EMALE Issue 112 (July 2012)

In this month's issue:

new report shows gaps in male health policy

NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN - emale readers ticket offer

Men’s Health Week 2012 a huge success

PM’s partner promotes men’s health

Grants to study Māori men’s health & child rearing

Current Training Programs

• Effective Ways of Engaging Men
• Effective Men’s Health Promotion

positive news in cancer survival rates in NSW

news briefs

• Male Health Victoria Strategic Plan Released
• Men’s health issues to take centre stage in Dubai
• Aussies and Kiwis top users of recreational drugs
• Dad's got a baby bump

EMALE Issue 108 (March 2012)

In this month's issue:

men’s health week 2012 launched

marking World Kidney Day

Training Programs

• Effective Ways of Engaging Men
• Effective Men’s Health Promotion

Important new men’s health survey

mate to mate program launched

2 out of 3 US men feel life is better post recession

news briefs

• Asylum seekers get their first taste of freedom in Cairns
• Seek out help with Continence problems
• Town being torn apart by suicide 'epidemic'

future events

• Positive Solutions in an Age of Rage Conference June 19 & 20, 2012, SMC Conference & Function Centre, 66 Goulburn St, Sydney

EMALE Issue 102 (September 2011)

In this month's issue:

meditation - being in the present moment

Working with men affected by violence Training Program

Adult refugee men's wellbeing

treat the cause not just the illness by Professor John Macdonald

men’s shed under attack

Survey highlights physical and emotional toll of working night shifts and non-traditional hours

news briefs

• This September host a Big Aussie Barbie for prostate cancer!
• R U OK Day Thursday 15 September, 2011
• The Big C – a guide book to cancer for men

future events

• Man Alive 2011 September 16-18 Berry Sport & Recreation Centre South Coast
• National Men's Health Gathering 2011 September 19 - 22 2011 Perth Pan Pacific Hotel
• The Time Of Your Life Weekend September 30 - October 2 Serpentine Retreat Centre, outside of Perth

Feral rioters all have one thing in common - a lack of father figures (UK)

The duty of journalists is to tell the truth. If we don't do that, it's the equivalent of a nurse comfortably chatting over a nice cup of tea while an empty saline drip feeds air into a patient's artery. The moment that we think it's more important to protect some comfortable ideological dogma is the moment when our particular patient, truth, begins to die. I take no pleasure in what follows; but there is a job to be done, so here goes.

Perhaps the most astounding element in the British television coverage of the riots over much of England has been the steadfast refusal to mention the race of most of the rioters. They are clearly, and overwhelmingly, Afro-Caribbean, the descendants of immigrants, though such has been the utter British failure to integrate so much of the immigrant population that many have retained something of a Caribbean accent. Admittedly, not all of the rioters are "black": clearly, some white youths have joined in.

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Poor white boys failing in school (UK)

Poor white boys score are doing worse at school than deprived black, Chinese and Asian classmates in England according to a new report on boys’ education.

Three-quarters of white boys from the poorest families fail to achieve five good GCSEs – a significantly worse performance than poor children from other ethnic groups – according to the latest analysis.

The news echoes a 2010 report on the underachievement of five year olds by the BBC revealing 75% of poorest white boys in England are not achieving a good level of development in our schools.

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