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Lunch with Fashion Critical, who takes her anonymity seriously.

The undercover critic tearing a strip off the fashion world

From the Oscars to the Brownlow, Fashion Critical runs her gimlet eye over big fashion events, often saying what everyone else is thinking.

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Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score.

In traumatic times, this psychiatrist has some advice for you

The work of trauma expert Dr Bessel van der Kolk has become a cultural sensation.

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What Monica Lewinsky can teach us about escaping dysfunctional roles

She went from being “suicidal” to becoming a respected public speaker by breaking free from the labels others put on her. Here’s how we can throw off labels that cripple us, too.

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<i>15 Minutes of Shame</i> co-producers Max Joseph and Monica Lewinsky.

Lewinsky documentary unpacks our culture of online public shaming

Monica Lewinsky, who knows better than most what it’s like to be publicly shamed, co-produces this compelling documentary on the rise of “cancel culture”.

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The moment at Fairy Bower that got Tony Abbott into trouble.

Can dobbers be cobbers? Tony Abbott’s COVID informer raises questions about the Australian way

Once it was a no-no to dob. We live in more ambiguous times.

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Monica Lewinsky in Los Angeles in August.

Monica Lewinsky is (reluctantly) revisiting ‘that woman’

New show Impeachment, which premiered on September 8 on Binge, is the most personal – and arguably the most prominent – chapter in Lewinsky’s rehabilitation. 

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Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky in Impeachment: American Crime Story.

A very Presidential scandal: Clinton-Lewinsky saga retold for TV

Impeachment: American Crime Story follows the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky sex scandal. “Engrossing and undeniably juicy”, it’s generating major buzz in Hollywood.

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Britney Spears in 1999, when she released her first album ‘Baby One More Time’.

Why did we do what we did to Britney Spears?

For those of us who spent our teens or 20s dancing to Britney Spears and consuming the spectacle of her unravelling, the experience of watching the film was part horror, part shame.

  • Jacqueline Maley
America – a country in crisis.

Why did America stop being great?

In this week's episode of Good Weekend Talks, editor Katrina Strickland is joined by Nick Bryant, author and New York correspondent for the BBC, and Farrah Tomazin, a senior writer with The Age currently covering US politics and news, for a conversation about Donald Trump, American unrest and the upcoming election.

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Hillary Clinton: "I’ve had such a fascinating, rich life. I’ve been at the forefront of so much change and I’ve seen the positive shifts."

Hillary Clinton: 'It took an enormous amount of forgiving'

Condemned as weak for sticking by her husband, Hillary Clinton reflects on her marriage and why it continues to be a source of curiosity and bewilderment.

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