Meet the principal shaping the next generation of female leaders at Loreto Kirribilli Instilling self-belief in girls needs to happen at school so they can break the glass ceiling, says Loreto Kirribilli principal Nicole Archard. Nicole took up the top job at...

No one expected Australia’s women’s water polo team to win a medal at the Paris Olympics – except the Stingers themselves. Centre forward Tilly Kearns tells Editor in Chief Michelle Giglio about her journey to the podium. Tilly Kearns is on...

After a gruelling by-election campaign, the new member for Pittwater Jacqui Scruby is hitting the ground running Jacqui Scruby admits she’s not one to rest. Two days after an ‘exhausting’ by-election campaign for the seat of Pittwater, Jacqui was on a...

Having kids doesn’t mean giving up the waves There was one thing that Aoife O’Sullivan loved to do when she was pregnant with her first child, and that was to surf. “I surfed the whole way up until I was about...

Cremorne’s Ruby Lafferty shares a special connection with US superstar Adam Lambert When Ruby took to the national stage for her blind audition on Channel 7 show The Voice, she was nervous and excited. Yet she hoped at least one of...

Champion Paralympic boccia player Jamieson Leeson has made Australia proud Freshly back from her most successful performance to date, Jamieson Leeson is sporting a silver medal. Not only that, but she’s the first Australian Paralympic female boccia player to ever to...

Condemned Manly cottage part of cycling history Northern Beaches Council recently approved a development in Whistler Street, Manly which will result in the demolition of a tiny timber cottage. It was built in 1899 by Edward Hind, a notable carpenter and...

Former Pittwater MP John Brogden sheds a light on suicide in his new book Warning: This article mentions suicide. For help, contact Lifeline on 13 1114; text 0477 131 141 or chat at lifeline.org.au It was hope bound up in a flood...

May Gibbs was Australia’s first female cartoonist Children’s comic strips became popular in Australia from the 1920s, with the invention of Ginger Meggs and Fatty Finn. Ginger Meggs was created in 1921 by Jimmy Bancks for the Sunday Sun. Fatty Finn...

Taking a ride on Manly Cove was historically a fun activity From the late 1920s into the 1960s, visitors to Manly Cove could take a joy ride in a sleek, fast speedboat for a modest fee. Various competing entrepreneurs were involved. Once...