Don’t miss Dr Rhonda Galbally on the National Press Club next week! Wednesday 7th October, ABC, 12:30 pm. Excerpt from the NPC website: Dr Galbally will present evidence from Shut Out – a report recently released by the National People… Read More ›
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Dear World: Look up “Satire” in the Dictionary
Dear world: Stop mis-using ‘satire’. Satire is a genre that ridicules human wrongdoing, with the ultimate goal being to expose institutional oppression and effect social change. Putting ignorance on display, then panicking, backpedalling and calling it “satire” isn’t hip or… Read More ›
SUCCESS! On Disabled Parking “Harmonisation” Activism
Read the background here: “CALL TO ACTIVISM – Many people with disabilities to be excluded from accessible parking under proposed scheme” I’m pleased to report that I have a piece of paper signed by Bill Shorten in my hot little… Read More ›
Links for the Day – non-plastic toys, Rally for BFing rights in WA, and more
Emma-in-oz has a listing of Australian toy stores selling wooden, non-toxic, fair trade, and/or Australian-made toys. Check it out. The issue of whether breastfeeding discrimination will be banned in Western Australia remains up in the air, but things don’t look… Read More ›
Quick Hit: HealthBase Cures All Ills
Especially if your ills include a distinct lack of laughter at the hilarious outcomes of semantic search engines. HealthBase was recently unveiled by NetBase, and it is designed to give you a nice broad sense of current medical knowledge about… Read More ›
Horrendous abuse of PWD in NSW State hospital
Concord Hospital in Sydney has admitted that they did neglect an elderly, ill man, and the New South Wales government is once again feeling the heat over healthcare standards. Cut with WARNING, for horrific negligence-inflicted injury to a person with… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Barbara Moore: Feminist, Lawyer, Writer & Grad Student of the U of Melbourne. 1953-2009
This obituary has been provided by Marion May Campbell, who supervised Barbara Moore’s thesis, The Art of Being a Tortoise: Life in the Slow Lane. The thesis was awarded is being edited for submission for a Master of Arts by… Read More ›
Inaccessible toilets in large venues? AFDO is looking for your input.
From Leah Hobson of the AFDO [Australian Federation of Disability Organisations] : AFDO needs your help. We’re keen to give Bill Shorten [Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services] examples of large venues which don’t do accessible toilets very well…. Read More ›
On swallowing shit
I’ve been thinking and thinking and thinking about Melissa’s post “The Terrible Bargain We Have Regretfully Struck“, turning it over in my mind. The subsequent spinoff threads are mostly about relationships and fatness and such, so I’m going to place… Read More ›
Christian Rossiter’s right-to-die “win” is a complete fail. And I’m looking at you, and you and you.
Please read the note at the end of this post before commenting. This is NOT a thread for euthanasia-law debate. I’ve been trying and trying for many days to write about the Christian Rossiter “right to die” case, and I… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 