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Mystery Road star’s ghosts: ‘sometimes I can feel them nearby’
In-demand actor Mark Coles Smith has returned to his home in WA, where he says his relationship to time and space changes.
- by John Bailey
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Forget the throbbing euphemisms: these romantic leads go to therapy
Bestselling romance author Emily Henry, whose books have sold more than 2.4 million copies, hadn’t read any romance novels before she wrote one herself.
- by Kylie Northover
Marco Pierre White: ‘My reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance’
Reflecting on his career, the acclaimed - and famously wild - celebrity chef says his notoriety was a media beat-up.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Is Neil deGrasse Tyson the smartest man on TikTok?
The world’s most famous scientist has a sincere personal fascination with everything. He’s also very funny.
- by Michael Dwyer
‘My publisher will probably hate it’: Nigella wants your old cookbooks
Nigella Lawson, who will appear in Melbourne this month, says the “best compliment” is when fans bring her their stained, well-used cookbooks to autograph.
- by Kylie Northover
‘I’m ready to reclaim my audience’: Libbi Gorr returns to radio
After more than three decades in the public eye, the woman behind Elle McFeast is seizing the chance to reinvent herself.
- by Michael Lallo
‘We could have done it better’: Murray Cook on the real cost of Wiggles fame
The Red Wiggle has played to thousands at Madison Square Garden, but these days he’s just as happy lugging his own PA with his band the Soul Movers.
- by Michael Dwyer
The former noise rocker who’s being hailed as the ‘voice of her generation’
Compared to Joni Mitchell and Karen Carpenter, Natalie Mering can make the apocalypse sound gorgeous.
- by Jo Roberts
‘Just be human’: Peter Hitchener on surviving more than 50 years in news
The broadcaster has guided audiences from the moon landing to the death of Princess Diana. It’s his warmth that artist Vicki Sullivan wanted to capture for the Archibald.
- by Meg Watson
Does this man have the best job in the world?
Jason Edwards spends much of the year in some of the world’s most exotic destinations on a quest to find the most incredible landscape and revered animals.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
King of parody Weird Al’s latest satire is ... himself
The musical satirist takes his trademark parody to a new extreme with a sort-of-true-but-not-really biopic, starring Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe.
- by Elizabeth Flux