UNSUNG ICONS: THE HOME OFFICE

here was a time in the not-so-distant past when the typical Australian day was neatly segmented into thirds – eight hours’ work, eight hours’ play, eight hours’ rest. Well, for half the population anyway. If you were a woman with a household to run, your unacknowledged, unpaid labour tore the formula to shreds. Haven’t times changed! Anyhoo, the point is once you’d left the