Wellbeing
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Mother's Day, $130,000, and the rule no one's fixing
A Melbourne nanny has worked full-time hours for two decades on a quarter of the super she should have. The rule behind that is the same one behind the wider motherhood penalty, and it isn't being fixed in time for next Mother's Day.
The fertility printout that keeps coming back across the desk
Thirteen years after the first Australian birth from frozen ovarian tissue, the same lifestyle copy is still doing the rounds. The science still works. The framing still doesn't — a GP on the slow conversation that follows the printout.
What my grandmother's jam jars tried to tell us
One in five Australians over 60 have sarcopenia, and women carry the steeper gradient. The screening is rare, the protein gap is real, and the intervention works at any age. A GP-turned-writer on what the medical system isn't catching.
The $2,500 Decision: Why More Australian Women Are Freezing Their Eggs
Egg freezing has become Australia's quietest growth industry — a six-week, $2,500 procedure that thousands of women under 35 are now treating as routine. The data, the costs, and what fertility specialists wish more women understood before they commit.
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