beauty, body image, BodyMattersAustralasia, Eating Disorders, fashion, Herald Sun, Mercedez Benz Fashion Week, modelling, photoshop, Vogue australia
16 Apr 2013
WHEN fashion publishers feel they have to use photo-shop to ‘‘fatten up’’ models in a major fashion event before they...
30 Rock, Chortle, collective shout, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Regent Theatre, sexual assault, Tracy Morgan, violence against women
14 Apr 2013
Call on Regal Theatre to pull Morgan off the program How much more women-hating are we expected to endure? And...
collective shout, corporate social responsibility, date rape, Kanye West, protest, rape, Reebok, Rick Ross, sexual assault, Social media, UltraViolet, violence against women
13 Apr 2013
‘We showed companies all over the world that rewarding rape is not just wrong, it’s a bad marketing strategy’ So...
anorexia, body image, BodyMatters Australasia, bulimia, butterfly foundation, dieting, Dr Rick Kausman, Eating Disorders, fat shaming, Health, obesity, Sarah McMahon, sunday herald sun, The Biggest Loser, weight loss
12 Apr 2013
Following my Sunday Herald Sun column critical of ‘The Biggest Loser’ last week , I heard from a number of...
10 Apr 2013
Tacky show is not worth the weight REALITY weight-loss show The Biggest Loser claims to be all about health –...
adoption, apology, biological origins, Change.org, donor conception, donor eggs, donor sperm, genetics, IVF, reproductive technology, secrecy, sperm donor, sunday herald sun, surrogacy, Victorian Government
1 Apr 2013
Time to end the subterfuge WHEN Lauren Burns listened to the Prime Minister’s national apology to those who suffered forcible...
Beauty Redefined, body image, Channel 7 Weekend Sunrise, Danielle Egan, Eating Disorders, objectification, P*rnography, sexual assault, Sexualisation, sexuality, teens, Victoria Secret
On Saturday I appeared on Weekend Sunrise with Danielle Egan, US author of a new book which argues concerns about...
dolly magazine
29 Mar 2013
If Dolly wasn’t persisting with its Model Search competition, which returned last year having been sensibly done away with by...
afl, crimes against women, domestic violence, Ricky Nixon, status of women, The Project, VAW, violence against women
27 Mar 2013
When disgraced AFL player manager Ricky Nixon attacked his then fiancée Tegan Gould, he grabbed her by the throat, pushed...
#nomorepage3, Brendan O’Neill, Change.org, equality, free speech, freedom of the press, media, objectification, Sexualisation, status of women, The Australian, The Sun, women’s human rights
25 Mar 2013
Topless women in newspapers are not ‘tough, rough, challenging’ ideas’ In a piece titled ‘Politician-Led Attack on Media Freedom is...
Girlfriend
22 Mar 2013
Girl Mag Watch Important articles on the dangers of sexting and pressures on girls to deliver oral sex There are...
body image, childhood, children, collective shout, Kmart, objectification, Sexualisation, Today Tonight, tweens
21 Mar 2013
There’s been a ton of media coverage on the adultification and sexualisation of children lately. This program aired on Channel...
