Magazine Features and Profiles

A Panel debating Beauty, Self Esteem and Growing up Happy. If you don't look like Jennifer Hawkins, is it still possible?

How is the global financial crisis affecting our beliefs about work, money, the environment and each other? Broadcaster Libbi Gorr gathered Australia’s top social researchers to get the lowdown on the meltdown.

Australian Wine Selector - 2008

Libbi Gorr catches one of Australia’s most wanted, The Chaser's Chas Licciardello.

Australian Wine Selector - 2006

"Justine Clarke first came to prominence as a teenage soap star in the 1980s. Today she is a critically acclaimed stage and screen actress working with some of the world's most respected artists. Libbi Gorr discovers how she managed to join the 'A-league'."

Australian Wine Selector - 2007

"The rise, reign and reprioritising of Australia’s youngest political veteran,Democrat Natasha Stott Despoja."

Australian Wine Selector - 2006

"Wayne Cooper, designer for the fashion conscious’ skinniest and inniest, rocks into Sydney’s exclusive Icebergs Restaurant at Bondi in a deliciously dishevelled state."

Sunday Life - 2006

"The rise of “Crazy John” Ilhan is classic rags-to-riches stuff – the son of working-class immigrants goes on to build a communications empire. But there’s nothing mad about his method. The secret to his place as one of Australia’s richest men, he says, is family and his Muslim faith."

Sunday Life - 2005

"Everyone wants to be happy, right? But if you’re having trouble defining this sought-after state – let alone achieving it – you’re not alone. We put five experts in a room with Libbi Gorr to talk it over."

Sunday Life - 2005

"As Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, he made a decision that threatened a major development and the repercussions were fatal for his career. Now CEO of the Australian Red Cross, Robert Tickner tells Libbi Gorr that he has no regrets."

Sunday Life - 2005

"At one time she carried one of the most powerful names in the country but the former Mrs James Packer – now fashion designer Jodhi Meares – has stepped out of the media-family’s shadow and is calling her own shots."

Sunday Life - 2005

"What does it mean to be male today? Is it about being the breadwinner, a hero on the football field, the mate others can rely upon or something even less tangible? Libbi Gorr sat down with a composer, a psychotherapist, a comedian, a politician and two sports stars to find out."

Sunday Life -2005

"A lot of people have held this office and I don’t think any of them are still here breathing down my neck. the office."

Sunday Life - 2004

"You end up having a two-dimensional life…' 'I’ve only achieved what I’ve achieved with the support of my husband…' 'I never wanted to be kept…' 'I don’t feel like a woman when I’m thinking…' Here, four of Australia’s most powerful women discuss what it takes to make it to the top of the corporate ladder."