Sep 25, 2017
I interviewed Bern in her beautiful four-bedroom house, to the accompaniment of a budgie called Snowstripe. Like my home, it was strewn with toys and the walls were adorned with photos – a little child, loving parents.
We were a few days late getting to the interview. Bern’s five-year-old child had been sick with...
Sep 13, 2017
Imagine a teacher from primary school remembering you vividly, fifty years later.
Sister Josephine Mitchell is a Josephite nun. A renowned champion of human rights and social justice, she is, among other roles, a former teacher, both in Australia and East Timor.
Educare, she says, means to grow. Teaching...
Sep 4, 2017
Sonia Muir is one of two women responsible for the Rural Women's Network, a government department in NSW, Australia.
Set up in the 1990s in response to the isolation experience by women during the drought, there is still a need today to facilitate the connections between rural women, reducing isolation, acknowledging...