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Helping children in a Thai orphanage

What happens when a Sydney woman flies to Thailand and volunteers at a Buddhist orphanage? Her own life, in turn, is irrevocably altered by the lessons she learns.

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Exercise and your pregnancy

Regular, gentle exercise is one of the simplest things you can do to take care of yourself and your baby during pregnancy.

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Savouring the Angkor temples

Steeped in mystery and legend, the unique and ethereal pleasures of Cambodia’s Angkor temples are best experienced in silence and solitude.

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10 acts of self-love

Love yourself. It’s a simple concept and, when practised daily, an easy and wonderful thing to do. Find out 10 ways you can start to love yourself today.

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Alchemists of Prague

Renaissance Prague was a centre of alchemy and intrigue. The city’s mystery carries on to the modern day and draws travellers from near and far to discover its secrets.

Insane Drain on the Membrane: Alcohol and Adolescents

Flick the memory switch and try cast your mind back to the precise moment you were introduced to alcohol. Remember roughly how old you were? Chances are you weren’t quite the legal drinking age and you probably weren’t aware of the threats early introduction to alcohol posed to your mental and social health, just like […]

Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn has become Australia’s first female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, along with her fellow researchers Carol W Greider and Jack W Szostak. The trio won the prestigious scientific prize, awarded in Stockhom earlier today, for their discovery of telomeres. Likened to plastic tips that keep the end of shoelaces from unravelling, […]

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Is a resort right for you?

Need a break but not sure what kind? Resorts offer a range of holiday experiences — from the sublimely restful to the madly adventurous.

Book Love

You know you’re in for a ride when the book you’re reading opens the second chapter with this quote: “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you really think you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt. Wow. I’m […]