Nearly a quarter of men believe in a ideals of masculinity that emphasise strength, aggression and hyper-sexuality according to a new study of more than 3,500 Australian men. The research, released by Jesuit Social Services, also found men who strongly agreed with these stereotypes were more likely to have been violent or hostile towards women, and have poorer mental health outcomes themselves.
Behind the windows of a red-brick hotel on one of the city’s busiest junctions, there’s now another ode to Antarctica in the frosty tones of the Polaire Suite. Harking to another place – in this case, the Southern Ocean’s subantarctic islands – the large suite is an unexpected find inside Hobart’s near-century-old former telephone exchange.