Josh Frank’s heroic fight for life is inspiring others. Jonica Bray reports. When Josh Frank shows off his chest scar, he tells tales of ferocious shark attacks and nasty crocodiles, but the truth is, this little boy is even braver than his stories. His 25cm scar is the result of heart surgery – or rather, […]

The guy I met was very honest with me from the start about having a girlfriend and a little girl and tells me he has no feelings for his girlfriend any more and doesn’t care for her at all. He feels he loves me more but he’s frightened he’ll lose his little girl if he’s […]

There’s more to the war in Afghanistan than terrorism. Glen Williams meets the brave Aussie women resurrecting ravaged communities. Up until now, it’s always been surreal. A dark item on the nightly news. Afghanistan – a place associated with buzz words such as “war on terror” and “Taliban”; home of the suicide bomber. “A bastard […]

I was 25 years old and had been married less than a year when I fell pregnant. Stuart and I had been together for 3 years and were married in a small ceremony early in 2002. We had always talked about having a family together and we both came across as ‘kid people’. Stuart had […]

Both my husband and I have always worked and we stay in a nice house in a good area but I’ve started to feel really fed up over what we don’t have, rather than enjoying what we’ve got. One of my closest friends married a man who ended up quite wealthy and I can’t help […]

I think the man fancies me, but I get extra money because of it. I found out because I was speaking to one of the other part time members of staff who’s the same sort of age as me and he treats us the same way. Sometimes he’ll ask us one of to stay on […]

I was with my girlfriend for five years and we split up for a while but then got back together again. Now I don’t know if it was the right thing to do. Since we got back together again she has spent every minute she can with me. She won’t let me go to the […]

When their mum went into early labour with twins, Rohan Townsend and his eight-year-old brother saved the day, writes Warren Gibbs. Tenderly touching his newborn brother’s tiny hand, 11-year-old Rohan Townsend can’t believe that only hours earlier he’d been delivering the tiny boy and willing him to take his first breath of life. With the […]

Years ago I lived with a friend of mine called Rob. He’d been a boyfriend from my teenage years and almost the son my mother never had. He was always invited home and used to do his homework at the kitchen table after school. When I went over to his parents for Sunday lunch his […]