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Westpac CEO Gail Kelly has announced that she will retire from her position in February next year. Mrs Kelly will be replaced by Brian Hartzer, the chief executive of Westpac’s Australian Financial Services division. Chairman Lindsay Maxsted said Ms Kelly, who has led Westpac for seven years, made “outstanding contribution” to the bank. “Gail is […]

Deborra-lee Furness has been named 2015 NSW Australian of the Year for her work as a child advocate and adoption campaigner. The Australian Women’s Weekly October cover girl was announced as the recipient by Premier of NSW, Mike Baird, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney on Monday night. “An actor, director and producer, […]

Police issue a new appeal for information as they step up their search to find missing toddler William Tyrell before Christmas. It has been two months since the three-year-old vanished without a trace from his grandmother’s home on the NSW Mid North Coast on September 12. While hundreds of pieces of information have come through […]

Former Queensland Premier Wayne Goss has died, aged 63. According to the ABC a Goss family spokesman, Russ Morgan, confirmed Mr Goss had died in the early hours of Monday morning. In 1989, Mr Goss became the first Labor premier after 32 years of National Party dominance, much of it under former Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. […]

Police have issued a warning to partygoers following the tragic death of a 19-year-old woman at a dance party in Sydney on Saturday.

On Monday Australia said goodbye to Harold Herman, a WWII digger who lost his leg fighting in New Guinea and whose acts of heroism extend even beyond death.

A week ago McKenzie Clark found out who her best buddy was lock in a life and death struggle with a huge tiger shark while surfing in Hawaii.

Among the crowd that gathered to mourn Gough Whitlam in Sydney today, The Weekly asked some of the attendees what the former PM meant to them.

Gough Whitlam, the Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975, has been farewelled in a state memorial service at Sydney's Town Hall.

You can be the Prime Minister's chief of staff, but if you're a woman, you still won't be immune to sexism.