Anne Manne
Arts & Letters
Children’s Lib: Elisabeth Badinter’s 'The Conflict: Woman and Mother'
Anne Manne
The sixteenth-century essayist, Michel de Montaigne, was sent away at birth from his aristocratic father’s house to a poor peasant wet...
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Two Nations: The Case for a National Disability Insurance Scheme
Anne Manne
Seven years ago, while bathing in a private backyard pool, she was terribly injured when a 90 kilogram man accidentally fell on her. The...
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Anne Manne: Are children worth it?
Anne Manne
Part 1 | Part 2 While politicians drown us in platitudes about ‘working families’ and ’family values’ our appetite for anti-child messages...
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How Not to Win the Melbourne Cup
Anne Manne
Our racing story began when I purchased a quiet thoroughbred mare with a doleful expression for our daughters to ride. When her papers...
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Anne Manne
The boy’s twin also sits on mother’s lap, but this baby is tiny, its emaciated form one-third the size of the thriving boy. The infant’s...
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Ebony: The Girl in the Room
Anne Manne
An ambulance officer looks around the room and breathes in the smell. It looks more like the bleakest of prison cells than a little girl’s...
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Dear Mr Rudd: Families. Anne Manne and Jill Singer
Anne Manne
In this conversation from the Dear Mr Rudd series (related to the book of the same name, Black Inc.), Anne Manne and Jill Singer discuss a...
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Dear Mr Rudd: Families. Anne Manne and Jill Singer - part two
Anne Manne
In this conversation from the Dear Mr Rudd series (related to the book of the same name), Anne Manne and Jill Singer discuss a range of...
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Only Connect: Loneliness in the age of freedom
Anne Manne
In most Western nations, the number of people who live alone is rising. In Britain, 18% of all households were single-person by 2001; the...
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Love Me Tender?: Sex & power in the age of pornography
Anne Manne
Through an internet chat room, the girl agreed to meet two of the boys at the local shopping centre. There, she was surrounded, overpowered...
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