Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2024 i Marie Claire Australia

Welcome to our annual Women of the Year issue, where we celebrate the fearless, bold, unstoppable champions of 2024. This issue of marie claire also marks a year since I started, so it’s particularly special to me. As the team and I were reflecting on the year, we shared our favourite stories from the Olympics and, as Tracey Holmes writes on page 56, it is undeniably our female athletes who have provided us with unforgettable memories of the Olympics and Paralympics. It was Australia’s most successful Olympics, yielding 18 gold medals – 13 won by women in cycling, swimming, canoeing, skateboarding and pole vaulting. Then came the Paralympics and another 18 gold medals, with women winning eight and sharing in two other mixed events. One woman I am completely in…

Presented by marie claire’s annual Women of the Year Awards, presented by Swarovski, celebrate the amazing women who have inspired, agitated, championed for change, blazed trails and made our hearts soar. Their tireless work, outrageous talents and passionate convictions have left an indelible mark. Here, we introduce our incredible winners for 2024 THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS In November, we celebrated our Women of the Year winners at a gala dinner in Sydney, presented by Swarovski. We’d like to thank all of our partners for helping us bring this important event to life.…

NOMINEES Alexa Leary, Jessica Fox, Arisa Trew, Nina Kennedy, Ariarne Titmus Saya Sakakibara knows exactly how life can change in the blink of an eye, having experienced it firsthand. A rising star in BMX racing, Sakakibara was poised for Olympic success at the 2021 Tokyo Games. But in a heart-wrenching turn of events, a crash in the semifinals dashed her hopes for a medal. The incident, which left her concussed and terrified of ever riding again, became a defining moment not only in her career but also in her life. For Sakakibara, the emotional toll of Tokyo was immense. More than just a physical setback, the crash left her grappling. Her brother, Kai Sakakibara, who had also dreamt of Olympic gold, suffered a severe brain injury in a crash during…

NOMINEES Gina Chick, Sarah Munro, Tanya Egerton “The doubts you feel don’t reflect your true capacity, resilience and resolve” For the world-renowned marine biologist, pacesetting conservationist and deputy vice-chancellor of research at the University of Sydney Professor Emma Johnston, 2024 has been “such a big year!”. From making contributions to Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment to welcoming 40 new Horizon Fellows to the University of Sydney (outstanding researchers in the early stages of their careers who are tackling health, climate change, and sustainability research challenges) and leading her research team’s work to document and better understand the fifth mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef, there’s plenty to be proud of. Then came the cherry on top: in September it was announced that Johnston would become the first…

NOMINEES Nicole Kidman, Ronni Kahn If anyone had the right to a moment of reflection in Paris this year, it was Australia’s most decorated Olympian, Emma McKeon. After narrowly missing out on a spot for the London Games in 2012, the Wollongong swimmer went on to make – and break – records in Rio, Tokyo and Paris, earning her 14 medals: six golds, three silvers and five bronze. (The closest to her is fellow swimming great Ian Thorpe, with nine medals.) But as she emerged from the Paris pool after her last individual Olympic event for Australia – the 100m butterfly final – McKeon, who finished sixth, gave herself only a moment to take it all in and reflect on what she’d achieved. “It was always going to be emotional…

You probably remember the first time you came across Celeste Barber on Instagram. She might have been stumbling in slow motion down the beach in a barely-there black bikini à la Halle Berry or giving Kim Kardashian a run for her money in a shapewear-clad mirror selfie. Her viral series, #celestechallengeaccepted, has brilliantly satirised the often outrageous posts of celebrities and influencers since 2015, making us all laugh and earning Barber an impressive 9.6 million followers along the way. But it’s the message of acceptance and lack of pretension behind the laughs – and her willingness to make herself the punchline – that has endeared her to so many. That message, as she wrote in an Instagram earlier this year, is: “You are excellent, exactly as you are.” This year,…

Anaïs Bordier was 25, living in London and studying fashion when a friend tagged her in a Facebook post that stopped her in her tracks. It was a screenshot of a video and the person who appeared in it looked eerily similar to her. Watching the video, Anaïs couldn’t believe how alike they looked, but she couldn’t find any information about who the woman was. Born in Busan, Korea, Anaïs was adopted at three months old and raised in Paris. She always knew she was adopted and, as she had her adoption papers, she thought she knew everything. But the Facebook post made her think. Who was this woman? Two months later, the friend who’d posted the screenshot came across a film trailer featuring the same woman. Anaïs found the…

We’re driving north-east out of Cambodia’s tourist capital of Siem Reap, heading into some of the country’s most remote and inaccessible regions. After eight hours carving through muddy unpaved roads, we arrive in pristine and lush Ratanakiri Province, home to the stunning Lake Yeak Laom, arguably South-East Asia’s most picturesque swimming spot. For all its natural splendour, however, Ratanakiri is struggling. This is the poorest province of a country still rebuilding not even 50 years on from the horrors of a genocide. Education is limited. Job opportunities are few. But what’s particularly shocking is Ratanakiri has one of the most concentrated rates of child marriage in the world. Almost half of all girls here get married under the age of 18. Today, we arrive in Phnom Kok Commune to attend…

Your relationship with your home town can be a complicated one. Often, it’s a haunting reminder of the person you once were, or a portal into a parallel life. But for Lukita Maxwell, her home town of St. George, Utah, turned out to be the unlikely hero in her origin story. “I was a big bookworm, and when a theatre teacher saw I was reading Shakespeare she invited me to read a monologue in the Utah Shakespeare Festival,” recalls Maxwell, who moved to the United States from Indonesia when she was 10. “I did well enough in the competition to have my mom and dad believe that I could act and [they] set up a meeting with a friend in Hollywood. So, really, I owe it all to Utah.” After…

Grown up is out, girlhood is in, Thelma Plum proclaims from a Sydney hotel suite. “I’ve been doing this since I was quite young and I used to have this eagerness to seem a lot more grown up than I was,” explains Plum, a Gamilaraay woman who was discovered at 17 by Triple J’s National Indigenous Unearthed competition. Now, as the 29-year-old releases her hotly anticipated new album, I’m Sorry, Now Say It Back, “I’m the opposite,” she says. “I’m revisiting those girlhood years and doing indoor enrichment activities, like collaging. “We have the pop girlies to thank for this celebration of girlhood,” she continues. “I love Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan.” She also has Roan, the alt-pop singer who skyrocketed to fame earlier this year, to thank…

When Josh Heuston imagined meeting the renowned British actor Emily Watson for the first time, he didn’t foresee it taking place over a game of handball. And yet, before filming their first scene together for the Dune prequel series, that’s exactly how it happened. “It was the first day of filming … I was super nervous as I flicked through the script,” says Heuston. “Emily went up and asked for a tennis ball and said, ‘Josh, we’re playing handball.’” HBO’s Dune: Prophecy is set 10,000 years before the events in Frank Herbert’s original 1965 sci-fi epic, and is based on notes Herbert left behind after his death. Dune superfans (and there are many) will be familiar with the story of Paul Atreides, recently revived by Timothée Chalamet in Denis Villeneuve’s…

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WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THE L’ORÉAL PARIS LE DÉFILÉ SHOW is we have so many different designers. The stylist selects up-and-coming designers too, so there are pieces that you’ve never seen. And obviously we have this insane collection of women and ambassadors from all over the world who get to come together and see the sisterhood celebrated. I FEEL IT’S A RESPONSIBILITY FOR ME TO REPRESENT WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE. It’s also a pleasure for me to represent women and to show that we’re still relative, that we have a place, and that we can be glamorous and fun and vibrant. I am thrilled when I see someone with silver hair, or an older woman on the runway, because we buy clothes! People would be shocked to know that…

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Dame Maggie Smith was never particularly interested in achieving icon status. “Everything’s an icon. If you have been around long enough you are an icon,” she told The Telegraph in 2014. “A rather dusty icon … or a national treasure.” As self-effacing as Smith was, it’s impossible to deny either her influence or talent, with the actor’s star only continuing to rise during her 70-year career. Born in 1934 in Ilford, Essex, England, Margaret Natalie Smith moved to Oxford as a four-year-old following her father Nathanial’s reassignment to the university city during the war. A pathology lab technician, Nat, as he was known, and Smith’s mother, Margaret (Meg), a secretary, were both far removed from, and disapproving of, the acting world. And yet, Smith was inexplicably drawn to it. “Honest…

NOMINEES Professor Georgina Long, Nicky and Simone Zimmermann “Young people have the ideas and creativity that inspire and drive change” Sam Mostyn has had the kind of chameleon-like career that many dream of achieving before settling into a well-earned early retirement. After graduating as a lawyer, she transitioned into politics as a policy adviser, handpicked by then-prime minister Paul Keating to work in his office. She later left the public sector to take on leadership and board positions at some of Australia’s largest organisations, including Mirvac, Virgin Australia and Optus. In 2005, she made history as the first female AFL commissioner – a position she held for over a decade – playing a pivotal role in launching the women’s professional league. Along the way, she has advocated for gender equality,…

NOMINEES Mechelle Turvey, Carla Raynes, Anna Coutts-Trotter “My role as a survivor – now that I’m free – is to also free young people” Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts knows all too well that a broken system can break you. At just 10 years old, the Bundjalung Widubul-Wiabul woman was forcibly removed from her family, caught in a system that continues to inflict harm on First Nations people, particularly children. After enduring eight years in various out-of-home care placements, Turnbull-Roberts bravely fled the system, returning to her kin and country and embarking on a deeply personal journey of healing. “My role as a survivor – now that I’m free – is to also free young people,” she asserts. Having completed a Bachelor of Law and Social Work at the University of NSW, she…

In a year of upheaval and crisis, the Paris Olympics offered glorious reprieve. Headlines declaring doom and destruction were interrupted to celebrate brilliance. There were glimmers of hope, flashes of gold and moments of pride. The nation was united. A tiny teenager with wings on her sneakered feet flying high on a skateboard; a BMX star seeking gold for her injured brother and collapsing in tears in his arms; the world’s greatest paddler overcome with joy – not for her own victories, but for her sister’s gold-winning feat. In 2023 it was the Matildas who elevated women’s sport to a new level of inspiration with their motto, “Never say die.” In 2024, our remarkable Olympic and Paralympic athletes raised the bar higher at the Paris Games, creating moments that burned…

The iconic Lady Dior is no stranger to reinvention. It remains as modern today as it did in 1995, swinging off the arm of its namesake, Princess Diana. In part, that’s thanks to its constant state of metamorphosis, with new iterations of the timeless classic ensuring its continuing evolution. “The Lady Dior embodies quintessential Dior style, at the convergence of timeless elegance and perpetually renewed daring,” Dior says. While the bag’s DNA remains unchanged, the House of Dior certainly isn’t afraid to shake things up – just take a look at its provocative and exhilarating Dior Lady Art Project. Now in its ninth year, the Dior Lady Art Project brings together some of the world’s most talented artists and artisans to redefine the Lady Dior. Launched by Dior creative director…

Child marriage is defined as any formal or informal union or marriage between anyone under the age of 18 and an adult or another child. On average, Cambodia has the second highest rate of child marriage in the ASEAN region. Across the country, roughly one in five girls get married before they’re a legal adult. These rates are second only to Laos, where about 35 per cent of girls are married before turning 18. Each year, 12 million girls around the world are married as child brides, roughly 23 girls every minute. Around 20 per cent of all women and girls alive today were married as children, and by 2030, more than 150 million additional girls will have been married before their 18th birthday. Though it’s a global issue, nearly…

I recently had the pleasure of perusing a bookstore. I was in search of Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo but, unable to find it, I struck up a conversation with the man behind the counter and he recommended another new release. “You should try the new Michelle de Kretser book Theory & Practice. It’s a coming-of-age story about her time at Melbourne University in the ’80s. It’s revealing but with a light touch; she doesn’t leave everything on the page.” What a refreshing idea, I thought. For a while now, our culture has celebrated the relentless excavation of personal lives as the pathway to success. Especially in the public sphere. Especially for women. Gwyneth has built an empire on it, Taylor has sold out an arena tour doing it and – at…

NEXT BOOK ON MY READING LIST AN ORDINARY YOUTH BY WALTER KEMPOWSKI “I’ve just started Walter Kempowski’s An Ordinary Youth about growing up in Nazi Germany. Feels timely.” MUST-READ OF 2024 FIRE EXIT BY MORGAN TALTY “A terrific follow-up to his Night of the Living Rez. A young Native American writer – he’s a comer.” I’VE JUST FINISHED READING DUSK BY ROBBIE ARNOTT “A mesmerising Tasmanian Western. It’s brilliant. I loved it.” Your new novel, Juice, has been described as “Tim Winton as you’ve never read him before.” What word would you use to define this new era? Resistance. What learnings or unlearnings did you take away from the process of writing Juice? The novel is a glimpse of the harsh world we’re leaving to our descendants. I guess I…

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Brighten up any look with colourful accessories, such as shoes or a bag. Add jewellery that complements feminine fabrics. Think pearls and lace, diamonds and frills.…

Think back to the 1980s when there were crocheted bikinis and your arse was hanging out on the beach; that was that 40 years ago, and nothing has changed. Growing up, I lived in western Sydney, and when I was 16 I used to catch a train and two buses to get to Bondi Beach. I’d go down to the beach, sunbake topless and just fry. Then in my thirties, I’d go overseas, have a few weeks in Europe and sunbake. It was all about how good it felt. “Oh, my God, look at my brown skin”; “I feel better, thinner.” It all felt like such a good idea at the time. I had a skin cancer when I was working on television with Channel Nine in 2011. It was…

In the world of fashion, few names shine as brightly as Bella Hadid. Just ask Chopard. The luxe Swiss watch and jewellery label recently appointed the supermodel as their new ambassador. Hadid’s journey with Chopard began a few years ago, at the Cannes Film Festival, where she first adorned herself with the brand’s Haute Joaillerie pieces. “Wearing Chopard at Cannes allowed me to appreciate the gorgeous craftsmanship, the empowering design, and the lightness and comfort of their jewels,” recalls Hadid. For the model, it’s a partnership that goes beyond just aesthetics. Hadid shares a deep admiration for Chopard’s pioneering spirit in sustainability and ethical gold sourcing. “Sustainability is so important and one of the many reasons I love Chopard is their shared compassion for the earth and its many wonders,”…

“I hope we see an end to violence against women and girls” When Julian Assange stepped off VistaJet flight VJT199 in Canberra in June, it marked the WikiLeaks founder’s first time on Australian soil in 15 years. Supporters cheered as he walked across the tarmac and embraced his wife, Stella. For many, this moment symbolised a victory for democracy. For Jennifer Robinson, Assange’s lawyer who followed closely behind and broke into a beaming smile at the sight of the reunited couple, it was her proudest moment of the year. “For so long, people claimed it would be impossible, that he’d spend the rest of his life in a US prison,” says Robinson. “Seeing him home with his family in Australia fills me with joy – it’s perhaps the most satisfying…

NOMINEES June Oscar, Michel Margalit, Mackenzie Arnold “What you do as an individual is educate yourself” Sarah Williams knows all too well the power of protest. “There’s a perception that rallies and protests don’t create change. But it is because of the rallies we held in April that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese agreed to our first demand: to declare domestic violence a national emergency,” the founder and CEO of What Were You Wearing? tells marie claire. Williams organised 22 rallies across the country to put pressure on the government to make a critical change and say, “Enough is enough,” after 30 women were murdered in Australia in the first five months of this year. What Were You Wearing? began in 2021 as a powerful exhibition on sexual violence. After attracting…

NOMINEES Alémais, Camilla and Marc “If I could have a conversation with 20-year-old me, I would tell myself to be brave” Liandra Gaykamangu might have traded the classroom for the design room after founding her eponymous swim- and resort-wear label, Liandra, but the former teacher still has some important lessons to share. “When I was younger, I got stuck ticking the boxes of life: straight into university from high school, and then straight into a cookie-cutter job,” she tells marie claire. “If I could have a conversation with twenty-year-old me, I would tell myself to be brave.” Fortunately, Gaykamangu eventually took that leap of faith, launching her label in 2018. Fuelled by a love of her country, culture and people, the Yolngu woman from north-east Arnhem Land quickly established herself…

NOMINEES Phoebe Tonkin, Missy Higgins “I feel we’ve progressed as women, that we’re more aligned and more supportive than we used to be” What is it about Asher Keddie that has made her a mainstay on Australian television screens for decades? Time and time again the much-loved actor manages to capture the mood of the nation with performances that stand the test of time. And in 2024, like clockwork, she delivered. Again. July saw her star as Birdie in the TV adaptation of journalist Stephanie Wood’s memoir, Fake, in which she brilliantly captured the pain and nuances of being in a relationship with a conman. The role was integral in raising awareness that romance scams aren’t always financially motivated and can happen to anyone. In October, her latest series, Plum,…

Imagine finding out late in life that there’s someone out there who looks just like you: same eyes, same nose, same mouth. Not a doppelganger, but a twin you never knew existed. Discovering that you’re a twin is “a life-changing experience”, says Nancy L. Segal, a professor of psychology and the director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University, Fullerton. Dr Segal has written nine books on twins and is now working on her 10th. Over the years, she has come across at least 100 pairs of reared-apart twins. In most cases the twins were separated at birth and adopted by different families. “Adoptees often feel that something’s missing in their lives,” Segal says. “I think it relates to the fact they don’t look like their family members.…

Antonia Murphy didn’t have the guts to start a brothel until her mother died. The 41-year-old American, who grew up in big cities and spent her twenties working on yachts and backpacking her waythrough Central America, had found herself at the tippy-top of New Zealand’s North Island, in the small town of Whanga-rei, completely and utterly bored. At night, she cooked spaghetti and read bedtime stories to her two children, one of whom had a disability that left him mostly non-verbal and prone to violent seizures. The next morning, she’d pour cereal, pack lunch boxes and walk the kids to the school bus. Her husband, Peter, would go to his office job, and Antonia would head out to their farm. There, she’d deal with misshapen eggs from sick chickens, find…

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With no man in sight, I decided to rescue my ankles from a life of boredom by purchasing too many pairs of Jimmy Choo shoes. In Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker’s character, Carrie Bradshaw, was so in love with her Choos that her many pairs were almost like guest stars in the 94 episodes of the hit HBO show. Oh, how we loved watching Carrie wearing pair after glorious pair of heels as she walked up and down her famed Manhattan brownstone steps and into the intoxicating streets of New York City. Who could forget when Carrie lost a prized Jimmy Choo slingback in her dash to the last Staten Island ferry back to Manhattan? Her “I lost my Choo!” lament is now viral on TikTok. But our…

When Nicky Hilton and her husband, James Rothschild, were deciding whether to live in his native England or her home town of Los Angeles, it was an impossible choice. The compromise was to set up somewhere in the middle, and where better than a sprawling New York penthouse apartment? It’s positioned close enough to the hustle and bustle of their vibrant neighbourhood in Manhattan’s NoHo, but far enough away to feel like a peaceful family sanctuary. “I always told myself I want to live in downtown New York where all the cool kids are,” says Hilton. “We settled in NoHo because we live in this very hectic neighbourhood but we’re on a very quiet block that’s serene, quiet and calm – which is rare in New York!” Hilton and Rothschild…

NOVEMBER 22–DECEMBER 21 SAGITTARIUS Fire high, archer: your eye is sharp, your aim is true, and patience and confidence combine to end your year sweetly Your relationships – romantic, platonic and professional – are a hotbed of tension and power struggles this month. Pluto unleashes your inner leader, helping you make a tough call. Saturn whispers doubts, but Jupiter, your guardian angel, gives you strength to aim high and succeed. Meanwhile, Mars’ retro grade in your travel sector might disrupt getaway plans; stay cool amid delays. With Mercury going direct and the new moon in your sign, you’re set to progress in a digital project or resolve a delayed conversation, ending the year with both momentum and closure. POWER DAYS December 1, 13, 25 DECEMBER 22–JANUARY 19 CAPRICORN Everything is…