That’s the headline from Reuters, and its starkness is almost compulsory in light of the story behind the portrait. The woman below, Joseline Ingabire, is embracing her second daughter Leah, conceived after months of repeated rapes, while her first daughter… Read More ›
Year: 2007
Tracking The Intervention: Discarding and devaluing Aboriginal work
Jangari’s “Four Corners on the Intervention” pulls out a few key points from last night’s Tracking The Intervention show. You can watch the show for yourself here at the ABC. Jangari details the ways in which Aboriginal communities are being… Read More ›
Wednesday Woo from the spam queue: at least sie’s honest
This comment, thankfully caught by the spaminator over at Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog, went on for 22(!) pagedowns, and kept on repeating this paragraph: I know this sucks, for this is a complex topic, but these are tools they… Read More ›
A Green balanced Senate looking more likely
A good article from ABC Online: Election analyst Malcolm Mackerras has told Lateline the Greens will be in a very powerful position in the Senate after the election. “I believe that the result of this election in the Senate will… Read More ›
Middle-aged hoydens invisible?
I have now set up a news-alert email thingy for the word “hoyden”, which is sadly not used as often by other blogs as it could be. So uncommon is it, indeed, that the author of this delightful rant felt… Read More ›
Open “why can’t I comment on some of your old posts?” Thread
Because I have installed a hand-dandy “take that, flying spam-monkeys!” plug-in, which has automatically closed comments on older posts, but which allows certain posts that are older than the cut-off to stay open so long as they have ongoing discussions…. Read More ›
LP in exile
Larvatus Prodeo now has a back-up blog, set up to allow comments while the main blog is being drowned in spam (and thus has had the comments turned off). Head on over, LarvyProdders! LP should be migrating to a new… Read More ›
Timing is everything
The Greens candidate for a Senate seat for the ACT, Kerrie Tucker, turned a late train to her advantage, (she had meant to have her announcement and the train’s arrival coincide), emphasising how the delay supported the Greens argument for… Read More ›
The Federal Senate ballot for NSW
Penguin Unearthed has taken a look at all those minor parties, so that you don’t have to. Very handy if you’re a below the line voter who hasn’t quite decided who to put in last place. Addit: for those still… Read More ›
This time last year
On Larvatus Prodeo last year, and crossposted at Hoyden, I posted a short few lines on how I don’t bother to turn the telly on to watch the Melbourne Cup. If I was still working in an office, I’d enjoy… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 