Voltaire salutes you, Pamela Anderson
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dear Pamela Anderson, The French writer Voltaire once noted that “A woman cultivates her mind when her beauty fades.” This
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Warrior
For the midlife warrior woman archetype.
Midlife unemployment
Reading Time: < 1 minute A rapidly growing demographic is the high number of unemployed midlife women. Elizabeth White describes the grim prospects for those
Read moreWho are Facebook’s reincarnated soldiers?
Reading Time: 2 minutes A few years ago I wrote a tongue-in-cheek article about having been a World War One wire cutter on the
Read moreHow I (almost) learned to pick locks from my Year 8 students
Reading Time: < 1 minute Recently, I supervised an IT class where the students (all girls) were studying robotics. Unfortunately, the robots were locked in a
Read moreIs Airforce One set to be the new Trump Shuttle?
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the late 80s and early 90s Donald Trump, entrepreneur, media star and now presidential candidate, had his own airline. It was
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Harrison Ford’s expert guide to avoiding career suicide
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a recent interview, Ford acknowledged that his long and successful acting career began with Han Solo, the space mercenary in
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Eric Bana: Is it time to come home?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dear Eric Bana, A lot of Australian actors are doing well in Hollywood. Sadly, you’re not one of them. You could blame agents, co-stars,
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Why Ben Mendelsohn, Noah Taylor and Kick Gurry’s careers provide hope
Reading Time: 3 minutes Careers are temperamental things. Ambition can easily turn to apathy when a promotion never eventuates, a pay rise is quickly
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