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Why the weighted blanket returns every winter

Weighted blankets keep resurfacing each Australian winter because they promise warmth, pressure and that old-fashioned feeling of being held.

Dr Mira Joshi· 8 min read
Textile art at home
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How to style textile art at home without flattening the room

Activewear in a drawer
wellbeing

The quiet dread in your activewear drawer

Resort 2027 looks by Gary Bigeni, Nicol & Ford and Iordanes Spyridon Gogos in Vogue Australia's Fashion Week size report
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Who Australian Fashion Week still imagines into the room

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When fashion history turns up in a garment bag

Isle of Monday vintage rental offers borrowed access to archive fashion, but the real lure is how a worn garment can still feel improbably personal.

Resort 2027 looks by Gary Bigeni, Nicol & Ford and Iordanes Spyridon Gogos in Vogue Australia's Fashion Week size report

Who Australian Fashion Week still imagines into the room

A striped summer shirt with relaxed khaki trousers against a brick wall.

Seersucker is making linen feel slightly uptight

Open fashion books on a carpet beside polished shoes

When the coffee table starts dressing the wardrobe

Rows of pared-back knitwear on hangers, echoing the minimalist uniform Everlane sold so well.

When the white tee lost its halo

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Textile art at home

How to style textile art at home without flattening the room

Textile art at home works best when you use scale, texture and restraint. Here's how to hang a woven piece so a room feels warmer, not themed.

Brass bar cart styled in a living room for evening drinks

The martini trolley is back, and not ironically

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The small bathroom changes that pull a room together

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Why our kitchens keep borrowing from restaurants

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Travel toiletries and beauty essentials spread out before packing.

What the bathroom floor knows before a trip

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Why grief travel is making wellness tell the truth

Aerial view of overwater villas in the Maldives, the polished fantasy Australians have long filed under too-hard.

The Maldives just moved closer to Melbourne

Vogue Puglia trullo hero image

Why Puglia keeps seducing travellers chasing a slower summer

A small timber cabin at dusk in a rural paddock

Why the dream weekend now fits in a tiny cabin

What a wellness retreat really sells

What a wellness retreat really sells

Relationships

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What a mortgage does to the men you date

Single women buying homes are outpacing solo men, and the dating fallout says more about old gender scripts than property prices.

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What a mortgage reveals on a date

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When money stress stops being about money

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When the first holiday starts to grade you

A happy couple in love, with a man in a wheelchair, enjoying a moment indoors.

Disabled desire still gets treated like breaking news

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Family on a sofa watching television together, the shared-viewing ritual at the centre of the Bluey minisode debate.

Bluey was never meant to feel like content slurry

Bluey minisodes on Disney+ are only a few minutes long, but they sharpen a bigger worry: when a family ritual becomes platform upkeep.

Kylie Minogue portrait for Why Kylie is finally letting the family in

Why Kylie is finally letting the family in

Delta Goodrem Puts on Incredible Performance at Eurovision

Why Delta Goodrem's Eurovision run felt bigger than nostalgia

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The accent that keeps Apex alive

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Steam cooking myths Matt Stone wishes home cooks would drop

Chef Matt Stone speaking about steam cooking in a kitchen setting

Steam isn't the problem. Our kitchen folklore is.

Baskets of heirloom tomatoes at a farmers' market stall

The tomato that makes summer taste real

Matt Stone with a steam oven dish

Matt Stone takes the fear out of steam

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What Pizza Studio Tamaki says about Sydney

A trio of cocktails featuring lemon and cucumber garnishes on a wooden table surrounded by plants.

Three bars opened on Tuesday. The saké one is the keeper.

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a cow running away from a girl riding a horse on red dirt with dust

At campdraft school, the reins are changing hands

At Topar, campdraft school is less about sport than the way regional culture survives through labour, skill and young people learning the hard part.

The narrator with her Maa at a traditional Nepalese puja ceremony

What a sari can say before you do

Sydney housing choices are now lifestyle negotiations

The Sydney dream, revised for an actual life

Suburban Australian house facade in Geelong with manicured front garden and tiled roof

Negative gearing reform meets the housing problem it can't solve alone

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What the week before Mother's Day looks like from where I sit

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Activewear in a drawer

The quiet dread in your activewear drawer

PFAS in leggings sounds alarming, but activewear is a smaller exposure risk than water, food and dust, and green claims deserve harder scrutiny.

A weighted blanket laid across a bed.

Why the weighted blanket returns every winter

A coastal spa pool at InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach

At Coogee, the spa day becomes a persona

A vibration plate for beginners benefits exercises tips

A month on a vibration plate, and the limits of hype

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The reef-safe sunscreen promise is not that simple

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Why men's grooming has started to exhale

A hand reaching for skincare products on a modern bathroom sink.

The winter skincare swaps worth making early

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The beauty swaps that make plastic feel less inevitable

Flat lay of no-sebum mineral powder containers on a clean, white background.

What that mint powder is really for

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A month in a $600 LED mask taught me almost nothing

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What disclosing a disability at work costs, and what it shouldn't

Disability disclosure at work still asks employees to price in stigma, even when Australian law says accommodations are the employer's job.

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The super rise you notice late, and the payday shift behind it

A suburban house at auction

What the Saturday auction sounded like after investors stepped back

Tax documents and coins on a green desk symbolizing financial planning and savings

The budget just rewrote the super rulebook. Three changes I'd actually pay attention to

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What Birthright gets right about my parents' house

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