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Halloween isn’t something many of us grew up with. In fact, in Australia, people can very firmly hate it. Door slamming in your face kind of hate. People can get very patriotic. “We’re not American.” Very educated. “People don’t understand the meaning.” Very … responsible. Okay, fair enough. Halloween really can look like the ultimate […]

Handwashing – the true hero in saving lives! Ever had your face taken by your child’s little hands and had them say, “I love you”? Only to miss the joy of the moment because the warm, sticky, grit pressing into your face was distracting you, and you, instead, were using every atom of strength not […]

What Is NAIDOC? We all have our roots and we all have our story. I have a convict ancestor and that’s how I, eventually, came to be here — on what was once exclusively Aboriginal land. What’s interesting is that our Indigenous story (that many other cultures find fascinating) I was never formally taught. It […]

Mother’s Day, I think of my dad driving us to my nannas, stopping on the way for wilted road-side flowers. At the time, this seemed legit. Nice. Traditional. In retrospect, I wonder what my mum was feeling that we weren’t with her on Mother’s Day and why my nanna didn’t throw them back at my […]

Lego towers are something my kids love to make and un-make. I’ve never looked at them as anything else, until recently. I’ve learnt some things about Australia’s history that have unnerved me; moved me and hurt me. I started looking at our history as a multicoloured tower, layers representing our history. Oddly, it’s a history […]