Bashed backpacker David Keohane’s family were told to say goodbye. Glen Williams tells how he lived, thanks, they believe, to an Aussie nun. David Keohane is renowned for his compassion. A hard-working tiler, the Irishman gave much of his spare time to voluntary counselling for Lifeline. He was 29 ? in his prime ? when […]

Shauna McLean tells Glen Williams how a ‘wonder pill’ gave her back her life. The scene is almost Biblical. Shauna McLean, known until recently as “the nice lady in the wheelchair”, leaps from her seat, performs a perfect pirouette, then breaks into a high-spirited jog. Shauna can’t contain her joy, for she knows she is […]

Visiting the out-of-control teen after the show, Monique Butterworth finds her untamed and unrepentant. In her classroom, high school teacher Michelle Tayler has no trouble getting respect from her students. But her 17-year-old daughterMemphis Fitzgeraldis another story. Sick of Memphis’s drinking, smoking and out-of-control behaviour, the Queensland mum shipped off her daughter to live with […]

Tanya Angus was a normal young woman until her body was transformed by a cruel and deadly disorder. Just 10 years ago,Tanya Anguswas a healthy, vibrant and beautiful young woman with her whole life ahead of her. As a teenager, she would go to the beach with her family, happily wearing a bikini that showed […]

The nation was horrified by the 2007 starvation murder of a little red-haired girl we now know simply as Ebony. Glen Williams went in search of the tragic girl nobody knew. No-one around the tranquil holiday hamlets of Hawks Nest and the adjoining Tea Gardens on the NSW Mid North Coast remembers ever catching a […]

Ruth Frith asked for a home gym for her 96th birthday. This month she turns 100 ? and is the world’s oldest competitor in the Weight Pentathlon. Jo Knowsley reports. When Ruth Frith turns 100 later this month, she won’t be blowing out candles surrounded by loving family and friends … she’ll be trying to […]

The blind adventurer has never let his disability defeat his ambitions — now he’s a role model for daughter Taylor, who inherited his condition, writes Jo Knowsley. Gerrard Gosens has the whole nation watching when he appears each week on Dancing With The Stars — but his 11-year-old daughter Taylor doesn’t need to see his […]

She’s been painted as the most notorious woman on the rugby league scene, but Jo Knowsley discovers a very different — and very engaged — Charmyne Palavi . Brisbane mother-of-three and tanning salon operator Charmyne Palavi, 38, is set to put her NRL notoriety behind her after becoming engaged to 22-year-old Michael Browne — a […]

First-time mum Danielle Mackay thought her tummy was massive, but she never imagined just how huge her baby would be. Jo Knowsley reports. Danielle Mackay was impatient. It was June 20 – five days past her due date – and she was getting anxious about when her first baby would be born. But neither she […]

This Aussie couple blinged up their babies’ names to create a brood of designer kids. Every woman dreams of having a house full of fashion labels, but Linda Jane Alafaci has a collection more unusual than most; her designer items aren’t clothes — they’re her children. Proud mum to Chanel, 11, twins Cartier and Armani, […]