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Prisons
In WA, unpaid fines are keeping Indigenous mothers in jail
A campaign to free Indigenous women from imprisonment has found success on social media.
- by Clementine Ford
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The right to holiday silence
When does your right to read a book at the beach trump another's right to turn the sand into a nightclub?
- by Jill Stark
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Taking a holiday from my wardrobe was the best thing I did this summer
This summer, we should all try living as if we have a capsule wardrobe, even if it's an illusion.
- by Melissa Singer
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The five stages of underwear in a relationship
Nothing indicates where we are at in a relationship better than the underwear we choose.
- by Kylie Orr
Opinion
Finding a room of one's own
There are almost a million single parents in Australia: how many of them have books or poems or music they could have written?
- by Jane Gilmore
Opinion
Wellbeing
Over Christmas, I realised how toxic loneliness can be
No book or movie or podcast could substitute for actual human contact. I needed to see people.
- by Kerri Sackville
Parenting
Motherhood has given me an unexpected secret power
The mummy voice is terrifying to children of all ages. Even those trying to buy your table off Gumtree.
- by Penny Flanagan
Opinion
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There is hope for equality, you see it in the under 8s soccer team
In under 8s soccer, as in under 8s life, gender not an indicator of one’s value or level of skill.
- by Annabel Stafford
Opinion
Parenting
Don't shame me for letting my daughters wear make-up
The lipstick in question was red – the colour of lust and Satan. Never mind that it’s also the colour of Elmo, Santa and one of the Wiggles.
- by Kasey Edwards
New Year
‘New Year, New You’ is built on a lie, and I’m not buying it
There's an implication there’s something wrong with the ‘old you’. You’re not thin enough, rich enough, attractive enough, relaxed enough.
- by Jill Stark
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Daily Life
Is 13 too young for my daughter to decide she doesn't want children?
She’s painfully aware of the possibility that her children and grandchildren will have a harder time being alive.
- by Katerina Cosgrove