The life of curator Margot Riley
Don’t judge the NSW State Library curator by her navy blue cover. In a wide-ranging interview with Leo Scholfield, Margot Riley reveals her story.
Special Features
Six dead after cars drove off jetty in fog
It’s still one of the worst accidents in Central Coast history — the night in 1936 when two cars hurtled off the end of a Davistown jetty in a fog and sunk into the darkness. Rescuers rushed to help as sharks circled.
Why L’Estrange didn’t walk the walk
When the French tightrope walker Jean Francois Gravelet, who called himself Blondin, walked a tightrope across Niagara Falls on June 30, 1859, he stunned the world.
Sharing memories through food
Mixing four different cultures into one, Saada Abdikarim shares why her fried rice bridges the distance between her Australian born children and Somali born mother, bringing back old memories and creating new ones.
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Ellyse Perry’s heart is at home on the north shore
ELLYSE PERRY may travel the world as a superstar cricketer but she loves nothing more than coming home to Sydney’s north shore. Perry, 27, took time out ahead of the Women’s Ashes Test against England to talk to the North Shore Times.
What happens when you win $1 million?
From being sworn at to being hung up on, Elissa Lewis and her lotteries team have heard it all. Even though they’re calling to deliver once-in-a-lifetime news. But to them it’s still the best job in the world.
Look out! Milo Yiannopoulos is coming
In the sweetest revenge against detractors who left social media class-clown Milo Yiannopoulos unemployed with a cancelled book deal, he has Aussie fans queuing to help out.
What pause in Sydney’s house boom means to you
Sydney real estate has finally emerged from what economists are calling the “perfect storm” — a five-year boom period of wave after wave of home price rises.
How the ‘Evil Eight’ dad betrayed his daughter
The story of an 11-year-old girl raped and pimped to other men by her father is one of the country’s worst cases of child abuse.
Scrambled nest eggs
The unions and the banks battle for the future of retirement savings, writes KYLAR LOUSSIKIAN
Kerri-Anne’s bold life a story of love and passion
THE beautiful, bright and bubbly Aussie TV Queen Kerri-Anne Kennerley welcomes the Wentworth Courier into her home to celebrate the launch of her new book, A Bold Life.
A toss of the bitcoin
An explosion of crypto currencies could lead to a new gold rush for investors or be a worthless speculative bubble, writes Edward Boyd
Solitary life of longest serving magistrate
The night before an inquest into death of murdered politician Donald Mackay, members of the Calabrian mafia parked three black cars outside the Griffith home of Magistrate Darryl “Fierce” Pearce.
Warren Mundine: How I didn’t know my place
It was world champion bantamweight boxer Lionel Rose who first made me realise that I don’t know my place.
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