Will Premier's integrity be a vote winner?
Jessica Rudd Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has shown Queenslanders she has the courage of her convictions.
Sharing a country with Aborigines a privilege
Jessica Rudd Be proud - you share a country with the world's oldest continuing culture.
Jessica Rudd: Family violence not about gender
Jessica Rudd Tonight Q&A; will dedicate an entire episode to family violence, and so it should.
Jessica Rudd: How can we suspend our empathy and just let people die?
Jessica Rudd I’ve just kissed my daughter goodbye.
Jessica Rudd: Queensland has torn up the political rule book
Jessica Rudd There is a lesson in this Queensland election for political aspirants nationwide.
Jessica Rudd: Election distractions turn to Pooh
Jessica Rudd I've been reading A. A. Milne to my daughter lately. And when she inevitably drifts off into her own Hundred Acre Wood, Winnie-the-Pooh is one of the few books I keep reading to myself until I have to stop in case my laughter wakes her.
Queensland election timed to sneak LNP in under radar
Jessica Rudd It's the governments that furtively whistle their way into a second term that you've got to watch out for.
Jessica Rudd: Traditions of the season are not what they seem
Jessica Rudd Tomorrow is Epiphany: the twelfth day of Christmas.
Jessica Rudd: It is time to embrace the ageing process
Jessica Rudd My new year’s resolution is to be pro-ageing.
Jessica Rudd: Our grief is not our whole story
Jessica Rudd You don't need me to tell you that 2014's 50th week is the hot contender for its ghastliest.
Jessica Rudd: When Christmas sneaks up on you
Jessica Rudd And so, this is Christmas. And what have you done?
Jessica Rudd: Babies bring kindness amid fear of monsters
Jessica Rudd It was our eleventh hour on a plane in 24 and we were down to the final nappy.
Jessica Rudd: Our dignified calm amid the storm
Jessica Rudd There’s a quiet resilience about Brisbane folk that’s worth writing about.
Jessica Rudd: Like your kid would never scream at the movies
Jessica Rudd One Friday evening, my friend and her husband took their two little boys—4 and 2—to the movies at Chermside.
Clearing up a few things for G20 delegates
Jessica Rudd Brisbane may have left you with a few unanswered questions.
Jessica Rudd: Gough, Noel and headspace
Jessica Rudd Last Wednesday I woke up in my Sydney hotel room to the shouts of soon-to-be head-sore revellers continuing their Cup day shenanigans.
We are crossing the line when it comes to public interest
Jessica Rudd It has been an interesting time for public interest.
Jessica Rudd: A welcoming smile is a powerful thing
Jessica Rudd A welcoming smile is a powerful thing.
Jessica Rudd: Stress management from the mouths of babes
Jessica Rudd We have spent the past week moving house. I haven’t had this much fun since gallstones.
Jessica Rudd: Mary MacKillop would not stand for this
Jessica Rudd In the 1870s you would have been hard-pressed to find a Kangaroo Point resident who hadn't crossed paths with Mary MacKillop.
Jessica Rudd: Tony Abbott missed his chance
Jessica Rudd The Prime Minister could have united the nation over the issue of banning the niqab.
Emma Watson's courage brought predictable punishment
Jessica Rudd After being moved to tears by Emma Watson’s impassioned plea to wake up and smell the thorns of gender inequality, all I could think was, “brace, Emma! Brace!”
Terror is a new fear, once foreign
Jessica Rudd I don't want the terror risk to terrify me, but it does.
Vote against marriage equality a true tragedy
Jessica Rudd True love is worth waiting for - especially in the case of Alice and Vivian.
Joan was a straight shooter - and we need more
Jessica Rudd Last Friday we woke up without Joan Rivers, a woman whose quick wit was quicksand for its subjects, a woman who said what she thought.
Jessica Rudd: iPad parenting or imagination?
Jessica Rudd Have we forgotten how to be imaginative, resourceful parents?
Utopian work/life balance impossible with kids
Jessica Rudd My little one sobbed when I dropped her off at childcare one day last week.
Picture this - a watermelon going through a keyhole
Jessica Rudd Pregnancy brings out the over-share in all of us, and we need to decide on a universal signal to escape the birthing story.
