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The Australian Women's Weekly, sometimes known simply as The Weekly, is an Australian monthly women's magazine published by Are Media in Sydney and founded in 1933. [2] [3] For many years it was the number one magazine in Australia before being outsold by the Australian edition of Better Homes and Gardens in 2014. [4]
The Australian Women's Weekly Ada Jean Hounsell Williamson better known as Jean Williamson (31 October 1891 – 14 January 1977) was an Australian journalist. When The Australian Women's Weekly was becoming a best selling magazine known for its light fiction, she was in charge of the light fiction.
Dorothy Drain (16 August 1909 – 31 May 1996) was an Australian journalist, columnist, war correspondent, editor and poet. She worked as a journalist with The Australian Women's Weekly for 38 years, with the final five years being as its editor. [1] [2] She was "one of Australia's best-known journalists". [2]
Buttrose was the founding editor of Cleo, a high-circulation magazine aimed at women aged 20 to 40 that was frank about sexuality (and, in its infancy, featured nude male centrefolds) and, later, the editor of the more conventional The Australian Women's Weekly.
A cover story about her in The Australian Women's Weekly attracted worldwide media attention. [2] [7] She is an Ambassador for Interplast Australia & New Zealand (now called ReSurge International), [8] and has raised money for the organisation by leading trekking adventures.
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She helped produce nine cookbooks over four years, and organised the magazine's food testing and photography. She worked on the original Australian Women's Weekly Cookbook published in 1970, [11] one of her contributions was having prepared the Savoury lamb casserole featured on the front of the book jacket. [11] [12]
Nene Claire King was born in March 1943 in Melbourne to a Jewish family. [1] Her parents were Lionel Louvain King (died 1996) and Emilie Rebecca Myers (1916–2008) and she has an older brother, Peter (Snowy).