I don’t feel like the best mother today. My daughter was sick last week, and didn’t have to go to creche. I don’t think she had quite realised that she would have to go back this week now that she was better. She screamed “NO CRECHE, WANT TO STAY HOME WITH MUMMY!” and kicked the car and her precious Tigger toy with rage the whole way to creche. She managed to wriggle out of her car seat while we were on the freeway (!!!) which was alarming, to say the least. I had to carry her under my arm, kicking and screaming, into the creche. Sigh. Read more »

The WA Liberal Party today chose to keep a self-confessed sexual harasser as their leader. (more…)

There seems to be a great need for particularly heinous crimes to be invested with some meaning - a displacement, I think of “how could this happen?” into “what is it about this society that enables this to happen”? Read more »

Reading an article in The Age this morning about the death of Pamela Bone I was struck by the following paragraph: Read more »

Last week, I went to a bar where men and women had only one toilet each, and no urinals for the boys. A small corridor leads to both, so that everyone has to wait in the same line, until their respective facility is available. Read more »