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Jane Caro

Jane Caro

Jane Caro AM is a Walkley-winning columnist, author, novelist and social commentator. She appears regularly on Today Extra, and ABC radio Western Plains. She writes a regular column for Sunday Life and her work often appears in The Saturday Paper.

The number of women who have had their ideas stolen is countless.

I came up with a brilliant idea. Then I watched my male boss pass it off as his own

Before the manosphere, there has been a long line of gifted women whose achievements were “erased” by men.

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Oh Canada, might you hold the solution to Australia’s increasingly unequal education system.

Our kids are segregated in every way imaginable. We should look to Canada for a solution

The Australian education system is unique – but not in a good way.

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Jane Caro: “I love an expletive and none of them are off the table.”

I’ve always been a proud swearer. There are no ‘bad’ words, just poor uses for them

The ‘worst’ word in the world shows the wonderful complexity - and danger - of language.

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The voice coming from my car is like a disembodied back-seat driver.

Our so-called ‘smart’ car’s incessant warnings are driving me nuts

Machines aren’t just beeping at us now; some of them, creepily, have started to talk.

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Men often ask me how they can be allies to women. This is my simple response

The advice is easy. Even better, it’s good fun.

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Jane Caro on the front porch of her new (old) house.

The upsides of downsizing: ‘It’s the best move we’ve ever made’

When the large family home no longer suited her lifestyle, Jane Caro knew what to do.

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Enough with the beeping machines! They are making our lives worse, not better

No wonder we all feel exhausted, irritated and ready to take a hatchet to our appliances.

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The sausage sizzle at Saint George’s Church voting centre in Paddington, NSW.

It takes an army to make democracy work. It’s time more of us enlisted

When it comes to elections, democracy sausages don’t cook themselves.

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Jane Caro: “I didn’t write my first best-selling novel until I was 65.”

I may have been late to my writing career, but this is why it’s a blessing

For a long time, I was a bit sheepish about my late start, but I don’t feel like that now.

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My advice? Remember the Rosenstrasse women and take to the streets.

A group of housewives took on the Nazis – and won. Here’s what we can learn

Since the second election of Donald Trump as US president, I have thought about the Rosenstrasse women.

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