Visitors to Sydney’s Sporting Club, housed in the new Allianz Stadium, are freaking out over the facility’s “ridiculous” amenities and annual membership fees. ‘Lifestyle insiders’ have taken to social media to share information about the $830 million lavish ‘oasis’, suggesting it may well be the fanciest gym in the nation. “I can safely say this … Read more
If things had turned out the way I intended on that bleak afternoon in my teens, when I collapsed on the bathroom floor, I would not have lived past 14. After another horrible day in the endless hell that was my adolescence, which saw me mercilessly tormented by the kids at my football-mad boys’ school, … Read more
An 18-year-old whose soccer partner suddenly took his life in his last year of school reveals how he constantly felt like a piece was missing. Joseph Anderson, from Bondi, met Nick Munsie at primary school in Armidale, in rural NSW, before they both ended up at the same secondary school: St Joseph’s in Hunters Hill, … Read more
Richmond will have most of the six months to ponder one question: Why wasn’t more done to stop Lachie Neale? Neale has shot back into Brownlow Medal favoritism this season, but he saved perhaps his best performance for a game that won’t be part of that voting process, with his 39-out, 15-punt effort in Thursday’s … Read more
Professor Julie Jomeen is not just an academic expert when it comes to the mental health and well-being of new parents. The executive dean of the Southern Cross University School of Health spent years working as a midwife in the UK, beginning in her 20s, and also has two children of her own. “It is … Read more
Australian swimming legend Leisel Jones has opened up about battling mental health throughout her swimming career, including how a simple knock on her hotel room door saved her life. The four-time Olympian had a glittering career that began at the Sydney Games at the tender age of just 15, scoring three golds and nine medals … Read more
Paul Green’s best friend revealed that the NRL legend had been secretly battling mental health issues for nearly two decades, a fight his parents admitted they didn’t know the full extent of. It has been more than a week since Green, 49, was found dead in his Brisbane home, having taken his own life, but … Read more
Former Sydney Police detective Daniel*, 42, cannot pinpoint the moment he realized he could no longer do his job. Stationed at a local commando in the south-west of the city, 10 years with the NSW police had left him battling post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and unable to work. “Surveillance is a world that the outside … Read more