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Dear Bess: My daughter checked my phone, found an innocent text and reported it to my wife.
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (621+ words) Dear Bess: My daughter checked my phone, found an innocent text and reported it to my wife like I was a criminal. Am I allowed to be angry? Let's be honest about what actually happened here. Your daughter looked at…...
The simple idea that lets grandparents read bedtime stories to grandchildren " even when they're hundreds of kilometres away
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (440+ words) One of the hardest parts of raising children away from family is knowing how much they miss in the everyday moments. Grandparents miss bedtime stories and cuddles on the couch, aunties miss hearing the latest funny phrase or favourite obsession,…...
Low speed zones tipped to accelerate national change
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (540+ words) Speed limits of 30km/h could spread wider across Australia as one state hits the gas on more trials on busy local roads. The Victorian government has announced funding grants to four councils for more 30km/h limit trials, including along Melbourne's…...
Don't think about the price. Just do it." " one retiree's life-changing journey to Antarctica
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (940+ words) Each week, Emily Darlow sits down with a member of the Starts at 60 community to hear a travel story worth telling. This week, Roe Kitchin shares her adventure to Antarctica Antarctica has become one of those rare travel experiences that…...
You don't need to be flexible to do yoga. You just need to start
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (989+ words) Let's clear up the biggest myth in wellness right now: yoga is not for people who are already flexible. Yoga is how you become flexible. Those serene humans twisted into impossible shapes on Instagram? They started exactly where you are....
You've been paying for it all year. Now use it before it disappears on July 1
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (762+ words) If you have private health insurance with extras cover, you have about five weeks to use benefits you have already paid for. On July 1, most health funds reset their annual limits " and anything you haven't claimed is gone. Not rolled…...
Why Are Australian Homes So Dusty?
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (754+ words) I would like to share that I have lived here long enough to accept several realities. Bread goes mouldy overnight. Makeup will always slide off your face in summer, Tea never tastes quite right in the water here. And no…...
Still standing: John Brewster, 76, is playing 25 shows across Australia this year. No way, get f***ed " are we done here? Not even close.
5+ day, 18+ min ago (1021+ words) He is also about to several months on the road. This is not the complaint of a man who needs persuading to keep going. This is a man who cannot imagine why you would stop. The tour that brings The…...
Tony Abbott to be named new Liberal Party president
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (161+ words) Former prime minister Tony Abbott will be nominated unopposed to become the next federal president of the Liberal Party. Mr Abbott will be the only nominee for the conservative party's top administrative role, which will be confirmed at a federal…...
One Nation's polling could herald messy hung parliament
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (466+ words) Opinion polling shows Australia's two-party political system could become a thing of the past at the next federal election. A survey by polling company Demos Au, answered by 1502 people between May 15 and May 20, showed One Nation with 28 per cent share…...