Haunting legacy of a colonial visionary
He is accused of genocide yet credited with envisaging the nation we live in today — the home of a fair go. His name is everywhere, but do you know the truth about Lachlan Macquarie?
Books & Magazines
Farrow slams Aussie ‘intimidation tactics’
Author Ronan Farrow has spoken out against alleged bullying which he says has resulted in some Australian retailers refusing to sell his new book.
Juiciest confessions from Elton’s book
From stripping naked on drug-fuelled binges to fighting with Princess Diana, the singer does not hold back in his new book.
Elton John’s surprising celebrity feud
Elton John has opened up about a furious row he had with another singer in which he told her to “shove her song up her a**e”.
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CIA ‘killed prisoners at Guantanamo’
A FORMER guard at the detention camp has written a book claiming the CIA murdered three hunger-striking prisoners and made it look like suicide.
‘Life in Hollywood was bulls**t’
CHRIS Hemsworth says life in Hollywood before he made it big was “bulls**t” and it was “gross” how differently people treated him after he landed his role as Thor.
Writer tracks down bully after 40 years
WHIPPED with a belt and tormented with chilli sauce, Allen Kurzweil never got over the abuse he suffered as a boy. Four decades on, a Google search for his school nemesis led to an astonishing find.
Crowe cops flak over Women’s Weekly interview
RUSSELL Crowe made some remarks about Hollywood actresses in a recent interview that have come back to bite him.
Inside the prison for the criminally insane
WHAT makes some people commit horrendous crimes? Psychiatrist Stephen Seager has spent decades treating the criminally insane. Here he reveals the horrors he’s seen.
This is the world’s sexiest woman
IT’S official: This blonde bombshell has been honoured as the sexiest woman on the planet at the People Magazine Awards.
The one Harry Potter death J.K. Rowling regrets
If you’re mourning the loss of Dumbledore or Fred Weasley, you’re not about to get any closure. But still, there is one Harry Potter death J.K. Rowling regrets.
Dictionary’s pick for word of the year
AN INTROSPECTIVE word that’s back in the limelight has beaten ‘nostalgia’ and ‘feminism’ to be the named word of the year by a US dictionary.
Why waiting room mags are always old
RESEARCHERS have finally solved one of the greatest medical mysteries: why are magazines in doctors’ waiting rooms so old and tattered?
Weird finalists for TIME’s Person of the Year
TIME magazine today unveiled its finalists for 2014 Person of the Year and it’s a motley crew including singers, presidents and protesters.
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