While Black History Month serves as an opportunity to educate and celebrate the great contributions African-American people have made throughout history, it is also a time to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth that African-American women face domestic violence and homicide at higher rates than other groups. According to a July 2017 …
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Parents worry children won’t afford property
Most Discussed 57% won’t use CBA if commissions scrapped A survey showed brokers would cancel their accreditation or avoid the bank Broker group slams Royal Commission questioning The group has called out the “absence of appropriate questioning” Australian parents and grandparents are concerned for the next generation’s financial future, with …
Read More »Monday briefing: Facebook branded ‘digital gangster’ | World news
Top story: Urgent need for social media regulation, say MPs Hello, it’s Warren Murray shaking the tree of news to see what falls out. Mark Zuckerberg’s social network deliberately broke privacy and competition law and must be brought under regulation, according to a devastating parliamentary report denouncing the company and …
Read More »Isis Briton Shamima Begum pleads to return to UK after giving birth
A teenager who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State has called on people in the UK to have sympathy for her, the day after giving birth to a boy in a refugee camp. Shamima Begum, 19, who left the UK with two school friends in 2015, spoke to the …
Read More »15 Underrated Romantic Movies Directed By Women
For anyone who has rewatched genre classics like Sleeping in Seattle or the entire Nancy Meyers oeuvre one too many times (yes, it’s possible), these underrated films directed by lesser-known female directors breathe fresh life into the romance genre with characters and plots that are as endearing as the heart …
Read More »How to Grant Your Child an Inner Life
In my junior year of high school, in 1992, I briefly convinced myself I was H.I.V.-positive. I had a low-grade fever, night sweats, chills, and a cough that lasted more than a month. I wasn’t wildly sexually active, though I’d had sex. My biggest fear, which magnified grotesquely the more …
Read More »Women in tech: Two prominent female CISOs speak out (CxOTalk interview)
The Chief Information Security Officer role has become increasingly important in recent years. But, what are the opportunities for women in this male-dominated field? MUST READ IT security and governance Adversarial AI: Cybersecurity battles are coming AI impact: Rethinking education and job training Defense contractor: IT must embrace radical transparency …
Read More »Kate Ritchie stars in Jockey underwear campaign’ she’s got the power’
The former Home And Away star is the face – and body – for Jockey’s “She’s got the power” campaign. It’s not the first time she has gotten down to her undies for the company, and she shared the news to her fans via her Instagram account, where she has …
Read More »Hundreds Mourn Death of Five Children in Bowie Car Crash
Hundr of friends and family gathered Saturday for the funeral of five children who died in a car crash in Bowie, Maryland, on Feb. 2. The children were as young as 5 and as old as 15 when they were killed in a single-car crash on a snowy roadside on …
Read More »‘Problems with disruptive children are now endemic in our schools’
Primary school children spend 183 of the 365 days in the year in school with an in-school ratio of hours 1:4. The concept of the “school year” is somewhat a misnomer. It equates to 12.5 per cent of an actual year with the remaining 87. 5 per cent of time …
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