Olympic runner retired to become an opera singer
Anne Pashley was an Olympic sprinter who became a star of the Royal Opera.
Anne Pashley was an Olympic sprinter who became a star of the Royal Opera.
Very soon, Australia will inherit the title of the country with the most miserly paid parental leave scheme in the developed world.
Now that Donald Trump has shot himself in the foot and most polls and pundits are pointing to a Hillary Clinton victory in the presidential election, both major parties in the US are turning their attention to that other contest on November 8: the ballot for all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate.
"I propose; you oppose: You propose; I oppose" is the new mantra of politics.
At its opening session, the newly elected ACT legislative assembly should invite Canberra science communicator Julian Cribb to speak to it about his new book, "Surviving the 21st-century". During the recent election campaign, Cribb wrote an article in The Canberra Times about the book, which has been very positively endorsed by its reviewers, but the profound issues he raised barely caused a ripple in the torrent of discussions about rates, trams, town planning and property development.
It's still not too late for Ardent to do what is right. And it can start off by taking that massive $843,000 bonus and sending it immediately and with no strings attached to the grieving families.
Radio 6PR journalist Kema Johnson was shocked when she received a Facebook message of a man, accusing her of 'whitewashing'.
Winning on the battlefield is often when the problems start.
The government has released its latest quarterly report on the performance of the child protection system.
Chance for world to see inside East Timor
The November 12 byelection is a reminder of the downside of giving party members more influence over preselections
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Last month, the entire state of South Australia was blacked out for 24 hours because wind turbines shut down and the interconnector to Victoria's electricity grid broke down. People were stuck in lifts, traffic lights stopped working, and businesses closed because renewable energy is inherently unreliable and back-up systems couldn't cope. Unfortunately, much more expensive and much less reliable power is Australia's future under the Labor Party's renewable energy policy at state and federal levels.
Referring to a climbing club for women that she organised after college, Tabei said: "We were told we should be raising children instead."
For now, the Andrews government, perhaps a little unsure how to respond, is treating the population surge as a political virtue, albeit one that must be managed. I'm not so sure.
What matters for a tolerable retirement (far more than superannuation) is owning the home in which you live.
It should be embarrassing that the US has such a better federal scheme for providing affordable housing than we do in Australia – a scheme embraced not just by community housing providers, but by a bipartisan politic.
Let me count the ways...
We've lost our trust in so much but one thing will help earn it back.
Rather than making it taboo to talk about the reality of bodies and sex, we should be educating our young people about matters that will have a direct impact on their lives.
The return of the ACT Labor government for a fifth straight term has raised some big questions, not just because it was another Labor-Green win, but because it took place in circumstances which suggested a likely Liberal victory. Labor has now been in office since 2001. The broader question of whether the Liberals can ever win again in the ACT has morphed into an assumption that only a moderate Liberal leader, like former Chief Minister Kate Carnell, can ever win in this territory.
Australian women are growing old waiting for a paid parental leave scheme which meets international standards.
Fifty years after Charles Perkins became the first Aboriginal man to graduate with an Australian university degree, there is scope to improve the opportunities for Indigenous students to excel.
The legal precedent for public f-bomb deployment has been set.
What APRA is asking is that banks slug first time buyers even more.
Debasing the influence of films
Researchers studying politics, business, law firms, school districts and regulatory agencies have all explored the glass cliff at work: A woman takes a leadership role in a hard-to-succeed situation; she faces extra pressure, scrutiny and criticism; then she falters.
Some of that lost money is mine. I have an online account. So does my wife and my 86 year old grandmother.
I committed a crime this month, along with two of my friends. I'm not the lawbreaking type. In fact, as a 52-year-old mum, my life is pretty predictable and boring. But this election, a particular candidate's boasts about women pushed me over the edge.
You'd think $1.2b link to have enough drivers.