This is Complicated

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• On liberation and authenticity for working mothers

  By Fatima on May 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Can women have it all? It’s a question that irks me, not only because men never get asked but because the premise is that women are inherently limited. Can women have it all – given the 24 hours in the… Read More ›

• Giving big

  By Fatima on May 3, 2013 • ( )

  

  Stella Young, editor of ABC Ramp Up and a fierce advocate for the NDIS, wrote a typically witty smashdown of Myer CEO Bernie Brookes’ remark that the proposed levy means that people would have less disposable income to spend at… Read More ›

• The problem with being defined by war

  By Fatima on April 23, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  On the way home in the car yesterday, my preppie son started telling me about soldiers who fought the turkeys and died to save our land. I quickly realised that he must have been learning at school about the ANZACs… Read More ›

• History is a battlefield

  By Fatima on April 22, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  The Coalition plan to reconfigure the national history curriculum (circa 2011) is predictable. Liberal Party members are fond of harkening back to the Howard years, when they ‘stopped the boats’, rode the wave of economic fun times, freed up business… Read More ›

• Between a rock and a hard place: Part 1

  By Fatima on April 17, 2013 • ( )

  

  It’s hard to get a grip on the Federal Government’s announcement last weekend that parts of university funding will be shaved to implement a Gonski review-based schools funding model. No one can sensibly disagree that the increase in funds per… Read More ›

• Cult of victimhood

  By Fatima on March 6, 2013 • ( )

  

  When I was very, very little and my sister was a baby, I would pinch her. I would pinch her so I could comfort her when she cried. I’m a far better (and less dysfunctional) sister now but something in… Read More ›

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