When I was little I was smacked when I crossed the line. Over time I learnt what that line was avoided it. The theory behind the smack is relatively simple yet somehow it’s metamorphed into this sticky debate over child abuse, children’s rights and the softly softly approach. One academic (who probably doesn’t have kids) [...]

When I was in high school back in the 90′s the biggest confrontation I remember witnessing was between the largest guy in our class and a temp teacher. It was rollcall first thing in the morning and the temp, a big man himself, was near the blackboard at the front of the class and most [...]

If you sign up to wireless internet in Australia I might have a quiet guffaw at your expense. If you signed up to wireless internet in Australia and had kids you’d be stupid. If you signed up to wireless internet in Australia and had kids who had their own laptops you’d be pretty stupid. If [...]

One of the worst experiences of my life was a few years back when my mum’s then artist boyfriend decided to host an exhibition of his work. Primarily the works that featured my mother, naked. When I heard the news I had one of those classic ‘face in the palm of your hand’  moments and [...]

I’m starting to think you could get by writing just about the mental illness defense in the Australian court system and devote an entire site to it. The latest example of leniency in our courts was granted to an unnamed mother (to protect the children of course) from Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of NSW. [...]

I thought as a society Australia had sunk pretty low with the vindictive nature of the ‘morning after rape‘. The morning after rape however is pretty straight forward, you get drunk, find a guy, have sex, wake up the next morning and scream about how he forced you into bed and raped you. The group [...]

Sayings like “what you reap is what you sow” and “what goes around comes around” have been with us for a very, very long time. On any given day I’d normally rubbish you and point to the fact that such sayings were coined to simply make losers feel better about themselves. And I’d be right. [...]

Channel 9 has potentially thwarted the ‘woe is me I was innocent’ ploy of a Brisbane teenage terror by releasing footage the teenagers lawyers tried to stop police from releasing. It all went down last April (2008) at Southbank, Brisbane when a teenage girl defied a police order to “move on” while she waited for [...]

Over the last four months there have been four reported cases of parents across Australia driving under the influence with kids in the car. What the hell is going on with parents in Australia? Despite millions spent on advertising campaigns and common bloody sense, we STILL have idiot parents driving around grossly over the BAC [...]

I’m one of four brothers and whilst poetically planned or not, we all have at least one scar on our heads from kids being kids. I have a scar on my left eyebrow from playing live action Streetfighter and hitting my head on the corner of a wooden bed (don’t laugh), my second brother hit [...]