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• Triple J youth radio’s “Hack” panel on the NT indigenous plan: Davis, Wenitong and Doyle

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-29 • ( 2 )

  Youth radio station Triple J’s “Hack” Indigenous Panel yesterday had a look at the Howard/Brough Northern Territory “emergency” plan. The full mp3 is available here. Triple J’s Alice Brennan asked: “Who haven’t we heard from yet? The next generation of… Read More ›

• Fear, funding, and failure to listen: today’s indigenous news roundup

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-27 • ( 6 )

  Today’s News Headlines: [Edited to add:] The two transcripts from tonight’s 7:30 report have just gone online: 7:30 Report: Police, military arrive in NT for intervention plan talks Journalist Murray McLaughlin reports an “argy bargy” with an officer from Minister… Read More ›

• Konkokted Kreationist Krap

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-27 • ( 6 )

  This would be side-splittingly hilarious if it wasn’t so evil. A digg-er spotted this scan of a restaurant children’s menu: Front Back Alongside the cheeseburgers and corndogs is a list of “DiNoSaUr FuN fAcTs”! These include: “The most up to… Read More ›

• Aboriginal people “scared stiff”, and workforce challenges: more reactions to the Howard war on indigenous autonomy

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-26 • ( 6 )

  Reactions are flowing in from various groups on the Howard plan to send in white forces to re-steal land and stamp out autonomy in Northern Territory aboriginal communities. A delegation representing 60 Aboriginal and community groups is today delivering its… Read More ›

• Ten year old girl “asked for it”

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-26 • ( 15 )

  In today’s “YayRape!”-judge news, a judge in the UK has offered up a very light sentence to a pedophile who raped a ten-year-old girl. Why? Because of what she was wearing. In the latest case, Oxford Crown Court heard harrowing… Read More ›

• Youth Media Survey in Western Australia

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-25 • ( 1 )

  I just saw a blip on the Ten nightly news about results of a local “Youth Media Survey”. What did they find the biggest fear of young people today is? Environmental disaster? War? Terrorism? Nope. OK, we know teenagers can… Read More ›

• Blood and guilt: Federal jackbootery roundup.

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-23 • ( 6 )

  Further to tigtog’s post Howard’s Wedge, several blog posts that you may not have stumbled across on the usual round of Ozblogistan trackbacks and read ’ems. The fabulous brownfemipower cuts through all the bullshit in her post “abusing into goodness”:… Read More ›

• Feminism Friday: Reclamation: thoughts from a fat hairy uppity angry gimp bitch

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-23 • ( 38 )

  This post started with me suggesting a FAQ on reclamation for the “Finally, a Feminism 101 Blog” blog: “But there’s a whole feminist magazine called Bitch and a book called The Ethical Slut, so why can’t I call you a… Read More ›

• Feminist ethics and digital communities

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-20 • ( 8 )

  A discussion in another blog reminded me that I hadn’t yet got around to HTMLifying my exploration of feminist ethics in digital communities. I’ve put it up here. I’m particularly interested to hear responses to these questions: In a blog… Read More ›

• Reader Challenge: Abbott Macro

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-17 • ( 9 )

  Reader Challenge! 1. Go read : Abbott: Being hit at school never harmed me In which our Health Minister lectures to an Aboriginal community that what they really need to solve their problems is more violence from those in authority…. Read More ›