Chelsea McIver

You collect your things, change into normal clothes for the first time in years, and a door opens to the outside world. Then what?

Comedy tends to attract the broken-hearted, and I was no exception.

I reached out to three women who'd worked on oil rigs around Australia. I wanted to ask them whether life as a female rig worker is as strange as I imagine it, and to get a sense of what it's like out there, on those mini floating worlds populated almost entirely by dudes who look like the guy above.

Why adapt Wolf Creek into a six-part series, when the story has already been told through two feature films? Why rely on Tolstoy, when we have talented screenwriters like Cate Shortland and Jacqueline Perske to make up their own stories?

If buying a place in the next few years isn’t realistic for you, there’s no need to resign yourself to a lifetime of renting. There are some practical things you can do now to get your own patch of grass one day.

Ah, the old travel romance. Whether it’s a three-week break or a three-month adventure, no trip overseas seems complete without it.

I recently noticed the ideas come just before I ride another kind of wave. Especially just a few days before. So I've wondered if maybe there's a link. And if so, is my pill—the common contraceptive Estelle—helping or numbing the effect?

People tend to associate Bosnia and Herzegovina with war and destruction, but a lot has changed since the 1990s.