Nikki Gemmell

Nikki Gemmell’s columns for the Weekend Australian Magazine have won a Walkley award for opinion writing and commentary. She is a bestselling author of over twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her work has received international critical acclaim and been translated into many languages.

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Rio Olympics 2016. The Preliminary Round of the Women's Water Polo, at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Australian's in the crowd during the game. Picture: Alex Coppel.

Bring on the crowds

I was becoming short with my fellow species in the Before Times, weary of the aggressiveness. But I want to unlearn cautiousness.

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MONEY ISTOCK - Head shot stressed young woman holding paper document, bank debt notification, thinking of financial troubles, looking away. Lost in negative thoughts depressed woman worrying about bad news notice. Picture: Istock

Redundant, left out in the cold

It’s an awful hammer blow of a word. The very meaning – no longer needed, superfluous – implies uselessness.

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I was blindslided: the day my life broke

This time in my life is something I have never written about. The humiliation, the mortification, the blindsiding. But I’m addressing it now.

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Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis are back for the Sex and the City sequel And Just Like That.The series is filming in New York in July 2021.First pic from the set - released by HBO Max in July 2021.

I don’t waste time on friends who exhaust me

Over the past year I’ve distilled my life in so many ways, flushed it clean — and friendships are one.

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EMBARGO FOR TWAM 10 JULY 2021 FEE PPLIES, Sally Rees Crone exhibition and installation at MONA pic : MONA

Flipping the witch

Historically, we have demonised the crone. Want her silenced, vanished. She is of no use. But at their most unvalued, these women have been freed.

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Amazing grace

There are small moments of grace all around us if we stop and take note. They’re a wonder and a balm.

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Just between you and me

I’m often asked why I’m writing in this particular parish when it doesn’t seem my most natural milieu. Here’s the truth.

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Stranger from a frozen land

In south-west Victoria recently, a small, bright wonder: a huddled bird all the way from Antarctica. Alive, and alone.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on February 20, 2021 shows Japan's tennis player Naomi Osaka reacting on a point against Jennifer Brady of the US during their women's singles final match on day thirteen of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. - Naomi Osaka has pulled out of Berlin WTA grasscourt tournament in the wake of her controversial exit from the French Open, organisers confirmed on June 7, 2021. (Photo by David Gray / AFP) / -- IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE --

Piers off Morgan, Naomi’s actions took guts

The world — including some fragile men — can’t deal with non-meek women. Historically, the ‘bad’ girls are punished. Just look at Naomi Osaka.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 4, 2020: Shops in the QVB building in the Sydney CBD are fairly quiet.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw

Bricks, mortar and soul

Do the owners of the beautiful old buildings threaded through our daily lives have any idea of their magical hold over us?

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