Keywords: Gender Diversity
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MEDIA
- Ellena Savage
- 27 May 2011
9 Comments
Slutwalk is an international feminist movement in response to victim-blaming in cases of sexual violence. Detractors argue that supporters are mistaking their sexual subjugation for liberation. That assumption entirely misses the point.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
There was a liberal use of corporal punishment in my school. We were seen as a loutish bunch of lads who needed a firm hand. It did nothing to help my education. You don't create a smart and confident Australia by taking to people with a stick.
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EDUCATION
If the aim is to inform students about religions, this is best done within the curriculum by people trained to deliver such content in a way that engenders respect for all religions. Problems arise if the goal is to produce believers in a particular religion.
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EDUCATION
- Fatima Measham
- 01 November 2010
16 Comments
Principals and teachers can keep gay young people safe at school only to the extent that they are also safe in the wider community. While ticking boxes on ‘teacher training, resources and consultancy’ may not adequately address the source of the behaviour of homophobic bullies, such programs remain important.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 16 January 2009
Landscape has long been acknowledged as central to Australian colonial history. In contrast to the harsh conditions endured by
settlers in Sydney Cove, convicts in Tasmania experienced a veritable Eden. (March 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 07 March 2008
1 Comment
Landscape has long been acknowledged as central to Australian colonial history. In contrast to the harsh conditions endured by
settlers in Sydney Cove, convicts in Tasmania experienced a veritable Eden.
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AUSTRALIA
- Bronwyn Fredericks
- 18 May 2007
3 Comments
Bronwyn Fredericks argues for the identity of urban Indigenous Australians
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AUSTRALIA
- Hamish Townsend
- 23 December 2006
2 Comments
Queensland Museum arachnologist Dr Robert Raven says spider venoms have an amazing number of uses. A Year 12 science class at Maningrida (NT) helps him map the the molecules of venom, which will makes certain drugs much cheaper and more effective.
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RELIGION
- Abdullah Saeed
- 24 June 2006
September 11, 2001 changed the life of Muslims in the West, including Australia. Muslims in Australia today, their beliefs, values, practices and institutions, are under the microscope. There is a fear among many Muslims in Australia that is difficult to explain. In turn, Muslims are feared by many non-Muslim Australians, many of them Christians.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Castles
- 31 May 2006
How society chooses: Policy and values, past and future.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Mike Ticher looks at the value of public schools to the community.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tracy Crisp
- 24 April 2006
Tracy Crisp surveys the issues surrounding prenatal testing.
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