Genevieve Gannon

Sydney

Senior Journalist at The Australian Women's Weekly

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Articles

Book Review: See How They Fall by Rachel Paris

3 weeks ago | womensweekly.com.au | Genevieve Gannon

There’s a scene in the pilot of Succession when the Roy family leaves the patriarch’s birthday celebration for a game of softball, but instead of ambling into the backyard, or down to the local park, the privileged family members pile into a fleet of choppers and soar over the New York skyline. It’s a moment that encapsulates the appeal of the lives of the uber-rich: the scale. Everything is bigger, including –perhaps especially – their bad behaviour.
Book club: See How They Fall by Rachel Paris

3 weeks ago | womensweekly.com.au | Genevieve Gannon

You’ve had a 20-year career as a lawyer. When did you start thinking about pursuing writing? “I actually was obsessed with writing as a child. I was always reading. Always writing stories. Somewhere along the line at high school the careers advisor talked to me. ‘What do you want to do?’ It was sort of at that point that the idea of writing for a job or a career fell away. I think it was partly my generation. If you were a humanities student, you were steered towards law.
Sussan Ley is the first woman to lead the Liberal party.

3 weeks ago | womensweekly.com.au | Genevieve Gannon

The Liberal Party Room has elected Sussan Ley to lead it following a wipeout at the federal election. Sussan, who was the party’s deputy leader under Peter Dutton, is the first woman to ever hold to top job in the party’s 80-year history. Sussan, 63, beat Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor as the greatly-diminished Liberal party as it enters the next parliamentary term.
Could Sussan Ley lead the federal Liberal party?

1 month ago | womensweekly.com.au | Genevieve Gannon

Following a wipe-out at the recent election, with party leader Peter Dutton among the casualties, the Liberal Party is doing some soul searching and searching for a new leader. There are currently two candidates in the running for the top position, Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor and Deputy Party Leader Sussan Ley (pronounced Lee). If Sussan wins the top job, she will be the party’s first female leader in its 80-year history.
Cyberbullying crisis: Fighting an invisible menance

1 month ago | womensweekly.com.au | Genevieve Gannon

Content Warning: This article touches on the topics of mental health issues, suicide, and cyberbullying, which may be triggering for some readers. The Northern Territory cattle station where Kate and Tick Everett raised their daughters, Meg and Dolly, is hundreds of kilometres from Katherine and doesn’t get mobile phone coverage. Kate recalls one trip into town, years ago, during which Meg and Dolly were talking about “streaks” on Snapchat.
Book Review: The Mademoiselle Alliance by Natasha Lester

1 month ago | womensweekly.com.au | Genevieve Gannon

Natasha Lester uncovers stories of women from history and drapes them in velvet. Her fiction is characterised by intricately researched events and a romantic writing style. Her latest novel, The Mademoiselle Alliance, takes place in occupied France during WWII, yet despite this brutal setting, there is much beauty to be found in the pages. The book follows the life of the remarkable Marie-Madeleine Fourcade who led a network of 3000 French intelligence agents during WWII.
The epidemic of violence against women

1 month ago | womensweekly.com.au | Genevieve Gannon |Orlaith Costello

Content warning: The following story discusses violence against women. As battle-weary women across the country dusted off their “Enough is Enough” signs and took to the streets again, anger churned their weary frustration into resolute determination. Too many women had died. Something needed to be done. That same weekend, emergency service workers responding to a house fire in a southern suburb of Perth had found the body of a 30-year-old woman in a bedroom. Her name was Erica Hay.
Book club: The Mademoiselle Alliance by Natasha Lester

1 month ago | womensweekly.com.au | Genevieve Gannon

One of Australia’s most beloved historical fiction writers talks about bringing the past to life, and reading archives in French. Asides Natasha: I feel like there’s some little part of your brain that just knows, and it is that gut instinct of that’s going to be the one.
IVF mix-up devastates two Queensland families

1 month ago | womensweekly.com.au | Genevieve Gannon

The case is emerging... Asides Two Queensland families have been caught in an IVF mix-up that resulted in one couple giving birth to the biological child of another patient.
Book Review: The Grapevine by Kate Kemp

1 month ago | womensweekly.com.au | Genevieve Gannon

The murder is just the start of the mystery … Asides The Grapevine opens on a frenzied scene in a suburban bathroom. A murder has been committed. A wife scrubs the evidence from her newly-decorated middle class bathroom. Her husband has been careless, leaving telltale blotches of blood.