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  • How to reduce teen pregnancies

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    Teen Pregnancy Decline: Teenage pregnancy rates continue to drop in Hackney, new figures reveal. The Office of National Statistics shows the number of teenage pregnancies has dropped by 28 per cent since 1998, compared with a national average of 13… Read More ›

  • Shame file: Haven Backpackers Resort Hostel, Alice Springs

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    Hostel facing lawsuit after telling Aboriginal women to leave: the 16 women and children had travelled 300 kilometres from Yuendumu to Alice Springs to train as lifeguards for their community’s new swimming pool. They checked into the Haven Backpackers resort, but a short time later the manager told them that guests already staying there had complained of being scared.

  • White flight

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    That’s today’s big story in the SMH: the growing trend over the last decade, in NSW especially, whereby white parents choose not to send their kids to the local public school, particularly for high school education, meaning the public schools… Read More ›

  • Gender roles and their damage to men

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    The Portly Dyke, at Shakesville: Robbing the Hearts of Men Think about this the next time you hear someone say the words: “Be a man!” Actually look at the situation in which this comes up, and think about what is… Read More ›

  • Happy International Women’s Day

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    The fabulous photomosaic below was made for IWD in 2006 (by Flickrite wiccked, who also blogs from Brisbane at Music to my Eyes): Originally uploaded by wiccked: go to her Flickr page to see details of individual photos And here’s… Read More ›

  • John McCain supports pseudoscience

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    This should hardly be surprising news, as he panders to just about every other kook group that could get him elected, but McCain recently came out and supported the repeatedly disproved “vaccines cause autism” crowd (or at least that a… Read More ›

  • Another Coalition pollie shilling his expertise overseas

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    At least this one‘s no longer an MP. (The comments on this story are better reading than Howard’s speech excerpts.)

  • Humpday Photos

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    One of those days. Have an amusing/bemusing photo or two, and yes, you may suggest LOLcaptions. Uploaded by Hoyden About Town, Reuters/Pilar Olivares : Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi rides a wave accompanied by a cat named Nicolasa at the San… Read More ›

  • Ms Fits asks:

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    Christ. Is there anyone currently involved in federal politics who hasn’t taken drugs? and creates the LOLPols to suit. Sweet (and maybe a little scary).

  • Gratuitous James Nesbitt blogging

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    The Hibernian charmer James Nesbitt has been cast as a supremely dangerous character in his latest work to hit the Australian small screen. From a press release: Starring James Nesbitt, Jekyll is a brand-new re-working of the infamous 19th century… Read More ›