If you listen closely, you can almost hear the sound of chalk on the brilliant black chalkboards as a teacher dressed in

You would have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the fact that the hot topic of the day is extending breastfeed

Some people are just born plant people. Jac Semmler, Ornamental Category Manager at The Digger’s Club is one of them! After spending years experimenting in the gardens of various rental homes, Jac finally has a place to really let her plant-freak flag fly: in the garden of her own home in Frankston, where the outside space is almost as big as the house itself! It’s the perfect place for experimentation.

Georgina Reid of The Planthunter chats with Jac about her ‘botanical laboratory’: getting it wrong, getting it right, and embracing the art of the process.

I never liked cancer. I like it even less now.
In my work as a hospice chaplain and grief counselor, I interact with can

Back in 2013, Jamie and Ingrid Kwong passed this isolated fisherman’s shack buried in the rock face of Great Mackerel Beach on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, and noticed a ‘For Sale’ sign. They could see the ramshackle state it was in from their old wooden boat, but that was half the romance.

After a loving restoration, the pair now share their beloved holiday destination with other seafaring folk. The Little Black Shack is a rustic gem filled with Jamie and Ingrid’s handcrafted furniture, panoramic bay views and the promise of a simpler life.

Beatrix Bakes is the Beyonce of baked goods. The teeny tiny North Melbourne cake shop opened in 2011, and has since grown exponentially – not in size, but in crazed fans! Every weekend (and some weekdays!) Nat Paull’s sweet little shop has rockstar-level crowds, lines wrapping around the side of the store and down the street waiting to catch a glimpse of the famous cake stand housing the selection of treats for the day. Prices and descriptions are written on doilies, and daisy chains of cake beaters hang cheerfully from the ceiling. It looks like a cute country bakery, but its fans are hardcore!

FINALLY, after much anticipation, Beatrix’s fearless founder Nat Paull has released THE definitive cookbook and bakers companion, imbued with as much love as one of her epic coconut shag cakes. Ahead of its release this Sunday, here’s a sneak peek of the goodness inside!

A lot about Callignee Eco Bush Retreat feels extraordinarily like fate. Just two weeks after its original owner Chris Clarke completed his dream off-the-grid home nestled in the Gippsland bushland, the Black Saturday fires tore through the dense, dry underbrush and destroyed it all.

Ten years later and Callignee has been painstakingly rebuilt and passed onto new custodians, Maggie and Chris Jones, whose combination of spiritual pull and gut instinct drew them to the isolated property.

What is your child learning at school? Are arithmetic and language arts, social studies, science, and PE enough to prepa