My sister Anne has a crammed life, but today we shared some incredibly uplifting sisterly events. On the eve of Mothers Day, we bought chrysanthemums from a road stall and visited our mother, Florrie’s grave at the Enfield Memorial Park. This is the first time in many years that we have joined our hands to […]
On International Women’s Day we could be complacent and think upon the amazing advances made by women into powerful leadership roles in the world today. Particularly here in Australia, we have had the first woman Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and our first Governor General, her Excellency the Honourable Quentin Bryce who is about to retire. […]
Sometimes it takes serendipity to reach out to strangers and decide on the spur of the moment to meet them at a local coffee shop to learn something of another woman’s difficult life. Such is the story of how I came to meet local poet, Jill Gower, who has written the story of her life […]
One of Australia’s eminent neuro scientists, Associate Professor Judy Morris, has taken off her white lab coat to draw intricate art of the natural world and the human body. She, who once used special dyes to see brightly fluorescent light in human nerve cells now prefers to use shades of grey – charcoal and […]
Don’t blame it on our kids! New research has found that the financial disadvantage women face in retirement has nothing to do with whether or not they have a family. The research paper, What’s choice got to do with it? by Prue Cameron for the Canberra-based independent think-tank The Australia Institute, says women retire with […]
Our family had seen many female relatives die of reproductive cancers. My mother had a string of aunties who died of cancer and her own sister, my auntie died in our home of ovarian cancer, aged 52; Both of her daughters are among six of my cousins diagnosed with cancer, three of whom died. It […]
my idea of a superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors
actress Bette Midler
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