Allegations of group sex, akin to those we expect to hear about on Four Corners tonight, have surfaced intermittently in recent years. In the descriptions of these events, the key point seems to be the opportunity for the boys on the team to engage in a sexual activity together with the woman involved a sort [...]
The SMH is reporting:
The Federal Government is planning to delay its emissions trading scheme by one year, smh.com.au understands.
The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is scheduled to make an announcement at lunch time.
It is believed the Government still wants the legislation for the scheme to be passed this year but the scheme itself will not start [...]
From NZ Herald
An iPhone application where the aim is to kill off islanders has been criticised as racist by members of the Pacific Island community.
Pocket God opens with a “meet the islanders” screen, before brown-skinned men wearing hula skirts are shown on an island with a volcano in the background.
To score points, the player kills [...]
The freakonomics blog on the NYT has an interesting look at the role of conformity in communications. Basically, it’s hard to convince people to stop doing something if they think everyone else is doing it. People don’t want to rise above the crowd and be exemplary. So public service messages that suggest that many people [...]
On the 13th February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made an apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples on behalf of the Parliament of Australia. The State Library of Queensland, with assistance from Queensland University of Technology and Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, has captured responses to this historic event. Patricia Lees (pictured) is one [...]
From the SMH, which seems to luv dodgy public health surveys:
George Patton, director of adolescent health research at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne said he was surprised by the results. He had expected that those with no evidence of excessive drinking as teens would “do well as adults”.
“But we found, particularly for males, that those [...]
Unbelievable:
Dr Phillip Jensen, Anglican Dean of Sydney, told AAP on Friday he sympathised with Cardinal Pell’s views, but did not believe condoms alone had made society more promiscuous.
“In terms of adultery, in terms of divorce, in terms of grandchildren, yes we are in big trouble as a society because of the sexual revolution,” he said.
“It [...]
In recent years, ANZAC day has morphed into an opportunity for young (and not-so young) people to get shit-faced and soppily nationalistic, which makes it an ideal target for a big beer company. VB’s “raise a glass” campaign will no doubt find favour with anyone who thinks binge drinking is an appropriate part of remembering Australians [...]
ABSTRACT—”In a world where encounters with dishonesty are frequent, it is important to know if exposure to other people’s unethical behavior can increase or decrease an individual’s dishonesty. In Experiment 1, our confederate cheated ostentatiously by finishing a task impossibly quickly and leaving the room with the maximum reward. In line with social-norms theory, participants’ level [...]
