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Sunday’s news in under 2 minutes.
1. Cleveland police officers have released an emotional first-hand account of the rescue of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight. You can watch the footage below: 2. For the first time since his arrest, Rolf Harris (more details of the case can be found here) has been seen in public – he performed [read more]
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Saturday’s news in under 2 minutes.
1. Scotland Yard has confirmed that British detectives have identified “a handful of people of interest” connected to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, after they conducted a review to “look at the case with fresh eyes”. Madeleine disappeared in Portugal when she was nearly 4-years-old, in 2007. 2. A man allegedly fired [read more]
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The Budget in Reply: “Suddenly, Tony can’t stop saying yes”.
By MICHELLE GRATTAN It is not that this budget was a bad one. It’s that, according to most people on both sides of politics, voters aren’t listening anymore. Budget week seemed not a big economic moment, but principally another staging point in the election campaign, full of complicated tactical play. The government used its sixth [read more]
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Do white people have the right to decide what’s racist?
By MESHEL LAURIE Mia, my mentor, friend and inspiration – I must respectfully disagree with some points raised in your piece about the “Racist Delta Tweet” situation. (Editor’s note: You can read Mia’s original post, which explains the context of this particular debate here.) I’m one of those people who refer to [read more]
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Friday’s news in just two minutes.
1. The nation’s parliament has passed new legislation that will excise the entire Australian mainland from the migration zone. This means that asylum seekers who come by boat and reach Australia can (and will) be sent offshore for processing rather than allowed to live in the Australian community while they wait for a determination. [read more]
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Turned away from hospital while in labour. 5 days later her baby was dead.
Emma Green is 26 and her baby is dead. Emma drove from her home in Gladstone to Rockhampton Hospital on Friday last week, after she went into labour. She approached the hospital but was turned away. According to Emma’s family, she went to the hospital again the next day. Twice. But was sent [read more]
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A dad’s letter to the school that doesn’t want his daughter.
By JOEL DEANE Social progress, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. For instance, we like to think that Australia is less racist than it was. Considering the heritage of terra nullius and the White Australia policy, there is some validity to that belief; after all, the Federation of Australia [read more]
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MIA: The boy who cried ‘Racist’.
BY MIA FREEDMAN Here’s a fun fact: there are 178,000 Google results when you type ‘Delta Goodrem racist’ into the search engine. If by fun you mean batshit crazy. Stop this madness. PLEASE. WE. MUST. STOP. IT. I missed this story when it originally happened because I must have blinked momentarily and that’s all [read more]
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Thursday’s news in just two minutes.
1. The police officer who was the first responders to Amanda Berry’s call for help has written about the experience on a Cleveland Police blog. Patrol Officer Espada arrived at Ariel Castro‘s Cleveland house last Monday and helped to recuse Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight – the three women Pedro [read more]
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This will make you think twice before ever handing over your passport again.
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. It’s 2008. A Brisbane woman, in her mid twenties traveled to the United Arab Emirates to head up a spa and beauty salon at a four-and-a-half star resort on the coast. Her income is tax-free and her living expenses – including accommodation at [read more]
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Budget 2013: Labor to abolish the Baby Bonus.
By MAMAMIA NEWS The Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has confirmed the abolition of the Baby Bonus in tonight’s budget. The Baby Bonus is a payment of $5000 for the first child and $3000 for the second, which is delivered in 13 installments to the parents of a newborn child, for families earning [read more]
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SHARE: Q&A about the ovarian & breast cancer genes
Yesterday, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times in which she revealed she’d chosen to have a double mastectomy after she found out she had a gene called BRCA-1. Doctors say the gene gave Angelina an 87 per cent chance of one day developing [read more]
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Wednesday’s news in just two minutes.
1. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has officially introduced legislation to help fund The National Disability Insurance Scheme. The Prime Minister was brought to tears as she said:”Over the past six years, the idea of a national disability insurance scheme has found a place in our nation’s heart. In March, we gave it a place in [read more]
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We sure hope Julia Gillard is reading this one.
By JAMILA RIZVI Tonight is a big night for Julia Gillard and her Government. It’s tempting to say that this Budget is Labor’s last chance to gain enough goodwill to have any shot of winning the September 14 election. But in all good conscience, I can’t. Despite the dramatic effect that [read more]
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Why don’t more magazines run images like THIS?
By NICKY CHAMP Okay, I confess I’ve bought countless magazines that promise advice on how to get the perfect ‘beach body,’ – a quest akin to finding the Holy Grail – but this has to be advice I’ve ever seen: How to get a bikini body: Put a bikini on your body. It’s springtime in [read more]
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‘You think Wayne Swan’s budget is tough? This is what’s happening at my place.’
By KATE HUNTER Family, the purpose of this budget, is to maximise the opportunities that flow from the hard work of your father and I. So please, put down that iPod Touch and pay attention or that thing will be auctioned to fund education reforms. This budget is not intended [read more]
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Tuesday’s news in just two minutes.
1. Sara Blakely, the self-made billionaire who founded Spanx, has announced that she’ll donate 50 per cent of her fortune to charity. It’s part of the Bill Gates’ created Giving Pledge, which asks the worlds most wealthy people to donate part of their wealth to philanthropic causes. Forty-two-year-old Blakely own 100 per cent [read more]
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This is an anonymous post. Because it has to be.
By ANONYMOUS This is an anonymous post. Why? Because I’m a woman working in the media and what I have to say is perfect fodder for an online lashing. But why the cloak and dagger of a no-name post? Well, I have a belief that women in the Australian media landscape have [read more]
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Monday’s news in under 2 minutes.
1. An image of the moment Amanda Berry emerged from the house where she’d been held captive for more than 10 years has been released. The image was taken by two women who said they were driving past Ariel Castro’s Seymour Avenue house when they saw a commotion. Jasmine Baldrich and Ashley Colon said they [read more]
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Sunday’s news in under 2 minutes.
1. The Gillard government is likely to cut hundreds of executive jobs in the public sector, to decrease government spending. News Ltd reports that 400 jobs may be cut under Labor, and that Opposition Leader Tony Abbott plans to cut up to 12,000 jobs if he is elected in September. 2. A mother in [read more]
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Meet the Australian who is helping the world to cure cancer.
By PROFESSOR IAN FRAZER This week a small organisation in Geneva known as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), an organisation that funds vaccines in the world’s poorest countries, announced news that will have a massive impact on the health of women. They have secured contracts with vaccine manufacturers [read more]
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Saturday’s news in under two minutes.
1. Ariel Castro has been confirmed by DNA tests as the father of Amanda Berry’s six-year old daughter. You can read more Mamamia’s coverage of the shocking case involving Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight here. 2. The Prime Minister has announced a new Manus refugee centre. The new permanent processing centre [read more]
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LUCY: ‘I’m trying really hard not to freak out right now’
By LUCY ORMONDE I’m trying really hard not to freak out right now. But recently, there’s been a string of reports in the media suggesting the contraceptive pill I takes leaves users with a greater risk of blood clots, heart attacks, strokes and blindness. Anyone one else out there on Yaz [read more]
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Friday’s news in only two minutes.
1. The daughter of Ariel Castro – the man who’s been charged with abducting and raping four women in Cleveland, Ohio – has made a tearful apology to one of the victims. Arlene Castro was friends with 22-year-old victim Gina DeJesus when she was abducted almost 10 years ago and said she was [read more]
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The kid who lobbed a sandwich at the PM should be charged. Seriously.
By KATE HUNTER So a kid chucked a Vegemite sanger at the Prime Minister yesterday. Breakfast radio announcers are sniggering about it, kids are giggling, and the adults who were there said it was just, ‘kids being kids’ and a bit of childish ‘high jinx.’ WHAT? This is our Prime Minister and it [read more]
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She was kidnapped at the age of 14. And this is why she didn’t try to escape.
Elizabeth Smart was just 14 years old when she was kidnapped from her own bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2002. In the nine months that followed, Elizabeth was forced into a ‘polygamous’ marriage and repeatedly raped. She was only freed after she was spotted, walking peacefully along a suburban street with her kidnapper [read more]
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Thursday’s news in just two minutes.
1. The families of US kidnapping victims Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus have asked for privacy from the media after the two women returned home. Amanda Berry returned to her sister’s home with her 6-year-old daughter and Gina De Jesus returned to her family’s home. Michele Knight is reportedly still in hospital but [read more]
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MIA: “I’m defending Tony Abbott. Let’s go.”
By MIA FREEDMAN Tony Abbott doesn’t need me to defend him. But I’m going to do it anyway. Yesterday, he made some comments about why he remains committed to his Paid Parental Leave scheme whereby new mothers would be paid their full salary for six months, a scheme funded by a levy on [read more]
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Sick of clichéd diet ads? Watch this.
Are you sick of clichéd advertising? Diet food brand, Kerry Low Low is. The company have released a hilarious parody ad which takes aim at the three female stereotypes, Smug Gal, Ditzy Gal and Muffin Gal, usually portrayed in diet food advertising. You know the ones; they’re usually dancing around in white underwear, struggling to zip [read more]
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SHARE: This is what overwhelming anxiety really feels like.
Anxiety. It’s something that affects one in four Australians. And most of them don’t actually recognise it. Which isn’t particularly surprising, when you consider how often we hear about it in everyday life. (Hint: barely ever.) We already know that there is a stigma attached to many mental illnesses – and anxiety is no different. [read more]