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Even at the stratospheric levels of wealth that few can imagine, this was really just another love story. How else can you explain James Packer’s leaked love letters to Mariah Carey?
The HSC exams have wrapped up for yet another year. So what has the class of 2016 really learnt from surviving this academic rite of passage?
When one person cops a very public shaming — like the girl in the blue dress riding a wheelie bin — it actually says a lot more about us than it does about them.
University students have the right to know what campuses are safe from sexual attacks and what are the most dangerous. So why is that information so heavily guarded?
The creep of technology has changed the way we do business. We’re in constant connection with work, and our bosses know it. So when work stops being rewarding, what’s your next move?
The conversation around gender equality in the workplace has resurfaced in light of a start-up’s “male only” co-working space. This discrimination against women is just wrong.
While he is reportedly not turning into a woman, Bono will be the first male named in Glamour’s Women of the Year list. Because of course.
A frightening link has been made between narcissistic personality traits and road rage, highlighting how nonviolent acts such as tailgating can easily escalate.
Botox, fillers and cosmetic surgery are all choices, not scandals. So why are celebrities so reluctant to talk about it? All their silence does is make the rest of us feel bad.
In an era where skin is a universal currency, exhibitionism is being sold as ‘female empowerment’. What on earth does equal rights have to with nudity?
Small businesses need money and time to get off the ground. But try doing that on the government’s Newstart... it’s more like don’t bother starting.
The power of autocomplete is like having Kanye West as your texting co-author. It starts with an “Imma going to let you finish” interruption and ends in nonsense.
Expectant mums are sick of being the political footballs of this government, which has performed numerous backflips on childcare and paid parental leave.
Prince Harry is reportedly dating a mere pleb, actress Meghan Markle. And royal watchers have so many indignant questions, such as “Who the hell does she think she is?”
Why is it OK for women to risk breast cancer, heart attacks and strokes when they take the birth control pill but we have to stop a trial of a male contraceptive as it makes men depressed?
The Heart Foundation tick, the “not tested on animals” bunny, the frog on the Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee — we trust these symbols. But perhaps that faith is misplaced.
As the United States marks Halloween, the ghosts of Hillary Clinton’s past have returned to haunt her in the form of emails of unknown relevance. It’s absolutely tragic.
Functioning adults should be allowed to decide what they eat, drink, wear, watch and how they choose to feed their mind. So why is our personal responsibility being censored?
Hell hath no fury like a scorned diva with a five-octave vocal range. He’s probably going to pay her to leave. Quietly. And that, my friends, is the potential Packer payout.
I had no option but to start begging for the right to live, writes Galy O’Connor. I wasn’t just fighting the cancer growing inside me — I was fighting the government.
OPINION: To the young women who mounted bins, vomited in bags, urinated in bushes and tackled their friends at Flemington yesterday, where is your sense of dignity?
You should never congratulate a woman on being pregnant unless you’re sure that she is. Those lighthearted words of observation can very quickly become an irreversible insult.
There’s one kind of book that never goes out of style — the cookbook. And never have we enjoyed such a bounty of ingredients, recipes and garrulous chefs as we do now.
