Tweet Jessica’s Excellent Adventure Well she did it. After 210 days at sea, 16-year-old Jessica Watson swept through Sydney Heads to become the youngest person ever to sail solo and unassisted around the world. So much for all those naysayers who said she was too young and that the trip was too dangerous. Our Jessica [...]
Tweet Queen of the Cross Not so long ago, it was hard to tell the cops from the crims on Sydney’s notorious vice strip – the Golden Mile. The woman you’ll meet on Sunday night was both. Kim Hollingsworth started out as a Kings Cross prostitute before fulfilling a lifelong ambition to become a police [...]
Tweet The Great Flood You’ve heard the old expression: “Be careful what you wish for”. Well, in the outback right now, our farmers are getting exactly what they wished for – and they’re getting it in spades. The decade-long drought has finally broken, although it took a once-in-a-hundred-year flood to do it. An enormous body [...]
Tweet Poisoned Fruit and vegies are supposed to be the healthy option. But what if we were to tell you that Australia’s fruit and vegetables are sprayed with chemicals that are considered so dangerous they’re banned around the world? Liz Hayes spent a hellish few weeks, witnessing the effects of these poisons in other countries. [...]
