with Shirley Walker on The Conversation Hour

Last week I was a guest on Richard Fidler’s The Conversation Hour, broadcast live on ABC  local radio from the Sydney Writers Festival. With me was Shirley Walker, author of the wonderful book The Ghost at the Wedding.  I was talking about my book The Lost Mother.  Listen (I hope the link works. If not [...]

The great child care betrayal

Federal Labor promised to end the “double drop off” with 260 new childcare centres located in school grounds.  Last month they abandoned that promise – and raised the cost of child care, even though Treasury has proved to them that affordable quality child care is an essential pre-requisite to women being able to return to [...]

The Pill turns 50 – reflections on how it changed everything

Read my article in the Sydney Morning Herald about what life was like before oral contraceptives.  Read article

Twitter logo