Womens-interest
The Australian Women's Weekly
HIGH TEA WITH Sarah Ferguson
The feted investigative journalist and new host on ABC's 7:30 ponders naughty school days in historic England, a jealous boyfriend followed by the thunderbolt of love at first sight in Paris, and giggly conversations with her late mother.
9 min |
November 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
The naked truth
After a rocky start to the year, and another brush with cancer, Heather Mitchell is celebrating friendship and family, true love and a career that is just hitting its stride.
10 min |
November 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
STAR MAN
Elon Musk is the wealthiest man in the world and perhaps the most eccentric, but with his Aussie girlfriend out of sight for months could he also be the loneliest?
9 min |
November 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
"We're entering a new phase of our lives"
For many, abandoning the city for a rural retreat became a happy by-product of lockdowns. But this beautiful sheep station owned by veteran newsreader Mark Ferguson and his wife, Jayne, is far from a hobby. We talk to the couple about their changing family dynamic and rekindling childhood passions.
10 min |
November 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
AGAINST ALL ODDS
It's 20 years since 202 people were killed in bomb blasts in Bali. At the time, doctors believed Therese Fox would die from her injuries, but she defied the odds to continue life as a mother, a nurse and then a grandmother.
9 min |
November 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
Pliés, pirouettes & arabesques
As The Australian Ballet raises the curtain on its thrilling 60th anniversary season, The Weekly looks back at the beauty, magic, aesthetic genius and pioneer spirit that have garnered admiration around the world for our national company.
1 min |
November 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
Dami Im "I feel I could explode with joy"
In a stellar 10-year career she has produced hit albums, wowed Eurovision and won the hearts of a nation. But as she releases her memoir, Dami Im reveals her greatest work is far more personal.
7 min |
November 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
My friend, Fred
It’s been 30 years since The Fred Hollows Foundation was established to help end avoidable blindness. As his friend Ray Martin reflects on this groundbreaking work, Fred’s legacy continues to change lives around the world.
3 min |
November 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
An outpouring of love
In death as in life, the Queen was a unifying force, bringing people together, and as the days counted down to the biggest funeral of the 21st century, our incomparable sovereign was enveloped in an uplifting aura of love.
3 min |
November 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
The Quiet Heart' of Oueen Elizabeth II 1926 - 2022
She was our longest-serving monarch - an inspirational sovereign, global icon and deft stateswoman with a gentle twinkle in her eye who selflessly dedicated her life to service and duty. Here we bid goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II and look at the girl and woman behind the crown.
10+ min |
November 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
Mother of the groom
A wedding is cause for celebration, and the McDermotts also embrace the chaos that ensues.
2 min |
September 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
A legacy of love and loss
A baby gets a loving home, a couple completes their family. Surely adoption is a happy event? But for many - those giving up a child, the child and the families who welcome them - it can be a lifelong journey of searching and healing. With as many as one in 15 Aussies impacted by adoption, we meet a service offering hope.
10+ min |
September 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
A BROKEN HEART
Cindy Gambino's world was shattered when her three young sons were killed by their own father. Seventeen years later, at the age of just 50, she died of...
10 min |
September 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
'I don't feel any different from the first day I rode'
In Tokyo last year, she was Australia's oldest athlete, in any sport, ever to compete at the Olympic Games. But don't tell Mary Hanna that. The equestrian champion insists that age is just a number, and the best is yet to come.
8 min |
September 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
GEORGE and ME
More than 20 years after the death of George Harrison, his wife, Olivia, is publishing a poetic memoir. At the stately home where they escaped Beatlemania, she remembers their life together.
10+ min |
September 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
The pampered life of pets
With an industry that is now generating billions, Aussie 'pawrents' are showering their fur babies with extravagant gifts, yoga classes, luxury hotel stays and unprecedented adoration in life and in death.
8 min |
September 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
He gave me his heart, I gave him a kidney'
For Anne Schuller and her husband, Kym, a second chance at love also became a second chance at life.
4 min |
September 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
Why do you really have a headache?
Finding the cause of your head pains your no more suffering in silence.
6 min |
September 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
Pieces of you
Having skin cancers removed is so common it's almost a rite of passage for Australians. It's both a physical and an emotional journey, as author Phillipa McGuinness discovers.
8 min |
September 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
Catherine MOVES CENTRE STAGE
Since becoming the Duchess of Cambridge Il years ago, Catherine's rise has been slow and steady. But as her public role burgeons, the devoted mum of three is turning out to be the House of Windsor's quiet star.
10+ min |
September 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
ARIARNE TITMUS “I'm happier than I've ever been”
Ahead of the Commonwealth Games, Ariarne Titmus invited The Weekly inside her home to meet the tight-knit family that is the secret to our green-and-golden girl's success.
10+ min |
September 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
My story Sailing solo
In 2017 Lisa Blair became the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica. She nearly didn’t live to tell the tale. But those scrapes with death gave her the courage to make a second solo circumnavigation, and this time she broke the world record.
6 min |
August 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
Farewell, old friend
Everybody needs good neighbours. That’s been the nightly reminder as the iconic Aussie series gripped audiences for 37 years. As Ramsay Street prepares to turn off the lights, we look back at how a little show that could took over the world.
9 min |
August 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
“For now, I’m concentrating on life’s beauty”
Fiona MacDonald has always loved life, whether sloshing around the It’s a Knockout set in gumboots, raising her sons or sleeping out under the stars. Now as she comes to terms with a diagnosis of motor neurone disease, she treasures every moment even more.
8 min |
August 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
Return to the wild
When the eastern barred bandicoot was declared extinct in the wild in 2013, it seemed they would be lost forever. But today, after a lot of setbacks, things are finally looking up for this native creature.
5 min |
August 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
50 really is the new 30
You can live younger, longer but if you are looking for a magic bullet, forget it. It all comes down to our brain-body connection.
5 min |
August 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
Paul Newman in pictures
In a new book, eight photographers share rare, unseen images of the Hollywood legend. We were given an exclusive sneak peek – as well as the memories behind one set of snaps.
4 min |
August 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
Shelter from the storm
In recent years, as a community, we’ve made a lot of noise about ending violence against women. But is it just that – noise? If we were truly determined to stop the violence, Anne Summers tells The Weekly, we would be much more serious about supporting those who risk everything to escape it.
8 min |
August 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
MAGDA At 61, I finally feel free'
In a case of art finally mirroring life, Magda Szubanski is playing a Polish lesbian – albeit a butcher – in a new prime-time TV series. She sits down with The Weekly to talk about the long road towards self-acceptance on screen and off.
10 min |
August 2022
The Australian Women's Weekly
A place to call home
Refugees from war-torn Afghanistan and Ukraine share their terrifying journeys to Australia and express their gratitude to the friends, family and ordinary Aussies who have helped them through.
9 min |