Lisa Pryor
When Lisa Pryor started writing a column a few years ago, her unspoken brief was to be female and under 30. She is still fulfilling the first aspect of that brief. She is also the author of a book called The Pin Striped Prison: How Overachievers Get Trapped in Corporate Jobs They Hate, inspired by her misspent years studying law.
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The suburbs that north shore people like
Lisa Pryor NEWTOWN has some top graffiti. One of my favourite bits can be found on a brick wall just off Australia Street.
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The now-or-never decade - 30s make grab for midlife crisis tag
Lisa Pryor There is a pitiful scene in the mockumentary series People Like Us, which makes me shiver uncomfortably every time I watch it. It captures perfectly the pain of the 30s.
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The part-time solution for mothers isn't all yoga and berry muesli
Lisa Pryor It was supposed to be the solution to the dilemma of work-life balance. Life was supposed
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A hearty donation to the Greens leaves a bitter aftertaste
Lisa Pryor So anyway, electoral reform. Looks like something could actually happen if there is enough pressure from a loose, very loose, coalition of square glasses and Akubra hats in Parliament.
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Mumsy taxation is causing workforce economy to bottom out
Lisa Pryor IMAGINE for a moment if miners thought like women. Imagine if upon hearing about a government proposal which went against their interests, they simply accepted it.
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What shall we do with the drunken abstainer? A Dry July pickle
Lisa Pryor There comes a point in the life of a baby wrangler when it is time to cut loose. As the mother of a very senior baby, on the cusp of becoming a junior toddler, I have reached this crucial turning...
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Cheap trips threaten the diehard tourist's art of mega travelling
Lisa Pryor Australians are masters of the mega trip. In the hostels of the world we have gained a reputation for our marathon journeys across the globe.
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Ode to a Sydney brick: how cult of renovation is destroying our past
Lisa Pryor In the quickie renovation, especially one with an eye to the rental market, there is one interior improvement considered so acutely necessary than it comes even before the replacement of brass...
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Thinking men and women need clear conscience on gay adoption
Lisa Pryor Those gays are after the children again. On Thursday Clover Moore introduced a bill into Parliament which would allow same-sex couples to adopt.
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We need to reclaim 'family values' from the lingo of extremists
Lisa Pryor Prostitutes and Prisoners sounds like a great theme for a fancy dress party. Sadly this week it became a catchy bit of alliteration for a man masquerading as a family values campaigner who was out to...
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Passe to many but home economics adds up in the modern world
Lisa Pryor So there I was, three steps behind the Zeitgeist. Wouldn't it be great, I thought, to find one of those old slow cookers, a crockpot? Sure it seems kind of daggy but, with a few minutes' preparation...
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How many journos would like a dose of their own medicine?
Lisa Pryor Many professions have a mythology explaining why they should be subject to less scrutiny than those they scrutinise. Barristers are among the worst.
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Thrills, spills and billycarts - with not a helicopter parent in sight
Lisa Pryor Last Sunday I saw the best thing ever. It was in a little town on the north coast of NSW. The main street had been closed to traffic and detours set in place.
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Extract your digits and escape the world wide web of addiction
Lisa Pryor Explain this. There are not enough hours in the modern day to call grandmothers, join a netball team, or get around to mending and dry cleaning the detritus accumulating on the wardrobe floor.
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Here ends the gospel according to Oprah, the richest black woman
Lisa Pryor Once upon a time, before the infiltration of the internet and cable television, the sauciest age-inappropriate viewing available to a teenage girl featured sofas, pot plants and roving mikes.
Death never takes a holiday in land of the relentless road toll
Lisa Pryor Another long weekend, another count of the road toll.
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Schadenfreude about overpriced dogboxes best show on the box
Lisa Pryor Andrew Winter is the prophet of doom in short sleeves. Each week on Selling Houses Australia, he takes vendors who have failed to offload their stinking properties and offers them a shit sandwich:...
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The baby stripped bare - and left in direct sunlight for 30 minutes
Lisa Pryor A yellow envelope arrived in the post, sent by my aunt. From the envelope slipped a book, ancient and tinder dry.
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Hey everyone! Some stories just need to be aired in public
Lisa Pryor Chris Masters is so trashy. Throughout his ABC television career he has rubbished the reputations of people in the court of public opinion before they have had a chance to defend themselves in a...
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Nauseating spectacle of private schools playing the disadvantage card
Lisa Pryor Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, Samuel Johnson said. But in the usual course of events only poor scoundrels need to seek out this refuge.
