Australia's sexiest jobs revealed

Women who work in sport and recreation are considered the most attractive. Picture: Thinkstock Source: Supplied

• Survey finds the sexiest men are soldiers
• Hottest women work in sport and recreation
• No love for insurance workers or telemarketers

WOMEN dig Diggers and men can't keep their eyes off the yoga teacher.

That's the verdict of a new national survey, commissioned by 'infidelity site' VictoriaMilan.com.au, which asked 1,000 Australians from the population at large to name the professions that get them drooling.

It turns out that girls really do love a man in uniform. Soldiers topped the list of hunky heartthrobs, and emergency service personnel weren't far behind.

"Wars aren't sexy but fighters are and that's why Aussie women dig Diggers," said VictoriaMilan founder Sigurd Vedal.

There are some surprising results as well. For instance, 'unemployment' was voted a sexier profession than sales, science, HR, IT and a bunch of other perfectly respectable careers. Figure that one out.

We've used the results to put together a list of the five sexiest professions for both men and women, along with the five least alluring jobs.

Did the survey get it wrong? Leave a comment below. Tell us where your partner works ... and where you'd like them to work.

Look at that jawline. He can put you in his sights any day. Picture: Thinkstock Source:

Hot hunks

Soldiers

He's fighting fit, resourceful and brave to boot. He has all the muscles of a gym junkie but none of the insufferable vanity. That soldier boyfriend will keep you safe and satisfied.

Emergency Service Personnel

What could be sexier than a man who devotes his life to saving the lives of others? Whether your beau is a fireman, a cop or an ambulance officer, his selfless attitude will blow you away. And don't forget the appeal of a man in uniform.

Tradesmen/Construction Workers

They don't call these guys handymen for nothing. All of those mundane household tasks which would stump most fancy-pants businessmen are a breeze for any tradie. Of course, those strong hands have other uses.

Sportsmen

Talk about window shopping. Weekend television is a virtual catalogue of sporty hunks. Are you a woman who likes her men to be seriously built? League's the sport for you. Or would you rather have a lean man with a great reach? Turn on the AFL and start drooling.

Doctors

It's nice to know that your boyfriend has a noble job. It's even better when that job makes him loads of money. Men in medicine represent the perfect blend of brains, responsibility and fun, and expensive holidays.

Lawyers can be sexy. And as an added benefit, they can keep you out of prison. Picture: Thinkstock Source:

Bewitching babes

Sport/Recreation

Some men go to the gym to admire themselves in the mirror. Others prefer to admire the female company. Women working in sport and recreation are fit and energetic. They're also willing to roll around in the backyard with a footy after work.

Medical Workers

We all put on a brave face, but every man secretly wants to be cared for. That's why doctors and nurses are so appealing; it's their job to care for people. Of course, the skimpy nurse costumes which surface around Halloween also have something to do with it.

Hospitality/Tourism

Men love to eat and drink. They also enjoy travelling to exotic places. So naturally, they'd love to date a woman whose job connects her with food, drink or travel.

Students

Men find students sexy. Ok, you could easily use that fact to accuse blokes of being creepy cradle-snatchers. Having said that, students are curious, idealistic and intelligent. They could remind men of their younger days in more ways than one.

Lawyers

Women who work in law are hardworking and super-intelligent. They tend to be excellent conversationalists as well. You wouldn't know it from walking into a pub, but many men do want to discuss the weightier issues of the day with their partners.

She's sad because she's lonely. Picture: Thinkstock Source:

Unlucky in love

Insurance

These poor folks really do struggle to make a good first impression. They pick up the phone, introduce themselves and then spend an hour tussling over different interpretations of the fine print. You don't win friends, or lovers, by denying them a desperately needed payout.

Manufacturing

It's not entirely clear what manufacturers have done to be rejected so callously. Perhaps, as the manufacturing industry inexorably declines across the first world, sexy singles would rather jump on a love boat which isn't slowly sinking.

Community Services

Ok, this one just isn't fair. Seriously Australia, what is so awful about people who work in community services? They're caring, conscientious and they love the community. The community should really start loving them back.

Call Centres and Customer Service

They have no trouble retrieving hotties' numbers, but no matter how many times they try, call centre workers just can't get anyone to pick up the phone.

Consulting and Strategy

When you tell other people how to do their jobs for a living, you shouldn't be surprised when nobody wants to share their innermost secrets with you. Potential partners are probably scared that every dinner conversation will end with a pointed suggestion for self-improvement.

So there you have it. Is the survey wrong? Which professions make you hot under the collar? Leave your preferences below and you might even meet your match.

Or continue the conversation on Twitter @SamClench | @newscomauHQ

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$2 coffees would send Bocelli broke

Leo Agnello, pictured with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli in 2008, says serving coffees for $2 would put him out of business. Source: PerthNow

THE owner of Perth's most popular cafe says he would go broke if he sold $2 coffees.

Leo Agnello, whose Forrest Place cafe Bocelli's Espresso was voted the city's best coffee shop by customers during the Eat Drink Perth month, says his trade is doing fine, despite the competitive push to lower prices, as he serves up long blacks for $3.80 to the tune of hundreds a day .

"Five cafes around me have closed up in the past seven or eight months,'' he said.

"It is really hard to make a living when you have to pay exhorbitant rents and high wages.

"On Anzac day I will be paying $4,600 in wages because I have to pay double time.''

Even if his customers are lured elsewhere to cafes like Bar 399 ($2 coffees) and Five Bar, which PerthNow revealed on the weekend was offering $2.50 coffees, Agnello said he will always have a faithful customer in blind tenor Andrea Bocelli, who stops in for an espresso whenever he is in Perth.

Agnello, a classical music lover, was ridiculed by friends and family when he named his cafe, owned with his brother Francesco, after Bocelli in 1989.

Then one day in 2002, he served a coffee to Bocelli's manager who was in Perth with his boss on tour. He was so taken with Agnello's personal blend of hazelnut, guatemalan and ethiopian beans that the manager brought Andrea back the next day.

"Bocelli said he could feel something special about the place and was so touched that I named the cafe after him that he gave me tickets to the show,'' Agnello said.

"He has been back twice since then and each time he has come in. I am hoping that he will tour again at the end of this year and drop in again.''

Perth coffee drinkers have been vocal against soaring coffee prices ever since PerthNow revealed earlier this month that a Scarborough cafe was charging $7.25 for a cappucino in a mug.

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Two men found guilty of shooting murder

Jeremia Iskander was shot in the chest while at a mate's place in Wanneroo. Picture: Supplied. Source: PerthNow

A PERTH jury has found two men guilty of murdering a 21-year-old man over a drug debt by shooting him in the chest at close range.

A Supreme Court jury deliberated for more than a day before convicting Damien Phillip Mathews and Hayden Shane Wayne Joseph of murdering Jeremia Iskander, who was fatally shot on December 2, 2011.

Prosecutor Amanda Forrester had argued Mathews fired the fatal shot, but Joseph was involved in its planning and was therefore equally culpable.

The court heard during the four-week trial that Mr Iskander had been friends with Joseph for several years, but they had fallen out because Joseph owed him money.

Iskander stole two of Joseph's cars to force him to pay his debt. However, Joseph and Mathews confronted Mr Iskander in a driveway where he was shot, the court heard. Colin Lovitt, representing Mathews, alleged it was Mr Iskander who had a gun and that a shot was fired accidentally.

Matthews and Joseph will be sentenced on May 31.

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Footy numbers net Morley man a million

A YOUNG Morley man has his favorite AFL players to thank for bagging a million-dollar Lotto win last week.

The footy fan said he had been playing the numbers only for the past five months but they have already delivered him Division 1 Lotto luck.

"After the first few Lotto draws I thought the numbers were a bit useless but I had this feeling that I had to keep playing them," he said.

"It was definitely worth sticking with them because faith in your numbers pays off."

The Morley man said the million-dollar win would set him up for life and he now plans to buy his first home and jet off travelling.

"I can now buy something closer to my dream home, I never imagined I would be in this position," he said.

$70 million worth of jackpots this week!

WA Lotto players will have two chances to win big this week, with tonight's $20 million OZ Lotto draw and Thursday night's $50 million Powerball draw.

Tickets are available from Lotterywest retailers across WA or from Play Online at lotterywest.wa.gov.au

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Who was Boston's naked man?

Police have not identified the 'Naked Man' - fuelling conspiracy theories. Source: news.com.au

IT'S one of the enduring mysteries of the chaos in Boston last week. Just who was the naked man law enforcement authorities paraded in front of the cameras?

After the shooting of a police officer at MIT and the high-speed chase through Watertown that followed, the Boston Police arrested and questioned a man and ordered him to strip. CNN broadcast footage of the nude man being escorted by police to a waiting wagon.

It was a riveting moment in the foggy TV coverage of the issue, where it (wrongly) seemed like there was resolution to the case.

But days later the naked man has yet to come forward, and the Watertown police department has not clarified the man's identity – fuelling conspiracy theories about the man's identity.

Several online conspiracy theorists claim the world is being hoodwinked by Boston law enforcement and that the naked man was one of the terrorists who caused the chaos, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

The claims, fuelled by an interview that aired on US television where Tsarnaev's aunt identified the naked man as "100 per cent" Tamerlan, were today rubbished by the Watertown police department.

Official accounts of the incident said Tamerlan died after a lengthy shootout with law enforcement agents. Doctors said Tsarnaev's body was riddled with massive penetrating injuries. He immediately went into cardiac arrest upon arrival at hospital and was later pronounced dead.

A man who was caught up in the case when the Tsarnaev brothers hijacked his SUV has yet to publicly speak about the case.

Law enforcement officials told The New York Times that this man was released, uninjured, at a gas station and he then called the police.

The Naked Man mystery continues. But he has become an object of a different kind of fascination, too. Author Michael Patrick said on Twitter he was "an inspiration to all of us to get back to the gym", adding that a similar situation could happen to you.

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'This is the Jahar I knew'

A video from Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's wrestling days has been posted online by friends who are still struggling to understand what drove a seemingly normal 19-year-old college student to terrorism

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Source: Supplied

• Bombing suspect's friend releases video 
• 'Jahar' filmed dancing, wrestling, goofing around 
• "He really loves his brother, looks up to him." 

WHILE the world waits to find out what drove two brothers to terrorism, devastated friends are just as clueless about what motivated a seemingly normal college kid to carry out the Boston bombings.

So determined are they to show the "normal" side of their lives, footage has been released of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev goofing around, like a normal high school student. 

Dzhokhar, known as Jahar among friends, is the younger of the two brothers, aged 19 and 26, accused of plotting the Boston Marathon bombing and killing an MIT police officer last weekend.

The video shows Jahar wrestling with his high school buddies, dancing, and goofing around - as kids his age do.

It was released by Yushun Tsou, a mate of Jahar's from his high school, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

A sophomore at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, he attended class every day after the attack until the FBI released photos of the accused brothers late Thursday, CNN reports.

He attended a dorm party and even discussed the bombings at the gym with friends.

"He was like, 'Yeah, tragedies happen like this all the time and it's sad'," Zach Bettencourt said.

An eyewitness says friends joked about the resemblance of the FBI photo, but they couldn't believe it.

"We made a joke like - that could be Dzhokhar," said a 22-year-old resident dorm assistant where he lived. 

"But then we thought it just couldn't be him. Dzhokhar? Never.'

As news broke on Jahar, friends immediately took to Twitter to argue in disbelief at what they were seeing.

Jahar's Twitter account paints a picture of your average college teen; banal musings about Game of Thrones and the television show, Breaking Bad. There's talk of smoking marijuana with his "bros", of parties, music, and musings about life.

Meanwhile, A Boston Globe journalist has recalled in heartbreaking detail a friendship with the bomber "that would last to our senior years".

"The Dzhokhar I knew was a young man who spent all night looking in his car for a new phone I clumsily lost. He left work early just to help me retrace my steps," he wrote.

"He was a young man who proudly shook my hand after I told him I was hired at the Boston Globe. 

"He was a captain on the Cambridge Ringe and Latin wrestling team, he was in the National Honor Society, he earned a scholarship to a four-year university. It seemed no one ever had a problem with Dzhokhar."

The older brother, Tamerlan, died after a police shoot-out on Friday (AEST). Jahar is in hospital in a serious condition, and authorities are waiting to question him.

At the weekend, the brothers' uncle suggested the older brother has been influenced by radicals and that he in turn influenced the younger brother.

An old school friend of Jahar's said: "He really loves his brother, looks up to him."

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New low as coffee war heats up

Small bar 399 is dropping the price of its coffee by 50 per cent but it will only be available after 3pm. Source: Herald Sun

THE coffee war has escalated today with another Perth business slashing the price of its caffeine hit to just $2.

But eager coffee drinkers will have to wait until 3pm for their fix.

Peter Palmer, who recently purchased William Street small bar 399, told PerthNow he decided to drop the price of coffee by 50 per cent to give something back to his customers.

It comes after Five Bar in Mt Lawley claimed to being 'bringing the reality back to coffee' putting its cheapest cup at $2.50.

"We posted a photo of our blackboard displaying our coffee prices and Facebook went berserk. Within an hour we had over 500 likes, and 150 shares," Five Bar general manager Andrew McIntyre said today.

Five Bar's operator Gary Beadle said the change in coffee price coincides with the update to its menu.

Mr Palmer said he wouldn't be profiting on the $2 coffee but would keep the price there until "the war is over".

"There's a reason things cost a lot money in Perth," he said. "The rent and wages are a lot higher and the population base in Melbourne is five times the size of Perth."

Adding to the problem, he said, was the disposable incomes of many Perth residents attached to the mining industry - who didn't care about the extra 50 cents or $1 on a coffee.

"When people who have never had money before actually start making a lot of money they are actually very wasteful with it," he said.

"So they walk into a street to buy a house and they like to throw around money to impress people, so they don't worry about negotiating on that last $40,000 on the house - suddenly the street has become $40,000 more expensive than what the market is because someone has been fragrantly wasteful with their money.

"And I think this is happening with food and coffee as well."

"I feel sorry for the 97 per cent of people in Perth who aren't involved in the mining industry," he said.

But the WA businessman said there were definitely some restaurants and cafes selling coffee for "outrageous" prices.

"The people who are profiting, selling coffee for $7 or $9 - they're the ones that give a bad name to the industry," he said.

"There's a different between a profiteer and someone that's trying to make ends meet."

The businessman said coffee could reasonably be sold between $3.80 and $4.20 for a medium cup using quality beans, such as Five Senses.

"You can make money honourably without screwing people over," he said.

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Man's body washes up at Quinns Rock

GRIM DISCOVERY: Water Police at Quinns Rock. File picture: Kerris Berrington Source: News Limited

CLARKSON detectives and the Water Police are investigating the death of a man after a body washed up at Quinns Rock.

Police are treating the case as suspicious.

Police divers have been at the scene since the body was found about 2pm.

Water Police retrieved the body from late this afternoon.

Police do not believe the man is missing swimmer Martyn Tann, a 24-year-old from NSW who was last seen swimming at Mullaloo Beach three weeks ago.

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Cops baffled by latest US shooting

The scene of the shootings in Federal Way, Washington. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Source: AP

FIVE people were shot dead when gunfire erupted at an apartment complex in a city south of Seattle and police are unsure if their fire caused the death of one armed man, or if he had been shot by someone else.

They also fear that a woman killed in the bloodbath may have been an innocent bystander hit by a stray bullet.

Officers responding to an emergency call at the apartments in Federal Way encountered a chaotic scene, with bullets flying.

"When officers arrived there were still shots being fired," said police spokeswoman Cathy Schrock.

They had found two injured men on the ground in a parking lot. One of the men had reached for a gun as police moved in to assist the two, she said.

At that point, had officers opened fire. The suspect died but police said it wasn't immediately clear if it was from their gunfire.

The other man on the ground and a third man in the parking lot were found dead.

In a search of the complex, police found a fourth man dead in one apartment and a slain woman in another unit. Schrock said police were trying to determine if the woman was accidentally hit by gunfire.

A total of eight officers fired their weapons, Schrock said. All have been placed on administrative leave, as per standard policy, as the investigation continues.

There was no immediate word on what set off the shooting.

"We're gonna continue to go door to door in hopes that we can find some additional witnesses, and hopefully we won't be finding any more victims." Schrock said. "We still don't have any idea what started this disturbance tonight."

After police flooded the area and carried out searches, authorities said they were confident there were no more casualties from the shooting. They said they did not think another shooter was on the loose or that there was an immediate threat to the public.

There were no reports of any officers being injured, and the names of the five people who were killed were not immediately available.

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Tributes for Chrissy Amphlett

Lead singer of legendary Aussie band Divinyls, Chrissy Amphlett, has lost her battle with breast cancer at age 53.

AUSTRALIAN rock singer Chrissy Amphlett has been remembered as a musical pioneer.

Amphlett, 53, passed away in her adopted home of New York after fighting dual battles with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.

Her cousin, Patricia `Little Pattie' Thompson and family were with the singer, who fronted rock band Divinyls.

Her husband, musician Charley Drayton, who was due to support Aerosmith in Australia with the band Dead Daisies, cancelled the trip to be with his wife.

The family's statement read: "Our beloved Chrissy peacefully made her transition this morning. Christine Joy Amphlett succumbed to the effects of breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, diseases she vigorously fought with exceptional bravery and dignity. She passed gently, in her sleep, surrounded by close friends and family, including husband of fourteen years, musician Charley Drayton, her sister, Leigh, nephew, Matt, and cousin Patricia Thompson.

"Chrissy's light burns so very brightly. Hers was a life of passion and creativity; she always lived it to the fullest. With her force of character and vocal strength she paved the way for strong, sexy, outspoken women. Best remembered as the lead singer of the ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, Divinyls, last month she was named one of Australia's top ten singers of all time. Chrissy expressed hope that her worldwide hit I Touch Myself would remind women to perform annual breast examinations. Chrissy was a true pioneer and a treasure to all whose lives her music and spirit touched."

Singer Chrissy Amphlett, who has passed away after losing her battle with breast cancer. Photo: Supplied by the Amphlett Family

Countdown host Ian `Molly' Meldrum was a friend of Amphlett and Drayton.

"It's devastating news," Meldrum said yesterday.

" Chrissy was just such a wonderful person and so, so talented. It's incredibly sad news."

"She broke ground for women in Australian music, she was amazing and fearless," Meldrum said.

"Divinyls were an incredible band, they helped open the doors for Australian acts to tour America in the '80s.

"I absolutely adored her. And she terrified me. But right at the start, around Boys in Town, I remember going to see them at the Prince of Wales and Chrissy did this whole thing on stage of looking me straight in the eye and lifting her skirt. We became good friends after that. I became friends with her mother as well. Chrissie was really into football, so we'd occasionally have fights over that.

"She was a wonderful person, and so, so talented it didn't matter. She had such a powerful voice and wrote such great songs with Mark (McEntee) in the Divinyls, some real classics that have stood the test of time. And Chrissy was one of the best on stage performers Australia has produced.

"She'd come around to my house with her husband Charley and she'd go and make herself a cup of tea. It was just odd to see Chrissy Amphlett from the Divinyls in my kitchen, making tea. Because she had that wild persona.

"I remember once I said to her 'Chrissie, you had this amazing persona with the Divinyls, you use to frighten the hell out of me. How can you go from that to playing Judy Garland in The Boy From Oz?' And she said 'They're both the same character Molly'."

Her death brought sadness to the local music industry. Her peers voted her the No.9 best Australian singer of all time in a News Limited poll last month.

The Australian music legend and Divinyls lead singer Chrissy Amphlett has died, aged 53.

Melbourne singer Kate Ceberano said Amphlett was her all-time favourite singer, songwriter and performing artist, and a huge influence on her career.

"The news about Chrissy has hit me like a punch in the chest," Ceberano said yesterday.

"She was such a high-voltage Amazon that it's hard for me to imagine that she's gone. I remember sitting side of stage watching her as a teenager and was attracted and frightened in equal measure, as one minute she would spit on the crowd and in the very next minute turn them all on. She was a masterclass in womanhood. I absolutely worshipped her."

Icehouse's Iva Davies remembered Amphlett as a pioneer and a great spirit.

"Chrissy and the Divinyls played with us on scores and scores of occasions and I was always a great admirer of her as both a writer and a performer," Davies said. "Chrissy did me the great honour of recording her version of one of my songs, Love in Motion, in the early nineties. She made the song distinctively hers, with her own smoking, seductive and unmistakable style. I was recently asked to nominate my choice of the Top 10 Australian singers of all time. Chrissy was among my choices, of course."

Divinyls' breakthrough hit Boys in Town made No.8 in 1982. A string of hits followed, including Science Fiction, The Good Die Young, Pleasure and Pain, Sleeping Beauty, Back to the Wall and I'm Jealous. Their biggest hit, 1990's I Touch Myself, made No.1 in Australia, No.4 in America and No.10 in the UK.

Amphlett was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2006 with Divinyls band mate Mark McEntee. The band, who had split acrimoniously in 1997, reformed for a tour in 2007 before finally disbanding in 2009.

Amphlett flew into Melbourne in 2009 to induct her cousin Little Pattie into the ARIA Hall of Fame.

"I think Divinyls is done," she said at the time. "Mark (McEntee) isn't into playing and Divinyls is Mark and I. It's about time I did something on my own."

The singer was working on new music in New York, where she was receiving medical treatment.

Last month Amphlett took to her Facebook page to update fans on her health.

"Unfortunately the last 18 months have been a real challenge for me having breast cancer and MS and all the new places that will take you. You become sadly a patient in a world of waiting rooms, waiting sometimes hours for a result or an appointment and you spend a lot time in cold machines like MRI, CT machines,hospital beds,on your knees praying for miracles, operating rooms, tests after tests, looking at healthy people skip down the street like you once did and you took it all for granted and now wish you could do that."

The singer said she still planned to make a return to music and had been working with songwriter Kraig Jarret.

"My illnesses have really exhausted this little body of mine that I have thrown from one end of a stage to another and performed thousands of shows that's sadly some of you missed. With that said I am getting stronger but there is still some fine tuning and work to be done on myself. It's a different self but my voice is strong and not affected by the MS as some reviewers have cruelly reported. I can walk although sometimes I wobble but try to wobble with the beat. I look after myself and my husband has been through this with me every part of the way and I cannot imagine what I would have done without him and his kindness. I did something right.

Hoodoo Gurus singer Dave Faulkner referred to Amphlett as "the Divine Miss A" and a "musical force of nature".

In tribute, ABC-TV has broadcast an episode of the musical quiz show Spicks & Specks featuring the late star.

During the show, Amphlett, who also suffered from multiple sclerosis, was helped to and from the microphone by comedienne Denise Scott.

The episode, on ABC 2, had Amphlett as a contestant on the team of Scott and Myf Warhurst.

On the show, Amphlett talks of being "shy" and "vulnerable" before her legendary performances on stage in a school uniform and fishnet stockings.

Amphlett had declared herself cancer-free two years ago, telling fans "I was given a chance to reflect on my own mortality; given a chance to choose life over the fear of death. Thank you to those who have given their support and love. Now let's celebrate Life!!!!!!"

The singer was diagnosed with MS in 1998 and would appear on stage with a cane. She revealed her battle with MS in 2007, and in 2011 announced she was also fighting breast cancer.

Amphlett was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2006 with Divinyls band mate Mark McEntee

Her was documented by Channel 7's Sunday Night program in which she revealed she would be a "warrior" and not a victim.

The Divinyls hits include I Touch Myself, Pleasure and Pain and Boys in Town.

Tributes have already begun flooding social media networks.

 Other celebrities and fans have also posted their tributes online.

Back in 2012, Amphlett kept her Facebook fans informed of her struggles with cancer and MS. She was always honest and open about what she was facing.

A Facebook message to fans sent by Chrissy Amphlett in 2012. Photo: Facebook Source: Supplied

Born in October, 1959, Chrissy Amphlett will be best-remembered for her hit single I Touch Myself and for singing on stage dressed in a school uniform and fishnet stockings.

Released in 1991, I Touch Myself reached Number 1 in Australia, 10 in the UK and 4 in the US.

Her skill as a songwriter is underlined by Science Fiction, which the Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) selected in 2001 as one of the top Australian songs of all time.

Amphlett wrote the song with Divinyls front man Mark McEntee, with whom she had a volatile relationship over the 16 year life of the band.

The cousin of 1960s Australian pop icon, Patricia "Little Pattie" Amphlett, Chrissy Amphlett was a hugely talented, if untamed free spirit who started out young on the road and had occasional brushes with the law, once ending up in jail in Europe for singing on the streets.

In 1999, Chrissy married drummer Charley Drayton, who played on the Divinyls' eponymous album and who now plays with Cold Chisel.

Amphlett moved to New York, where she concentrated on a solo career and writing her autobiography Pleasure and Pain: My Life.

In 2007, she revealed she was suffering from multiple sclerosis.

Three years later, she announced she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, but was thought to have since beaten the disease.

Listen to Chrissy Amphlett's famous hits here:

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