THE world has been watching Melbourne this week as the city hosts the 20th International AIDS Conference. Despite initial reports from the event focusing understandably on the delegates killed by the missile attack on their flight over eastern Ukraine, the conference agenda hit the airwaves visibly on this week’s episode of QandA. As a result […]
Call an end to HIV/AIDS weasel words: @burgewords #CreatingWaves on #AIDS2014
July 25, 2014
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Thorpie did not have a Sweet Sixteen: @burgewords #CreatingWaves for @IanThorpe
July 14, 2014
I WASN’T going to write about Ian Thorpe’s coming out. What more can there be to say about this moment in his life, which has huge ramifications for him but should have none for us? But then I read one article which got me angry, the kind of piece I’d hoped to avoid but which I knew […]
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