Well now, isn’t this study an interesting bookend with the New Zealand study that caused a press stir a few months ago when it showed a correlation between mental illness and abortion of pregnancy. An Australian study has shown that… Read More ›
social justice
Working to eradicate inequalities by highlighting institutional, cultural and insidiously socialised biases and bigotries.
Blog against Sexism on International Women’s Day
Actually I’m a day late for Blogging Against Sexism – busy day yesterday with no time for blogging after I got my comedy festival tickets, and I couldn’t think of anything original to say anyway. So here’s a few choice… Read More ›
Pooftas, we don’t let our sons grow up to be Gayboys
“Maybe there are some (gay cowboys) out there but I’ve never heard of ’em,” he said. “I mean, it’s not a profession that attracts those sort of people.” So says Bob “mad as a” Katter, Federal MP for the Kennedy… Read More ›
Shame
I haven’t been able to marshal my thoughts especially coherently regarding the racially motivated riots in Cronulla. Without some beatup by the media and indiscriminate text message forwarding, this would have just been another gang-fight at Cronulla, not much different… Read More ›
Today is Blog against Racism Day
This was Chris Clarke’s idea, inspired by some debate about racism on his blog and the death of American civil rights activist Rosa Parks. It is 50 years since Mrs Parks took a stand(or rather, refused to) on a bus… Read More ›
Pay no attention to that blatant outrage behind the curtain
Look at this quibbling spin over here instead! Pay no attention to the fact that obstetric services in rural Oz are woefully inadequate, let’s quibble over how dangerous it would be for rural women to have easy access to RU486… Read More ›
Blog against Racism Day
December 1st, 2005: the fiftieth anniversary of Rosa Parks’ action in Montgomery, Alabama. This was suggested by Chris Clarke, who I am fortunate enough to have been reading for years on USENet before he even started his blog. A while… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 