I met Prince when I was asked to open for him at his festival in Copenhagen. I was always such a fan and excited about the prospect of seeing him live again. I never for one second suspected that I was about to endeavour upon the most career changing and inspiring 48 hours of my life. That evening I was invited to his hotel room with a friend. He opened the door smiling and wearing red pyjamas and offered me some tea and lemon drizzle cake. He told me he had recorded my performance and asked if I wanted to watch it back. He said he always watched every one of his own shows back in order to learn from his mistakes. He was a real perfectionist.

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Where was this little nugget of information in my antenatal class or 'What To Expect When You're Expecting'? Why did my bladder's and vagina's postnatal transformations get more attention than my brain's?

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As we enjoy the Anzac Day big games, consider how sport, as Nelson Mandela said and proved, "has the power to change the world." And perhaps take a moment to ponder the fact that Australia, one of the world's great sporting nations, has the opportunity to lead the way.

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While training in pairs can do wonders for your fitness, it may not always lead to happily ever after. If you and your partner are at different levels of fitness, it can be tricky to find a workout where both parties feel challenged.

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Now I'm not saying that it doesn't require a little bit of imagination to introduce, say, 'Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese' into the after dinner conversation, and even 'Out, vile jelly!' is not entirely without the need for context, but what I am saying is that in this, the 400th year since his death, all of Shakespeare needs championing, not just the famous bits.

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As life and work becomes busier, faster and more complex, our reliance on technology continues to escalate. This has led to concerns that we are outsourcing our thinking too much. So does it matter that we no longer do the mental math to divide up that restaurant bill?

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I recently spent six months with a negative, emotionally draining client. Like dust in my apartment, the toxicity settled in so subtly I can't even put my finger on when it started taking its toll.

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This week's photions include when you're addressed by the pink elephant in the room, a Collingwood supporter with wings, and a cab who didn't want stools on his back seat.

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You made a last-minute decision to donate and squeezed the visit in between grocery shopping and an important deadline at work. You took a few minutes from your day which helped ensure a lifetime of minutes would follow for me.

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For the residents of Minneapolis, the loss of Prince is too large to describe. His music brought untold joy to people all over the world. But in Minneapolis, it is different. It is harder here.

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Early in my term as Chief Scientist I told an investor forum in Sydney that I was in the business of finding success stories. It's a little unusual to be doing that. Most people I know are in the business of spotting what's wrong in Australia.

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Instead of a head-to-head, presidential style contest between leaders the government is relying on, this election is very much one between Turnbull and a united Labor Party, not just opposition leader Bill Shorten.

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His creative restlessness, his pioneering cross-gender vision, his otherworldly musical genius -- these were things that marked him as unique, almost an emissary from another plane. But it was the big generic compound in Chanhassen that marked him as our genius.

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For many of the familiar texts of the Bible, the answer to the question about whether they were written in 600 B.C., or earlier than that, or at a later date, may simply be "yes".

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I feel a kinship with Erica Packer, but it's not simply billionaire ex husbands and stunning beauty that we have in common. Erica and I still "use" the surname of our ex-husbands -- and that seems to be an issue for some who think it's an issue of feminism. I agree, it is -- just not in the way they think it is.

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The Australian venture/innovation landscape is vastly different from what it was even two years ago, and on every front things are getting better.

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In landslide victories, Donald Trump won the New York GOP primary and Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary. So what do the New York results mean for the 2016 election?