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Catharine Lumby

Catharine Lumby

Catharine Lumby is a professor of media at the University of Sydney. Her latest book is Frank Moorhouse: A Life.

Most adults have used drugs, according to an Unharm survey.

Let’s be honest - most of us have used drugs, including me

Like most of my cohort I have occasionally used illicit recreational drugs. And alcohol has caused many people I know far more trouble than cocaine or cannabis.

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Tony Cohen from The Illustrated Man Tattoo Studio gives 18-year-old Michael Nagle a tattoo.

From the Archives, 1991: Tattoo you! Every body is getting one

Thirty years ago, tattoos, once frowned upon, were threatened with respectability due to their emerging popularity with celebrities and the gay community.

  • Catharine Lumby
Women are angry and they’re not going away ... the March 4 Justice at Parliament House last week.

Rape is not a ‘women’s issue’. It’s a men’s issue

Women are angry. And we’re not going away. An NRL adviser on gender equity reflects on Jarryd Hayne’s conviction for sexual assault and yet another scandal involving the federal government’s parliamentary staff.

  • Catharine Lumby