Schools top fire risk list
Schools, high-rise apartments and commercial buildings are just some of the developments clad in dangerous combustible materials across northwest Sydney.
Special Features
Whitlam’s family home threatened
The childhood home of former prime minister Gough Whitlam is under imminent threat of being levelled by bulldozers.
Playwright David Williamson to retire
The author of Aussie classics Don’s Party and The Club takes a parting swipe at the theatre industry as he prepares to hang up the pen.
Life through Heery’s lens
He’s shot some of the most famous people in the world, but this famed photographer prefers snapping real people — and birds.
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‘A girl asked me to sign her backside’
WHEN he’s not flying across Australia for modelling assignments, politely declining the odd request to autograph a fan’s backside or being recognised for “not being Kris Smith”, celebrity model Kris Smith loves leading a quiet life on Sydney’s north shore. He talks candidly to CAROLINE TANG.
‘It’s incredible, it’s completely life changing’
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Tammin’s Hollywood life is ‘never glamorous’
FORMER Aussie soap starlet Tammim Sursok has made a name for herself in LA but the mum of one still feels the call of Sydney and, in particular, the north shore.
Les and Mulan Gock rock the ages
FORMER glam rocker, Hush’s Les Gock, and wife Mulan Gock, merged business and art to become a long-term success in the music industry and as a couple determined ‘to prove everyone wrong’ when they married young.
Moran legacy will shape generations
FROM humble beginnings that started with one nursing home in 1956, the Moran dynasty has grown a $350 million empire under the Moran Health Care Group with 120 aged care facilities – with luxe spas and robots that can teach tai chi – around the globe.
Amy Pejkovic on life, love and survival
THE day after her 19th birthday party in 2012, star high jumper Amy Pejkovic’s life changed forever. The leggy model and athlete was told she had a brain tumour. Now she’s aiming for the Tokyo Olympics.
The new designer shopping destination
MOSMAN is more popular than ever among top Australian designers for showcasing their womenswear labels — it’s the perfect backdrop for simple, sophisticated style — and they’re flocking there.
’I was headed for divorce and stood very firm on that’
IN one of her most candid interviews, PR queen Roxy Jacenko reveals to The Wentworth Courier that she was on the brink of divorce. But, as these family snaps show, her family has healed.
Do you want a Sydney palace?
CASHED-up locals looking for a dream mansion in Sydney’s eastern suburbs will be in with a chance when foreign buyers get slugged with a stamp duty increase on July 1.
Last rites: Sydney’s lost graves
Some celebrity gravesites are so revered they are places of pilgrimage for fans long after their death. Think Jim Morrison, Princess Diana or Elvis.
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