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Shame! Shame! Shame!
Shame, Rage – and a great sadness. This is what I felt after watching John Pilger’s ‘Utopia’ on Saturday night on SBS. Shame, for myself and all Australians, that our First Nation’s people live in...
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It’s them – not us
Funding announcement for domestic violence – is it about violence against women or another chance to vilify other cultures? Last week the Federal Government announced $100 million dollars to address...
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Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
This is an amazing, compassionate book. But it is not easy to read. It is set during the Nigeria-Biafra civil war of 1967-1970. As I began to read distant television images from that time (when I was...
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In memory of Malalai Kakar
(Lana Slezic produced a body of work on women in Afghanistan for the World Press) Malalai Kakar She was murdered by the Taliban. “She was the pinnacle of strength in...
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Rape is about Power
Sexual assault, rape, child sexual abuse – whatever it is called is about power not sex. (From Greens Senator Sarah Hanson Young) And nowhere can this be exemplified but at Nauru where reports of...
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Misogyny and Racism – the norm in Australian political discourse
“”I thought you might like to hear a man’s voice,” Senator Barry O’Sullivan’s voice boomed during a fiery Senate estimates hearing on Tuesday morning.” Sarah Whyte,The Age Australian Human Rights...
View ArticleBreaking the silence about white Australian men’s abuse of children
This is an article written by Marcus Waters in The Conversation. I have quoted certain aspects of this article: “I have seen firsthand how child sexual abuse is rife in every part of the Australian...
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Racism and Misogyny
Racism and misogyny are at the heart of our two major parties. But what else would we expect from a white imperialist, capitalist, patriarchal system. Policies of both of the major parties over...
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Atticus is a Racist Harper Lee ‘Go Set a Watchman’
This book sat on my coffee table for a week. I was too scared to read it. As I have written previously, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee is one of my all-time favourite books. And I had heard...
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“Suffragette”
I had the privilege of seeing this film yesterday. I thought it was brilliant. My heart was in my mouth for most of the film, and by the end when they showed the real footage of women marching in...
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Same Old Patriarchal Crap: Abuse and violence against refugee women and...
The Guardian recently published leaked documents of hundreds of pages of abuse and sexual assault of women and children on Nauru’s off-shore refugee detention centre. Much of this abuse appears to...
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