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• Are we all still here?

  By Anna on 2020-04-06 • ( 6 )

  

  *Waving from an appropriate distance* Hi everyone! How are you? How is everyone you know, and those you care about most? Since Mary posted at the end of February about the effects on mothers of the string of closures we… Read More ›

• Lengthy closures of schools and childcare centres will end mothers’ careers

  By Mary on 2020-02-29

  

  The second-order effects of massively disrupting the global and local movement of people are coming for us all, but they’re coming for mothers pretty early on.

• Australia Burns: Bells Line of Road, 28 December 2019

  By Mary on 2020-01-02 • ( 1 )

  

  Emergency and donation info, plus photos of the Bells Line of Road on December 28, now two fire emergencies ago.

• Otterday and Open Thread

  By tigtog on 2019-10-19 • ( 2 )

  

  I have awoken with the urge to blog for the first time in many moons and offer you this otter doing a backflip at Capron Park Zoo in Massachusetts.

• Elections #AusPol 2019 Thread

  By tigtog on 2019-03-15 • ( 3 )

  

  Hello, it’s been a while! I expect many may need to vent, although more substantive contributions are always welcome!

  Since I wrote this on Friday morning, the Christchurch terror attacks have made informed voting more critical than ever.

• #AWW2017 – non-fiction – six reviews

  By Jo Tamar on 2017-12-26 • ( 1 )

  

  In which the author finally gets around to blogging about, and reviewing for, #AWW2017.

• Getting out the ‘yes’

  By Anna on 2017-10-26 • ( 5 )

  

  This Friday, 27 October is the last day to get our marriage equality postal surveys into the mail to guarantee they will be counted in the tally. Right now, if you are Australian and registered to vote, you will be in… Read More ›

• ATO scammer time of the year again for Aussies

  By tigtog on 2017-09-19

  

  Just got a robocall from an “ATO officer” reciting a phone number that I was supposed to call or suffer dire legal consequence. I guffawed.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By tigtog on 2017-09-17 • ( 5 )

  

  Hello! I had a sudden urge to revisit our rusty weekend Open Thread tradition. This one is hosted by an otter eating a carrot. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

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