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‘If it goes wrong, they blame the female’
DESPITE her famous Melbourne Cup win, Michelle Payne still believes that the Australian racing industry treats female jockeys with suspicion.
Original Wonder Woman fights sexism
FOR some superheroes, the battle never ends. Lynda Carter gave up Wonder Woman’s satin tights decades ago, but she continues to fight for female empowerment.
Tim Robards: ‘It was pretty stressful’
HE came to notice as Australia’s first Bachelor. Now Tim Robards has embarked on a new “journey” — writing a book. And it reveals a surprising insight into his childhood.
‘I’m better looking than Tom Hiddleston’
IRISH actor Michael Fassbender talks surfing, Tom Hiddleston and why he likes to bend the truth.
Inside the Holden and Hasselhoff bromance
IT MIGHT seem an unlikely pairing, but Mark Holden reveals how he developed an enduring friendship with David Hasselhoff after the two met during Baywatch’s early ’90s heyday.
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Mia Freedman’s son reveals worst parenting fails
AFTER years of sharing personal stories about her children with readers, Mia Freedman gave her son free rein to respond. And she found the result to be devastating.
More to Elsa than being Mrs Chris Hemsworth
SHE’S married to the Sexiest Man Alive – but in her native Spain, she is known as the Sexiest Woman Alive. Now it’s Australia’s turn to get to know the real Elsa Pataky.
Maddie McCann disappearance 10 years on
IT’S been almost a decade since Maddie McCann vanished during a family holiday in Portugal. As Stellar learnt on a visit to Praia da Luz, the case still haunts the sleepy village.
5 places to escape for an urban retreat
YOU don’t always need to leave the city to get away from it all.
Why Carrie Bickmore has been binge-watching the royals
I KNOW I’m late to the party—Mum life/work life/no life means I’ll always be late—but how good is The Crown?, writes Carrie Bickmore.
‘Writing a record at my age is liberating’
THE song All I Wanna Do propelled Sheryl Crow into the pop-chart stratosphere. Now a mother of two, she’s gone back to the future for her new album.
Why must fashion act like a Bad Boyfriend?
WHEREVER your physical insecurities lie, fashion will sniff them out and expose them. Which, ironically, means you need to cover them up, writes Kate Langbroek.
‘Don’t call me a bad mother’: Finch
JUST weeks after the birth of her second child, Rachael Finch talks to Stellar about the judgement directed at mums.
‘We need to switch off and get back to real life’
OUR obsession with screen time means we are filling ourselves to the brim with data we don’t need, argues David Campbell. It’s time to stop living vicariously through other people’s lives.
How Jai Courtney earned Russell Crowe’s approval
Ahead of taking to the stage in Melbourne to play Macbeth, actor Jai Courtney reveals what it’s really like to work with Aussies superstars in Hollywood.
The phone call that changed Magda Szubanski’s life
IT was a phone call alerting the popular star to unflattering photos of her in a swimsuit that finally triggered her to stare down the fear that her father never allowed himself to feel.