JUST weeks after Veronica Sywak walked the red carpet as a best actress nominee at the Australian Film Institute Awards in 2008, she was back living with her parents in Sydney's west.

NATHAN REES has foisted the huge health portfolio onto the Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, sparing the Premier a potentially damaging caucus vote for the position and buying him more time to plan a reshuffle.

Is Spanish star Javier Bardem acting when he plays a stud opposite Scarlett Johansson, asks ROBERT W. BUTLER.

MALCOLM Turnbull was acting on independent financial advice when he withdrew his investment from a property fund just days before it was frozen.

Colin Firth tells Garry Maddox about rediscovering ABBA.