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Community Photo: Silas Baisch/Unsplash Recently, the McIver’s Ladies Baths in Sydney came under fire for their (since removed) policy stating “only transgender women who’ve undergone a gender reassignment surgery are allowed entry”. The policy was seemingly in defiance of New South Wales’ anti-discrimination and sex discrimination acts. Managed since 1922 by the Randwick and Coogee Ladies Amateur Swimming Club, the baths are a haven for women and the last remaining women’s...

Searching for Charlotte, written with her sister Kate Forsyth. Charlotte was not only a bestselling author, she was an early Australian artist and a pioneer in the fight for women’s legal rights, waging a bitter court battle for the right to raise her own children. In Searching for Charlotte, the story of her life is woven together with our own anecdotes and experiences, untangling the mysteries of the past. Our journey really began when we were children and our grandparents would take us ...

November 23, 2020. IT was no surprise that Fred Walker should make his name as a naval architect, marine historian, author and lecturer. In his youth he spent much of his time in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, peering through glass cases at the collection of Clyde-built ships. He pored over archives in the Mitchell Library, and he walked the city’s docks with his friend, James Macaulay. The Clyde was then busy with shipping: dredgers, tugs, passenger steamers, and cargo and pleasure vesse...

Last week, the McIver’s Ladies Baths in Sydney came under fire for their (since removed) policy stating “only transgender women who’ve undergone a gender reassignment surgery are allowed entry”. The policy was seemingly in defiance of New South Wales’ anti-discrimintation and sex discrimination acts. Managed since 1922 by the Randwick and Coogee Ladies Amateur Swimming Club, the baths are a haven for women, and the last remaining women’s-only seawater pool in Australia. Just over ...

Advertisement Plans to build a small bar on the roof of the heritage-listed Mitchell building at the State Library has been revived by the Berejiklian government in a bid to lure more visitors to the historic site. As part of the NSW governments November pandemic budget, $12.3 million was set aside for Australias oldest library, which will include a "small function venue" accessible from the Domain. An artists impression of a planned rooftop small bar atop the State Library. The small bar will ...

Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:31 am, December 21st, 2020 - 30 comments From a few days ago (it seems like an eternity), RNZ reported “Govt to pump almost $3 billion into its Covid-19 response after report identified failings”. There were several points I’d make about the border controls and generally with our border and the long slow years in constraining...

Europe still has community transmission and an inadequate covid response. I mean, Im all for lessening flights further due to climate change, also happy for NZ to be forced by covid into a more regenerative way of living, but those are different rationales. Cricklewood 2.2.1 Ive been thinking about international air travel, I like the idea of a progressive taxation system as you dont want to make it impossible for people to visit family etc so for example you get one free...

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:34 am, December 20th, 2020 - 22 comments New Zealand like most countries across the world in the last year, has gone deeper and deeper into public debt. It’s pretty clear that the New Zealand government’s response to economic crisis from lockdowns and global trade crashes by spending tonnes of debt money has been extremely effective. Yet for some, it’s simple: debts must always ...

"We have won so far because geographical isolation gave us about a week of decision-making space to lock down hard." The extra week was helpful – but much more important was being prepared to make that decision to lock-down hard. The Tory party would have been incapable of such a decision no matter how many extra weeks they were handed – and that was Eds point. A National government here would have (most likely) been unable to make that decision. Scomo looked like he wasnt capable of that ...

Tickets can be booked online at HERE for up to six people. Kelvingrove and Riverside museums will close on Wednesday, 30, December before re-opening on Sunday, 3, January, 2021. For fitness fans, Glasgow Club Bellahouston, Glasgow Club Gorbals, Tollcross International Swimming Centre, Glasgow Club Scotstoun, and Emirates Arena are all open in the run-up to Christmas - with online classes also continuing on the Glasgow Club website. Emirates Arena will open on Sunday, 27 and Wednesday, 3...