Photo from Tollie Schmidt’s photostream: tollieschmidt There is nothing new about obsession with body image but the battlefront has relocated from magazines and our mirrors to the social media. The term “Thinspiration” – thinspo in short – is given to pictures, videos, blogs and quotes or any form of media that “inspires” girls to lose weight or to…
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Calling all music lovers and anyone whose vibe is a little bit funky: festival season is calling and music lovers are rejoicing. Shoes will be destroyed, people will get drunk and bank accounts will be drained for the love of music. What better way to end the summer? (If there is one, we sure haven’t discovered it yet.) – Kiera…
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Sky News presenter Jacinta Tynan has spoken out about the media’s long-standing culture of workplace bullying, in the hope awareness will lead to change. Tynan spoke to The Newsroom after we reported, in No Place for Harassment at Work, that sexual harassment is twice as prevalent in the media as in other industries. One in…
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Duane Langley visited one of Islam’s great houses, attended by thousands across Greater Sydney after an invitation from Levent Gunaydin, director of media at the Gallipoli Mosque of Auburn. This is what he experienced… Removing one’s shoes is not just an act of respect for a holy building, not just an emulation of Moses approaching the burning bush,…
DetailsAspiring video game journalists listen up – The Newsroom spoke to some professionals about breaking into the industry. “Free work, get some words up on a website and be open-minded to a lot of genres of games … you need to be well-rounded and have a knowledge of games as a whole,” says Adam Mathew,…
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Hundreds of fine arts students protested against TAFE funding cuts as they delivered a petition with more than 20,000 signatures to NSW State Parliament yesterday. The state government announced last month it was withdrawing all public funding from TAFE fine arts courses from January 2013. The government argued that art courses were not vocational, and that there are few job prospects for…
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It is National Recycling Week, so what’s clogging our streets? Cigarette butts have been the leading form of litter on Australian streets for the past 15 years. City of Sydney council cleaners pick up 15,000 butts every day – just a fraction of the estimated 7 billion Australians throw away each year. According to Clean Up Australia, butts are often…
DetailsProbationary Constable Daniel Barling outside the Coroner’s Court with a senior officer. Photos by Duane Langley The State Coroner has recommended disciplinary charges be considered against five police officers over the death of Brazilian student Roberto Laudisio Curti. She also ordered that most of the officers involved in the chase and melee that ended…
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