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The moment I knew: He was five hours late to Christmas lunch – then I realised why | Australian lifestyle

The moment I knew: He was five hours late to Christmas lunch – then I realised why | Australian lifestyle

Published by Sam Flores

It was the year 2000 and my belief in love was crushed. I’d been in a five-year relationship, only to find out my ex had cheated the entire time. In some small part, I saw it as my own fault – I’d always been attracted to proverbial bad boys. Adding to the angst of being betrayed, I’d been writing novels – mysteries set in the Australian wilderness – that kept being rejected. I was not in a sunny place. And then I met Adam. We were randomly seated together at a dinner party and I was unable to resist his warmth. His smile was luminous, he looked like Christmas. ‘He was so easygoing and funny’: Samantha and Adam at their wedding in Port Douglas in 2006 He was one of those rare people who listened to others with dedicated focus, making me feel like the only person at the table. And as I talked about what an awful place the world could be, Adam gently stressed the merit and beauty it possessed too, as though …

I want sex more often than my husband does – what can we do? | Australian lifestyle

I want sex more often than my husband does – what can we do? | Australian lifestyle

Published by Sam Flores

My husband and I have been married for five years and are having trouble with our sex life. From the beginning of our marriage (we only started having sex after marriage) I wanted sex more frequently than him. In the first year or so of marriage we’d have sex two to three times a week which I enjoyed, although sometimes hoped for more. A few years into our marriage my husband had a very stressful time at work. Sex dropped to roughly once a week, typically on the weekends. He picked up running to help deal with the stress and really enjoyed it. While I was happy for him, I also found it particularly difficult because he’d run five or six times a week, maybe for an hour or so each time, but when we tried to have sex he’d often have no energy and not be able to physically perform. I felt deprioritised, like he was putting work and running before me. Over a year we’d have sex maybe once or twice a month. …

Australian woman held in custody on charges of traveling to Syria to join Islamic State group

Australian woman held in custody on charges of traveling to Syria to join Islamic State group

Published by Sam Flores

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian mother of four was held in custody after she appeared in a court on Thursday charged with traveling to Syria and joining the Islamic State group. Rayann El Houli, 34, was arrested at her Melbourne home eight months after she returned to Australia via Lebanon with her children and another woman, police and her lawyer said. The arrest came two days after seven women and 12 children linked to IS returned to Australia from a Syrian refugee camp against the wishes of the Australian government. Three weeks ago, four women and nine children in similar circumstances returned from the same Roj camp for displaced people, which is located near the area where the frontiers of Syria, Turkey and Iraq converge. Three of the four women were charged on arrival with slavery and terrorism offenses and remain in custody. All the women who returned from Syria this month remained under police investigation. Another woman, who accompanied El Houli to Australia from Lebanon, also was under investigation, Australia Federal Police Deputy …

Australian woman charged over travel to Syria to join Islamic State : NPR

Australian woman charged over travel to Syria to join Islamic State : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

FILE – Unidentified women walk between tents in a section of the camp housing Australian family members of suspected Islamic State militants in the Roj Camp in eastern Syria, Feb. 18, 2026. Baderkhan Ahmad/AP hide caption toggle caption Baderkhan Ahmad/AP MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian mother of four was held in custody after she appeared in a court on Thursday charged with traveling to Syria and joining the Islamic State group. Rayann El Houli, 34, was arrested at her Melbourne home eight months after she returned to Australia via Lebanon with her children and another woman, police and her lawyer said. The arrest came two days after seven women and 12 children linked to IS returned to Australia from a Syrian refugee camp against the wishes of the Australian government. Three weeks ago, four women and nine children in similar circumstances returned from the same Roj camp for displaced people, which is located near the area where the frontiers of Syria, Turkey and Iraq converge. Three of the four women were charged on arrival with …

Prince Harry battled ‘relentless heat’ at Australian home ‘double the size of Balmoral’

Prince Harry battled ‘relentless heat’ at Australian home ‘double the size of Balmoral’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Living abroad doesn’t faze Prince Harry, with the royal setting up his home in Montecito, California with his wife, Meghan Markle, after they stepped back as senior royals in 2020. Years before his trans-Atlantic move, he temporarily relocated to Australia aged 19. Fresh out of Eton College, Harry joined his late mother Princess Diana’s close friend Annie Hill and her husband Noel on Tooloombilla farm in Queensland, where he spent nine weeks becoming a “summer jackaroo.” Opening up about his home in Australia, he admitted in his autobiography Spare that the lifestyle was the antithesis of what he had been used to in the UK – especially when it came to the “boiling Australian sun.” “I came from a green place. The Hills’ farm was an ode to brown. I came from a place where every move was monitored, catalogued, and subjected to judgment. The Hills’ farm was so vast and remote that no one would see me for most of each day but [Annie’s son] George. And the odd wallaby. “Above all, I came …

Australian Gaza aid flotilla activists allege abuse after Israeli abduction | News

Australian Gaza aid flotilla activists allege abuse after Israeli abduction | News

Published by Sam Flores

One activist says she was dragged, sexually assaulted and beaten while detained by Israeli authorities. Published On 25 May 202625 May 2026 Australian activists detained by Israel while on a flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza have returned home, and organisers allege abuse, sexual assaults and beatings that put some detainees in hospital. One activist reached Melbourne on Sunday evening while others arrived in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane on Monday. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list Juliet Lamont, an Australian activist and documentary filmmaker, told the Reuters news agency on Monday that she was dragged, sexually assaulted and beaten when she was detained. “That was just the beginning of four days of absolute hell. I’ve looked into the eyes of the most soulless people in the universe, and nothing came back. These people need to be stopped,” Lamont said. Another Australian activist, Sam Woripa Watson, said he sustained a fractured rib along with bruises and cuts across his body. Watson also said he witnessed activists being Tasered and shot with rubber bullets …

I’m 21 and anxious about the future. How do I take care of myself without living in a bubble? | Australian lifestyle

I’m 21 and anxious about the future. How do I take care of myself without living in a bubble? | Australian lifestyle

Published by Sam Flores

I’m 21, and all my life I’ve been anxious about the future. It’s not getting better. There are a lot of things that worry me – no job prospects even with a degree under my belt; I won’t be able to find a partner who will respect me; I’ll never own a house. And outside these, of course, I’m worried about climate change and global politics. The advice I have been offered is to “not think about it” or “focus on what I personally can control”. But I have dreams and aspirations; I want to be a writer and an artist and I am working harder than ever to make those things happen, even if AI might make those fields even more competitive. So my question is: How do I balance my dreams and aspirations practically, and take care of myself, without living in a bubble? Eleanor says: There’s a widespread idea that taking care of ourselves means retreating from these problems, and the task is to work out how much retreat is too much. …

The moment I knew: After a 2,500km bike ride it clicked – marriage probably wouldn’t be the hardest thing we’d do | Australian lifestyle

The moment I knew: After a 2,500km bike ride it clicked – marriage probably wouldn’t be the hardest thing we’d do | Australian lifestyle

Published by Sam Flores

I met Dat in San Francisco in 2015. I had left a tourism consulting role in China and moved to the US to start my own Mongolian vodka product. Dat was a specialised nurse. He loved being a nurse. They say opposites attract and I think that rings true for us. He had this way of calming a room. Dat would arrive at a party and somehow the volume in the room would come down a little bit. He did the same with me. It was a very busy time trying to build my business but he was always there – very supportive and curious about what I was doing. We moved quite quickly into the relationship and spent a lot of time together. In 2018, we made a decision to leave the US. When Trump got elected, America started changing quickly and it made it harder to commit to my business. We said: let’s try Australia. I’m originally from Perth but Dat was born in Vietnam and had never been to Australia before. We …

My partner sleeps at least 10 hours a night. Should I accept this situation won’t change? | Australian lifestyle

My partner sleeps at least 10 hours a night. Should I accept this situation won’t change? | Australian lifestyle

Published by Sam Flores

I am in a relationship with a lovely man who I first dated when we were 19 and 20 years old respectively. Now in our mid-50s, we have been together for three years. We laugh a lot and enjoy doing lots of things together – his enthusiasm for travel matches mine. The issue is he sleeps a lot – at least 10 hours a night but could be 12 hours. He could easily stay in bed until 1pm on any day off. This means when we are on one of our frequent trips away, we rarely get to do things together in the morning – a time I love. I’ve addressed it with him and he sometimes makes the effort, but then reverts back. We don’t live together and only see each other one day a week, so time is precious and I often end up waiting around for him to get up. We’ve discussed living together but I don’t want to start resenting him. He is generally tardy, but so are loads of people …

Zenobē keeps “Winnings” with Australian electric truck deal

Zenobē keeps “Winnings” with Australian electric truck deal

Published by skeptic

Zenobē recently announced plans to make a $100 million investment into the Australian market – and that investment is quickly bearing fruit in the form of a new strategic partnership with Aussie appliance brand Winnings. Founded way back in 1906, the Winnings brand isn’t resting on its laurels. Instead, the brand is looking to the future and working towards the goal of a fully electrified, end-to-end delivery network – and they’re partnering with the energy and EV experts at Zenobē to help make that happen. Winnings’ latest rollout includes a total of 30 new electric fleet vehicles. Ten 4.5-ton medium duty Foton T5e-trucks in New South Wales and twenty 8.5-ton MD electric trucks in Altona, Victoria. The entire new Winning Group fleet will be deployed alongside new charging infrastructure designed and built by Zenobē under the EV as a service (EVaaS) business model the company has successfully deployed in Europe and North America. Advertisement – scroll for more content “Projects like this demonstrate how electrification can be scaled across diverse sectors,” explains Gareth Ridge, Country Director Australia …