March 2011
I respect Justin Bieber. Not begrudgingly respect—no, no, no. Plain, vanilla, true, deep respect. The kid’s good. I can acknowledge this.
There is no doubting that the immense Bieber whinging permeating through the (adult) world of social media is vastly unfounded. Of course, such facts won’t bother those who’ve gleefully ingested the Haterade.
One has to wonder if we’ve just become more adept at smugness for smugness’ sake - because it’s definitely not the music industry that’s changed.
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So, radio personality Jackie O crossed a quiet, leafy, Double Bay pedestrian crossing while bottle-feeding her six-week-old daughter and made the mistake of being photographed.
Mothercraft and Nannies director, Jenni Waldron, tut-tutted in the Daily Telegraph that “it would be best to sit comfortably in a chair and hold your baby correctly while feeding”. She was probably caught off guard too.
Jackie felt compelled to explain herself on air: ‘I was running late and Kitty was screaming…’. Yes. I feel like doing that myself when I read stories like this.
Continue reading "The perils of breasts, bottles, and babies" »
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Slick says:
Stephy, I had 2 c-sections so I don’t know about it blocking out the 15 hours of incredibly painful contractions. The 12 hours I had was without any drugs as I wasnt offered and didnt know I could demand as I was going in for the ceaser anyways… Stupid natural… Read more »
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fairsfair says:
@Elphaba - I should have made it clear that my comment was stated with the most extreme level of sarcasm possible. How rediculous. My ma was a midwife - I have heard some horrid stories. I can think of a lot of things that could happen to you and doing… Read more »
A growing population is not the result of over-zealous politicians and bureaucrats or big business trying to expand their market.
It is a result of Australians being healthier, living longer, and having more children. It is because people from around the world want to come here to work, travel, live and study.
Population growth is neither an impending disaster nor something we should blindly strive for—it is simply happening as a result of our economic progress and the collective desires of millions of people.
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Immigration says:
What is the country that has the most immigrants today? http://www.immigrationdirect.com Read more »
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Soylentgreen says:
Some of you seem to understand what overpopulation means. Others either do not understand or are willfully ignorant because growth feathers their nest. http://www.thegreatsqueeze.com/ It will all end badly Kids. The author of this article should also watch the movie. She has no clue. Read more »
Dr Gill Hicks is the Australian-born founder of London-based not-for-profit M.A.D for Peace, and a motivational speaker, author, curator, and trustee for several cultural organisations. She began her career as a speaker in the wake of the 2005 London bombings: Hicks was the last living victim rescued. Both her legs were amputated below the knee, and her injuries were so severe that she was initially not expected to live. She was admitted to St Thomas’ Hospital without an identity - she was labelled only as ‘One Unknown’.
Q. What do you think is the biggest threat to peace within Australia?
A. The greatest threat to peace within any country, in my opinion, is division, identity, fear and ignorance.
As we witnessed with the London bombings of 2005, those responsible were not from other lands, the threat was not external – but internal – the four bombers were raised and schooled within the UK – they were British citizens.
Peace, I believe, does need to be defined before we can discuss firstly what it is, and how we achieve it. The core of the work within my not-for-profit organisation, M.A.D. for Peace, focuses on the responsibility of the individual to create an environment in which he/she has choice in every word and action – ensuring that those words and actions are positive and/or constructive. We believe that peace is within – and that peace starts with you.
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Dan says:
malohi, there are beliefs from all religions (not just Islam) which may be regarded as incompatible with our laws (which matter more than our so-called beliefs), but as we are a secular society (and we aren’t Christian BTW not matter what some people may think), some religious people simply have… Read more »
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Dan says:
That’s coming from someone who hates Muslims, Arabs and women, and is probably anti-semitic as well. Read more »
A friend recently told me of his horror when a colleague asked a co-worker why she only had one child.
It was a dangerous question to ask a mere acquaintance in front of the rest of the office. What if the answer had been a heart-breaking miscarriage? Marital disharmony? A crippling amount of debt? Infertility?
No doubt the 21-year-old woman’s thoughtless question left her older workmates clucking their tongues at Gen Y’s arrogance and lack of manners.
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Al Gore was born in Washington D.C on this day in 1948. The 45th Vice President of the United States, a business man and an environmentalist, Gore also loves going in for the big pash with wife, Tipper.
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The Badger says:
The Badger just doesn’t give a shit. PS = Those Cobras were conservative first, then they were just dinner. Read more »
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Shane From Melbourne says:
If reports that Samsung installed spyware on their laptops (and possibly phones and tablets too), then this will the biggest case of corporate self destruction in corporate history…. Read more »
If a protestor at the carbon tax rally last week had held up a sign saying Prime Minister Julia Gillard was a “dead carcass, swinging in the breeze”, what would the reaction have been?
Vitriol is part of political life. But there is no one who can spew it out with the calculated cruelty and contempt of former PM Paul Keating. He could craft the sort of insults that other politicians would be proud to be associated with.
Mr Keating has now made headlines for his attack on John Robertson, NSW MP and potential party leader. He said Robertson wore the political deaths of a couple of dozen Labor members around his neck, and was a “lead weight” in Gillard’s political saddlebags. It was not a bad effort. It wasn’t his best.
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PJK says:
On Jeff Kennett spending over $20 million on office renovations: He’s into squalor. He can’t afford an ambulance if you have a heart attack. He can’t afford lavatories at railway stations. He’s got the Treasury done up like the Reichstag. Read more »
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Carol King says:
Paul Keating was an animal sadist. Just before he left Parlament he changed laws to allow new pig farming legislation under a new law in which he set himself up in the industry. Read more »
Dr Phillip Nitschke’s pre-emptive move to set up a euthanasia clinic in Adelaide shows he has missed the purpose of the legislation before the Parliament.
The Criminal Law Consolidation (Medical Defences – End of Life Arrangements) Bill 2011 is purely aimed at giving a family doctor who has a long history with their patient the ability to use this legislation as a defence against a criminal charge should the medication given to their patient at the request of the patient result in the patient’s death.
The legislation does not legalise voluntary euthanasia. The legislation does not legalise assisted suicide.
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Danielle says:
I still ask the question why the terminal ill people cannot have their wish to terminate their life from suffering, we all know why. As for myself, I’m not hurt from my past, I understand why my parents and many others were/are caught up in religion and I see how… Read more »
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Stephen says:
@ Elphaba, Thank you for your moderation. It appears that Danielle has been very hurt by religious people but not by faithful people. Religion is corporate, faith is personal. I am faithful to the teachings of Jesus but not to the teachings of a “Church” or religious body when it… Read more »
Ricky Ponting had a lot to live up to when he took over as captain of Australia from Steve Waugh, but two more World Cup titles, a maiden Champions Trophy and equaling Waugh’s 16 test record winning streak cemented him as a leader to rival his predecessor.
But if Ponting had big shoes to fill, his successor - Michael Clarke - will look like he’s stepping into Ronald McDonald’s boots.
Fairfax journalist Roy Masters perfectly summed up up the feelings of the Australian public on the issue of Clarke as the next commander-in-chief of the Baggy Green brigade.
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A Human says:
It wasn’t sociologist that came up with the names for the generations…it was marketers…how you do you like being gamed by them hey? Don’t play the game, drop all labels. Read more »
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Gen Y says:
When Clarkey starts playin cricket like an Australian cricket captain then he will be accepted as one, Seems like he has had a form slump his whole career. Started fairly well as a test player but now with so much up and coming young cricketing talent in australia Clarke is… Read more »
As you can probably guess it was me who hacked into the email accounts of ten senior federal ministers.
I hacked into Julia Gillard’s because I wanted to know what it was like to run a country, I hacked into Kevin Rudd’s because I wanted to know what it was like to run the world, and I hacked into Stephen Smith’s because…well, I just really wanted to get some sleep.
But what I found was deeply shocking and in yet another extraordinary exclusive I can now reveal their explosive contents for the first time…
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Puff the Magic Dragon says:
I heard (birdy) that Windsor/Oakshott are a bit more security minded. They save to floppy disks on their commodore amigas and take them home in their Dukes of Hazzard lunchboxes.. Read more »
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