A treat from Catherine Deveny

I am an unashamed fan of Catherine Deveny. Mostly because I knew her in a previous life when we were both flinging plates at high speed onto the tables of the upper crust at the Victorian Arts Centre. I was being paid $3.45 an hour for it because I was under 18 (that's about a quarter of the going rate my other waiter counterparts were receiving). Catherine found out, was incensed, marched into the manager's office and a week later I got a substantial pay rise. I've never forgotten it. Though, to be honest, Catherine is hard to forget just because she's Catherine - smart, irreverent and funny.

Read her piece on Youth Week here.