“I’d walk to the train station and think about throwing us in front of the train, but I’d end up just giving him to a stranger saying, ‘take my baby’.” This story contains confronting themes.
“I never pictured myself being in this situation, ever. But here I am, just scraping by,” Emma said.
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Her ‘petty act’ cost the girls’ their friendship.
“I was gaslit to the point where I didn’t know whether it was in my head.”
This dad makes an unusual request to the airport crew leaving them speechless.
The doctor has accepted that more should have been done to help Pippa, who tragically died from sepsis after being taken to the Orange Base Hospital.
“We discussed this beforehand; we discussed this a few times. My rules were always made clear before a trip was ever planned,” frustrated Julia said.
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“I feel like it makes me a bad friend, telling her she shouldn’t name him that,” the mum says. Is she right to be annoyed?
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“I already know it’s not going to end well…”
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“We don’t teach our children anything. They learn in response to their interests or questions.”
The happy couple has shared their happy news in an emotional video and good luck getting through the whole thing without crying.
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“I’m 34 weeks pregnant, where am I wearing these?”
“Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.”
“There’s not a single parent or teacher out there who is not concerned about this issue.”
“Your whole face can change… and you have to try to explain to your two year old why this is happening.”
Mia* has almost lost her life multiple times and been left with life changing injuries at the hands of men who were meant to love her – the fathers of her children. Here she tells her story.
“We ask ourselves how what started as a sore throat, snotty nose and a cough on Tuesday to no longer with us three days later.”
“If she was in your situation and you called her that, she would go ballistic on you.”
Primary students are being told to put their “hands on the ground” and say “always will be Aboriginal land” during the Acknowledgement of Country.
“It sat on her bed before we laid her to rest and it means so much,” the heartbroken mum said, asking for members of the Gold Coast community to come forward with information.
“Since we split up he sabotages me at every turn,” the frustrated mum says.
“I thought they were right… I had my baby, it was exactly what I wanted, so why couldn’t I feel happy?” the devastated mum revealed.
We feel like every parent can relate to this.
We can’t blame her, even we’d struggle singing that fast.
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“I would switch with you, but they refuse to sit next to me!” says the dad as he watches his movie in peace.
“It’s so weird to see it…isn’t there an age where they shouldn’t have to do this?”
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“When I told my parents, they dismissed it with a ‘That’s nice’. I’m starting to think they downright didn’t listen to me at all.”
“They said they didn’t know 100 per cent what it was, but they referred me to the foetal medicine department.”
This girl was alert and acted quickly to evade contact with a stranger
“I think I know the reason – they’re all something we’re not.”
“I was scared I was going to die. It felt like someone had poured fire in your stomach.”
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“If I received this theme I’d be checking with the other girls, making sure I wasn’t being set up.”
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