“In that one moment I was taken back to the halls of unibar dancing with my top off.
“I felt the chains shatter around my wrists” “It’s was a real rush entering my card details” she says. Her husband, the girls at bridge that often criticise her footwear, her local Liberal candidate that often comes around for dinner.
HANDSOME GAY MEN KISSING TV
However, deep in the middle of this hamster-wheel life she lives of imposed mental illness and TV channel surfing – an ember still glows.Ĭlare Simpson-Mattingly is secretly donating to the Zali Stegall campaign – and her husband can’t take that from her. Sometimes she wonders what it would be like to eat dinner at a Lebanese restaurant. Sometimes she wonders where that lovely boy she held hands with during a march against a hike on university fees ended up. Her husband’s hero-worship of Scott Morrison, and his emotionally draining racial and misogyny-charged comments are taking a toll on her quality of life. Her husband despises gay people for their fast-paced rise towards equality over the last decade while he lost his two electronics retail businesses to the internet and was forced to live of his family’s multi-million dollar inheritance. She now spends her evenings listening to her husband berate the Labor Government’s reckless spending under Kevin Rudd.īetween her husband’s venomous alcohol-fuelled sprays and social outings with similarly classist couples they met while sending their kids to exclusive boarding schools, Clare’s life is only held together by a blend of shiraz and valium.
She was introduced to her now husband, Brian, at a rare women-friendly Tattersall’s club event just after finishing a degree in social work that she was never allowed to utilise.įour kids and a ten-year-long affair between Brian and his mistress later, Clare’s past life of blaring Stevie Nicks and smoking some high-grade Riverina rollie is nothing but a distant memory. She used to march against Australia’s involvement in Vietnam, she she used to dream about travelling Africa to help the kids – but her staunch military father insisted she settle down and find herself a good rugby player with a future in small retailing businesses. Clare Simpson-Mattingly used to burn bras at University.