Australia has made great strides in recognising its disadvantaged and its minorities, but it cannot be a complete commonwealth until it recognises the most disadvantaged and overlooked of all. Our first peoples are humanity's longest continuing civilisation and confer a unique status on our country, and also a unique responsibility. Loading Yet they are excluded…
Former Seven West Media executive John Fitzgerald is now looking after the accounts of small businesses in Sydney's western suburbs, despite facing multimillion-dollar fraud allegations from the broadcaster which are being investigated by the police. Mr Fitzgerald is listed as the Parramatta franchisee for Shoebox Bookkeeping, a small business accounting and tax advisory service, the…
Richard Marles is an avid collector of snow globes. Hundreds of them decorate his parliamentary office in Canberra. Over the past week, the Labor leadership has been thoroughly tipped upside down. And as the dust has settled and the picture made clear again, Marles, 51, has emerged a winner. Later this week, the Victorian MP…
A little over a year ago, former Australian cricket captain Steve Smith made a tearful confession and apology to the public, having been banned from cricket for 12 months for ball tampering. Smith’s confession was expected. As Australian captain, he would take responsibility for the indiscretions of the whole team. Smith’s televised confession and apology,…
What terrible things happened in the brief two year period before their relationship became irretrievably broken in May 2011 we may never know, but fashion designer Camilla Franks and her father Bill Franks seem determined to document the fallout down to its last detail. Forget about airing the dirty laundry, these feuders have basically scaled…
Television personalities Amanda Keller, Tom Gleeson and Waleed Aly have been announced as finalists for this year's Gold Logie, an award recognising the most popular personality on Australian television. Also nominated for the top gong, awarded next month after a public vote, are actors Rodger Corser and Eve Morey, Gardening Australia host Costa Georgiadis, and Sunrise…
James Bond fans will have to wait until April 2020 for the next instalment in the iconic film franchise, but already everyone wants to know more about the brandnew Bond girl, Ana de Armas. The stunning Cuban actor, 31, who will be starring alongside Daniel Craig and Oscar-winner Rami Malek, first found fame on Spanish…
Dexter Fletcher is leaning forward on a table, thinking about the first Elton John song he ever heard. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, ‘round at my cousin Caroline’s house, back in the 1970s when it came out,” he says. “I couldn’t have been more than eight years old or something like that.” Over the past few…
The Academy Award-nominated American filmmaker Ava DuVernay was 16-years-old in April 1989 when five teenage boys from Harlem were charged with the brutal attack and rape of a female jogger in New York’s Central Park. DuVernay lived in Los Angeles, on the other side of the country, but the strident reporting and racial overtones of…
Daniel Henshall is so skilled at playing evil characters like Snowtown's serial killer John Bunting that he's become used to people feeling let down when they meet him in real life. "There's often a hint of disappointment that there isn't that gravitas or intensity they were expecting," says the softly spoken Sydney-born, Brooklyn-based actor. "I've…