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• Fear, funding, and failure to listen: today’s indigenous news roundup

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-27 • ( 6 )

  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 ›

• Tell me boys and girls

  By tigtog on 2007-06-27

  How much do we hate people who don’t program bandwidth auto-notification emails properly? For the last few days I have been receiving ever more frequent missives telling me that I had used 80% of my allocated bandwidth for the month…. Read More ›

• Konkokted Kreationist Krap

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-27 • ( 6 )

  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

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-26 • ( 6 )

  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”

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-26 • ( 15 )

  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?

  By tigtog on 2007-06-26 • ( 17 )

  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 ›

• Dear regular commentors

  By tigtog on 2007-06-26

  Fancy popping up a guest post or two at Hoyden next week? I’ve got school holiday shenanigans to cope with, and won’t have as much time to write next week (or the week after, come to that). Posts don’t have… Read More ›

• Hating on “contextual” advertising

  By tigtog on 2007-06-26 • ( 2 )

  The way much online advertising is structured to respond to words used in text on the page, all in the service of consumerism, is often jarring. Fat-acceptance blogs, for instance, tend not to have such advertising (which would help them… Read More ›

• Youth Media Survey in Western Australia

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-25 • ( 1 )

  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

  By tigtog on 2007-06-25 • ( 10 )

  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 ›

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