Birth
The nightmare clouds behind the birth of my little ray of Sunshine
Rachel Buchanan This week The Age reported that 219 women had given birth in the emergency department at Sunshine Hospital in the past five years.
A birth certificate is a factual document not a rewrite of history
Emma McDonald A birth certificate is for life and should not be used to rewrite chapters in a child’s life.
Birth certificates fail to tell us the whole story
Senthorun Raj Birth certificates should reflect who is looking after a child, not just who brought it into the world, writes one advocate of multi-parent recognition
Out of mouths of babes - religious will rise as secular birth rates fall
Eric Kaufmann Pope Benedict's recent visit to Britain has been just as controversial as John Paul II's tour of 1982.
Birth of a baby too often kills parental career
Rachel Hills Expecting total sacrifice to the workplace ignores changes in gender roles.
Birth is no less painful or messy, even in a five-star hospital
Sarah McKenzie Since when did giving birth become less about the baby and more about the ''experience''? According to their website, Melbourne's new five-star maternity hospital is committed to helping mothers...
The Indian obsession with fairer skin sinks to a new low
Amrit Dhillon A new vagina lightening cream is helping peddle self-hatred to women.
Abortion politics for export
Chloe Angyal Australians' love of things American must not extend to a growing assault in the US on women's reproductive rights.
I'm in training for music's marathon
Geoff Strong Staging Richard Wagner's four-opera Ring Cycle in the era of the 10-second attention span seems a bit like resurrecting the musical Hair in the age of the Brazilian wax.
Children a gift that keeps giving
Adele Horin Does having children make you happy? Everyone assumed it did until the era of happiness research revealed parents to be a miserable lot.
Ignoring the unwed childless is singly low
Heckler EVERY federal budget night I'm reminded that the penalty for neither procreating nor partnering up is to be ignored by all political parties, be they left, right or in-between.
Reason and rationality alone are unlikely to change minds
Tim Soutphommasane TWO weeks ago, the ABC screened its documentary I Can Change Your Mind About … Climate Change.
Hatred of women exists in the West as well as the Arab world
Ruby Hamad Misogyny has reduced women to headscarves and hymens.
Why clinical research should be freely exchanged
Adam Dunn and Enrico Coiera Countless lives could be saved if clinical trials went 'open source'.
Booby prize was one more episode in the life of a DVD box set addict
Danny Katz If I don't see another perfectly pert pair of unfurled naked lady-boobs for the rest of my life, I'm fine with that, because I'm all boobed out - and this from a man who's always been a practising...
Spare the rod, spoil the planet
Elizabeth Farrelly A plague of unwhacked children. Is it possible that, in an array of future threats that includes climate change, financial collapse, sprawl, greed, war, pestilence and famine, humanity's primary...
Going down with the quip, a tale of turbulent tides and Titanic torment
Annabel Crabb None of us can really offer any guarantees about how we would behave if we found ourselves - all of a sudden - threatened with immediate peril.
Sinking a myth of chivalry
Annabel Crabb None of us can really offer any guarantees about how we would behave if we found ourselves - all of a sudden - threatened with immediate peril.
Swan's budget fiddles while the eurozone burns
John Huxley Swan's song! Swan's cash splash! Black Swan! Or, my favourite, Way down upon the Swanee River, without a paddle! Yes, the world's greatest finance minister gave birth to another budget.
Do we deserve a day off on Anzac day?
While the Anzac legacy is revered, opinion is split over whether we deserve a day off on Anzac Day and how most Australians feel about the day's meaning.
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