Tonight, Canberra’s monuments will be coloured light pink and blue to mark International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. Each day in Australia, approximately six unborn babies over 20 weeks gestation pass away. One in four Australian women will face miscarriage or stillbirth at some point. Thinking about losing a baby can make us fear for our future and drag up old sorrows.

Britney Spears has been in the news and in the courts this week – the culmination of the #FreeBritney efforts to have her conservatorship (what we call guardianship in Australia) overturned. What was initially imposed as a temporary measure after a very public breakdown in 2008 has continued now for 13 years.

A bit of good news. In late 2019 [i.e. the before times] The ACT introduced a program that would release $632,811 in grants to help clubs across the ACT diversify their business models away from pokies.

As I’ve watched coverage and read things about the nonsense that happened at the US Capitol yesterday, I started to notice something surprising. The journalists, pundits and politicians seemed to reach for religious language to describe how they felt about what had happened.