1. A controversial painting of Angelina Jolie post-mastectomy is expected to fetch around $22,000 at a charity auction. The money will go towards a group that supports peace in the Congo.
The picture was created by Swedish artist Johan Andersson. In a statement about the painting, Andersson wrote: “My mother had aggressive breast cancer when I was 15…”
“The thought of her having to have a mastectomy really scared me and she was fortunate enough to have surgery without the mastectomy.”
“The recent news about Angelina stirred an anxiety within me leading me to paint this portrait,” said.
Two weeks ago, Angelina Jolie announced she had had both of her breasts removed, when she found out she had a breast cancer gene.
Meanwhile, Angelina Jolie’s aunt Debbie has lost her battle with breast cancer at the age of 61. Debbie was the younger sister of Angelina’s mother Marcheline, who also died from breast cancer.
2. Australia’s top Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, will front the committee for the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into Child Abuse today. The inquiry will look into allegations of sexual abuse of children in care of various groups – not just the Catholic Church.
Victoria’s premier, Dennis Napthine, has urged Cardinal Pell to be upfront. “I think there is an opportunity here for Cardinal Pell to be open with the people of Victoria and Australia, I think he should be fully apologetic, should be absolutely sorry about what has occurred in the Catholic Church.”
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Samuel (who wrote the surrogate article): if you're reading, someone wrote something I disagree with, and that I think came off as a bit rude and ignorant under the same name as me today - and now it's too late for me to comment!
I think you'd make a wonderful father! I can see the pros and cons of surrogacy (amazing in most circumstances, open to exploitation in bad circumstances), but I think whatever law applies should be open to straight/gay/singles. What the child needs is love, regardless of who their parent is.
According to The Australian newspaper today , freedom of speech has died at Australian National Unversity.
The editors of the student newspaper and the authors of an article critical of Islam, which pointed out that Mohammed was married to a nine year, were threatened with academic withdrawal and removal of funding from the uni student paper unless they removed the article from online.
Unfortunately, but understandably, the writers and editors of the newspaper caved into the threats from the university administration.
The student newspaper had run a series of articles about religion,: Mormonism, Scientology, Catholicism and Judaism and the fifth was on Islam. The unviersity did not care that the other religions were critcised/mocked etc but took action when there were complaints about the article re islam/Mohammed.
It seems that soon we may also have to keep our thoughts to ourself about: child marriage, shariah law, the stoning of women, the killing of homosexuals etc as the truth can no longer spoken as officials are more worried about complaints and death threats than protecting freedom of speech.