By Glen Williams Pictures: Grant Turner Love her or hate her, the Aussie author is keen to set the record straight about her views, after claiming childcare damages babies’ brains. One minute she was our most loved children’s author, the fun-loving mum with the vibrant imagination who gave us such classics as Possum Magic and […]

Our interview with children’s author Mem Fox continues ? and you can have your say at the bottom of this page… When are you your happiest? When I’m planting herbs (she says longingly and then laughs her head off). I love planting herbs. Number one, because I love cooking, and it’s nice to get my […]

When I was 24, I quit my boring, mundane job back home in Australia and travel the US for a few months. I justified it to my family, saying that living in a foreign country would be a cultural experience. They were worried, of course, but I was always the smart, shy, bookish type. Straight […]

Words and pictures: © Anna Moore/Angela Knott/Woman/IPC+ Syndication When Christine’s fiancé told her he needed to live as a woman her world collapsed… but now they’re married. Christine thought a trip to Greece was the perfect opportunity to meet the man of her dreams. And when she got talking with “good-looking” Matt Edwards, the two […]

My best friend Lyn was always lusting over guys she couldn’t have; they were always either married, in a serious relationship, or just not interested. Not that that was a problem of course — nothing ever happened between her and her latest love interest. But the really infuriating thing was that Lyn was always convinced […]

**By Glen Williams Despite having both hands cut off and losing his left foot, Terry Vo still dances to his own beat.** Who could forget the horrible day in 2005 when news broke that a 10-year-old Perth boy lay fighting for his life, having lost both his hands and a foot in a freak backyard […]

I had been with my fiancé for just over three years. He was an electrical engineer and I was a humble receptionist. Ian was simply an amazing person, so sweet, kind and giving. My best friend, really. I trusted him and he was my confidant. I shared everything with him, all my secrets, my dreams, […]

**By Helen de Bertodano Her notorious crime will never be forgotten, but this famous wife has moved on and is now helping others.** The name Lorena Bobbitt still makes grown men squirm. So, how has a woman who cut off her husband’s penis managed to start anew and find a man? After years out of […]

Pensioner Carolyn Hayes made world headlines when a pig the size of a pony held her hostage in a terrifying ordeal. When animal lover Carolyn Hayes befriended a stray pig that had wandered onto her rural property at Uki on the New South Wales/Queensland border, she had no idea she was setting in motion a […]

My flatmate bored us all to tears about being intolerant to gluten, so I set out to prove it wasn’t true. My flatmate Megan decided, at the age of 27, that she was gluten intolerant. Just like that. She simply woke up one day and pronounced to the world that she couldn’t eat gluten. No […]