The famed citizenship pop quiz — with questions on Don Bradman and Cathy Freeman — has been scrapped for a test focusing on democracy and Australian law. But don’t fret sports nutes, athletes will get citizenship preferences. Ahem.
Domestic violence
Anti-abuse ad batters women when no-one’s looking
Amnesty International has installed a new anti-domestic-abuse ad in Germany which uses an eye-tracking camera to sense when someone is looking at it — and when they’re looking away.
No to violence against women — but please stop bashing the men
It’s time Australia dealt with the reality of the problem, writes Michael Woods.
Dokic admits to beating Jelana
Damir Dokic is back in the headlines, admitting he beat tennis-star daughter Jelana… and also that he’s in the market for some rockets.
Eurovision TV songstress stands against domestic violence
Ukrainian singer Svetlana Loboda tells an interviewer she wants to use the Eurovision Song Contest as a platform for her message about domestic violence, pointing to the bruises on her face.
Number of men killed by women drops dramatically
Something I read in another blog sent me digging into the statistics on homicide between husbands and wives or other “intimates”, writes Jay Livingston. Fascinating.
Keira Knightley’s anti-violence advert banned
An anti-domestic violence advert starring Keira Knightley has been banned from British television after it was branded too violent by advertising censors.
Roxon’s ambassadors: homophobic, sexist and totally inappropriate
No Government should be entirely comfortable with such people as Warwick Marsh and Barry Williams as a representative of a taxpayer-funded program, writes Bernard Keane.
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Devine intervention misses the point on English
The methadone principle states that anything pleasurable will sooner or later become its opposite. Judged by a recent article by Miranda Devine, the cultural warriors of the right are reduced to sucking the cotton wool in the bottle cap.
