The helmet debate

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Harriet Edmund finds out why the 23-year debate about Australia’s mandatory helmet laws has just intensified. When Meredith Clark woke up at 11am on a summer’s day last year she was lying on the ground on the outskirts of Melbourne’s CBD. She had no idea how long she’d been unconscious. “I remember slipping as I
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Hair raiser

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Margot McGovern comes to terms with the dread helmet hair. Like so many girls before me, I was introduced to bike riding by my boyfriend. At the time he was not yet my boyfriend and I was doing everything in my power to change that, so when he suggested lending me his mum’s bike and riding to a cafe for breakfast, my
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