This is the week that I reach the formidable milestone of turning 70. I never thought it would happen, but time moves right along and here I am enjoying myself with a week of activities whereby I have managed to involve my family and most of my friends. In seven decades I have jammed in […]
Nancy Nguyen, a Perth based Business Advisor for Woodside Energy, has been selected by The University of Sydney Business School and the Australian National Committee for UN Women, as the inaugural recipient of their MBA scholarship. The scholarship and new 2014 partnership between the Australian National Committee for UN Women and The University of Sydney […]
One thing that fascinates me about the current feisty debate around Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s “signature” Paid Parental Leave proposed policy is that women, themselves, are not hailing this initiative as the best thing since sliced bread. The hoo haa from men was always expected, because the vast majority simply continue to go off to […]
News about three outstanding women of the world today deserve attention as female role models – Hilary Clinton, Dr Catherine Hamlin and world renowned primate expert and conservationist, Dame Jane Goodall. One thing which inspires me is that they are all ageing women, and are still planning and working for the good of others. The […]
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. […]
my idea of a superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors
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