The hub of home-grown inspirational women
Hunter Valley girl Sarah Crowe (pictured), has been named ‘Rising Star of the Year’ at the Hunter Valley Legends and Wine Industry Awards held on 28 May 2009. On a night when legendary wine maker, Fay McGuigan, was also honoured for her outstanding contribution to the industry, Sarah was recognised as an aspiring star of [...]
Print This Article
The Pudding Master Class Continues And This Month It’s An Italian Classic With A Healthy Twist – Tiramisu. Everyone has their favourite pudding but not everyone knows how to make them! However, help is here in the form of Celebrity Chef Phil Vickery. Phil is here to impart some pudding wisdom and help you create [...]
Print This Article
Documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws completely vindicate claims by The Australia Institute that retailer David Jones used advertisements that sexualised children as young as 10, according to advocacy group Kids Free 2B Kids. The documents reveal a brief asking for girls aged 10 and 12 to be “more adult and sexy”. The girls [...]
Print This Article
Australian fashion icon Peter Morrissey will join forces with Australia’s leading discount department store BIG W to launch a new range of stylish clothes at affordable prices. Designer, Peter Morrissey said, “It has been a life long ambition of mine to design and produce high quality clothing and apparel which appeals to every Australian. I [...]
Print This Article
Owner of FMS (Forklift and Mechanical Services) Training Services in Brisbane, Jocelyn Doherty (pictured) is proving you don’t have to be rough around the edges to make it to the top of a traditionally male dominated industry. Looking every bit the ‘girlie’ girl, Jocelyn has held a forklift license for a number of years and [...]
Print This Article
The launch of Bing, Microsoft’s much anticipated new search engine, was announced early this morning (AEST) by Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, at the D: All Things Digital conference in California. Set to change the nature of search as we know it, Bing offers a more organised search experience for consumers to help them find what [...]
Print This Article
Girls, have you ever thought of staying at a Monastery or a Convent Guest House? When travelling in Italy a few years ago, I stumbled across a small Tuscan village called Orvieto and decided that I would like to stay there for a couple of days. I was pleasantly suprised to find cheap, secure and [...]
Print This Article
Popular children’s author and comic book illustrator, Bob McLeod, chats with Australian Women Online. Bob McLeod has been doing something super. Something that is the envy of kids and adults everywhere. Something most people wouldn’t even view as ‘work’. Bob has been creating superheroes. Bob, who lives in Pennsylvania in the United States with his [...]
Print This Article
Jackie Maxted is the Managing Director of Directories Group Pty Ltd, digital publisher of beautydirectory.com.au and beautyheaven.com.au. As our Special Guest Blogger, Jackie gives her personal take on how she built a successful online business, the challenges she faced and how she overcame them. The idea of building a website from scratch, and to our [...]
Print This Article
Alice Munro (pictured) has won the third Man Booker International Prize. Not to be confused with the annual Man Booker Prize, the Man Booker International Prize is worth £60,000 to the winner and is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in [...]
Print This Article
| Join Our Mailing List |
This September, Hairhouse Warehouse will be offering a new product called the Blitz Box which includes over $160 worth of hair and beauty products plus a travel voucher for just $29.95 – and thanks to Hairhouse Warehouse we have four Blitz Boxes to give away!
payclick by Visa is a new way to pay online that is ideal for downloadable content such as music, games and movies. And thanks to Visa we have 2 x $50 payclick accounts to give away right here at Australian Women Online.
With thanks to Macleans Bright Sparks Promotion we have 2 x Family Prize Packs to give away to readers of Australian Women Online. Plus 3 lucky families will win an amazing family safari valued at $20,000 each!
Enter to WIN a copy of 4 Ingredients: Fast, Fresh & Health by Kim McCosker, Rachael Bermingham and Deepak Chopra. Thanks to the publisher Hay House, we have five copies of this must have cookery book to give away!