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The name game: property developers get creative
Published in The Age Property Section, 2 December 2014 By Jemimah Clegg Marketing and branding. We know how it works. Companies use a bunch of slick graphics and clever slogans to convince us we need that handbag, that car, that lifestyle. But property developers don’t worry about that stuff, they know people buy property with…
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Snapchat users warned to keep it clean
By Jemimah Clegg Published on City Journal, 15 October 2014 Young people are ditching Facebook for Snapchat, a photo-sharing app best known for its explicit content. The consequences could be embarrassing, at best. The day Liz Vaxalis was accidently “snapped” an explicit photo by a workmate was the day she started being more cautious with…
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Swine flu mania: how the media can freak us out, one word at a time
It’s estimated that up to 575,400 people across the world died from H1N1, or swine flu, in 2009. But only 191 of those deaths occurred in Australia, and though that’s still a large number, our high standard of health care means the impact of the pandemic was minimised here. Did people know it at the…
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Women in politics are still judged on their personal lives, “well-hung” or not
In 1921 Edith Cowan became the first woman in Australia elected to a state parliament, and sent the media into an ideological frenzy. The Bulletin published a cartoon of her scrubbing washing in parliament, with the caption “THE NEW ‘HOUSE’ WIFE”. The Age commented that if women became politicians “there would be many dreary and neglected…
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Two or more’s just a delight
Published in Preston Leader, 22 July 2014 By Jemimah Clegg A NOT-FOR-PROFIT organisation supporting families with twins, triplets and more is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Preston’s Alex Kingsbury, pictured with her twin 15-month-old girls, Emmeline and Frances, has been helped by the Australian Multiple Birth Association, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.…
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