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Deborah Frances-White hosts the global hit podcast, The Guilty Feminist.

You’d be shocked by how much my siblings and I laughed when our father died

Never underestimate the power of comedy to make a statement.

  • Deborah Frances-White

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Charles (left) and Carl Ong Sio.

They came to Australia two years ago – now, they’re constantly traversing it by train

Filipino brothers Charles and Carl Ong Sio came to Australia in late 2022. They work together as hospitality attendants on Australia’s cross-country trains.

  • Joanne Karcz
Rows of babies waiting for overseas adoption in 1984 at the Angel Babies’ Home orphanage.

Josie was handed two Korean toddlers at the airport. They sobbed ‘mummy’ the whole way to Australia

The former social worker says she is horrified by what she was asked to do in 1984 and is calling for an inquiry into Australia’s overseas adoption practices.

  • Lisa Visentin
We’ve done it all in my house - smoothies, vegetarian, high protein. But I drew the line at vegan.

My house is a testing ground for trends, and a graveyard for the failures

Have you tried the sliced cucumber fad? Or used apple cider vinegar as a hair rinse? In my family, there’s no TikTok trend too fleeting to give a burl.

  • Claire Heaney
Chappell Roan’s remarks about parenthood have certainly gotten people talking, but are they fair?

Chappell Roan says parenthood is ‘hell’. Here’s what the experts say

The pop star’s comments have triggered a major online debate, angering some parents while others nod in agreement. Now, experts weigh in on the realities of parenthood.

  • Nell Geraets

After Port Arthur, Walter Mikac found a ‘superpower’. He’s sharing it with Izzy

Isabella was born five years after the tragedy in which Walter’s first two daughters and their mother were killed.

  • Amanda Hooton
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Yellow Wiggle Tsehay Hawkins with mum Robyn.

‘It was surreal’: Yellow Wiggle Tsehay Hawkins’ search for her birth parents

The Wiggles’ youngest member opens up about her return to her birthplace in Ethiopia for the first time ever last year.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
ASIC chair Joe Longo at an Autralian Institute of Company Directors’ conference this month after announcing the regulator was suing AustralianSuper.

Grieving Australians are suffering because of super fund failure: ASIC

The corporate watchdog has blasted top superannuation executives for failing to prioritise grieving families when paying out their members’ death benefits.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
For Chae Ryan, 33, the search for his Korean identity has been a harrowing journey. The South Korean agency that facilitated his adoption to Australia in 1991 is now at the centre of damning inquiry into widespread fraud and malpractice in the country’s adoption system.

‘I believed I was an orphan’: Australians caught up in global adoption scandal

For Chae Ryan, the search for his identity has been a harrowing experience. He’s not the only one.

  • Lisa Visentin
Sara Pascoe has had several male mentors in comedy, including actor Andy Park.

I decided to stop dating in my 30s to figure out who I was. Then I met my husband

Before she married fellow comedian, Australian Steen Raskopoulos, Sara Pascoe took a few years off dating to ‘figure out who I was’.

  • Jane Rocca

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