Category: Family

Parents and carers have been warned about sharing back-to-school photos on social media as they could end up in the hands of child sex offenders. Australian Federal Police Acting Assistant Commissioner Hilda Sirec said even “innocent photos” could end up in the collections of child sex offenders. Further, they can be used as a way...

A man has drowned attempting to rescue his daughter from the surf at a popular New South Wales tourist beach overnight. Police said a couple and their three children were only in shallow water at Seven Mile Beach, at Lennox Head, about 6.30pm yesterday, when their 11-year-old daughter was swept out to sea on a...

‘One of the surest roads to success in showbiz is to be the child of an already famous and successful person. These progeny are called nepo babies (nepo = nepotism), and they have not-so-secretly infiltrated countless beloved pop culture properties. Who was your favourite character on ‘Stranger Things’? Robin, was it? Nepo baby. Your favourite...

A “lovely” Adelaide couple with two young children are “in shock” after both being diagnosed with cancer on the same day. Kirsty Lee got a call from her GP last Tuesday morning to tell her she had stage 3 breast cancer. Just hours later, her husband Steve Lee went to hospital to be told by...

As Western Sydney shuttered its doors at the peak of the Delta COVID-19 outbreak in July last year, Penrith woman Kylie Cargill was worried about the pandemic, but also determined to press ahead with her plans for starting a family. Kylie, then aged 45, and her husband Rhett were in their sixth year of a...

New childcare laws have passed through Parliament, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledging they will leave over one million families better off. From July 2023, the subsidy will lift from 85 per cent to 90 per cent for families with a combined income of less than $80,000. New childcare laws will increase subsidies for parents....

A series of baby rocker models have been recalled nationwide after the death of a child overseas. Product Safety Australia has issued the recall order for certain models of the 4moms mamaRoo Multi-motion Baby Swing 4.0 and rockaRoo Baby Rocker. For the mamaRoo product, the order applies to models 4M-005, 1026, and 1037. The mamaRoo...

The Queensland Police Service said the local man died on Wednesday afternoon in the watch house at Kowanyama, on the western Cape York coast along the Gulf of Carpentaria. Police said the 51-year-old had been taken into custody over allegations of domestic and family violence related offences. Kowanyama is on the western Cape York coast...

New families and prospective parents are big winners in Labor’s first federal budget in nearly a decade, with major boosts to parental leave and childcare. Paid parental leave will be expanded by six weeks through to 2026-27, with two more weeks being added in each financial year – from 20 in 2023-24 to 26 in...

When Queensland couple Brendan and Sarah Ovens first announced their plans to sell up everything, buy a boat and set sail on an indefinite adventure with their two kids, they were met with stunned disbelief from friends and family. “So many people were just looking at us like we were crazy. They would be saying,...