I met the brilliant Kristine Ziwica at the kinder gate in 2014. Our second kids graduated primary school together tonight. Every woman deserves a fellow feminist at the school gate. If you find one, hold her close.

A representative quote from Chris, who is very understated and not at all prone to hyperbole. This is the reality.

This is the ‘real stuff’. No one - not one patient - is ‘anatomy’ or ‘physiology’. All patients are people, and all diagnostics and care must be contextualised and individualised. This is why subjects that teach this re the most important.

If any Australian government believes they were elected with a mandate to ‘protect our borders’ then they will do exactly that. Let’s be clear: this is not just them, this is all of us.

Why, in Melbourne, is petrol (U91) $1.79 at some petrol stations tonight, and $2.31 at others? That’s a huge difference…

Every photo of video of ‘kids being kids’ has, invisible behind it, broader socioeconomic privilege, and a whole lot of (usually female) adult labour. Behind this photo are many carers (to change kids out of wet clothes) and parent(a) with time to run the washing machine daily.

Justice Lee makes ‘don’t go back for your hat’ a new Australian saying.

Do any other novelists idly wonder what ended up happening to characters in their own book?

Nailbed injuries are over treated. Most squished fingertips just need a band aid and time.

I’d love a story about who sewed and embroidered one of these dresses, and what they were paid.

Some of my favourite photos are of the aurora taken by astronauts on the ISS. I think of them often as a reminder that everything has a different perspective.

I think it’s worth remembering that bears are still really dangerous.