Tag Archive | Australia
Independent Women “Syndrome”? Further attacks on women!
Today I got yet another shock. I have written recently about attacks on women from men who live in a delusional fantasy world about the roles of the sexes in life. Dear Max Tomlinson was written in response to a particularly strange Australian and before that I wrote about the repeal of some legislation in Equal Pay […]
David Manne brings High Court challenge
Eight days ago I wrote “Ranjini needs our help to encourage the government to find a better way“. As can be seen from the content and links in the article, I wasn’t the only one very concerned about the situation. Last night David Manne, Executive Director, Refugee & Immigration Legal Centre, announced on Twitter he had: Just […]
Ranjini needs our help to encourage the government to find a better way
There has also been media coverage. Below is a quotation from Ranjini’s husband in an article appearing in The Age. “We were happy and the kids were even happier … we wanted to start new life with hope. But now we are shocked…We are separated. There has been too much pain before. Are we going […]
Australia’s refugee intake – Budget 2012
I’ll admit tonight I am VERY confused. I happened to notice the budget statement in relation to our humanitarian visa program for the 2012 -2013 year. “‘Australia resettles the third largest number of refugees of any country, and we resettle more refugees, per capita, than any other nation” http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/cb/2012/cb186539.htm Now this seemed, to me, to […]
Unbalanced article fuels moral panic
This morning I glanced at Twitter and noticed @SandiHLogan of DIAC sending messages to @MirandaDevine (Daily Telegraph journalist), criticising her article titled, emotively, “Fooled by a ship of frauds“. Stupidly, I had to stick my nose in, didn’t I? In for a penny, in for a pound, so from Twitter to my own article. Edit: Since I published […]
L for Laconic Larrikinism
Aussies have a rep. A couple of reps, actually. A reputation for being laconic (I’m not, but I can be excused for having been born elsewhere) and a reputation for being larrikins. I might have been one of those in my younger days: I am way, way too old to be one now! 😉 I […]
Entitlement Mentality: a personal perspective
All forms of media has been nothing short of drowning in Joe Hockey’s suggestion that Australia has an entitlement mentality which needs to be cut back. I am only going to link to one article, for the benefit of our many overseas readers, because this is my personal perspective. I am not entering into the […]
Dear Max Tomlinson
Recently I blasted the Governor of Wisconsin for his weird attitude to women, never dreaming a man in Australia could top it. Well, bloody hell, Max Tomlinson managed to leave me fearing for the future of equality of women yet again. I thought I’d drop Max a little note, but as I don’t have his email, […]
Equality does not mean sameness
On my recent article Bullying isn’t cool, Nancy of Spirit Lights The Way commented: When we accept ourselves “as is,” we are more able to shrug off the irrelevant opinions of others. Instead of poisoning ourselves by internalizing the hate, ignorance, and fear demonstrated by the bullies of life (who are trying to make themselves […]
K for Koala
Choosing a topic for the K instalment of Our A – Z of Australia was easy. Koala. Oh, all right, I could have gone for Kangaroo. That just seemed a little too easy. Besides, I wrote about kangaroo when we had a lovely dinner. My mother chose to have her photo taken at Sydney Zoo […]
Random Observations of Life 