Jane Caro is a novelist, author, columnist and award winning advertising writer. She appears regularly on Weekend Sunrise, Channel 9 Mornings and Gruen Planet.
We've never spent so much time and energy thinking about, writing about, documenting and analysing what we eat. There's never been more advice, more experts, more information about how to lose weight. Yet, we've never been fatter.
Like treacherous Iago in Othello, the times have suited those who want to undermine and destroy democracy.
On the eve of discussions with the states about how schools will be funded in what he is calling a post-Gonski world, federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham is huffing and puffing about how Gonski (which he knows is extremely popular with just about everyone except federal Liberal education ministers) has been "corrupted" anyway.
Our youngest ever Senator has been appointed by the LNP. He is 28-years-old and it would be nice to say that he is the proud product of the Victorian public education system but, sadly, he seems rather apologetic about the lack of an elite private school in his CV.
Adam Goodes is Australia's David Beckham; David Jones a venerable brand. It's a match made in marketing heaven.
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