The Australian Women’s Weekly — August 2017

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AUSTRALSCOPE. GRACE: COURTESY OF INSTAGRAM. MICHELLE HOLDEN/BAUERSYNDICATION.COM.AU. GETTY IMAGES. CHARLES DAVIS,YALCOWINNA, COOMA, NSW, AND DOUG GIMESY, VICTORIA, FOR

AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC

NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR.

A great change in the guardCaptainMegan Couto, 24, hasbecome the first woman to lead the Queen’s Guard,

but the catch is she’s not British. Rather, she is a Canadian soldier whose unit, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (named

after Queen Victoria’s granddaughter), was invited to guard the monarch as part of Canada’s 150th anniversary. No woman had led

the Queen’s Guard before because women were excluded, until recently, from close-combat ground roles in the British military.

Some attribute

Lorde’s rich style

of experimental

pop to her

synaesthesia,

a neurological

condition that

means she sees

sound as colour

and “paints” her

songs. The Kiwi

prodigy’s second

album, Melodrama,

has topped charts

in the US, Canada,

Australia and NZ.

CaptainMegan

Couto (centre)

led the Queen’s

Guard in June.

a ure n all its glory

Penguins come home to nest

in St Kilda and a wombat

emerges after snow storms

in Kosciuszko National Park.

Both images are vying for

theAustralian Geographic

nature photography prize.

Don’t miss

Penguins gazing

at Melbourne’s

skyline. BELOW:

A wombat in

Guthega, NSW.