Jane Gilmore
The Guardian
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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What if it comes back? Melbourne's Covid lockdown may be easing but the fear isn't
A city of 5 million people shut off for longer than anywhere else can’t just instantly switch back on → Read More
So long shaving, Survivor and whirlwind romances: Melburnians on the lockdown habits they're going to ditch
Back in hard lockdown, 12 Melbourne residents share what they won’t be repeating this time around → Read More
Sally Rugg, Jack Charles, John Kinsella and more on what they're reading in September
Plus short stories of migration, novels about apocalypse, and analyses of systemic sexism and racism – all out in Australia this month → Read More
Rape is not 'sex', and 'broken hearts' don't cause murder. Women are dying – and language matters
A year after Jill Meagher was murdered, Tracy Connelly was too. The different ways each crime was reported speaks volumes → Read More
Are middle-aged white men losing their grip on power?
If the the commentary from last week is anything to go by, it would seem that middle-aged white men are an endangered species. → Read More
The surreal things women do to have their pain taken seriously
She's sixteen years old and she's screaming. → Read More
The surreal things women do to have their pain taken seriously
She's sixteen years old and she's screaming. → Read More
How Barnaby Joyce used privilege to pursue love
How much should we give up for love? And where does sacrifice in the name of love cross the line from poetic to straight up stupid and selfish? → Read More
Has social media ruined feminism?
Katie Roiphe's longwinded #NotAllMen defence in Harper's magazine, entitled "How Twitter Feminism is Bad for Women" asserts that the "level of thought policing" has become so intense on Twitter that nobody "in their right mind" wants to say anything "even mildly provocative or original". Roiphe quotes several tweets to back her claims, but ultimately, her essay is a wilful misunderstanding of… → Read More
Unclaimed Tattslotto? Do we have an excuse for you
People have all kinds of reasons for not presenting their winning Tattslotto tickets and claiming their cash. There's the obvious ones (I threw it out by mistake) and the could-you-imagine-it ones (it blew out the car window) and the ones that have you thoroughly checking your laundry every day (I put it through the wash). → Read More
'That's not sexual harassment, is it?' The untold stories of abuse
"He used to call me 'mouldy oldie'. One time, he came over and smelled a chair I'd just been sitting on, he made vomit noises and said it smelled like old lady c***. He did that sort of thing to other older women too. But he never touched us or did anything, so that's not sexual harassment, is it?" → Read More
Man stabbed in Melbourne CBD apartment brawl
An 18-year-old man has been stabbed and another man also injured in an early-morning brawl in a CBD apartment. → Read More
Hot and humid: Melbourne is about to get very muggy
Melburnians are going to continue sweating for another two days, with a forecast of 39 this afternoon and muggy conditions settling in. → Read More
More than a month's worth of rain as Wangaratta 'cops it'
More than a month's worth of rain fell in hour just outside the regional city in state's north east. → Read More
Winning design for Victorian Pride Centre an exuberant addition to St Kilda streetscape
An "exuberant" architectural design has won the competition for the $38 million Victorian Pride Centre in St Kilda. → Read More
Fact or fiction: Every third victim of intimate partner violence is a male
A Men's Right's Activist website, One in Three, recently updated their infographics with information from the latest Personal Safety Survey (PSS) and Australian homicide reports. → Read More
Christine and Betsy join Women's March on Melbourne
About 500 people gathered on Sunday for the Melbourne Women's March. → Read More
Man dies after mobility scooter crashes into creek in Mount Waverley
A man has died after the mobility scooter he was driving crashed into a creek in Mount Waverley on Saturday night. → Read More
Police investigate death of man in Frankston
Police are investigating the death of a man in Frankston on Saturday night. → Read More
The dilemma of being sexy over the age of 45
There's often a dilemma when people who are rarely represented get sudden public exposure. Like the carefully placed person of colour in a magazine or brochure that leaves you with the feeling it was done so the company can clap delightedly and say, "Look how racist we aren't!" → Read More