Heart

Successful brothel bid would be a stiletto to inner-Sydney's heart

Paul Sheehan Jerry Hall, the former model and ex-wife of Mick Jagger, once infamously said that a woman should be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom.

Divine art of lonely at heart

Peter FitzSimons.

Peter FitzSimons The new book taking Britain by storm has the unlikely title of Sexually, I'm More of a Switzerland.

Equity, not equality, at heart of rules

Jamila Hussain

Jamila Hussain Today, most people assume parents will treat sons and daughters equally when they make a will, unless there is some special reason, such as disability, to give a greater share to one of the children.

A dog's life can depend on those they take to heart

Geoff Strong

Geoff Strong I am particularly disturbed by the vainglorious belief that humans are somehow special and uniquely possess what the religious like to call a soul.

We should all learn how to mend a broken heart

Paul Middleton

Paul Middleton THE holiday period from Christmas to early January is the time Australians are most likely to have a heart attack or cardiac arrest.

If you have a heart, give it to save a life

ChrisThomas

Chris Thomas NEW YEAR'S resolutions are by their very nature a self-centred affair.

Taking heart

Pioneering paediatric heart surgeon and researcher Yves d'Udekem.

Michael Short This pioneering surgeon wants to prolong the lives of children born with a major heart defect and he needs your help.

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Whether it is humane or not, killing is at the dark heart of the meat industry

Cattle

Andrew Cox Footage from Indonesian abattoirs brought home our disconnect with what we eat.

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A shallow heart beats true love

Andrew Daddo

Andrew Daddo SO FAR this year, I've racked up exactly $3,432,245. And it's making me miserable because it's nowhere near enough.

A hole in the heart

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Elizabeth Farrelly With its centenary approaching, Canberra must cast off the plump country town aura and realise its prize-winning vision, writes Elizabeth Farrelly.

Reading the lesson at site of the sacred open heart

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Martin Flanagan Father Bob Maguire says he's ''a bit sacred-site obsessed''. He thinks his church, St Peter and St Paul's Catholic Church in South Melbourne, the city's oldest parish, is a sacred site.

Listen to your heart - the '80s are over

Roxette

Charles Purcell It was the decade that gave us the Smiths, Duran Duran, Ultravox, Adam Ant, Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Dexy’s Midnight. But is it finally time to declare that the ’80s are dead?

Marriage at the heart of a crucial commitment to children

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Patrick Parkinson In Child Protection Week, it is good to take stock of how our most vulnerable children and young people are doing.

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Don't mock the frock - Benedict speaks from the heart

Gerard Henderson

Gerard Henderson The Vatican, apparently like God, works in strange ways.

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The warm heart in winter

A heart.

Michael Leunig More and more lonely, your path struggles on through incomprehensible mankind. Rilke (Lament)

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Ignorance lies at the heart of 'innocent' racist gibes

Nicky Winmar

Sean Gorman That sportsmen are not aware of their offence is part of the problem.

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Be kind to your heart, take up crochet instead of watching World Cup

Simon Webster WARNING: the World Cup can be bad for your health. During important games, heart attack rates increase dramatically in the countries involved, studies have found.

Twighlight romangst's partial eclipse of the heart

Twilight

Karl Quinn Twilite romangst inspires only a partial Eclipse of the heart, writes Karl Quinn.

Lame stories haunt an industry with a dead heart

DAVID DALE THE term zombie is fashionable nowadays, so I'm going to apply it to the Australian film industry. Every time you think it's dead, buried and nibbled by maggots, it staggers out of the grave and...

Auckland's dull heart is the trouble

Tim Dick.

Tim Dick AUCKLAND may be survivable, but is not liveable. It is as dead as the extinct volcanoes on which it lies. Its public transport is embarrassing, traffic awful and the weather poor.

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