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05/12/2025

Molly Picklum () has become one of the most electric performers on the pro surfing tour, and this year claimed the women’s world title. Before doing so, however, she first had to overcome brutal episodes of self-doubt.

Read the cover story by Tim Elliott at the link in bio.

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25/11/2025

Mitch Brown played 94 senior games in a decade-long AFL career with the West Coast Eagles, yet he’s far better known for what he did after he retired – namely, coming out in August as bisexual.

When news of his sexuality broke this winter, Brown, 36, became the first publicly q***r senior AFL/VFL player (current or retired) in the 129-year history of the competition.

Click the link in our bio for the full story by Konrad Marshall.

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15/11/2025

In this episode of Good Weekend Talks, we speak to Helen Goh, who has been writing recipes for the food pages of Good Weekend for eight years. The celebrated cookbook author left Melbourne for London in 2006, when she was 40 - and as luck would have it fell in with Yotam Ottolenghi early in his ascent to global cooking superstardom, becoming a key cooking and testing collaborator.

What many don’t know is that Goh is also a trained psychologist and still sees patients in London, alongside her baking career. Goh has just released her first solo book - Baking and the Meaning of Life - in which she combines her two great loves: psychology and cooking.

Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.

14/11/2025

Take one of the country’s hottest young chefs. Combine with a visionary architect. Serve it up in an abandoned kiosk. The result is a distinctive culinary establishment in Melbourne called .au – but will it change the fine-dining game for Australia?

“We don’t really know what ‘here’ feels like ourselves, yet,” says Hugh Allen on his first restaurant opening. “We’re new here as well. But we want the food to be very interesting. We want to really push things. . “I think dining should be exciting, Food that’s aromatic. Ingredients you’ve never had before, hopefully. Flavours that you can’t work out. Obviously, with all that it still has to be delicious, but we want it to feel very new and really Aussie.”

Read the feature by Myffy Rigby at the link in bio.

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12/11/2025

Georgie Howe was living the dream as a pro-cyclist in Europe. Eighteen months on, her career was over, due to the draining effects of REDs: Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport. And while the syndrome is a hot topic in sporting circles, both amateur and professional, it’s not without its sceptics.

Read more from Katrina Strickland at the link in bio.

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12/11/2025

In the latest episode of Good Weekend Talks, we speak to Jane Harper. Just under a decade ago, she fulfilled the classic fantasy of closet novelists everywhere, and published a murder mystery called The Dry, which became an international best seller. Nine years and two children later, she’s written five more hit novels, and is credited with establishing a whole new fictional genre: outback noir.

Her sixth book, Last One Out, was published last month, and she talks to us today about the secret to creative achievement, and her former life as a journalist. Hosting this conversation is the writer of our October 4 profile of Harper - LIFE OF CRIME - Good Weekend senior writer Amanda Hooton.

Read the feature at the link in bio and listen to Good Weekend Talks wherever you get your podcast.

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25/10/2025

On Good Weekend Talks, we speak to Antonia Marran. The former TV presenter, parenting author and now lawyer and advocate is tasked with managing the legacy of her late father, Antony Kidman, and his pioneering work in adolescent and youth mental health. It’s a role for which the experiences of Antonia’s own life have prepared her well. She comes from a tight-knit family (including her sister, the Hollywood star Nicole Kidman), and has endured both the public heartbreak of her first marriage falling apart then the sudden death of her first husband, not to mention a mid-life love affair, the travails and joys of parenting a blended family of six children, and then finally, a late career switch to the law, where she found a sense of fulfilment that had eluded her so far.

Marran talks about all of this and more in a Good Weekend feature story– Her Father’s Daughter at the link in bio. Hosting this conversation is the writer of that profile, chief reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald, Jordan Baker. Listen to Good Weekend Talks wherever you get your podcasts.

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25/10/2025

Never in her wildest dreams could Ita Buttose have envisaged the career she’s had over six decades. She did, after all, come of age when women were expected to leave work after falling pregnant (and were sacked if they refused to quit), were forbidden from entering public bars, and when divorce was a multi-step ordeal.

“When I was a girl, it was assumed you’d get a job, work for a few years, get married, have children and go home to be a housewife,” she says. “Well, I did all those things. I just didn’t go home.”

Now 83, and slowed only by her declining mobility, she remains as sharp and opinionated as ever. Just don’t tell her that prejudice against women is a thing of the past.

Read the full cover story by Greg Callaghan at the link in bio.

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16/10/2025

In the latest episode of Good Weekend Talks, we speak to Joe Camilleri. The singer, songwriter and sax man is perhaps best known as the one constant in Australian rootsy blues rock band The Black Sorrows, a group that was born more than 40 years ago. The 77-year-old musician, however, has been recording and touring for more than six decades, and created more than 50 albums. That includes his latest - The Quintessential Black Sorrows - a compilation of remastered hits from the legendary front man, being released on October 24. Camilleri is currently on a national tour with the ever-evolving band, but took time out to join Good Weekend deputy editor Konrad Marshall in the studio for a chat about life, love, and music.

Listen to Good Weekend Talks wherever you get your podcast.

08/10/2025

Over the past year, the social media has become more and more matcha green, with a high proportion of self-described “matcha girlies” sharing drinks on Instagram and TikTok. For many of these mostly 20-something, mostly female, the drink is a social movement as well as a beverage.

Ellene Win, 28, and her sister Donna, 26, started last July. “COVID killed my networking skills,” says Ellene, a data analyst. “Everyone became a homebody. It was hard to make connections.” She thought matcha could be a catalyst for conversation. The sisters organise monthly events such as coastal walks, candle-painting, puppy yoga, and potluck meals where people bring matcha scones and omelettes. Their Instagram account has grown to 3500 followers, and up to 100 people attend the meet-ups.

Tara Zaw, 24, started her community in August 2023 via TikTok. There’s now an Instagram account and a chat group of about 700 people. The club took off. “I’ve made a lot of my best friends through this group. People have become co-workers, roommates, travel and study mates. “Matcha is tied to slow-living culture, balance, sitting down with a friend.”

Read more from Dani Valent at the link in bio.
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08/10/2025

In the latest episode of Good Weekend Talks we speak to author Brigid Delaney (), whose writing about her alarmingly numerous misadventures in life belies a more serious, intellectual side. Those two sides came together in her book exploring the wellness industry, Wellmania (comedian Celeste Barber plays a version of Delaney in the Netflix series of the same name).

She recently took a dive into stoic philosophy, including the 2022 bestseller Reasons Not to Worry, and her upcoming novel – The Seeker and the Sage – is billed as a tale to help us navigate our divided and unstable world.

Hosting this conversation – which also covers Delaney’s recent stint as a speechwriter for federal minister Tanya Plibersek – is Good Weekend senior writer Melissa Fyfe.

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