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Susie O’Brien is a columnist and journalist at the Herald Sun, writing on family, social, political and lifestyle issues. She also writes about parenting, or “sharenting” as it’s now known thanks to Facebook. Susie often writes about her three kids, but this is getting harder as they now regularly Google their names to check up on her. Susie is an experienced media performer who appears on Sunrise every Friday where her main audience is women on treadmills watching with the sound turned down. Over the years she’s been on The Project, The Circle, Mornings, Today, Weekend Today and Sky News and every other news show. She has a PhD in Education, but please don’t hold this against her.

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CORONAVIRUS: Picture: istock Worried person with virus protection surgical face mask and gloves holding her head in panic staying at home by the window

Why lockdown iso-lingo is thriving in pando

There’s nothing like a global pandemic to shake things up and produce some new words to confuse and confound us all, writes Susie O’Brien.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 27: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews speaks to the media on April 27, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Victoria's COVID-19 death toll rose to 17 following the death of a man in his 90s over the weekend, with just 67 active coronavirus cases in Victoria and 1265 people having recovered. Tough restrictions on movement and gatherings implemented to reduce the spread of COVID-19 remain in place despite a steady decline in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Australia. All non-essential businesses remain closed or are restricted in operation, while public gatherings are limited to two people and social distancing measures require people to keep a safe 1.5m distance from one another. New South Wales and Victoria have enacted additional lockdown measures permitting police to fine people who breach the two-person outdoor gathering limit or leave their homes without a reasonable excuse. Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory have all closed their borders to non-essential travellers and international arrivals into Australia are being sent to mandatory quarantine in hotels for 14 days. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Victorians’ back-to-work plans shelved at last minute

Victorians who have been working from home will be banned from returning to work — with employers facing potentially hefty fines for skirting the rules. It comes as a school in Melbourne’s northwest remains closed after a student tested positive for coronavirus.

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during the National Junior Classic Basketball played at Dandenong on Saturday 8th June, 2019.Ryan Baker of Dandenong in the Under 14 Boys versus North Adelaide

Stop the absurd rules and let the kids get back to sports

Now that kids can go to school, the resumption of organised junior sport should be a priority. But it seems sporting bodies would rather treat parents as idiots and bog them down with unnecessary and unachievable goals, writes Susie O’Brien.

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Twins Macy and Arlo, 5, playing with brightly coloured fruit and veg - the researchers ask kids to make a picture or face on a paper plate with the foods.Kids who did this were more likely to want to eat it than others who did a game with non-food items.Esp good for kids who are picky, sensitive and anxious as it allows them to slowly get used to textures of food. Picture: Tim Carrafa

Playing with food linked to healthy habits

Playing with food could have an unexpected benefit, a new study has found, raising hopes of increasing fresh food consumption in young kids.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 19: A Australia post worker delivers mail to Cedar Meats on May 19, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Staff at the Cedar Meats in the Melbourne suburb of Brooklyn have started to return to work from Monday 18 May, as the meat works resumes operation of its cold storage facility. The abattoir was at the centre of a coronavirus (COVID-19) cluster outbreak with 100 cases linked to the site. All 350 onsite staff at Cedar Meats were tested for COVID-19, after one of the abattoir workers tested positive to the virus on April 27. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

New COVID-19 death as Victorian virus cases jump

A Victorian man has died of coronavirus as the state’s cases jump once again. But in a promising development, no new cases have been linked to the outbreak that ripped through a Melbourne meatworks.

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Online shopping world still a mystifying place

Online shopping world still a mystifying place

Online shopping during lockdown may be fewer winery escapes and horseriding tours and more wearable blankets and tequila, but the pitfalls of ordering online are the same as ever, writes Susie O’Brien.

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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg arrives for Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, May 14, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

JobKeeper needs reset to fix expensive flaws

Taxpayers need to get the most out of the JobKeeper and it’s legacy must not be to endlessly prop up businesses that are no longer viable, writes Susie O’Brien

Kidsafe story about gym equipment accidents at home involving kids. Mum Jenny Newton with gym equipment and her three children from left : Jack, 9, Ava, 6 and Leo, 4, who can't play on the equipment.Picture : Nicki Connolly

Ominous warning to parents with home gyms

A shocking number of Victorian children are being admitted to hospital each year thanks to home fitness equipment injuries, now experts fear even more kids could be at risk following the closure of gyms. Here’s how you can keep your child safe.

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Young smiling woman groceries shopping in local supermarket. She is standing, holding box and reading nutrition facts.

Shock discovery on supermarkets’ junk food tactics

A damming study into how supermarkets promote and sell unhealthy food has revealed just how prevalent junk food, lollies and soft drinks are when we go shopping.

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TOPSHOT - A woman wearing a face mask, as a preventive measure against the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, walks in the streets of Bogota on May 14, 2020. - Latin America and the Caribbean exceeded 400,000 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus on Thursday, which has already killed 244,405 people in the region, according to an AFP balance with official data. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP)

Why the new normal after lockdown isn’t half bad

As we emerge from under our doonas after months of COVID-19 isolation, we’ll find the world as we knew it has changed in many ways — and they’re not all bad, writes Susie O’Brien.

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