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Jane Caro

Jane Caro

Jane Caro AM is a Walkley winning columnist, author, novelist and social commentator. She appears regularly on Today Extra, and ABC radio Western Plains. She writes a regular column for Sunday Life and her work often appears in The Saturday Paper.

Jane Caro: “I love an expletive and none of them are off the table.”

I’ve always been a proud swearer. There are no ‘bad’ words, just poor uses for them

The ‘worst’ word in the world shows the wonderful complexity - and danger - of language.

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The voice coming from my car is like a disembodied back-seat driver.

Our so-called ‘smart’ car’s incessant warnings are driving me nuts

Machines aren’t just beeping at us now; some of them, creepily, have started to talk.

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Men often ask me how they can be allies to women. This is my simple response

The advice is easy. Even better, it’s good fun.

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Jane Caro on the front porch of her new (old) house.

The upsides of downsizing: ‘It’s the best move we’ve ever made’

When the large family home no longer suited her lifestyle, Jane Caro knew what to do.

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Enough with the beeping machines! They are making our lives worse, not better

No wonder we all feel exhausted, irritated and ready to take a hatchet to our appliances.

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The sausage sizzle at Saint George’s Church voting centre in Paddington, NSW.

It takes an army to make democracy work. It’s time more of us enlisted

When it comes to elections, democracy sausages don’t cook themselves.

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Jane Caro: “I didn’t write my first best-selling novel until I was 65.”

I may have been late to my writing career, but this is why it’s a blessing

For a long time, I was a bit sheepish about my late start, but I don’t feel like that now.

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My advice? Remember the Rosenstrasse women and take to the streets.

A group of housewives took on the Nazis – and won. Here’s what we can learn

Since the second election of Donald Trump as US president, I have thought about the Rosenstrasse women.

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Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame wore the t-shirt at The Lodge.

Tame Grace? Good luck with that. I delight in her brave belligerence

As a lifelong feminist, witnessing the blunt and precise advocacy of women like Grace Tame fills me with joy.

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The terrifying experience that made me a fierce supporter of vaccines

I don’t want any children, or any new parents, to go through what we did.

  • Jane Caro