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I’d like to commend For the birds (AWW, February), about farmer Sue Shephard’s campaign to conserve the golden-shouldered parrot on Artemis Station, Cape York Peninsula. Conservation is vitally important to our future. I’m sure many of your readers would appreciate more encouraging articles about individuals and small groups being involved in conservation and restoration. Thank you, I loved the article and have read it several times. Burraneer, NSW. Leading lady I was delighted to see Princess Catherine featured on the February cover of The Weekly. While Catherine may not have been born a royal, her wonderful qualities of grace, dignity and always taking an interest in others has made her very special and what one would actually expect from a born royal. V. Mavros, Sale, Vic. Baker’s delight While flicking…

Red CARPET Sartorial Heights After wearing shades of blood-red in other cities, Margot Robbie attended the Sydney premiere of Wuthering Heights in an Ashi Studio pale gothic gown with corset bodice, perhaps inspired by bodice-lacing in the film. Women we love Bouncing back Ukrainian gymnast Sasha Paskal, nine, lost her leg during a Russian missile attack in 2022 but won bronze at the Rizatdinova Cup 2025. Unlimited At 30, Austrian snowboarder Claudia Riegler was dropped from the national team for being too old. She set out to prove them wrong and at 52, has just competed in her fifth Winter Olympics. Captain’s pick Cricketing all-rounder Sophie Molineux, 28, has been named the new all-format captain of the Australian women’s cricket team, replacing Alyssa Healy, who is retiring. Royal VISIT Friendly…

Canada Ultra-cold conditions have caused Niagara Falls in Ontario to partially freeze in an icy spectacle. The powerful falls rarely freeze completely. The UK Henry VIII’s heart The British Museum has raised £3.5 million to acquire a pendant linked to the marriage of Henry VIII and first wife Katherine of Aragon. The 500-year-old treasure was found by a metal detectorist in Warwickshire in 2019. Italy Floating festival Hundreds of boats carrying costumed revellers opened the Venice Carnival. They were led by a boat topped with a papier-mâché Pantegana (a rat) which sprayed colourful confetti. Greece A stick in the mud Two artifacts found in Greece are the oldest wooden tools ever discovered. Estimated to have been created and used 430,000 years ago, the items were buried in sediment which likely…

Valerie had never been surer of anything in her life. She had spent nine days in hospital, battling two separate infections, and then, she says, “something just told me, ‘I want to go home’. Nothing would change my mind. I’ve lived in my little house all my life, except for 15 years when I was married. So I just missed home.” Fortunately, at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, that was easily arranged. The doctors gave Valerie, who is 88, the choice of going into a rehab facility to regain her strength, or going home. Her partner, Alan, moved in with her to help with some of her care. And the medical staff at St Vincent’s made house calls. At least one of them would visit every day. “The nurses were…

Moments after the Academy announced its Oscar nominees for the Best Actress category, Rose Byrne’s husband, Bobby Cannavale, was on the phone, screaming. It was the middle of the night in Sydney, where Rose was staying with her parents, and suddenly the whole house was awake. Rose has shared the moment online. Her mouth is open in a joyous scream. Bobby’s grin is huge and proud. “Oh, my heart,” she wrote. The announcement that the Sydney-born star had been nominated came just over a week after a visibly shocked Rose accepted a Golden Globe with a touchingly unguarded speech. Rattled, but thrilled, she expressed her deep gratitude to writer/director Mary Bronstein for creating the role in the black comedy If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. “I can’t believe I’m…

March marks the end of FebFast, a month where many swap gin for mineral water and hangovers for early morning walks. Fun fact: I once did FebFast. It quietly turned into a FiveYearFast. Last month I ticked over five years without alcohol and didn’t tell anyone. Not because it’s a secret, but because I’m reluctant to become the poster girl for sobriety. My go-to line when asked about it was always, “I do recommend trying it, if you can.” The truth (awkward to admit in a culture that loves a heroic recovery arc) is that it was easy for me to stop. I didn’t white-knuckle my way through cravings or detox. Once I realised my drinking had become a problem during COVID lockdowns, I stopped. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t…

In a darkened room, Nat King Cole croons as Jessica Rowe and Peter Overton sway along, arms tightly wrapped around each other. It’s not their wedding day, but if you stumbled unaware across this scene playing out in The Weekly’s studio, you’d be forgiven for thinking they were newlyweds, firmly in the honeymoon stage. In actuality, this couple have been married 22 years and counting. And they are still as gloriously in love as the day they walked down the aisle, their displays of affection frequent and unprompted, their gazes adoring. “Love makes the world go around,” beams Jess as they sit down after a fun-filled photo shoot to take part in what will be the very first episode of our brand new podcast, The Australian Women’s Weekly Love Stories.…

It was days before Christmas – mid-summer – and cicadas trilled in the background as Rachel Ward, actor, director and beef cattle farmer, posted a video to her Instagram feed thanking friends and neighbours for their support throughout the year. No one – least of all Rachel – imagined this chatty, generous and otherwise innocuous post would attract a band of ill-mannered (and inarticulate) trolls. “OMG!! What the hell happened to her. Wow!! She has aged really bad.” “I wish I never saw her like this!” “She looks ravaged.” And worse. Her daughter, Matilda Brown, also an actor and food producer (at The Good Farm Shop), was incensed. She jumped to her mum’s defence and reposted the comments, calling out the idiocy of criticising a 68-year-old woman for, essentially, looking…