Blaming the victim is a very convenient way of deflecting attention from the perpetrator. Always has been. It allows the perpetrator to becomes invisible and protected in the transaction. When one looks at a crime of sexual assault, the questions are always why was the victim in the place/situation without suitable dress/protection/ and was the victim unsuitably dressed/ drunk/in the wrong company/ too young to be out alone. Questions are asked which relate to the sexual history, life-style and moral character of the victim, and to the conduct of the victims parents. WHERE is the perpetrator in this debate? Now, compare this with the violent assault on young men outside night clubs where injuries have necessitated intensive care. The focus is immediately on the perpetrator, as it should be. Until the focus is ALWAYS on the perpetrator, and not on the victim, there will be injustice. - Nel Matheson
@Vicki , Lucky you , unfortunately I live in Melbourne . Enjoy. - Carole/m
I'm fairly well organised. Have to be really. Run a full- time business and a home. Kids have flown, so no more emergency in-handbag stuff for them, but a small handbag does seem to work in limiting the detritus. Have two small tasteful zipper bags within handbag, one with all the essentials above mentioned, and one with keys, wallet, phone. I also like a clean hanky or two. The home gets a lick and a promise each week and a blood-letting clean about every 8 weeks. No-one cares if I don't have sparkling windows and immaculate cob-web free rafters on the verandah, so why should I? The only way I can do this is if I clean up after myself, whatever I'm doing - at home or at work. The less mess I make, the less mess later on to clean up. And forgive me, but I'm also a chucker, not a keeper. If I haven't used it for two years, it's history. It works. - Nel Matheson
Amen but please get this beyond the Hoopla. I enjoy the Hoopla but I fear a preaching to the converted problem here. More people need to read this. I haven’t read the comments. I find them at times disturbing. But I believe any rational Australian woman of 2013 cannot refute the truth of the horrendous sexism exposed still in Australia by us having a female PM. And I continue to hope an ethical, knowledgeable, courageous and only ambitious ‘within reason’ human being will rise to the top and make your scarily psychic predictions about future decisions wrong. - lessa
Good lord, who would buy those, and no, it won't stop the perverts! - Will Marshall
Hi Ian . You might remember also in the first two years of the Howard Government ( I'm going from memory here ) seven Ministers were forced to step down . I'll have to see if I can find the site I found this information on but it did provide info. on every Australian Government . Cheers. - Carole/m
@ Brew: "your need to resort to personal insults instead of having a discussion says more about your character than I think you realise." You're right Brew I'm certainly no angel and I don't suffer fools gladly. I mistook your comment to mean you were unable to discern policy differences b/w the major parties, an oft-heard complaint from a younger generation too lazy to engage intellectually with politics. Commonly heard from the mouths of Green voters too. You're right of course in saying their core principles are not so far apart. I think you'll find that goes back to the '80s when Hawke took a giant step to the right and captured the middle ground. Keating consolidated by focussing our minds on the economy, traditionally Liberal territory, rather than social reform itself (except for Mabo which cost him office). All this forced the Libs to move right in order to differentiate themselves, and we saw that under Howard who ultimately went a step too far with WorkChoices. Rudd/Gillard brought us back to the centre and now the LNP must try to stay right without mentioning industrial relations. That's impossible of course, but they've been gifted a woman PM which has enabled them to Destroy the Joint and thereby escape the policy debate. They don't need to defeat the government's argument, they just need to tear down its leader and wreck the Parliament, while Murdoch suppresses the government's message. Consequently we don't know much about them - they're not coming to power by the traditional route, they've manage to usurp parliamentary democracy, which we haven't seen since the Dismissal in '75. We really can't pinpoint them on the political spectrum, I expect they'll swing widely in the years ahead according to whether Abbott, Hockey, or Turnbull is leader. I'm a Labor voter myself for one reason only - history shows all this country's progress has been achieved under Labor governments, including steering us safely through WW2. Australia stagnates or even goes backwards under Lib govts - no better example of stagnation than under Menzies and Howard, and Abbott has already declared he wants to reverse direction on virtually every front. Obviously we need a strong Conservative party to moderate the usual excesses prone to by Progressive parties, but that relies on democracy which for the moment has been hijacked - principally because the Fourth Estate itself has been hijacked in this country. Of course, there's no place in that system for a third party. We only need to look to the Greens to see the danger of handing the balance of power to minor parties. It was the Greens who precipitated our current woes by blocking Rudd's ETS, which gave Abbott a platform on which to challenge Turnbull. Which reminds me - he won by 1 vote! - Tony W
@Looby Loo and Serene...I am so with you! People call me a control freak like it's a bad thing! LOL ! being organised and getting rid of STUFF really does change your life and frees your time for more interesting things than digging around in handbags and cupboards such as commenting on Hoopla articles! :-) - Pea
Looks like my winter legs. Seriously, they might actually attract more creepy perverts, they aren't called perverts for nothing. - helena
Love this topic: during my (planned) 10 min afforded to Facebook time, I have enjoyed reading the article and posts. I am SUPER DOOPER organised and have been insulted by lots of people who think I am boring and without spirit. BUT being organised means having SO MUCH EXTRA TIME on your hands to do all the things that bring you joy. My tip: No matter what, have ONE day per week (mine is Sunday) where you have a blank canvas, to be painted over with dining out, seeing a movie, doing whatever takes your fancy. And always, always, always: leave the kitchen benches clear and wiped down. And make LISTS.... - Looby Loo

Categories: Galleries

HONG KONG: PACKED IN LIKE SARDINES

By The Hoopla

June 1, 2012

An incredible series by German photographer Michael Wolf shows what it’s like to live in Hong Kong’s cramped skyline.

Just to put the living conditions into perspective:

*Historical, political, and geographical reasons mean only 23.7 percent of Hong Kong’s land is developed.

*76 square kilometers of land is developed for housing use. That’s only 6.8 percent of the total land area.

*7.07 million people mainly live in residential high-rises.

*There are 6588 high-rise buildings in all of Hong Kong.

Wolf has completed two photo series. The first, Architecture of Density, documents the abstract patterns made by the high rises. The 100×100 captures 100 people living in 100 square foot rooms in the now-demolished Shek Kip Mei Estate.

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See more at photomichaelwolf.com

2 Responses to this article

blu-k June 1, 2012 Reply

I love Hong Kong! But I would find it so hard living there. Puts some of the aussie nimbyism to shame though!
Ralph June 1, 2012 Reply

Hi
Thanks for the great article on Hong Kong – what fascinated me was what people found important – neighbours (social connections); easy transportation (mobility and access); and price (financial well being). These are all things that humans need to thrive … so it may be close but it also appears to have some added benefits.
Dr Ralph Hampson (Aged Care Researcher)
Melbourne

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