News & Views A reality check: Not just #MyMum but #ThisMum too Don’t view #MyMum through the rear-view mirror. There are plenty of mothers with young children currently struggling to combine work with family.
News & Views The forests of the night: Shirley Stott-Despoja on ageing, pain, childhood trauma & dignity Pain and isolation make it easy to become lost in the forests of the night. And that is what happened. Shirley Stott-Despoja writes.
News & Views Pay rises for brain builders: Why early childhood educators need to be paid more The work early childhood educators undertake is hard and valuable. Human brains learn more in the first five years than at any other time in their lives.
News & Views ParentsNext doesn’t help parents become more job ready The ParentsNext program doesn’t help most parents to become more job ready or give them the support needed to find a job.
News & Views ‘This isn’t just about me. It’s about all women. It could have been any of us.’ I woke up this morning to an ABC update. A woman’s body found on the corner of Little Bourke St and Celestial Avenue in Melbourne. I wanted to throw up.
News & Views Israel Folau, Tiger Woods & the reality of being a sporting superstar Sporting codes have long been willing to overlook the indiscretions of superstars due to their commercial value & popularity. Is that changing?
Soapbox Enough with the headlines asking what “drives” men to kill their partners “What drove Borce Ristevski to kill his wife,” was a headline the Herald Sun published. Too often the media looks for excuses to justify abhorrent crimes.
News & Views No, I can’t be your unpaid mentor. I cannot endlessly have coffee with people I hardly know, indiscriminately read manuscripts, research proposals or judge competitions, Jane Caro writes.
News & Views Six consecutive cuts to the foreign aid budget in six years is not good enough Poverty is a complex problem but World Vision Australia CEO Claire Rogers says we know that foreign aid is a key piece in the puzzle.
News & Views Why Roxy Jacenko is wrong about Australian workers Gemma Lloyd, cofounder of WORK180, disagrees with Roxy Jacenko’s recent comments about Australian workers, particularly millennials, being lazy.
News & Views How sport continues to sideline women Despite the growing popularity of AFLW the level of interest in, and the treatment of, women’s sport remains problematic.
News & Views Men can do emotional labour. Really. My husband is proof of male capability in the domestic sphere, including in the realm of emotional labour. It can be done.