#Anna Torv - Australian Women’s Weekly

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Anna Torv - Australian Women’s Weekly

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L: Helen Norville on a fictitious cover of the Australian Woman’s Day - April 1986

R: Anna Torv in a real issue of the Australian Women’s Weekly - September 2023

The parallels did not escape this The Newsreader fangirl! 😉

Did you know that the AWW turned 90 years old this year? Its very first issue was released as a black and white paper in June 1933, costing a reader 2 pence, boasting headlines such as “Equal Social Rights for SEXES” and “What Smart Sydney Women Are Wearing”. It changed from being a weekly magazine to a monthly in January 1983, but maintained its name as The Weekly.

Ironically, the Woman’s Day (starting in August 1948) is published as a weekly format! So the names of each magazine don’t really reflect the truth of their publication frequency 😉

I am a collector of Australian women’s magazines from the 1920s to the 1990s, and have many historical issues of each magazine. This picture is only a handful of these. I must say that even from a historical sense, the quality and calibre of the Women’s Weekly is much higher than the Woman’s Day. But both do a fabulous job at depicting what womanhood and motherhood was like in whatever era that the particular issue is from. They both provide some very interesting pondering points and progressive articles, whilst also giving parenting and housework tips, recipes, ads and sewing patterns on the pages in between. They’re very cool to flick through!

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For those who haven’t seen it yet, here’s Anna Torv’s latest article in the Australian Women’s Weekly! (September 2023)

She is “quietly confident” we will get a Season Three of The Newsreader! Gosh I hope she’s right!

So good to hear from this brilliantly talented lady! I certainly will be buying the physical copy! 💖