Politics

A President-elect who is a billionaire, in part due to inheriting a vast estate from his father, cast as the champion of the working class: the anti-establishment.

Just thinking about the amount it costs to send my eldest son to childcare churns my stomach.

“I’ve got to get better at being a dad, and a partner, being around a bit more, not being stressed and knackered when I am,” he said.

2016 was the year that everyday Australian women wielded real power online.

We see the violence and misery in our social media feeds.

As a first-time parent I distinctly recall walking around in a semi-permanent state of bewilderment.

I was going to say that I was gobsmacked by Senator David Leyonhjelm’s summation of caring for children last week on Channel 10’s The Project as “wiping noses and stopping the kids from killing each other”.

We love calling politicians “out of touch”.

When he stood as a candidate for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination? He’ll never get it, we thought.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel outlined the Geneva Convention over the phone to Donald Trump, in response to the US President’s executive order banning those from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.

Yesterday I sat next to a woman on a train who was loudly telling a colleague why, “Sandra think she’s coming back but she’s never coming back.

It wasn’t all that long ago that the idea of the President of the United States instructing female employees to “dress like women” was laughably implausible.