Asking For A Friend: Is it normal develop feelings for your friend's partner?

Asking For A Friend is the series where we answer the questions that you’ve always wanted to ask. Guilty crushes can be exciting: think your boss or your lecturer, your friend’s older brother, a coworker. They’re exciting usually because they’re taboo and, frankly, unlikely to manifest into anything more than a fantasy. But are some […]

It's right to reward the risk-takers….they will make Britain prosper

PATRICK MINFORD: Ignore the howls of protest. It’s right to reward the risk-takers and the plain hard-working… they will make Britain prosper The widely trailed mini-budget of our new Government has provoked howls of protest from the massed ranks of economists and commentators who, until last week, represented conventional wisdom. Sometimes it is right to […]

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s Tombstone Revealed: Photo

After Queen Elizabeth II’s death, her name has been added to her family grave’s tombstone. Queen Elizabeth II’s Funeral Comes to an Emotional End — What Comes Next? “A photograph is released today of the ledger stone now installed at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, following the interment of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth,” a […]

Becoming an Astronaut Wins Marketing Pitch at Zurich Film Festival

“Becoming an Astronaut,” an ambitious documentary that will focus on four new astronauts who will be announced by the European Space Agency (ESA) this November, has won the Focal Audience & Market Strategies pitching event at the Zurich Film Festival. Organized by Focal, the Lausanne-based foundation for film and audiovisual media training, Audience & Market […]

How to cope when your team loses the grand final

Suzanne Considine remembers the sad schlep back to Melbourne on a red-eye flight after the Demons’ crushing defeat at the hands of West Coast in the 2018 AFL preliminary final. “All we wanted was to just be in that grand final and it didn’t happen,” she says. “That cut very, very deep. That was a […]

Rags-to-riches story ends in $30 million house sale in Point Piper

Key points Socialite Heidi Onisforou has relisted her Potts Point spread in Rockwall. Tom Waterhouse scored a win in the Land and Environment Court. Property listings Peter Placek escaped the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in the 1960s only to arrive in Australia with virtually nothing, making ends meet by playing jazz at RSL clubs. The […]