The Woman in Women Who Win: The List, and What Antoinette Lattouf’s Book Taught Me About Advocacy
I met Antoinette in October 2025, in the middle of my daycare advocacy crisis. She took me under her wing at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, exclusive parties and all, and I supported the launch of her sold-out Perth book tour soon after. About a month ago she asked whether I would write a […]
The Daycare Hunting Ground and the Ledger: Why I Count the Cases the System Refuses to See
Recently we were heading out—an ordinary trip, talk of the shops at the local centre and going into the city—when my son, out of nowhere, brought up the police officers he sees on our city trips. The police seem grumpy and mean, he said; they “just lock people away.” I told him that sometimes locking […]
Everyone’s Criticising Meghan for Bringing the Children. I’m Wondering Why She Brought Them at All.
On Friday, at Highgrove, Archie and Lilibet met their grandfather for the first time in four years. Within hours the British press did what it always does. For those of you who are new to my column, I write about how child sexual abuse hides behind normality, professionalism, and the reassurance of respectable institutions, and […]
When Your Child Becomes the Age You Were
No one tells you that a child can walk you back into your own childhood. You expect the sleepless nights and the school forms and the tantrums in the cereal aisle. You don’t expect the morning you look up from the bench and feel something drop in your chest, because the child in front of […]
Get the f*ck out of that Sydney daycare centre
If you’re a parent right now trying to work out what to do about the news breaking around a childcare centre and a person accused of child sexual abuse, I want to make this as clear as I possibly can: pull your kid out. Today. Don’t wait for more information. Don’t wait for the centre […]