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1. Sex workers: facts and myths
(Weekly Email)
The stereotype of sex workers, that they are all drug addicted, abused, powerless women, pimped out by dangerous men to clients (probably married men) who want weird and kinky sex, is, as most stereotypes ...
Created on 22 April 2013
2. Stupidity or brain damage?
(Weekly Email)
It’s been a pretty miserable couple of weeks in sport. That is all. I love the stupid. Always have. It’s the stupid that makes everything more fun, except when it’s the kind of stupid that brings you ...
Created on 02 April 2013
3. Links we liked this week - 25th March 2013
(Weekly Email)
Pacific Standard: Thinking of Science Strengthens Moral Fiber by Tom Jacobs - For the atheists and science geeks among you. New York Times: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel by Rebecca ...
Created on 25 March 2013
4. The red planet
(Weekly Email)
The Senate is a vastly different beast to the House, with different rules, different elections and very different players. What happens to legislation sent there shouldn’t come as a big surprise, but too ...
Created on 18 March 2013
5. The sport of pornography
(Weekly Email)
The moral panic about sex, teenagers, porn and the internet appears to be never ending. And incredibly frustrating, because the issues are complex and insoluble. Banning, or even regulating, pornography ...
Created on 03 March 2013
6. They gave us the best years of their lives
(Weekly Email)
New studies suggest that it’s not just the human ballistic missiles of Grid Iron whose lives are being cut short by brain injuries. One of Australian Rules’ greatest hard-nuts is now paying the price. ...
Created on 03 March 2013
7. Boys will be boors
(Weekly Email)
It’s hardly surprising that the trite “boys will be boys” excuses are coming out in the wake of the Australian Swimming team’s poor performance in London. More surprising is that, for all the money and ...
Created on 24 February 2013
8. The Arcade
(Weekly Email)
Every Christmas you’ll stand in the street and hear (maybe from your own lips) “where are all the kids?” In my day we were all screaming round on our new bikes, now they’re just zombified in front of the ...
Created on 18 February 2013
9. The Five Rings Become One Finger
(Weekly Email)
There are huge shake-ups on the sporting horizon, but don’t worry, I have a solution and this time it doesn’t involve robots. Much. Please put down that thing and wipe it clean, there are important, ...
Created on 18 February 2013
10. The needle (and the money) and the damage done
(Weekly Email)
Sport is worth billions and billions of dollars. It’s hardly surprising that criminals are involved, hoovering up every cent they can, or that sporting bodies have been unable and unwilling to face up ...
Created on 10 February 2013
11. This week in sport...
(Weekly Email)
It’s been a while since I’ve yelled about Shport so bear with me as I try to make sense of all the drugs and lies and lies and drugs and bad Saturday night movies.  This week, I have been mostly eating ...
Created on 04 February 2013
12. Kevin Wept
(January 2013)
This was published in August 2012, but I couldn’t not include it in this issue. The thousands upon thousands of words written about the “knifing” of Kevin Rudd are all perfectly distilled in these few ...
Created on 21 January 2013
13. Women in Sport
(January 2013)
Something like one percent of sport coverage is about women’s sport. Not friggin good enough, not just because of equality , but because women’s sport is damn GOOD. I am exhausted. I am sunburned. I ...
Created on 21 January 2013
14. Gay Marriage: What the Fuck!?
(January 2013)
Since we published this piece in December 2011, it has been the most-viewed story on our website. Sue-Ann Post takes up the cudgels on behalf of those same-sex attracted folk who don’t wish to be further ...
Created on 21 January 2013
15. Casting the First Stone - Tony Abbott and the Slush Funds
(January 2013)
I am hugely indebted to former Fairfax journalist Margo Kingston for most of this piece. She covered the issue in great detail on the Fairfax Webdiary ten years ago and in her 2004 book Not Happy, John! (Penguin), ...
Created on 03 December 2012
16. The Cardigans of Doubt
(November 2012)
In 1985 Edward de Bono wrote a book called Six Thinking Hats, which taught us all how to think things, which was brilliant, because up to that point we’d all just been ham-fisted, masturbating idiots. ...
Created on 31 October 2012
17. The Future Is Tabloid And A Good Thing Too
(October 2012)
The most interesting and important thing about the rise and rise of the internet as a communication tool is the way it has shifted at least some of the power about what is important (in a news sense) from ...
Created on 10 October 2012
18. Who Should We Blame When Politicians Lie?
(October 2012)
Late in August, the Canberra Press Gallery awoke from a collective slumber and simultaneously concluded that Tony Abbott hadn’t been entirely honest with them. Or with the Australian people. Well at ...
Created on 10 October 2012
19. You Should Feel Guilty
(October 2012)
Not because you did anything specifically wrong. You just should. That’s where we are now. That’s what we’re doing now. Now that everybody’s opinions are equally available, and your facebook status about ...
Created on 10 October 2012
20. Paralympics
(October 2012)
By Moira Burn For over one hundred years, the Olympic movement has celebrated athletes who strive to be Faster, Higher, Stronger, in line with the movement’s motto. It’s well known that both Government ...
Created on 10 October 2012

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