News & Views Stop assuming having a baby means a woman only wants a part-time job Alice Almeida has 17 years’ experience in media yet after having a baby was offered only entry-level roles paying $70,000 less than her last salary.
News & Views In debt, having an affair & murdering his family: Yet people raised their kids having autism. Disturbing details have been revealed at a coronial inquest into the apparent murder suicide of Maria Lutz and her children Elisa and Martin.
News & Views I was a mum of two in a supermarket without my wallet. No one offered to help. I once did a shop at the supermarket & realised after everything had been scanned and packed that I didn’t have my wallet. If only Jacinda Ardern was there.
News & Views The 5 words women need to start hearing: ‘It’s ok to be childfree’ For the women who don’t – or can’t – have children, there is a socially ingrained stigma attached to not being a mother. It’s something we need to change.
podcasts Podcast: Jane Caro on ‘accidental feminists’ & when is the ‘right time’ to be a woman in the workplace? “You get what you resist,” says Jane Caro. And the author and media commentator has certainly been a vocal advocate against the status quo.
Jugglehood Will 2019 be the year angry mothers become a powerful force? One of the only culturally acceptable ways for a woman be angry — without being dismissed as hysterical, un-hinged — is when she does it “as a mother”.
News & Views Why starting school is when the juggle can become a big struggle If managing the load isn’t shared between parents & if employers and workplaces aren’t accommodating, starting school can be too much.
News & Views The pressure around ‘starting school’ is another stress parents don’t need A child starting school is a significant milestone, no doubt, but equally it’s an unavoidable rite of passage for kids and parents.
News & Views The value of mothers in politics can’t be underestimated It can put people in power that represent a huge and often unheard segment of the population. Let’s celebrate the value of mothers in politics.
News & Views Why I’m ditching the super parent fantasy in 2019 Rob Sturrock spent 2018 trying to be a super parent when he could have just appreciated his mere survival. This year he’s ditching the fixation.
News & Views The problem with Kelly O’Dwyer leaving Canberra Even before I read the reasons that Liberal minister Kelly O’Dwyer was exiting politics I understood. Of course I did. Who wouldn’t?
News & Views Why my goal for 2019 is to have no goals Whether opting for less hustle is a cop out or a stroke of genius remains to be known but I will spend 2019 testing out having with no goal.