Journalist and feminist Tracey Spicer says she feels “incredibly honoured and humbled” to be among almost 900 people named in the Australia Day honours, for her work in media and as an ambassador for charitable and social welfare groups. Spicer…
Tracey Spicer: ‘The email was brief. Our dad was going to kill himself.
Trigger Warning: This post deals with issues around suicide and could be triggering for some readers. The email was brutal, breathtaking, and brief. Paul Spicer – our kind, generous, loving father – was going to kill himself. Like everything, he…
Tracey Spicer: ‘The email was brief. Our dad was going to kill himself.
Trigger Warning: This post deals with issues around suicide and could be triggering for some readers. The email was brutal, breathtaking, and brief. Paul Spicer – our kind, generous, loving father – was going to kill himself. Like everything, he…
“The day I swore on live TV”
It was my first big break – a job To Die For. Like Suzanne Stone in the Gus Van Sant film, I’d convinced my lover to kill my rival.* It was worth it. Finally I was a weekend weather girl. The year…
Tracey Spicer on the rarely spoken about form of cancer that took her mother’s life
Nobody knows what killed my mother. Actually, that’s an exaggeration. But it’s pretty close. Only one-in-seven Australians is aware of pancreatic cancer. Perhaps it’s because 83 per cent of us aren’t sure what this odd-shaped organ does. For many years…
Child-friendly hotels: Hotels that are catering to families
As an elbow spears my stomach for a third time, I have an epiphany. Sleeping in the same bed as your kids is wrong: especially on holidays. Our family of four is in a hotel room, with two double beds,…
Tuki Retreat, Daylesford: Where you can disconnect and get quality time
“It’s so natural here. It feels like technology hasn’t even been invented yet.” These are the words of a 10-year-old whose hands are usually used to play Minecraft. Today they’re collecting kindling, stoking the fire and cooking homemade sausages. At Tuki…