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From Jenny Kee to Pip Edwards: 10 women on the best advice their mothers gave them

Ten prominent Australian women share the best advice their mothers gave them – and how that plays into their day-to-day life.

  • Jane Rocca

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Jenny Kee with giant Sydney Festival inflatables called “The Aunties” and are be part of Sydney Festival.

Jenny Kee’s aunties honoured in her giant ‘song of Sydney’

The designer who helped shape Australian fashion pays tribute to her influential aunties as part of this year’s Sydney Festival.

  • Helen Pitt
Gallery coordinator of the new Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf Sebastian Goldspink.

Praise to St Brigid, Woollahra gets new permanent art gallery

It’s been a library, family home and the headquarters for an espionage inquiry, now St Brigid’s will open as a permanent public art gallery.

  • Julie Power
Designers celebrate new Powerhouse Museum’s fashion focus.

‘Waratah rising from the fires’: Powerhouse funds get mixed reviews

Critics dispute the $500 million cost of renovating the Powerhouse Museum at Ultimo but Sydney’s fashion designers say it can’t come soon enough.

  • Linda Morris
Jenny Kee: "I don’t follow fashion trends; I don’t know how to!"

Jenny Kee: 'I very rarely buy clothes any more'

'I don’t follow fashion trends; I don’t know how to! But I don’t buy too much of anything, and that’s a trend now.'

  • Georgie Gordon
Minna Gilligan: "Putting together outfits is another form of art for me."

Why Minna Gilligan overdresses for every occasion

"Fashion is about self-expression; putting together outfits is another form of art for me," says the artist.

  • Georgie Gordon
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A tourist abseils down a waterfall in the Empress Falls Canyon in the Blue Mountains.

Reasons to be cheerful in the Blue Mountains

In the aftermath of the fires, an adventure guide returned with a tour party to the Blue Mountains wilderness on Wednesday. He sees abundant reasons for hope.

  • Daniel Lewis
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Jenny Kee looks beyond the fear in fire

Jenny Kee, the designer who put Australiana on the international fashion map with her striking prints of waratahs, koalas and the Australian bush, has found something more than fear in fires.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
An artist's impression of the design for the new Powerhouse Museum in Parramatta.

Gladys Berejiklian's Christmas gift to Sydney will disappoint

Beneath the wrapping is yet another exorbitant, wasteful and widely opposed knockdown-rebuild.

  • Elizabeth Farrelly
'I doubt myself a lot, which leads to me doubting everything.'

Jenny Kee: 'My life radically changed and the simplicity started'

The fashion designer talks on nearly losing all her finances, how deaths impacted her life and finding Buddhism after the Granville rail disaster.

  • Benjamin Law

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