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Shout out if you love cleaning! I hear you (or rather, I don’t hear you). Getting rid of dirt and grime isn’t on the top of my list of favourite pastimes. Just ask my six year-old, who has earnestly designed ...

When life gets hectic and you become overloaded with work, social and personal commitments, it can push you down a slippery slope to style depression, where nothing looks good on you and your wallet screams in pain as yo...

In the delicate history of cruel and unusual treatment for mental illness, exorcism was once a legitimate way to deal with someone who was considered psychotic. In the case of chronic depression, undergoing electroconvul...

Scott lived up on the hill just out of town. For the past six months there had been an huge, elusive diamond python terrorising the local kids and picking off their pets one by one. The tally so far was two bunny rabbits...

As dusk descends upon Summerland Beach on Victoria’s Phillip Island, elite Little Penguin frontline troops are designated to do early reconnaissance. Tiny heads appear from the depths of the ocean and vigilant eyes dar...

It’s been a reasonably mundane month in the online and tech worlds. A quick scan of the nerd news doesn’t really reveal anything particularly earth-shattering, although there were a couple of exceptions. South by Sou...

I’ve just had the most fantastically fishy weekend! Tackle packing and daydreaming Friday night, a pre-dawn start to a successful shallow water snapper session for Saturday, and a very special Sunday afternoon spent wi...