Tim Dunlop’s blogging experiment, One Question, has the third round happening. (For full details see Tim’s original post.) The current question is this: the government is accused of playing catch up politics, but is there some merit in such an… Read More ›
Sociology
Fear, funding, and failure to listen: today’s indigenous news roundup
Today’s News Headlines: [Edited to add:] The two transcripts from tonight’s 7:30 report have just gone online: 7:30 Report: Police, military arrive in NT for intervention plan talks Journalist Murray McLaughlin reports an “argy bargy” with an officer from Minister… Read More ›
Konkokted Kreationist Krap
This would be side-splittingly hilarious if it wasn’t so evil. A digg-er spotted this scan of a restaurant children’s menu: Front Back Alongside the cheeseburgers and corndogs is a list of “DiNoSaUr FuN fAcTs”! These include: “The most up to… Read More ›
Aboriginal people “scared stiff”, and workforce challenges: more reactions to the Howard war on indigenous autonomy
Reactions are flowing in from various groups on the Howard plan to send in white forces to re-steal land and stamp out autonomy in Northern Territory aboriginal communities. A delegation representing 60 Aboriginal and community groups is today delivering its… Read More ›
Ten year old girl “asked for it”
In today’s “YayRape!”-judge news, a judge in the UK has offered up a very light sentence to a pedophile who raped a ten-year-old girl. Why? Because of what she was wearing. In the latest case, Oxford Crown Court heard harrowing… Read More ›
Who do we trust more to Do It Right?
I said this in comments on a previous post regarding the NT Indigenous Emergency Plan, and I want to expand on the theme, as it feels like some electoral scales may have fallen from my eyes. I really want all… Read More ›
Youth Media Survey in Western Australia
I just saw a blip on the Ten nightly news about results of a local “Youth Media Survey”. What did they find the biggest fear of young people today is? Environmental disaster? War? Terrorism? Nope. OK, we know teenagers can… Read More ›
More on Howard’s Indigenous Emergency Measures
Andrew Bartlett has the best response I’ve read so far, with David Tiley‘s a close second. Bartlett is hopeful that despite understandable cynicism about the effectiveness of measures proposed with such an intersection of cynical politicising and inadequate planning or… Read More ›
Soundbite shortcomings in a nutshell
Because this blog discusses sexuality, sexual violence, homosexuality and gendered insults etc with the intent to inform, a ratings system based on words alone gets us lumped in with sites that are nothing but sexual titillation and/or gender vilification. Mingle2… Read More ›
Sexual assault medicine in crisis in regional NSW
Fancy driving a round trip of 700km for a forensic medical examination after being raped? That’s what rape victims in central NSW are facing due to NSW Health’s refusal to pay the standard call-out rate for medical practitioners who are… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 