Month: October 2014

  • 2 Years Ago Sandra Fluke Was Called a Whore. Now She Wants Your Vote.

    When the offensive, threatening messages started trickling in online, Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke had no idea her life was about to change forever. Perhaps she’d expected…

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  • The last taboo: Talking about suicide

    Natasha Mitchell is the presenter of RN’s Life Matters and an ambassador for the ABC’s mental health initiative, Mental As. Here, she questions whether—despite suicide prevention…

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  • 10 things I learnt as an Australian in Berlin

    Earlier this year I spend a month in Berlin.

    1. It is OK to drink beer in the street.
      A couple of blokes having a drink and a chat in the street

      Not only is it OK to wander the streets with a beer, but the railway stations normally have a bottle shop just to get you through the walk from the station to home.

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