In the last few weeks, I’ve been hearing more and more about the Oaktree Foundation’s Live Below the Line challenge. The idea is to spend only $10 on food for five days – thus ‘living’ on two dollars a day, an amount that has been defined as the extreme poverty line. In return, you ask … Continue reading »
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Because we’re a classless society, right?
There’s been a lot of stuff floating around in the media the last few months, and it just reminds me how absolutely ludicrous the claim that Australia is a classless society is. In 2012 ACOSS released their report into poverty in Australia, and found that 1 in 8 people were living below the poverty line. … Continue reading »
Feminism, Philanthropy and Gina Rinehart (and other high-profile women)
The question brewing into a small cyclone in the feminist sphere at the moment is the question of whether Gina Rinehart is a feminist – prompted by Alecia Simmonds’ piece over at Daily Life. How can Rinehart possibly be a feminist, I hear everyone ask? She’s ‘obscenely’ rich, she’s mean, she hasn’t got a philanthropic … Continue reading »
Mothers and Whores: Women in Ancient Rome
This piece was written for the 6th issue of the UQ Women’s Collective Zine, titled “Herstory.” Women in the Roman Republic and Empire are one of the most elusive parts of history. They are spoken for, but never speak; represented, but rarely for themselves. Where women feature in historical literature, the patriarchal tradition of moral … Continue reading »
50th Edition of the Down Under Feminists’ Carnival
Welcome to the 50th Edition of the Down Under Feminists’ Carnival! Fifty editions is quite a milestone, though with the unclear status of the last few months, I’m not really sure if it is the fiftieth edition after all. But that does not matter, because I have a wonderful collection of submissions for the month … Continue reading »
International Women’s Day Linkspamming
Happy International Women’s Day to all my lovely readers out there! I hope you all had a wonderful, empowering day. Personally, I’m also celebrating having hit 5,000 views of this blog a few days ago. It makes me feel very happy and privileged that people out there find this blog worth their time. In honour … Continue reading »
On the Australia Day Protests
The news has been full of it – but no-one, as far as I have seen, has bothered to actually write about the reasons for the protests that took place yesterday. (No, the media seems to think Australians are more interested in whether our Prime Minister got her shoe back.) So we have an opposition … Continue reading »
Finally, SOMETHING in the world of politics.
Almost a week ago now the government announced their plan for a carbon tax, to be put into action next year. I was rather excited by it all. The last time I sat down and took time to listen to the news was two or three weeks ago, driving from Lismore to Uki for a … Continue reading »
