Claire Heaney
Claire Heaney is a freelance journalist and communications consultant.
Opinion
Recycling
When kids get $20 from the tooth fairy, 10¢ to ‘cash a can’ in Victoria isn’t cutting it
Cash for cans is back, and I’m hooked. But my reverse vending machine keeps throwing a wobbly. Could the scheme be too successful?
- by Claire Heaney
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Marriage
I’m with Prince William – you don’t need to put a ring on it
Carats don’t always lead to marriages that stick, so why bother with a wedding band? The course of true love surely runs no smoother with bling wrapped around your fourth finger.
- by Claire Heaney
Opinion
Wellness
Just keep chugging: this water bottle fixation is a generation’s security blanket
Are there risks from this obsessive water-carting beyond constant trips to the loo? Just ask Novak Djokovic, who recently copped one in the head.
- by Claire Heaney
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Family
I know which footy team my family supports. Not all of them have realised it yet
When your firstborn taunts you with pictures of them wearing another team’s colours it’s enough to make you question your parenting skills.
- by Claire Heaney
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Life in the ’burbs
Families once fled my ‘struggletown’ suburb. Then the gentrifiers arrived
I once disembarked the tram at Bridge Road to wafts of Cussons Imperial Leather soap from the factory. But times have well and truly changed.
- by Claire Heaney
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