Good question! I have no idea, I just assumed they were to add emphasis!

So, we could accept that almost everyone has children and make work and government policies that allow women (and men!) to prioritize having children when they are most able to do so healthily. Orrrrrr....we could push wealthy women to spend lots of money on an Invasive procedure which may or may not even solve the…

When migration started in larger numbers from Italy after ww2, I have heard the australian high commission would ask men to drops their pants to see if Italians had white bums. We’re they dark they would not get migration. However, not addressed in your article is how even within Italy northern italianslook down on…

All good and stuff, but when are we going to talk about the REAL issue: gingers stealing our jobs, welfare and marrying our women?

It used to essentially be shorthand for a Protestant Caucasian. Irish and Italians were largely Catholic, and were shunned as a whole as a result. European Jews were similarly shunned. Physically, you could have taken random people from many European countries and mixed them together in a room, and then been unable to…

And “christian” churches are “hotbeds” of misogynistic political speech, sometimes leading to violence. Should we be allowed to go into those as well and arrest pastors?

Based on public opinion polls, a majority of Australians say that multiculturalism is a good thing. It may be a slight majority at times, but it’s still a majority.

I came to Australia as the child of assisted migrants. My wife is Chinese Malaysian who also migrated here. We are now both Australian citizens, and we’ve worked as Australian diplomats and humanitarian aid workers in over 30 countries.

But the short answer - my wife’s uncle owns a Mexican restaurant in Newtown in…

Totally Agree.

I am Australian, though I have lived state side for two decades. There is no secret that Australia has a shameful racist history. You might want to remove the word “secret” from your headline. In fact if you don’t you are guilty of Fox news style journalism (although perhaps that is fitting given the Rupert Murdock…

Fantastic article. A lot of this is common knowledge in Australia (especially the horrific treatment of aboriginal peoples following white settlement), but some of it, like the blackbirding trade, is not.

Is there a single country on earth that does not have a deeply racist history? History has a habit of embarrassing modern people like that.

Oh don’t regret it. If we aren’t snarky, the darkness wins.

I regret my glib quip. It is the weakness of all the Gawkerverse, and I am not above it.

There was a similar case, also in Germany, years ago where the woman had hidden the corpses of several babies in planting pots. She grew herbs in them and used them for cooking. When the husband heard that in court he vomited right then and there.

it’s okay to hate.

Don’t you know that invoking the “good guy with a gun” is a major Gawker no-no?

I think it’s also about leaving baby-mama alone at the time when she most needs the help. And you (figurative you, I’m not assuming that you specifically have done this) can say you’re still going to help, be there, etc. but the feelings run so high that it gets in the way of that, and she’s extra alone at that time.…

Class fucking act. That’s not what I want from my celebrities! Now, where did I put Leah Remini’s memoir?