Radio host Jackie O has sparked a public row about parenting, with several high-profile women jumping to condemn or defend her. Jackie attracted criticism last week when a newspaper columnist complained she had returned to work too soon after giving birth to her daughter Kitty last December. Related: Helping your kids deal with disasters New […]

When Julie Hawkins’ third child was born, she and her husband thought they had “struck gold”. Unlike her two older siblings, baby Sarah was quiet, laid-back and had no problem sleeping for hours on end. But as their “perfect child” started to grow up, Julie began to notice that something might be wrong. In pictures: […]

Prince William will not wear a wedding ring following his marriage to Kate Middleton later this month, a senior palace source has claimed. The St James’s Palace aide said only one ring will be exchanged at William and Kate’s wedding ceremony in London’s Westminster Abbey on April 29, due to “personal preference”. In pictures: The […]

Prince Harry might be a royal, but he showed he is just like any other young man yesterday when he joked about his private parts during a swim in the Arctic Ocean. The 26-year-old prince was on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen training for his upcoming trek to the North Pole. In pictures: the world’s […]

It’s L day for me today… Launch Day. My book, Love Wisdom Motherhood. is heading out into the wider world. And I keep pinching myself when I think about who is launching it for me — our Governor-General Quentin Bryce. She is one of the fabulous women that I interviewed for my book. What a […]

The catastrophic medical accident at Sydney’s St George Hospital that confined Grace Wang to a wheelchair and deprived her of the ability to hold her baby son has prompted a review of epidural procedures across the NSW health system. Grace, 32, had antiseptic injected into her spinal instead of anaesthetic after a mix up between […]

It is a fashion truth universally acknowledged that women of a “certain age” should keep their cleavage and thighs to themselves. But to celebrity stylist Gok Wan, ankle-length skirts and billowy blouses belong in a Jane Austen novel and nowhere near the modern-day woman. This season’s hot colour: white “There is no such thing as […]

The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt, Sceptre, $25 When Mia’s husband of 30 years calls for a pause in their marriage (“the Pause was French with limp but shiny brown hair. She had significant breasts”) she goes mad briefly, is hospitalised, and emerges from hospital shaken but sane into a world entirely made up […]

Savages, by Don Winslow, William Heinemann, $29.95 It was Sir Michael Parkinson — well-known TV interviewer, lesser-known crime buff — who first put me onto Don Winslow, describing his 2005 novel The Power of the Dog as the best crime thriller ever written. He’s probably right. Four books on, Winslow returns to Dog territory, where […]

The Philanthropist by John Tesarsch, Sleepers Publishing, $27.95 The good man who does bad things is a familiar figure in fiction. So points to first-time author John Tesarsch who’s taken the harder road and given us a thoroughly rotten protagonist who does good things (like, philanthropy) though for all the wrong reasons (status and tax-deductions). […]