[image source] I’ve just finished listening to Germaine Greer on Margaret Throsby’s show this morning. I really like Margaret Throsby – a relaxed and respectful interviewer, she draws her guests out, allows them plenty of space, gets down to personal… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Failing to see the wood for the trees
Lisa Cuprio’s main thesis in Women keep maiden names for more than feminist reasons is this: In the past, women who declined to take their husbands’ names might be considered careerists or feminists. Today, a new breed of women who… Read More ›
What way do you see her spin?
I missed this last October, butaccording to the Herald-Sun (in what is till one of their most-emailed stories), whether you see the dancer spin clockwise or anticlockwise indicates which hemisphere of your brain is dominant. I’m curious as to which… Read More ›
The continuing Clinton-Obama nomination saga
Why Clinton’s Not (Necessarily) Crazy from Shakesville by Kate Harding: Kate sums up why Clinton isn’t giving up, why she won’t give up until the last legal avenues via the nomination convention are exhausted, and why this is not bad… Read More ›
How to reduce teen pregnancies
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
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.
Headline of the Day
Your headline du jour, courtesy of the Herald Sun: ‘Raped’ nurse may return to work I notice that it has hastily been switched to “Nurse in rape case may return to work”.
White flight
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 ›
Humpday Photos
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 ›
Gratuitous James Nesbitt blogging
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 ›
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