News & Views Looking for the perfect Mother’s Day gift? How about smashing the patriarchy! The history of protesting mums is rich and influential. It’s time we recognised this group as significantly active.
News & Views Spare a thought for Sole Parent Mums this Mother’s Day 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.
Education and economic opportunities Yasmin Poole: Which female leader most inspires you? So often, the answer is ‘my mother’ Yasmin Poole has been interviewing women across the Pacific about lockdowns and the gendered impacts of COVID-19.
News & Views As feminist as it gets: Mothers who advocate for their children Ask any woman how her life changed after having children I’d wager she told you that she felt the weight of the gender roles shift when she became a mother.
News & Views With the ‘double double shift’, we haven’t had a Mother’s Day like this before This pandemic is showing just how much unpaid work mothers do. Often on top of their roles in ‘essential services’.
News & Views Days like Mother’s Day are extra painful for me. But I’ve found a group of women who help A lot of that changed the night Rhee Kennedy attended a dinner organised by Motherless Daughters Australia, just three months after her mother’s death.
News & Views The last thing women need is a corporate version of Mother’s Day The top-ranking site on Google if you search ‘International Women’s Day’ is a corporate entity. Proof IWD has become a corporate mother’s day?
News & Views ‘Mother’s Day?’ Don’t make me laugh: Jane Caro I am on the record as a hater of Mother’s Day. Not a hater of mothers themselves, but of the absurdity of their so-called special day, writes Jane Caro.
News & Views The Parent Gift Gap: Spending more on Father’s Day than Mother’s Day It’s called The Parent Gift Gap, and it could be seeing Australians spending more money on Father’s Day than we are on Mother’s Day.
Ed's Blog The myth of Mother’s Day The ads, cards and images that have been flooding television commercials, catalogues and social media feeds in the lead up to Mother’s Day, in which mums the world over are pampered, tell a single compelling story.
