motherhood

Disturbing details have been revealed at a coronial inquest into the apparent murder suicide of Maria Lutz and her children Elisa and Martin.

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.

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.

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”.

If managing the load isn’t shared between parents & if employers and workplaces aren’t accommodating, starting school can be too much.

A child starting school is a significant milestone, no doubt, but equally it’s an unavoidable rite of passage for kids and parents.  

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.

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.

Even before I read the reasons that Liberal minister Kelly O’Dwyer was exiting politics I understood. Of course I did. Who wouldn’t?

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.  

Neela Janakiramanan is a surgeon with a unicorn husband doing more than his fair share of the unpaid work so she can pursue her career. Others don’t get it.