“So, we’ll need you to write 2,000 words, you won’t get any writers credit or payment for your time. Keen?” You may laugh but that’s literally an offer that came into my inbox from an organisation rec…
I’m no poster parent for perfect work-life balance but these things help
It is unlikely that many working parents were surprised by the National Working Families report released by Parents at Work last week that showed the juggle between work and family is more often than …
The ethics of the 4 day work week. It’s not just about the hours
Nicholas Smith, Macquarie University “We should work to live, not live to work,” declared Britain’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell last month, as he announced the British Labour Party would reduce t…
The problem with the invisibility of parenting
It’s been over a month now since my book was published, and a little over two months of effectively having another job, in addition to editing Women’s Agenda and co-parenting our three daughters…
A reality check: Not just #MyMum but #ThisMum too
Something quite extraordinary happened earlier this week. An own goal by the Daily Telegraph, in which the editors sought to suggest Labor leader Bill Shorten cynically omitted key elements of his mum…
Why Roxy Jacenko is wrong about Australian workers
Last week, the famous founder of Sweaty Betty PR, Roxy Jacenko, hit the news again by calling Australians – especially millennial workers – “lazy” for not being willing to work all hours of the day. R…
Why my goal for 2019 is to have no goals
It’s a cliché but probably like many other working parents I arrived at the weekend before Christmas last year absolutely and utterly spent. The already robust act of working and keeping children fed,…
The truth about menopause & how it impacts women
Kirsten Black runs a menopause clinic at Concord Hospital in Sydney. She is also associate professor and academic gynaecologist at the University of Sydney where she is the Joint Head of Obstetrics, G…
We’ve been having the wrong conversation about childcare changes
It is one week into the childcare changes, and the Government is forcing women into having the wrong conversations. For the last week – in corridors, in playgroups, in professional groups, and over th…
When feminists don’t want to ‘work anymore’? The case for dads doing more is clear.
“I’m a feminist and I don’t want to work anymore,” the headline read. Of course I clicked through. I devoured every word of Polly Dunning’s essay on realising that even as a ‘third generation card-car…
