Politics
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The King’s Tribune has ceased publishing.
By / 25 Sep 2014This has been an incredibly difficult decision, I’ve tried everything I can think of to avoid it, but recent changes in my circumstances mean…Read More + -
Sex work and stereotypes
By / 24 Sep 2014I read Bridgid Delaney’s article in the Guardian yesterday with a deep sense of foreboding. Yet another article about “St Kilda prostitutes”, stereotyping sex…Read More + -
Lewis' Law and online misogyny
By / 5 Sep 2014From the incomprehensibly vicious to the boringly repetitive, the online response to women’s voices is vastly different to the experiences of men in the…Read More + -
Arts, artists and Australians
By / 3 Sep 2014In the words of OscarWilde “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an…Read More + -
Not Your Average Bio
By / 2 Sep 2014What made Diamond Joe change from jovial, avuncular goof into angry, sulky goof? We asked Andrew P Street to read the Joe Hockey biography…Read More + -
The Hot and the Dead – Duke Kahanamoku
By / 2 Sep 2014Australia had a lot on its mind in 1914. The nation’s capital was still in its foetal form; drought strangled the wheat yield in…Read More + -
Triple M and "unacceptable" voices
By / 26 Aug 2014Radio station Triple M has been in the news over the last couple of months, for a variety of reasons. Most recently, Network head…Read More + -
Drawing a line under entitlement
By / 25 Aug 2014Last week Bill Shorten went public with one of the worst kept secrets in Australian politics – that he had had been under investigation for…Read More + -
The politics of Australian religion
By / 25 Aug 2014The controversial school chaplaincy program has received support from all sides of politics. Why? How does an unpopular, illegally funded program with no measurable…Read More + -
No politics in their politics
By / 18 Aug 2014I’ve been thumping my fist on tables and yelling about the government since the grunge was a lad. And I used to love it.…Read More + -
The Hot and the Dead – Chien-Shiung Wu
By / 18 Aug 2014By the time you’ve finished reading this (and please do – there might be teddy bears in it), you will be thoroughly convinced that I…Read More + -
Letters from a Liberal party strategist
By / 14 Aug 2014MEMO From: Stan Purtell, Director of Strategy, Liberal Party To: Eric Abetz, Minister for Employment Hi Eric, In response to your query, yes I…Read More + -
Quarantining depression
By / 13 Aug 2014Depression and suicidal feelings are more common than many of us realise. And they are never easy issues to deal with; fear of getting…Read More + -
The Hot and the Dead – Georg Hackenschmidt
By / 13 Aug 2014Here in my little corner of the internet, I like to put in a bit of effort. To go the extra mile. To over-deliver.…Read More + -
Teaching and technology
By / 7 Aug 2014There is a huge disparity between the people who decide how and where technology is used in education and the students themselves, how they…Read More + -
This isn't a bad piece by Chris Berg in The Drum today. The tag line is: "the Government is unable to legislate its budget…Read More +
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Violence committed by men
By / 5 Aug 2014The public discussion about violence is a gendered one. We talk, tweet, write, protest, study and fear Violence Against Women almost every day. But…Read More + -
The Hot and the Dead - Alice de Janze
By / 5 Aug 2014Once upon a time at the very beginning of the 20th Century, in a big, comfortable house in Chicago, there lived a little girl…Read More +
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