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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 was started in 1933 by Frank Packer and Ted Theodore with George Warnecke as the first editor. The newspaper's features were designed to be topical, Australian and to appeal to all Australian women. Warnecke hoped The Weekly would be a sign that Australia finally was coming out of the Depression. [3]
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]
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]
Buttrose edited Cleo until 1975, when she was appointed editor of the Packers' flagship magazine, The Australian Women's Weekly (1975–76). She then became editor-in-chief of both publications from 1976 to 1978, before being appointed publisher of Australian Consolidated Press Women's Division from 1978 to 1981.
The segment was so popular he expanded it and the following year launched Josh Earl vs. the Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book, [17] a show that continued through to 2015. [18] In 2016 all 107 cakes were baked and sold for a Canberra charity to raise money to support women with post-and ante-natal depression.
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In early April 2020, Bauer Media Australia announced that it would be closing Woman's Day as well as several Australian and New Zealand brands including The Australian Women's Weekly and New Zealand Woman's Weekly in response to the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia and New Zealand. [13] [14] [15]