- Caesareans. Women too often are conned into them. Sunday, September 9th, 2012
The great birthing con is taking choice away from women
Australia’s caesarean rate is too high, but the Government is too scared to take on the doctors’ lobby and legislate for midwife care.
AUSTRALIA’S caesarean rate of more than 30 per cent is disgraceful. The World Health Organisation recommends a caesarean rate ...
Read more - Trolls. Don’t fertilize hate. Give no oxygen to trolls. Monday, September 3rd, 2012
Take the power back and block hate followers.
I REMEMBER when I was about 14 slagging off some poor girl with my classmates. I thought how horrible what we were doing was and how glad I was it wasn’t me being bitched about. I comforted myself with the knowledge that at least she didn’t know.
I then ...
Read more - Private Schools. Anyone who supports them enables discrimination. End of. Monday, August 27th, 2012
The public/private schooling debate hit the news again last week, sparking debate over government funding of those schools – and how the Australian government will respond to the Gonski report.
Catherine Deveny, an outspoken advocate of public education, tells us why she’s so passionate on the topic – and where she believes Abbott and Gillard are going ...
Read more - Asylum Seekers. Advance Australia Unfair ABC The Drum Monday, August 27th, 2012
Whether Peter Reith and the Howard government did actually ‘stop the boats’ is contestable.
That the policy to ‘stop the boats’ caused misery, loss of life, loss of face, corroded our national reputation irreversibly, made the international community think of Australia as a bunch of redneck racists, reneged on our international obligation as signatories to the UN Refugee ...
Read more - I just finished 50 Shades Of Grey And I Feel As If I Have Had An Abortion. A review… Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Catherine Deveny explains why 50 Shades of Grey is one of the worst books she’s ever read, with terrible writing and sexual politics alike – but she’s still really glad that people are reading, talking about and being turned on by it.
A few hours after I finished 50 Shades, I found myself at Costco.
I’m not proud of it, ...
Read more - Freedom of speech. Unabridged speech from Intelligence Squared Debate 8 May 2012 Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Topic: Freedom Of Speech Is Over-Rated. I spoke for the affirmative.
Not only is freedom of speech overrated the claim we actually have freedom of speech, as opposed to a perception of freedom of speech, is not only ludicrous but deeply offensive to those with the inability to exercise freedom of speech. Which is most of ...
Read more - My ten point response to offensorati trolls Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
1. Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right.
2. I’ve had cancer. It’s not all bad, you get free biscuits.
3. My nana died of arse cancer and I have a high chance of contracting it. Not just because of our genetic predisposition but because I have enjoyed a lot of anal sex with uncircumsised men.
Read more - Fairfax may own The Age but it belongs to Melbourne Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
I wrote this for The Age in 2008 and the wouldn’t publish it.
Isn’t this newspaper about varied voices, rigorous discussion and dissecting the important issues that affect us all? Isn’t Melbourne the place where we love a chat and are not afraid, indeed we relish a stoush, an argument and a heated discussion about what’s ...
Read more - School. Clipboard holding school shoppers. GET A LIFE! Sunday, June 17th, 2012
IT’S that time of year when parents begin wringing their sweaty palms about where their child should start school next year. I laughed like a drain when I heard reports of parents at primary school open days with clipboards. I didn’t believe it, of course, until a mate told me that several of her mother’s ...
Read more - Domestic Violence. Going the thump on misogynists response to Roxon. Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
Nicola Roxon and all involved are today’s heroes after this magnificent triumph for victims of domestic violence.
This incredible justice has been met with tantrums from some, who I can only assume are abusers or sympathetic to abusers because they conveniently prop up many of their beliefs and prejudices. These people assert changes in the law ...
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