This post explores the idea of individual responsibility and the role of society in the face of hardship. An unedited audio version of the post – read by Sarah. At some point, we will all weather our own winter. I don’t mean seasonal winter which comes around...
This post explores gender and public policy and asks, “Does being an advocate for women and mothers make you anti-men?”. I received positive feedback about the audio version of last month’s post, so I have provided it again (still unedited). I grew up surrounded...
In this post, I reflect on the role of unpaid care in my childhood. How could we better value and recognise the role of unpaid care, most often undertaken by women, in our public policy? One of the quick wins available to the government is to pay superannuation on the...
I ring my bell, but they don’t hear. I shout, but they don’t hear. I wave my hand, but they don’t see. Eventually, I swerve my bike around them and make tut-tut noises. When I was working with a man with vision impairment, he referred to them as “the...
One of my oldest friends recently had her first child and said to me, “now I see why you need a whole association!”. She referred to my work with the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA), where I trained to become a Breastfeeding Educator after the birth of my...
Having been a social planner for over ten years, I am acutely aware of how historical town planning has overlooked the needs of women and mothers. In their article for The Conversation, academics Dorina Pojani, Dorothy Wardale, and Kerry Brown...
