This and more intimate questions answered by Jessica Rowe.
"We're in the fashion game, we're always dreaming and wanting to inspire people, but I think we're in for a bit of a reality check this year and that perhaps got to do with the reality check going on around the world. There's a lot of realness going on," Australia's leading creative director and stylist Mark Vassallo says.
From J.K. Rowling to Tina Fey, many female celebrities have celebrated the joy, humour, pain and the wonders of motherhood.
"The not-so-subtle message being parlayed through all of this cotton candy fluff is pretty easy to decipher: Mums, thanks for devoting almost 90 per cent of your lives to doing all the unpaid, boring domestic work that no one else (Dads) can be bothered doing."
A year on, Clementine Ford's Mother's Day advice is still required reading for tomorrow.
We're devastated to hear the news that legendary ABC journalist Mark Colvin has died, aged 65. Here he is in the 70s sporting one of the greatest moustaches of all time.
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"1. Do not ask me to plan anything about the day. NOTHING. I want a rest from planning and organising. I don't care what we end up doing. If you have put thought and some consideration into it, then I will love it because of that."
A new study found four cups of coffee a day is 'safe', but keep in mind that there is a difference between 'safe' and 'good' or 'recommended':
Researchers from The University of Sydney were hoping to produce a list of mental health apps they could advocate to the public. "But we, in good conscience at the end of the day, didn't feel like we could endorse any of the apps":
As one of the "certain members of society" this petition by a handful of well-meaning celebrities regards, I will not be satisfied by mere tolerance.
Daily Life shared The Sydney Morning Herald's post.
Teachers have gotten hours back in the classroom and students are more engaged since Allambie Heights Public School stopped giving homework.
Half all Australian women experience pregnancy discrimination, and one in five report losing their jobs during either pregnancy or on returning to work. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission says the real figure is higher, because many women fear reprisals for reporting.
IKEA doesn't want us to be fooled by expensive imitators.
"I love the power of comedy to illuminate absurd logic," the comedian told Daily Life. "That so many people thought [the story] was true shows it's not too far from reality."