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Working mums: Can a family cope?

Recent research has found that everyone’s a winner when mum holds down a job says Kym Macfarlane ...more...


Last edition The parent trap: Which form of fad parenting is best?
   Going on results, the Australian way of bringing up kids beats many others says Cassandra Wilkinson, who compares popular parenting fads ...more...

W/c 6 February
Managing gay men: Diversity in the workplace
   Greater openness and diversity in the PS workplace presents managers with new challenges says Blair McPherson who wonders if the rules change as the managers do ...more...

W/c 30 January
Degree of difficulty: Do we really need so many graduates?
   On the job training has been lost to demands for university degrees says Brian Holden but that hasn’t made workers any smarter ...more...

W/c 23 January
Environmental elephants with nowhere to hide
   Knowing how to save the planet isn’t helping says Greg Donoghue who can see some environmental elephants in the room ...more...

W/c 16 January
The future of heritage: Are we turning our back on The Outback?
   Closure of the Birdsville Working Museum has prompted Kelly Theobald to wonder if our history has a future ...more...

W/c 12 December
Marital bliss: Why not just repeal the Marriage Act?
   With so much controversy over who wants to be married and who doesn’t Enrico Brik thinks he has the solution ...more...

W/c 5 December
Mining the Antarctic: What’s holding us back?
   Very few people would like to see the Antarctic mined for its wealth of minerals but according to Roger Chao, there is no reason in the whole wide world why not ...more...

W/c 28 November
The ugly side of beauty: What are we doing to our girls?
   Beauty pageants and ‘sexy’ clothes are de rigueur for today’s under-10 set says Eugen Bacon who’d rather see them playing in dirt like their brothers ...more...

W/c 21 November
Sins of the father: Heavier dads mean overweight kids
   The explosion in numbers of obese children is due to fat dads says Richard Fletcher who remembers a program that led by example ...more...
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