Body

Damon Young

The joy of exercise, or why life well lived means a body worked hard

Damon Young More than the health benefits, getting fit is seriously enjoyable.

Wendy Squires

Selling your body, not your soul

Wendy Squires Last year I became great friends with a prostitute. Hers is a long story, both tragic and inspiring. As she says, no one sets out in life wanting to be a hooker.

Helen Razer

Garrett is the latest victim of the faux feminist body image cult

Helen Razer When we think of Peter Garrett, keen interest in couture does not spring immediately to mind. Nonetheless, while the minister may not be fluent in the language of harem pants, he can certainly spot...

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Helen Razer

'Healthy' body image hysteria has no place in fashion

Helen Razer Vogue is deluded if it thinks its 'get real' diktat can reduce eating disorders.

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George Williams

New body needed to fill cracks of corruption

George Williams The debate over allegations of misbehaviour by our federal politicians has an important subtext. Does Australia have the right laws and institutions in place to deal with accusations of corruption,...

Matt Wade

Food for the body and the soul

Matt Wade HE COOKS lentils in a pot the size of a plunge pool. Jitendra Singh's soupy concoctions help feed tens of thousands of people each day at the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine of the Sikh religion.

Misty de Vries

National strategy on body image doesn't go far enough

Misty de Vries We didn’t need Karl Lagerfeld’s recent ‘‘nobody wants to see curvy women’’ clanger to highlight the urgent need for action on body image dissatisfaction.

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Heckler

Weigh-in plan cleared for take-off

Heckler YET again I have been subjected to discrimination at an airport check-in counter.

Allison Pearson

As Blade weeps in court, we forget the Blonde is the victim

Allison Pearson If you have just accidentally shot dead the woman you love, what do you do?

Charles Waterstreet

Sport and the currency of celebrity

Charles Waterstreet A Sydney librarian has tackled the touchy matter of drugs in sport with more aplomb than the Australian Crime Commission's recent shrieking report.

Women finally receive call-up to football's top team

Moya Dodd Former Matilda Moya Dodd has been nominated by Asia as its candidate in the coming FIFA election for the position of global women's football representative. Here she explains why.

Shane Green

It's our station and we should have a real say in its future

Shane Green The grand plan by the Baillieu government to redevelop Flinders Street Station is heading into its final stages.

Wendy Squires

Even pregnant women are only human

Wendy Squires There is a particular photo of my pregnant mum I've always loved. In it, she has a beehive ''do'', a daisy print mini bulging with the load that is the growing me, and black cat's eye sunglasses.

Peter FitzSimons

Had a whale of a time, but I'm baaack

Peter FitzSimons I've done a lot of lying on Newport beach, but I'm back! And I've missed you.

Lindy Edwards

Restore work-life balance by making men work from home

Lindy Edwards At the weekend, the Gillard government moved on one of the greatest challenges facing Australian families.

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A brave decision as legacy debate begins

Barney Zwartz Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, long Pope John Paul II's right-hand man, watched that Pope's long decline and the paralysis it caused at the top in the Vatican, the intrigues and the pursuit of agendas.

Craig Fry

High on moral panic

Craig Fry Last week we did indeed witness the blackest day in Australian sport. But the low point was the public reaction to this latest drugs-in-sport story, not the apparent truth of the matter.

Ratzinger was behind great Catholic cover-up

Christopher Hitchens Citing wavering strength of mind and body, Pope Benedict XVI announced his decision to resign from the papacy at the end of February. He will be the first Pope to abdicate in nearly six centuries.

Elizabeth Farrelly

Cool in the tube: the terrace house stands the test of time

Elizabeth Farrelly The terrace house gives a whole new meaning to the idea of the London tube. London's standout characteristic, as you trek in by taxi or train, is neither its veiled beauty nor its vile weather,...