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• #AWW2014 Book Review: The Mind of a Thief

  By Mindy on 2014-02-24 • ( 2 )

  

  Book review of The Mind of a Thief by Patti Miller for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014.

• Kurt Vonnegut on The Money River, aka neo-liberalism

  By tigtog on 2014-02-24 • ( 11 )

  

  The Money River, where the wealth of the nation flows. We were born on the banks of it. We can slurp from that mighty river to our hearts’ content. And we even take slurping lessons, so we can slurp more efficiently.

• Sunday Singalong: I’ve Got The Music In Me

  By tigtog on 2014-02-23

  

  An assortment of versions of the song first made famous by Kiki Dee in 1974.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2014-02-22 • ( 31 )

  

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• The attempts to shut women down continue

  By tigtog on 2014-02-19 • ( 16 )

  

  Two women who have been the subject of floods of contemptuous and dismissive abuse as part of their public life write about their experiences and point out that their experience is the cultural norm, not any outlier experience.

• Media Circus: Liars and TPP and Conflicts Of Interest, Oh My

  By tigtog on 2014-02-18 • ( 25 )

  

  At this rate every single Abbott government minister is going to get a lump of coal in their Santa stocking.

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2014-02-15 • ( 25 )

  

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• A Guard’s Story

  By Anna on 2014-02-12 • ( 3 )

  

  Via the Global Mail, this is a cartoon-illustrated account by an ex-guard of working in one of Australia’s migration detention centres. This is very tough to read, but worse not to know.

• #AWW2014 Book Review: The Sunlit Zone by Lisa Jacobson

  By Mindy on 2014-02-12 • ( 1 )

  

  Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014 book review: The Sunlit Zone by Lisa Jacobson

• “Post-secular”?

  By tigtog on 2014-02-12 • ( 12 )

  

  Secular is one of those words that theocratic propagandists have shifted the Overton Window on, to make it seem like secular is the opposite of pluralist when in fact it is only a secular stance that makes pluralism possible. Post-secular? Hm.

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