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In her exclusive chat with The Weekly, Dame Joanna Lumley shares why she stays curious. I absolutely love the joy in Dame Joanna Lumley’s attitude to life: “I think you’ve got to make magic every day,” the actress and adventurer says in our cover st

It was very encouraging reading the October issue of AWW as life after 50 featured in many instances. I found the feature Rise of the midlife fashion movement fascinating and as it said “style is ageless”. Models over 50, like Paulina Porizkova, are

George Clooney has always been as comfortable behind the camera as in front of it, as demonstrated at the Venice Film Festival, where he jumped into the press scrum. He and wife Amal were also captured helping a photographer who took a tumble on the

The once-lost town of Kallio has re-emerged as dry conditions have caused falling water levels in Mornos reservoir. The women pinned their hair into victory rolls and the men wore plaid as they lined up to watch youngsters aged four to 11 race peddl

Kate Box was in Chicago recently when someone yelled, “Hey, sexy”. At first, she was taken aback. Then she realised she’d been recognised by a fan of award-winning Aussie crime comedy Deadloch, using her police detective character’s nickname. Ironica

Sandra was in her early 50s, running a nightclub, when her mother, Audrey, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Giving it all up to help care for her mum was tough, but something she knew she needed to do. “I never left her for one day in 19 years,” she t

It’s 70 years since the late Queen Elizabeth II became the first reigning monarch to visit Australia. Her Majesty was 27 when she sailed into Sydney Harbour on February 3, 1954. On that day she was greeted by a million people lining the city streets,

A royal visit is always an occasion of celebration and joy, and the upcoming visit will be the first visit of His Majesty King Charles III as sovereign. As Chair of The King’s Trust Australia, I have met our founder, His Majesty, on a number of occas

Joanna Lumley is in the middle of nowhere, on an ancient trade route through Central Asia. There’s a dusty wind blowing, and the cameras are rolling on a holding shot of Joanna gazing across miles of camel-coloured mountains and wide desert skies. Th

Out here, on long and dusty dirt tracks, I don’t mind being alone. Introverts like me gain energy from solitude. I was a quiet kid, growing up on an 11,000-acre cropping farm in Rowena, a remote country town in northeast New South Wales, with my sist

Aheady smell of sandalwood hits you as soon as Noni Hazlehurst opens the door to her home on Queensland’s Macleay Island. The self-confessed “old hippy” regularly burns incense which wafts throughout the airy bungalow. The next sense to awaken is sig

When Joe Biden announced he was handing the torch to the next generation, few expected his deputy, Kamala Harris, to sprint with it at such a hurtling pace. “Run Kamala, run,” had been the instruction from her Jamaican father, Donald J. Harris, if ev

When Rebecca Sharrock was 13 years old, she pulverised her two front teeth. She had been riding on a scooter from her friend’s house when the little rubber wheel hit a pebble, throwing her off. “I felt my two front teeth shatter and my lip split,” th

Desperately ill and getting sicker every day, Jess Ragusa just wanted to die. Born with cystic fibrosis, and ravaged by a rampant lung infection, life seemed to have become a hopeless battle. “I remember telling my mum and dad that I didn’t want to k

I’ve been in the public eye since I was a teenager, but no matter how well I did in life over the years – whether modelling, acting or personally – there was always a part of me that I had to hide. I’ve struggled with mental health and addiction issu

Gwenda Garde was just 19 when, in 1941, she became part of the first group of women to serve in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (the much admired and respected WRANS). Too young to train as a nurse, she’d been looking for another way to co

It was after the third invitation from my editor to join him and review a restaurant for my paper’s food guide that I knew I was in trouble. A charismatic man, great food, a couple of bottles of wine: This story was going to end just as you might im

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Nora Ephron was right. We shouldn’t take our skin for granted in our youth. “Of course it’s true that now that I’m older, I’m wise and sage and mellow,” the patron saint of romantic comedy writes in her book, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoug

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