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Rhinestone Cowboy sings his final farewell
Like my Mum, I knew all the words to all his songs, thanks to family car trips where we'd listen on the portable cassette player we carried in the car.
Helen Pitt is a journalist at the The Sydney Morning Herald.
Like my Mum, I knew all the words to all his songs, thanks to family car trips where we'd listen on the portable cassette player we carried in the car.
A regular (but overdue) trip to the skin specialist revealed the opalesque lump right at my decolletage.
Twelve days before Christmas my 10-year-old son Liam was hit by a bus. Bang! Like that. Our lives changed in an instant.
'Tis the season to be not so jolly, if like me you found yourself in a post office line up that snaked out the door this week.
Helen Pitt explains why it's important to vote in the US elections, it doesn't matter who for.
Sorry Nick Xenophon, you are wrong. The South Australian independent senator has called on the government to consider reinstating a national school milk program to help the struggling dairy industry and improve nutrition. Let me tell you Nick it won't do either.
At times I hated my swim coach Forbes Carlile. Like generations of Sydney swimmers he and his wife Ursula taught me to swim in the backyard of their Ryde home.
Most mornings I swim at Coogee Beach. That was until this week when storms lashed the beach, bringing a swell like I've never seen before.
Driving with my teenage son on Friday night along Alison Road at Randwick, I was confronted with the shameful sight of huge spotlights shining on ancient fig trees, while a host of tree loppers felled these formidable Sydney landmarks.
My hair and I hate sweltering Sydney summers.
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