Little Issues

(Disg)Race Day: Why Filming Drunk Girls in Public is Not Okay

Let s(he) who has never made a complete fuckwit of themselves under the influence of booze cast the first stone.

For Andrew and Myuran: I will always stand for mercy

On Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, redemption and death.

Nipple Confusion

I have written about breastfeeding in public. I have written about misogyny.  And out there in the world wide web, there are many more words dedicated to those two issues. It's not that I think more words are not necessary. Certainly, until society changes its current views on both these issues, there can't be enough […]

Wake Up

Wake Up

Three Reasons To Give A Damn About The World We Live In When I was a little girl, there were nights I couldn't sleep for all the worries in my head. I worried about the cigarette I stole from my mum's pack of menthols and smoked in the back paddock. I worried about the tiny […]

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Breastfeeding is STILL an issue

Breastfeeding is STILL an issue

Once again, the Facebook furore surrounding breastfeeding has grabbed media attention. Everyone is weighing in. I wasn't convinced I needed to. But then I read a few comments on FB which got me thinking. So much talk about how people supported breastfeeding but couldn't we all just be a bit more modest, a little more discreet? This […]

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Sad Housewives

Sad Housewives

[Source] It so happened that I bought some St John's Wort tablets. They were on special and let's face it, specials are my heroin. But we don't approach depression the natural way in this little household and so it was that my little bottle of "Mood" sat unused and feeling less and less like a […]

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Misogyny – Alive and Well

Misogyny – Alive and Well

[Photo Source] Much has been written about the Slut Walks that have been taking place across the globe. If you've missed the hype, the movement was sparked when a Canadian policeman addressed a group of female  students advising them not to dress like sluts in order to avoid being assaulted. Fact – the cop was […]

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It Ain’t Pretty

It Ain’t Pretty

[Photo Source] Meet Eden Wood. In American child beauty pageant circles, she is the reigning queen.   And now, she's coming to Australia and with her, pageant organisers, Universal Royalty. A veritable shit storm has erupted over this and despite there being about a zillion voices already competing to be heard on the contentious issue […]

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I’m Angie!  I mum. I write. I wife. My husband would say this is the correct order.  He’s so neeeedy. I live with my family in Melbourne, Australia, where I complain about the weather for 90% of the year – but I can’t imagine living anywhere else. Except maybe in Lake Como, waving to my neighbours George and Amal each morning.

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