- Kids Should Be Banned From Cafes. Don’t argue, I’m right. Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
What’s with the babychino?
Why do children have to pretend to drink coffee?
If it’s an attempt to convince yourself others view your kids as cultured, continental and worldly, here’s a flash for you. If these kids were actually in Europe (and not at some shopping centre food court where the bain marie food is marked ‘gourmet’) not ...
Read more - A Husband Is Not a Financial Plan, But Hustling Is. Well it has been for me Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
I’m a 45-year-old freelancer who’s never married, never had a full time job and never received a cent from my parents. I separated from the father of my three sons three years ago and now have a manageable mortgage on what was our five-bedroom home seven kilometres from Melbourne’s CBD. There is one name on the ...
Read more - What exactly is a housewife Tony Abbott? Please explain. Thursday, August 29th, 2013
What exactly is a housewife Tony? If a woman does a small amount of paid work outside the house is she still a housewife? Or is she a working woman?
What if it’s volunteer work?
What if she’s doing the books for her husband’s business but not being paid? Is she still a housewife? Or is that ...
Read more - Reduce greed. Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
REDUCE greed. There’s your answer. Thank you and good night.
Nothing new, nothing fancy, nothing even slightly original. Here’s a tip to increase your happiness. Just stop trying to fill that gaping hole inside yourself with more stuff. Or shelving for the stuff. Or a bigger house for the shelving. It doesn’t work. It just makes ...
Read more - Akerman. If Piers is axed from Insiders should I be axed from Q&A? Monday, June 17th, 2013
I only know three things about Piers Akerman. He’s a right wing hack for one of Murdoch’s mouthpieces. Yesterday he went on Insiders and surprised no one by repeating rumors questioning the sexuality of Prime Minister Gillard’s partner, covering it clumsily with a dog whistle along the lines of ‘Who cares in this day and ...
Read more - Equal. Not. Thursday, June 13th, 2013
I was approached by Equal to promote their product for free. Their parent company, Merisant’s revenue totaled $232 million in 2012. My response…
From: Anne
Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2013 8:30 PM
To: Catherine
Subject: Invitation for Catherine, to debate the choices Australian women make
Catherine,
We would like to invite you to join a community of influential Australian Women who will participate in a debate ...
Read more - Guardian. The stuff I write on eating…. Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Find it all HERE!
Read more - Why Do We Pay Our Cleaners More Than Our Childcare Educators? Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Are you okay with the fact that we pay our cleaners more than our childcare educators?
I’m not. And I haven’t been for a long, long time.
Particularly considering the epidemic in helicopter parenting, clipboard holding school shoppers, attachment parenting, after-school cramming classes, co-sleeping, ‘mummy blogs’ and general obsession with providing children with some imaginary perfect life.
The notion ...
Read more - Why I love Melbourne and Melbourne Comedy Festival. Top 20 must see shows. Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
I am proudly un-Australian. The whole sport, barbie, tanned, blonde and beachy business was never really me. For a while I identified more with my Irish heritage. It seemed a better fit: loud-mouthed, wide hipped, total disrespect for authority, love a good yarn and a plate of spuds. All with bad teeth.
But these days, I ...
Read more - London. A postcard from 2009. Thursday, November 15th, 2012
THE first thing I saw as I got off the plane in London was a sign that read, “Do you want to complain?” It was like landing in Germany to “Do you want to engineer something with precision?”, the US to “Do you want to be annoyingly cheerful and tell me to ‘Have a nice ...
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I was approached by Equal to promote their product for free. Their parent company, Merisant’s revenue totaled $232 million in 2012. My response… From: Anne Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2013 8:30 PM To: Catherine Subject: Invitation for Catherine, to debate the choices Australian women make Catherine, We would like to invite you to join a community of influential Australian Women who will participate in a debate ...