mother’s day

When you’re thinking about the mums for whom Sunday might be a bit difficult please also remember the siblings who are using additional emotional bandwidth to support their brothers or sisters,

Speaking to her lived experience of grieving a mother, Allega Spender MP co-hosted and gave a speech at a Motherless Daughters Breakfast.

What do mums really want for Mother’s Day? A more equitable society: equal chores, shared mental load, end to motherhood penalty, involved dads, affordable childcare.

Celebrate Mother’s Day by going beyond the traditional gestures. Let’s start a conversation about sharing the mental load in families and working together as a team.

What mothers really want is security for the future, for our families and our children. Climate action is a must.

There’s never been a better time to shop local for Mother’s Day, so here are some excellent baby businesses you should get behind.

Mothers in Ads launched a campaign for bids for a $876,000 bottle of hand cream to highlight the cost of motherhood

“It is almost unbearable to see advertisements and images everywhere of women pictured with their mothers, smiling and doing things together.”

The grieving is relentless. But here’s how Kimberley Smith found support in a network of women called Motherless Daughteres.

The history of protesting mums is rich and influential. It’s time we recognised this group as significantly active.

Consider the hidden plight of sole parent mums who are unacknowledged and alone, who live in fear of how they can provide a roof over their child’s head.

Yasmin Poole has been interviewing women across the Pacific about lockdowns and the gendered impacts of COVID-19.