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Mother-centred thinking + action. Motherhood, urbanism, public policy, and everything in between.

31/10/2025

🎃 Halloween is inescapable now.

Fake blood, skeletons, and spooky tricks everywhere, even at after-school care. Yet here in the South, we should be welcoming Beltane—a celebration of fire, fertility, and new beginnings.

In my latest blog, I reflect on Halloween, Beltane, and the Life/Death/Life cycles that shape us.

🕯 Read more - https://open.substack.com/pub/middlegroundmotherhood/p/our-search-for-ritual-brought-us?r=2s1n5y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
🕯 Secure your place at our Releasing 2025 Women's Circle - https://events.humanitix.com/releasing-2025-womens-circle

03/10/2025

As the saying goes, “many hands make light work”, and this work of movement making is done through the efforts of many.

Congratulations to the team on another fabulous year.

Thank you to everyone who attended our annual event to support the call for safer streets for families who ride bikes (and everyone else).

We're taking a pause to reflect, celebrate and plot our next steps.

You can read more of my reflections on our movement at the MGM - https://middlegroundmotherhood.substack.com/

15/08/2025

I recently sat through a workshop where "flexible work" was framed as a favour we can’t afford.

The usual suspects (let’s call them “Andrew” because 7 per cent of all ASX CEOs were Andrews and only 5.5 per cent were women in 2019 data) are still missing the point

Flexibility isn’t a perk — it’s essential for equity, sustainability, and a functioning future.

The upcoming Economic Reform Roundtable is a chance to shift the focus from the usual KPIs to care, climate and wellbeing.

🔗 Read more, including a powerful breakdown of why we can afford better - link https://open.substack.com/pub/middlegroundmotherhood/p/its-time-to-redefine-productivity?r=2s1n5y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

🧡Head over to .lately for excellent Roundtable content, including a fantastic recommended reading list for decision makers ahead of the discussions.

💪 Get behind the campaign for a four-day work week, because less is more - productivity, wellbeing, retention.

21/07/2025

🚸 Kids want to walk or ride to school — so do their parents.

But over the past 40 years, active school travel has dropped from 75% to just 25%. Why? Unsafe streets.

🚗 Most parents (75%) don’t enjoy the school drive.

Without safe paths, kids are being driven short distances they could walk or ride.

⚠️ Speed matters:
A person hit at 50km/h has a 90% chance of being killed. At 30km/h? Less than 10%.

🚲Streets should be safe, social “third places” — not just car corridors. For many Adelaide kids, their “third place” is the car.

Let’s reclaim our streets for children and communities.

Read more about our experience with the daily commute as more of our local area is taken for wider roads https://open.substack.com/pub/middlegroundmotherhood/p/your-third-place-is-probably-a-car?r=dqy4t&utm_medium=ios

Join us Sunday, 14 September, for our annual demonstration event to claim our rights to safe streets - link in KMA bio for your free ticket.

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