‘We had to speak up for our friends’:the little town that roared for a desperate family

‘We had to speak up for our friends’:the little town that roared for a desperate family

When the Murugappan family were removed from their home at dawn,locals in conservative Biloela were gutted. Then they learnt to crowdfund,hashtag and take to the world stage.

  • byAnne Hyland

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She was Meat Loaf’s sidekick. Now Ellen Foley has found her voice again

She was Meat Loaf’s sidekick. Now Ellen Foley has found her voice again

Rock’n’roll “still satisfies the soul” of the 70-year-old who sang on Bat Out of Hell.

  • byBernard Zuel
Julie Bishop’s ‘stepdaughter’ turns Chemist Warehouse model
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Julie Bishop’s ‘stepdaughter’ turns Chemist Warehouse model

Laura Panton may not be as well-known as her father David,let alone his long-term partner Julie Bishop,but the director of medical supplies business Pantonic Health has her own star on the rise.

  • byLucy Manly
The ‘hired help’ steal the show in SBS’s riotous heist comedy

The ‘hired help’ steal the show in SBS’s riotous heist comedy

The new Sydney-filmed comedy The Unusual Suspects is part Desperate Housewives,part Ocean’s Eight,but somehow better than both of them.

  • byLouise Rugendyke
Former The Daily Edited fashion mogul joins social media influencer platform

Former The Daily Edited fashion mogul joins social media influencer platform

The ink has barely dried on Alyce Tran’s confidential settlement with The Daily Edited,yet she has been recruited to spearhead the world’s largest monetization platform for premium lifestyle influencers in Australia.

  • byLucy Manly
Indigenous designers to be showcased at Australian Fashion Week

Indigenous designers to be showcased at Australian Fashion Week

Sydney’s A-list crowd will descend on Carriageworks at the end of the month for a front-row seat at Australian Fashion Week.

  • byLucy Manly
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Elite Sydney school’s apology after email blunder implicates high-profile family
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Elite Sydney school’s apology after email blunder implicates high-profile family

Hours after the email was sent,Cranbrook’s office manager issued an apology to the student and family and blamed a clerical error.

  • byLucy Manly
‘There’s no regrets’:The heartbreaking rise and fall of Jack Bird

‘There’s no regrets’:The heartbreaking rise and fall of Jack Bird

Doctors said he would never set foot on a football field. He then became the best young player in the game,until it all unravelled when he arrived in Brisbane.

  • byMichael Chammas
Lincoln Younes on his nomadic life and learning to embrace uncertainty

Lincoln Younes on his nomadic life and learning to embrace uncertainty

In the years between Tangle and his recent role as Tom in the fifth season of the rural drama Doctor Doctor,the actor has learned to go with the flow.

  • byDebi Enker
Cristin Milioti has no time for your ‘happily ever after’ cliches

Cristin Milioti has no time for your ‘happily ever after’ cliches

“I like playing complicated people,” says the star of Stan’s Made For Love. “I didn’t get into this to be a handbag to a man’s story.”

  • byAlexis Soloski
How Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci turned their real-life friendship into a love story

How Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci turned their real-life friendship into a love story

The pair drew on their 20-year history to play a bickering couple in Supernova,which grapples with the realities of early-onset dementia.

  • byLouise Rugendyke