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A MOMENT’S SILENCE ON SUICIDE. PLEASE.
I was saddened to hear of the death of Mick Jagger’s partner L’Wren Scott. I’ve always loved the swagger and brio of Mick Jagger. Grown up with him. Danced like there was no tomorrow to the Rolling...
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CELEBRITY MUMMY BLOGGER SAYS “SORRY”
“[What I find frustrating is]… when some celebrity mummy blogger types seem so convinced of there [sic] own superiority and authority when commenting about some very complex political and financial...
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SAUCE IN A JAR … OH, THE CONVENIENCE!
For some years I went out with a bloke who had endured a very difficult culinary upbringing. For almost two decades his mother cooked the very same thing on the very same night. As I recall, the menu...
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HEY, OVER 45 YEAR-OLDS: GROW UP!
It’s about time we middle-aged women grew up. Not only have we been treated to the absurd spectacle of Kylie Minogue, 45, humping a blow up plastic balance ball in the gym in her new music clip...
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ARISE, SIR LAUGHALOT
On the eve of the Melbourne Comedy Festival when Aussie satirists and jokers are scratching for topical material, looks like they hit the motherlode with the announcement that we are, once more, to...
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JENNY CRAIG, YOU’RE EXPELLED
UPDATE: Jenny Craig has hit the headlines again over the payment of stars – including Magda Szubanski and Mel B – to lose weight. Wendy Harmer wrote this last year on her feelings of being “stalked” by...
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$5 AN HOUR FOR A NANNY? REALLY?
When I was working on breakfast radio and our two children were babies, it took three of us to wrangle our lives – me, my husband and our nanny. In a highly-paid job that saw me leaving the house at 4...
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DOES THIS LABEL MAKE ME LOOK UNETHICAL?
This month marks the first anniversary of the collapse of the eight-storey Ranza Plaza factory in Bangladesh that killed 1,129 garment workers. In the aftermath of that tragedy, more than 130 companies...
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HERE LIES MUM. SUCH RADIANT SKIN!
“Oh Mum, your skin is so…soft.” It was a healing balm from my teenage daughter who doesn’t notice the sags, bags and wrinkles…the ones all too obvious to me in my magnified mirror. She rubbed her cheek...
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HOW IS IT BEARABLE?
In 2o12 Peaches Geldof expressed astonishment that her first child was due to be born on the date of her mother Paula Yate’s drug overdose twelve years earlier. “It was amazing for me when they told me...
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