Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Ask The Panthers What Would Happen If The Teabaggers Were Black – “But it ain’t ‘speculation’… Read More ›
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Abbott’s no dole for
The industry and the unions rise as one to say – “we don’t want those unskilled workers Tony, that’s the fucking point”, although of course their reasons differ.
Femmostroppo Reader – April 19, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Stand by your tweets – “Yesterday, coincidentally, the US National Library of Congress announced it will… Read More ›
Another gutless conservative deletes his Twitter account
here, preserved in a screencap, is Australian uni student Nick Sowden calling Barack Obama a monkey during the much-publicised interview with Kerry O’Brien on the 7:30 report on Wednesday night:
How many hours can someone be stuck in a car?
On Monday there was an accident on NSW’s F3 freeway, which runs from Sydney to Newcastle and is thus a major commuter road. The accident involved two trucks and completely stopped northbound traffic from 11:40am. For various reasons the road… Read More ›
Private messaging exists on social networking sites for a reason
The media seem to be asking whether it’s “fair” that people’s behaviour online should be scrutinised by their employers. Why not, when customers/clients might find an employee’s comment through a search engine that could be a potential liability for the employer?
Endangered Sunday: Aussie natives need to be pets to survive?
ABC Online: Pet market tipped to save endangered wildlife Our native animals are so vulnerable to feral species in the wild that a major rethink of long-standing policy (that many native animals are illegal to keep as pets) is in… Read More ›
Round up the lawyers! A trans person wants a correct birth certificate
From the Sydney Morning Herald, a trans man in Sydney named Conor Montgomery is trying to get his birth certificate changed. So why is this newsworthy? Conor Montgomery, 50, was born a female in Australia but took male hormones, had… Read More ›
Femmostroppo Reader – April 8, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Astrologers jump on Cox – “In one episode of the show, he said, “…astrology is a… Read More ›
Quickhit: Kelly Vincent elected to Upper House in South Australia!
The results have been declared! Image: A smiling Kelly Vincent, Dignity for Disability candidate, with a blue flower in her hair and holding a bouquet of pink roses, sits next to former leader of the Australian Democrats Natasha Stott-Despoja. South… Read More ›
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