Lee Tulloch

1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Catrin Owen |Diane McCarthy |Lee Tulloch |Hamish McNeilly

Because film critics should be honest about their biases, I’ll start with a confession: I’ve long had an aversion to Rebel Wilson. The Australian comic actress has built a career on being “subversively” crude, often punctuating punchlines by sticking out her tongue in a way that feels more adolescent than edgy.

1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Catrin Owen |Diane McCarthy |Lee Tulloch |Hamish McNeilly

In late May, a husky puppy arrived at a shelter in Austin weighing just three pounds, about half the weight she should have been. She was fished out of the bottom of a rubbish bin, whimpering, cold and barely clinging to life. “The animal welfare space sees these stories constantly,” said Elizabeth Ferrer, marketing and communications program manager of Austin Animal Center. Staff reached out to Austin Pets Alive, a local animal rescue that has specialised veterinary care.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Lee Tulloch

Travel columnist June 17, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I should be in Fiji this week, soaking up some beautiful island magic. Instead, I’m in draughty Sydney. All because I’m afraid of a tiny insect: the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Like many of the islands and island groups in our region, Fiji is having a significant outbreak of dengue fever at the end of this wet season.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Lee Tulloch

Hauf says the best practice is for carbon emissions to be removed or reduced where they are generated, if possible. If we must fly, “carbon removal through carbon-offset projects is a crucial part of the global emissions reduction journey, not least because for some industries, like aviation, the technologies to get to zero emissions do not yet exist commercially”. However, she believes it’s essential to have “a robust and transparent national carbon accounting system”.

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Lee Tulloch

I’ve travelled with a navy blue, hard-sided suitcase for the past few years. When I bought it I thought it was a sophisticated colour. I don’t particularly like fluoro pink suitcases or those with butterfly prints. I’m never going to travel with a Little Mermaid case. Maybe I should. Each time I stand at the luggage carousel and watch navy-blue suitcase after black suitcase bump along the conveyor belt, I regret not going for something more individual.