Sociology

Insert tinnie/tinnie joke here

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The Indigenous Affairs Minister, Mal Brough, has announced an exemption to the alcohol bans in 70 remote indigenous communities in the NT that were announced as a core component of the government’s Indigenous Emergency Plan to combat the sexual abuse… Read More ›

Slouching toward Bushism

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And the police state lurches ever closer, with the SMH today reporting on proposed legislation for “New secret search powers”. The proposed powers would give police the right to execute search, seizure and surveillance under so-called “delayed notification warrants”, without… Read More ›

Andrews on Haneef

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Kevin Andrews offers some explanation of the previously secret information upon which he relied. Mr Andrews said the AFP had told him before making his visa decision that police suspected the internet conversation may be evidence Dr Haneef had prior… Read More ›

Linkalicious: Big Tuesday Edition

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A veritable smorgasbord for you! 1. “Intimate Politics: A Roundtable”: a downloadable podcast of a panel of feminist scholars and their reactions (not book reviews, but further musings) to the book Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for… Read More ›

Stereotyping feminism

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Two contrasting examples, one using the broadest of brushes and the other dissecting stereotypes instead. Firstly, one of the run-of-the-mill “raunch culture is all the fault of feminists who talked up the sexual revolution” op-eds that are becoming soooo familiar:Feminism’s… Read More ›

Piggy in the middle

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Note: I analogise between racism and sexism in this post. Yes, I realise they’re not the same thing. However, I believe there are enough similarities and parallels to draw useful analogies. I was having a poke around on fora.tv, a… Read More ›