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The Lost Boys Of Australian Sport

March 22, 2013 in Current Affairs, Mental Health, Society, Sport

I’ve been thinking a lot about sport recently. That’s not unusual for me – I like watching sport, and I’ve written about the state of Australian cricket and the whole Homework-Gate thing on my personal blog. That whole shemozzle with the touring Australian cricket team in India – plus other sporting meltdowns, such as the Aussie swimmers, and the NRL players Rose mentioned in her recent post – have made me question the way we treat and manage our professional sports-people. Sam de Brito has written about “the lost boys” in his novel of the same name. Like the lost boys in Peter Pan, Sam writes [...]

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Bringing An Agenda To The Table

March 15, 2013 in Anecdotes, Fitness, Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition, People

Recently I wrote an article about My Body, My Choice. I wanted to highlight the differences between personal choices that have little or no effect on the wider community, and those that do. When I was thinking about personal choices that have a cost to the community I knew I had to think of some examples. Smoking was one. Binge drinking was another. But I also wanted to use food as an example as well, in terms of the the healthcare costs directly related to  bad diets and our sedentary lifestyle – diabetes, heart disease, bowel cancer – things like [...]

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My Body, My Choice. Our Community, Our Choice.

March 11, 2013 in Celebrity, Current Affairs, Health, Lifestyle

Since the onset of social media, and especially from the advent of blogging, I have learnt many new things. My outlook on life has been changed in many ways, some subtle, some not so.  I’ve discovered new ways of seeing the world and have been exposed to new ideas. One of those ideas being My Body, My Choice. I totally get it now. Eat what you want, smoke what you want, drink what you want, dress how you want, man-scape how you want, tattoo what you want, pierce what you want, botox what you want. There would have been a time when I [...]

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Do What You Will, But Harm None.

September 3, 2012 in Books, Entertainment, People, Religion, Self, Sexuality, Society

“Do what you will, but harm none” is such a clear and powerful statement. Each of us should be free to live the way we like, so long as our actions do no harm. I first came across the term “Do what you will, but harm none” in the 

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Don’t Call Me A Feminist

July 26, 2012 in Current Affairs, Gender, News, People, Society

Lot’s of people on social media proudly proclaiming themselves feminists at the moment. That’s cool. Lots of people claiming to be reclaiming the word Feminist. That’s cool too, although I don’t know how you can really make a claim to a word. Lot’s of men announcing that they are feminists too… that’s less cool with me – I just don’t really understand or agree with it. Some people are also expecting men to label themselves as feminist to show their support… that isn’t cool with me. Don’t tell me how to label myself, and I won’t try and label you. I [...]

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