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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CommentaryWeekend Australian Magazine

This illustration picture shows the AI (Artificial Intelligence) smartphone app ChatGPT surrounded by other AI App in Vaasa, on June 6, 2023. (Photo by OLIVIER MORIN / AFP)

AI will never beat the real writer’s ‘voice’

We scribblers and hacks are staring at the abyss, but those digital imposters cannot, ever, beat the dazzle of human originality and creativity.

Nikki Gemmell

Aussie love storyWeekend Australian Magazine

Pokies out: the great RSL revival

Tight-knit communities are rallying and saying enough, please. And for the first time in a long time, memberships are rising, and the average age of members is tracking downward.

Nikki Gemmell

Gift that keeps givingWeekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 30 JUNE 2023. FEE MAY APPLY. The Bridge for creative learning, Bundanon, NSW. Photo: Zan Wimberley/Supplied

Forget the city … this place is magic

Beyond the chatter of birds there’s a silence that’s alive, that hums. The roar of crammed life seems very removed from all this.

Nikki Gemmell

CommentaryWeekend Australian Magazine

WINDSOR, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 12: Robbie Williams and his wife Ayda Field arrive ahead of the wedding of Princess Eugenie of York and Mr. Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel on October 12, 2018 in Windsor, England. (Photo by Alastair Grant - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Robbie Williams’ sex after marriage truth bomb

The rock god spoke his explosive truth when talking about sex in his marriage. He was utterly honest from a male perspective, and it felt precious and rare.

Nikki Gemmell

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WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. MUST TALK WITH PIC ED JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING - Pictured in Smeaton Grange today are Magdalene Catholic College students Charlotte Berkley 17, Owen Morrissey 12 and Giulian Forner 12, who are the first kids in the city to trial special Opal tags which are put on their school bags. Picture: Tim Hunter.

What happens when your child refuses to go to school?

This is not wagging. It’s far more serious than that. The number of school children with a phobia of stepping through the school gate is growing.

Nikki Gemmell

EurovisionWeekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 06 MAY 2023. FEE MAY APPLY. Australian band Voyager who are representing Australia in Eurovision, at Nature's Window, Kalbarri National Park, WA. Photo: Tourism Western Australia/Supplied

Eurovision proves it’s cool to be kind

Give me performers who dare to be silly for the common good. The kitsch, crazy Eurovision is a tonic of joy, and in these fraught times, that’s cool.

Nikki Gemmell

coronation taintedWeekend Australian Magazine

TOPSHOT - Britain's King Charles III and Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex walk behind the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, adorned with a Royal Standard and the Imperial State Crown and pulled by a Gun Carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, during a procession from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster, in London on September 14, 2022. - Queen Elizabeth II will lie in state in Westminster Hall inside the Palace of Westminster, from Wednesday until a few hours before her funeral on Monday, with huge queues expected to file past her coffin to pay their respects. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)

‘Honest Harry’ has been throne to the wolves

There’s nothing quite like the loneliness felt within a dysfunctional family, of feeling you don’t quite belong. It’s why I’ll be thinking of Prince Harry during the gilded royal extravaganza this weekend.

Nikki Gemmell

CommentaryWeekend Australian Magazine

MAROON MOMENT Feeding time for the rainbow lorikeets in Carina, Sunday, November 28, 2021 - Picture: Richard Walker

Housing, mining, renewables leading to our next tragedy

The glorious squawk is the joy of this country. Land clearing is driving out once common species. Imagine a world bereft of birdsong.

Nikki Gemmell

CommentaryWeekend Australian Magazine

Wendy Whiteley in Wendy's secret garden. Wendy Whiteley has allowed a collaboration with local chocolate shop Coco Chocolate to feature works by Brett Whiteley on the brands' "Wendy's secret garden range to raise money for Wendy's Secret Garden in Lavender Bay. Picture: John Appleyard

The distinctive breed of Aussie women we should be proud of

It’s Wendy, early Germaine, Dawn Fraser, Charmion Clift, Marcia Langton, Judy Davis, Chrissie Amphlett. For women of a certain age it’s bracing to see.

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MagazineWeekend Australian Magazine

DV, domestic violence, generic. Photo: iStock

‘To write this is an exercise fraught with danger’

My reader is the father of a daughter with young sons, and what he’s witnessing from his violent and dangerous son-in-law is tearing his family apart.

Nikki Gemmell

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