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It was 12 months ago when my parents decided to separate. After 35 years of marriage they decided it was no longer working. This was a total surprise for everyone, especially me. Two months later, we sold the family home and went our separate ways. I went and stayed with mum while my other brother […]

There will never be another bloke like Steve Irwin. He was out-of-the-box. A unique Australian who turned croc hunting and conservation into fame and fortune as a TV star — and “Crikey!” into a national catchcry. In America, khaki-clad Steve was a super-hero. In Australia, he was a loveable larrikin who was able to gain […]

They’ve been together for 20 years and now they reveal the reasons they’ve never tied the knot Survivor’s motto is ‘Outwit, Outplay, Outlast’ and for PR executive Mel Bell, 48, that’s exactly what life has been like with the man Australia loves to hate, Ian ‘Dicko’ Dickson. Their long-term partnership has seen its fair share […]

Sarah and I had been friends since Grade Four. We spent heaps of time together, even after I went off to a different school, and often slept over at each other’s houses. We were close to each other’s parents. Hers were a bit old-fashioned and mine were “modern”. We called both sets “Mum and Dad” […]

My problems all started just over five years ago. I will never forget my first day of high school. It was a warm summer’s morning, the sun was shining and there was not a cloud in the sky. Everything seemed perfect. Just metres from the school gates I suddenly felt a sharp crippling pain in […]

My whole life I have been jealous of my identical twin sister. Ever since we were little she has been better than me, smarter and more popular. At high school she got red house captain while I got vice. In our VCE results she got the perfect score that she was hoping for while I […]

Tom and I dated for only four weeks before we married. It didn’t seem to matter at the time as we were soul mates. However, a few months into the marriage I wondered about the wisdom of this. Night after night he would return home late from work explaining that he’d been visiting his elderly […]

I first met Thomas at work. He was handsome, flirtatious and oozed charisma. He was also married. My friendship with Thomas started innocently enough. We’d have coffee or a drink together after work. Sometimes we went out with work colleagues, sometimes alone. I enjoyed our conversations and his casual flirting but figured he was married […]

One day, shortly after I had ended my seven-year marriage, my best friend sent a group e-mail and I noticed that her brother’s e-mail address was on there. Her brother and I had been attracted to each other since the age of 15 and flirted outrageously whenever we saw each other. I decided to send […]

America’s richest woman can’t stop giving away her fortune. We look at the demons driving TV queen Oprah Winfrey. On Boxing Day, 2005, Oprah and her longtime boyfriend, Stedman Graham, had just taken off in her private Gulfstream jet from the airport in Santa Barbara, California, near her 17-hectare estate in Montecito, when something went […]