You NEED to watch the documentary movie “How to Survive a Plague.” Not just because it will make the AIDS crisis very real to you, but because (as I tell everyone - please, see this movie!) it shows that ground roots, community activism can actually change the world. ACT UP wasn’t perfect, they made mistakes, they…

I’m a duel citizen and lived in the US for the last 10 years, I moved home to Australia less than a year ago (and have been back for three visits in that short time.) So I do know guns in America, and I’m still terrified of them. And the hilarious (ironic? I hate ever using that word, the irony police always come in…

When I was four and living in Sydney my parents summoned my older brother and I one morning to look at a dead something dad had found in the garden. He had apparently brought it inside (alive) late the night before, telling my pregnant mum “hey, I found one of those weird slow worm things we saw on TV the other night!…

Australian American here! Not worried about spiders or snakes, we have so much antivenom stored in this country you are just not going to die from either biting you. Not that scared of bears in the US either, but as someone already said... guns, yes very scared of guns in America.

Seriously! I’m not a huge fan of “wedding rules” as a concept, but “if your wedding obviously cost multiple hundreds of thousands, don’t walk down the aisle in a two-piece ensemble that includes a midriff top” just HAS to be a rule, right?

No no, I think I’m the idiot for knowing it! I just remember they had a really, really tacky-looking Coachella-like “boho” wedding and wondering if the ever-amazing Diana was secretly rolling her eyes the whole time...

Um... I’m going to sound like a real idiot if you were being sarcastic and I didn’t get it, but Ashlee Simpson is now married (and has a daughter) with Evan Ross, Diana’s son. Hence her relevance to this story.

Becky here, and YES. If I heard “reverse racism” one more time before I left the US for my home country late last year after Trump, I don’t know what I would have done...

There really is a huge difference. In the US I learned how to make vegetables taste good (all kinds of different cooking methods with sautéing or roasting in stock and/or with pancetta, marinades, salad dressings) but in Australia... you just eat your vegetables, you rarely ever see a salad dressing, and a good tomato…

Frozen is underrated. They’re often more nutritious than the “fresh” stuff since they’re frozen immediately after harvesting, and if it’s a recipe where texture doesn’t matter heaps (like something slow-cooked) most are just as good, easier and usually cheaper. I normally wouldn’t “feature” a frozen vegetable (except…

When I was 18 I moved into an apartment block with six units, five of which were occupied by babies or pregnant women (so pretty soon, all five had babies in them but mine.) I was scared to drink the water.

Especially in the US. Your fruit and vegetables are bred to look good, look uniform in shape and size (and generally be big), and have a long shelf life - NOT to taste good. I moved home to Australia last December and one year on, biting into a cherry tomato still gives me a little thrill, it tastes like... taste! And…

Can someone convince him or his idiot kids that kangaroos are savage and very endangered and really difficult to hunt (you bagged a kangaroo? Holy shit!) because we have an overpopulation problem and a mass culling program here already (it sounds inhumane but when their population explodes in a small area they’re all…

It’s the best so far, no doubt (the long version.) But there’s something about calling yourself “an ally and supporter and champion of women” and later “an ally and supporter” again in *your apology for sexually assaulting a woman* that just falls more than a little flat.

An inconvenient truth, but you’re speaking it... Democrats resign in shame, Republicans just keep going.

It has to have chocolate, and you have to be able to open the little cardboard perforated doors (no expensive-ass advent calendars in my childhood) in a way that you can then make it look like you haven’t, so you can sneak extra chocolate early.

I’ve lost track of the amount of “Brad and Jen: Back Together!” or “Brad and Jen: Secret Meeting!” tabloid magazine covers I’ve seen over the years. I don’t get the fascination, but it must be there since it obviously sells magazines.

Don’t you dare ruin one of my favorite songs! But seriously, what a creep...

Whoever saw that picture and thought ‘incest!’ is deeply, deeply disturbed. I can’t get my head around it. “The internet took off with rumors of incest between the two of them?” I know there are a lot of crazies on the internet but if you see something sexual in that sweet family picture of two 15-year-olds, you…

Yes, I lived in the US for 10 years, married my American husband (recently ex) one year in. I got my green card (permanent residency) about 18 months after I got married, and my citizenship almost 7 years after we married. I always applied as soon as I could (immediately after marriage for the green card, and 3 years…