To the workplace sleazes of the world: your time is up
Ramifications of Bill O'Reilly's ouster from Fox News could be huge, especially in the media.
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Julia Baird
Julia Baird is a journalist and author
The 'invisible' women who died, nearly unnoticed
We barely blink when women in the sciences achieve (who remembers that Professor Elizabeth Blackburn won a Nobel prize in 2009?), so it is hardly surprising we are often caught napping when they die.
How to find your own peace in a brutal world
This week, I wanted to write about how to maintain sanity in the face of the precariousness of and, ugliness in, the world. Yet as I opened my laptop to write, tales of desperate Syrians poured from my radio, and my fingers froze for hours.
Facts are dead, long live facts
We are facing a monstrous, growing crisis of credibility and we cannot be complacent
There's no such thing as 'just a nurse'
In Trumpian terms – and by that I mean in the terms determined by men who rate women simply according to their decorative value – Florence Nightingale was a "nasty woman". Lionised as a gentle "lady of the lamp" who wandered through hospital wards tending to wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War, we seem to have forgotten her fierceness: a young women who burned to abandon all social obligations and just work, who spurned suitors and lobbied politicians, who adored statistics and pioneered pie charts, and who revolutionised the medical establishment.
Human rights and compassion aren't dirty words
What a grim state of affairs it is when we vilify and stereotype people who care for homeless children as marauding activists.
What I learnt after my cancer diagnosis
Would living longer really improve our lives?
The battle for feminism's final frontier
It's quite apt that the term 'flamethrower' is so often used to describe feminist Clementine Ford.
The hardest words for an author to write
Writing book acknowledgments can be so fraught. It should be a moment of triumph, cheer, relief. But there are so many potential pitfalls – forgetting people, sounding like a tosser, omitting crucial research assistance, sounding like a tosser, being excessively sentimental and sounding like a tosser.
Time to talk to girls about young, hot Stalin
When I saw the footage of former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer verbally abusing his estranged wife, Aysha, last week I was reminded about the difference between passionate intensity and love. About how to recognise signs of aggression, manipulation, abuse or control in even the most nascent relationship – and what not to tolerate and when to walk away.
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