Painful truth about how we over-medicate our children
Our unhealthy reliance on pain medication paracetamol may be harming our young ones more than we know.
Virginia Tapscott
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Yacht envy, and the insidious curse of relative deprivation
Trying to keep up with the Joneses is a path to dissatisfaction, depression, despair … and worse.
Women’s work should be whatever we want it to be
Arbitrary division of labour with disregard to biology or desire won’t achieve gender equality.
Environmental beef with costs of cultivated meat
If the time and money plunged into million-dollar beef patties had been directed to renewable energy and recycling solutions, who knows what could have been achieved.
Family fights and the festive season: how to argue well
Keeping the peace at all costs is not how we learn and grow. Expecting others to uncritically accept our projections is juvenile.
Kids will pay the price in push for universal childcare
Advocates fail to acknowledge the evidence that daycare can harm young children’s development.
Dismantling the male monster myth
As a child sex abuse survivor, I hope one day all men are brave enough to identify behaviours or thoughts that are red flags – and access support to change before they offend.
Stay-at-home mums are not a drain on the economy
I’m not an ‘untapped resource’ reclining on a lounge. I work full-time caring for my children.
Farmers look down the barrel of another big dry
Drought may be part of life on the land but it’s no less heartbreaking when it happens.
Take profit motive out of childcare, for our kids’ sake
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s interim report into childcare sends a clear message to the government – it’s time to face the music on for-profit childcare.
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