“All of us have the capacity to do whatever we want in life.” Samantha Gash. Samantha Gash doesn’t call herself a “natural athlete” yet she’s run the ‘4 Deserts Grand Slam’ 250 … Continue reading
“The fact I’m jetting off to Harvard because I’ve been invited to join the Harvard Kennedy Women’s Leadership Board – in my wildest dreams would never, ever have happened – but it has happened because I reached out.” Catherine O’Sullivan. … Continue reading
“We definitely have to be on the hustle, some people feel that’s being too ambitious and ambition is a dirty word but I think unless you’re out there and you are pushing it won’t happen.” Mikala Tai. Mikala Tai is … Continue reading
“I work in a hospital where I see families every day who juggle tremendous hardship and adversity and that’s a reminder to me that my concerns are often trivial in comparison.” Margie Danchin. Dr Margie Danchin is a paediatrician at Melbourne’s … Continue reading
‘It’s a story I wanted to see told because this version of colonisation is a history I’ve only known as an adult. It felt like the right time for our national opera company to be addressing reconciliation and presenting some … Continue reading
Forget what you think you know about Australian entertainer Natalie Bassingthwaighte. As you’re about to discover this woman has many dimensions. She has truly earned her place as an accomplished performer, after seven years of knock-backs, hard slog and auditioning with 6,000 other hopefuls to finally land … Continue reading
“I guess that’s alarming when we look at the changes in the trends that we’re having as a society in terms of childbearing. So globally we have less children. We are breastfeeding for a shorter period. And we tend to … Continue reading
“Listen to be a film star is magnificent, but then to have a background of giving back like the three names I just mentioned just layers who they are.” Cheryl Cecchetto. Cheryl Cecchetto has produced, designed and directed the Academy … Continue reading
“At 16 I thought you could change the world, I actually went off to uni and studied science. Whilst I was there I started to meet people who were working in other areas so I swapped into social sciences. I … Continue reading
“We lived for two years on about 200 dollars a week. Failure was not an option because we would have lost everything… But it’s worth it, they say you work hard enough, smart enough, long enough and eventually you’ll get there.” … Continue reading