Keywords: Catherine Marshall
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INTERNATIONAL
- Catherine Marshall
- 11 February 2010
4 Comments
I clearly remember what I was doing the day Nelson Mandela walked free from prison. The behemoth apartheid state shifted so thoroughly and so smoothly that
even the erratic events of the past 20 years have done little to
diminish South Africa's reputation as a miracle nation.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 29 January 2010
50 Comments
Tony Abbott and I have something in common: we've both been having the sex talk with our teenage daughters.
The bizarre glorification of virginity and the latent distaste of our
daughters' sexuality removes the very power with which we strive to arm
them.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 11 January 2010
9 Comments
Whether grotesquely augmented, stricken with cancer or tumbling
unbidden from the frocks of soccer wives, breasts guarantee rapt
attention.
But never are these appendages more hotly debated than when they are being used according to their very purpose and design. October 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 19 October 2009
20 Comments
Whether grotesquely augmented, stricken with cancer or tumbling
unbidden from the frocks of soccer wives, breasts guarantee rapt
attention.
But never are these appendages more hotly debated than when they are being used according to their very purpose and design.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 31 August 2009
8 Comments
The issue is not whether South African athlete Caster Semenya is male, hyper-androgynous,
or, as she claims, 'entirely female'. More burdensome is the ferocious public response to a
predicament that clearly called for maturity and restraint.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Catherine Marshall
- 18 August 2009
5 Comments
One night 11 years ago I joined members of a local police commando to report on a mission to intercept Mozambique refugees travelling into South Africa. It is easier to 'tolerate the intolerance' in under-resourced, refugee-deluged South Africa than in Australia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Siobhan Jackson, Brett Evans, Morag Fraser, Marcelle Mogg, Allan James Thomas
- 06 July 2006
Reviews of the films About Schmidt; Standing in the Shadows of Motown; Taking Sides; Chicago and Bowling for Columbine.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Catherine Marshall is a Sydney-based journalist and travel writer. She started her career as a broadcast journalist in her native South Africa and has written for magazines, newspapers and online publications in Australia, South Africa, the United States and Asia. She micro-blogs at www.zizzyballord.com and tweets as @zizzyballordand. Her writing can be seen at www.catherineamarshall.blogspot.com.
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