We will continue to #boycottWestfield Despite 58,000 signatures on a change.org petition to its CEOs, a national day of boycott held Friday, a deluge of phone calls, emails and social media posts, and significant risk of loss of reputation and brand damage, Westfield continue to absolve itself of responsibility for the advertising behaviour of tenant […]
Honey Birdette stores are not a powerful look for women Susie O’Brien November 13, 2017 WHAT are “pleasure parlours” packed with raunchy lingerie, sex toys and bondage items such as whips, paddles, bridles and harnesses doing in the middle of mainstream shopping centres? I don’t blame one Melbourne father for objecting this week to the […]
Surrogacy industry a return to the dark days Adelaide couple Mark and Matt, both 29, have acquired Thai-designed newborns Tate and Estelle through commercialised surrogacy overseas. According to Adelaide’s Sunday Mail, the dual boy-girl delivery an hour apart by caesarean section to separate surrogate women for gay parents is believed to be an Australian first. These […]
Melinda Tankard Reist Rosie became pregnant at 17 last year. She was labelled a slut. Melissa, 14, ran away from home so her parents couldn’t force her to have an abortion. Jackie, 33, had a violent partner who didn’t want their baby. There was no public housing available and refuges were full. She […]
If Tracy Connelly were alive today and living in France, it’s possible she might have found a way out of prostitution. She would have at least known that the society she lived in cared enough to want to help her out. But Tracy lived in Australia and was murdered on July 21, by a man […]
MTR column Sunday Molly, 16, (at their request, only first names are used) was asleep in the home of a friend after a party a year ago when a boy snuck into the room. The schoolgirl from regional NSW says she felt powerless. ”I felt threatened. I guess I knew he wasn’t going to take […]
In the pornified music world populated by churned-out female pop stars pumping and grinding to a sexualised script, cavorting semi-naked and presented as sexually insatiable, we see Miley Cyrus simulating sex acts while denuded of real sexuality. While many around the world condemned what was seen as an overtly sexualised performance at the recent MTV […]
Parole board failures a matter of life and death When murderer John Coombes was convicted for a second murder, what did the Adult Parole Board do? Let him out of prison in 2007 to murder his friend, foster mother Raechel Betts, and throw her body parts into the sea. When violent offender William Watkins was […]
