... or News from the Antipodes
In my reading of news around the world, there are not that many mentions of Australia. But we made it to the BBC News this week with the story:
Australian PM demands Brother axe
Australia's Prime Minister John Howard says Big Brother should be taken off air after allegations of sexual assault.
There has been much publicity about the incident, and I'm not going to go into it here, except to say that public opinion about whether or not the incident was sexual assault is divided. A report on ninemsn.com quotes Pru Goward, Australia's chief sexual discrimination officer, as saying:
"The community, I'm very impressed, has overwhelmingly responded in the right way which is 'we don't want it'."
Now it depends on whether you believe in internet poll results, but that doesn't seem to be what the results suggest. A poll on the same site: Do you think the Big Brother incident was sexual harassment? showed the following votes at just after 5am this morning: YES 49054; NO 67833. (Which suggests, if nothing else, that at least 110,000 votes have been cast. By whom, and how many times and why - are questions to which we may never know the answers. I'm not sure if anyone's running SMS or phone polling a la Big Brother evictions - and if they were, where would the resultant funds best be directed?)
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