Some recent Australian news

[dreamer_easy]

Australia will no longer charge immigration detainees for their own imprisonment

School of hard knocks still follows tradition, say parents: claims that bullying continues at Farrer high school, despite policy changes and a half million dollar payout to a severely traumatised former student.

Anti-abortion group barred from NSW schools

Girls not taught skills to resist sex pressure

Comments

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

"Australia will no longer charge immigration detainees for their own imprisonment"

Lemme guess... They're now "invited to sponsor" *each other's* imprisonment? =:o\

[dameruth.livejournal.com]

This has nothing in particular to do with the above, besides being a random link, but an Evolution/Ecology professor in my department posted a printout of the following article on his office door and it raised my eyebrows and made me think of you (among other things), so I figured I'd stop by and post a link . . .

"Double blind review favours increased representation of female authors." (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VJ1-4R05HXW-2&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F2008&_rdoc=3&_fmt=high&_orig=browse&_srch=doc-info(%23toc%236081%232008%23999769998%23678025%23FLA%23display%23Volume)&_cdi=6081&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=14&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=4343dea1503055bbe6d6caa7c3350e94)

Unfortunately, one either has to have a subscription or shell out an ungodly amount of money to view the article online, but the abstract gets the idea across . . .