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Despite the tough times in media at the moment, The Australian Women’s Weekly has won another 245,000 readers in the past 12 months. This figure takes our total readership up to more than 2.4 million, an 11.3 percent year-on-year rise, according to Roy Morgan’s June 2012 survey. The Weekly has experience the highest growth of […]

Just four years after he was declared a national hero in Beijing, Steve Hooker has been branded a “disappointment” by his own boss. Athletics Australia President Rob Fildes has declared the pole vaulter the biggest frustration of the London Olympics, saying his failure to perform was disappointing no matter how you looked at it. Related: […]

They finished last and by a considerable margin, but Sarah Attar and Wojdan Shaherkhani got a standing ovation for being in London at all. Sarah, 19, and Wojdan, 16, are the first women to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympic Games. While their sporting achievements didn’t win them any medals — Sarah came last […]

It’s commonly heard spewing from the mouths of giggly Gen-Y’s, but the annoying acronym OMG was actually coined in 1917 by a British aristocrat. Celebrated naval officer Lord Fisher used the three-letter abbreviation in a wartime letter to Winston Churchill. The missive — which was penned in 1917 and published in Lord Fisher’s 1919 book […]

Four years ago, a little-known hurdler called Sally McLellan became an overnight sensation when footage of her celebrating after winning silver at the Beijing Olympics went viral. Sally was not expecting to place and her enthusiastic reaction to her medal — which was very nearly gold — endeared her to the nation. Last night, Sally […]

Basketball star Lauren Jackson will carry the Australian flag into the Olympic opening ceremony tonight, the first woman to do so in two decades. Lauren, 31, said she is “blown away” by the honour, and was surprised to win it over the likes of swimmer Leisel Jones, beach volleyballer Natalie Cook and cyclists Anna Meares […]

We’re all guilty of flicking through our friends’ holiday snaps on Facebook, but how much do we let it affect us? Have you felt little pangs of jealousy when you saw how much better a Facebook friend’s vacation looked than yours? How their clothes looked more expensive and their hair more glamorous? Their children seemed […]

Here at The Weekly, we love the British. Our love is on show every month, in our coverage of the Royal family, our nod to their stews and pies in our food pages, and in our frequent tributes to the likes of Dame Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and Colin Firth. We even have a British […]

She rose to incredible power from the typing pool, but now Rupert Murdoch’s former right-hand woman, Rebekah Brooks, is facing jail over Britain’s tabloid phone-hacking scandal. Journalist William Langley once worked for Rebekah — now he investigates her spectacular fall from grace. The hottest ticket in London these days is not for a blockbuster West […]

The debate over who will lead the Australian team in the Olympic opening ceremony in London this Friday is heating up as athletes and flag bearing hopefuls demand a female be given the honour. The last time our Olympians followed a woman into the opening ceremony stadium was in 1992 when four-time Olympian diver Jenny […]