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• Roxon’s new Men’s Health Ambassadors are frothing homophobes/misogynists

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-26 • ( 29 )

  I’ve been ranting about this on twitter, but most of you aren’t there. I’m completely bemused, gobsmacked, and hornswoggled by Nicola Roxon’s new Men’s Health Ambassadors. They might not be salaried, but they’re going to get their travel expenses paid… Read More ›

• Vaginas are not “disgusting”. The Be Cervix Savvy campaign

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-24 • ( 37 )

  Be Cervix Savvy is a new English cervical screening “awareness” campaign by registered charity Jo’s Trust and Hologic/Cytyc (manufacturers of the ThinPrep cervical screening system). There is some good, plain-language information at the site, though much of it is inexplicably… Read More ›

• Infant formula industry fights back in China, lies about WHO Code breaches

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-24 • ( 24 )

  Formula companies are back advertising infant formula direct to the public throughout Asia. This is happening in the wake of the melamine disaster in which tens of thousands of babies were sickened and hospitalised – and a few died –… Read More ›

• Quick hit: Aboriginal languages are like Deafness, and condoning either is “criminally insane”

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-22 • ( 29 )

  Eric Brodrick from Alice Springs has a piece in Crikey this week titled “What’s the Pitjantjatjara word for computer?” His argument boils down to this paragraph: Not being able to speak the major language of a country is a disability… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-22 • ( 121 )

  Odie the five month old North American River Otter was rescued from his dead mother and grew up at the Texas State Aquarium. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything… Read More ›

• Quick Hit: Australian Democrats dead in WA.

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-21 • ( 42 )

  Western Australian branch of the Australian Democrats, which failed to field a single candidate in the last election, has decided not to contest the electoral commission’s challenge to prove that they have 500 paid-up members. I wonder how membership numbers… Read More ›

• “A change in attitude led to my CFS cure!” – a rant

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-21 • ( 22 )

  I don’t share Made in Melbourne’s optimism about this piece in the Age, Layne Beachley’s “Beating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”. (Yes, she’s selling something – her book and her sports clothing brand.) Beachley writes: Relief finally came when I sought treatment… Read More ›

• CFK Childcare collapsing: How many women will lose jobs?

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-21 • ( 1 )

  Another for-profit childcare corporation, CFK Childcare Centres Limited, has joined Eddy Groves’ ABC Learning in collapse. CFK has (had?) 43 childcare centres across New South Wales. 4000 children and 500 staff join the 1200 staff and 120 000 children whose… Read More ›

• Linkfest.

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-20 • ( 21 )

  via Sylvia P, these, erm, C-string “undies”. Twenty nine euros apiece. Speculation abounds on Twitter about how they work – like 80s snap bracelets, we’re thinking, though there are other theories. Nezua suggest that they stay on adhered by pure… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-20 • ( 7 )

  Bonus LOLWho!