The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of the World Health Organisation (WHO). It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board. The main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the Organization, appoint the Director-General, [...]
What happens when you combine cultures that work too much, suppress any form of sexuality and don’t really like to express any form of genuine emotion in public? ROBOT SEX MACHINES! How on the heels of China reducing intercourse for guys to a controllable ‘backwards and forwards’ robotic movement, Japan has hit back this week [...]
So like everyone else I too am watching the news coverage on Osama Bin Laden’s death. The Australian Sky news feed is currently streaming some very serious looking newsmen and commentary on the announcements following Bin Laden’s death. Meanwhile overlayed on top of the broadcast is a live feed from public gatherings outside the Whitehouse. [...]
Thankfully I’ve never had to do it, but I imagine one of the most mentally uncomfortable experiences of my life would be collecting my sperm for medical purposes. I’ve seen the same movie scenes you have, and unless things have changed, sitting in a room reading porn magazines and jerking off into a cup doesn’t [...]
Australia doesn’t have a detailed history of traitors. We’ve participated in both world wars and have had a foothold in nearly every global and major regional Asia-Pacific conflict since. All this despite a population that is dwarfed by most other countries entering these conflicts. Because of a lack of traitors in our wartime history, it’s [...]
As we slide into what appears to be somewhat of a stalemate in Libya, and while we watch several Jasmine revolutions of their own unfold in the middle east, not much has been made of the crackdown in China. Over the past few months political activists, protesters, academics… and well basically anyone who’s ever criticised [...]
In America, if you mentioned the current Obama government was corrupt you’d get two types of responses. The democrats would accuse you of being Republican and the Republicans would probably elect you. Australians would make a joke of it and start exchanging their favourite government corruption stories. In China everyone would just look at you [...]
When I think of comparisons between Australia and Europe, I see Australia as lagging behind Europe by about five to ten years. Lagging behind not because of societal or cultural slowness, but because of one key difference: The mining and resources industry. Without the mining and resources industries, Australia is essentially a country with little [...]
Domestic violence conjures up images of bruised and battered women, mentally scarred males, broken beer bottles, holes in the wall, misplaced risque text messages – and a whole lot more. But shouting at someone? Fair enough if you’re shouting at them in a menacing manner ala ‘HEY BITCH I’M GOING TO KILL YOU!’ but ‘WHERE’S [...]
I’m not a fan of mixing religion and politics. No matter where it occurs in the world it almost always comes with a damning cost, the cost paid by those who fall outside of the religion. Moderates would have you believe that this isn’t a problem though. Through tolerance and acceptance the idea is that, [...]