Why you shouldn’t miss Oslo’s most masochistic pastime
Long before Wim Hof touted the benefits of ice baths, these people knew subjecting your body to temperature extremes felt good – once you got over the buttock-clenching shock.
- by Julie Lewis
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Behind the locked doors of a DV safe room wasn’t my life, until suddenly it was
I spent a morning surrounded by women whose once-normal lives had been turned into nightmares by their partners.
- by Julie Lewis
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A painful silence: The family secret my grandparents took to their graves
I keenly feel the loss of the stories I will never know about my grandfather’s life, people and heritage.
- by Julie Lewis
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Our daughter’s home detention is over - may our joy go viral
There may have been some tears, but we realise we were privileged in many ways when it came to fighting COVID.
- by Julie Lewis
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Our Christmas in iso after daughter’s positive test confirmed the worst
A positive rapid antigen test on Christmas Eve is an unwanted early present.
- by Julie Lewis
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We must hear women roar, on every issue worthy of public discussion
As a nation, we need a surge of women’s voices, yet in our opinion submissions inbox women are often missing in action.
- by Julie Lewis
From the Archives, 1991: More protests likely over industrial bill
Thousands of workers gathered in Sydney to protest against the Greiner Government's new industrial legislation, which, among other things, aimed to abolish closed shops and compulsory unionism.
- by Julie Lewis
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Learning to swim your own race a victory in itself
I was destined to spend a large slice of my childhood summers at the public pool. My grandmother, Rita Smith, was a champion swimmer in Queensland in the early 1930s, her exploits the stuff of family lore, and it was a special treat when we grandchildren visited her house if she let us look through a sheaf of newspaper clippings the colour of tea stains that took us back to her triumphs.
- by Julie Lewis
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