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Wendy Tuohy

Wendy Tuohy

Wendy Tuohy is a senior writer focusing on social issues and those impacting women and girls.

Daughters of the Sandwich Generation have seen their mothers care for parents and children, while working full-time, and don’t want to live in perpetual burnout themselves.

‘Thanks, Mum, but I don’t want your life’ – is the load that buckled their mothers putting off Gen Z?

Yes, there’s work and the domestic load, but it’s the third shift – the mental one – that’s “the heart of the problem”.

  • Wendy Tuohy

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Isla Bell’s mum, Justine Spokes, says she and her family have been let down by the justice system.

‘What does this say to women?’: Mum, friends bereft as charges dropped over Isla Bell’s death

Prosecutors have withdrawn their manslaughter case against Marat Ganiev and the man accused of helping move the teenager’s body in a fridge around Melbourne’s suburbs.

  • Wendy Tuohy and Cassandra Morgan
Rebekah Beddoe says her experience taking medications designed to remove mental anguish was “literally hell on earth”.

Five million Australians are on mental health medication. Rebekah is among those asking why

A group of clinicians and former patients is questioning why so many people are on long-term medications for distress they believe could be better supported in other ways.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Amanda Thompson

As he strangled her, he said ‘I will end you’. So why is Amanda the one living with shame?

She is a successful strategic financial planner, a high-level athlete and author. Yet even she found herself waking up with “one eye closed over and clumps of hair missing” due to family violence.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Joanna Glengarry

‘Cases that stay with you forever’: They see women killed by violence, and this is what they want you to know

The forensic pathologists tasked with informing the community what really happens to women say “there are cases that stay with you forever”, and the dimensions of violence are not yet understood.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Sarah Bonavia survived years of anorexia and says ideas the illness is only suffered by one group in society need to be dispelled.

It kills more Australians than the road, but this illness is still dismissed as vanity

The idea that anorexia is “lifestyle” disease of the privileged has held back treatment research for 40 years. Now there is hope for those with the most fatal mental illness.

  • Wendy Tuohy
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Men are offered confidential support for concerning sexual thoughts or behaviours towards chidlren.

Boost for helpline which supports those who may commit sexual abuse, in bid to protect children

“They talk about struggling for years but not knowing where to go and get out of that cycle of offending,” a program co-ordinator says.

  • Wendy Tuohy
A Victorian MP has called for a birth trauma inquiry after a woman sustained lasting psychological impairment after a non-consensual vaginal examination.

Landmark payout over vaginal exam during labour will improve maternity care, say consent advocates

A patient of Bendigo Health was awarded $275,000 in damages for assault after a judge found she was pressured into having an internal examination she didn’t want during labour.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Sarah Connors, a senior team leader and lawyer at a stautory body, dropped a day’s work a week to care for granddaughter Cece.

‘It wears away at the pay packet’: Grandmothers cut work hours to do free childcare

As more households need two parents working full-time to survive, grandmothers are reducing their own work and income to offer childcare. Some say they should be paid.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Katie Bennett-Stenton

Katie’s daughter had anorexia. Then child services came for her son

This marketing executive found herself fingerprinted by police after an eating disorder ravaged her family. This is what she wants other parents to know.

  • Wendy Tuohy