Genevieve Gannon

Sydney

Senior Journalist at The Australian Women's Weekly

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Articles

Rebecca Gibney says she wants to age disgracefully

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

We’ve caught Rebecca Gibney in a brief and rare moment of downtime between projects. Her sunlit room is quiet. Beyond her window stretches the unspoiled green of New Zealand’s Marlborough region. She has just finished filming Dancing with the Stars and is taking a breath before returning to Sydney to appear on stage for the first time in 23 years. Unable to stop completely, she is using the fleeting moment of stillness to read scripts sent by writers and producers.
Book club: Vanish by Shelley Burr

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

AWW: You’ve set yourself a real challenge with your main character, private investigator Lane Holland. He finishes the first book in prison. In book two, he solves the mystery from inside prison. Could you take me through your problem-solving process when it came to finding a way to have an investigator work cases from behind bars? Shelley: I really wrote myself into a corner with the end of the second one. I’d finished the first one and that felt like the natural place for a story to go.
Book review: Vanish by Shelley Burr

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

Isolated among the hills in southern NSW is a mysterious organic farm that hides a rotten secret. The residents are there voluntarily, but there’s something not quite right about this operation, and it’s not just the farm’s connection to more than one missing person that seems off. It’s the perfect set-up for a jailed private investigator on a redemption arc.
Monash IVF admits second embryo mix-up

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

Just two month after Monash IVF admitted to a “devastating” mix-up that resulted in a Brisbane woman giving birth to another couple’s biological child, the fertility company has reported a second error, this time in Melbourne.
Book Review: See How They Fall by Rachel Paris

1 month 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

1 month 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.

1 month 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.