Ah, Reconciliation Week! That’s the one week of the year that we, in Australia, ‘celebrate’ our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and the fact that we have the oldest continuous culture on the planet… but this year is a bit different.
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The Naturist’s Library: an evening with no clothes and a high heartrate
I saw that there was a naked tour of the State Library of Victoria (SLV) when the Melbourne Writers’ Festival programme was first released and thought it would be an interesting evening and likely a good story.
Read MoreFeminism and Sexism and Violence in 2018
On June 13th, Melbourne woman Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered in Princes Park, Carlton. She was the 30th woman this year in Australia to have been murdered by a man. She was one of the few that did not know her attacker – which perhaps led to the increased (but justified) outrage.
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(Some of the) Things I have learnt from travelling around the world for the last two years
Two years ago, I finished my MBA, quit my job and left for a friend’s wedding in Ireland, via a month in Myanmar and a week in Sapa, Vietnam. Since then, I returned to Melbourne, found a job that allows me to travel, placed all my belongings into storage and headed off on an almost permanent journey. It has been a time of great enjoyment and freedom, but also, inevitably: loneliness, isolation and questioning. I think that my recent travels have changed me and, to an extent, changed the way that I look at life… so, I have been thinking: what are some of the things that have I learned from travelling for the last two years?
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11 Differences Between Travelling in 2007 and 2017, A List
In 2007, I became a fully initiated Australian by taking a gap year during my undergraduate degree and moving to Europe. I had $400, a credit card and the sort of confidence that you can only fake by being a middle-class 21-year-old who believes that these are the best days of her life. In 2017, I travelled the world as a digital nomad while working as Sales Director for memobottle. I had a regular income, a smartphone and a laptop and the sort of doubt you can only experience by being a thirty-something single woman who avoids logging on to social media lest another friend be celebrating an engagement, marriage or birth.Although I had travelled – solo and with partners and friends – during those 10 years, the differences between the bookends were stark. A list was in order. So here I bring you, the 11 Differences Between Travelling in 2007 and 2017, A List:
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