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The odd little drills that steady your body

A warm, practical guide to six coordination drills that can make stepping, turning and standing feel more reliable in everyday life.

Dr Mira Joshi8 min read
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Wellbeing

What the week before Mother's Day looks like from where I sit

One in six Australian women face Mother's Day with grief no one is selling cards for: infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth, involuntary childlessness. From a Brisbane GP's chair, what these patients describe is sayable, and shame keeps it quiet.

Dr Mira Joshi
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Money Career

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.

Ben Russo
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Wellbeing

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.

Dr Mira Joshi
Senior woman exercising with dumbbells in a strength training session
Wellbeing

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.

Dr Mira Joshi