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Daily Buzz: Insecure women have more handbags.

Mamamia News — Mon, 21 May 2012 09:34:46 +0000

WOMEN WITH POOR BODY IMAGE LOVE HANDBAGS AND SHOES It’s research that may well confirm what you already know: women tend to buy more accessories like handbags, shoes and jewellery when it isn’t related to their ‘core’ body image, specifically weight. The study of nearly 290 New Zealanders found women who felt more insecure after [read more]

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Anti-vaccination safe houses. WTF?

Rick - Mamamia — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:48:15 +0000

by RICK MORTON This woman wants to hide children from ‘evil’ doctors who are trying to save their lives. Let’s all take a moment to let that sink in. Here’s an example of one child the anti-vaccine campaigner wanted to save, not from Hepatitis B, but from a life without [read more]

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Daily Buzz: Court orders parents to ‘urgently’ vaccinate baby

Mamamia News — Fri, 18 May 2012 08:51:05 +0000

SUPREME COURT ORDERS VACCINATIONS Brisbane Supreme Court Justice Jean Dalton ordered two parents to urgently take their 40-hour-old child to the hospital for Hepatitus B vaccinations because the child had a 20 per cent chance of being infected with the virus. The baby’s mother had a chronic form of Hep B. Doctors said if the [read more]

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Daily Buzz: ‘Ovulation Goggles’ make you pick bad boys

Mamamia News — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:45:38 +0000

WHY WOMEN PICK ‘BAD BOYS’ A(nother) study had apparently revealed why women choose to hook up with, and even date, so-called nasty boys: ovulation goggles. That’s the term used by researcher Kristina Durante, of The University of Texas, after she studied the way women reacted to ‘sexy’ and ‘reliable’ men on [read more]

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The program that pays drug addicts to be sterilised.

Rick - Mamamia — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:19:57 +0000

“She has her daddy’s eyes … and her mummy’s heroin addiction.” That’s an actual tagline from an advertising campaign created by Project Prevention, the organisation targeting drug addicts in the United Kingdom and United States and bribing them to get ‘sterilised’. That usually involves permanent birth control methods like vasectomies, tubal [read more]

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Daily Buzz: Penny Wong defends her family

Mamamia News — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:47:15 +0000

Watch Penny Wong stick up for her family on Qanda: The same sex marriage issue was raised on on television last night which resulted in this exchange between Joe Hockey and Penny Wong on same sex marriage on the ABC’s QandA. It’s well worth a watch for Wong’s closing line: ANTI GAY DOC RESIGNS FROM [read more]

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Great grandma takes kids into hiding to avoid their father

Rick - Mamamia — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:26:50 +0000

Update: The Judge who made orders for the children to return to Italy has said his orders still stand. He has declined to hear further applications from the family and said he suspects the children’s relatives are in contempt of court for hiding the children. He said the children’s relatives should be brought to court [read more]

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An appalling story. Is this really Australia, 2012?

Rick - Mamamia — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:04:30 +0000

Young Sri Lankan widow Ranjini and her two little boys aged six and nine, are trapped. In every sense of the word. She’s a refugee, granted asylum in Australia in September last year. Ranjini’s first husband was killed in Sri Lanka in 2006. She and her children arrived in Australia on Christmas Island in 2010 [read more]

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Daily Buzz: Mum leaves kids in car, ends up in court

Mamamia News — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:52:30 +0000

DASH TO THE SHOPS LANDS IN COURT A Brisbane mother has pleaded guilty to leaving her three children in the car, with engine running and air-conditioning on, while she ducked into the shops for 10 minutes. A bystander noticed the children – the eldest of whom was 10 – in the car and watched them [read more]

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Got a budget question? Ask Minister Bill Shorten now.

Bill Shorten — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:53:57 +0000

Capital Hill in Canberra might seem a world away from the lounge rooms and kitchens of everyday Australia. But the people who sit around the Cabinet table (or the Shadow Cabinet table for that matter) or walk into the House of Reps to vote on legislation – these politicians are as [read more]

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