On health, happiness and the pursuit of the Dalai Lama
A little over 10 years ago I asked the Dalai Lama if he ever got angry.
Fighter for Afghanistan’s powerless refuses to be silenced
For once – and it will only be once – I was relieved to see women fully covered in burqas. With no eyes, no face and no body, they were rendered invisible as people. No longer individuals, they instead looked like a pack of walking blue tents. And that’s just as well.
Joe blow: another pretty poor effort for working women
Joe Hockey is neither pretty nor smart. The former he admits; the latter he now knows. Surely. But then if we could all just get back to being relaxed and comfortable, and those uppity women would return to being ”simply appendages of middle-aged men”, neither Hockey nor his mate Kevin Rudd would be in the hot water they are.
Goward braves the habitat of the sexist parliamentary bear
It’s pathetic really. Laughable, if it weren’t so deplorable. But here it is: an overweight, balding politician sends a young, attractive, female journalist a voice message. He’s panting down the phone. It goes something like this, ”I saw you at the dinner last night. I didn’t come over and say hello. I just perved at you from a distance. You were the hottest thing in the room.”
It’s time to give that effing, huffing Heffernan the chop
Bill Heffernan deserves to be castrated. As least that way he’ll stop wearing his 4am ”horn” on his head.
Let’s honour Audrey by taking better care of those who live on
Throughout yesterday’s tear-soaked funeral for Audrey Fagan, an unspoken question weighed heavily over the congregation at St Christopher’s cathedral: Why?
A competition for celebrity status of the most evil kind
Cho Seung-Hui may have been meticulous and well organised when planning his massacre, but he certainly wasn’t creative or original.
Morbid curiosity surrounds a baby bereaved by fame
What hope is there for little baby Dannielynn? She’s half named after her half brother Daniel, who along with her mother is dead – thanks to lethal cocktails of anti- depressants and other drugs. Even if the little tot’s middle name is Hope, her life thus far seems hopelessly void of it.
At long last he will be free to tell his story, but should we listen?
So the kangaroo skinner, terrorist wannabe Abu Muslim al-Austraili – as he was affectionately known among the terrorist set – may not be gagged after all. What a shame.
Call for caution as egg freezing boosts fertility hopes
A quiet announcement was made this week that slipped under the media radar. But perhaps that was the intention.
Strange bedfellows: the perils of Pauline’s kiss-and-tell prose
The indignity of it all – sex revealed, only to be strenuously snatched away. ”I did not have sex with that woman,” bellowed David Oldfield this week.
Sex and the single brain: a new light on the old gender divide
A short exchange on ABC radio on Monday neatly demonstrated the point: Men have a natural pre- occupation with sex.
Gender equality button is still stuck on pause
So another International Women’s Day has passed and another collective sigh of relief that we got away with it. Speeches were made, issues raised, and still we all politely managed to offend no one. Pity.
The working women who’d like to be housewives for a bit
So it’s come to this? A bunch of professional, hardworking women sitting around a table sipping champagne, eating scones, and drooling over a collective dream to be a … housewife.
