‘Had to kill her’: Folbigg dad’s brutality
Kathleen Folbigg’s controlling father killed her mother after a family picnic turned sour – one of many tragic steps in a journey once again being brought to public attention.
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‘Love’: What your dog is telling you
The animal expert who helped save social media’s most famous fearful dog, Sophie From Romania, shares three things all dog owners need to know – and how to help a pooch in panic.
Fresh blow after 8 women accuse star of rape
A New Zealand woman has alleged famous author Neil Gaiman “violently raped” her repeatedly when she worked as his live-in nanny.
’Give me 10 years’: Potter to politics
From reality TV trailblazer to author, Brooke Blurton wants to make a difference. Having just released her first novel, what’s next? Kids, uni and Parliament, possibly.
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‘A married, foul-mouthed mistress’
With London’s scandal-prone society obsessed by the king’s newest pet project, it fell to a man famed for his work with Australian wildlife when tragedy struck.
Frightened of the year ahead? Try this
Why horror is a force for good right now – and the Aussie film that paved the way for heart-stoppers like The Substance and Sorrow Spring.
‘Rows of cardboard cartons, in each one a small baby’
How nurse Vivian Bullwinkel survived one of World War II’s most horrific events is a remarkable Australian story. Less well-known is that she headed back into a war zone three decades later, as Grantlee Kieza relates in this extract from Sister Viv.
How Dr Karl’s Christmas trip became a cautionary tale
Beloved celebrity scientist Dr Karl shared his extraordinary life story in recent memoirA Periodic Tale. In this extract, he tells how a trip home for Christmas almost ended in disaster – and offers a timely warning for those partying too hard this season.
‘We must get off this place’: Batty’s horror on croc-infested island
David Batty knows Outback Australia better than most – and has had his share of hairy moments. In Batty’s Bush Bible, he tells why fashion photographers, musicians and the Top End don’t mix.
All in the family: Midnight Oil rocker’s surprise discovery
Midnight Oil’s Jim Moginie not only tells the story of the iconic Aussie band in The Silver River – he recalls discovering that he had been adopted and the long search for his birth family.
How beer-loving Bob almost ended PM bid before it began
Bob Hawke was one of Australia’s most legendary prime ministers – but as David Day recounts in Young Hawke, wild living almost ended his political career before it began.
‘Dancers and commandos’: How I detoxed Aussie swim team
In this extract from Tested, Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins discovers how America’s Cup champion John Bertrand turned the Aussie Olympic swimming team around.
My Queen ‘lie’ gave me an art attack
The most original biography yet of Queen Elizabeth II, Craig Brown’s A Voyage Around The Queen, contains dozens of little-known anecdotes – including the time an Australian artist found himself at Buckingham Palace.
‘I’ve seen some nasty things’: Life as a prison nurse
A former nurse gives Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh a rare glimpse into prison medicine – surprisingly declaring that “as a nurse, I’ve never felt safer than I was in the prison environment”.
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