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July 07, 2014

Do collision sports have to include violence?

July 07, 2014/ Mary-Rose MacColl

I was keen to watch ice hockey in Canada, which I imagined would be beautiful and graceful, like Torville and Dean with a puck, nothing like some of the football codes in Australia with their love of violence. And ice hockey is graceful, I discovered, but it is also unbelievably violent.

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July 07, 2014/ Mary-Rose MacColl/
football, soccer, World Cup, State of Origin, ice hockey
June 30, 2014

Come the revolution, cursive the cursor

June 30, 2014/ Mary-Rose MacColl
Come the revolution, cursive the cursor

I sometimes wonder whether digital technology is the next stage of evolution or the next generation’s version of the precious from Lord of the Rings, powerful but with the capacity to eat a person up from the inside.

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June 30, 2014/ Mary-Rose MacColl/
children, education, Learning
June 23, 2014

Mothers and others raising the next generation

June 23, 2014/ Mary-Rose MacColl
Mothers and others raising the next generation

My husband and I would be fairly sure we each do more than two thirds of the household and childcare jobs, which means either at least one of us is exaggerating or, more likely, children create some sort of chore vortex in which doing 100 per cent of the chores requires 130 per cent effort.

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June 23, 2014/ Mary-Rose MacColl/
motherhood, parenting
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