Dark undercurrents of teenage girls’ selfies

18 Jul 2013

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Pouty self portraits have turned boy-girl relations into a cut-throat sexual rat race. If social media only caused narcissism, it...

Willow Smith has a great voice. But should she be singing about a ‘summer fling’ at 12?

17 Jul 2013

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Is this Willow expressing herself? Or the coming-of-age fantasy invented for her by adults? Willow Smith is 12. In her...

Surfer Cori Schumacher: Who is losing when sex is sold?

16 Jul 2013

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‘Roxy and the “sex sells” agenda of surf corporations a la Big Surfing are completely disconnected from what we know...

The ugly truth is rules are different for girls in sport

15 Jul 2013

Fairfax, MTR in the Media

My first column with Fairfax As a teenage girl growing up in country Victoria, I was an avid reader of...

The best defence of breastfeeding in public ever

12 Jul 2013

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Hollie McNish rejects public shaming for breastfeeding her daughter I have breastfed four babies. I’m a big fan. I know...

The publicly visible spread of casual porn

11 Jul 2013

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Perhaps we should decide, as a society, whether we are happy to allow two groups – media moguls and the...