Search Results: parenthood
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AUSTRALIA
- Madeleine Hamilton
- 31 August 2012
15 Comments
The post-war migration policy favoured single men as labour for the burgeoning heavy industries. By the mid-1950s thousands of lonely male migrants populated the cities, and many local women found them threatening. Like those women, Slutwalk participants defend their right to walk the streets wearing what they want without being harassed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 05 July 2012
3 Comments
Young playboy Jonah learns he has testicular cancer and will be infertile within a matter of weeks. His only shot at biological fatherhood is to get a woman pregnant, soon. Initially there is a glib desperation to this veritably existential quest. But Jonah soon appreciates that parenthood is not something to be entered into lightly.
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AUSTRALIA
You could you call it coincidence that the week I'm asked to write on budgets, ours blows out. I call it life. Such is the cyclic nature of our 1.5-incomes-and-two-kids lives that just when we think our savings are safe, a new enrolment fee is due, the kids' jeans are suddenly a size too small and I've run out of nappies.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ellena Savage
- 22 February 2012
3 Comments
'Women in Bougainville have no choice but to be political,' I was told by a community leader. From housekeepers to businesswomen, they all seem to be pretty fierce feminists. Even random women I meet at cafes and pubs tell me about the work women do in their communities.
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AUSTRALIA
- Madeleine Hamilton
- 16 December 2011
23 Comments
When she had her first baby at 18, her neighbour asked if she was trying to make a buck from the baby bonus. Given the liberalisation of abortion laws, pregnant teens are accused of deliberately ruining their lives or ripping off the public purse if they choose to continue their pregnancies.
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MEDIA
- Tony Kevin
- 28 February 2011
32 Comments
At last, an Australian government has presented for public consideration an intelligently conceived framework for a national carbon emissions plan. Has Gillard broken her pre-election 'no carbon tax' promise? Does it matter?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 15 July 2010
3 Comments
Sydney filmmaker Claire McCarthy spent two months working among
Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. Like many Westerners with egalitarian pretensions, the characters in her film The Waiting City arrive in India bearing a
tourist's naivety.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 June 2010
Adoption is shown to be a tumultuous process, as joyful and painful in
its own way as pregnancy and birth. Lucy is unable to
conceive, but suspects that the motherly bond is about much more than
biology. Her husband Joseph, by contrast, values biology greatly.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 December 2009
1 Comment
Back in March, I strolled the streets of Fitzroy in Melbourne's inner
north with Warwick Thornton, trying to find a quiet spot for an
interview. Two months prior to the release of his feature debut,
Samson and Delilah, Thornton was quietly hopeful his film would be positively received.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Ruth Limkin
- 02 December 2009
7 Comments
There are those who argue that the fight to stave off the negative impacts of climate change is a fight to save the world from humans themselves. Dialogue from population-control advocates fails to recognise the dignity of each person.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 08 October 2009
5 Comments
Big families are no longer fashionable, but they had their benefits. Vastly outnumbered, there's no chance for adults
to practice the kind of helicopter parenting common to my own
generation, where we hover over our one or two, soothing and solving.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 September 2009
Roo makes a quick buck starring in a porn film. Trisha and Katrina are arrested for shoplifting. Orton and Stacey
are runaways from an untenable home
life. Blessed finds hope in the cracks between mothers and their teenage children.
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