Is it courageous to speak up about mental health issues after a professional sporting loss? Many think it is, I beg to differ. After revealing his ‘battle with depression’ after the football world cup, Richarlison’s ‘courage’ for speaking up was heralded as ‘brave and courageous’. But is it? We are talking loosing a sporting contest, …
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Craig Foster has been critical of organised sports endorsements of fossil fuels and big oil sponsorships. He claimed, “Sport should be raising the alarm, not legitimising the culprits” he told Yahoo News. He’s wrong. Some facets of society should remain pure and free from the tentacles of overzealous activism. We are starting to fall victim …
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The cries of gender equality are loud, and we hear that men ‘oppress’ women. Sociologist Sylvia Walby said the patriarchy was “a system of social structures and practices in which men dominate, oppress, and exploit women.” . But when it comes to the patriarchy in matters of life and death, it’s most noticeably absent when …
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I am sick of celebrities preaching about reducing the stigma of mental illness. Contrary to the mainstream view, there’s more complexity to mental illness than the mere reduction of social stigma. Yet, we hear this half-baked narrative from sports stars and celebrities alike. But in a culture that worships every word and deed of celebrity, …
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Reality is stranger than fiction. In a stunning turn of events, Snopes ( a fact checking website) has confirmed that the diary of Ashley Biden, the daughter of current U.S. President Joe Biden, is confirmed to be authentic. I used to think that the fictional character from Family Guy, ‘Hebert the Pervert’ was just that, …
While common sense has gone through the window around the United States, Texas lone star conservatism has been the bulwark against the LGBT movement. When a North Texas school teacher wore a pink dress to school, we learned one thing: teachers have an ethical duty to uphold normative gender roles to preserve a healthy and …
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While Muslims are busy submitting to the will of Allah, Anthony Albanese is busy submitting to the will of Islam. When Orthodox Bishop Mari Mari Emanuel, a devout man of faith and outspoken critic of Islam, but the last thing any expected was that he would be the victim of an attempted sacrifice at the …
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When Westfield security guard Faraz Tahir attempted to help victims during the Bondi mass stabbing, he was killed by perpetrator Joel Gauchi. The 40 year-old Schizophrenic In the aftermath of the stabbing attack that claimed the lives of six people, I cannot help but wonder: would the outcome have been different had Tahir been armed? …
We need to talk about envy. If there’s one line that runs down the human heart, it’s envy. It was Aeschylus who said, It is in the character of very few men to honor without envying a friend who has prospered’. It’s all too human to covet things we don’t have in a world bereft …
Australian schoolchildren are becoming dumber, not smarter. In the recent NAPLAN test, one in three Australian students were found to be below the national benchmark. Despite the sacrosanct status of digital technologies within the apparatus of school education, results aren’t improving, they’re worsening and no attention has been given to technology’s deadly role in proliferating …
