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You're seeing someone and you know it's not exclusive because he's into polyamory. But on your date he played you a voicemail from another person he's seeing.

You're worried he might be sharing personal information about you to other people he's seeing as well.

If you don't know those people, does it really matter? Or should this be a deal breaker?

Whether you're a fashionista or you just throw on whatever is at the top of the pile in your bedroom, you probably have views about the clothes you wear and what they communicate about you as a person.

Is what you wear an expression of your emotions, your identity, your past, your future? And how do those clothes make you feel?

Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock have proposed to run for the Federal seat of Higgins as job-share representatives.

It seems there are a few hurdles to overcome before job-sharing is an easy option for politicians, but what about in our own workplaces?

Professor Rosalind Dixon looks at different models of job sharing, how it work for both businesses and employees, and whether this presents a new model for leadership.

David Hobson is a stalwart of Australian opera, a composer and all around entertainer in his partnership with comedian Colin Lane.

He reflects on the wisdom and altruism of his late mother, how hypnosis eased his fear of flying, and why we could all afford to be a bit less self-indulgent and more 'audience first'.

When colonial settlers arrived on the first fleet, they brought sheep with them, and sheep grazing expanded so rapidly that ‘mutton was cheaper than bread’.

But it was the sheep’s wool that was of financial value and mutton seen as merely ‘the soil on which the wool could grow'.

So how did this lowly ‘by-product' become what historian Barbara Santich calls a 'cultural superfood'? How did the farming of this food forever alter the Australian landscape? And how are sheep farmers today trying to use their industry to heal the land and the planet? 

For many of us, our relationship with food can become tied to our actual relationships: to the way our parents cooked, or the meals we make for a partner.

But what about when that relationship changes?

In his new novel, Family Meal, Bryan Washington follows 3 characters at pivotal moments of their lives, as they spiral in the aftermath of grief, and grow to find the possibility of change.