Australia
Hi! I'm a writer and social worker who moved back to Melbourne from the UK in 2020. I regularly contribute to a range of publications including The Guardian, Frankie magazine, Junkee, Sydney Morning Herald and ABC.
I was on the writing team of the latest season of ABC's The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, and currently work part-time as a clinical content writer for a mental health non-profit.
Last year I had the pleasure of writing several comedy sketches for BBC with Chris Forbes (Scot Squad). I also contributed to ABC TV's series Get Krackin'.
I’ve appeared as a featured artist for the Emerging Writers’ Festival, National Young Writers Festival and Melbourne Writers Festivals, and chaired panels on comedy, feminism and mental health.
Shoot me an email at deirdrefidge at gmail dot com if you'd like to work together.
he information below is based predominantly on one person's experience of living through five lockdowns in Melbourne. If you find that this does not match your own, by all means do not accept that there are differences in individual lived experiences. Instead, please become irrationally enraged in the comment section and call the writer an idiot.
Addiction to drugs, alcohol or gambling is a significant problem in Australia, but its prevalence can take people by surprise. "Addiction affects many Australians, and it's on the rise," Professor Dan Lubman says. "One in 5 Australians will experience an alcohol, drug or gambling disorder in their lifetime, with one in seven experiencing addiction, a severe form of the disorder."
By Deirdre Fidge Updated first published at Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size Have you ever encountered a suffering sandwich? No, I'm not referring to a baguette with tinnitus or a panini going through a divorce. Has there been a time where you have experienced a negative emotion, and then felt bad for feeling that way?
For key workers, the coronavirus pandemic means putting yourself in danger on a daily basis to deliver essential public services. For the rest of us, it's the most boring crisis in living memory: all we can do is sit inside and think about how much we want to go outside.
For frankie 89, writers Chris Harrigan and Deirdre Fidge swapped café-brewed cuppas for instant coffee. CLIPPER SUPER SPECIAL ORGANIC DECAF - Decaffeinated coffee gets a bad rap, and causes people to say weird things like, "Decaf is like kissing your sister."
Like many people who have seen those images of birds eating plastic atop giant islands of rubbish, I've become deeply concerned about waste. So for clothing, books and general household things, I head straight to secondhand stores. But if I'm honest, this shopping choice isn't solely driven from an environmental standpoint.
Why do birds suddenly appear Every time you are near? Because they're problematic and potentially spying on you. Dee Fidge exposes the dark truth of the bad bird. Sign up to our mailing list at NailedItPodcast.com
Opinion Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size If someone tells me to have a bubble bath one more time I just may scream. In recent years, self-care has shifted in mainstream dialogue from having a specific definition to being loosely applied to anything vaguely related to feeling good.
Posted May 11, 2017 04:53:32 It's always enjoyable to look back on vintage advertisements through the lens of today. How could beauty campaigns ostensibly calling women too fat or ads comparing wives to kitchen appliances possibly be seen as acceptable, let alone sell consumer goods? You see, modern gals are too smart for those ads.
I would like to propose all loud sneezers wear badges on their shirts, or even brightly-coloured hats, as a signal of their complete lack of control. Welcome to Junkee's most pure column: Heartfelt Rants About Extremely Petty Gripes, where very funny people get mildly peeved about something stupid, such as scream-sneezing.