What's it like to realise you're autistic? And how do you start to ask the world around you to accept that? Sandra Thom-Jones explores theses questions in her new book 'Growing in to Autism' -...
Category: Long Read
The imperceptible line between life and death
Content notification: This essay discusses grief and medical trauma. When my colleague died walking to work one morning, I passed an unexpected, though probably not universal, sympathy around:...
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...