Women haven’t had equal status to men in any human civilization — until the last 200 years. There’s been an awful lot of shouting about feminism on the internet recently. We’re fighting about what it is and what it needs to fight for. We’re even fighting about who’s allowed to…
Start a discussion about bullying and you will find any number of people willing, WANTING, to stand up and talk about how terribly they were bullied at school. The side we almost never hear from though is the bullies themselves. What drives a person to instigate an ongoing, targeted attack…
Some men do and say disgusting things to women because they can get away with it. It’s up to the rest of us to stop letting them. I’ve never experienced any real discrimination — I’ve never had anyone cringe in disgust at me, apply stereotypes to me (except maybe as…
...Australia to Re-ban Gambling Online Can the law keep up with, or even get close to, the online world? And even if it can, how can it be enforced?
Violence is wrong, no matter who the perpetrator is and ideology is not the solution. A recent Twitter conversation about the differences between the ways in which women and men might express violence set me thinking. As someone who experienced both paternal and maternal abuse, I’ve long had a particular…
The Australia Day race riot, in which, as you recall, hundreds of people died and Parliament House burned to the ground, got Ben Pobjie thinking about gratitude. Dear Aboriginals, We need to talk. We have a problem. I know, I know — I thought everything was cool between us. I…
Right you lot, stop fornicating and listen up. You’re doing a terribly ungodly job educating your children, here’s what we’re going to do instead.
Forget Hayek and Keynes and all those other clowns. An economy based entirely on the exchange of free range eggs and hand-knitted jumpers is the way to go. Oh and a koala in every pot. Or something. Morgs has the answer. It is terribly painful for me to write this…
The internet isn’t just about cats, you know. There’s sex there, too.
There is a parliament and a government and an opposition going on in Canberra, but all the media are giving us is a Brangelina obsession with Rudd and Gillard. Another Parliamentary year has begun ... and a sense of weary déjà vu pervades the country. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is…
Drag0nista has hacked through the jungle of the Australian polity and found the Lost Tribe. Does any party have enough beads and blankets to lure them across the river? There’s a group of Australians that I’m beginning to think of as the lost tribe. They’re average people in most ways.…
If we keep selfishly buying all the things online, who will shopping centre owners gouge? I was raised in retail. My Dad owned a service station and, from a young age, I worked there on weekends and during school holidays. This was back in the era before self-serve was the…
“You’re driving down a road in the desert, and the engine suddenly stops... no Pep Boys, no Auto Club to help. Whether the road continues is of no consequence. It has ended for you.” — Edwin Schniedman, who died at 90, predicting the nature of his own death.
The Murray Darling Basin Plan is far more complex, and important, than the “Greenies vs farmers” argument the media have been focussed on. In regional Australia, water is life. Where I live, the city of Orange in central west New South Wales, we came pretty close to running out a…
Chronic pain is more than just pain; it takes over your life and becomes your identity. At least there’s some hope for some of us.
Everyone has a book in them, most of which should never see the light. Many of us also have a rockstar inside, nearly all of which should be treated like the book. When I was young, I dreamed of being a rock star. I dreamed of playing stadiums, or rather…
What will archaeologists think of our culture when all that’s left of it is dead iPhones? It is saidi that future archaeologists will assume that the early twenty-first century was a terrible dark age, because all the information that we have converted to or created as binary states on fragile,…
Do, or do not. There is no “To Do List”.
ACROSS 1 Useless, like Blue Velvet without Frank Booth and missing the quiet (2,5) 5 Sticky, sweet from a gum, say, around a hundred and fifty (7) 9 Undo west, undone then ravelled (5) 10 Confused, rippled muscles quietly rather thank loudly after each (9) 11 Guts of a leggy…
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