Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2024 i The Australian Women's Weekly

Shop with Women’s Weekly womensweekly.com.au/shop Introducing our online store, where you’ll find timeless looks by local designers, curated by our fashion team. Maggie Beer’s a long-time friend of The Weekly, so it was wonderful – especially as a fellow Adelaidean – to meet her for the first time. Over coffee at her home in the Barossa Valley, Maggie spoke of her passion for transforming food and nutrition in Australia’s aged-care homes. The work she’s doing through the Maggie Beer Foundation and her new TV show, Maggie Beer’s Big Mission, makes a huge difference to Australia’s 200,000-plus aged-care residents. Turn to page 26 for more about Maggie’s work, plus her tips for healthy ageing. Another friend of The Weekly family is columnist Pat McDermott, who sadly signs off with her final…

The Brown family aren’t a touchy-feely clan. Yet the pure love radiating on set today between father Graeme and his youngest son is evident as The Weekly joins the two vets for a day at Wylie’s Baths in Sydney’s Coogee, just a few beaches along from Bondi, the iconic location where Dr Chris Brown sprung to fame. The banter is constant, the smiles wide, the laughter booming. While there’s some friendly teasing going on, the duo is quick to reassure us that it’s all in fun. In fact, when the other is out of earshot, each will rush over separately to tell us the pride they have in their respective achievements – as well as the traits they most admire. “Everyone likes my dad more than me,” Chris says with…

Ashlee Williams-Barnes grew up exploring rock pools and diving at beautiful Wreck Bay, where a crescent of blonde sand separates the dense bushland on the NSW South Coast from crystal waters that teem with fish, lobsters and abalone. For generations, members of the local First Nations community have gathered there to pass down traditional methods of diving and fishing, to drink clear water from the creeks and springs, and to feed themselves from the ocean. Those experiences were not just recreational, Ashlee says. They were sacred. “We’d go and collect pippies,” the Wadi Wadi, Dharawal and Wandi Wandian woman recalls. “I learned to dive when I was 10, you know, diving for abalone and lobsters. We lived on fish. We would go up and get baker’s bread and eat it…

On the morning of August 15, 2021, Fatima Yousufi was lacing up her runners, getting ready for soccer training, when one of her teammates came banging on her door. “She was yelling, ‘Have you heard what’s happened? The Taliban has arrived’,” Fatima recalls. The 18-year-old instantly knew what she had to do. She dug a hole in the front yard of her family’s Kabul home and buried her soccer uniform, trophies and any trace of her involvement with the Afghanistan Women’s National Football Team. “We had to hide our identity, hide anything that was related to the club or had our names on it. We were advised to burn our uniforms, but I couldn’t bring myself to burn them, so I buried them. I felt that if I burned them,…

Mu Mu arrived semi-conscious at the antenatal clinic, if you could call the humble bamboo dwelling a clinic. She was seven months pregnant and riddled with malaria. We started her on intravenous quinine and began the 20-kilometre-long journey to our hospital, carrying her on a bamboo stretcher. Her husband and two young children came with us. He, rather than a nurse, tended to her needs, as is often the way here. When she regained consciousness after 72 hours, Mu Mu was able to eat a small meal. It felt like we had won. But the joy was short-lived. She became short of breath and her condition deteriorated. Mu Mu died of acute respiratory distress syndrome. There was nothing I could do. As I watched her husband – each hand clasping…

There is an abundance of intriguing claims circulating about skin. It’s three times heavier than the brain, the size of a single bedsheet, and each square inch has six metres of blood vessels ... but zoom in beyond what the natural eye can see and the skincare science starts to sound almost alien. Millions – even billions if you’re particularly popular – of tiny bacteria live, work and play on your complexion. Just 10 years ago, scientists thought it was 200 but we now know the skin is second only to the gut in terms of sheer bacteria density. They’ve even been able to isolate particular strains. The vast majority of us, for example, have demodex folliculorum resting in our pores. These tiny microbes feed on the natural oils and…

Lamb & chickpea pi lau SERVES 4 PREP TIME + COOK TIME 8 HOURS 30 MINUTES 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1kg boned lamb shoulder, cut into 2cm pieces 1 large onion (200g), sliced thinly 4 cloves garlic, crushed 1 tablespoon ground cumin 1 tablespoon ground coriander 2 teaspoons ground allspice ½ teaspoon chilli powder 3 cups (750ml) chicken stock 2 cups (400g) basmati rice 400g can chickpeas, drained, rinsed ⅔cup (110g) sultanas ½ cup (70g) slivered almonds, toasted lime pickle and fresh coriander sprigs, to serve 1 Heat half the oil in a 4.5-litre (18-cup) slow cooker on sear (high) setting. Cook lamb, in batches, turning, until browned; remove from cooker and set aside. 2 Heat remaining oil in cooker. Cook onion and garlic, stirring, for 5 minutes…

Tandoori chicken tray bake SERVES 4 + LEFTOVERS FOR MEAL 2 PREP + COOK TIME 35 MINUTES ¼ cup (75g) tandoori paste ½ cup (140g) natural yoghurt 8 (1.5g) chicken thigh fillets 400g can chickpeas, drained, rinsed 1 large (250g) red onion, cut into wedges 1 small (1kg) cauliflower, cut into wedges, leaves attached 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 100g cherry truss tomatoes 60g trimmed kale leaves steamed rice, for serving 1 Preheat oven to 220°C (200°C fan-forced). 2 Combine the tandoori paste, yoghurt and the chicken in a large bowl. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper. 3 Arrange the chickpeas and the onion on a large baking paper-lined oven tray (to avoid overcrowding the tray, use medium trays if you don’t have a large enough oven tray).…

Buttery mushroom and Sage risoni with crispy prosciutto SERVES 1 PREP + COOK TIME 15 MINUTES 1 cup (250ml) chicken stock ½ cup (110g) risoni 50g butter 2 slices prosciutto, torn into large pieces 6 whole sage leaves plus 2 teaspoons thinly sliced sage leaves, extra 150g fresh mixed mushrooms, sliced if large ⅓ cup (25g) grated parmesan, plus extra to serve 2 teaspoons lemon juice 1 Place chicken stock and 1 cup (250ml) water in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer. Add risoni and cook until al dente. 2 Place 10g of the butter in a medium frying pan over medium heat; once melted add prosciutto. Cook, turning occasionally, for 3 minutes or until crispy. Transfer to a plate. Add another 10g butter to pan, add whole…

It’san unremarkable Victorian terrace in an inner suburb of Melbourne. Only the closed curtains on a summer morning suggest that anything is amiss. Behind them, the open living space is in disarray. Household items are scattered on the floor: Cooking pots, cleaning products, a baby’s rattle. But there has been method in their placement. Below the sink, three rows of tinned food mark the start of a trail that runs to the front door: Literal stumbling blocks for an intruder who wanted to take the shortest route to the kitchen bench. A woman – small, dark-haired and visibly agitated – enters from the back garden in her dressing-gown, carrying a pot plant. She deposits it in the hallway outside the nursery, then fetches a stool from the kitchen. She climbs…

Over easy To poach an egg quickly in the microwave, pour ½ cup water into a microwave-safe mug, crack in an egg, cover with a microwave-safe plate and cook on High for 40 seconds. Check and continue cooking in 10-second bursts until eggwhite is set. Gently drain and serve. Once you’ve used up a jar of sun-dried tomatoes, retain the jar with the remaining flavoured oil and use to store home-made roasted capsicum. Hit the spot For maximum effect, keep a stain stick or spray in the area where you undress and treat stains immediately before putting clothes in the laundry basket for washing later. Into the fold Revolutionise your messy tea towel drawer! Fold each one in half lengthwise, then crosswise, then into thirds and stack vertically and neatly…

“I’ve never heard an audience hiss at a character’s behaviour before,” says Kate Fitzpatrick. Since she began touring nationally with Gaslight, a contemporary twist on the classic 1940s psychological thriller, “I’ve heard people calling out to Bella; someone swore at one of the characters; there were three nights in Brisbane where we had young girls screaming at the curtain call. I wondered if they were Swifties who hadn’t been able to get to Sydney. I don’t think I’ve ever been screamed at before.” “And we love it,” adds Geraldine Hakewill, who plays Bella. “When I was 15, if I’d seen a character go on a journey like Bella’s, it would have been so exciting.” Add to that a heightened awareness, in recent years, of the lethal danger of coercive control,…

Dying will be an awfully big adventure for pioneering primatologist Dr Jane Goodall, who celebrated her 90th birthday in April. “I’m absolutely sure, myself, that death isn’t the end, but heaven knows what happens afterwards,” she says, making a distinction between her own belief and science. “There’s either nothing, or there’s something. Can you think of a greater adventure than finding out what that is?” Not that the woman who forever changed our understanding of chimps is slowing down or getting morbid. On the contrary, Jane is currently circling the globe on a non-stop speaking jaunt that would exhaust most ordinary mortals half her age. In 2024 alone her inspiring Reasons for Hope tour will visit more than 25 countries, touching down in Australia during May and June. On average…

On the first anniversary of Gina Lollobrigida’s death last year, a memorial mass was held in the village of Subiaco, 50 kilometres east of Rome, where the celebrated actress and beauty was born and now lies buried. Among the congregation were Gina’s son, Milko, her ex-husband, Javier, a cluster of old friends from the film and art worlds, and – sitting conspicuously alone at the back of the church – a stubbly-chopped man in a threadbare sweater, who left before the end. “I couldn’t stay,” said Andrea Piazzolla, Gina’s 36-year-old former personal assistant. “They were never there for her, and now they come to church and sit in the front row to mourn her. I don’t want to be in that situation. I prefer to experience my pain somewhere else.”…

When looking for a word to describe Melanie Lynskey’s latest project, “harrowing” comes to mind. The prolific Kiwi actress is no stranger to creating impactful and thought-provoking characters. But in playing real-life author Heather Morris in the small-screen adaptation of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, she found herself smack bang in the centre of a heartbreaking story of love and survival. The novel – which recounts the incredible true love story of Lale Sokolov and Gita Furman, two Slovakian Jews who found each other while imprisoned in Auschwitz – was a bestseller around the world. But “it somehow had missed me”, Melanie tells The Weekly over a Zoom call from her home in LA. “When I was asked to do the limited series, I was talking to a friend about it…

In 1660, in the ribald court of King Charles II, two publicly hated women got together to reclaim their reputations. The first, the Duchess of York, Anne Hyde, had been effectively cancelled by the highborn gentry for a litany of alleged social crimes. The second, the alluring Barbara Villiers, was the King’s acknowledged mistress and was, accordingly, despised. It was an era in which a woman could be ruined by “even the suggestion of inappropriate behaviour”, according to historical author Lauren Chater, whereas wealthy men possessed “an entitlement where they expected they would be able to do the things they wanted to do”. The lusty king was unmatched in this field, to the point that his licentiousness earned him the nickname The Merry Monarch. As his sister-inlaw, Anne understood the…

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Litbegins Litbegins subtly. A loved one becomes more forgetful, finding it harder to remember things they once had no trouble recalling. They misplace everyday items, like car keys or mobile phones, and become confused doing routine tasks like supermarket shopping, managing money, or preparing dinner. Sometimes people become withdrawn and moods veer from happy to unexpectedly angry and frustrated. Gradually, these changes become more debilitating and entrenched. For the person experiencing these symptoms, and for the family who love them, the effects are devastating. Dementia describes a range of symptoms caused by disorders affecting the brain. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, which accounts for about 70 per cent of cases. In 2024, Dementia Australia and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare say more than 421,000…

For the time-poor among us, making a smoothie for breakfast ensures we get out the door on time and fill up on the nutrients needed to start the day right. Beyond the standard mix of milk and banana, it seems there is no end to what you can whiz up in your morning concoction. From chia seeds and bee pollen to greens powders and collagen, a myriad of additions have hit the mainstream in recent years. And now there’s another supplement vying for a spot in your blender: Colostrum. Cow’s milk revamped: Often referred to as ‘first milk’, colostrum is produced by humans and some animals within the first days of giving birth. It’s a vital source of nourishment and immunity for newborns, equipped with essential nutrients and antibodies. Beyond…

Madeleines MAKES 12 PREP + COOK TIME 25 MINUTES (+ STANDING TIME) 125g butter, melted, cooled 2 eggs ⅓cup (75g) caster sugar 2 teaspoons fi nely grated lemon rind 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste ⅔ cup (100g) plain fl our ½ teaspoon baking powder 1 cup (160g) icing sugar 2 teaspoon soft butter 1 -2 tablespoon lemon juice 1 Preheat oven to 200°C (180°C fan-forced). Brush a 12-hole (1½ tablespoons/30ml capacity) madeleine pan with a little of the melted butter. 2 Beat eggs, sugar, rind and vanilla in a small bowl with an electric mixer for about 5 minutes or until thick and creamy. 3 Meanwhile, sift the flour and baking powder twice onto baking paper. Sift the flour mixture a third time over the egg mixture; fold into the…

Stock the freezer Stock is simple to prepare and will boost the flavour of any dish. The bonus is that making a pot a week reduces food waste – add any less than fresh vegetables in your crisper to a stock. Chicken stock MAKES 3 LITRES Place 2kg chicken bones, 2 tablespoons cider vinegar, 2 chopped medium onions, 2 chopped celery stalks, 2 chopped medium carrots, 8 peeled cloves garlic, 6 stalks fresh flat-leaf parsley, 2 teaspoons black peppercorns and 5 litres water in a stock pot or large saucepan; bring to the boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 6 hours, skimming the surface occasionally. Strain the stock through a muslin-lined sieve into a heatproof bowl; discard solids. Season to taste. Cool. Cover; refrigerate until cold and freeze into useable…

How to cook lentils Quick and easy to prepare, McKenzie’s French Style Lentils have a rich, deep flavour and hold their shape well after cooking. They require no soaking and are a great addition to salads, or to make soups, patties and casseroles heartier. Lentils are high in folate, iron and vitamin B1 which is great for heart health. · 1 cup McKenzie’s French Style Lentils · 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil · 2 tablespoons lemon juice Bring a medium saucepan of water to boil; add lentils, cook for 20 minutes or until tender, drain. Stir oil and lemon juice through warm lentils, season well with salt and pepper. (Makes approx. 2½ cups cooked lentils.) Secret ingredient Lurpak® Garlic Butter is a refrigerator essential for any good cook. It…

Bedrooms are a really fun place to decorate. They’re ideal to try out a new style or colour and test your comfort with it, before you debut it in your living spaces. Here are four amazing bedroom looks that are inspiring my decorating right now. From tones influenced by ochre and desert sands for Earthen Coastal, to the moody blues of Sophisticated Hamptons, Modern Cottage charm and Vintage Wanderlust, there’s something for every taste. 1. Earthen coastal A style embodying harmony and nature, combining texture, muted colour and organic materials. Be still, my beating heart! I’ll always have a soft spot for coastal style, and this stunning example in Byron Bay by Studio Haus Co shows how this classic style can feel modern and connected to the environment at the…

Flowers had a special place in this edition. Not only did our cover story reveal the meaning of different blooms, but royal reporter Anne Matheson revealed they were on the minds of newlyweds Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. After returning from their honeymoon that week, the couple planned a few updates for their marital home at Number 10 Kensington Palace. “Tony is a keen gardener,” wrote Anne. “He and Margaret have decided on paving-stones for the pocket-handkerchief garden with masses of bright flowers in tubs,” adding that they would buy them from the Chelsea Flower Show through the Duchess of Kent. British actor George Sanders was in less of a love bubble, exclusively opening up on page 7 about life as a “professional cad”. Department-store stylist Mrs Joy Stewart gave…

Historic MOMENT Portrait of a Queen Wearing deep green with a miniature portrait of her husband pinned to her dress, Queen Mary of Denmark proudly wore the Emerald Crown Jewels for the first time in the official gala portrait with King Frederick. With the couple wearing the Order of the Elephant on chains and taken at the palace in Copenhagen, the portrait was released to mark the succession in January as Their Majesties embark upon their reign. Women we love Prestigious position Professor Lidia Morawska has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which counts Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein among its alumni. Vote 1 for two Melbourne women Lucy Bradlow (left) and Bronwen Bock (right) are jointly running for federal parliament. They intend to job-share the…

Maggie Beer is in the kitchen of her Barossa Valley home, making coffee. She’s just approved a batch of hot cross buns with her team in the adjacent office – it is Maundy Thursday – and there is a bustle of activity outside as handymen work on the property and gardeners tend to the produce. When we finally sit, Maggie sets two pieces of cake on the table – she will later pack one for me to take for my mum. “I’m just going to have a little bit of yours because I’m not a sweet tooth,” she grins cheekily, then sighs; it’s been a busy morning already and it’s only 10am. In fact, it’s been an extremely busy year. Maggie has just flown back from Perth, where she’s been…

When Bill Clinton turned 50 he was in a relationship with a 22-yearold White House intern called Monica Lewinsky. After two sexual encounters in the private study of the Oval Office – where she serviced his needs while he took phone calls from congressmen – he invited her for a third, calling her “kiddo”. She assumed he had forgotten her name. After the scandal broke in 1998, no one in the western world has since. Now Monica Lewinsky is 50, the age of the then president of the United States, she is also in a relationship with that 22-year-old intern. There are two Monica Lewinskys in 2024: The most shamed girl who ever lived, the “patient zero” as she put it, of the internet’s power to hold public hangings by…

Awards ceremonies can undo anyone, and frequently reduce movie stars to stumbling messes. This year Emma Stone cried as she collected her Oscar, explaining that her dress had split open at the back. A trembling Kieran Culkin started waffling about his ear hair. These luminaries should have come to the Logies for a lesson in how it’s done. When the ABC’s Tony Armstrong beat a field of beloved veterans to win the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter, he loped up onto the stage in a brown three-piece suit, relaxed, humble and funny. Within seconds he had the audience in the palm of his hand as he told them to cheer for the other nominees and applaud his producer. He flagged that he expected a pay rise and the…

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From cutting out carbs and avoiding sugar to subsisting on shakes and skipping meals, chances are you’ve tried countless diets over the years with varying success, often ending up heavier than when you started. While you can stick to it for a while, most of us eventually fall off the bandwagon, unable to maintain the strict rules and berating ourselves for a lack of willpower before finding ourselves in front of the fridge. That is until we’re lured in by the latest plan promising quick results, only to wind up in the same place soon after. Sound familiar? The merry-goround of weight loss is undoubtedly exhausting, with each failed attempt more demoralising than the last. This was the case for Lyndi Cohen. Growing up, she was told “You’d be so…

Pumpkin & feta cheese scones I think people fall into two categories when making scones: Those with gifted fingers whose scones will rise no matter the conditions, and those who can always make a scone worth eating given the right ingredients. I’ve always wished I was the former. My mother used to make scones without weighing anything and with such casual abandon I took it for granted. Scones were just part of my childhood. Here is a scone full of good ingredients that – gifted or not – you’ll love to eat. MAKES 12 2⅓ cups (360g) self-raising flour ⅓ cup (60g) soft brown sugar 1 heaped tablespoon skim milk powder 50g butter, diced 120g fetta 255g pumpkin, cooked and mashed 3 free-range eggs (large) ¼ cup (60ml) milk, for…

Growing up in Sierra Leone, I’d watch my mother and aunties make food and drinks in their colourful clothes and beautiful head wraps. They’d ask me to beat the chilli or test if there was enough salt in the sauce. I learned to cook from them through feel and taste, not measurements. One of our family favourites was Jollof Rice, a traditional West African dish. We’d cook it for special occasions: weddings, naming ceremonies, Eid. This was one of the recipes I took with me when I fled the war in Sierra Leone with my family as an eightyear-old, leaving almost everything else behind. Even today as the smell of spices fills my kitchen, I’m taken back to those special occasions. I remember my family eating the jollof together from…

Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran, Ultimo Press We begin with an emergency call: “Help us, please. We’re sinking. Our boat is sinking. We’re coming to Australia … There are holes, leaks everywhere … Please, there are children. So many children.” In the following chapter a man is staring down from the top of an escarpment on the beach below. “Last week the sand was littered with the swollen bodies of men, women and children,” we are told. He stood ankle deep in the warm ocean water. “At his feet, the arm of a face-down child moved with the ebb and flow of the tide, hitting his ankle in time with the rhythms of a distant, ancient moon.” Author Shankari Chandran immediately draws us into a familiar scene, the horror of…

No-smoke SHOW All fired up Love the idea of an outdoor fire over winter but bothered by all the smoke? Aurus Low Smoke Fire Pits are designed to use a secondary burn process which, according to manufacturers, will produce 50 per cent less smoke than normal fire pits. And they say there’s no smoke without fire … Q: How can I maximise my wardrobe space? For double-rail hanging spaces, you could remove the bottom rail and insert a chest of drawers instead. If your wardrobe has only one hanging rail, use a double hang closet rod. Simply hang the rod onto the existing rail to double your hanging space. If the shelves in your wardrobe are far apart, move the top shelves up to reduce wasted air space. Use lightweight…

Rail travel is set for a renaissance and the engines driving it are powerful. Politicians want it, the environment needs it, investors are punting on hydrogen and clean trains to replace diesel locomotives, and there’s money to be made in opening up new rail routes and reviving existing ones. Just as crucial, travellers are yearning for slower, more meaningful experiences, preferably in something more comfortable than a car, bus or plane! “We’re seeing travellers seeking more immersive experiences which includes more stops and slower and longer itineraries,” says Rail Europe’s Chief Commercial Officer, Florence Pasquier. “They are venturing beyond the big cities and spending more time exploring and understanding the destination’s people, history, culture, landscape, culinary scene and other experiences on offer.” Rail travel, she tips, is set for a…

Gemini May 22 Jun 22 With Venus, Mercury and the sun glamorising your social sign, you’ll be this month’s hub for a lively buzz of connection and interaction in your local community, with friends and colleagues alike. Chatterbox Mercury in his most media-savvy transit lends a trendy edge to your personal and professional messaging, while the effervescent Gemini new moon on June 6 could spark delicious synchronicities and links with kindred spirits. Your only caution – the Mercury/Neptune clash on June 18 carries a recommendation to be very careful about disclosing sensitive or confidential information. Cancer Jun 23 Jul 23 Plans can sizzle then fizzle during this busy, multitasking month, so do your best to avoid cerebral overload. As mental Mercury sinks into your sentimental sign on June 17, and…