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• Marriage Equality Rally in Sydney — November 27th

  By Beppie on 2010-11-15 • ( 9 )

  Post made sticky on the front page because the march is this weekend!

• Recently in airport security

  By tigtog on 2010-11-15 • ( 2 )

  A Scottish comedian whose name I can’t remember now once said (paraphrasing) “keep a close eye on how your airports are treating you, because that’s how the authorities would like to treat you all the time”.

• Australian boys to get Gardasil vaccine

  By tigtog on 2010-11-15 • ( 4 )

  The Therapeutic Goods Administration last week approved Gardasil for use on males up to the age of 26.

• Femmostroppo Reader November 14, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-11-14 • ( 4 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• Finally

  By tigtog on 2010-11-14 • ( 4 )

  Burma’s military rulers have released the country’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-11-13 • ( 23 )

  Today’s honorary otter is a sea lion! This little pup was born in the Adelaide Zoo over Halloween.

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

• Quicklink: fighting over-sexualisation in the media

  By tigtog on 2010-11-12 • ( 2 )

  there is a correlation between overexposure to sexualized media images of women with depression, eating disorders and risky sexual behavior for girls and demeaning, sexist attitudes in boys

• Belated hooray for the High Court

  By tigtog on 2010-11-12 • ( 2 )

  About time that we had more accountability and transparency about our treatment of asylum seekers who are processed offshore; successive governments have been keeping them conveniently out of voters’ sight for far too long now, which allows all sorts of wild claims to be made about these mythical beings.

  Of course, some voters prefer it that way, but I don’t think much of those voters’ worldview on good citizenship.

• Thursday Cheezburger: A Life Of Crime

  By lauredhel on 2010-11-11 • ( 3 )

  Post your own favourite in-theme LOLcat here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.

• And which physiology would that be, then?

  By tigtog on 2010-11-10 • ( 9 )

  Do you think he’s about to discuss female physiology here? Call me a cynical spotter-of-pseudo-evospych-from-a-mile-off, but I don’t.

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