Barren, tree hugging hussy.

October 7th, 2004

Hey grrrrrls, WEL has put out a Womens Electoral Lobby
Thinking Voter’s Guide to the 2004.

Alas, there’s nothing in the guide for a female voter interested in Environmental issues or Foreign policies.

Thinking women seem to be only interested in:

  1. Work & Family/ Industrial Relations
  2. Health/Medicare
  3. Family Payments
  4. Maternity Leave
  5. Education
  6. Violence against Women
  7. Child care
  8. Women’s rights and decision making
  9. Tax

As a woman I can’t help, but feel that I exist primarily as a potential breeder/breeder to the two major parties.

Sadly, WEL also suffers from an overemphasis of these roles for our gender.

I’d be less cynical if men were also seen in these binary dimensions. Can you imagine Child care issues being directed primarily at fathers?!

Thanks WEL, but no thanks.
Not breeding, not married and not rolling over on the Kyoto Protocol.

WEL, you’re just
too 80’s
too narrow
too passive/victim oriented
with too little
too late.

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Perhaps if there was less wind…

October 5th, 2004

On Saturday, a very creative protest in Sydney would not have blown away.

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These people breed and vote!

October 5th, 2004

Julie Matthews, whose son is in a lower grade at St Simon’s Catholic Primary School, a school that was found to employ a teacher who was named and suspended for being netted in a nationwide swoop against child pornography, is shocked.

Julie said she was shocked at hearing the news of a teacher at her son’s school being implicated in ‘Operation Auxin’ yesterday.

"It’s a Catholic primary school, where you would think your child is safe,"

Where has this parent been?

Entering ‘Roman Catholic Church Sex Scandals’ into Google returned 46,900 related links. For something succinct on the subject, this and this is good.

On October 9, don’t be fooled by the scare tactics of the Christian right.

Open and honest discourse is the only way that the sexualisation and sexual abuse of children will ever be addressed.

Endless Counselling, unless it moves into honestly as a society addressing the facts, only serves to assuage guilt.

Guilt for both the perpetrators and carers.

Truth on a Macro level (starting with the Federal Government), filtering down through every institution is the best option for protecting the vulnerable (which is greater than just the children) in our community.

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Will the Truth matter?

October 4th, 2004

Howard is comfortable to divide truth into ‘core’ and ‘non-core’ promises.

Abbott is such a compulsive liar that he operates on a ‘prove it’ theory, which is easily done.

Let’s care about truth…

Truth about why we are in Iraq.
Truth about the mental health of people in detention centres.
Truth about Medicare from the perspective of health care providers.
Truth about the dangerous stupidity of Ministers.
Truth about renewable energy projects.

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Insipid is not benign!

October 2nd, 2004

On Thursday I was a ‘day tripper’ and caught buses, trains and ferries all over Sydney. Over hours and kilometres, criss-crossing electorates, I saw 3 measly signs.
In this our alert, not alarmed Australia are people too fearful to let their neighbours know their political persuasions?

Richard Flanaghan writes that we are all Sleepwalking with Howard.

"A scattering of words does not equal a philosophy. It does not explain what has happened to Australia since 1996. Beneath little things, big things sometimes hide. These words seem inadequate, say, as an explanation of children held behind razor wire, or as to exactly why we are in Iraq. All I could see was a mundanity so honed it was like staring at polished concrete."

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