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Parenting
When it comes to kids, mothers are saddled with the ‘mental load’
The particulars of running children’s lives are boundless, enduring, invisible and stressful, but who does it all is rarely measured. New research finds it is almost always mothers.
- by Wendy Tuohy
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Why you’re happier if you make friends at work
It can be uncomfortable to cross the Rubicon from professional to personal, but it’s usually well worth the effort.
- by Claire Cohen
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Healthcare
Mental health patients handcuffed or locked away at alarming rates
Mentally ill Victorians had their wrists and ankles cuffed or were locked inside rooms thousands of times last year in the state’s hospitals, which restrain unwell people at a higher rate than the national average.
- by Timna Jacks
‘My sacrifice until she’s an adult’: Parents reduce work to support year 12s
To help their children through the difficult final years of high school, a number of parents - mainly mothers - are scaling back their work and making themselves more available at home.
- by Wendy Tuohy
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Homelessness
Rough sleeping on the rise: Why Dave chose to return to the streets
The government pushed to get homeless people into housing during the pandemic, showing “it can be done”, but now rough sleeping is increasing again.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘People have unrealistic expectations’: Disturbing reality pushes vets to distress
Animal owners are usually kind to their pets but not always to their vets.
- by Wendy Tuohy
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Good Weekend
Sufferer – or snowflake? What’s up with all the bullying claims?
Bullying is a loaded term that’s being levelled a lot these days. The righting of long-tolerated wrongs, or politically correct overreach?
- by Tim Elliott
Opinion
Work/life balance
We tried to lean in. It left some of us medicated and depressed
Here’s to the joys – and possible superiority – of leaning out.
- by Samantha Selinger-Morris
‘People want a work-life balance’: Four-day work week trial begins in the UK
Thousands of employees across 70 companies have started the first day of a four-day work week as part of a pilot program.
- by Christine Hauser
From autopilot to ‘on purpose’: Why it’s time to ditch the word ‘should’
Anytime you think, hear, or utter the word “should”, that’s your cue that your attention is focused more on avoiding things you don’t want rather than on what you do want.
- by Amy Eliza Wong
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Mental disorders
‘I’m so OCD’ is a throwaway refrain. What actually is OCD, and how does it feel?
More than half a million Australians suffer with OCD. How does it affect their everyday lives, and what are the treatments?
- by Billie Eder