A simple fix?
“Any major party can tweak the rug out from under One Nation's growth by dealing with one heck of an elephant in the room – population growth. Sure, growing Australia's population by 30% every 20 years makes certain economic goals easy to hit. It also makes citizens' lives increasingly difficult, and housing impossible to solve, since building can never outstrip new demand. Yet still the major parties won't touch population issues, and citizen frustration turns to anger, and anger turns to One Nation.”
Peter McPherson

Periods and productivity
“Great to see an article on the subject that is never discussed in the open: the ongoing impact period pain and excessive bleeding has on women and their working life. The fact that it’s monthly means living with a constant rollercoaster that affects energy, concentration, and confidence. Until women's health is researched properly, period products funded and workplaces are respectful of the unique needs of a woman's health, we will continue to be less well off financially.”
Jane Davis

Recommended reading
“If there's one book which will get Australians thinking about themselves as one people, it's Mark McKenna's Shortest History of Australia. He sees waves of immigrants in the context of a continuous population of the land we know as Australia. It's short, it's to the point, and it is worth being at the top of everyone's reading list.”
Glenda Gartrell

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