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Ms Lip is back! After a hiatus, Ms Lip is back with honest and real advice to the problems you may be too embarrassed or shy to ask your friends and family about. No problem is too big or too small, and you can stay anonymous and get the impartial advice you need. Questions from [...]

Where has all the good news gone?

Perhaps I am being a tad optimistic by believing we were ever abundant in good news. But there seems to be little in the media beyond the sad truth. So if something good has happened to you or someone you know, please share in the comments! We would like to spread the good vibes and [...]

Generational Warefare

I don’t know about all the readers out there but it seems to me that the media over the last five years has jumped on the generation bandwagon with every plight they have. Every time a generation does some thing different they seem to want to fight it out in the media. What do you [...]

Scary parents…

When does a parent cross the line in their child’s life? When does the mother in law just come off as plain delusional? Do they lose their right to venting an opinion? Michael Johnson, a cricketer for the Australian team; has a very public problem with his mother. In a story aired on A Current [...]

Higher education generation

University, it is something we all know about. It is a choice many of us are faced with. With the Bradley Higher Education Review released in December 2008 it looks like some big changes are headed our way. The review covers a diverse range of topics and one of the more notable points is the [...]

He IS dead…

Do YOU care? This week is another topical issue week where the largest thing in the news is Michael Jackson’s death. Love him or loath him, he is dead and it has had an impact- globally. Which really raises the issue of the death and grief. Our society is not as well adapted as some [...]

Still single…

Dear Ms Lip, This may seem a bit of a silly question but I’m at my wits end. I am single and have been for about two years. I’m in my early twenties; I am told I have nice personality and complimented on my looks so I don’t get it? I go out and meet [...]

Star Face

This week I thought I would take a different tact as questions are slow in the mailbox… I would like to bring up the current news story of a teenage girl who got 56 tattoos on her face. Tattoos are a popular and much loved way of expressing identity, personality and uniqueness but what do [...]