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Dec 1, 2021 03:46pm

By Anna Cusack

5 min read

I 100 per cent get how tired you are right now

“Oh, the sleep deprivation. I 100 per cent get how tired you are right now.”

So says the bearded tradie I’ve never met before, who is currently in my kitchen attempting to fix our under-sink plumbing.

It’s just after 8am and I am on the couch nearby in my pyjamas, bleary-eyed, feeding my squirming toddler.

We’ve been up together since 4am, except for the not-sure-if-it-was-worth-it nap I wrangled between 7.15am when hubby got up to get ready for work and 8am when…

Is It Time For A Royal Commission Into Birth?

Today Western Sydney University Professor of Midwifery Hannah Dahlen posed two questions of her social media audience in response to 2021 update of the “Australia’s Mothers and Babies” report, released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare last week.

The first question, “what the hell are we doing?”, comes on the back of the following 2019 statistics from the publication last week.

As of 2019, Australia’s caesarean birth rate is now 36% (and 37% for first time mothers and birth par…

I’m not anti-men, I’m anti patriarchy.

I’m not anti-men, I’m anti patriarchy.

I’m not anti-white, I’m anti-racism.

I’m not anti-life, I’m anti rich, white men exercising control over women and womb-having bodies then restricting their access to welfare, secure employment and affordable childcare; committing them and their offspring to a lifetime of poverty; creating fodder for the foster care and prison systems they profit from; all regardless of the person’s consent (or ability to consent), age, welfare, contraceptio…

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I 100 per cent get how tired you are right now

Is It Time For A Royal Commission Into Birth?

I’m not anti-men, I’m anti patriarchy.

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