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Ricki and The Flash covers a mother of a problem
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Ricki and The Flash covers a mother of a problem

Our belief in the mother-child bond is so elemental, so taken-for-granted, it’s hard to imagine a more monstrous female figure, culturally speaking, than the mother who walks away from her children. My review of Ricki and The Flash, first published on Daily Review and Women’s Agenda on 27 August 2015.

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Pollie want a crack-up?

It’s hard to imagine anyone in parliament today getting away with Whitlam’s retort when Sir Winton Turnbull called out in parliament “I am a country member”. Gough interjected, “I remember”.

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