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 ›
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Youth Media Survey in Western Australia
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 ›
Soundbite shortcomings in a nutshell
Because this blog discusses sexuality, sexual violence, homosexuality and gendered insults etc with the intent to inform, a ratings system based on words alone gets us lumped in with sites that are nothing but sexual titillation and/or gender vilification. Mingle2… Read More ›
Blood and guilt: Federal jackbootery roundup.
Further to tigtog’s post Howard’s Wedge, several blog posts that you may not have stumbled across on the usual round of Ozblogistan trackbacks and read ’ems. The fabulous brownfemipower cuts through all the bullshit in her post “abusing into goodness”:… Read More ›
Simple changes could end discrimination for thousands of Australian couples
This press release from the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), dated 21 June 2007, has largely gone off the media radar due to Howard’s Indigenous Emergency plan hogging all the limelight: Changing the definitions describing de facto… Read More ›
Howard’s Wedge
Or, as Kim has named it, Tampa 2007. Prime Minister John Howard has announced a sweeping authoritarian plan of managing indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, with the stated purpose of combatting the horrifying rates of child sexual abuse amongst… Read More ›
What about the sex workers?
I want to examine two points I’ve noted are repeatedly raised by anti-feminists, and both ignore certain realities of sex work. The first argument is against the idea that the gender gap in pay either exists, or, if it does… Read More ›
Ads that make you go Grrr
From Brazil. For low fat yoghurt. Iconic film images of Mena Suvari, Sharon Stone, Marilyn Monroe photomanipulated. Tagline: Forget about it. Men’s preference will never change. Fit Light Yogurt. Via Jess McCabe, at The F-Word blog.
Reader Challenge: Abbott Macro
Reader Challenge! 1. Go read : Abbott: Being hit at school never harmed me In which our Health Minister lectures to an Aboriginal community that what they really need to solve their problems is more violence from those in authority…. Read More ›
Invisible Lesbians!
Over on Larvatus Prodeo, people have been discussing the “invisible lesbians” in (or rather, not in) the press photo of Mary Cheney and Heather Poe’s brand new son. Cheney and Bush have all been carefully skirting press questions about their… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 