In tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes, Amelia Adams investigates the growing rise of the so called “trad wife” movement as more women embrace traditional household roles and reject modern expectations around work, relationships and family life.
The report leads a packed night for the program, with Adam Hegarty examining Australia’s never ending work from home battle, while Tara Brown follows disturbing new developments in the international investigations surrounding former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed.
THE GOOD WIFE
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In 2026 anyone coming out and saying a woman’s place is in the home would surely expect immediate demands to wash their mouths out with soap. But what if the people making the very old-fashioned declaration were in fact women?
As Amelia Adams finds out, that’s exactly what’s now happening more and more often. It’s thanks to a growing movement of so-called “trad” wives, women, who with their husband’s blessing or expectation, are choosing to return to traditional household roles.
Put simply, he earns the cash and makes the rules, while she cooks, cleans and raises the kids.
Reported by Amelia Adams and produced by Sammi Taylor and Sheree Gibson.
HOME DEPOT OR OFFICE WORKS?
Forget squabbles over whether rugby league or Aussie rules is the better sport, now the great Australian debate is all about jobs.
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More precisely, if working from home or trudging into the office makes for more productive employees. Until COVID struck it was a non-argument, but when the pandemic forced everyone to isolate, a nationwide barney blew up.
As Adam Hegarty discovers, not even the experts can agree on what’s best. Some say flexible arrangements, that is, the home office, create happy workers and therefore help businesses boom.
Others reckon that’s nonsense, and that bosses have every right to see their staff in person every day. So whose side are you on?
Reported by Adam Hegarty and produced by Serge Negus.
HORROR AT HARRODS
It’s not at all unfair to describe Mohamed Al Fayed as Great Britain’s Jeffrey Epstein.
As 60 Minutes first reported last year, Al Fayed, the former owner of the famous Harrods department store, stands accused of the sexual assault, human trafficking and pimping of women he employed.
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Unbelievably, the number of alleged victims is close to five hundred. Al Fayed died in 2023, but a London Metropolitan Police investigation into his conduct continues with officers focusing on who might have helped the billionaire businessman cover up his crimes.
As Tara Brown reports, at the urging of American survivor Pelham Spong, French authorities, along with the FBI, are now also looking into Mohamed Al Fayed’s evil.
Reported by Tara Brown and produced by Anne Worthington and Garry McNab.
This episode of 60 Minutes airs tonight, Sunday 24 May, at 7:00 pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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