Motherhood
‘You’ll bankrupt the business’: Pregnant workers made redundant
Workers’ legal centres have recorded a rise in discrimination complaints by pregnant and parent workers as those carers are targeted in the cost of living crunch.
- by Amber Schultz
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Sunday Life
The May 12 Edition
Indy Clinton is a social media star and mother of three. In our cover story, she talks about filter-free parenting, ignoring the trolls and embracing the chaos.
Opinion
Opinion
I love my mum, but I try to be the mother she wasn’t
I did not recognise my mum from the maternal stereotypes I saw in laundry detergent and chicken dinner commercials.
- by Cheng Lei
Just because she’s gone, doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate our mother today
When we were faced with our first Mother’s Day without Mom’s physical presence, we started a new tradition: my dad, brothers and I went to the cemetery to visit her.
- by Keri Kitay
She’s never had a job interview or a CV, but Indy Clinton’s career is soaring
She was already “Instagram famous” by age 16, but it was becoming a mother almost four years ago that propelled the social media creator to star status.
- by Genevieve Quigley
She dusted off her boots to beat depression. Now this scrum mum is about to play for Australia
Wallaroos debutant Sally Fuesaina, 32, may need ice packs in bed instead of breakfast on Mother’s Day this Sunday.
- by Iain Payten
Thanks for booze boot camp Mum, you always knew how to be prepared
Miss Australia, indecent proposals and chocolate eclairs for tradies - my mum taught me more about parenting, and life, than any book.
- by Kate Halfpenny
Opinion
Mother's Day
By cancelling Mother’s Day, this school is so inclusive it excludes mums
Hunter Valley Grammar School has cancelled its Mother’s Day gift stall for children in K-6 and replaced it with a “Family Gift Stall”.
- by Brad Emery
Opinion
Sunday Life
Mums, learn to put yourself first for once in your life
“Motherhood is as easy as climbing Everest in high heels and hotpants, carrying a disco ball.”
- by Kathy Lette
Lowanna Grant stayed living with mum Karla into her 30s. Here’s why
The journalists work together, watch TV together – then there’s the tattoos ...
- by Fenella Souter
Perspective
Mother's Day
I love Mother’s Day, but it also makes sense to be able to opt out
Anyone else getting spammed with Mother’s Day emails for weeks? Aussies are going to spend almost $1 billion on gifts this year, but a recent trend is also allowing people to opt out.
- by Felicity Caldwell