Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.

Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.