HERS | Sunscreens in Pregnancy | Bride Abductions | Chloe on Bondage | 08/2012
current affairs and lifestyle for the discerning woman
BROKEN SILENCE The Kahui verdict, and what Chris Kahui told the Coroner
ABDUCTED BRIDES
HIS Broken Silence | Born Free | Booze Babies | 08/2012
When women are wed against their will
FIFTY SHADES OF… Why Chloe Milne is unsatisfied
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New book on vitamin D blasts safety of sunscreens for children, babies and pregnant women
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CONTENTS Issue 133 | Aug/Sep 2012 | www.investigatedaily.com HIS Broken Silence
The testimony from Chris Kahui that the Coroner didn’t believe
Born Free
Are we losing our democratic freedoms?
Booze Babies
Foetal alcohol syndrome and crime, what are the links?
features Sunscreens in Pregnancy
A new book on how Vitamin D may help save you and your family from a raft of nasty diseases, also finds sunscreens may be harmful to children and babies. IAN WISHART has more page 10
Coroner’sVerdict
The Kahui case verdict is out, here’s what the Coroner said. page 18
BrideAbductions
ROBYN DIXON explores the fate of abducted brides in South Africa page 24
Chloe on Bondage
A review of Fifty Shades of Grey page 08
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CONTENTS Formalities
09 Subscriptions 06 Miranda Devine 08 Chloe Milne
Beauty & Health 28 30 32
Tips for Great Skin & Hair Pets & Patients Herbs for Migraines
Cuisine & Travel
34 Delectable Duck Ragu 36 Zambia Safari
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Books & Movies
38 Inspirational books 40 Queen of Versailles
Heart & Soul
44 Saving Grace 46 Tummy time
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The sad truth about ‘harm minimisation’ Miranda Devine
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ust 100m north of where Thomas Kelly was fatally assaulted is the new jewel in the crown of the Kings Cross drug harm minimisation empire: an afterhours drug clinic. Clinic 180, located in a two-storey terrace at 180 Victoria St, was quietly opened in April, overcoming an unsuccessful year-long campaign by residents opposed to a third drug facility in their midst. All three, the injecting room at 66 Darlinghurst Rd, the Kirketon Rd Clinic above the fire station at the Darlinghurst end of Victoria St, and Clinic 180, are within a 200m radius of the spot where Kelly, 18, was punched by an unknown assailant as he walked along Victoria St holding hands with his girlfriend at 10.05pm earlier this month. If you draw a line connecting the three drug facilities you have a triangle, at the centre of which is the spot where Kelly was felled. Residents say the area around the new clinic, which dispenses needles and syringes and provides health services to drug users, has become more dangerous. Unlike the injecting room and Kirketon Rd Clinic, which close early on Saturdays, Clinic 180 is open until 9pm. “I can’t provide any evidence but it’s possible the (Kelly) murder was linked to it somehow,” says Andrew Woodhouse, president of the Potts Point and Kings Cross Heritage Conservation Society and a resident for 22 years. “Residents are fed up with having drug addicts approaching them violently on the street. The Cross has gone from bad to worse. The concept of treating injecting users is something the community believes in, but we’re carrying the load for all of NSW. “The injecting room boasts it has 10,000 clients, but once they’ve injected where do they go? They either struggle home or wander on the streets, and if they have alcohol in them as well they turn violent. It’s turned Kings Cross into a pathology clinic.” Police won’t rule in or out any connection between the assault on Thomas Kelly and the Kings Cross drug facilities, and will only say they have visited all premises in the vicinity as part of their investigations. They are yet to charge an assailant, but are believed to know who he is. But, in their objection to the new Clinic 180 last year, the 6 HERSMAGAZINE.TV Aug/Sep 2012
There are for lease signs in five empty shops on either side of the injecting room, which is conveniently located opposite the main entrance to Kings Cross railway station
Potts Point and Kings Cross Heritage Conservation Society warned it would become a drug haven at night, drawing more crime and antisocial behaviour to a part of the Cross that had remained fairly peaceful. They also raised concerns that the development application did not contain any prohibition of drug use on the premises or any plan for how drug overdoses on site would be dealt with. “The Cross has gone downhill dramatically,” says resident Robbie Hall, who has lived in Darlinghurst for 32 years. “For someone who never feared walking around here, I decided not to go up the lane for milk last night.” As she showed me around her neighbourhood this month, she pointed out the shuttered shops that went out of business on Darlinghurst Rd after the Uniting Church opened the drug injecting room, formally known as the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre, in 2001. There are for lease signs in five empty shops on either side of the injecting room, which is conveniently located opposite the main entrance to Kings Cross railway station. Drug users loiter in groups outside, and dealers walk briskly nearby. Police were nowhere to be seen among this bustling activity this month. Methamphetamines (ice) now comprise at least eight per cent of substances used in the injecting room and Hall says much of the aggression in the Cross can be sheeted back to these facilities. At the Kirketon Rd Clinic, where methadone is dispensed, business is more discreet, as clients enter and leave regularly
without hanging around outside. The last thing residents wanted was yet another drug facility in lovely, leafy Victoria St, says Hall. Yes, down the road from the murder scene, where once was a quiet residential street of apartments, houses and little restaurants, with some well-run backpacker hostels, now is also an address for the drug dependent and their suppliers, and some are very aggressive. Long-term residents like Hall and Woodhouse fear that the finely balanced human ecology of the Cross, which always made it a cosmopolitan mix of bohemia and sleaze, has been thrown out of kilter recently. It’s not just the drug injecting room and nearby drug clinics which have added to the new air of menace. The number of nightclubs and bars has ballooned under Lord Mayor Clover Moore, and there is an increased weekend influx of pumped up young men and innocents from the suburbs, attracted by the afterglow of the Underbelly TV series which glorified the Golden Mile. It’s New Year’s Eve every weekend as 25,000 people stream into three or four square blocks. Exacerbating the problems is the fact that the drugs of choice at the Cross have morphed from heroin to amphetamines, which are more likely to trigger aggressive behaviour, especially when mixed with alcohol. Hall is a big fan of the local police who she says do their best considering they have one hand tied behind their backs. Forced to turn a blind eye to the drug injecting room and
Thomas Kelly died after being punched in the face by an unknown man as he walked with his girlfriend along Victoria Street in Kings Cross
the illegal activity occurring in all around it, police have been officially neutered. Dealers and users operate in a little oasis of lawlessness created by drug legalisation campaigners and weak politicians. devinemiranda@hotmail.com Aug/Sep 2012 HERSMAGAZINE.TV 7
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Fifty shades of c**p Chloe Milne
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on’t get roped in. Having now read one-too-many chapters of the new bestselling novel that can only be described as “fifty shades of f**ked up”, yes that is a direct quote from the book in question, I now know that it is not sex that sells, but some seriously weird s**t. [I’m enjoying these asterisks!] The novel has asked subtlety, sophistication and good writing to step aside, in favour of a predictable and corny story with a protagonist who consults her subconscious more times than she takes her clothes off (which, by the way, is a lot for those of you lucky enough to have avoided this craze). I think we all knew women liked a bit of erotic writing, but Mills and Boon is like Disney compared to what these characters are getting up to. What disturbs me the most is the increase in sales of bondage equipment that these books have caused. I mean chocolate sauce and blindfolds are one thing, but whips, handcuffs and even rope from hardware stores; is entirely another. Honestly, there are cases that I studied in criminal law that involve activities less creepy than this. I just can’t understand why women are so enamored by a story that involves a relationship-phobic, sadistic, weirdo, stalker guy who owns a red room of pain. This guy is only a few sexual acts away from becoming the Beast of Blenheim and that, arguably, is only because he happens to have money and looks on his side. Isn’t Mr. Grey the douche bag that we’ve been trying to avoid all our lives? He’s the one who has caused you to
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I think we all knew women liked a bit of erotic writing, but Mills and Boon is like Disney compared to what these characters are getting up to experience more tears than an intimate piercing, more blind rage than Ewan McDonald, and extreme weight gain due to eating a whole tub of chocolate-flavored ice cream in one sitting. What’s worse is, the female character is a submissive, powerless and apathetic girl. The feminist inside me is just screaming, ‘no wonder you women are getting paid less if you actually like men walking all over you’… or should I say spanking the hell out of you. The women of the 60’s didn’t burn their bras so that E. L. James could come along and introduce handcuffs instead. Look there is a good reason Cinderella lost her shoe and not her virginity on her first night with Prince Charming. There is an even better reason why Cinderella was probably not seen at her local hardware store picking up masking tape, cable ties and rope. How is it that we went from beautiful love stories like The Notebook to Twilight meets Criminal Minds in one sick and disturbing leap? I think us women need to get back to what’s important, like trust, respect and any movies that involve Channing Tatum. I suggest that any woman who is contemplating acting out any scenes in this book, should take out medical insurance, get yourself a good lawyer and re-read “He’s just not that into you”… in fact I think some bookstores are selling them as a package deal.