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Mercedes MaguireFeatures Writer

Mercedes Maguire is a features writer specialising in parenting and lifestyle as well as celebrity profiles and travel.

Mercedes Maguire

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Sydney Weekend

‘Our time is now’: Why 2024 is the year of the older woman

Books about middle-aged and older women have long been ignored by the publishing industry, but these Australian female authors have flipped the script and readers are loving it.

Lifestyle

Beautiful asian smile woman relax at beach on summer vacation. Holding credit card with computer. Digital payment concept for shop online and booking hotel when travel. Pattaya, Thailand.

How to travel on the cheap – like the experts do

Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts, stow your tray table and return to your seats, as the best travel budgeting tips are about to land.

Full listTravel

WARNING. WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. MUST TALK WITH PIC ED JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING. FOR ESCAPE HUB PROMO Rhys Browne and his fiance Mykaela Wise Rhys Browne and Mykaela Wise enjoying a picnic in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

How to save hundreds on your next holiday

The demand for travel has reached its highest among Aussie jetsetters, but budgets are becoming tighter. This is how you can get a good holiday deal without breaking the bank.

Lifestyle

The Westminster Suite Shangri-La The Shard London.

Review: Shangri-La The Shard, London

We get the lowdown on a sky-high hotel that comes with a 55km view over London.

Entertainment

Experts ready to watch MAFS craziness unfold

Married At First Sight experts Mel Schilling and Alessandra Rampolla are bracing themselves for when the craziness really starts after a bigger and better season 11 starts on Monday.

Entertainment

So hot right now: 55 years and not out yet

Warned for decades she would ‘age out’ of the industry, Sydney model Kate Bell, 55, is getting more work than ever as society shrugs off old attitudes about age and desirability.

Lifestyle

The Derry Girls Experience - Derry Girls Mural.Escape 27 August 2023NewsPhoto - supplied by Mercedes Maguire

My daughters and I became Derry Girls for the day

My little family went on a pilgrimage from Sydney to see where our favourite show, Derry Girls, was created and filmed.

National

Four-year-old Anthony Schiller was six months old when he had a liver transplant which has allowed him to grow up as a normal, healthy little boy who even competed in the World Transplant Games in April, the youngest competitor to do so. Photo with mum Louise and dad Cameron. 19th July 2023. Picture: Brett Hartwig

‘So glad to be alive’: transplant recipients thank donors

A liver transplant at nine months changed Anthony Schiller’s life, allowing him to walk, then run, then become the youngest competitor at this year’s World Transplant Games.

Illness

ATTN DO NOT RUN BEFORE July 23Ã.. Sonya Leeding holds a photo of her late husband, Detective Senior Constable Damian Leeding, It's for a story, running July 23, looking at the fact just over half of Australian families are saying ÃyesÃ to their loved ones becoming organ donors when asked. Sonya consented to her Damian becoming an organ donor and he was able to donate both kidneys.

Question fewer Aussies are saying ‘yes’ to

Australia’s organ donation consent rate has plunged in recent years. Here, families who’ve said ‘yes’ share how their tragic losses had lifesaving outcomes for others.

National

Why fewer families are saying ‘yes’ to organ donation

Australia’s organ donation consent rate has plunged in recent years. Here, families who’ve said ‘yes’ share how their tragic losses had lifesaving outcomes for others.

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