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INTERVIEW: Boost Juice founder shares her winning ways

Janine Allis on business success, reality television and her ‘ridiculous’ competitive nature.

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08th May 2020 11:05 AM

Boost Juice founder Janine Allis on business, Survivor and her time in Noosa.

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INTERVIEW: Young Aus of the Year has ‘deadly’ passion

Corey Tutt’s troubled childhood hasn’t stopped him being an advocate for underprivileged indigenous students.

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30th April 2020 7:04 AM

Young Australian of the Year finalist Corey Tutt. Corey founded Deadly Science which has donated more than 7000 books and telescopes to kids in remote communities.

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Turning sporting success into a national business chain

Deeks shares how his quest for excellence helped him in life and how he got the gig to be the voice of the Beep Test.

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23rd April 2020 12:04 PM

COFFEE CHATS: Marathon runner Rob de Castella. Picture by Sean Davey.

INTERVIEW: Regrets of a convicted drug smuggler

Big wave surfing, gangs and international drug smuggling. It’s not scenes from an action movie, it’s the real life of Wayne...

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16th April 2020 5:04 PM

CHEQUERED HISTORY: Convicted drug smuggler and big wave surfer Wayne Cleveland

INTERVIEW: The day Heath Franklin met the real Chopper

Franklin shares ‘awkward’ prison chat with Chopper.

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05th March 2020 10:03 AM

CHOP-ULAR ACT: Chopper’s manager said to him, ‘You need to sound more like that guy from TV.’

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INTERVIEW: Sammy J’s a law unto himself

‘I think I lacked enough self-awareness which is a good start in comedy. Because if you were too aware, you would just quit...

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27th Feb. 2020 4:02 PM

INTERVIEW: Acclaimed songwriter ‘allergic’ to pop songs

‘At school you had the person who was good at sports, and the person who was good at art, I wanted to be the guy who was...

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21st Feb. 2020 4:02 PM

COFFEE CHAT: Kim Churchill is an Australian folk, rock, and blues singer, songwriter, and musician.

INTERVIEW: Effie discovers online dating

Effie shares the terms and conditions that go with dating and what it is like being married to a plastic surgeon.

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12th Feb. 2020 2:02 PM

'When it comes to loving Effie, a number of terms and conditions apply.' Effie is currently touring with her new interactive stage show, <i>Love me Tinder</i>.

How former gangster survived a bullet to the head

‘I got caught at the age of 15 for kidnapping. I had a guy in the boot of a car.’

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06th Feb. 2020 2:02 PM

‘I didn’t know I was hit until I felt warm liquid on the back of my neck.’ Vu Pham spent 19 years behind bars.

INTERVIEW: Noons shares her late night tunes

Katie Noonan on success, record labels and ciggies.

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30th Jan. 2020 12:01 PM

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