Spot Big Tobacco’s Contradiction
“Plain packaging is not a proven policy,” she said. “There’s no credible evidence that this policy will stop people smoking, that it will stop kids, young people, taking up cigarette smoking.
Because portraying violence against women is so edgy, doncha know?
Warning: the image in the linked article may be triggering for some readers. Stickers you can put on your luggage to make it easily identifiable? Good idea. Silly stickers like blocks of cocaine or dildos? Juvenile and likely to have Customs paying you more attention than you’d really want, but if you are silly enough [...]
Phishing scam alert: “Your tax refund is here. Very important!”
I just received an email from “support@ato.guv.au” – this is a dummy email address that resolves to the phisher’s domain.
Climbing Uluru and disrespect
Perhaps revelations over the last week regarding disrespectful shenanigans on top of Uluru will finally push the govt to honour the promises it made in 1983 to stop people climbing the rock?
Shame Shell – we all sip from this glass
While Shell toasts $9.8billion profits, people of the Niger delta are having to drink polluted water.
Quickhit: Workers saying goodbye to selfish bosses
So, does any reader work for a company which has prioritised normalising promotion/pay structures for employees who made sacrifices during the GFC? Or are you one of the many being overlooked while restoring company profits for the benefit of shareholders takes priority? Or does your company actually seem to be managing the balancing act for both employees and shareholders?
Leave it to football to prove that women are the ‘sex class’
Gentlemen, a bit of perspective please. A police inquiry into an affair of prostitution involving an under-age call girl could not have come at a worse time for Raymond Domenech and his players just 50 days before the start of the World Cup. And.. So when it emerges that a player of the stature of [...]
Endangered Sunday: Bluefin Tuna
With stocks of Atlantic bluefin tuna down 75 per cent due to over-fishing, the European Commission said the trade ban’s rejection threatened the survival of the ocean predator. Environmental group Greenpeace also warned the vote ”sets the species on a pathway to extinction”.
Not friends again
This article in The Australian by Rosemary Neill is more a report on the lay of the land than a way forward but what it does do is spell out nicely the latest split to occur in feminism. Once again the split is about sex (oh how we feminists have visited that ground a few [...]
Crazy Bromains 2: This Time It’s Personal.
[cross-posted to Shakesville] Hey everyone, I’m Napalmnacey. I’ve blogged for years informally at my LJ, logansrogue, and now I’m contributing at Hoyden! I’m an artist, musician and singer, and I’m working on my first novel. I write and draw comics and I am a die-hard Doctor Who fangirl. I’m into Ancient Egypt and other ancient [...]
Haiti In Pictures: “You Can’t Show THAT”
In the news: Related posts: For Haiti Orphans, Cross Nursing Can Save Lives: ILCA, UNICEF, WHO, PAHO Infant formula industry fights back in China, lies about WHO Code breaches Call to activism: oppose infant formula promotion in Qld Indigenous communities Face of rescue: Women’s work The big pink M logo and the corporate appropriation of [...]
Complacency, Indifference and Intent (or lack thereof)
various nay-sayers are arguing that the upswing in attacks on Indian students can’t have anything to do with structural racism in Australia, because none of the student visa laws that push overseas students into exploitative employment situations and allow deceptive “colleges” to fleece them while isolating them from Australian-born student bodies were intended to have a racialised separatist effect
Failing vulnerable children in care
Why are we as social animals so easily able to shrug off the needs of these children for a more secure and supportive environment? What the hell is wrong with us?
Did you know?
Did you know that being a woman means you hate Keira Knightley? Fuck Politeness has done an excellent takedown of this, so I won’t repeat it here. Also, did you know (if you are a married woman) that Tiger Woods has done you a favour? Congratulations married ladies, you have made it into the “women [...]
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