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Raunch culture and the growth of the 'designer vagina'
Posted: 20 Nov 09 | BRITNEY Spears' singing prowess may be deeply suspect but she can thrust her genitals at a camera with aplomb. | CommentsComments (0)
Twilight girls learn to give up all for love
Posted: 19 Nov 09 | When I was growing up, my literary heroine was Josephine March from Little Women. Jo was a lanky tomboy with no interest in frocks or gentlemen. While her sisters flirted and fretted about their noses, Jo scribbled in the attic, dreaming of becoming a writer. | CommentsComments (2)
Uncouth Poms beat us at our own game
Posted: 12 Nov 09 | The English have become yobs, and the Australians, snobs. | CommentsComments (3)
God is good, but just be sure not to take Him too literally
Posted: 10 Nov 09 | One reason why Christian faith has declined in the West is because of the reliance placed on a literal reading of the testaments. Such an approach has tangled the Christian faith in a confusion of contradictions. | CommentsComments (13)
Bringing poll dancing to the polls
Posted: 09 Nov 09 | In something of an "F" you to conservative politics, the Australian Sex Party's leader Fiona Patten announced her candidacy for the seat of Higgins. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 05 Nov 09 | As a feminist, I struggle with the Spring Racing Carnival. | CommentsComments (10)
Posted: 29 Oct 09 | Michael Jackson and John Safran are peas in a pod, two sides of the same coin, ebony and ivory on the keyboard in perfect harmony. Seriously. | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 26 Oct 09 | A flurry of books bashing religion are making best-seller lists and grabbing a lot of attention. | CommentsComments (47)
Posted: 20 Oct 09 | The BBC has tweaked children's nursery rhymes, including Humpty Dumpty, to ensure it has a happy ending. | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 19 Oct 09 | 'Great gig, eh?'' the drunk at the pub sprayed at me as we stood at the urinal on Saturday night. | CommentsComments (4)
Posted: 19 Oct 09 | Eight nights ago Channel Nine's 60 Minutes ran a blood-curdling story about the herding and slaughter of dolphins near the Japanese fishing town of Taiji, describing what it called the ''Dante's inferno'' for dolphins. It was harrowing. It was also a classic case of Australians in glass houses. | CommentsComments (6)
Posted: 07 Oct 09 | I need to make a public apology. I am deeply sorry for travelling on planes with my children when they were babies and toddlers. I am ashamed. I am remorseful. I am scum. | CommentsComments (29)
Posted: 07 Oct 09 | In sentencing the mother of Ebony - the seven-year-old girl from Hawks Nest who died of starvation - to life and her father to 12 years, Justice Robert Hulme of the NSW Supreme Court got one thing right. Their crime was reprehensible. No lesser sentence would have done. Nothing excuses her parents' inaction. | CommentsComments (6)
Forgiving fans in a league of their own
Posted: 02 Oct 09 | As a member of the National Rugby League board for the past five seasons, I am only too familiar with off-field incidents. Each in isolation brought shame to the game and those who love it. Collectively it seemed to reach almost epidemic proportions. | CommentsComments (8)
Should gyms intervene if someone has an eating disorder?
Posted: 29 Sep 09 | don't go to the gym as regularly as I should, but each time I do, Amy is there too. While I'm trying to wake up on the treadmill, Amy is coming out of the early morning aerobics class, after an hour-long workout. While others head to the showers, Amy heads to the bicycles. | CommentsComments (1)
Jury in on heroin ban
Posted: 24 Sep 09 | We don't need a debate about heroin-assisted treatment. We should be providing this now to the small minority with very severe problems who have not benefited from repeated episodes of other treatments | CommentsComments (4)
Posted: 17 Sep 09 | Successive governments have done little to weaken Telstra's advantage over its competitors. It controls the infrastructure they depend upon. It has been permitted to dominate every platform and every service, from telephones, to pay TV, to mobile telephones, to broadband. | CommentsComments (5)
Let our young women find their own way
Posted: 17 Sep 09 | Any parent can tell you that from age five kids work out that peers are the ones to impress and measure yourself against. This peaks during adolescence when popular culture becomes the way they express and construct themselves. | CommentsComments (6)
Weddings? I prefer funerals - they're far more real
Posted: 16 Sep 09 | I quite like going to weddings. I just prefer funerals - the chat's more earthy, you hear more secrets, you don't have to buy a present and there's no group on the balcony muttering: ''I give it three months, tops.'' | CommentsComments (8)
Posted: 16 Sep 09 | It's normal in times of financial uncertainty, or even at other times, to call for reductions in immigrant numbers. It has always been a false response. We are part of a world of political and climatic uncertainty, in which for economic and political reasons people are on the move. | CommentsComments (6)
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