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14 The Australian Women’s Weekly | OCTOBER 2019
The great
Helen
AMID RUMOURS Dame Helen
Mirren will revive her
partnership with The Queen
writer Peter Morgan and play
Elizabeth II in The Crown,
which Peter also wrote, she’s
pictured looking radiant as
Catherine the Great (right) in
the forthcoming series of the
same name, which also stars
Richard Roxburgh.
Australia
As fire raged through the Amazon, one man
worked tirelessly to protect local wildlife
trapped in the inferno. Vet Jerjes Suarez saved
armadillos from the ashy remains of the forest.
Sailors have discovered a raft of
floating pumice stone as large as
20,00 football fields floating towards
Australia. The phenomenon is the result
of an underwater volcanic eruption.
Brazil