The artwork depicts an Aboriginal mother who is an ‘unsung hero’ leading her children through example, showing that actions can speak louder than words.
Year: 2010
Femmostroppo Reader – July 6, 2010
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.
Asylum Seeker Fact Sheet and Myth Buster
Helen posted a link to a fact sheet from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in one of the LP comment threads. The fact sheet is in PDF format, making it un-indexable by search engines and inaccessible to some readers with disabilities, so I have transcribed it below.
Quote Of The Day: Julian Burnside
“at the current rate of arrivals it would take about 20 years to fill the MCG with boat people”
Strong support for decriminalising abortion
”Our findings challenge the belief that Australians strongly oppose women accessing late abortion.”
Endangered Sunday: BP = Brown Pelicans
Yet another threatened species put under even more threat from BP’s Mexican Gulf Oil Spill is the Brown Pelican, and BP is trying to sanitise the news you find online about the Gulf oil spill by sponsoring search term results
Otterday! And Open Thread
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.
Continuing a conversation
There was a non-whimsical segue on LP’s Wednesday Whimsy thread between one ossie and myself. I offered to continue the conversation here at Hoyden rather than derail the thread. If ossie wants to, here’s the thread to do it.
The Audacity of …?
Sometimes a picture doesn’t need a thousand words.
The Great Renaming of 2010
It seems that just about every policy in the Govt’s stable is up for having a new label slapped on it.
Any suggestions for them while they’re at it?
Hoyden About Town 