than the history-making men in her life. Although her fateful union with legendary newspaperman Sir Keith Murdoch spawned the world’s most powerful media magnate, their son, Rupert, […]

Thousands of strangers joined the family and friends of Jacintha Saldanha today, bidding farewell to the nurse who was found dead days after answering a prank call from Australian radio station 2day FM. Standing in the church where he wed Jacintha Saldanha 19 years ago, widower Benedict Barboza said his final goodbyes. ‘We expected to […]

The world’s first ‘gay bible’ has been published in the US, with all references to homosexuality being a sin removed. Dubbed the Queen James Bible — a play on the King James bible, the most popular English translation of the holy book — the religious text has been translated to “prevent homophobic misinterpretation of God’s […]

Thousands have gathered today to farewell the matriarch of Melbourne, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. Amid brilliant sunshine, mourners packed Melbourne’s St Pauls Cathedral and the streets surrounding to pay tribute to a life well lived. Some clutched roses, other sat with heads bowed paying their respects to one of the city’s most loved and admired women. […]