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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]
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Wednesday’s news in less than 2 minutes.
1. Three American women, who all went missing in separate incidents around a decade ago, have been found alive in a residential home in Ohio. Two of the women were just children when they were allegedly kidnapped. Three brothers have been named as the women’s suspected captors and it is believed that several [read more]
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Tony Abbott’s paid parental leave scheme. Why aren’t feminists getting on board?
By EVA COX, University of Technology, Sydney There is an odd consensus emerging between conservative Liberals opposed to their own leader’s paid parental leave scheme and defenders of the Gillard government’s version of the same policy. Into the strange mix, we can throw the business sector, which also opposes the contentious Abbott scheme. [read more]
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The woman who wished she was mediocre. Like her friends.
By MAMAMIA TEAM “I was a straight-A student from primary school to university, where I studied journalism. I got my first job as soon as I graduated, working at a national newspaper, and was repeatedly promoted until I was the editor of a leading fashion magazine by the time I turned 28.” [read more]
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It’s official: Religion will be extinct by 2035.
Just as antibiotics replaced humours and democracy replaced the feudal system, and coral has replaced some other colour as the ‘hottest hue of the season’ – new evidence suggests that atheism is set to replace religion. In an article published in Psychology Today, evolutionary psychologist Dr. Nigel Barber argues that atheism [read more]
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Monday’s news in just two minutes.
1. The Liberal Party have come out swinging in the pre-election advertising wars. They’ve released a new TV ad that labels the Labor Party as a Government which is ‘running around like a chicken with its head cut off’. The ad aired for the first time during Insiders on ABC, this Sunday, where the Prime [read more]
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Sunday’s news in under 2 minutes.
1. The United Nations has stated that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef may be added to a list of endangered world heritage sites. UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee is set to meet next month, and will argue that the reef is in immediate danger “in the absence of a firm and demonstrable commitment” from government to [read more]
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This is what the face of homophobia looks like.
Warning: The images in this post are extremely graphic. This is what the face homophobia looks like. Wilfred de Bruijn was beaten unconscious in Paris one night, when holding hands with his boyfriend. Unknown assailants kicked him to the ground. De Bruijn’s boyfriend said that he heard a group of about four men yelling, “Hey, [read more]
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Saturday’s news in under 2 minutes.
1. A Danish television show, Blachman, has come under fire worldwide for its sexism and humiliation of women. The ‘concept’ of the show involves silent, naked women entering a darkened studio – and then being judged by men seated on couches in front of them. Thomas Blachman, the host of the show [read more]
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EXCLUSIVE: PM Julia Gillard asks – is 96c a day too much to pay for fairness?
By JULIA GILLARD There are millions of words and thousands of articles published every day in Australia, in newspapers and online. Only a few make you stop what you are doing and read them again – and only a very few make you think. Stella Young’s article on Monday was like that. [read more]
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Friday’s news in only two minutes.
1. Photos of a woman who posted a non traditional before and after picture on Facebook have gone viral. In an interview with the Today Show, Taryn Brumfitt said she wanted to prove to her friends that you “can love your body before and you can love it after”. Taryn said she considered surgery [read more]
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JAMILA: Geoffrey Barker has had enough of ‘TV babes’. And I’ve had enough of Barker.
By JAMILA RIZVI When it comes to sexism, it can be all too easy for us feminists to lose sight of the bigger picture. If we take task with every offhand remark (which often have ignorance rather than malice at their core but are plentiful in number) and get outraged about [read more]
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Thursday’s news in just two minutes.
1. A large Foxtel billboard that featured an image of the British Prime Minister having sex with a pig will been removed from it’s position in Sydney’s Kings Cross less that 24 hours after it was erected. The Photoshopped image comes British series Black Mirror and was being used to promote its arts channel. [read more]
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It’s one word and one photo. And it’s caused one hell of a fight.
By NATALIA HAWK Chunky. That’s the word currently making headlines around the world after a blogger decided to use it in the same sentence as the word “cheerleader”. Here’s what happened. Claire Crawford, a writer for US news site CBS Houston, wrote a blog post about a cheerleader named Kelsey Williams [read more]
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These are the places in Australia where women have never been.
By GRACE JENNINGS-EDQUIST Guess how many women have landed on the moon? Been Bishops of the Church of England? Headed up the University of Oxford? …Or Cambridge, or Stanford, or Columbia? The answer? None. The remarkable 100 Percent Men Tumblr is currently grabbing headlines across the internet for pointing out just that. [read more]
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Saudi Arabia’s first ever anti-domestic violence ad.
Saudi Arabia has released its first anti-domestic violence advertisement. Ever. The ad features a woman wearing a hijab, with her face completely covered – except for her eyes. One of those eyes is blackened; a painful-looking purple bruise marring her skin. The slogan says, “Some things can’t be covered – fighting women’s abuse together.” Saudi [read more]
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Wednesday’s news in just two minutes.
1. The Federal Government is expected to announce an increase to the Medicare levy to cover part of the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme – or NDIS. The Medicare levy will be raised by 0.5 of a per cent, from 1.5 per cent to two per cent – that adds up to [read more]
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This idiot thinks the wives of FIFO workers need 24 hour supervision.
While the husbands are away, the women will play. And by “play” we don’t mean cards, bingo or tennis – we mean “have an affair”. (Oh my!) At least, that’s what a new advertising campaign – designed by a leading homebuilder in Western Australia, Dale Alcock, would have you believe. In [read more]
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Asylum seeker: ‘An Australian detention centre took my baby away’.
Last night, ABC’s Four Corners exposed the reality of what life is like for the thousands of asylum seekers who are housed in Australia’s offshore processing centres in Nauru and Manus Island. After being closed when the Labor Government came into power in 2007, the centres were reopened last year when [read more]
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Tuesday’s news in just two minutes
1. A 14-year-old girl in the US has stopped an 8-year-old boy from being kidnapped by a registered sex offender. Marisa Martinez was playing in her yard when she saw 32-year-old John Jenkins grab the boy. Martinez screamed for her mother and pulled on the kidnapper – who ran away and was caught by [read more]
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RU486: R U 4 Real?
By SARAH KRASNOSTEIN A woman in Australia may think she can freely access a safe abortion if she needs to. Until she finds out she can’t. A woman in Australia may think that the battle for control over her body has been fought and won. Until she finds out it hasn’t. In case [read more]
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Monday’s news in just two minutes.
1. Jacinta Saldanha, the UK nurse who took her own life in the wake of the Australian radio prank, reportedly left a suicide note in which she blamed the Austero DJs for her death. The note, which appeared in The Sunday Times, read: “I am truly sorry. Thankyou for all your support. I [read more]