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New year resolutions for feminists
Is teamwork overrated?
Groups and teamwork have long been talked up but they may repel anyone with an ounce of creativity, writes Shelley Bridgeman…
0.5% of US mothers claim a 'virgin' birth
A recently published study that's taken the easily amused internet by storm shows that 1 in every 200 mothers report "at…
Is New Year's Eve overrated?
I blame the dawn of the new millennium. Let's be frank: for most of us, New Year's Eve hasn't really lived up to expectations…
Relationships
It was the Domestic Goddess who was on trial in the…
A close look at Kim K's bod
In case you'd not noticed we live in a deranged society in which women's bodies are public exhibits, Us Weekly is now…
Shelley Bridgeman: A gripe about kid's art
I imagine parents need to dial down the effusive praise and cast a realistic eye over these artistic endeavours.
Blog: Parcel delivery problems
Years ago I discovered from personal experience that a private home makes an unsuitable address for a courier parcel.
Sonja Srzich: A Croatian Christmas (+recipes)
A traditional festive feast connects a family to their heritage, writes Sonja Srzich.
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Minimising festive food waste
This Christmas we want to love food and hate waste. Check out our favourite leftover recipes and share your own idea.
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Shelley Bridgeman: Five Christmas gripes
Because there's no fun in a truly cheerful lead-up to the 25th we've assembled a selection of gripes for the so-called festive season.
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Rebecca Kamm: The male friendship crisis
Sociologist Lisa Wade says white heterosexual men have fewer friends than any other demographic, despite their yearning for closer platonic connections with other men.
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Shelley Bridgeman: The worst Christmas gifts
Shelley Bridgeman has indentified some key types of presents almost guaranteed to aggravate the recipient.
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Louise Thompson: Overcoming emotional eating: social
This is an especially pertinent column right before Christmas, no? It's the next one in our overcoming emotional eating series (which will continue in 2014). What I want to talk about today is how easy it is to overeat in…
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Grant Allen: Escape to the spice island (+recipes)
Grant Allen gets a lesson in Balinese home cooking from three friendly hotel chefs.
All sorts of sugar in rainbow sweet treats
It's Christmas and that means our supermarkets fill up with lots of lollies. And we buy them to ensure our homes are havens of sweet treats for our visitors over the holiday season.
Shelley Bridgeman: Are truckies misunderstood?
Before I gained my truck licence last year, I held a one-dimensional stereotypical view of truck drivers.
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Rebecca Kamm: Happy relationship = better body image (+other women's studies)
Rebecca Kamm shares the latest in ladies' studies covering body image, sexy ads and the secret skills of red heads.
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Pinko Pope riles the wealthy
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You may not have heard of Ken Langone - I hadn't until recently when he decided to take on Pope Francis…
Men spend far less time choosing gifts, apparently. Here's some advice to help them on their way to gift bliss this Christmas.