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"A.J. Finn" wrote the book behind Netflix's 'The Woman in The Window'. These are his lies.

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Billi Fitzsimons

A euthanised dog and a cancelled adoption: The YouTube couple everyone is talking about.

'We just want 10 minutes.' The haunting live TV footage of an airstrike in Gaza.

Billi Fitzsimons

Billi Fitzsimons

'I recently lost a friend to suicide. She left behind a letter for me.'

Ahead of the Craig McLachlan documentary, new allegations against the actor have surfaced.

Billi Fitzsimons

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'People always ask me "how Aboriginal" I am. This is what they don't know.'

Britney Coulson

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