The ABC reports that the past two years of criminal sentences handed down to Cape York crims will be reviewed. This comes after a gang of nine teenagers and men raped a ten year old Aurukun girl. All of the… Read More ›
Month: December 2007
Blogroll update – for your reading pleasure
The Hoyden blogroll has had a moderately hefty update. Go check it out, there’s plenty of amazing, confronting, hilarious, thought-provoking reading there. Recent additions include: Ace Sheilas baroquestar Subway to Venus Ricky Buchanan Bonza Blokes strangedave (ETA) Crimitism
Toddler with “political hair” threatened with preschool expulsion
LP has been stoushing over whether schools are in the right to exclude devout students wearing a kirpan (Sikh short sword). Are expressions of ethnicity, race, identity and heritage more slippery – or less? What about when the expression is… Read More ›
Busy day
Today I’m doing some reorganisation of the information architecture here. Now that WordPress has incorporated tagging we are modifying how we label our posts: instead of having a gazillion proliferating categories, we will shortly have a shorter list of broad… Read More ›
Young Women’s Feminist Activism: Medical Students For Choice
I only just found out about Medical Students For Choice. MSFC is a Northern American network of medical students advocating for reproductive rights in general, and for medical student and resident training in particular. 97% of non-metropolitan councils in the… Read More ›
Nominate your favourite blog posts at Club Troppo
Club Troppo has called for nominations for the Best Blog Posts of 2007. You can nominate up to six posts on any topic, so long as they’re from Australian independent blogs. Closing date is 10th December – tomorrow – so… Read More ›
Sunday Skeptic Link
Book Review: The Afterlife of a Skeptic How the execution of a philosopher has been reinterpreted for every era The book being reviewed is The Death of Socrates by Emily Wilson, about which the reviewer has mixed feelings, but the… Read More ›
LJ and the Scunthorpe Problem: No Spice Girls or Doo-Wop for you!
kwoff_id = 7474; So Russian outfit SUP have taken over Livejournal. As I discussed last week, there has been much concern about their rumblings about “taste”, “decency”, and “political concerns”. elfwreck has just discovered that they have already started blocking… Read More ›
Citizen Howard: No Comment
John Howard is still completely missing in action. Maxine McKew declared victory in Bennelong nearly a week ago, but he is yet to publicly concede or speak to the press. It is said that he privately conceded to the returning… Read More ›
What was that?
If I were a less skeptical blogger I would be much more excited about what I saw high in the clouds this morning. I only saw a glimpse, but it was cigar shaped and glowing, and if I were the… Read More ›
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