The Middleton family have signed a multi-million dollar deal with teen pop sensation Justin Bieber to sell his merchandise in the UK. Kate Middleton’s parents Michael and Carole’s mail order party supplies company Party Pieces has bought the exclusive rights to sell the 17-year-old star’s new range of products. In pictures: Is Catherine Middleton a […]

Children as young as two are being prescribed anti-depressants. Elizabeth Burke looks at the arguments for and against medicating sad children. When anti-depressant drugs like Prozac and Zoloft became mainstream in the late 90s there was outcry against the desensitisation of people, a loss of dealing with human issues without drugging and sedating, and of […]

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Past The Shallows by Favel Parrett, Orion, $26.99 This is an extraordinary book, part psychological family drama, part mystery, part painful rite of passage, all engulfed in the wild isolation and natural richness of the Tasmanian coast. Favel Parrett’s intimate knowledge and understanding of this rugged heel of the world seeps through every pore of […]

The good news is that men will one day do as much housework as women. The bad news is that day is 39 years away. An international study by academics at Oxford University in the UK found that, if men continue to pick up household chores at their current rate, they will be doing their […]

US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were not invited to the royal wedding, but that didn’t stop them from purchasing a gift for the couple. The Obamas met the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace yesterday, and revealed their present: six Apple MacBook computers they were donating to one of […]

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Australia’s Royal Flying Doctor Service will receive a share in an estimated $1.5 million given to Prince William and Catherine to celebrate their wedding last month. The new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge asked for charity donations in lieu of traditional wedding presents. In pictures: Most shocking royal scandals They nominated 26 charities around the […]

A secret list ranking the popularity of television stars was published today, listing Hamish Blake, Andrew Denton and Rebecca Gibney as the top 3 celebrities. The document, compiled by research firm Audience Development Australia and printed in The Australian, is used by the TV and advertising industries to help decide whether to cast stars in […]

The Weekly’s Deputy Editor Jo Wiles on why we shouldn’t be shocked by the thigh-grazing mini-skirts proudly worn by today’s young women. I’m accustomed to seeing legs. And, flesh. And, pelmet-skimming skirts. As an art student in the late sixties — the heyday of the mini, Mary Quant, Biba and The Beatles, I showed so […]