Rose Powell

When the shortlist for the Miles Franklin award was unveiled earlier this week, there was just one thing missing – men.

The past 10 or so years have seen slow and steady progress in the Australian understanding of perinatal depression.

As the digital generation grows up, they do so with access to endless information online and the debates about how to handle some of the world’s biggest ethical issues – such as climate change – raging around them.

Public speaking fills plenty of otherwise accomplished people with dread.

When the shortlist for the Miles Franklin award was unveiled earlier this week, there was just one thing missing – men.

The past 10 or so years have seen slow and steady progress in the Australian understanding of perinatal depression.

As the digital generation grows up, they do so with access to endless information online and the debates about how to handle some of the world’s biggest ethical issues – such as climate change – raging around them.

Public speaking fills plenty of otherwise accomplished people with dread.

In the increasingly digital and connected world we work in, “that’s a good idea” has become “there should be an app for that”.

The judges of the Stella Prize are currently trawling through 190 manuscripts in order to determine the winning female author of the new $50,000 Australian literary award, established to combat unconscious bias in literary recognition and prizes.

Collaborating with studio executives on three different continents while raising her two sons (now 20 and 23), Nadia Tass’ multi-award-winning career as a theatre and film director has required every inch of multitasking ability Tass possesses.

The Greens have today announced a new policy designed to get more qualified early childhood teachers into child care centres, in line with new national regulations requiring all centres to have at least one university-trained early childcare worker by the end of 2013.