December 24, 2010
If a 16-year-old school girl gets pregnant by a 23-year-old professional sports player and later posts naked pictures of his team mates on the internet should she be treated like an abused child or a vengeful calculating adult? The story is a complicated one that has been playing out for a while in Australia between ...
Tags: AFL,
Australia,
court case,
Jane,
miscarriage,
naked photos,
Sam Gilbert,
sexual abuse,
stautory rape,
teen pregnancy,
under age sex
December 23, 2010
The company that dupes insecure men into giving up their life savings to have better erections and “longer lasting sex” is being taken to court. This is not the first time that the Advanced Medical Institute (AMI) in Australia has been taken to court and I doubt it will be the last. This time the ...
November 26, 2010
Winter kinda sucks. It’s dark and gloomy and there’s absolutely no sun to help you keep that healthy glow. And if you want to defy mother nature and get a fake tan (and live in New South Wales, Australia) if you’re under 30 years old or have certain skin types you will even be banned ...
October 13, 2010
An Australian couple is on trial for having an abortion. She was 19, he was 20, and this was the best choice for them at the time. They used drugs to have a medical abortion. They declared them to the customs agents. They followed instructions. They thought everything would be okay. But now she ...
June 29, 2010
If a middle-aged woman lives with her boyfriend and has no children is she still fit to run the country? With Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, being 48-years-old, childless, and living with her divorced dad boyfriend of 4 years, that is a question that is heating up in Australia.
Tags: Australia,
Bettina Arndt,
choosing not to marry,
cohabitation,
de facto relationships,
divorce,
female politicians,
feminism,
Julia Gillard,
living in sin,
living together before marriage,
marriage,
marriage trends,
problems with cohabitation,
role models,
serial monogamy,
single parents,
singleton
June 25, 2010
Australia has just sworn in their first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. She has taken over leadership of the Labor party after they decided that the current PM would cost them the election. She was once accused of being “deliberately barren” by her political opposition. I’m not sure why this was a concern of his. Whether or ...
May 2, 2010
It’s a good thing skinny jeans are going out of fashion because wearing them means you’re basically agreeing to be raped. At least that’s what an Australian court ruled yesterday. Of course if history can be trusted, it looks like no jeans are safe from scrutiny.
Tags: Australia,
clothing,
defense,
forcibly stripped,
he said she said,
help taking off clothes,
Italy,
jeans,
rape,
rape psychology,
rape victim
March 1, 2010
Over 5,200 people gathered at the Sydney Opera House to take part in a naked art installation examining “the vulnerability of life in a rough city landscape.”
February 11, 2010
Sit-ins are out. Love-ins, passé. Porn storms are the new way to protest. It brought the Australian government to its knees (kinda).
September 14, 2009
Mack // Crocodiles are looking for love in Australia and the public has been warned to watch out that they don’t get caught up in their mating dance. It seems that human’s aren’t the only ones to get that loving feeling at this time of year in the south. I don’t know about you, but ...