Furry, Friendly Love at First Underbite: A Comedian and Her Rescue Dog

Comedian, writer and professional tall girl Melanie Bracewell has built a career out of making strangers laugh  but the real love story starts at home, with a rescued Shih Tzu cross called Charles, his 'chaos goblin' sister Gigi, and a scrapbook full of tiny, hard won victories. In this episode, M…

Deb and Tom Lawrie: The Pilot Who Took On Ansett, and the Son Who Followed Her Flight Path

Deb Lawrie did not set out to become a symbol. She just wanted to fly.  By the late 1970s, Deb had the hours, the qualifications and the experience to become an airline pilot. What she did not have was the one thing Australia’s major airlines seemed to require: being a man.  When Ansett refused t…

Grief and Learning to Love Yourself After Divorce with Singer Katie Noonan

When Katie Noonan’s 20-year marriage ended, it wasn’t a clean plot twist, it was the slow unravelling of the life she thought she’d be living forever: two boys, one family, a future she could name. In this episode of Love Stories, Katie chats with Deputy Editor Tiffany Dunk of The Australian Women…

Mortal Kombat Star Ana Thu Nguyen: For Kids of Migrants Who’ve Ever Talked Themselves Out of Their Own Dreams

If you grew up translating for your parents, working in the family business and quietly editing your dreams down to something “sensible,” this episode is for you. Actor Ana Thu Nguyen and her mum, Uyen, talk about going from a crowded boat and 17‑hour bakery days to a life where survival isn’t the …

MasterChef to the NICU with Twins: Sarah Todd & Declan Cleary

On paper, Sarah Todd and Declan Cleary’s love story looks like a match made in heaven: two chefs meet on MasterChef Australia: Back to Win, he cooks the “marry me” barbecue fish, she makes the French bouillabaisse, and they ride off into the sunset with matching aprons. In reality, it’s messier, br…

Bonus Episode: The Love Note You're Not Broken...You're Becoming: Saving your skin In Menopause

Sensitive issues raised 💓 Love Notes bonus episode is part of our series of Love Stories -  short, quiet episodes from The Australian Women’s Weekly. With small reminders that love is something we practise, not just something that happens to us. In this Love Note, Charmaine Caldwell, CEO and fou…

What We Protect When We’re Falling Apart: Miss Universe Lexie Brant and Her Mum Penny on Cancer, Healing and an Unbreakable Bond

Who loves you for the longest? Not in the dramatic, fireworks way but in the quiet “did you book your scan?” way. In this episode, we sit with Miss Universe Australia Lexie Brandt and her mum, Penny, in the kind of conversation that usually happens in hospital corridors or parked cars outside imagi…

You Know That “Head vs Heart” Choice? David and Lisa Campbell Actually Took It

Have you ever talked yourself out of something big because it sounded “unrealistic” on paper new city, new partner, new life and then spent years wondering what might’ve happened if you’d just gone with your gut? In this episode of Love Stories hosted by our Deputy Editor Tiffany Dunk, David and L…

Not 'Just a Dog': For Anyone's Who's Ever Built a Life Around A Pet

In this episode of The Australian Women’s Weekly Love Stories, we’re talking about the kind of love that pads down the hallway on four legs and leaves a paw-shaped crater when it’s gone. 🐾💓 You’ll meet Ryan Wilson, a former SAS soldier whose life was literally saved by a military dog named Fax d…

Get Yourself a Wife: Narelda Jacobs & Karina Natt on Motherhood and Making Their Own Rules

Journalist and TV host Narelda Jacobs and her wife, political strategist Karina Natt, join Deputy Editor of the Australian Women's Weekly, Tiffany Dunk on the Love Stories couch to share the very modern, very tender story of how friendship across state lines became a marriage, a baby and a whole ne…