A human rights act for Australia

by | Dec 10, 2008 | Uncategorized

This is hugely import­ant. It’s the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Declar­a­tion of Human Rights.The Aus­tralian Attor­ney-Gen­eral has just announced a con­sulta­tion panel to invest­ig­ate the pos­sib­il­ity of a Human Rights Act for Aus­tralia. We...
Floorboards!

Floorboards!

by | Dec 8, 2008 | Uncategorized

Took a while but here you go:The crib was gifted to us by the won­der­ful Vicki and Andrew and is cur­rently just filled with cush­ions. We need to buy a new mat­tress (it’s one of the things the SIDS people say you’re not allowed to have second-hand) and...

I’ll be a post-feminist in a post-patriarchy

by | Dec 7, 2008 | Uncategorized

I’ve been mean­ing to do this post for a while now.Amnesty Inter­na­tional recently pro­moted 16 days of an end to viol­ence against women. One in three women in Aus­tralia will be vic­tims of viol­ence by someone intim­ately known to them in their...