‘I know about the situation at home, Dassi. I’m here to support you’
Dassi Erlich was sexually assaulted by her school principal, Malka Leifer – and also facing abuse at home, an exclusive extract from her new tell-all book reveals.
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In the frame: APY art centre to face probe
The APY Arts Centre Collective faces investigation for possible criminal or civil charges after a six-month probe into the controversial organisation sparked by The Australian.
The best travel inspiration for the holiday season
If you’re in the mood for adventure it’s not too late to book a local stay or use the break to plan your travel schedules for the year ahead. Let this be your guide.
Summer’s hottest cultural offerings
We’ve put together a summer program of festivals, exhibitions, films, and live shows to get you through this holiday season.
‘We’re growing food for the world’: Farmers in mining battle
Are critical minerals more important than agricultural land? In the rich fields of Victoria’s Wimmera area, farmers reckon they face the fight of their life as miners muscle in.
‘Not shabby like England’: Inside Joh Bailey’s renovation triumph
The celebrity hairdresser shows us inside his grandly designed Southern Highlands farmhouse, where ‘Ralph Lauren meets the White House’.
New laws were a killshot for Ella Valla station. Then Andrew Forrest swooped
For years, tourists would come to Shane Aylmore’s remote cattle property in WA, paying huge sums to fire enormous long-range weapons into the outback. In just one night, it was game over.
Pharaohmania: How you can come face-to-face with Ramses II
The Australian Museum’s Ramses II exhibition has sold an astonishing 100,000 advance tickets and features one of Ancient Egypt’s finest royal coffins. Here’s what else you can expect to see.
How hate hit home for these Australians
Australia’s Jewish community watched in horror as the October 7 atrocities unfolded in Israel. Then fear took hold.
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Hidden babies. Haunting truth. What happened on Oct 7
His story is stomach-turning but when one of Israel’s most elite combat medics thinks of all the horrors he witnessed on October 7 after Hamas terrorists struck, it’s not the death that gets him.
Downer’s warning on flawed AUKUS
Our longest-serving foreign minister is sounding the alarm on untenable costs and delays of our biggest ‘white elephant’.
How Long River ‘crime bosses’ hid in plain sight for at three years
The secret to their alleged criminal success was simple; there was no secret. Or at least that’s what they wanted everyone to think.
There’s something in the way McCartney moves an audience
At 81 and rich beyond his dreams, Paul McCartney still has immense drive and energy for a man who doesn’t need to prove anything.
Middle East on a knife edge as cancelled summit raises the stakes
Joe Biden’s meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu is now likely to further antagonise Arab nations who may assume the strike on a Gaza hospital was caused by an Israeli rocket – regardless of the truth.
PM ‘refused to change course’ as the voice ship went down
There was a point well before Saturday’s referendum that Yes campaigners came to believe Anthony Albanese had ‘drunk his own Kool-Aid’ – and the man was not for turning.
‘Promised the moon, delivered a flashlight’: How Ardernism died
At her peak Jacinda Ardern was a global juggernaut, paving the way for women leaders around the world. How did the light that shone so brightly with a landslide victory in 2020, face such an ignominious end just three years later?
Massacre scene sets stage for Israel’s Gaza revenge
Survivors in the close-knit communities in southern Israel are struggling to understand why they were left to fend for themselves as the horrific details of the Hamas onslaught are revealed.
‘Traditional way, we got that here. Western way, we want that, too’
Until recently, these children’s education was endangered. To save it, their community had to walk away from the NT government education system and create their own.
The shocking state of NT education
If the students at Gamardi are lucky, a teacher will turn up two days a week. For whole months, nobody comes. And then there is the sorry excuse for a classroom. ‘If this was happening in an urban setting, they’d sack the government on the spot.’
Sexy comedy is back: take that, wowsers
Ribald films disappeared from our screens for a while, but now they’re back with a fresh twist appealing to modern sensitivities around nudity.
How Dean Robinson bounced back
He was the high performance coach known as “the weapon” who became the most hatest man in sport. But Dean Robinson’s falling out with Essendon had a silver lining.
How to Win Friends and Conquer the Human Race: AI tells all
A new book written entirely by ChatGPT is revealing. AI looks set on taking our patrimony as a species and selling it back to us at a mark-up.
Between two worlds: ‘It felt like receiving a war child’
Amanda Ducker has made a promise. She will raise these two Indigenous children far away from the chaos of their native Tennant Creek — and the government can stay out of it.
How Yes side secured John Farnham’s voice
In one of the best-kept secrets of the referendum, the Aussie singer has been in the Yes camp for months, lending his iconic power ballad as an instrument for change.
Africa’s underrated tropical islands are blooming
They feel like a lost world, these two islands, marooned beyond the horizon – some curious cross between Robinson Crusoe’s landfall and our dreams of Shangri-La.
This little-known Greek island is a blissful retreat
This undiscovered Dodecanese gem has a leisurely pace, crystal-clear coves and should be at the top of your 2024 Euro summer wish list.
The Indonesian islands known as the ‘Amazon of the seas’
Travel doesn’t get more immersive than sailing around Indonesia on a handcrafted, fully staffed yacht.
The Canary Island singing a seductive new song
A geological marvel of volcanic cones, lava fields and black-rock beaches, this Spanish island has become a fertile source of captivating design with a vibrant food and wine scene.
Dinnigan’s beach house rises from the ashes
After bushfires razed their beloved beach house on the New South Wales South Coast, Collette Dinnigan and her husband, Bradley Cocks, rebuilt it by marrying fire-resistant materials with soulful interiors.
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