Bluey offers a ‘perfect’ illustration of good play for three- to six-year-olds, according to experts.
It’s Saturday morning when the much-anticipated call comes. I pick up the phone to hear the unhurried and unmistakably Australian tones of Joe Brumm, creator and writer of
Bluey, the hit ABC TV kids’ cartoon about a blue heeler family living in Brisbane. Then my heart sinks as it becomes clear this is the worst time to speak to the man who, according to experts, is producing some of the best parental role-modelling Australian TV audiences have ever seen. My children have turned into wild things. Approximately five seconds into the call, my then six-year-old arrives with news of her then two-year-old sister. “She’s knocked over her house, destroyed all the pencils, ruined the coffee table and drawn on her back!”
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Itâs Saturday morning when the much-anticipated call comes. I pick up the phone to hear the unhurried and unmistakably Australian tones
of Joe Brumm, creator and writer of
Bluey, the hit ABC TV kidsâ cartoon about a blue heeler family living in Brisbane. Then my heart sinks as it becomes clear this is the worst time to speak to the man who, according to experts, is producing some of the best parental role-modelling Australian TV audiences have ever seen.
My children have turned into wild things. Approximately five seconds into the call, my then six-year-old arrives with news of her then two-year-old sister. âSheâs knocked over her house, destroyed all the pencils, ruined the coffee table and drawn on her back!â
When is it OK to criticise a prime ministerâs spouse?
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Magda Szubanski, Australiaâs sweetheart and most beloved netball ambassador, recently got herself into hot water when she tweeted about the Prime Ministerâs wife, Jenny Morrison.
Twitter storms are best ignored entirely, but this one edged into my consciousness because it seemed to run on for so long.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and wife Jenny at a prayer service to commemorate the death of Prince Philip at St Andrewâs Cathedral in Sydney.
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sets the record straight.
WITH THE 70 charges being laid against Kathy Jackson the media have once again gone into a frenzy of self-congratulation and misperception.
There are many seemingly claiming to have broken the story, been there from the start, and set the tone for the coverage of the story.
Don’t get me wrong, many of those making the claims have played vital roles in the demise of Tony Abbott’s heroic whistleblower but it’s time we busted some of the myths.
We’ll start with Fairfax.
For years, Kate McClymont, one of Fairfax’s leading investigative journalists had been proudly displaying anything but an ability to investigate when it comes to Jackson. McClymont has seemingly taken Jackson’s word for everything and run stories appearing to be based solely on Jackson’s word which we now know is the word of a liar and fraudster.