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Columns

• 3AW. No, I will not work for you for free.
• 4WDs. I don’t give a stuff about you and I vote…
• 50 Shades Of Mango
• A Christmas column. To say I love you.
• A Feminist Marriage? No Such Thing.
• A Husband Is Not a Financial Plan, But Hustling Is. Well it has been for me
• A visit back to my own church 20 years on…
• Akerman. If Piers is axed from Insiders should I be axed from Q&A?
• Alan Jones, Catherine Deveny. What’s the difference?
• All Australians Deserve Free Health Care
• All children need is to know they are loved
• Am I A Bogan?
• ANZAC Day 2016
• A Story About Archie
• Asylum Seekers. Advance Australia Unfair ABC The Drum
• At this time of year, we edit out the dysfunction in our lives. On Richard Billingham
• Atheist Buses in Australia
• Australian Bill of She’ll Be Rights, Mate
• Australian Citizenship Test
• Banned in Mildura by the Catholic Church. Who? Me.
• Bed Therapy Inez de Vega – an essay.
• Being a mother is not the most important job in the world
• Best Interview Tips EVER
• Bettina Arndt. Dear Uptight White Honkie
• Bettina Arndt. Where do I start?
• Bike riding and how it changed my life and saved me thousands
• Birthing. Don’t upset the doctors!
• Border Security. Wot Cuns.
• Caesareans. Women too often are conned into them.
• Campbell Newman gets cops to heavy Deveny over Twitter comments
• Canberra Rocks. Two words you will never hear.
• Catherine Deveny’s Gunnas Writing Masterclass – Frankie Darling
• Catholic Facebook. Log in for Jesus! You ain’t fooling me.
• Catholic World Youth Day. What a crock.
• Chadstone. No one gets out alive.
• Chartbusting 80s. The jewel in Channel 31s crown. Thanks to Queen Josie
• Mum’s Annual Christmas Eve Meltdown During Carols by Candlelight.
• Christmas Shopping tips from Dev. You’re welcome.
• Circumsision, CUT IT OUT!
• Corporate Exclusion. Or Why I Wish I Were A Man
• Corporate speak, weasel words and corporate maggots
• Culture jamming with my one year old 2004 election
• Cunt. It’s an intelligence test
• Cycling
• Cycling TV
• Dear ‘It’s A Personal Choice’ Dickheads
• Dear Total Rush Bikes,
• Debutante Ball
• ‘Defending Deveny’ by Chrys Stevenson on QandA with Peter Jenson
• Dennis Shanahan, Julian Assange, Qanda. Love triangle.
• Dentist mine and Dexter ours.
• Dog whistling. From the vault…
• Domestic Violence. Going the thump on misogynists response to Roxon.
• Drug policy based on science not ideology
• Dyslexia and why I couldn’t be a writer without it.
• Dyslexia as an election issue
• Easter. The 91 kilo chocolate Jesus the Catholics cracked it over.
• Easter. The Zombie Chocolate Jesus Festival.
• Environmental vandals. Meanwhile the rest of us have bucket bong back..
• Equal. Not.
• Erotic Fan Fiction Clementine Ford and Catherine Deveny by Canbebitter
• Eulogy For A Bad Father
• Euthanasia. Death with a happy ending
• Exposure? Shove it. Show Me The Money
• Fairfax may own The Age but it belongs to Melbourne
• Feminism in Twelve Easy Lessons
• Financial abortion: Should men be able to ‘opt out’ of parenthood?
• Footy Show. Bankrupt orgy of male chauvinism
• Freedom of speech. Unabridged speech from Intelligence Squared Debate 8 May 2012
• My piece From the book Dear Dad edited by Samuel Johnson
• Fuck off with the creepy braggy Christmas Cards
• Funderdome
• Gay Marriage
• Global Atheist Convention 2010
• God Has Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• God Is Bullshit: The Resurrection 2011 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
• Good Friday. Lapsed Catholics and childhood brainwashing
• Got a creative kid? Here’s my advice. Back the fuck off.
• Grand Prix. Some suburbs should have fences…
• Guardian. The stuff I write on eating….
• Guitar Lessons. I pay because it shames me into practicing…
• Half-hearted escape into the unbearable lightness of footy
• Hard rubbish is dumpster diving for grown ups. And I love it.
• Hey Hey It’s Saturday. The Director’s Cut.
• HIBISCUS published in Paper Sea Quarterly Issue #2
• Hilarious letter to Cardinal George Pell’s lawyers. Must read!!!!
• Homeless women. Wish in a car
• I Hate Halloween
• I Have Never Told My Children I Am Proud Of Them
• I just finished 50 Shades Of Grey And I Feel As If I Have Had An Abortion. A review…
• I love Tony Abbott. How could you not?
• I’m anti-feedback. And, no, I don’t give a fuck what you think.
• Insurance Is A Health Hazard
• International Women’s Day 2014. Do we still need IWD?
• International Womens’ Day – Hookers, doormats and corporate bitches
• International Womens’ Day – The Age
• International Womens’ Day – Vajazzling
• ISRAEL Upper Gallilee. Woman identified as ‘Mary’ claims her son Jesus Christ is The Son Of God™.
• Jill Meagher. I thought my information was inconsequential
• Julia Gillard PM. It’s a Girl!
• Julie Bishop Death Stare
• Just Keep Going. A tribute to everyday heroes.
• Kids Should Be Banned From Cafes. Don’t argue, I’m right.
• Leadbeater’s Possum. YOU. ME. CARPARK. NOW! From Melbourne Zoo Debate
• Leaked email from Total Rush Boss Simon Coffin
• Leave Kevin Rudd ALONE
• Life Hack. Tip For A Good Life? No Expectations
• Logies 2006
• Logies 2007
• Logies 2008
• Logies 2009
• Logies Twitter Ban
• London. A postcard from 2009.
• Love Party. An intro…
• Love Party. Wedding yes. Marriage no.  
• Marriage. What a crock.
• Mary MacKillop.
• Matty Johns Footy Legend
• Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2014, Dev’s Must See MICF 2014 Top Picks.
• Melbourne, Moomba, March. Three of my favorite things. Birdman Rally. Make that four.
• Melbourne Private Girl School Begs for Money for Equality Just for ‘our girls’ because feminism – Annie Moss
• Melbourne Writers’ Festival 2010
• Melbourne Writer’s Festival 25th Anniversary Portrait by Beowulf Sheehan
• Mental Health blow out. WTF? Mental health shamefully underfunded.
• Midsomer Murders. I see (uptight) white people. Welcome to Caucasia
• Miranda Devine. Why gay marriage activists need her more than rallies
• Monogamy. What a crock.
• Mothers Day Is Bullshit
• MTR 1377. Knob Radio
• My best advice on happiness.
• My response to a Catholic school asking me donate to their fete.
• My ten point response to offensorati trolls
• My thoughts after running my first Gunnas Weekend Writing Retreat
• Names. Women who marry and change. Children getting father’s
• Northland and Southland
• Not changing your name when you marry? Stop acting like a feminist hero.
• Office Christmas Party Tips
• On being ten years old, our love party and macrame owls.
• On Depression. And magnolias
• On hiking
• On Teenagers, ATAR Results And Young People
• Part Five. Last San Sebastian
• Part Four. San Sebastian
• Part One. Rome.
• Part Six. South Of Fucken France Biarritz
• Part Three. Last bit of Rome
• Part Two. More Rome.
• Pearls of wisdom
• Pell. Deveny. Defamation. Twitter. Q&A.
• Pigs In Suits
• Planetshakers Church. Awesomeness for Jesus!
• Pokies. What’s to lose if we get rid of them?
• Politicians Wives from Kevin O7 election
• Pregnant With Cancer
• Private school thugs. Nothing new.
• PRIVATE SCHOOL VALUES
• Private Schools. Anyone who supports them enables discrimination. End of.
• Private schools? Want em? Pay yourself. Every single cent.
• Private schools. We cannot work for you for free.
• Public Schooling saves family with three children one million dollars.
• Pushy Women. The festival of Town Bikes.
• Quakers
• Raising Emotionally Articulate Boys
• Reduce greed.
• Religion costs Australia $30 billion a year.
• Republic of Australia
• Ricky Gervais’ hosting the 68th Golden Globe Awards
• Road Trip Hume Highway
• Robert Doyle. Melbourne Lord Mayor. All ambition. No talent.
• Save Money, Don’t Marry
• School. Clipboard holding school shoppers. GET A LIFE!
• Sex Party versus Family First on The Drum
• Shoot First with Chris Beck
• Should Kids Get Pocket Money?
• Showing the kids a good time
• Shrine Of Disappointment
• Slutwalk
• Smack kids harder and in public
• Sorry. I’m just not sorry. For anything.
• Spending The Day With Six Year Old Me
• Supersize your soul
• Teenage girls should be encouraged to say fuck, learn how to fuck themselves and achieve Fuck Off Status.
• Teenage sikh’s beautiful story of losing the turban and cutting his hair…
• Ten Reasons You Should Get An Electric Bike 
• Ten Things No One Ever Tells You About Writing
• 20 things I tell myself when I write
• The ‘all porn all bad for all people all the time’ argument is crap.
• The ANZAC Spirit. Top 100 Hate Comments
• The day my dear little Charlie started school, February 2, 2009
• The letter I left on the windscreen of the 4WD parked in our street
• Love Party Day. No God. No Government. No Marriage. Just Love.
• The Narcissism Of Motherhood
• The Rainbow Houses
• The Stupidest Study Ever
• TIPS FOR PARENTS OF YEAR 12s
• Tips From A Barely Adequate Mother
• Today is my youngest son’s last day at primary school.
• Tony Abbott. Our Father Who Art In Speedos
• Tracy Grirmshaw vs. Matty Johns
• Trolls. Don’t fertilize hate. Give no oxygen to trolls.
• Twitter. So not about it. Thank-you
• Twitter. Why I Did What I Did
• Two And A Half Men. It’s No Joke.
• Two and a Half men will kill your brain
• Unhappy? Because we are not spending? Bullshit.
• Vajazzling
• What exactly is a housewife Tony Abbott? Please explain.
• When life gives you melons, you’re dyslexic…
• When you don’t know what to do, do anything.
• Why are some people so touchy about the name changing thing?
• Why aren’t men changing their name after marriage?
• Why do most children still end up with their father’s surname?
• Why do most women change their surnames when they get married?
• Why Do We Pay Our Cleaners More Than Our Childcare Educators?
• Why I haven’t commented on Adam Goodes
• Why I love Melbourne and Melbourne Comedy Festival. Top 20 must see shows.
• Why I love running Gunnas
• Why I ride a bike
• Why I’ll be watching the Grand Final this year.
• Why I’m Against Step-Parenting
• Windfarms and why they hate them.
• Worry warts, tightarses and control freaks
• Writing tips. Procrastination.
• You Know You’re A Brunswick Mum If…
• You Know You’re Catholic If…
• You Know You’re From Melbourne If….

 

Books

• Destroying The Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World
• Free to A Good Home
• It’s Not My Fault They Print Them


• Mental!
• Mothermorphosis: Australian storytellers write about becoming a mother
• Say When
• Stamping Ground: Stories of the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne
• Stories From Peter Mac
• The Happiness Show
• True North: A Memoir
• Use Your Words!

 

Media

• A Look Around Catherine Deveny’s Home From Habitat Projects
• An Audience With Catherine Deveny
• Arts Hub profile for Sydney Writer’s Festival 2012
• Assume the position A2
• Body and Soul, with Elouise King
• Catherine Deveny. In The Eyes Of The Beholder.
• Catherine Deveny Melbourne Icon
• Catherine Deveny takes new swipe at ‘jealous’ Age
• Deveny Skeptics Trumps Card
• Go Back To Where You Came From La Trobe Uni Alumni Profile
• I’m 80 kilos, size 16 and love my body.
• Inpress Cover Story. Catherine Deveny. Ageless and Godless.
• Interview With Catherine Deveny
• Interview with Lip Magazine about The Feminist Supremacy
• Interview With The Pluck’s Caitlin Crowley on Happiness
• Love Her Or Loathe Her
• Pushy Women April 2015 part of Melbourne Comedy Festival
• Pushy Women South in Port Phillip Leader
• Ten Questions for Catherine Deveny
• The Age Gets It’s Tweets In A Tangle
• The Age Of Catherine Deveny Is Not Over
• The Weekly Cycle. Deveny on bikes
• Thelma Magazine interview on Wish In A Car
• Time Out. From the Horse’s Mouth: Catherine Deveny
• Time out. Spend 60 seconds with Melburnian comedian and writer Catherine Deveny
• What I Know. From Madison Magazine

 

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