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• Qld Premier Anna Bligh on the Aurukun rape case: video

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-12 • ( 2 )

  Disgraced Queensland Crown Prosecutor Steve Carter. [source: ABC News] For those who don’t get Aussie TV, the 7:30 Report last night covered the aftermath of the case of the gang rape dubbed “naughty” and “childish experimentation”[1] by the Queensland Crown… Read More ›

• “Naughty little girl”, explains rape apologist Crown Prosecutor in gang rape of ten year old girl

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-11 • ( 32 )

  kwoff_id = 7556; [Cut for all kinds of triggers.]

• Ten-year-olds aren’t “asking for it”, Judge.

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-10 • ( 16 )

  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 ›

• Blogroll update – for your reading pleasure

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-10 • ( 14 )

  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

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-10 • ( 32 )

  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 ›

• Young Women’s Feminist Activism: Medical Students For Choice

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-09 • ( 2 )

  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

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-09

  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 ›

• LJ and the Scunthorpe Problem: No Spice Girls or Doo-Wop for you!

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-08 • ( 11 )

  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

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-07 • ( 9 )

  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 ›

• Of magic and mythology: Reality-based parenting

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-07 • ( 14 )

  [image source] “Mummy, what are ‘gods’?”. I was caught a little by surprise, but I think we did ok in the end. After a moment’s thought, I explained that they were figures invented by people. That different human civilisations share… Read More ›