Amanda Hooton

Reporter at Sydney Morning Herald

Reporter at The Age

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For decades, he couldn’t afford a car. Then this Aussie checked in at The White Lotus

5 days ago | smh.com.au | Amanda Hooton

For decades, he couldn’t afford a car. Then this Aussie checked in at The White LotusWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. From skinny Perth kid to award-winning actor: Murray Bartlett’s role as a hotel manager in The White Lotus changed his life. Just don’t mention the “p” word. By Amanda HootonMay 10, 2025, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
Egg freezing success rates are rising. Fertility insurance or a risky lottery?

4 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Amanda Hooton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Here’s a thought experiment. It’s 2017, and you’re a 35-year-old Australian woman with your own successful business. You’re four years into a relationship with a man five years younger than you, and he’s just won a Fulbright scholarship to the US. You really love each other, but it’s safe to say you’re at a low point in your relationship.
‘Gigantic joy’: Melinda French Gates on her new life after divorce

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Amanda Hooton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the April 12 edition of Good Weekend.See all 11 stories. Melinda French Gates is the 10th-richest woman on the planet, or thereabouts. Her personal wealth is estimated at $US30 billion ($48 billion). How does an ordinary person even conceive of this sort of money?
After Port Arthur, Walter Mikac found a ‘superpower’. He’s sharing it with Izzy

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Amanda Hooton

By Amanda Hooton April 3, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Isabella Mikac, 23, is the daughter of Walter Mikac, 62. She was born in 2001, five years after the Port Arthur tragedy, in which Walter’s first two daughters, Alannah and Madeline – and their mother, Nanette – were killed. Isabella: Dad says I was born with my eyes wide open, ready for the world. When I was little, he was around a lot.
After Port Arthur, Walter Mikac found a ‘superpower’. He’s sharing it with Izzy

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Amanda Hooton

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Why do women exercise less than men? Investigating the gender fitness gap

Feb 5, 2025 | smh.com.au | Amanda Hooton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. New year, new me. Here we are in 2025: a fresh start, a blank page, a clean canvas on which to paint the glorious colours of a fabulous new life. Although, to be honest, I’m looking for my new life to differ from my old life in only one respect – that somehow, in some fashion, I will finally get fit.
My daughter’s leaving primary school – and I’m finally coming up for air

Dec 12, 2024 | smh.com.au | Amanda Hooton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I’ve now been a mother for 12-and-a-half years. My daughter – my only child, born in my late 30s – has been an extraordinary joy in my life. She’s also been a wrecking ball through that life, obliterating most of its previous landmarks and topography. But this is her final year of primary school, which means that come January (or is it February?
Demoralised in Tokyo; gold medal winner in Paris. How Nina jump-started her career

Nov 29, 2024 | smh.com.au | Amanda Hooton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the November 30 edition of Good Weekend.See all 15 stories. Nina Kennedy, Australia’s pole-vaulting gold medallist from Paris, has brown hair in a ponytail and bright blue eyes. Dressed in white jeans and a blue top, she looks like a regular 27-year-old – until she bends her arm.
As refugees, they slept on the ground. Three kids, study and work is ‘nothing’

Oct 2, 2024 | smh.com.au | Amanda Hooton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Social welfare worker Delphine Uwamwezi Yandamutso, 39, met her husband, chair and founder of the African Australian Advocacy Centre, Noël Yandamutso Zihabamwe, 40, when they were teenagers in Rwanda. Delphine: We both grew up in traditional Catholic families.
From truck-stop tyke to international cake queen: The rise of Nadine Ingram

Sep 18, 2024 | smh.com.au | Amanda Hooton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When our daughter was a non-sleeping newborn, we used to make a pilgrimage each morning just before dawn. She was born in midwinter, so it was still dark as we left the house, but after a few minutes of walking, a yellow glow would appear: the light from the bakery at the top of the hill.