Category: womens lives

Courts and Judges on trial by Media

  Judges have been the victims of “rougher than usual media treatment’’ through “screaming headlines’’ and sensationalist television footage of controversial judgements, says award-winning Adelaide communications expert Dr Pamela Schulz. The University of South Australia lecturer cites an ancient  quotation by Cicero in 68BC “Alas my client is condemned by public opinion’’ to reflect . […]

Friday October 29th, 2010 in womens lives | No Comments »

Ex-model, Faye gives BC hope

  My journey down the path of breast cancer began with the discover of a cyst in my left breast in 2001. This lump bothered me because I had been on hormone replacement theraphy for 11 years plus a stressful divorce so  I requested a repeat mammogram from my doctor even though I was not […]

Tuesday October 26th, 2010 in womens lives | 1 Comment »

Expat chef becomes pure Parisienne

Ex-pat  Kaye Baudinette is unassuming about her extraordinary life in Paris at Le Cordon Bleu where she is the long-time manager of the Resource Centre at the world-renowned Academie d’art culinaire de Paris. Thirty years ago when she arrived in Paris on  the next hop of her planned 12-month world tour, she simply decided to […]

Wednesday September 22nd, 2010 in womens lives | No Comments »

Women still on a see-saw of inequality

Love her or hate her, 40 years ago, Germaine Greer unleashed a brash new tome, the Female Eunuch, which was to upturn the prescribed world of women and write a new feminist creed. Some writers, such as Louis Nowra in The Monthly, have used the anniversary to vilify Greer about her age, appearance and eccentricity. […]

Sunday May 9th, 2010 in womens lives | 1 Comment »