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Holding the baby
Where I live, what I earn and my level of education: these will all influence not only my decision to have a baby but the experiences that baby will then have. These four factors – education, geography, wealth and birth rate – loop around one another in infinite iterations. People in regional and remote Australia have more children younger; they also have lower levels of educational attainment.
The reading revolution
WHEN BOB FITZGERALD, Chief Inspector of Blacktown Police Area Command, was in Year 4, he stole a book from...
Compulsory wellbeing
SUCH GREAT PAY and all those holidays. Plus you only work from nine ’til three…is often the response a...
By design
I WAS TREMBLING. Not because I was about to do something risky or scary – quite the opposite. This...
Footpath rage during lockdown #6
The bicycles have me huddling Mum into the garden to avoid their maskless legitimacy. Keep the rules the man...
The colonial storytelling of good intent
There was once a time when all spoke the same language, no matter the skin, and so there was...
Follow the leader
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES ARE unsettled. There is no doubt they are facing significant and real challenges. Many of their buildings have...
Real fobs
Listen to Winnie Dunn read her short story ‘Real fobs’. ONLY BOGANS AND dumb ethnics go to Western Sydney University. Real fobs won’t...
‘I will not be doing it again’
I’VE BEEN TEACHING at Australian universities for twenty-five years now. I began when I was twenty-seven – I’m now...
University material
JEFFREY AND MY mother were together for three years. I lived with them for their final year, when I...
Climbing the opportunity ladder
IN THE LATE summer of 1912–13 a new public high school was established in Parramatta, on the western outskirts...
The Whitlam legacy
In this first of a series of intergenerational exchanges and reflections on the links to and legacies of the...
