Catherine Armitage
Catherine Armitage is a Senior Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, focusing on change, ideas, and the future.
Victims of abuse to testify in private
Catherine Armitage Survivors of abuse will tell their stories to the royal commission into child sexual abuse for the first time in private sessions starting in Sydney on Tuesday but one of their advocates fears many...
Royal commission counselling pledge
Catherine Armitage Government to spend $44 million on counselling for people who relive trauma for royal commission.
Outcry as grief lumped in with depression
Catherine Armitage Grief is set to be confused with depressive illness in new guidelines for mental disorders.
Sunscreen scaremongers given the slip, slop, slap
Catherine Armitage Health experts fear lives will be lost because of what some view as scaremongering about risks from tiny particles used in some sunscreens.
Sunscreen fear 'a risk to health'
Catherine Armitage Warnings about possible health risks from tiny particles used in some sunscreens have rocked Australians' faith in them, a new federal government survey shows, and experts fear lives will be lost as...
The climax of women's creative response
Catherine Armitage The fake orgasm - one of the great, unsung inventions of the late 20th century - is not about deceit and disappointment but women's creative response to the failure of male-female sex, a Sydney...
I'll have what she's having: faking it is far from deceit
Catherine Armitage The fake orgasm - one of the great, unsung inventions of the late 20th century - is not about deceit and disappointment but women's creative response to the failure of male-female sex, a Sydney...
Future of learning: sit, swot, sleep
Catherine Armitage Casual learning areas with wall nooks to sleep in at all hours and study spaces that look like coffee shops are part of a billion-dollar plan to keep university students on campus.
Students using stimulants in bid for better grades
Catherine Armitage One in 12 university students misuse prescription stimulants, a study has found.
'I'll be coming home': Pell outsider for top job
Catherine Armitage The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, agrees the idea of his becoming the next Pope is ''fantastic'', but he means fantastic in the traditional sense of fanciful, not the modern...
Pell laughs off suggestions of being next in line
Catherine Armitage Cardinal George Pell agrees the idea of him as the next pope is indeed 'fantastic'.
Shipwrecked secrets separate fakes from prized porcelain pieces
Catherine Armitage PORCELAIN fakes can be hard to spot even for experts like Li Baoping, a University of Sydney porcelain archaeologist.
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The great sex swindle
Catherine Armitage When females topped the state in maths doctors were surprised. When a bloke scooped the pool in languages, they couldn't believe their eyes.
Poisoning toll rises, 100 foods recalled
Catherine Armitage Consumers are being warned to check their fridges and discard suspect soft cheeses as casualties mount in Australia's biggest ever listeriosis outbreak, the precise cause of which remains a mystery.
There's still work to be done, whatever the day
Catherine Armitage, Tom Reilly IT'S hard to remember everyone in a speech lasting two minutes and 47 seconds, so the Prime Minister missed a few when she thanked all those whose work didn't stop on Christmas Day.
Could PMS be more about relationship stress?
Catherine Armitage If premenstrual distress is largely a myth, do women who experience it have their blokes to blame?
Mood swings on PMS: is it all a myth?
Catherine Armitage PREMENSTRUAL distress is largely a myth, and women who experience it usually have their blokes to blame.
University research at top end of world standard
Catherine Armitage MORE than half Australian universities' overall research performance is at or above world standards, analysis by the federal government shows.
Uni gives birth to scholarships for pregnant PhD candidates
Catherine Armitage THEY reckon producing a PhD is like having a baby - painful and protracted, though nine months of pregnancy is mercifully briefer than a three-year doctorate.
Bridging the future planning gap: 35 million become the 'lost souls'
Catherine Armitage IN A scandal of national proportions, millions are missing. The worst of it is not the missing dollars (though that's a problem too), it's the missing people: about 35 million of them, to be precise.
