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Safety is a concept that effects all of us and impacts upon the way we live our lives. Years of working with children who have been sexually assaulted resulted in me writing training manuals for parents (see Parent Sense) to help give them ideas on how to teach safety through play.
What ideas do you have for safe, city living. Send them in to Phillips because safety is every one’s business.
The nasty little trojan was riding my computer like it was a horse, throwing up a “Buy this wonderful new anti virus protection”, and driving me to distraction trying to work out how to get rid of it. My internet kept crashing and I was seriously considering the sledge hammer approach!!
I managed to get into one page before I crashed….again!! Thank you to A Changing Life for posting about the fix.I simply followed the prompts and the fix was completed in less than 10 minutes…for FREE. I am very grateful to you, Changing Life.
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The porn lobby and some in the internet industry are trying to scuttle the Australian Government’s plan to clean up the internet for our kids.
Are you in favour of pornography on the net or are you in favour of having voluntary filters that clean the pornography away prior to it hitting our home computers. I am in favour of the latter and have contributed toward an email campaign asking for the trial safe filters to CONTINUE. I invite you to have your say as well.
Please consider sending a simple paragraph back via the above online email campaign. There are suggestion tips to help you formulate your petition, or just speak from the heart as I did.
Use your home based power to make the pollies sit up and listen. You are a successful and responsible person if you take action, a leader, and I am grateful that you have acted positively to help keep our kids safe.
According to Hetty Johnston (comment left on my facebook note), founder of Bravehearts,
Internet filtering will not be compulsory but making sure we get a trial may mean protecting many unsuspecting kids from being exposed to inappropriate content. It cant hurt anyone. Arguments that it will slow down the internet for everyone are simply untrue. Bravehearts sits on the Federal Governments CyberSafety Working Party so we are privy to much information. It would be devastating if the Porn industry and others who are lobbying to scuttle this critical trial win. Please everyone – get involved.
We need to have the right to a ‘clean internet feed’ if we want it – just as those who chose not to take the Clean Feed option have their rights. Our kids deserve this.
I am serious about child protection and have no difficulty finding five minutes to take citizen action for a very important Australian issue. How about you?
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“Family Planning Queensland (FPQ) Cairns Sexual Assault Service is this year hosting the inaugural “Halloween Themed Dance Party” as part of Sexual Violence Awareness Month. The event will held Friday 31st October 5:00-9:00pm at Fogarty Park Soundshell. Originally known as ‘Reclaim the Night march’, this year FPQ hopes to attract their target group – Children and Youth – by modernising the event.
This dance party will bring together different cultures and age groups within the Cairns area to demonstrate a unified, community voice rejecting sexual violence in our region, and promoting the valuing and respect of all community members in an effort to create a safer community. This is done by campaigning for awareness and zero tolerance of sexual assault against women, children and men of all cultures, ages, and abilities”.
Given comments against Halloween on an earlier blog, Five Child Safety Tips for Halloween, I am curious as to whether readers think this is a good way to demonstrate a unified, community voice rejecting sexual violence in our region.
I am keen to support and to ensure local unification against sexual violence. It seems pointless to me to have two same night events calling for the same awareness: our Teddy Tour and Reclaim the Night gathering here at Imaginif and the FPQ Dance Party on the Cairns Esplanade. I will attend the Dance Party later in the evening as a sign of support but I wonder if we need to take all the Teddies down, at 5pm, on a physical Tour as well, rather than having them in the garden walk here? One year we pushed all the Teddies in prams on a walkathon. Pushing Tagged Teddies around the soundshell area may also have maximum affect. Mind you, I have not yet asked FPQ if they would be in agreement with this.
What do you think? Keep the Teddy Tour separate or combine it with the Reclaim the Night Halloween Dance Party hosted by FPQ?
The Teddy Tour
invites you to a balcony road side candle ceremony to peacefully protest sexual violence against women and children.
The insurance for Reclaim the Night has made public street marches cost prohibitive for organisations and for individuals. Few agencies can staff support organisation and management and numbers of participants have slowly dwindled in Cairns over the years.This year, in conjunction with the Teddy Tour,
Imaginif invites you
to a private function to celebrate
The top front balcony of Megan Bayliss’s private residence fronts a busy and arterial Cairns road – James St (becoming Anderson St). Following the Teddy Tour around the garden of Imaginif (30 James St), you are invited upstairs to light a candle, shake shakers and sing songs in support of ending sexual violence against women and children. The visibility is HUGE, particularly with Friday afternoons peak, go home traffic time.
When: from 4 pm onwards on Friday the 31st of October (Halloween)
Where: 30 James St, North Cairns
Cost: Entry is a gold coin donation. Candles and Teddies on sale. Proceeds fund free counselling positions for survivors of sexual assault.
Food and drink: None – bring your own picnic tea to have on the front verandah or in the gardens.
Dress: Casual or Fancy Dress (it’s Halloween).
Guest speakers: None – this is an informal and unstructured event where discussions between like minded people are encouraged.
This is a private function and trouble makers will be asked to leave and police called.
For further information on how to become involved in the Teddy Tour and Reclaim the Night, please visit:
$5.00 Teddies help survivors of sexual assault
If you would like to make some Teddy or candle holder contributions, please follow these patterns and deliver to Megan Bayliss at Imaginif BEFORE the 31st of October:
