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Kate is the Verticals Copy Editor at news.com.au. She has worked on newspapers, radio and online around Australia for 10 years – including stints in the outback and the Top End (where yes, she covered crocodile stories regularly). Kate’s role involves everything from finding and developing stories you’ll love, to analysing the best and worst Oscar dresses.More from Kate Calacouras

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Travel Stories

All the crazy travel scams that Gav fell for

Scams so basic I fell for them all

AFTER eight months abroad, this reporter thought bypassing tricksters would be a breeze. But these con-artists got the better of him.

Selling

SOLD before auction: 10 Pears Street, Auchenflower, has gone under contract. (Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 2 Car Spaces 2 House)

Should you sell before the end of year?

CHRISTMAS isn’t far away, and people are going to forget about buying and selling houses for a while. So is it too late for a last minute 2017 sale?

Relationships

An illegal brothel that police have discovered in Malvern. It is set up to look like a massage parlour out the front.Picture: Supplied

Harsh truth of ‘Happy Endings’

WHAT happens when you hide in the office of a local ‘massage parlour’? You learn a lot about life and ‘extras’ like ‘happy endings’.

Travel Stories

Sarah Sharples nearly died from a mozzie bite in Indonesia.

The simple advice I didn’t take

THE excruciating headache was the first sign this wasn’t a simple bug bite. After her near-death experience, this woman said it was easily prevented.

Costs

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Where you should go on holiday

AUSTRALIA may have had a bad run on the currency front, but the good news is a very affordable holiday destination is faring much worse.

Travel Incidents

A schoolies crowd is the time for drug dealer approach them to offer the drug in front of night club in Legian street, Kuta. Photo: Lukman S. Bintoro

How Australians have ruined Kuta

FROM school kids to middle-aged revellers, for years Kuta has pulled in free-spirited Aussies ready to party. But did we start a downward spiral into chaos?

Weight Loss

Chicken Foldie with a coconut wrap by The Feel Good Foodie.

Mistake you are making after exercise

IT’S natural to feel hungry after a workout but there are some tricks that will stop you from underdoing all your hard work.

Buying

Alarming graph clue to future

THIS weekend we get a big clue about what will happen to Australia’s housing market..

Travel Stories

Brazilian army soldiers deploy at the Mineira favela during a security operation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on October 27, 2017. Armoured vehicles, swept into Rio de Janeiro's Mineira favela Friday to help Civil and Military Police to battle heavily armed drug traffickers. / AFP PHOTO / Mauro PIMENTEL

The party city run by the army

GUN fire echoes across the skies and the army patrols the streets in one of the world’s most dangerous cities. But this isn’t scaring off one guy.

Flights

Kerri Sackville is a nervous flyer and has tips on how you can survive.

12 ways a nervous flyer can survive

IT’S no fun flying when you’re anxious in the air. So here’s our foolproof guide to not dying on the plane.

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