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A Summer of Hope: Harriet’s story
After two long years of the global COVID-19 pandemic, so many of us find ourselves tired and lacking energy for even basic tasks. Facing a new year does not fill us with the joy of possibility as it...
Lismore floods: ‘We escaped with our lives’
After her Lismore flat was flooded in February, independent disability carer Lauren De Groot is living in a borrowed caravan with her young daughter, Freya. Her losses are mounting up. Just last...
A Summer of Hope: Elizabeth’s story
After two long years of the global COVID-19 pandemic, so many of us find ourselves tired and lacking energy for even basic tasks. Facing a new year does not fill us with the joy of possibility as it...
A Summer of Hope: Amani’s story
After two long years of the global COVID-19 pandemic, so many of us find ourselves tired and lacking energy for even basic tasks. Facing a new year does not fill us with the joy of possibility as it...
The childhood trauma that devastated my friend, Kate
This is an edited extract from Jo Dyer’s Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics, released this month as part of Monash University Publishing’s In the National Interest series. In...
Dad’s diary: nursing three kids through Covid
Here at the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, one of our key pillars when it comes to gender equality is "share the load." In this personal diary, veteran journalist and dad Mark Tamhane describes the nitty...
A Summer of Hope: Margo’s story
After two long years of the global COVID-19 pandemic, so many of us find ourselves tired and lacking energy for even basic tasks. Facing a new year does not fill us with the joy of possibility as it...
No women involved? You can count me out.
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted earlier this year. My great Auntie Rita grew up in an Australia where being...