Bogans officially recognised
Mullet wearers unite – the word "bogan" has officially been recognised by the Oxford English Dictionary. via Bogan Included in Oxford Dictionary.
The white bread playground: top private schools shun ethnic diversity
FEW children of recent migrants are entering Sydney's high-fee private schools, which remain the preserve of Australians from English-speaking backgrounds. At many of the city's high-fee independent schools less than 10 per cent of students have a parent who speaks a language other than English. Trinity, MLC and Meriden - all in the inner west [...]
Mental health in the classroom – are we getting the best out of our kids?
I'd like to pose this question to all those teachers and educators out there - "Are you getting the best out of your kids in the classroom?" I'm not talking about great NAPLAN results, marks on an exam or an ATAR score - I'm talking about reaching the kids in your class and making a [...]
The museum of failed products-a lesson about happiness
The Museum of Failed Products was itself a kind of accident, albeit a happier one. Its creator, a now-retired marketing man named Robert McMath, merely intended to accumulate a "reference library" of consumer products, not failures per se. And so, starting in the 1960s, he began purchasing and preserving a sample of every new item [...]
Girlfriend June 2012 The Big O: and it’s not Roy Orbison, by Melinda Tankard Reist
For women my generation who see a massive magazine heading “The Big O” and think it’s about Roy Orbison, you probably won’t want to read further. The “Big O”) in this case refers to orgasm – in fact “your giggle-free guide to orgasms.” Although if your daughter is a 13-year-old reader of Girlfriend (GF has [...]
Five foods to reduce stress
Some types of foods and key vitamins and minerals can help you unwind by boosting levels of the feel-good hormone serotonin, lowering blood pressure and reducing cortisol levels. The low-GI carbohydrates found in wholegrain breads, pasta, noodles and brown rice are among the best stress-busters. But here are five other types of food to calm [...]
Special K for depression?
"It's a completely different mechanism. And the focus is on really rapidly helping someone get out of a depressive episode." This new mechanism isn't the result of a recently discovered chemical compound but the reapplication of an existing drug – ketamine. Used in both human and veterinary science as an anaesthetic agent, it's also taken [...]
Party culture and the hangover of sexual assault
An Australian-first study based in Wollongong has a sobering message for young women who binge drink. The data is in - the more a young woman binge drinks on a night out, the more likely she is to be sexually assaulted, receive unwanted sexual attention and have unprotected sex. via Party culture and the hangover [...]
Ministers and industry watering down pregnancy alcohol warning labels
Inaction, confusion and lack of direction has led to doubts about the federal government's commitment to introduce mandatory pregnancy health warnings for all alcohol by December next year. The alcohol industry has written to the Australian and New Zealand ministers responsible for food and beverage regulation outlining action they have taken to introduce pregnancy warning [...]