The Para Hills West Soccer Club in Adelaide seems to have missed the memo. By Coralie Alison With a new focus on objectification of women, abuse, violence, sexism and misogyny, Para Hills West decides not only to host a ‘Men’s Night’ fundraiser – but advertise it at the club for all the junior boys to […]
Comment: Why the art world is blind to sex crime If you are an artist and you abuse a child, never fear: the art world has your back, writes Melinda Tankard Reist. Artists who commit sexual violations are too often considered above the law and deserving of special treatment. Their brilliance is given deferential treatment: […]
Photos found in paedophile collections I haven’t seen the latest photographs by artist Bill Henson to go on show at Tolarno Galleries in Melbourne. But I have seen these. So I know what Henson is capable of and how he likes to depicts and shoot young girls. The girl (image to the right) who featured naked […]
The disease destroys the lives of too many girls: don’t mock it on a t.shirt [Trigger warning for eating disorder sufferers] A number of my young women friends are very ill with Anorexia Nervosa. Three have come close to death a number of times. I want them to stay alive. They want to live too. Some […]
January 11, 2010 CHILD protection group Bravehearts has welcomed recommendations by a NSW government panel to scrap the defence of “artistic merit” in the use of child pornography images. Read the full article in The Australian
Clive Hamilton has written a commendable piece about the way artistic men who commit sexual crimes are considered above the law and deserving of special treatment. I’ve been thinking a lot about this since a piece in The Australian last week defending Roman Polanski who was just so clever and such a wonderful person and […]
