Samantha Trenoweth

Australia

News and Features Editor at The Australian Women's Weekly

writer, editor, optimist

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Articles

Jasmin and Luke Link

1 week ago | womensweekly.com.au | Samantha Trenoweth

At The Weekly, we believe in lifting each other up – especially those who tirelessly lift us up every day. That’s why we are standing behind the ‘Cost of Caring’ campaign by Are Media, the publisher of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Jasmin Link cares for her son, Luke, who has autism. It’s a labour of love, but it has cost her a secure retirement. Here’s their story.
Anapela Polataivao speaks from the heart about her role in Tinã

1 week ago | womensweekly.com.au | Samantha Trenoweth

Anapela Polataivao is not only one of New Zealand’s great theatrical actors, she is also a mother of three — Rocky, 23, Iuni-Katalaina, 20, and Hector-Jack, 18. So her most recent role, as a high school choir teacher who has lost her daughter in the Christchurch earthquake, drew on every part of her being. For the role of Mareta in the film Tinã, Anapela tells The Weekly, she called on her “own humanness. I’m Samoan, I’m a woman, a human being and a mother.
Edwina Bartholomew shares her journey to cancer recovery

4 weeks ago | womensweekly.com.au | Samantha Trenoweth

Edwina is on the mend with her family in regional NSW. Asides Last September, on Sunrise, Edwina Bartholomew announced she’d been diagnosed with leukaemia. Seven months later — and on the road to recovery from cancer — she invites The Weekly to the town of Carcoar to glimpse her new life and unexpected blessings.
Stella Prize shortlist 2025: All the books nominated

1 month ago | womensweekly.com.au | Samantha Trenoweth

The 2025 Stella Prize shortlist has been announced, so once again it’s time to catch up on six of the best books by Australian women writers. This year’s shortlist is a trailblazer because it is the first time that all the books have been written by women of colour. It is also an edgy and gripping mix of equal parts fiction and non-fiction.
5 Years Since COVID: 'The day the world stopped'

1 month ago | womensweekly.com.au | Samantha Trenoweth

Five years on from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent lockdowns and disruption across the globe, The Weekly’s Samantha Trenoweth shares her and others’ experiences of the day the world stopped. It was Monday, February 3, 2020, around 10pm. The phone rang and rang and Toby, my partner of 30 years, only just caught the call before it rang out. He’d been struggling through heart failure for a decade and had been added to the transplant list a week earlier.
How Elizabeth Reid changed the lives of millions of women

2 months ago | womensweekly.com.au | Samantha Trenoweth

The year was 1973. A young, idealistic Elizabeth Reid marched up the gravel drive to The Lodge, propelled by bravado and terror. She wore her best Laura Ashley frock and underneath, for courage, her favourite feminist undies. They were purple and green and emblazoned with the women’s symbol. Within the hour, Elizabeth would be offered the position of adviser to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on matters relating to women (the first such position in any government in the world).
EXCLUSIVE: Jodie Haydon on her relationship with the PM

2 months ago | womensweekly.com.au | Samantha Trenoweth |Alana Landsberry

Sunlight streams through wide picture windows that look out across lavender hedges and lawns to a flowering cherry tree planted by Diana, Princess of Wales, and on to a rambling native garden that was planted by then-Prime Minister John Gorton’s wife, Bettina, back in 1968. Ghosts are everywhere here at The Lodge, the official Canberra residence of Prime Ministers since 1927.
Who was Shirley Beiger?

Feb 6, 2025 | womensweekly.com.au | Samantha Trenoweth

The sound of a gunshot echoed along Sydney’s Pitt Street, ricocheting off the neon and marble facade of Chequers nightclub, and drawing the natty-suited doorman’s gaze to a car parked a few doors away at the corner of Pitt and King. On the pavement beside the car, a streetlight illuminated the body of Arthur Griffith, son of a bookmaker and notorious ladies’ man. A bullet had entered his forehead.
Chef Alla Wolf-Tasker's Legacy of Love

Dec 18, 2024 | womensweekly.com.au | Samantha Trenoweth

Mist hangs in a soft, pillowy cloud above the lake. Ducks make trails on its grey-glass surface. A timid sun breaks through and drops of silver shine on the leaves of birch trees, planted decades ago by Alla Wolf-Tasker and her mother. Alla arrives at Lake House in the early morning. She knows every tree, every shrub, every artwork (many by her late husband, Allan) hanging on the walls of this Victorian dining institution. She knows the name of everyone who works here.
Christmas with The Weekly: On location in the Northern Territory

Dec 9, 2024 | womensweekly.com.au | Samantha Trenoweth |Orlaith Costello

For Christmas 2024, The Weekly was invited to visit the Northern Territory, and our cover — featuring the fabulous Poh Ling Yeow — was shot at Rainbow Valley, known as Wurre to the Southern Arrernte people. Over 400 species of flora grow here, dunes are scattered with wildflowers, rust-headed Fairy Martins dart in and out of Desert Oaks and Bloodwood trees, and as night falls, cave bats swoop among the boldly striped cliffs.