Personal Care Attendant and Multicultural Champion at Southern Cross Care Vic What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I’m enjoying my job caring for the elderly. Back home I used to help my grandmother. She looked after us when we…
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The WRAP #19 : Name-calling, working hard and 60 seconds with Dolly Atchia
Naming things is complicated. On the one hand, it shouldn’t really matter. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, they say. And as many of our parents told us, after finding us in tears after school, it…
The WRAP #18: The Aussie limbo, finding inspiration and 60 seconds with Khadija Gbla
The WRAP is back for 2014 and, despite the fact that it already feels as though we never left, we’ve got to say, we love what we do. In fact it’s a privilege, which we were reminded of the other…
WRAP #17: The festive edition with music, Mary and 60 seconds with Alice Pung
Well we’ve made it people! It’s been a fantastic year which has passed at break-neck speed and for many of us, there will soon be an opportunity for a small pause. Even for those of us who will still be…
WRAP #16: Turning 35, rethinking pink and 60 seconds with Anna Moo
MCWH is turning 35! That’s right, we’ve been talking to women about their health and their rights for 35 years. You have to agree, it’s impressive.Like many women, we’ve had our ups and downs, a few makeovers, changed our name…
The WRAP #14 : Healthy Lives, Healthy Futures, Bilingual health education and 60 seconds with Mila Robles
September has brought us many new things, new season, new government, new expectations for the future. Spring is typically a time when everything is young and fresh, but being young and fresh is not always what it’s cracked up to…
Healthy Lives Healthy Futures
‘Healthy Lives, Healthy Futures: alcohol education for young people’ is a short animation about the dangers of binge drinking put together for MCWH and Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre. Watch it here! Youth: it’s the best time of your…
Bilingual health education: not just about language
If you’ve ever grappled with using youth-speak and text-speak in everyday language, then you might just have an inkling of what it’s like to be a linguistic outsider. Kevin Rudd aside, most people over the age of 30 don’t feel…
60 seconds with Mila Robles
Photographer and mother-to-be What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I have just moved and I am enjoying discovering my new neighbourhood: East Brunswick. So many new places and I have CERES around the corner. If you were a…
The WRAP #12: RU486, the invisibly employed and 60 seconds with Monica Chhay
It’s hard to believe that twelve months have flown by but this issue marks the WRAP’s first birthday! Thank you for the encouragement and inspiration so far, and particular thanks to the wonderful women who have featured in our ’60…