Browsing: lifestyle

At home in Melbourne’s Carlton North, Melissa Leong is feeling apprehensive. She’s preparing to spend the day talking about her new memoir, Guts, which reveals personal…

Back in my native Austria, people don’t even bother to lock their front doors. So when I set off in the 1980s to backpack through the…

Several popular brands of laundry detergent sheets are little more effective – and in one case, less effective – than plain water in front loading washing…

It was an exhilarating day in every possible way. Standing on the cold sand on a Sunday morning, I saw the sun flash off powerful surf…

Fifteen years ago, while perched on the back deck of my 1920s tin and timber Queenslander home in Brisbane, I realised I was being watched.I felt…

Jacqueline Mifsud remembers the moment in 2023 when she made what she now describes as a “bold life decision” to step out of the rental market…

Before her name became a byword for “good taste,” Martha Stewart was born Martha Kostyra, the oldest daughter of six children in a well-to-do Polish Catholic…

A couple of years ago, I decided to improve myself physically and mentally. I did that by setting a couple of new year’s resolutions. One was…

Chantal Maher, a physiotherapy lecturer in Sydney, has a niggling life admin task on her mental to-do list. It has been on her mind for four…

Three in five liver cancer cases globally could be prevented by reducing obesity and alcohol consumption and increasing uptake of the hepatitis vaccine, a study has…