Corrupt Australia presents an alternative to the politically correct channels of debate to reveal and scrutinize the skewed structure/design of modern Australian society. We also seek to encourage autonomous Australian culture which is free from the standardizing and overly materialistic clutches of globalisation and which encourages citizens to go further than simply contributing to a quantity over quality mindset and the banal and unsustainable conditions under which we may increase our love for and attainment of material mass.

Aussie Women drunk, stressed, troubled


MOST Australian women drink too much and feel bad about their weight, with some so troubled they avoid mirrors, a Womens Weekly survey has found.

"Only one in six women were happy with their weight, the survey found. One in five had such a poor body image they avoided mirrors and 45 per cent would have cosmetic surgery if they could afford it. More than a quarter of the women were confused about what constituted a healthy diet, and 26 per cent failed to eat vegetables every day. Women weren't getting enough exercise - only 45 per cent exercised for 30 minutes or more at least three times a week.
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Binge drinking appeared to be rife, with a third drinking too much and one in five women admitting she had been told she had a drinking problem."

Surprise surprise. Women are encouraged to be supermums in the rat race, with no time left in a day for things such as exercise after managing careers and family. It is increasingly far too 'old fasioned' to teach such basic and rudamentry things like nutritional cooking in schools and everywhere the media transmits images of supermodels and displays advertisements appealing to a women's sense of inadequacy. No wonder the drink is being sought after.


Think of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.

Boast as you will of your mateship now - crippled and mean and sly - The lines of suspicion on friendship's brow were traced since the days gone by.
There was room in the long, free lines of the van to fight for it side by side -
There was beating-room for the heart of a man in the days when the world was wide.

With its dull, brown days of a-shilling-an-hour the dreary year drags round: Is this the result of Old England's power? - the bourne of the Outward Bound?
Is this the sequel of Westward Ho! - of the days of Whate'er Betide? The heart of the rebel makes answer "No! We'll fight till the world grows wide!"

The world shall yet be a wider world - for the tokens are manifest; East and North shall the wrongs be hurled that followed us South and West. The march of Freedom is North by the Dawn! Follow, whate'er betide! Sons of the Exiles, march! March on! March till the world grows wide!

- Henry Lawson

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