frankie magazine: She’s a Crowd maps stories of sexual assault What if we could design cities with women’s safety in mind from the get-go? Secure workplaces, music venues and schools, right off the bat.
The Guardian: Thanks, Mamma Mia. Cheesy pop culture is the refuge we need From Mamma Mia to Queer Eye and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, it’s clear: joy is cool again
Sydney Morning Herald: Australian woman marries US prisoner after meeting online, fights to free him On the day of her wedding, Danielle Laskie drove to Buckingham Correctional Centre, a 1000-man prison in the US state of Virginia. She had seen it for the first time just days before — a beige-grey mass rising from the green Virginian landscape, like a concrete castle.
frankie magazine: Six non-fiction books with steaming hot historical goss Don’t let anyone tell you the past was a classier place. History is chock-full of high-profile personalities, politicians and royals (especially royals) behaving very, very badly. To help you quench your thirst for tittle-tattle, here are six top-notch history books stuffed with real-life, gasp-inducing drama that’ll put today’s celebrity gossip to shame.
frankie magazine: The socially awkward guide to surviving dinner parties An unfortunate consequence of being allowed to socialise again is that you might have to socialise again. Eek! Post-pandemic dinner parties sound fun, until you realise you’ve forgotten how to make small talk (do people still care about the weather?! Am I actually the world’s most boring person?!).
BBC Business: The mums using Instagram to offer advice to new parents Though "mummy bloggers", documenting family life, have long been a staple of the social media landscape, there is a growing market for mums (and dads) who aren't just sharing aspirational content.
Verve Super: 5 times Dolly Parton showed us how to do good with money Dolly Parton is famous for her voice, her silhouette, her one-liners, and her ability to craft a song so folksy and relatable, you feel like you, too, might lose your man to a woman with flaming locks of auburn hair. But did you know that she’s also super-shrewd with money?
AFR Grade Guide 2022 (print only) Worked with brands like Telstra, ANZ and NSW Govt to create branded articles for the Australian Financial Review’s yearly Graduate Guide.
Domain Review: I Margot: Hollywood’s leading lady means business Margot, whose Hollywood break was a scene-stealing turn as a saucy bombshell in 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street seemed at first to be an unlikely match for the plain and petite Harding. But the 27-year-old Queenslander brings a raw, scrappy energy to the performance, perfectly in tune with Harding’s famously feisty style, on and off the ice.
frankie magazine: The Ripped Bodice is an all-romance bookstore “The promise of that happy ending brings comfort to so many people.”
Traveller: Washington, DC: US capital’s surprising cool side Some may view Washington, DC as a more grotesque version of Canberra – a capital born of compromise, with nothing much to recommend it but museums, memorials and a whole lot of increasingly unsavoury political drama. The US capital, however, has more to offer than history lessons and proximity to power.
Domain: How to furnish your home without buying a single new thing So you’ve moved into a brand new home, but you don’t want to spend hours in the big-box furniture stores and homemaker centres?
frankie magazine: The Ladies Guide to Dude Cinema Sydney comedians Bec Charlwood and Alex Jae spend their spare time dissecting films “aggressively recommended” by men.
The Guardian: Germaine Greer’s archive — digging up treasure from floppy discs Buchanan and her team are now working out how to access, catalogue and preserve the thousands of files on these disks, some of them last opened in the 1980s. “We don’t really know what’s going to unfold,” Buchanan says.
Domain: Rural lives blossom on social media It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
BBC News: The 30-year-old who designed a $1b business When a 22-year-old Melanie Perkins nervously pitched her start-up idea to a Silicon Valley multi-millionaire she followed a novel if somewhat risky tactic.
University of Melbourne’s Pursuit research portal: On track to ending avoidable blindness Professor Taylor says efforts to close the gap for vision between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians have made “unbelievable strides” since he formed the University’s Indigenous Eye Health group in 2008.
Sydney Morning Herald: We will always love her — celebrating the music of Dolly Parton There’s something irresistible about Dolly Parton – the 73-year-old Queen of Country is beloved by everyone from honky-tonk types to drag queens.
The Monthly: We need to talk about dying A new initiative teaches doctors how to help patients plan for their deaths before it’s too late.
Daily Life: Just eloped My husband and I married on a sunny Saturday in September with only four people present – the two witnesses required by Australian law, our celebrant and our celebrant's 90-year-old mother, who answered her mobile phone as we recited our vows shouting, "Hello? I'm at a wedding!"
The Age: Water war — a teaspoon in the ocean or a crack in the dyke? Stanley's groundwater is special. So special that a water supply company wants to bottle and sell it, potentially putting at risk Stanley's renowned cherry, chestnut and walnut crops, among others.
The Age: Survey of sexual assault on university campuses shelved It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
The Age: California sun Serial renovator Justine Murphy brings colour and light into her heritage Northcote home.
Sydney Morning Herald: Gun violence makes an American rethink connections to home Anyone with a relative who pines for the "old country" will recognise this sentiment. It's more than homesickness. It's an exaggeration, a performance of cultural identity invisible and immaterial at home. In Australia, being American is a huge part of my everyday life in a way it never was before.