SEPTEMBER 2019 | The Australian Women’s Weekly 15
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THE DUCHESSOFSUSSEX,Meghan,
has been both criticised and
praised for choosing not to appear
on the cover of the issue of British
Vogue she guest-edited. Instead,
Meghan handpicked 15 women she
considers to be “Forces for Change”
to feature in a montage for the
cover of the September issue.
Among them are climate change
activist Greta Thunberg, actresses
Jane Fonda and Salma Hayek
and our very own Prime Minister
Jacinda Ardern.Act of kindness
HEIDI KLUM
The pain of her split
from ex-husband Seal
behind her, top model
Heidi Klum, 46, is smiling
again with new hubby
Tom Kaulitz, 29. The pair
wed on August 3 in Italy.BRIAN LOCHORE
New Zealand is
mourning the loss of All
Black great Sir Brian
Lochore. Brian lost his
battle with bowel
cancer on August 3,
at age 78.FOREVER, 21
Bindi Irwin celebrated
her 21st in the grandest
way, becoming
engaged to Chandler
Powell. She gushed: “On
my birthday I said ‘yes’
and ‘forever’ to the love
of my life.”OnSeptember 1, think about
othersandshow some extra
kindness.Random Acts of
KindnessDay encourages people
toreachout to strangers and
maketheirday a little brighter.
Whetheryou pay for someone’s
coffee,dosome baking to share,
orgivea stranger a compliment,
makesureyou put a smile on
someone’sface.Love
and loss Downhill
for Baldwin St
The title of the world’s steepest
street no longer belongs to Dunedin.
Baldwin Street in the Otago city lost its
illustrious claim to fame when Guinness
World Records awarded the title to a
Welsh street named Ffordd Pen Llech.
However Dunedin man Toby Stoff
believes there has been a mistake
and is off to Wales to prove that
Baldwin Street is in fact the
steepest in the world.Big bird bones
COVER CONTROVERSY
SCIENTISTS HAVE made an
exciting, and surprising, discovery in
Otago – they’ve found the remains of
a parrot that was once half the size
of an average human. The leg bones
are believed to be about 20 million
years old and analysis shows they
come from a giant kakapo, although
there is no record of a parrot that
big in the world’s fossil history. The
monster bird, more than twice the
size of any recently known kakapo,
has been suitably dubbed “Hercules”.Meghan
(right) felt
it would be
too boastful
for her to be
cover girl.