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Madonna King: The all-encompassing, never-finished challenges of motherhood

If science managed to take the lid off a mother’s head, they’d find a code worth bottling, Madonna King writes.

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Madonna King: NAPLAN has become the great divider, instead of a useful diagnostic tool

We are too busy tinkering with NAPLAN to focus on the underlying issues at the heart of our children’s wellbeing and development.

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Madonna King: More poor form that’s just not cricket

it’s not the only celebrity scandal that has enveloped Michael Clarke, the captain of the Australian cricket team between 2011-15.

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Madonna King: While the Coalition ignores these cold, hard facts, it will not win back voters

If Coalition strategists aren’t concerned about this issue, they have no hope of winning back voters next time round.

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Madonna King: Plain language can form a fairer democracy

Plain language could help build better democracies - and wouldn't the world be better off if we just made it simpler, Madonna King writes.

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Madonna King: ‘Monetising misery’ – social media blamed for harming children

But where is the responsibility on the part of social media giants when it comes to the deaths of children like Molly Russell.

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Madonna King: Open letter to Optus CEO as customers scramble to fix telco’s mistakes

My problem is not so much the hack but with the way you continue to handle one of the biggest stuff-ups in my lifetime, Madonna King writes.

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Madonna King: Why is the Queen a notable exception? Do we get rid of her at all?

There are many contenders. But here’s the rub. Whether you know who's on the note or not, we all know it’s not worth what it used to be.

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Madonna King: There’s irony aplenty in the abuse and vilification of Meghan Markle

We tell young women to speak up, but when the American actor-turned-princess does, we howl her down, Madonna King writes.

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Billions lost as online and telephone scams hit vulnerable victims hardest

Many of the victims of online and phone scams are those people least able to cop a further slap in the face, Madonna King writes.

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Madonna King: The reaction to a PM dancing shows why diversity is so absent in politics

The saga around leaked videos of Finnish PM Sanna Marin partying goes to the heart of what we expect of our politicians and how we want them to act.

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Scott Morrison is reportedly hunting a new job. Madonna King imagines the process

It's forward thinking for any former PM to consider a new career. Here Madonna King sits in on an interview between Scott Morrison and a recruiter.

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Madonna King: The future is bearing down on us fast. We need to plan for it

Ensuing responsibility for the future should belong right at the top – and that means in the Cabinet Room, writes Madonna King.

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Madonna King: As you return home to Biloela, welcome to the rest of your life

As the Nadesalingam family settle back into Biloela, meeting the PM and celebrating their daughter’s fifth birthday, Madonna King pens a letter to them.

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Madonna King: Our teens have felt the deepest impacts from three years of COVID-19

COVID-19 has stolen many of those adventures that helped us grow up as teens. And the impact is much bigger than you might think.

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Seven things our high-school daughters want us to know, and what you can do to help

ATAR results, COVID fallout, friendships, identity, the future – these are just a handful of things teenage girls are worrying about. Here's how you can help them.

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Madonna King: If Peter Dutton has a soft side, now is the time to show it

Peter Dutton has made a name the hard head, the head-kicker, the Liberal warrior who has no interest in making friends on the other side of the chamber.

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Madonna King: We deserve more from our leaders than a tussle between two brands of timid

Whichever of our leaders takes the Treasury benches tomorrow night, they need to wake up on Sunday morning and abandon the small-target approach.

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Madonna King: There’s a huge data deficit on the real cost of living with COVID

After two years of COVID, we’ve become immune to both the pandemic and its inevitable consequences. But that is what will mark our lives going forward.

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Madonna King: Honouring Shane Warne – a great cricketer, but an even better person

Yes, he was a bogan. He smoked. He drank. He played a little cricket. And he had a knack of making people always feel better about themselves.

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Madonna King: Image has always trumped substance, but it’s time we looked beyond it

The PM's passive aggressive makeover sledge aimed at the ALP leader’s image revamp is nothing more than a bit of politics.

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Madonna King: Yet more deaths from domestic violence should be shocking us into action

Our failure in preventing domestic violence is a systemic problem, which our governments – state and federal – continue to ignore.

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Madonna King: Everyday heroes leading by example in extraordinary circumstances

We can call them John and Jane Doe; individuals whose names we’ve never heard, but whose actions this week deserve to be a living textbook on leadership.

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Madonna King: Our obsession with celebrity can be diverting, and that’s not always a good thing

A newsmaker now is a celebrity who can get six million likes on a sponsored post of a new handbag, or by pouting, or working out, without sweating.

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Madonna King: COVID-19 is a numbers game when it comes to protecting lives

Who decides now what’s old and what’s young? Why do we think it’s acceptable for a 65-year-old to die from COVID, but not a 45-year-old?

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