WA Today reports that police are weekly requesting personal information from Perth’s public transport system without a subpoena – and are receiving it. Police using Smartrider to track people Police are using the Public Transport Authority’s Smartrider electronic ticketing system… Read More ›
Day: 2009-11-16
Femmostroppo Reader – November 16, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Wow Hugh Mackay, nice sermon – “Essentially Hugh Mackay’s article boils down to ‘I once had… Read More ›
Obesity Still Dramatically Decreases Risk of Severe H1N1 Flu?
I wrote about this before, with very preliminary data, very small numbers – the June figures from the CDC on obesity as a risk factor for swine flu, which was showing that the prevalence of obesity in the ‘severe’ group… Read More ›
Quickhit #2: that chocolate frog
The worst thing is the racial subtext to this whole thing. Indigenous children are vastly overrepresented in gaols.
Quickhit: more mummy wars re breastfeeding
A very heartfelt yet also very antagonistic column from one mother who was unable to breastfeed her child, and who is hugely unimpressed by the National Breastfeeding Strategy announced last week.