Virginia Tapscott, Columnist for The Australian - How Did We Get Family Policy So Wrong?

Virginia is a former ABC journalist and now freelance writer based on a farm in southern NSW where she lives there with her husband and four kids. She is a regular contributor to The Australian, author of soon to be published book “All Mothers Work”, and founder of www.parentsworkcollective.org.au She recently spoke at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship in Sydney where we met. In this interview we discuss: How we can improve the image of motherhood in the media, why this is necessary, and how this might be achievedWhat a sensible pro-natalist / family policy looks like and how we need to make parenting less of a heroic undertaking than it currently isWhat she makes of the "tradwife" phenomenonWhat single professional career-minded women do and don't understand about motherhood - pros and consWhether she considers herself a feminist and her views on Simone De Beauvoir, Betty Friedan and others And much more