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Happy little Vegemites

Sam De Brito All Men Are Liars The secret history of our national spread.

The female drought

Sam Brett Ask Sam Men are starting to harbour unrealistic goals and idealistic expectations when it comes to women.

Travel wankers

  The Backpacker I should probably start this with a short caveat: I'm a travel wanker. Sometimes...

Towards the desert in disarray

  Red Letters Tonight we're on our way towards Uluru and we'll have our first night camping out.

The female death wish

John Lennon Modern Times Who's getting all the fan mail in jail?

MIFF08 - reader reviews

CineTopia Got something to say about the 57th Melbourne International Film Festival? Then say it here.

When winning is everything

The Limelight The Limelight Aquatic marvel Michael Phelps has eight gold medals but the closest most of us come to gold are chocolate coins. Unlike money, medals do create happiness.

The Set List

Noise pollution To play or not to play?

In the beginning

  The Religious Write Infants are hard-wired to believe in God, and atheism has to be learned, according to an Oxford University psychologist.

Strange bedfellows

Crowded House Crowded House Housemates who live with their exes.

Awed of the rings

Walking the Dog Why are we uneasy about the Olympics? Because we fear we're looking at the future.

What is privacy in the new media age?

Media Matters The digital media age is creating seismic shifts in our ideas about privacy.

Reforms for home savers

Lindsay Tanner Lindsay Tanner Insurance policies have several pages of fine print attached. Do I read them? Of course not. Does anyone? I guess so, but they must either be very diligent or very bored.

Australia must consider nuclear energy

Julie Bishop Julie Bishop The issue of nuclear power has to be debated rationally if Australia is serious about making deep cuts to its greenhouse gas emissions.

Women, careers and the glass cliff

Management Line Are women treated as second-class citizens in the workplace?

The challenge of step-parenting

The Brady Bunch. Essential Baby You can choose your lover but you can't choose their family - or their children.

Messy, unwieldy and unfair

Sacha Molitorisz Who's your daddy? Is child care out of control?

Pity the fool

  Trash Talk When the self-proclaimed number one dude in town met the main guy from the A*Team, sparks were always going to fly. Strauchanie and Mr T like you've never seen them before!

Memories are made of this

Daffodils Pottering By Daffodil Day is a time to honour cancer victims and survivors.

Timeline history of video games

  Screenplay As part of an upcoming feature I'm writing on serious games, the publication wanted a timeline of milestones in video gaming.

Bank catastrophe explained

Slithershanks Australian banks have again displayed their true genius for creativity in adding up one plus one.

End-of-the-week funnies

Last Laugh Another ill-fated attempt at comedy gold.

Hope for the vein

Spiderman Beauty Beat Our plastic surgeon answers your questions on spider veins and skin tags.

How to motivate your employees

Innovator It takes a lot more than an annual barbeque and a bonus cheque at Christmas to motivate staff.

The youngest entrepreneurs in Australia?

  Enterprise You can never be too young to start learning the principles of entrepreneurship.

Double dip for hip party food

Broad bean dip. Chew On This No more cabanossi. Enliven your next get-together with a tasty assortment of dips.

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Media Matters

Matthew Ricketson's take on the media world.

Modern Times

Modern Times Lawrence Money's wry look at events in the news.

Red Letters

Anneli Knight Anneli Knight explores the NT and Kimberley regions.

The Limelight

The Limelight Suzanne Carbone explores all that is hip and happening.

Crowded House

Crowded House A share-house newcomer spills the beans.

Trash talk

Michelle Johnson dishes the latest celeb dirt.

Essential Baby

Essential Baby Three new mothers share their experiences.

Walking the Dog

Martin Flanagan Sport, culture and black and white Australia.

CineTopia

CineTopia Blog Jim Schembri takes a look at the big screen.

Religious Write

Religion produces strong passions. Express them here.

Passport

Insight from Beijing correspondent Mary-Anne Toy.

Beauty Beat

Natasha Hughes Natasha Hughes on beauty 'issues' and more.

Noise Pollution

Music blogger Stephen Walker on the biz

Enterprise

An insight into the minds of entrepreneurs.

Last laugh

The weird, wacky and wonderful on the world-wide-web.

Backpacker

Globetrotter on a shoe-string, Ben Groundwater.

Who's Your Daddy?

Sacha Molitorisz on the age-old questions of paternity.

Chew on this

Walkley award winning health writer Paula Goodyer.

Footy talk

Footy, footy, footy (and some talking too).

Drive blog

All things automotive at drive.com.au

Pottering By

Denise Gadd Obsess about tilling the soil with Denise Gadd.

Screenplay

There's a whole world of video games out there.

All men are liars

Sam de Brito on the business of being a bloke.

Ask Sam!

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