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How to Dress for Old Age offers personal reflections and important lessons for facing life’s last act

Once we enter midlife, it seems everywhere we look there are signs pointing to the future. Advice about retirement strategies, property and housing, superannuation (if we’re lucky enough to have it), how to age well, be healthy, adjust to life’s “third act”.

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Poetry for an anxious world: 5 experts share poems of grief, hope and restoration

Tumultuous times create heightened, often complex, emotions. It can be hard to voice or even identify our feelings when faced with war, illness, worry, or great changes of any kind.

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Decision to close Meanjin criticised as act of ‘utter cultural vandalism’

Shutting long-running literary journal, which published emerging writers as well as the cream of Australia’s literary talent, described as ‘enormous loss’

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What is Australia looking for in its poet laureate? Literary and popular poetry don’t always intersect

The inaugural Australian poet laureate will be appointed in 2025 as part of the federal Labor government’s new National Cultural Policy, Revive.

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A Medicare-style levy would guarantee all Australians the right to aged care when we need it

The government-appointed taskforce has failed to mount a convincing argument why a modest financial contribution across a lifetime shouldn’t extend to aged care

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Sarah Holland-Batt wins $25,000 top prize at Queensland literary awards

The poet’s premier’s award for The Jaguar, a collection about the death of her father, follows Stella prize win earlier this year

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As my father died, the world never seemed more ordinary – yet I was witnessing a mystery

My father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s the year I turned 18. Like most women I know, caregiving has been woven into my working life, writes the 2023 Stella prize winner

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Poet Sarah Holland-Batt awarded $60,000 Stella Prize

Poet Sarah Holland-Batt has won the Stella Prize with her book The Jaguar – the second year in a row a book of poetry has taken the prize.

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Sarah Holland-Batt wins the 2023 Stella Prize with a powerful look at death and ageing

Acclaimed poet Sarah Holland-Batt has won the 2023 Stella Prize for her powerful and elegiac collection of poetry, The Jaguar.

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Stella Prize 2023: Sarah Holland-Batt wins $60,000 for her poetry collection, The Jaguar

Sarah Holland-Batt has won the Stella Prize, for her "lyrical and wise" collection The Jaguar — the second year a poet has won this major award for women and non-binary writers.

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Sarah Holland-Batt wins Stella prize for ‘tender’ poems about her father’s death

Poet and outspoken advocate for aged care reform is the second poet in a row to win $60,000 award for Australian women and non-binary writers

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Stella Prize shortlist 2023: your guide to 6 gripping, courageous books

The Stella Prize has shown that feminist activism in the literary sector can work. At its outset, in 2013, it drew attention to the lack of women on prize shortlists.

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Cultural policy sets up national poet post

Setting up a national poet laureate is among the measures aimed at writers in the new national cultural policy.

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TISM make long-awaited return: ‘After the election there’s a gap in the market for grotesque clowns’

After a 19-year absence, the satirical Melbourne band will be back on stage in December at the Good Things festival – and they’re ready to take the piss out of everyone. Including us

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A five-point plan alone won’t undo decades of neglect for Australia’s aged care sector

Labor must move beyond the slogans and make the policy reforms necessary to improve life for older Australians in care

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Sarah Holland-Batt on fighting for her father: ‘Watching someone decline can be beyond language’

After her harrowing testimony at the aged care commission, the Australian poet’s luminous new collection bears witness to a life and troubled death

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