Did you even know Australia had a Federal Children’s Commissioner? We don’t hear that much from her – so thought we would try to get her attention and involvement on this. Let her know you want her to act by signing the petition today! Condemn & Take Action to Stop Exploitative Universal Royalty Child Beauty […]
Child Exploitation Forum March 20 Miss Representation Film Screening When: Saturday March 22nd 7:30pm-9:30pm (90 min feature followed by panel discussion with Melinda Tankard Reist, Calvin Taylor and others) Where: Crossway Centre Main Auditorium 2 Vision Drive, Burwood East, 3151 Cost: Gold coin donation at the door (all proceeds go to Collective Shout) Like drawing […]
Former MP guilty of sex offences receives suspended sentence Today I am thinking about a 15-year-old Tasmanian girl and what she thinks of the Australian justice system. I’m wondering if she is questioning if it was worth taking her harrowing ordeal to the courts to find no justice at the end of the process. At […]
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 […]
Calling on Federal Minister Peter Garrett and Victoria counterpart Wendy Lovell to intervene Collective Shout has initiated a petition in response to the news that a US pageant company plans to import its child beauty competitions to Australia. You can find the petition on the Care2 petition site . Please sign and circulate it through […]
Nina Funnell writes that girls are learning to read their value as a person in terms of how their physical appearance is received by others. “Destiny enjoys singing, dancing and, of course, pageantry” announces the beauty pageant’s MC as a made-up blonde in a white gown sashays across the stage. Did I mention that Destiny […]
Teaching girls their value is in their physical beauty Many readers will have seen the documentary Toddlers and Tiaras revealing the child exploitation that is the US beauty pageant industry. A five year old begging not to have her eyebrows ripped out. Little girls preening, strutting, pouting, beckoning to the judges ‘come here baby’, kissing their […]
