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AUSTRALIA

What does Tickle vs. Giggle mean for single-sex spaces?
- Erica Cervini
- 04 September 2024
4 Comments
While women-only spaces have long been seen as essential, the verdict raises questions about inclusivity and the potential for compromise. Is it possible to balance gender equality with the need for safe, exclusive spaces?
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AUSTRALIA

Behind the curtain: Are same-sex rooms needed in public hospitals?
- Erica Cervini
- 30 January 2024
7 Comments
Public hospitals around the country introduced mixed gender rooms during the noughties to get patients to their rooms quicker after being in emergency. It has since become common practise, without significant debate or research.
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CARTOON

Bad call
- Fiona Katauskas
- 14 July 2021
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ARTS AND CULTURE

When the city spoke back to me
- Laila Nawsheen
- 02 February 2021
Come the next set of lights, you won't remember what I look like. You'll all go back to your lives thinking about your wives, girlfriends, kids, parents, brothers, sisters, lovers, friends, husbands, boyfriends, whoever, not me. But I needed a night out in the city and the city spoke back to me when I had no one else to spend the night with.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Brown on the inside, white on the out
- Amber Dauzat
- 02 May 2018
2 Comments
I remember holding your hand, brown against white. Holding it so tight, so the waves of dirty looks and hushed giggles didn't wash my tiny body away. They asked what a 'wet back' was doing with a little white girl. They asked what it was like to have a dad that talked so funny. They asked things I didn't know the answers to.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Space race saga's Black history through White eyes
- Tim Kroenert
- 14 February 2017
1 Comment
There's a gag about sitting in the back of the bus, the realities of segregation dismissed with a giggle; references to university sit-ins and firebombings come via the eyes of a cartoonishly earnest character. Meanwhile the White characters are either the object of contrived sympathy, or too thinly drawn to invoke genuine menace. Accusations of 'cultural appropriation' might be uncharitable, but the short shrift given to the real, continuing hardships of Black experience raises questions about objectives and authenticity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A Taliban bullet didn't keep her down
- Tim Kroenert
- 06 November 2015
2 Comments
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai came to international prominence in 2012 after being shot in the head by a Taliban gunman, for her advocacy for girls' education. He Named Me Malala ponders whether her father shares indirect responsibility for the shooting, as he encouraged her advocacy. The question of exploitation is relevant whenever a child enters the public gaze, but here it threatens to undermine Malala's own agency, as a young woman who can think, speak and act powerfully on her own behalf.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Grieving women rock immutable Islam
- Tim Kroenert
- 20 November 2014
2 Comments
The three recently reunited sisters are immersed in whispered conversation, during the second day of mourning at the house. In the next room, older men in ceremonial garb chant a mourning ritual. Suddenly, the sisters get the giggles, only to be angrily shushed by one of the men in the next room. But grief can't be stage managed, and it seems only natural that the process should be guided by normal human interaction.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Subterranean interrogation
- Vin Maskell
- 13 October 2010
7 Comments
'Excuse me,' the young man says. I meet his brown eyes. Pondering how many coins I have in my pocket I note his tidy hair, olive T-shirt, well-fitting jeans, coloured sneakers. Maybe he just wants to ask about the next train. He is perspiring a little. 'Can I talk to you?' he asks.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Children's publishing fuelled by nostalgia?
- Hilary Rogers
- 09 January 2008
There’s something very reassuring about the idea that what we loved to read will still appeal to kids now. Choosing a brand of food for our pets is less fraught, unless we were dogs in past lives. From 15 May 2007.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Children's publishing fuelled by nostalgia?
- Hilary Rogers
- 15 May 2007
8 Comments
There’s something very reassuring about the idea that what we loved to read will still appeal to kids now. Choosing a brand of food for our pets is less fraught, unless we were dogs in past lives.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Allan James Thomas, Siobhan Jackson, Juliette Hughes
- 18 June 2006
Reviews of the ﬁlms Buffalo Soldiers; Finding Nemo; Morvern Callar and Pirates of the Caribbean
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Keywords: Giggle