Many mothers with kids sitting exams describe the experience as a 'rollercoaster'. There are extreme highs when goals are met and study completed, terrible lows when confidence is dipped or the child is overwhelmed, and everything in between. Sometimes the shift in...
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Cost of living – what’s your story?
The cost of living crisis is one of the biggest stories around and everyone - the media, government, community organisations, mums at school drop off - is talking about it. Life has become so expensive that many of us are now struggling to meet the basics of life like...
Child-on-child sex abuse: why it is happening and how to recognise the signs
Content warning: this article contains discussion of child sexual abuse. The number of reports of child-on-child sexual abuse - that is, abuse perpetrated on a child by another child - has now overtaken the number of reports of adult-child sexual abuse, according to a...
10 year olds are not adults – so why are we trying them as though they are?
Australia is a vast land, and sometimes it's easy to look at what's happening elsewhere in the country and wonder if it has anything at all to do with us. Sometimes it doesn't - but sometimes what happens in another state or territory can serve as a warning that it...




