Opinion
Shakespeare avoided the plague in his stories. No wonder fiction writers spare us the pandemic
Writers debate about how - or whether - to mention coronavirus in their work. Shakespeare had no such problem.
- by Jacqueline Maley
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‘You name it, they’ve come’: south-west Sydney rallies to get the jab
There are unique challenges to vaccinating multicultural and multi-faith communities where some are distrusting of government and gleaning health messages from social media.
- by Jacqueline Maley
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Grandmother with cancer barred from leaving Sydney to help London-based daughter
Dianne Jagelman is a Liberal Party supporter who has handed out election leaflets for Malcolm Turnbull. But after being barred from leaving Australia to visit family, she says she is “sick of the Prime Minister’s platitudes”.
- by Jacqueline Maley
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At least we can direct our COVID rage at politicians: god knows, they deserve it
Australia has become a hermit kingdom, and speaking of North Korea, have you noticed how our police have been empowered to a point that is a little frightening?
- by Jacqueline Maley
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Morrison’s pledge on ocean waste - a shiny (plastic) distraction from climate policy
The Prime Minister has previously been vocal about not leaving our children an environmental disaster. He could extend that principle to climate change.
- by Jacqueline Maley
‘I escaped after 36 hours’: TV’s Bruna Papandrea on wellness retreats
The producer’s Nine Perfect Strangers is set in a wellness resort. But with rules such as no pasta, wine or talking until noon, they are not her natural habitat.
- by Jacqueline Maley
‘Unable to meet basic needs’: ParentsNext program suspended a third of parents’ payments
The program, which requires parents of small children to participate in activities such as swimming lessons and playgroups or risk having welfare payments cut off, also had a disproportionate impact on Indigenous Australians.
- by Jacqueline Maley
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Why is Morrison so afraid of Albanese’s $300 cash for jabs? It’s the populism, stupid
Labor may have touched a chord – and the Prime Minister should see it. But Labor, too, has much work to do to rediscover its common touch.
- by Jacqueline Maley
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Simone Biles shows the quiet dignity of refusing to participate
The mostly positive reaction to Simone Biles’ decision to withdraw from competition at the Tokyo Olympics reveals the shifting line between duty to the collective and duty to the self.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Opinion
From lockdown, our horizons keep vanishing. But look, is that an apology! No, sorry, false alarm
Home schooling is a cosmic joke enacted on locked-down working parents – overwhelmingly women. We’re all doing our bit. A heartfelt apology might have been too much to expect.
- by Jacqueline Maley
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Feminist Legal Clinic evicted for posting anti-trans website links
A “gender-critical” feminist legal service which refused to remove material from its website that is offensive to trans people has had its tenancy grant terminated by the City of Sydney, in a dispute between a group of radical feminists and the trans community and its allies.
- by Jacqueline Maley