Redfern's black history goes back generations

SYDNEY'S black urban heart has been in Redfern much longer than people think.

Next generation

A family business expands its space and clientele, who are spoiled for choice. Taste 102 John Street, Cabramatta, 8764 0355 Daily, 7.30am-8.30pm.

Birds Of Paradise

The celebrity kingdom is home to rich and rare attention-seeking breeds, writes Lenny Ann Low.

Material Girl With A Gammy Knee

Of all the gossip spewing out of the imminent Madonna divorce, the most poignant item is that the 50-year-old pop star is enraged with estranged husband Guy Ritchie because he told her she "looked like a granny" on stage.

Eat Your Way To Better Skin

Banish those breakouts with a healthy diet and exercise regime. KILMENY ADIE talks to the author of a new 'how-to' manual. An array of expensive creams and invasive treatments are touted as antidotes to acne but the answer could be far simpler.

Cow Cure-all Makes A Splash

THE urine of more than a million cows in a north Indian state is to be collected and sold to the makers of traditional medicines who believe it can cure anything from diabetes and skin ailments to AIDS and cancer.

Can The Ban And Market The Manners Message Instead

WELL, that's Test cricket then, almost over for another Australian summer, with one series win, another in the balance, an equal world record and a healthy spot of controversy tucked safely under the baggy green. Time for the players to leave the creams to soak overnight and dust off the green and gold outfit, while fans brace for TV commentators to refer relentlessly to "rock and roll" cricket: yes, next up is a Twenty20 match against India at the MCG on Friday.

Cream Is Up To Scratch

ECZEMA sufferers have been given fresh hope through a revolutionary treatment that might reverse thinning of the skin - a common side-effect of conventional creams.

Country Memories Stick Like The Flies In The Bush

IT WAS 22 years ago as a 16-year-old that I left Wonthaggi to pursue my cricketing dream. Last Sunday, I returned to where it all started and pulled on the creams again alongside my mates at Outtrim Moyarra Kongwak.