Mother knows best:

Human Nature might be Australia’s most popular vocal group, but Phil Burton’s mum has made sure he never gets too big for his boots.

After releasing 13 studio albums, with an EP called Good Good Life out on May 21, staying grounded is always at the forefront of Burton’s mind.

“The best advice I ever got from my mum was to ‘Be proud of what you achieve, but don’t let it define you’.”

“The idea of not letting rewards make you forget who you truly are as a human is such a powerful message – thanks to mum I’m always aware that no matter what I do in life, I am no more or less important than any other person on the planet. Happy Mother’s Day, Mum – love you!”

Emmie and daughter Kerry make up two of the women from Gogglebox's Silbery family.

Not many reality TV stars can say they've been around to witness everything from world wars, women's rights, space exploration and a global pandemic.

At 92, Emmie has seen all that and so much more.

And in our rapidly-changing world, some advice her mother gave her continues to ring true.

"My mother’s name was Pearl. She died from a kidney infection (probably the consequences of giving birth to nine babies) in the Mildura Hospital only four years after my father died.

"At nine years old, I was the youngest of the seven surviving children. I never left her side while she was doing things around the old shack on the banks of the Murray.

"One day she spotted the tail of a big brown snake poking out from behind the wood stove, she grabbed me and swiftly put me onto the kitchen table while I watched her poke at it with a broom.

"I saw it slither across the kitchen floor as she raised a heavy axe above her head and dispatched it with one swoop. My brothers and sisters came home from school to see yet another snake strung over the clothes line.

"My mother’s unspoken advice to me was to be brave no matter what."

Australian writer Clementine Ford has made a career writing about feminism, with best-selling books (Fight Like A Girl, Boys Will Be Boys) and podcast Big Sister Hotline.

But it was some kind, compassionate words her mother passed on that have stayed with Ford as she navigates motherhood herself.

"My mother was a brilliant woman, and her advice was often sage," she said.

"When my brother wanted to break up with his first girlfriend, my mother said, 'You should always break up with someone in such a way that if you one day see them on a street, you can look at each other and smile and think, 'That was a parting well made'.

"She died in 2007 and while I miss her so much, I hope I can be as good a teacher to my son as she was to us.”