Tag: Mark Latham
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Why Doesn’t He Just Leave? Men and Domestic Violence
At the moment, according to Destroy the Joint there is at least one woman a week being murdered by her partner. Domestic Violence is now more of a mainstream issue than ever. And there is plenty of advice in the air. Rosie Batty is campaigning against domestic violence as Australian of the Year. The…
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Why Mark Latham Can’t Get It Right On Domestic Violence
Perhaps it really was a quiet news week. Apart, that is, from the Budget, Johnny Depp’s dogs, double-dipping mothers and the Rohingya refugee crisis. But perhaps with domestic violence in some of the news, Mark Latham decided to single dip and write another opinion column. And he’s done it again. Or to use the academic…
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Mark Latham v Lisa Pryor (Feminists Are Parents Too)
Like Mae West, when Mark Latham is good, he’s very good. Witness his eulogy to Gough Whitlam. Unlike Mae West, when he’s bad, he isn’t better. Witness his garbled article stating that left feminists hate children. After several reads and re-reads of this, I may have worked out the gist of what he’s saying. He…
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The Gonski Masterstroke (Still Confusing Christopher Pyne and Tony Abbott)
A month ago, I wrote a post on Gonski and here’s an update: None of the State Premiers except for Barry O’Farrell have signed up to the Gonski reforms. Recently, Tony Abbott has stated that he is against the reforms. Christopher Pyne’s response is to say to the least, confused. He recently stated O’Farrell was conned although…
Andrew James Whalan 