Politics – Page 110 – Hoyden About Town

Medela Bites its Thumb at the WHO Code

By lauredhel on 2009-03-10 • ( 23 )

I’d like you to watch this ad with a critical eye. [Transcript is appended.] http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=19472558&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 [If you know all about the Code and Innocenti and APMAIF already, skip down to the next iteration of the ad below!] The WHO Code… Read More ›

Another sad story for the “It’s not sex, it’s rape.” file, by Guest Hoyden Slave2TehTink

By Guest Poster on 2009-03-07 • ( 7 )

Slave2TehTink is normally found making posts with no redeeming social value whatsoever[1] in her LiveJournal, or posting pictures of her small menagerie on her flickr. Offline she lurks on the Civil War battlefields of northern Virginia with her fawn Doberman… Read More ›

G’day to the quake zone

By lauredhel on 2009-03-06 • ( 15 )

There’s just been an earthquake in Melbourne. Twitter has exploded; Google News is yet silent. Nothing on USGS yet; and the Aussie Seismology Research Centre is inaccessible. (Broken, or quake-dotted?) I hope our Melburnian Hoydens are all ok. I blame… Read More ›

Some women are afraid of being mummy-tracked; others are afraid of being fired.

By lauredhel on 2009-03-06 • ( 18 )

One of the ways of starkly illustrating an aspect of the gender divide is DeBecker’s quote: “At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.” I think there’s a… Read More ›

Nathan Rees racks up a hemi-anniversary

By tigtog on 2009-03-05 • ( 1 )

Frankly, I’m surprised he’s held on to the Premier slot for this long. Six months of big fat nothings.

Fish-wives, Mr Premier?

By lauredhel on 2009-03-05 • ( 14 )

[Update: I can now confirm that Barnett was speaking about (or attempting to speak about) the Fishing Industry Women’s Association of WA. I can also confirm that, according to the Government, the Fishing Industry Women’s Association of WA is not… Read More ›

“My daughter keeps asking if the naughty man is in jail” … and he’s not

By lauredhel on 2009-03-01 • ( 20 )

[trigger warning] The Grafton Daily Examiner: “Man free after child sex conviction”

Quickhit: Maternity Services Review and Homebirth

By lauredhel on 2009-02-28 • ( 12 )

Further to our thread on the Maternity Services Review, check out ABC Unleashed: Homebirth ban, by Alison Leemen The Maternity Services Review report, released last weekend, was an attempt to delivery continuity of care and midwife-led services to more Australian… Read More ›

Better than (foo), reminds me of (bar)

By tigtog on 2009-02-27 • ( 10 )

A new meme! Using one of the tips from this handy Lifehacker post (Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks – it’s recommended as a way to find music/movies etc that you might like based on a musician/film you already like) I plugged in a few different search terms to Google to see what came up (although as I am a poliblogger with a shriveled husk of a heart, I tweaked the search in order to more likely find the pol-abuse) .