Lessons learnt from a day watching the (fantastically biased) American cable news networks.

A whiff of something unsavoury brings a mother and daughter closer together. But first there are taboos to air, crisp linen to buy and exercises to do.

University students in Texas now have the right to carry concealed firearms on campus, a trend that has the police deeply worried.

The young Queen Victoria was nervous before her 1840 wedding to Albert, but what she described later was quite at odds with her era’s killjoy puritanism.

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Wilderness, waterfalls, wildlife, wonder: the pristine Kimberley region is not only vast, but largely undiscovered.

James Dack clawed his way from a housing commission terrace to become Australia's top real estate agent. Why did he quit?

Di Morrissey seems to have it all: a big house, doting partner, a legion of fans. Well, everything but a literary award …

Best mates Oliver Curtis and John Hartman figured out how to make it rain cash. Until the law caught up with them.

Victorian country boy turned Vikings star Travis Fimmel's talent for understatement is earning him big roles in Hollywood.

A Young Talent Time winner at the age of nine, Danielle de Niese has gone on to become one of the world’s leading opera sopranos.

A little bit of misery goes a long way – especially when Marlon Williams sings. It hurts, but in a good way.

Australian novelist Hannah Kent's intense historical research has paid off handsomely.

Local and international record labels are embracing this singer/songwriter's pacy rap.

Michael Zavros loves luxury, beauty and expensive objects. But is the painter’s glamorous lifestyle quite what it seems on canvas?

More than five years after Japan's devastating tsunami, some are still desperately looking for their loved ones.

In a chaotic world, embracing nature can help – for truly primeval wilderness, venture into a remote Tasmanian cave.

With early-onset Alzheimer’s comes the accentuating of deeply-ingrained habits, writes Daisy Dumas of her mother’s struggle.

After six decades of isolation, Cuba has this year not only hosted US President Barack Obama, but also its first Chanel runway show. Yet a local doctor earns $80 a month. What change is coming – and will it all be for the better?

A new investigation reveals the hand Scientology played in the Cruise-Kidman break-up.

Good Weekend writer Jane Cadzow was profiling the high-flying Labor senator just as the revelations of who paid his bills blew up in his face.

For far-flung communities in Western Australia's huge Kimberley region, there's no postie on a pushbike.

When this vet documented the appalling conditions faced by Australian animals on live-export ships, she lost her job.

Like humans, trees warn each other of danger, look after sick family members and thrive in communities.

It represents 200,000-plus low-paid workers – so why is it so keen on selling them out while swanning off on moral crusades?