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Love in motion • Lexie Brant – Miss Universe Australia 2025 – is standing proudly at her mum Penny’s side as they raise funds for breast and overian cancer research.

What I’ve Learnt About … Mother’s Day

100 Glorious Years • Intimate recollections, bold assessments and fond memories – The Weekly celebrates the centenary of Queen Elizabeth II’s birth.

Life in style • Buckingham Palace hosts the most extensive collection of the late Queen’s fashions, revealing insights into her public and personal style.

Sarah & Declan “Nothing can break us” • MasterChef Australia alums Sarah Todd and Declan Cleary delighted fans when they started a relationship and soon after announced a pregnancy. But behind the joyful arrival of their twin girls is a traumatic story that saw Sarah’s life – and the lives of both babies – hang in the balance.

The little town that could • Last year, the Tassie town of Fingal learned that its post office was facing closure. So the community pulled together to save the pretty building and its many services.

Gambling with our future • In Australia, we lose more money to gambling than any other nation on Earth. And with online betting on the rise and the age of gamblers plummeting, those statistics grow more frightening daily. So is gambling still a bit of harmless fun, or is it a national health crisis?

Love Is In The Air • Australia’s first female commercial pilot, Deborah Lawrie, and her son and fellow pilot, Thomas, sit down with The Weekly for a Mother’s Day chat about family, flight and blazing a trail that encouraged thousands of women to take to the skies.

For the love of cats • A new book celebrates one of our most beloved animal companions, and a connection to humans that has delighted for thousands of years.

Leigh Sales It’s my time to give back • Before she was an award-winning, hard-hitting journalist, Leigh Sales was a young girl with creative dreams. As she embarks on a fresh and rewarding chapter, she shares why her new life has seen her leave much of her stress and anxiety behind.

Kathy Lette “Life moves on and we must move with it” • This Mothers’ Day, author Kathy Lette cries rivers of tears and finds joy in every minute with her mum, as she helps her settle into aged care.

A woolshed yarn from the heart • Carol Mudford hadn’t been working as a shearer for long when she realised that her community was losing too many people to suicide, and she was in a unique position to help.

“Our miracle girl” • In the lead-up to the fifth anniversary of Alexa Leary’s life-shattering accident, the champion swimmer and her parents reflect on her fight for survival.

Taking the World in Style • Thirty years ago, one man and 33 designers put our homegrown fashion on the world stage. As Australian Fashion Week enters a new phase, we look back at three decades of glitz and grit and the incredible innovators who found global fame in the aftermath.

‘Attending to death showed me the beauty of life’ • When Kathryn Heyman was caring for her dying mother and sister, she experienced profound and transformative moments of clarity.

All rise • A new arrival in the household causes consternation – before giving some surprising pay-offs.

In the frame • Your style, your way. OUR CURATED LIFESTYLE GUIDE FOR THE MONTH

In residence • Celebrate Mother’s Day in a palette of soft tones, lace and floral, as worn by our glamorous mother-daughter model duo, Lou and Edith.

Get the look! • Dial up the romance in the softest pastels, sweet...