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Share on Twitter Fashion doyenne and former SBS chair Carla Zampatti has been farewelled with a state funeral attended by a swathe of leading figures from Australia's fashion, arts, business, political, media and corporate circles. Mourners gathered at Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral to honour the extraordinary life of the trailblazer whose stellar career and elegant designs won the admiration of the nation for nearly six decades. The service was streamed live and members of the public were also invited to farewell the 78-year-old fashion icon who died last month after falling at a p...

The Carla Zampatti's children and Former Governor-General Quentin Bryce have honoured the fashion designer at a state funeral.

Premium Content Subscriber only Bravery award winner and convicted sex offender Michael Patrick Williams is back behind bars after his bid to appeal his conviction was dismissed. The Sea Rogue survivor was last year found guilty by a judge-alone trial on two counts of sexual intercourse without consent over the assault which took place at a Yamba house party in 2018. Williams, who was a deckhand on the trawler which sank off Byron Bay in 2008, had made headlines when he survived a 12-hour swim to shore. He was awarded a bravery medal from Governor-General Quentin Bryce as well as a Royal H...

PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE of EDINBURGH: 10 June 1921 - 9 April, 2021 No member of the royal family has visited Australia as often as Prince Philip. Over 71 years, from his first visit to Sydney in 1940 to his last in 2011, he seemed to enjoy his encounters – with his throwaway lines and sharp asides – and Australians, for their part, seemed to appreciate that irreverent directness. Prince Philip over the years. His first visit was to Sydney in 1940, when he was a 19-year-old junior officer with HMS Ramillies. He proved a popular party guest. But he was never pretentious. When Sydney man-about-t...

How Carla Zampatti helped put Australian fashion on the map The pioneering designer created nothing less than a new aesthetic for Australian women – and forged a path for them in business like no other. Carla Zampatti photographed at her home in Woollahra in May 2020.  Louie Douvis Save Share Rarely seen without her signature sunglasses or the impeccably tailored wide-leg jumpsuits she favoured, Carla Zampatti was a figure who loomed so large in the imaginations, and closets, of so many that she appeared to be close to invincible. Indeed, Zampatti has been such a part of the countryâ...