- Doctor making her mark: an encouraging piece about a program that is creating awareness and a platform for culture change in attitudes towards women within the Australian Footbal League. A similar program has been implemented by National Rugby League:
KAREN WILLIS: The NRL has said, “We don’t accept violence against women, and we think this is wrong,” and they are a large male dominated organisation who’s stepped up to the mark and said quite clearly, “We will be doing something about this, we will be changing our culture. We will be educating our players. We will be setting protocols in place, and we will do everything we can to stop violence against women within our game.”
- Bush’s Shadow Army: a scary look at the privatization of the military by the US in Iraq. Private contractors are also becoming active domestically.
“Private contractors like Blackwater work outside the scope of the military’s chain of command and can literally do whatever they please without any liability or accountability from the US government,” Katy Helvenston, whose son Scott was one of the Blackwater contractors killed, told the committee. “Therefore, Blackwater can continue accepting hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money from the government without having to answer a single question about its security operators.”
- Australia’s Own Mount Olympus: the discovery of ‘the most amazing rock engraving site in the whole of south-eastern Australia’ in the Wollemi wilderness region of NSW.
