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The fire starter
A destructive blaze north of Sydney rages for days. Tim Elliott follows the investigation to find out if the inferno was deliberately lit.
A destructive blaze north of Sydney rages for days. Tim Elliott follows the investigation to find out if the inferno was deliberately lit.
TV chef and paleo diet champion Pete Evans eschews dairy and grains - but also sunscreen and fluoride - and his unusual advice goes out to 1.5 million Facebook followers.
In World War II London, a four-year-old boy's mother disappears without a trace. Years late, not even knowing her name, he begins to search for her.
Anne Aly is the first Muslim woman to be elected to federal parliament, a global counter-terrorism expert – and she’s destined to become a leading voice in public life.
As Schoolies week kicks off, emergency specialists are using hard-core methods to deter adolescents from risk-taking behaviour,
While the Test team is in disarray, James Sutherland is driving unprecedented growth in the game.
The daughter of a former thoroughbred breeder confronts the brutal reality faced by racehorses who've outlived their usefulness.
Her Instagram presence is too perfect for some, but this beauty writer, entrepreneur and novelist has reasons for focusing on the "shiny, fun stuff".
She fell in love with pro-wrestling on TV as a teenager. Now she's at it six days a week.
From revving sessions to poetry readings, occasional nudity to mullet-cutting, the annual Deni Ute Muster celebrates a slice of ’Straya.
Infidelity has become big business: but can marriage survive one partner's urge to "feel alive again"?
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.
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.
We’re entering salad season: try pairing this asparagus number with a homemade beef pie.
Veteran actor and producer Bryan Brown, 69, and his daughter, actress, writer and director Matilda Brown, 29, enjoy working together, but over the years they haven’t always seen eye to eye.
In public places, smartphones are the new cigarettes. How to get strangers to stop lighting up?
Book clubs are a way to engage in everyone's favourite 21st-century pastime.
This eccentric bowler threw a googly when he made a successful comeback to top-class cricket aged 40.
To someone else, this object that fits in the palm of my hand would appear just a decorative "thing", but I know otherwise.
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