The discriminations that denied my generation’s mothers are still woven into the fabric of day-to-day experience
Former Australian footballer Craig Foster honoured the woman who “worked in the Lismore Workers Club kitchen so her 3 sons could chase their dreams”. The ACTU’s president, Michele O’Neil, and the writer Clementine Ford both had mothers obliged to leave school at 13 to supplement family household finances. And the mother of army veteran Ray Martin “abandoned as a kid, and had nothing … went without to absolutely give my sister and I everything”.
This was the #MyMum hashtag phenomenon on Twitter, a feed in response to the News Corp sledging of Bill Shorten’s tale of his mother’s frustrations and sacrifices. Long ago, Ann Shorten stalled a dreamed-of law degree and took a teaching scholarship instead, out of economic necessity.
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