The Fifty-Sixth Down Under Feminists Carnival
Welcome to the fifty-sixth month of Down Under Feminists Carnival goodness. I am your host, Chally, and I am glad …
Tag Archives: Australian politics
The Forty-Sixth Down Under Feminists Carnival
Hello and welcome to the forty-sixth edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival! I last hosted DUFC #12, so I’m …
Elsewhere I’ve been
Did you hear about Emma Sullivan? She’s a teen from Kansas in the United States who was chastened! chastened as …
People don’t need solutions, be they Pacific, Malaysia, or Nauru
Something’s been sending chills up my spine lately. That is, Australian policy on asylum seekers has been scaring me ever …
Misogyny, Murdoch, and Julia Gillard
I’ve got a piece up at Global Comment called “Ditch the witch”: How the Murdoch press is using misogyny to …
Who is “we”?
I’ve got some thoughts percolating about audiences, pronouns, assumptions, and groupings. But I’m very tired and headachey and have been …
NSW Votes 2011, so help us all
Well NSW voted in the Liberals last night, as we’ve all known would happen for the past year. Labor hasn’t …
Linksplosion: End of year epic linkage edition
The blockquotes in this theme are a bit too close to the background colour, but alterations mean that the colour …
On the Christmas Island tragedy
Today, I am deeply embarrassed to be an Australian citizen. This is what this country’s immigration policies have done. I …
Two-fold post
I am having one of the worst weeks of my life. (I’ve actually ranked them. This is number four. No, …
In which I address Indigenous housing issues in the Northern Territory
Before I went on hiatus, I wrote a post about my efforts to be an ally to Indigenous Australians. It’s …
The Twelfth Down Under Feminists Carnival
Welcome to the twelfth edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival. This is a special one as it marks a …
On the edge of my seat: a note on democracy
I live in one of the safest seats in the country and I’ve always lived among similar demographics. For a …
Hey, you!
Yeah, you, person who googled ‘julia gillard dyke’ and found my blog. What you’re noticing is that patriarchy’s version of …
Well, I completely missed that…
Better late than never. I was looking up something on the WEL website (the Women’s Electoral Lobby Australia, a very …
