The push by the Labor Government to soften Victorians up to a permissive policy on drugs has gone quiet lately (except for a major blunder…
Eerdmans, 2000. Bio-ethics is a new and burgeoning field, affecting all of us. Issues like human cloning, genetic engineering, assisted reproductive technologies, genetically modified foods,…
The Victorian Government and the Port Phillip Council have abandoned their plans for tolerance zones for St Kilda’s sex workers. The decision comes after local…
Eerdmans, 2002. One of the areas of greatest growth and expansion in recent times is that of biotechnology. New developments are taking place almost weekly,…
The forces of PC are ever at work, ensuring that all of us – young and old – keep on the straight and narrow of…
There has been a noticeable shift over the past fifty years concerning those whom society, and the media, look to as authority figures, as sources of…
The Christian Institute, 2002. The demands of the homosexual lobby never seem to diminish, and their determined war of attrition is paying off handsomely. One…
In the March 29 Melbourne Age there appeared an article by Peter Singer entitled “Why we should ignore the Catholic Church on stem cells”. In…
An extremely revealing and disturbing television documentary was aired on America’s Public Broadcasting System in February of last year. Entitled The Merchants of Cool, the…
Euthanasia is not about making sick and dying people as pain free and comfortable as possible. That is what is known as palliative care, and…
Eerdmans, 2001. In the past few decades the advances in bio-technology and genetics have been astounding. The scientific and technical breakthroughs have far out-stripped our…
We live in an age in which rights are being pushed on all fronts. Individuals and groups are clamoring for rights that until recently didn’t…
Lion 2000. While there are many good books on bioethics, not all are of equal value. Many quite good books on the subject are written…
Duffy & Snellgrove, 2000. In any cultural battle, truth, or the lack of it, will strongly determine the outcome. In the battle over abortion, truth has…
The National Crime Authority has recently re-ignited the heroin debate by saying that we are losing the war against drugs. The NCA says that too…
Basic Books, 2000. This book has a simple theme: Political Correctness has entered the medical profession. The politicisation and radicalisation of health professionals and workers…
The recent debacle over the classification of Hannibal by the OFLC highlights yet again the need for a major shake-up of our chief censorship body.…
The ink had just dried on a piece I wrote critical of a new book on homosexuality and the church by the Anglican Church doctrine…
John Garratt Publishing, 2001. Two out of ten. If you want a quick scorecard approach to how the authors in this book line up on…
All methods of abortion stop the heart-beat of a living baby, but one method is especially gruesome. This method, known as the Dilation & Extraction…