One of us

April is a significant month in many ways.  While Christians around the world celebrated the resurrection of Jesus, the son of God, on Easter Sunday and honored his sacrifices, the month is also marked by other significant reminders of human sacrifice.  Notably, Anzac...

Are you brave enough?

“Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity…If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior…If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women…” – Mahatma Gandhi “Achieving gender equality and...

Start as we mean to go on

As we commence the Lunar New Year I’d like to wish all my friends, colleagues and like-minded souls a joyful, peaceful, successful and prosperous New Year. As this will be the year of the pig, which was the year I was born (1971), I am particularly excited to see what...

A time to reflect

I was incredibly fortunate to be gifted tickets for my birthday from my parents to see Malala Yusafzai in Melbourne this week.  I have followed the story of this amazing young woman, read her book and watched her documentary.  In person she was every bit as inspiring,...

Are you kidding me?

Last week I took my new car in for its first service. Obtaining the service was one of those pedestrian jobs that I had been putting off. And, although my ex-husband had obtained a quote to have the car serviced some months earlier, I had forgotten about the price...