Yesterday in Canberra, there were two public rallies, both concerned with the same issue, both at polar opposite ends of their respective argumentative spectrum. On the one hand, you had a pro-wind farm rally, organised by GetUp! (never forget the exclamation mark!), featuring Christine Milne and Tony Windsor as speakers. An estimated 1,000 people attended. […]
So I guess it’s my turn to pen a reply to Kath. Earlier today she wrote a piece here on AusVotes whose central thesis was that ‘I don’t believe that women are more the victim than men, or that the sexism is better or worse than other varieties of insults.’ Sorry Kath, but this is […]
One of the more disappointing parts of this gender war the PM seems to love stoking is the many voices that say things like ‘they wouldn’t treat her like that if she were a man’. Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick and her predecessor and now NSW Minister for Women Pru Goward were among the more prominent […]
Can we imagine, for a moment, two possible eventualities that could confront us on September 15, both apparently quite unlikely; a re-elected Gillard government and a re-elected Rudd government. What would they do? We have had a three-year period wherein, despite how you may feel about the government, there has been some fairly serious legislation […]
There has been much discussion since the – I think we can all agree disastrous – launch of the ‘Women for Labor’ campaign about whether abortion should be back on the table again or not. This flowed from Gillard’s quote “Finally but very importantly, we don’t want to live in an Australia where abortion again […]
From the now infamous menu and Howard Sattler’s treatment of Julia Gillard, to disturbing photos of Nigella Lawson being strangled by her husband in British tabloids. If it sounds like a long bow, a slippery slope, or a tenuous link, I’d suspect you have little, or no, experience of the clear and direct path between a […]
Here’s the next instalments of Stranger Than Fiction. It being a lazy Sunday, we’ve listed five instead of the usual two: Week 5: In which unnatural acts are committed, a marriage collapses and an enemy is explained Week 6: In which ties are broken, new plans are hatched and a search party heads forth to the […]
* Note – unfortunately the audio was a problem this episode so I recommend listening with headphones. Well what a week in Federal Politics it has been. I hope that you have all managed to keep yourselves clear from the mudslinging and bitterness that has befallen our politicians over the past 48 hours! Perhaps if […]
One of the chief weaknesses of political reporting and blogging in the leadup to the 2013 election is assertions. Assertions that x will happen because of y – and the y is usually based on evidence that is part gutfeel and part reading media reports through an already constructed prism. It would be good to […]
I used to think the argument that Prime Minister Gillard has been excessively targeted for abuse was a pretty dubious proposition. I used to think that although there was clearly some elements of sexism amongst some of the criticism and abuse, you could easily find equivalents in, say, the casually anti-catholic nature of some of […]
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