Good Weekend

Flames sweep towards the heritage-listed NSW Central Coast town of Catherine Hill Bay on October 12, 2013.

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.

Features

Pete Evans: Leader of the tribe

Pete Evans has been ribbed on social media about his diet of activated almonds, which are soaked in water to force ...

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.

My missing mother

John with Grace in 1936.

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.

New face in town

Portrait of Dr Anne Aly.

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.

Shock tactics

School-leavers are set to descend on popular Schoolies destinations next week including the Gold Coast and Bali- with ...

As Schoolies week kicks off, emergency specialists are using hard-core methods to deter adolescents from risk-taking behaviour,

They shoot horses, don't they?

They are bred for speed and grace, but when they don’t perform, the knackery looms.

The daughter of a former thoroughbred breeder confronts the brutal reality faced by racehorses who've outlived their usefulness.

Why we have affairs

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Infidelity has become big business: but can marriage survive one partner's urge to "feel alive again"?

Weapon wars

An anti-carry rally on the University of Texas campus.

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

Di Morrissey's fine romance

Di Morrissey counts her blessings. "There are, like, six people in Australia who can make a living from full-time writing."

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

Song of the siren

Danielle de Niese.

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.

Two Of Us

Bryan Brown with his daughter Matilda.

Two of Us: Bryan Brown and Matilda Brown

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.

Modern Guru

Adult Education

Benjamin Law

Better read

Book clubs are a way to engage in everyone's favourite 21st-century pastime.

Minutes With...

Endorsed

My memory vessel teaches how fleeting it can all still be.

Memory Vessel

To someone else, this object that fits in the palm of my hand would appear just a decorative "thing", but I know otherwise.