Vanessa de Largie

Bullying a child isn’t political debate

16 September 2018 3:45 pm

My great-grandfather, Hugh de Largie was a Labor senator in Australia’s first parliament.  He followed Prime Minister Billy Hughes out…

Down in the polls — but still up for it?

5 September 2018 1:56 pm

In February this year Malcolm Turnbull banned ‘the bonk’ between ministers and their staff in a desperate bid to distance…

Gatecrashing the funeral for selfies

9 July 2018 7:50 am

On June 18, Clementine Ford drip-fed some more man-hating nonsense to her brainwashed minions in an article for Fairfax Media. Done and…

Dear Dr Greer, please shut up

2 June 2018 7:48 am

I’ve always been a Germaine Greer fan-girl. Her books ‘The Whole Woman’ and ‘The Female Eunuch’ changed my life. Germaine…

The good girl lie

25 May 2018 2:04 pm

Society likes to package female sexuality in a conservative and sanitized way. Women are portrayed as demure creatures incapable of…

The problem with the ‘fearless feminist’ narrative

16 May 2018 2:33 pm

On the morning of May 11, seven family members lost their lives in a murder-suicide on a farm property East…

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