Julie Szego
Julie Szego is an author and freelance journalist.
'White flight' parents are missing the big picture
Julie Szego It isn't racism – middle-class families are deserting schools based on class prejudice.
Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten: the optimist and the pessimist
Julie Szego As Turnbull and Shorten deliver their competing messages, the one that speaks to fear and anxiety rings true.
60 Minutes: Who are the real victims in the abduction story?
Julie Szego Two young children are caught in the contest between their Australian mother, Lebanese father, and a commercial TV program.
Malcolm Turnbull's bias revealed in school funding plan
Julie Szego The government proposes turning its back on the schools where most Australian children get their education.
Exceptions made over Safe Schools program only encourage bullies
Julie Szego The Turnbull government gives succour to the notion that LGBTI children are the problem, not the school environment.
Object of scorn: what if Peta was Peter instead?
Julie Szego A woman at the heart of power is seen as a divisive conspirator when it's her boss who's to blame for abandoning proper process.
Object of scorn: what if Peta was Peter instead?
Julie Szego A woman at the heart of power is seen as a divisive conspirator when it's her boss who's to blame for abandoning proper process.
Millennial women have yet to grasp the reality of discrimination
Julie Szego Go ahead, back Sanders over Clinton if you want, but don’t say your choice is feminist.
Sky rail more an eye opener than an eyesore
Julie Szego Protesters are selfishly moaning about a project that could be good for Melbourne.
Doyle's Melbourne, a city that never sleeps
Julie Szego The noise and mess of an all-night city are easily outweighed by the benefits.
Anti-vaccination is based on prejudice and superstition
Julie Szego The movement reflects an underlying disease that makes us susceptible to the notion that truth is an ever-negotiable, relative concept.
Anti-vaccination is based on prejudice and superstition
Julie Szego The movement reflects an underlying disease that makes us susceptible to the notion that truth is an ever-negotiable, relative concept.
Politicians should have taken on the Grand Mufti with intelligent argument
Julie Szego Australian politicians are ill-equipped for the high-stakes battle of ideas that is needed if we are to tackle radicalisation.
Stay true to the values of the Enlightenment
Julie Szego Scrap the feel-good hashtags and memes, France deserves our admiration for its courage.
Xavier snob's bullying contained uncomfortable truths about our education system
Julie Szego The Gonski model is imperfect, but it is the best hope we have for a fairer education system.
Playboy gets dressed for a new readership
Julie Szego In breaking the taboo around female bodies, the magazine helped liberate women as well as men from sexual shame.
Radicalised Muslims joining Islamic State are not just rebels, they are violent Islamists
Julie Szego The Turnbull government must defiantly confront radicalised Muslims, many of whom are high-achievers buying in to a deadly ideology, not just disengaged hotheads.
Payne’s gain a shake-up call for chronic sexism
Julie Szego The women in Malcolm Turnbull’s new cabinet have key jobs and that sends an important signal about changing attitudes.
Tony Abbott's Syria policies are not decent or strong
Julie Szego Of course we must help persecuted Christians, but it can't be to the exclusion of the other groups being subjugated in the Middle East.
When privacy goes out the window and into the Twitterverse
Julie Szego Whether you agree or not, privacy is becoming a thing of the past - just ask the couple whose plane break-up went viral this week.
