Predatory cosmetic surgery barbarians must be made accountable for the harm they cause
Stop the mutilation of women’s bodies for profit! If you missed ABC Four Corners searing expose of Australia’s cosmetic surgery industry and its callous disregard for the health and wellbeing of women, you really should take a look. You will see how the cosmetic surgery industry preys on the body angst of vulnerable women and […]
‘I learnt to act like porn stars so boys would like me’ – Jemima tells MTR how her life changed when exposed to porn at 10
‘I shaved my pubic hair and became highly sexual…my innocence was stolen from me’ Jemima (her real name withheld by request) is a 19 year old university student living in Melbourne. At age 10 she saw pornography for the first time. Her life began to unravel, culminating in sexual assault by a group of teen […]
PREMIER: Stop “sex” advertising on my kid’s school bus
Strippers, sex hotlines, nudity — explicit images are being splashed across our kid’s school buses. Right now, buses are picking up school kids with these inappropriate ads for the upcoming adult sex event, Sexpo! As a mum of three young kids who regularly use public transport for school and sporting activities, I was appalled to […]
Stop the sex industry from advertising pornography and prostitution services to children.
One of the tactics predators use to groom children for sexual abuse is exposing them to pornography. Yet the Ad Standards Board permits the sex industry to target children in advertisements for pornography and prostitution services. The ASB gives free rein to the sex industry to advertise sexual services in public spaces, including areas frequented […]
Pornified breasts and the shaming of breast feeding
The most potent and powerful expose of the hypocrisy that is the public pornification of breasts and the shaming of breast feeding mothers.
What are we doing to mothers? Antonella Gambotto-Burke asks in her new book ‘Mama’
The exceptional Australian author, journalist, literary critic and essayist Antonella Gambotto-Burke, is on the verge of releasing her latest book Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love. When I first began reading Antonella’s books and essays (in Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Rolling Stone and elsewhere), I was taken aback by the quality and eloquence of […]
The Princess saves the Knight: MTR on Channel 10 Wake Up
The Princess saves the Knight? Aussie kids’ gender stereotypes in 2014 Click on image below to watch video clip.