Entertainment
The Australian Women's Weekly
No joking matter
Days ahead of a hesitant start to 2022, Julia Morris gives her thoughts on how to embrace an uncertain new year – and not get cancelled while doing it.
5 min |
January 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
“Love was my driving force”
What if you needed to raise $3.2 million to keep your child alive? That was the life-or-death predicament for one Queensland family, who nonetheless secured the world’s most expensive drug to save sick babies right across Australia.
10+ min |
January 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
WOMEN AT THE COALFACE
In the wake of harassment claims and a parliamentary inquiry, The Weekly meets four women stepping boldly into what they hope will be a new era in Australian mining.
7 min |
January 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
Sun seeker
Keep your cool this summer by choosing flowing silhouettes in natural fibres. Just add a sun hat and swimsuit for extra ease in and out of the water.
1 min |
January 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
Good intentions
Resolutions rarely become reality, and yet we continue to make them. The good news, however, is that there’s another way – and it makes them far more likely to stick.
5 min |
January 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
Our heroes of 2021
This year has tested us beyond measure, but we’ve seen everyday Australians rise to its challenges in courageous, heartfelt and inspiring ways. The Weekly pays tribute to some of those everyday heroes.
5 min |
Christmas 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Remembering Bert Newton
July 23, 1938 – October 30, 2021
2 min |
Christmas 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
AUSSIE SPORTSWOMEN MAKE A SPLASH!
2021 has been a golden year for Aussie sportswomen and their victories have lifted our spirits. For that, The Weekly says thank you!
8 min |
Christmas 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Delivering hope
A group of volunteers is helping the vulnerable in the community through food and friendship.
4 min |
Christmas 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
I wish I may, I wish I might ...
The world changed irrevocably over the past two years, but for critically ill children and their families, the pandemic was just another challenge. Fortunately, those who bring happiness and hope didn’t change; they worked even harder.
8 min |
Christmas 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
The Greensborough pool miracle
Nothing evokes a Christmas epiphany like a new public pool and a packet of Alpines.
5 min |
Christmas 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Saving lives in the Red Centre
“I had this intuitive feeling that if the virus came to Central Australia, it would cause absolute devastation ... ”
2 min |
Christmas 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Light after darkness
For close to five decades, Trudy McCullagh searched high and low for a way to care for her son. Three years ago, she was finally introduced to an organisation that would give her family a sense of hope again.
4 min |
Christmas 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
The power of people & science
“I kept thinking to myself, as hard as it is, this is a very special time in our history.”
3 min |
Christmas 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Together we're powerful
After enduring a traumatic and very public ordeal, former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins has become a catalyst for change.
5 min |
Christmas 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
How are you feeling?
To say the last year has been tough on many is an understatement. We talk to psychiatrist Dr Ruth Vine, Australia’s first Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Mental Health, about the importance of checking in with our mental health.
5 min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
WILD AT HEART
She’s been a daredevil kid, fearless international reporter, co-host with breakfast TV’s enfant terrible and mischievous mum. Allison Langdon shares her world, and sheds a few tears, in a heartfelt chat with The Weekly.
10+ min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
The Cuckoo's Cry by Caroline Overington, HarperCollins
Psychological THRILLER
1 min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
THIS IS ME
He’s best known as drag diva Courtney Act, but beneath the wig, eyelashes and fabulous frocks is Shane Jenek, the boy from Brisbane. As revealed in his explosive memoir, he conquered shame, bullying and social conventions to show the world who he really is.
10+ min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Royal insider
Behind Palace gates with Juliet Rieden
4 min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
The bookshelf Prepare to be hooked ...
The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell, Century
1 min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
The Last Exiles by Ann Shin, HarperCollins
Leaving HOME
1 min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza, HQ
Love and LOSS
1 min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
My story My impossible choice
Kristine Rawlinson had a successful career as an NDIS community engagement officer, but when her husband, Neal, was left disabled by a catastrophic infection, she was shocked by how hard it was to get the support they needed.
8 min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Ready for a festive battle
When it comes to getting prepped for the Christmas season, the early bird gets the tinsel.
3 min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Storytime
The Raffles Affair by Vicki Virtue, Penguin
2 min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser, Allen & Unwin
CONTEMPORARY FICTION
2 min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
OUT OF AFRICA
In a quest to save wild African lions from extinction, filmmaker Rogue Rubin went undercover, posing as a big game trophy-hunt photographer and putting her own life at risk. She reveals her terrifying journey.
10 min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Muddy People by Sara El Sayed, Black Inc
Memoir
1 min |
December 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Gin by Shonna Milliken Humphrey, Bloomsbury
Pocket BOOK
1 min |