Stephanus and UncleBruce,
It was not my intent to compare Australian Women's Weekly and The Weekly World News by including the two in the same post. After a quick look at the Australian Women's Weekly web site, it appeared to me to be similar to the U.S. weekly, For Women First, which while it includes gossip, recipes, and treacly sentimentalism, also usually publishes correct information about new findings in health, medicine, and other fields.
I dragged in The Weekly World News because it is a secret guilty pleasure, because I love headlines like LEASE YOUR SOUL TO SATAN with an option to fry, and because I wanted to rib Slipnslidemaster a bit.
I must admit, I would also enjoy reading the political opinions of a former English socialite and the experiences of "feisty" Yvonne and Diana in their "squalid hell-hole." But then, I am a big fan of Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate and Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm
I was in a silly mood. No offense was intended.
I would also be interested to see the complete original quotation by Ita Buttrose. Was it quoted in context? What did Ita Buttrose have to say about materialism and the feeling that something is missing from one's life? Do her conclusions mesh with the Society's in the September 15 study article?
Ginny