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You don’t often hear people challenging someone’s claim to be Italian. Or Swedish, or American. Generally you accept what they say even if they don’t have an accent, or a funny surname, or blond hair.
Aboriginality, on the other hand, apparently remains a contested field.
The Federal Court last week decided that high-profile and controversial columnist Andrew Bolt had breached the Racial Discrimination Act in his columns ‘It’s so hip to be black’, and ‘White fellas in the black’, which questioned why nine prominent ‘fair-skinned Aborigines’ identified as Aboriginal.
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A funny thing – actually, make that a frilly thing – happened on the way to the feminist revolution.
Just as women started to get a better deal at home, at school and in the boardroom, our girl children have been hijacked by a foe more flouncy than any which has come before.
It is the colour pink and it is being worn – probably in frothing tutu form – by a micro-Cinderella near you.
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Squeeze the Middle says:
Markus. I think we’re agreeing with each other. My original post was to point out that the extremes that things like that Oath are being taken is probably contributing to the dilemma that Emma Jane is struggling with. Surprising ommissions from the characteristics of ‘economic control’ and ‘using economic abuse’… Read more »
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iMitchy says:
malohi, you are wrong. There is no reason to question why one likes something. Just let them enjoy it without feeling like they have been unknowingly victimised by an oppressionistic secret society. eg. I only wear black clothes. Black jeans, black shirt, black underwear and socks, black belt, black sunglasses… Read more »
Last week while much of eastern Australia struggled with visibility I had a moment of surprising clarity.
Having ceded control of my diary years ago to my assistant Sav, nowadays I have about three hours visibility in my life. I know what I am doing up till about 10.30am but after midday it starts to get foggy.
And yet for three weeks I was completely aware that I would be in Cairns on Friday, September 25. Even more amazingly I was thinking about what to wear.
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DJG says:
Well done! Bastards. Have a thought for us long suffering Saints fans. Read more »
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Badger says:
If only the Saints had been more accurate with their kicks, the result would have been a lot different !! We will never know will we, well next year then. Read more »
130 million.
That’s how many credit card details Miami resident Albert Gonzalez is alleged to have stolen by hacking into US companies over recent years.
Gonzales hasn’t been the only one busy stealing financial credentials from legitimate businesses who have collated data from our online and offline transactions, others have targeted home computers using malicious software (malware) or tricked them out of us via phishing or fraudulent websites.
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Brendan Read says:
Alastair, you are absoloutly right with your comments. How many mistakes must we make to get it right. If only more people listened to your thinking. Lets hope that the Gov cybercrime inqiry were listening! I am currenly completing my Masters of Information Technology at QUT in Brisbane. One of… Read more »
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Brian Iselin says:
Excellent, and timely, article Alastair. Your words of caution are sadly something lacking in the space of those bringing life into ever more personal networing sites and more applications that proliferate indidivual information. The amazing part of this is the naivety we see in those users who keep a vastly… Read more »
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