Category: Australia
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Seventies feminism in Australia
THE SECOND WAVE OF FEMINISM: THE SEVENTIES: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… The 1970s were a time of great change in Australia. This post is based on my memories of that time, and the beginning of the Women’s Movement in Sydney, Australia. By 1972, the fledgling beginnings of…
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Hurrah Helen Garner!
Congratulations to Helen Garner Helen Garner, one of my favourite Australian writers, deserves this hurrah. She writes across genres, and has recently won the prestigious Windham-Campbell prize for non-fiction. When she received an email asking for her telephone number from someone at Yale University, she thought it was a case of spam. This brings great…
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Babies are awesome … otherwise … we’d think again …
Is there an optimal time for a woman to give birth? Is it once you have an amazing job — when money is no longer a problem? Or maybe not until you have achieved your long-term career goal? Perhaps it should be as soon as an optimal partner is on the horizon? Or after sowing…
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Black Swans Surfing
“Only in Australia” Thanks to Brian Moore for alerting me to the video clip below: Four black swans seen riding waves at Kirra Beach on the Gold Coast (Queensland) in Australia. #Only in Australia This post shows two photos I took at Kirra Beach last summer. (Not the video clip, which may have been taken…
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Ocean Baths and Swimming Pools
I love the part in the “Life of Pi” movie where the hero explains how he came to be called ‘Pi” from the French word for swimming pool (piscine). Swimming pools have always been an obsession with me too: from the rough ones built into the Clarence River bank at South Grafton when I was…
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Sculptures by the Sea 2012
Every year at the end of spring, there’s a council sponsored exhibition of sculptures by local artists, displayed along our beach front walk between Bondi and Tamarama Beaches. In 2012 I went on a week day to avoid the huge crowds that follow the routes on the weekend. Some of the best works this year…