Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
Today’s brickbat has been thoroughly earned by clicktivist campaign group GetUp! with their latest email campaign. The information about the campaign was conveyed as a series of images of text. The alt tags to the images were as follows: “The Plan” “Can’t see?” “Try turning on images”
The PM has announced his new Cabinet.
It be that time o’ the year once more when we don our arrghs and polish up our mateys for tomorrow’s Talk Like a Pirate Day (19th September). It’s a great time to remind ourselves that women could be just… Read More ›
The Matildas, the Australian women’s football team are currently on strike for a better pay deal. The wage gap between male and female players is staggering.
Inspired by a conversation elsewhere… Image description: A rectangle roughly the shape of a book cover, with a sepia background. It is covered with red and black text in the style of the text of the cover of Joanna Russ’s… Read More ›
A thread to share anything especially entertaining or infuriating regarding tonight’s Liberal party leadership ballot.
Veteran left-wing MP Jeremy Corbyn, a strong anti-austerity activist, has been elected leader of the Labour Party by a landslide.
Meanwhile, the Australian Labor Party is still led by Bill Shorten.
What’s piqued your media interests lately?
… there was a wee baby blogpost blog, on which a certain tigtog asked so why blog now? Happy 10th birthday, Hoyden About Town!
At The Conversationalist, Ju presents DUFC #88! Go have a read. The next edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is planned for 5 October, 2015, and will be hosted by Rebecca at Opinions @ bluebec.com. Submissions to rebecca [dot] dominguez [at] gmail… Read More ›
