Category Archives: homebirth campaign

Dear Mary

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Janet

Births, Deaths and Marriages Sydney, NSW, 2000 Dear Mary, as per your recent application to register a birth in the state of New South Wales. I note receipt of your letter dated 26 December ????. Unfortunately BDM is unable to … Continue reading →

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Childbirth Rights on the Fringe

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Janet

Pssst. Set aside Saturday October 13 2012. You need to be here with me, Lisa Barrett and Carla Hartley and a host of other exciting women! It’s in Sydney and it’s at the Seymour Centre which is lovely and central, … Continue reading →

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Stayed on Freedom

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Janet

Stayed on freedom? My recent love affair with Eric Bibb (not literal but musical!) has led to me listening to a lot of music which bolsters and inspires me towards a loving response to the place of pain in which … Continue reading →

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Why I never say witch hunt

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Janet

For those who don’t know, my original qualifications in academia are a first class honours degree in history, eighteenth century Irish history, to be precise. I commenced and completed about half a PhD but birth trauma made this untenable and … Continue reading →

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My legal bill

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Janet

Edited to add: here is a copy of my legal bill. The second one is yet to come in but I imagine it will be around 10k. Readers of this blog will not be unaware that in 2009 my third … Continue reading →

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Amendment

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Janet

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Reclaiming our births from the colonisers

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Janet

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our … Continue reading →

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What’s really going on in South Australia at the moment?

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Janet

You can find that out here. As Lisa Barrett says: They have raided my house so I no longer have a computer or a telephone, my husband can’t carry on his business as they took his computer and the children … Continue reading →

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Keep calm

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Janet

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I support Lisa Barrett and that’s final

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Janet

One for you, Lisa. So much love to you as you do battle with the ugly coal face of misogyny in Australia. We love you. Tweet

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