Womens-interest
The Australian Women's Weekly
When Rachel met Deborah
They always admired each other from afar but when Rachel Griffiths and Deborah Mailman finally joined forces in TV’s Total Control they were not only in fan-girl heaven, they became instant friends.
10+ min |
November 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
What's really going on with Princess Charlene?
Why has she spent so much of this year away from Prince Albert and their children in Monaco? The word on the streets of this glamorous principality is that Princess Charlene might never return!
9 min |
November 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
WHO KILLED THE BEATLES?
Millions of words and hours have been spent on the break-up of the Beatles. But now, half a century on, the history books are being rewritten, old scapegoats exonerated and new culprits brought to light.
10 min |
November 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Women of the land
There are so many inspiring women championing courage, kindness and resilience in the bush. Here are just a few who we’ll be thinking of on October 15, the United Nations International Day of Rural Women.
8 min |
November 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
My post-50 joy
When author Charlotte Wood hit 50 something incredible happened – a surge of power and optimism backed with the wisdom of decades that is still with her six years later.
6 min |
November 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Great read
Reading room
10 min |
November 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Olivia - Letting Go Of Fear
In an exclusive interview from her farm in California, Dame Olivia Newton-John talks about her bonds with family and nature, and how these two helped her through the dark days of the COVID crisis in the United States.
10+ min |
October 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Stephanie Alexander - The Making Of A Food Lover
In her long-awaited cookbook Home, Stephanie Alexander shares essays and dishes that are the bedrock of her repertoire. It is a celebration of a life spent exploring the sensual and social delights of food with recipes that will be cooked, shared and talked about for years.
7 min |
October 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Remember the time
September 16, 1956, television arrives in Australia
1 min |
October 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Territory dreaming
Leave behind the big smoke and lose yourself in the sprawling, solitary vistas of Kakadu and Arnhem Land.
4 min |
October 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
There's Always A Silver Lining
Before she joined ABC TV’s News Breakfast, Lisa Millar conquered her darkest fears, covered 10 terror attacks, loved deeply and lost those dearest to her. In an intensely candid interview she shares her tears, laughter and joy.
10+ min |
September 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
The Kate Factor
With fraternal spats, a satirical royal TV show and Prince Harry’s upcoming tell-all memoir dominating news around the world, the Duchess of Cambridge’s quiet dignity, devotion and duty is cutting through the noise and turning heads.
8 min |
September 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Our Remote Healthcare Heroes
The further you live from a big city in Australia, the tougher it is to get the healthcare you need, but it doesn’t have to be that way. The Weekly meets inspiring women bringing healing to the bush.
9 min |
September 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
The Riviera House by Natasha Lester, Hachette
HISTORICAL ROMANCE
3 min |
September 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris, Bloomsbury
Storytime
1 min |
September 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Yours Cheerfully by A J Pearce, Picador
Storytime
1 min |
September 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
“How I found my own voice” Jessica Mauboy
As she makes the transition from nervous Idol contestant to confident Voice coach, Jessica Mauboy shares the difficult path she trod to speak her truth proudly.
10 min |
September 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
In The Running For Tokyo Gold
It’s been a long and fraught training season, with some of Australia’s top athletes succumbing to lockdowns and injury. But finally our brightest hopes are off to Tokyo for a very different kind of Olympic and Paralympic Games.
10+ min |
August 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Got That Blah Feeling?
You might be languishing. If you feel like you’re going through the motions and don’t really have a sense of purpose, you’re not alone. The good news is, there are easy ways to recharge your emotional batteries.
4 min |
August 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
How To Reset Your Hormones
You’re not imagining things, says author and naturopathic doctor Lara Briden. Hormonal shifts can leave you feeling … not like you. She explains how to recalibrate one of our most important coping systems.
6 min |
August 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
The Seductive Countess From Kirribilli
Elizabeth von Arnim was the free-spirited literary sensation born in Sydney who went on to live a mysterious, scandalous and glamorous life amid Europe’s aristocracy. This is her story.
9 min |
July 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
The Avant-Garde Princess Margaret
In the 1960s they were the royal glamour couple, but the ritzy world of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones stood in stark contrast to her sister the Queen’s.
10+ min |
July 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Royal insider
Behind Palace gates with Juliet Rieden
4 min |
August 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
“Our kids need us to do better than the average parent”
Aussie mums Kate Jones and Mandy Hose have turned their adorable families into a podcasting sensation that’s spreading friendship, acceptance and laughter around the world.
5 min |
August 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Nomadland, Australia
The housing crisis is tipping more Australian women towards homelessness, and in northern NSW the situation is critical. Five local women share their stories, hoping that their courage and honesty will inspire change.
10+ min |
August 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Love, family & Arabian nights
After Esther Freud was whisked away on a Moroccan “adventure” by her hippie mum, it would later inspire the movie Hideous Kinky. But that journey played out in the wake of a dark family secret which Esther reveals is at the heart of her moving new novel.
10+ min |
August 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
KAT STEWART ‘Mum's still always with me.'
They say the darkest hour comes before the dawn. The Five Bedrooms star opens up about learning to find the silver lining, no matter how tough the times.
10+ min |
August 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Maggie “Life is all about family, friends and laughter”
Mother, grandmother, trailblazer, model and Aussie icon. In her 85th year, Maggie Tabberer is as dynamic and dazzling as ever. Here she shares her memories and musings on what really matters.
10+ min |
August 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
It took me 138 dates to find love
On the outside she had it all, but Rebekah Campbell hadn’t had a boyfriend for 10 years. Lonely and terrified, she embarked on 138 datesin a systematic bid to find “the one”. This iswhat happened.
5 min |
August 2021
The Australian Women's Weekly
Breaking The Family Habit
Addiction, like trauma, can run in families. Yet those very same families can be empowered to turn an addict’s life around.
10+ min |