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Jen Vuk

Jen Vuk

Jen Vuk is a Melbourne writer.

Can cats sense cancer, or even bad news, and be overcome by the need to flee?

After my cancer diagnosis, my cat disappeared. I wonder what she knew

Since my surgery, I’ve pined for Meg, but she’s no longer here.

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Major new research into genetics could change the way we approach depression.

We told you we weren’t hysterical. Now the science is in

For decades, women I know and love – women like my late mum – were told their pain was hormonal or hysterical.

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The burgundy doors at the Savage Club’s will be closed to women lunchers.

I’m one of the Savage Club’s ‘Karens’. The boys can keep their dingy cubby house

Members of the Savage Club had their moment to shine the silver, dust off the taxidermy and show us ladies what we’ve been missing out on for all those years. Oh, well.

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Reject Shop

The Reject Shop rebrand is killing something that only works in Australia

To a teenager of the 1980s, The Reject Shop held a gravitational pull. Walking in those doors with my bumbag jangling with coins, I knew I’d find something cheap, fun, and totally necessary.

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Jen Vuk (left) with her mother on a visit to Sydney in the 1990s.

I spent all my younger years trying not to be like my mother. And, yet, here we are

One of the most powerful relationships in our lives is also one of the least understood.

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Jen Vuk, who is still recovering from her ordeal, says she “[continues] to be a work in progress”.

It began as an ordinary Monday. Then I accidentally set myself on fire

Life can change in an instant, an “ordinary instant”, the late Joan Didion famously wrote.

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There are plenty of skills to be learnt playing Fortnite, including teamwork.

The positive life skills Fortnite has taught my children

Playing Fortnite is not all bad.

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Who's swearing here?

Why we so readily deliver a one-finger salute when stuck behind the wheel

"Mum, you're always so angry when you're driving." With that one innocent remark came the jolting realisation that I had become the one thing I'd always sworn I wouldn't be. An a--hole behind the wheel.

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We must stop accepting alcohol as an excuse for violence

Is Australia's drinking problem our equivalent of America's gun culture - an untouchable problem that puts an individual's rights before the civil rights of the most vulnerable?

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Blanket criticism of paleo diet enthusiast chef Pete Evans leaves bad taste

An A Current Affair report was more tall poppy syndrome than healthy scepticism.

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