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Sydney Morning Herald
14 hours ago
- Health
- Sydney Morning Herald
‘Wild with rage': It took Jacinta Allan more than a decade to learn the source of her pain
Since she was an adolescent, Jacinta Allan has lived with a pain that some – including one high-profile radio host – claim to be 'made up', but which for many women is life-altering. Each month, she had periods and pelvic pain so heavy that she couldn't participate in favourite activities, like sports, and was confused by her suffering. 'Ever since I was a teenager getting my first periods, I always had the experience well known to women who have lived with this: the heavy periods, the long ones, the pain you kind of just put up with,' says the Victorian premier, who is now 51. Like many other women with what was eventually diagnosed as endometriosis, it took more than a decade for her disease to be identified. Even then, it was by chance, after Allan poured her heart out to a friend at a wedding about her unexplained infertility. Loading 'She started to grill me about my period experience and said, 'Why haven't you been checked out for endometriosis?' She had that experience as well,' says Allan. Being validated by doctors was relief 'that my pain was real, and I did deserve help'. 'Thinking back to … what I'd missed out on, day-to-day things I couldn't do, it was overwhelming to know that my pain was real and that help was on the way.'
The Age
14 hours ago
- Health
- The Age
‘Wild with rage': It took Jacinta Allan more than a decade to learn the source of her pain
Since she was an adolescent, Jacinta Allan has lived with a pain that some – including one high-profile radio host – claim to be 'made up', but which for many women is life-altering. Each month, she had periods and pelvic pain so heavy that she couldn't participate in favourite activities, like sports, and was confused by her suffering. 'Ever since I was a teenager getting my first periods, I always had the experience well known to women who have lived with this: the heavy periods, the long ones, the pain you kind of just put up with,' says the Victorian premier, who is now 51. Like many other women with what was eventually diagnosed as endometriosis, it took more than a decade for her disease to be identified. Even then, it was by chance, after Allan poured her heart out to a friend at a wedding about her unexplained infertility. Loading 'She started to grill me about my period experience and said, 'Why haven't you been checked out for endometriosis?' She had that experience as well,' says Allan. Being validated by doctors was relief 'that my pain was real, and I did deserve help'. 'Thinking back to … what I'd missed out on, day-to-day things I couldn't do, it was overwhelming to know that my pain was real and that help was on the way.'
The Age
a day ago
- Politics
- The Age
The obscene priorities in education funding
Heartbreak high I am both heartbroken and furious to learn that the Labor Allan government is choosing to short-change Victorian state school students. The reality at the coalface of under-resourced schools is heartbreaking. Parents might be wondering why their child has a shared class or doesn't have a school nurse or librarian. This is the reality of schools working under a decade-long funding deficit. Teachers are pushed to teach their maximum face-to-face allotment (making up any extra time by moonlighting as a nurse, librarian or team teaching to ensure no minute is left idle). When these overworked teachers are sick, schools are routinely redistributing students to other teachers, pushing class sizes into the 30s. Teachers are being pressed to 'volunteer' to take extra classes to cover absences, anything, to reduce the school's spend on casual teachers. Jacinta Allan pointing to increases in capital funding is a furphy. The building of a hall (projects green lit to help COVID recovery) does nothing to help the tired teachers and undersupported students sitting down to Monday morning assembly. The added insult is watching students walk to the campuses of private schools carrying their full funding allocation to pre-class swimming training in an Olympic-sized pool. Kate Rose, teacher, Rosanna Electoral favours That the Victorian government will provide, as part of an extended drought package, a $5000 grant to Victorian farmers to help their family businesses pull through the temporary drought is laudable. I look forward to similar benevolence to the family-owned milk bars and local butcher businesses facing competition from their local mega-supermarket rivals; or the local family-owned hardware stores and nursery businesses facing challenges from the encroaching DIY megastores; or the family-owned gift shops, florists, clothing and toy shops facing devastation from the expanding big box chains. Why do farming small businesses get favourable government attention? I suspect it's all about electoral politics. Dennis Richards, Cockatoo What's the point? I wish to add my voice to the letters in The Age (30/5) despairing the decision to extend the North West Shelf project. So many of us are trying our hardest to reduce plastic, compost, save water, live sustainably in every way we can with future generations in mind, and it is a huge slap in the face that makes one feel 'what is the point?' Goodness knows what the despair of Indigenous communities is like. Libby Gillingham, Outtrim Yesterday's man It may have escaped Tony Abbott's notice that he is a ″yesterday's man″, which is a nice way of saying he is living in the past. Sussan Ley should ignore him. He is one of the cadre of Liberals, mostly ex-PMs, who are becoming more out of touch with ordinary Australians. Victoria is showing the effects of a poor opposition and listening to conservative Liberals won't improve matters. Adrian Tabor, Point Lonsdale Heed the regions Waleed Aly (Comment, 30/5) has a vision where the National Party becomes a bit teal, and therefore enables the Coalition to compete politically with Labor. It won't happen. Urban Australia needs regional Australia more than vice versa. They feed Australia's cities. They dig the coal and minerals that keep the economy ticking over and Australia's export income high. We repay them with second-rate healthcare, a food market that is stacked against producers, and a steady flow of city refugees who make regional housing unaffordable to locals. If we urbanites occupy their minds at all, what they would see is a bunch of hypocrites who ramble on about the post-carbon economy but in international terms are heavy carbon polluters. Maybe the teals and other city-driven politicians could pay a great deal more attention to regional Australia. Then they might listen to us. Alun Breward, Malvern East Changing Australia Waleed Aly is spot on, especially with the changing demographic of Melbourne's regions. George Megalogenis also noted in his Foreign Affairs essay 'Changing Face of Australia″ that the children of Chinese and Indian migrants are also better educated than those from an Anglo background and this has allowed them to be part of the middle class too. These skilled migrants are a dilemma for some in the major parties who don't acknowledge and understand the nation's changing identity and are still stuck in that Anglo past with a lack of diversity in their candidates. This class divide between the white working classes was reflected in voting patterns as well, especially in the outer suburbs. Mel Smith, Brighton Soul of humanity As a non-religious person, I was moved by Sunday's Faith column (25/5) by Warwick McFadyen where he discussed the virtues of the The Piano. I agree with everything he said and I congratulate the ABC for having produced it. My view, which I believe coincides well with McFadyen's, is 'that music is the soul of humanity'.
ABC News
a day ago
- Business
- ABC News
Victorian teachers plan to escalate their fight for more government funding of state schools
Victorian teachers are considering mass rallies targeting the premier, education minister and treasurer in response to what they say is massive underfunding of public schools. Earlier this month, Nine newspapers claimed the government had ripped $2.4 billion from school budgets by delaying its commitment to the Gonski education reforms by three years. The Age reported the savings were signed off by the premier. Jacinta Allan denied her government had withdrawn from its Gonski funding commitment. The Australian Education Union Victorian branch has written to all state school teachers outlining plans to escalate their campaign for better funding, including asking parents to join in mass emails to Ms Allan and Education Minister Ben Carroll, as well as public rallies. Branch president Justin Mullaly said those rallies would be outside school hours and would target the offices of Ms Allan and Mr Carroll, as well as Treasurer Jaclyn Symes. "The government has been duplicitous," Mr Mullaly said. "On the one hand they say that they are promoting the education state and that they're going to fully fund public schools, yet they're not actually planning at all on delivering the money for that." Mr Mullaly said the rallies would also target other senior MPs, but no dates had been set for the action. "We don't do this lightly; we don't engage in activities like this just at the drop of a hat," he said. "This is in response to a complete failure of the state government to deliver the funding the students in our schools need and to provide the resources that teachers, principals and education staff support need." The government said Victoria signed an agreement with the federal government in January that would secure 100 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) for Victorian government schools by 2034. "Our priority is — and has always been — that every child, no matter where they live, has access to a world-class education for free in a Victorian government school backed by full and fair funding," Mr Carroll said. He said the state government would provide 75 per cent of the SRS, which would see increased funding in stages during the term of the agreement. "The Victorian government is currently finalising these discussions with the Commonwealth," Mr Carroll said. "I will not be negotiating with the Commonwealth through the media."
Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Scottish Sun
Horror moment teen McDonald's customer has huge machete held against his neck before brutal fight in restaurant
A machete ban in the state was announced on the same day MACHETE MAYHEM Horror moment teen McDonald's customer has huge machete held against his neck before brutal fight in restaurant Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) THIS is the terrifying moment a teen thug presses a machete into a boy's neck at a McDonald's restaurant. Four teenagers have been arrested over the machete madness, which was followed by a vicious punch up in the toilets of the fast food chain in Melbourne, Australia. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 5 The machete is pressed horizontally into the victim's neck Credit: Wyndham TV 5 The foot-long blade can be seen glinting in the light Credit: Wyndham TV 5 The was also a fierce punch up between two teens Credit: Wyndham TV The saga was filmed on a mobile phone, and the footage is shocking. It shows a group of teens jostling in the toilets when one, wearing a yellow t-shirt, whips out the evil blade. He hands it to a pal who forces the victim, wearing a blue t-shirt, to his knees. While the lad is down, the wielder presses the foot-long knife horizontally into his neck - but thankfully appears not to slice him. He then taps him twice on the neck, yelling out threats all the while. A later clip shows two of the teens fiercely pummelling each other with a flurry of fists. One lad is punched to the ground, but the yellow-t-shirt teen keeps raining down with blows. The lawless behaviour happened inside a McDonald's toilet on Monday afternoon in the Truganina area of Melbourne. Victoria Police believe up to five teens could have been involved in the assault, but they have arrested four and only two were charged. A spokesperson said: 'One of the boys has been charged with aggravated burglary, theft of motor vehicle, false imprisonment, producing child abuse material, assault with a weapon and possessing a controlled weapon. Horror moment knifeman is shot dead at top Brit holiday airport after threatening terrified tourists and lunging at cops 'He was bailed to appear at a children's court at a later date. 'A second boy is expected to be charged on summons. The two victims of the chaos were both 15-years-old, and neither of them were injured. A wave of knife crime has plagued Victoria - prompting the local government this week to usher through a ban on the sale of machetes across the whole state. 5 One teen is smacked even after he has fallen to the ground Credit: Wyndham TV 5 The two victims were 15-year-old, and neither of them were injured Credit: Wyndham TV Premier Jacinta Allan announced the measure following advice from police on the same day as the McDonald's mayhem. She said: 'In Victoria, community safety comes first. We must never let places we meet become places we fear. 'I hate these knives, and I will keep introducing as many laws as it takes to get them off our streets, out of our shops and out of our lives.' The law was meant to come into force on September 1, but was brought forward in light the recent spike in incidents.
