Gay Alcorn
Gay Alcorn is a senior writer with Good Weekend.
The four clichés to avoid when consoling a grieving friend
You can’t fix a person’s pain, says Australia’s “grief lady” – but there are ways to avoid adding to it.
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Some people have lofty heroes. I have Trinny Woodall and I am not ashamed
It may seem odd to relate to a beauty mogul with a plummy accent and a nine-figure fortune, but the former TV host has taught me a lot about fun.
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Inside Sussan Ley’s battle to hold on to the hardest job in politics
After the Liberal Party’s worst ever election result, Sussan Ley took on the hardest job in politics as party leader. Six months on, she’s struggling, not only with policy and personality divisions, but with what on earth the party stands for in 2025.
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First, she quit sugar. Now, she’s ditched ‘hopium’: Sarah Wilson’s urgent new mission
The self-described renegade’s career has taken her from teen model to magazine editor to bestselling author. Her new focus: civilisational collapse.
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Support for Labor in its heartland has been waning. Can it win the battlers back?
Labor has been bleeding rusted-on, working-class voters in traditionally safe seats for years. What’s gone wrong, and can the party turn it around?
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When I said I wanted to experience the ‘real’ India, I didn’t mean the emergency room
A literature festival was to be the highlight of a trip to the subcontinent. Then came a sudden medical detour.
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From the Archives, 2000: America just 90 minutes from destiny
Twenty years ago, the final, bitter round of the battle for the 2000 presidency was fought out in a 90-minute hearing in the United States Supreme Court.
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Mary Delahunty and the view from Julia Gillard's inner sanctum
Mary Delahunty had enviable access to the Prime Minister’s office in the months before Julia Gillard was defeated by Kevin Rudd on June 26 last year.
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Book review: Hillary Clinton lays the groundwork in Hard Choices
It is tempting to dismiss this tome as 600 pages of cautious, worthy preparation for Hillary Clinton’s tilt at the US presidency in 2016.
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