How’s my social media life? Complicated,but I’m picking up the Threads

How’s my social media life? Complicated,but I’m picking up the Threads

I was so proud of myself when I quit Twitter. But now,irrationally,I’ve signed up to Mark Zuckerberg’s rival version. What’s wrong with me?

  • byJan Fran

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The government looked at 50 ways to fix problem gambling,and chose number 51
Opinion
Gambling

The government looked at 50 ways to fix problem gambling,and chose number 51

Changing up the tagline in gambling ads is,as the saying goes,like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

  • byJan Fran
I want to get vaccinated as soon as possible but mixed messages are not helping

I want to get vaccinated as soon as possible but mixed messages are not helping

With such confused messaging this week,I am sad to say my confidence in our vaccine rollout has been dented more than any other time in the last 12 months.

  • byJan Fran
The green inner-city bogyman is a figment of the government’s imagination

The green inner-city bogyman is a figment of the government’s imagination

It was the G7,not “inner-city types” who last weekend announced a plan to end government support for new coal power plants.

  • byJan Fran
Welcome to the new Zillennial overlords. But try not to laugh at my jeans
Opinion
Trends

Welcome to the new Zillennial overlords. But try not to laugh at my jeans

It’s time to make room for a bolder,more open generation that’s seeking to make the world a better place for everyone.

  • byJan Fran
Huge problem:Immigrants are not taking our jobs
Opinion
Jobs

Huge problem:Immigrants are not taking our jobs

Like most anti-immigrant rhetoric,‘they took our jobs’ is high on fear but low on fact.

  • byJan Fran
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The feds have ditched us on climate change,it’s time we ditch them too

The feds have ditched us on climate change,it’s time we ditch them too

Australian businesses and state governments (perhaps even wine bars) have plans and targets to tackle emissions. Let’s face it,they are fast making Canberra obsolete.

  • byJan Fran
Not just an Australian fashion legend,Carla Zampatti is a keeper

Not just an Australian fashion legend,Carla Zampatti is a keeper

I haven’t bought new clothes in two years,and a vintage Carla Zampatti piece is one of my cherished wardrobe items.

  • byJan Fran
Two years ago,I swore off buying new clothes. It's been surprisingly easy

Two years ago,I swore off buying new clothes. It's been surprisingly easy

Three years of TV clothes had accumulated in my wardrobe before I thought where in the heck is all this stuff going to end up?

  • byJan Fran
Feeling anxious and powerless? Australia's only saint had advice

Feeling anxious and powerless? Australia's only saint had advice

The 2010s felt like a series of great and sudden changes,of immense disruption,of death and rebirth.my impotence. And now,I worry about my future in a way I could never have imagined,and my impotence to change it.

  • byJan Fran
Time to break the royal ties and commemorative china?

Time to break the royal ties and commemorative china?

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan may just have shown Australia that it's not that difficult to leave the royal family after all.

  • byJan Fran