#Australian broadcasting corporation

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Bad Ancestors (Ep 1) | Fresh Blood | ABC TV + iview

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Western doctors usually have no trouble telling women and non-females apart when they dismiss women’s pain or they diagnose a woman with trauma with a mental disorder.

A surgeon and professor is being mocked after criticizing a crossword puzzle which used “adult human female” as the definition for “woman,” calling it “un-inclusive.”

On January 18, Dr. Rhea Liang posted a screenshot to her Twitter calling attention to a crossword she had seen in a Gardening Australia magazine. Liang expressed she was “disappointed” to see “un-inclusive” language being used as a hint for one of the crossword lines. In her screenshot, Liang underlined a hint which read “adult human female.”

Liang claimed the definition was a “siren call for hatred,” and tagged Gardening Australia‘s parent media group, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Liang is a breast and gender surgeon at Robina Hospital in the Australian state of Queensland. She’s also a co-lead and clinical associate professor in the faculty of sciences and medicine at Bond University. 

On her Bond University profile, Liang is described as having a particular research focus on breast cancer management, as well as “diversity and inclusion in medicine.”

Despite having a both a background in advocating for women in the medical field and a specialization in women’s healthcare, Liang began to attract attention on social media for her post railing against a definition of “woman.”

Many users initially believed Liang was joking, or was a parody account intended to mock the absurdity of trans activists. Some expressed shock when they realized she was being serious.

“Unbelievable, this person claims to be a breast surgeon in her bio, but thinks adult human female is un-inclusive. Honestly you literally couldn’t make this up,” tweeted one user in response.

Some Twitter users were also quick to point out that as a doctor specializing in breast cancer, Liang should be aware of what a woman is. 

Sall Grover, the founder of women-only social media application Giggle, replied to Liang’s post and noted that an understanding of biological sex should be considered important in women’s healthcare.

Liang responded to Grover, writing: “A woman is most commonly an adult female human, (the word order is important) but there are a proportion who are also adults, born genetically male, who are women.” 

Liang continued to call the definition “adult human female” a “hate phrase” stating: “You only need to google the phrase ‘adult human female’ to get pages of anti-trans hate. It’s such a known hate phrase it’s caused a ban from standing for the UK Parliament.” 

In an effort to prove her point, the women’s health doctor then shared an article about Natalie Bird, a mother of two and domestic abuse survivor, who was banned from running for public office for wearing a shirt that said ‘Woman: Adult, Human, Female.’ Bird was also targeted by trans activists after asserting that women’s refuges should be segregated based on sex. 

“Adult human female” has been used as a slogan by women’s rights campaigners who aim to protect single sex spaces by reaffirming that males cannot be women. 

Despite being a long-standing definition, the words were popularized as a political slogan by Standing for Women, a rights campaign established by Kellie-Jay Keen. Keen sells t-shirts reading the definition, such as the one Natalie Bird was reprimanded for wearing, to fund her campaign. 

Many critics of gender ideology have also pointed out that trans activists have failed to provide a coherent alternative definition for the word woman. 

The question “what is a woman?” became a popularized slogan after conservative podcaster Matt Walsh made a documentary in 2022 highlighting the harms of gender ideology. A focal point of the feature were interviews with trans activists who seemed unable to provide a definition for “woman.” 

Confusingly, Liang added a tweet to her original post today asserting that “adult female humans” is a more “inclusive” way to define “woman.” Ironically, Liang is frequently consulted by Australian media on the experiences of “female” doctors.

The definition of the word woman has become so divisive that Dictionary.com labelled “woman” as their 2022 Word of the Year.

“Searches for the word woman on Dictionary.com spiked significantly multiple times in relation to separate high-profile events,” the Dictionary brand wrote on their site. 

According to Dictionary.com, searches for the word “woman” increased 1,400% after Ketanji Brown Jackson’s supreme court confirmation hearing where she failed to give a definition of the word, claiming she did not have the specialty to do so.

In October of 2022, Cambridge Dictionary came under fire after abruptly adding an alternative definition to the word “woman,” describing it as “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.” 

Their definition for female reads, “belonging or relating to the sex that can give birth to young or produce eggs,” which undermines their newly expanded definition of the word woman as males do not belong to the sex that can give birth. Many have stated that this second definition renders the word meaningless.

By Shay Woulahan Shay is a writer and social media content creator for Reduxx. She is a proud lesbian activist and feminist who lives in Northern Ireland with her partner and their four-legged, fluffy friends.

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Mr. Squiggle and Friends | ABC | 1959 - 1999

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How disgustingly disrespectful to both the fundamental rights and dignity of the homeless and the message of love and inclusion of the Wiggles. What is wrong with this country?

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Extract 1: Nick Waters says hitting a moving target is quite difficult, so you need a precision munition that can manoeuvre in the air with real-time updates.

"If you have three vehicles, over a kind of three-kilometre stretch, these are being targeted with precision — this isn't just a mistake."

"This is a case where these vehicles have been tracked, targeted and then destroyed.

"And it appears that they've been hit very, very precisely — impacted directly into the body.

Extract 2: The convoy had been travelling on a route earmarked as an "accessible road for humanitarian aid" by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in late March.

Mr Waters says given the convoy was on that road, it's hard to consider it was an accident.

"It happened on a road that was highlighted as being used for aid deliveries in three large white vehicles, with logos on the roof, which had been deconflicted with the IDF.

"I very much struggle to understand how this could have been a mistake. But it depends on what they mean by a mistake.

Extract 3: Mr [ Raphael] Cohen argues there may have been a breakdown in communication between who was coordinating with the aid workers and feeding information to the Israeli units. 

"When humanitarian aid convoys are coordinated with any military there's usually a specific organisation that does that sort of deconfliction with the humanitarian organisations.

"So the question is, was that information passed on to the tactical units on the ground? Was this tragedy due to a breakdown in communication?

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Kath and Kel are the goals of relationships I mean she just crumbles when Kel fights someone saying Kel don't hurt him! No you're too strong Kel! He's the hulk!! Oh no!!! HES GOING GREEEEEENNN and it's actually a 50 yo man against a 30 yo

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This is very sad

What about all the children

This is a program about hope

For children and people.

What about all the children this is supposed to be for

RTD

BBC

Bad Wolf Productions

This is horrible of you

And immoral to the greatest degree

How very disgusting of you

The Doctor would be very revolted with this

This is the exact opposite of the entire point of the show, and that the show is made for a free to air national broadcasting service

You're seriously doing this, the show About morality, philosophy and hope, you're immorally taking it away from children and commercialising it in the most exclusive way

How could you

I would very much like it if we could protest against this

We've brought other things back from big commercial company decisions like this

And the cause is much worthier this time

ALSO, how do they expect it to be popular if it's not available on free to air TV

It can never reach the global popularity of 2010 - 2017

Why can't they understand that it's the mass original following they need to cater for- it would continue to be popular and amass new viewers as well if they just let it be available to everyone- young, old, literally everyone who has always loved the show, not new niche audiences that have and never will like it that they should be chasing .

The second it's not casting white males, the second it starts to be more inclusive,

They make its access exclusive

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Saw the pilot ep of Gold Diggers- no regrets

@mortofeloquence have u seen this? No idea if it's ur thing but would be v interested in ur thoughts

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Eddie Izzard was a guest on RN Breakfast Show with Patricia Ka on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio on November 7, 2022.

You can listen to the 8 minute interview at the link above. The questions focused on the MP nominations in Sheffield, Eddie’s thoughts on the possibility of being one of the few trans politicians in the world, and her opinion on the monarchy.

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Episode Four | Fires (2021)

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As an Australian who isn't even remotely interested in MCR this is hilarious because I didn't even know there was a guy with that name in MCR and because the ABC have a political analyst who is also called Anthony Green. He looks like this

Idk about you guys but there's no way I'm winning a man-kissing competition against him

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Extract: "[Auroras are] completely random. It's like weather … because it's difficult to predict and you don't know ahead of time really when they're going to happen or how much you're going to get," he said."The sun has this magnetic activity cycle. Sometimes there are lots of sunspots and it's a very turbulent solar atmosphere while other times it can be very, very quiet. "It can take between eight and 13 years, so 11 years on average for the cycle to repeat itself." 

As the sun comes out of a low in its cycle and heads towards increased activity, it poses a greater likelihood of brighter and larger displays.

"When the sun is very active — like it is now — then we tend to have a better-than-average chance of seeing something pretty good," Professor Cole said.

And with solar activity not expected to peak until 2025, he said it was likely Tasmanians could look forward to more spectacular auroras over the next few years.

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kath and kim really did it right by having them chat during the credits