Single mum Amanda de Cesare is on track to become Australia’s next international poker champion, reports Clare Rigden. To say Amanda de Cesare was a novice the first time she played poker would be an understatement. Called in as a last-minute replacement for her husband’s poker night, it was clear to everyone at the table […]

En-route to fulfil her lifelong dream of sailing solo around the world, the teenager says she’s settling in well to her life at sea, RAY CHESTERTON writes. Sailing out into the big blue, intrepid teenager Jessica Watson admits she had no idea what to expect – and that the world of beauty and joys of […]

I’m the biggest fan of rock and roll. I would spend almost every night of the week shelling out all my hard-earned money from my job flogging photo copier machines on seeing live music or scouring the secondhand shops for albums by everyone from T-Rex to Guns ‘N’ Roses. And I would dress like my […]

In an exclusive interview with JILL FRASER, Melbourne mum Shweta Verma relives the nightmare moment her baby son’s pram rolled under a train. It’s the footage that sent chills across the globe: a frantic mum watching helplessly as the pram holding her baby rolls off a station platform and is hit by a train. And […]

I know that this is really pathetic but I was so angry and felt really used… I’d been with my girlfriend for about 6 months. I was absolutely besotted with her. I have to admit in hindsight that I was obviously a rebound but at the time I didn’t see it. They say love is […]

I’d been engaged to Owen for three long depressing years. Polite people called him ‘frugal’ but I just called him ‘stingy’. At first I thought it was funny how he pinched pennies and always took me out to the cheapest restaurants in town and when I say restaurants I mean the local Chinese or if […]

Amid the horror of the Sumatra earthquake, Anastacia Howe and Matt Hannon’s reunion is a rare tale of hope – but, as they tell Jonica Bray, they are determined theirs won’t be the last. Separated for two torturous days in the wake of the Sumatra earthquake, it is little wonder Anastacia Howe and Matt Hannon […]

I had been dating my now-husband for nearly two years when I finally met his brother’s long term girlfriend. She lived in South Korea and we had always missed each other during her various trips to Australia. I was really looking forward to meeting her, thinking about how our children would probably grow up as […]

In 1992, Jacqueline Pascarl’s two eldest kids were kidnapped by their dad, a Malaysian prince. Now she tells Angela Mollard of her terror at learning she could be parted from her youngest children forever. ForJacqueline Pascarl, it seemed like the sickest of jokes. As she looked at the images of two ominous looking growths on […]

Devastated Perth dad Chris Nicholls tells Natalee Furhmann about the day his perfect life was shattered. When new mum Rebecca Morley told her husband Chris to go back to sleep after they both woke to their baby Freddy’s early morning cry, Chris happily agreed. Four hours later, Rebecca told him she had killed their son. […]