Published: May 11, 2019
I keep failing to find the perfect words to sandbag the reality of mum’s missing existence
This Sunday is the first Mother’s Day since the woman who gave birth to me died. Not much will change in terms of buying presents, because my mother was ideologically opposed to receiving gifts.
I didn’t want to write about her death, because the physical effects feel similar to running a marathon. But front-page attacks on Bill Shorten’s mother in the middle of an election campaign brought the memories flooding back of my own mum: a Labor party member who handed out how-to-vote cards peacefully at school gates.
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