Baby love is worth the expense
Julia Baird One of the most explosive studies in genetics occurred when a Canadian behavioural scientist called Michael Meaney gathered two groups of rats together.
To a battler. From a baroness.
Julia Baird Dear Prime Minister, would you mind if I called you Julia?
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Listen, and let the woman speak
Julia Baird Mantel's shrewd, original insights, given at the behest of the London Review of Books, were the best I have read about the treatment of women in the royal family for a very long time.
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Time to applaud the Domestic God
Julia Baird Gosh, it's hard to get men to do what you want them to do sometimes, isn't it? So hard. Happily, 77-year-old British television presenter and cook Mary Berry has some helpful ideas, reminiscent of...
Tables have turned on 'slut shamers'
Julia Baird A few weeks ago four words appeared overnight on a garage door in Manly in thick red paint, on a hill overlooking the ocean, dotted with frangipani trees and bandicoot holes: Anna is a SLUT.
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We should shake up our own minds
Julia Baird We've always been a lazy lot. Our desire to outsource the more difficult parts of life - such as housework, study and tax - is not new.
Good, better, best, never let it rest
Julia Baird Last year the much-photographed American television personality Kim Kardashian vowed, for her New Year's resolution, to change her Twitter background to black: ''I wanna be more simple in 2012.''
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Tide of history must change to swim with Nobel penguins
Julia Baird The locals call it Penguin Mountain. Each year, on December 10, on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, residents of Stockholm witness the awarding of the world's most prestigious prizes in...
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Going backwards into the future
Julia Baird Very few women actually live today as the Bible instructed them to; the Amish might be rare exceptions.
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Blame game a one-sided affair
Julia Baird Is General David Petraeus's liaison with his biographer really worth so much attention? Wasn't this just two adults having consensual, if illicit sex? It should hardly be surprising if one of...
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Scourge of the corporates pulls no punches
Julia Baird Elizabeth Warren, the first female senator elected by the state of Massachusetts, has long been the scourge of Wall Street.
Gender card flipped as PM fights back
Julia Baird Ah, the gender card. It's a funny old phrase, isn't it? You won't find it in any dictionaries but we all know what it means: a trick women use to get out of detention, by vowing they are being...
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Words that millions of women have rehearsed, yet never spoken
Julia Baird Ah, the gender card. It's a funny old phrase isn't it? You won't find it in any dictionaries but we all know what it means: a trick women use to get out of detention, by vowing they are being...
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No place for spirited women
Julia Baird Sydney Anglicans are very fond of the doctrine of headship: the belief that men are the natural heads of women.
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Pop the cork, your majesty, it's a powerful vintage
Julia Baird Queens, surely, must have constitutions like ancient tortoises.
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We always sit up for buff stuff
Julia Baird Maybe on the inside, Shane Warne hasn't changed. But come on, we've all said it: he looks weird.
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Don't flay feminism, love is a many-splintered thing
Julia Baird It has been 50 years since Walt Disney released his last, cherished film: Sleeping Beauty. Princess Aurora was a rather passive, sighing creature who was very taken with the tall, handsome prince who...
