The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize is the highest-valued Art Prize for women in Australia and, in 2025, will award artists with $58,000 in prize money. The 2024 Art Prize received more than 1600 entries from all Australian states and territories...

An innovative charity outlet, Resilience Circle, was opened by the not-for-profit Women’s Resilience Centre (WRC) at 1761 Pittwater Road, Mona Vale, at a special VIP event on 23 November. Beaches Mayor Sue Heins cut the ribbon and celebrated the opening with...

The earliest schools in NSW were based on European models of formal education, aiming to foster morality as much as to impart knowledge. The first three schools in present-day North Sydney all had religious affiliation. By 1852, Anglican and Presbyterian...

Local MPs were put to work at Oxford Falls Grammar (OFG) on 25 November, when they joined Bushlink employees and school students for some early morning gardening on the school grounds as part of Bushlink’s School Inclusion Program. Wakehurst Independent Michael...

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...

Northern Beaches Parks and Recreation | Manly Vale The Manly Dam mountain bike track was developed in the 1990s and volunteers are now needed to maintain and improve the 11km loop, which provides riders with the opportunities to suit all levels...

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...