Trianda Jubian is getting ready to host a one-year-old’s birthday party. The event will take place in her back yard, in the Sydney suburb of …
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‘Hopefully people don’t think I made a shrine to myself’: a portrait gifted to a fellow skateboarder | Australian lifestyle
In 2008, prop master and professional skateboarder Morgan Campbell was sitting on a friend’s front verandah in Melbourne. A man on a bicycle rode by …
Wall stories: a Franciscan friar’s wedding portrait is a call to compassion | Australian lifestyle
The theologian Cath McKinney first encountered Brother Patrick Henigan at a community congregation in Melbourne’s inner-north decades ago. “He was one of those people that …
Three things with Myf Warhurst: ‘It lived in some wealthy person’s mansion for a hundred years’ | Australian lifestyle
Myf Warhurst is about to add something different to her resume. From next week, the beloved Spicks and Specks regular will appear in a new …
‘Don’t take it personally’: three common workplace clashes – and how to deal with them | Australian lifestyle
In our everyday interactions there are people we click with and others with whom we clash. This is a fact of life. So what can …
Three things with Joe Wicks: ‘If I’m having a stressful day, I jump in the ice bath’ | Australian lifestyle
Many of us have worked up a sweat with Joe Wicks. When the world went into lockdown back in 2020, the UK-based fitness personality started …
Three things with Narelda Jacobs: ‘I rubbed red dirt from Uluru into the scuffs. It worked!’ | Australian lifestyle
“It’s a bit embarrassing to say that you’ve been at a place for 23 years,” Narelda Jacobs says. “But I’ve done a lot different jobs …
A day at the beach: ‘Quicksand had never felt real as a concept until this moment’ | Australian lifestyle
Back in the heady days of 2012, my partner and I were newly in love. We had recently returned from a month in Thailand, life …
Australians are paying $163 a month to store excess stuff. How can we curb the desire to consume? | Australian lifestyle
Many of us are drowning in “stuff”. To find space for all our possessions, we are paying off-site storage companies. Australians spend an average of …
A local’s guide to the Gold Coast: ‘There’s a great grassroots art scene’ | Australian lifestyle
Food The Gold Coast’s food scene has come a long way since I moved here as a kid. There are so many suburbs from one …
When I moved from Melbourne to Sydney I imagined alfresco dining. Instead La Niña brought record-breaking rain | Australian lifestyle
In 2022, my labrador and I developed a well-worn ritual. Every evening, we would head out to the football oval down the road from my …
Three things with Marnus Labuschagne: ‘It hasn’t been washed once. Literally, not once’ | Australian lifestyle
If you turned on the telly over the weekend, you might have seen Marnus Labuschagne facing off against South Africa in the first of a …
‘It’s like a living installation’: a young family’s Fear and Loathing portrait | Australian lifestyle
When Clarissa and Tim Harris bought a treetop hideaway in Warrandyte, Victoria, they couldn’t wait to fill the space with their collection of colourful curiosities …
‘Everyone wants to smell it’: a seedy university art project finds order in chaos | Australian lifestyle
Nearly two decades ago, Anna Mathilda painstakingly stuck hundreds of seed samples and spices to framing offcuts for a university project. For years it was …
Three things with Rhonda Burchmore: ‘I actually get quite a buzz out of vacuuming’ | Australian lifestyle
Rhonda Burchmore has been singing and dancing for more than 35 years. She has performed in more musicals than we could list, popped up on …
‘It was a huge relief that she liked it’: a first-time art buyer’s maiden painting | Australian lifestyle
Brad Gordon-Smith had never heard of Melbourne artist KimmiLee before Instagram’s algorithm shuffled her into his life. Looking at pictures of her work inspired him …
Australian summer recipes: 10 Yotam Ottolenghi dishes to suit this season’s produce | Australian lifestyle
There’s no such thing as an eggplant hater, there are only people who haven’t had properly cooked eggplant. Here, you’ll find the purple-skinned vegetable with …
‘A night they deserve’: Lismore’s year-12 formal endures | Australian lifestyle
The final years of high school are normally plagued by an uncomfortable combination of weird body things, long afternoons on public transport and the looming …
When is it worth making a consumer complaint? | Australian lifestyle
As a consumer, it’s likely that you’ve bought something that didn’t function the way it was supposed to. A piece of clothing that ripped at …
Isabella Montoya on Building Paz Lifestyle
Image Source: Yulia Nar “Overcoming the challenges is very rewarding but also very nerve-racking,” Isabella Montoya, founder of Paz Lifestyle, says about starting her own …