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'LONE WOLF' TERRORISM
The ghastly story of a bloody murder on a London street in broad daylight highlights the rising threat of lone-wolf terrorism. LUCY CLARK reports.
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EQUALITY. INCLUSION. RESPECT.
There are three pillars of feminism: none of them can hold up the concept without the others. ANNE SUMMERS explains why women need to fight for each of them.
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THE CANCER AT THE SOUL OF SPORT
What are the odds of the government performing another backflip on live betting during sporting broadcasts? TRACEY SPICER places her bet.
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A FACE WELL LIVED
She once tried Botox (it hurt like a bitch), but MRS WOOG has since learnt to look after the lines and spots on her face. They tell the story of a life well lived. (SP)
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ONE BLESSED MOMENT IN OKLAHOMA
As a Moore resident tells a news crew how she lost her home and dog in the Oklahoma tornado, a miracle happens.
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I PUT MY MONEY ON O'FARRELL
Barry O'Farrell's support of Gonski gives hope to voters who love good ideas. But straying from the election year script has its issues, says GABRIELLE CHAN.
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BLOODY OUCH! THE PAIN OF 'BEAUTY'
Oh, the lengths women go to in order to achieve 'beauty'. These x-rays from 1908 show the constriction of a woman's ribs during the process of strapping on a corset.
- Agree Mrs Woog. I have always been a face washer and soap girl with slatherings of moisturisers, mostly supermarket brands. Any thoughts of going under the knife has all been cured by a partial mastectomy last month, and now going bald with chemo my 57 year old face is very exposed to my scrutiny everyday. Following the initial shock of seeing myself so exposed, wrinkles, sun spots etc after i shaved my head, so as not to leave a trail of hair wherever i went, I decided to love it and wear it. I am still me. Chemo, lopsided boobs, Botox, and boob jobs won't change that. I don't wear wigs, put my red lippy and big earrings on everyday and thank the goddesses that I live in this country, with a happy healthy loving family and a good health system! - Toni
- The inclusion of women on the basis women are the same as men, the competitive, merit based approach utilised over the past century to enable women to achieve the same skill levels as men, is, at the same time, the contemporary source of disrespect for women. If women were the same as men they would never have been discriminated against for being women in the first place, but because they were, the gap in skill levels has had to be overcome in the transition to equality. Respect is engendered with inclusion on the basis of difference, the diversity approach, currently emerging, which concludes the transition. If women were included equitably in Australia’s parliaments on the basis of difference, each parliament would have a women’s legislature operating in tandem with a men’s legislature, presided over by a council of governors or governors-general comprising an equal number of women and men. Australia is at the forefront of the transition from competition to diversity, a process which should culminate with a referendum on the provision of a women’s legislature in the Federal parliament with the question: “Do you agree to amend the Constitution to enable equal rights between women and men?”. - philip
- Meanwhile, I like that old feminist motto "Question Authority" - ro.watson
- Yip, equality. Yip, inclusion. Yip, respect for any effort and example and yip, respect for being there when you have a capacity to say what this is and is not like, and was and was not like, for those coming after you. - ro.watson
- Gracie 123 totally agree I don't mind having a flutter on the Melbourne Cup in the form of a Sweep ,but this gambling on everything is abhorrent the Waterhouse's and the like sicken me.They get their wealth on the weakness of others.px be on them and theirs - Sarah
- I am a single, childless, woman in midlife; educated, work experienced and apparently - unemployable. In the domestic sphere, I have no problems with respect - as I am master of my own household. I own property, pay taxes etc etc. However, beyond the domestic sphere - in the world at large, I feel powerless. And why? Because I can't get a job. And so my economic independence on a 1 to 10 scale is zero. I see personal economic security as key to self respect, and my full participation in society. In Australia now - I am encountering unavoidable barriers that stop me gaining the employment, that enables me to be economically independent - and enjoy my individual sense of power - as a modern woman. To employers and recruiters - I am invisible. Is it because of my age? Is it because of my gender? I think it's a combination of both. But where the "disrespect" originates - I think is not limited to one sex or the other. I think that women (including educated and powerful women) can be disrespectful toward their own gender. I know this from experience on the workplace floor (and social observation). We are all competitive animals. As for respect? Any politician (female or male) that takes strong and clear action to remove the barriers that inhibit my "employability" is showing a respect for my rights and entitlements as an individual. Gender shouldn't enter the equation. This is why I find it tiring to see parliamentary time absorbed by the "misogyny debate". Ordinary women from the lower thresholds of society, do not have this luxury. Some will curse me - but when I see various female politicians accusing this one or that one of being sexist - all I see is the indulgent banter of women with a particular agenda, and the luxury of a political platform and well paid career path. I feel disconnected from their world. If I saw them speaking up about the crucial issuing affecting ordinary women (and men) I would feel more inspired by this topic and their actions. - Patrice
- Anyway not sure about the notion of "lone wolves" .A search and finding of belonging takes many forms~ I am not sure how many acts which harm and hurt single or multiple people are "organised" though I suppose people can get skilled in how to hurt and maim other people, and do this hurting.... and remember this hurting when the ones they loved or knew were hurt or killed too etc.....? - ro.watson
- This is the problem Jenna, most Australians forget or don't know exactly why it is Australia has troops over there at all. You and your partner have my deepest and utmost respect. Take care. - Tracey
- Blood oath Kev. Unfortunately, if psycho's like these 2 are not murdering in the name of religion, they'll find something else to murder in the name of. - Sandy
- Totally ridiculous and laughable examples, particularly the first two. The Governor-General arrived on a day where the most important people on the Tarmac were the Diggers being sent home in coffins. End of story. The troops watching the footy may have not long been back from being somewhere or doing something we can't even begin to understand. Watching the footy is a small part of home in a nightmare place they live in day in and day out. Get a grip....ithe way they were treated had nothing to do with mysoginy, the fact they are women or lack of respect, they were on an Army Base, not at a Parliamentary garden party! - Tracey
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