As the war between former magazine mavens is about to fire up again with the launch of TV series Paper Giants: Magazine Wars, former New idea editor Dulcie Boling launches a pre-emptive strike in The Weekly, revealing for the first time how she orchestrated the resignation of her rival Nene King, setting the scene for […]

Exposure to mercury puts our health at serious risk, so why are we still using it in dental fillings, asks Professor Kerryn Phelps. The Mad Hatter: Have I gone Mad? Alice: I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The phrase […]

On World MS Day, 43-year-old mum-of-three Megan Healy will complete her lawnmower ride from Melbourne to Sydney. As one of the 23,000 Australians affected by the disease Megan is aiming to raise $50,000 for MS research. She shares her story with The Weekly. Megan Healy was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1996, but she wasn’t […]

And the Mountains Echoed , by Khaled Hosseini, Bloomsbury, $32.99. There’s something deliciously engulfing about Khaled Hosseini’s writing, taking us on a journey so intense and recognisable that you never want to let go. It doesn’t matter that the lands he transports us to are faraway and unfamiliar. In fact, it makes the story even […]

On a hot sticky day in Kuala Lumpur Crown Princess Mary has her United Nations ambassador hat on as she spends the morning meeting some of the refugees who wait in line at the UN High Commission for Refugees. There are 103,000 refugees and asylum seekers registered in Malaysia and between 600 and 1000 come […]

She arrived in a modest motorcade with only a couple of officials and stepped out onto a carefully laid red carpet to a bank of photographers. Even in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Crown Princess Mary draws a crowd. Looking every inch a modern princess, Mary was elegant in a cream dress and a sand-coloured tailored jacket […]

What’s the first thing every woman should reach for when they go into labour? A vibrator, according to new book Glow Mama. An incredulous Zoe Arnold examines the concept of orgasmic birth. For most women, birthing a child is a chore. A really big chore, to get to the main event: a little person, a […]

“She’s a dream come true,” one of the Danish journalists whispers to me as Crown Princess Mary bends down to greet the day-old baby son of Madam Lee, a Malaysian mother with gestational diabetes on day one of Mary’s three-day visit to Malaysia. In Denmark, the Princess is the most popular female public figure and […]

Olivia Newtown-John's older sister Rona has died after a short battle with brain cancer. She was 70.

Mike Dolan visits one of Australia's most glamorous resorts