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Jane Rocca

Jane Rocca

Jane Rocca is a regular contributor to Sunday Life Magazine, Executive Style, The Age EG, columnist and features writer at Domain Review, Domain Living’s Personal Space page. She is a published author of four books.

Sener Besim met his wife during a chance fashion industry encounter.

After seven years of IVF, we turned to a surrogate. It’s been a challenging journey

Designer Şener Besim also shares the business advice he received from his long-time friend, Mecca’s Jo Horgan.

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Joe Camilleri married his first wife, Angela, when he was 20, but their marriage was marked by a huge loss.

Joe’s had five kids with three women. Now he doesn’t know how to ask a girl out

Life on the road with the Black Sorrows means musician Joe Camilleri “missed a lot of birthdays”.

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Khanh Ong has a lot on his plate, all of it delicious.

‘Hits right every time’: The restaurants and bars that Khanh Ong can’t help going back to

The cooking star shares his favourite Melbourne, Sydney and Vietnamese dining and drinking spots —and his go-to orders at each.

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Amanda Pelman with Kylie Minogue in Las Vegas in 2024.

Kylie Minogue, Michael Gudinski and my ‘betrayal’ to the dark side

Music executive Amanda Pelman also shares the ups and downs of her love life, including an 18-year marriage to singer Brian Cadd.

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Skye Edwards, of Morcheeba, had two children from each of her major relationships, the latter through IVF.

After our relationship was discovered, my partner was fired. It exposed a double standard

After Morcheeba singer Skye Edwards’ husband beat cancer, the couple struggled to conceive.

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Lewbowitz, now 75, says her 50s were the best years of her life: “You still look all right. You aren’t perfect, but everything is still working.”

She’s 75, smokes and doesn’t own a mobile phone: Why Gen Z is mad for Fran Lebowitz

The author and commentator hasn’t written a book since 1981, but she’s as relevant as ever.

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Gimlet’s gnocco fritto with bresaola.

‘So perfect’: The Melbourne restaurant snack Helen Goh thinks is glorious

The Ottolenghi collaborator and baking queen cut her teeth in Australia. Here are the dining spots she loves in Melbourne, Sydney, London and beyond.

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The bacon and comte custard tart at Bar Copains is “pastry perfection”.

‘Pastry perfection’: The $9 Sydney bar snack Helen Goh thinks is glorious

The Ottolenghi collaborator and baking queen cut her teeth in Australia. Here are the dining spots she loves in Sydney, Melbourne, London and beyond.

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Helen Goh is returning to Melbourne for the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival.

The Aussie restaurants Helen Goh loves most (and her go-to dishes)

The Ottolenghi collaborator and baking queen cut her teeth in Australia. Here are the spots she loves in Melbourne, Sydney, London and beyond.

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Almqvist, on tour with the Hives in 2025, says life on the road often impacted his past relationships.

I’m a musician and some of my best friends are women. But it’s not about sex

The Hives frontman Pelle Almqvist had always dated musicians, but it was his non-famous girlfriend of 14 years who gave him a different perspective.

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