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Rivers + Unprecedented Rainfall = Floods

The entire Eastern seaboard of Australia is in the grip of the worst flooding in decades. Some towns are seeing record rises in rivers and creeks. The footage from places like Toowoomba and Grantham in...

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Oprah and her sister

Much of Oprah’s life has been writ large, magnified by TV screens the world over. So when she  found out to her great shock that she has half-sister, it was only a matter of time before she revealed...

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St Kilda FC Photo Scandal Girl

Because the teenager at the centre of the drama is 17 years old, her identity is protected by law. So since December, when she posted photos of nude Nick Riewoldt, Zac Dawson and Nick Del Santo on...

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Dropbox for comments to recent articles

I apologise that readers have had to comment on the previous post in order to respond to my opinion piece in the National Times. I appreciate that they have taken the time to respond to the ideas...

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Despite the trolls

I met a real troll once. Not suprisingly, I came upon her in a toilet. Actually, it was at the Parents Room at Melbourne Central, a place where parents may change nappies and feed in peace (and also go...

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Defying death

I woke up to the news of a mass shooting at a primary school in Connecticut and felt the shutter in my mind close. I still feel it there, like a partition protecting the inmost recesses of my brain...

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On liberation and authenticity for working mothers

Can women have it all? It’s a question that irks me, not only because men never get asked but because the premise is that women are inherently limited. Can women have it all – given the 24 hours in...

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Let Bartlet be Bartlet

We’ve been through all seven seasons of The West Wing. I distinctly remember being heavily pregnant, curled up in our ’round chair’ (a family favourite), watching one episode after another on my...

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Haiyan aftermath feelings

I begin purging with this: I was in Cagayan de Oro in the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines on December 16, 2011. All that Friday and through the night, rain poured. Later we were told that over...

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Let Bartlet be Bartlet

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