Julia Baird
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Sep 4, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Age
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- Jul 10, 2026
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Of God, Dolly and Gloria Steinem ... and the women who keep the faith (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The sun was shining in a clear blue sky last weekend in Adelaide when about 100 Anglican women gathered at St Peter’s Cathedral for a clergy conference. There was no fanfare, no media coverage, no razzle or dazzle, no influencer poses, just comfortable shoes and a series of workshops and talks. When I walked into one of the sessions on Saturday, I was struck by the cheer. Dolly Parton had died tha
It’s the terrifying case that’s gripping America. But is this mother a murderer or a victim? (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It was the heaving shoulders that unravelled me; the sight of a mother, bowed in grief at the death of her own three beloved children – deaths that, shockingly, occurred by her own hands. Lindsay Clancy was bent over in a court in Massachusetts, a curtain of black hair falling over her face, racked with sobs as a medical examiner sat in the witness box detailing the extent of the strangulation inj
My daughter’s European backpacker odyssey is nothing like mine. That’s her loss (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. “I can’t believe,” says my daughter as I navigate our rented manual car around the narrow, cobbled streets of Nazaré, Portugal, “that you used to have to read maps to travel.” As the gears grind yet again under my rusty touch, I glance at her and laugh: “But we were using a whole part of our brain that you guys don’t touch now.” She shrugs, tapping on her phone. Remember maps? Calling from a phone
Odysseus didn’t rest on his laurels. But like the rest of us, maybe he should have (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The phrase “resting on your laurels” hasn’t always been a criticism; once it was a point of praise. Instead of suggesting complacency and laziness, it was a public recognition of achievement. In Ancient Greece, athletes were awarded wreaths of laurel leaves – also known as bay leaves, the kind you pop into a soup or stock. The term had arisen from mythology and the age-old phenomenon of spurned me
PM got Bushie-whacked, but it’s daft to ask a powerful man to objectify real women (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Many Australians have struggled to fathom why our prime minister would agree to be interviewed on a podcast called Bush Deep hosted by comedian Nikki Osborne, known as “Bushie” and described on her podcast page as “wildly inappropriate”. Who “asks the questions no one else would dare”. One of the questions Osborne asks her guests is who they would “marry, shag or date” out of three names. (She has
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