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• Federal Election minus 5 days: party policies on anti-discrimination

  By Mary on 2013-09-02

  

  I am committed to the idea that if I want election coverage to talk about policy more in the lead-up to elections, it can’t hurt to be someone who is aware of and considers policy in the lead-up to elections. There’s five days before the Federal election; what do various parties have to say about anti-discrimination?

• Media Circus: Five More Sleeps Edition

  By tigtog on 2013-09-02 • ( 14 )

  

  That’s 5 more sleeps until polling day…

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

• Quick Link: Public Education On Principle

  By Anna on 2013-09-02 • ( 32 )

  

  From Allison Benedikt at Slate comes this delightfully provocatively phrased piece, “If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person”. This seems like a conversation that is worth having.

• Quick Hit: WTF Wikipedia

  By Mindy on 2013-09-01 • ( 8 )

  

  Warning: the following fuckwittery may make you very angry. Trigger warning for trans-misogyny. Wikipedia has decided that misgendering Chelsea Manning is more important than respecting her wishes. Although Manning’s entry acknowledges her name change and refers to her using female… Read More ›

• Why is this Gen Y’s fault?

  By Mindy on 2013-08-31 • ( 14 )

  

  Is Gen Y really responsible for these things or is this just a lazy article?

• Book Look: The Sunlit Zone by Lisa Jacobson

  By lauredhel on 2013-08-31 • ( 2 )

  The Sunlit Zone (2012) was written by Australian author Lisa Jacobson. I wouldn’t necessarily normally pick up this kind of novel in verse, but when it was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, it caught my eye. The blurb: Set in… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2013-08-31 • ( 12 )

  

  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?

• What this election says about women getting themselves pregnant

  By hatbluemilk on 2013-08-30 • ( 14 )

  

  I see that as long as any kind of social transfer is involved rich women are as capable of “getting themselves pregnant” as teenage girls are claimed to be. Because conception is something that women and girls do to themselves,… Read More ›

• Attack on Aboriginal Community in Broome

  By Anna on 2013-08-29 • ( 14 )

  

  Yesterday someone threw a bomb out of a car at a group of Aboriginal people at the One Mile Community in Broome, in Western Australia. Four people were injured, one seriously. Can you find it in the news?

• For my birthday you could, if you like, donate to the Ada Initiative

  By tigtog on 2013-08-29 • ( 10 )

  

  This week I turned 50. Various nice people are doing nice things for me, which is nice.

  If you too would like to do something that will make me feel warm and fuzzy …

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