The dilation and extraction method of abortion (D & X) is in the news after a Brisbane doctor proposed using the method in Melbourne’s eastern…
In the brave new world of the 1990s, a number of emerging technological possibilities pose a threat to the family unit. The ability to ascertain…
A recent survey found that 2.7 million (41 per cent) of Australia’s 6.6 million households had computers, with between a third and a half of…
Many Australians are mystified and disturbed about the proliferation of pornographic, violent and obscene materials on television, in films and video, in magazines, in advertising…
Several recent newspaper articles underscore the intellectual confusion that is so rampant in our society. Writing in the Melbourne Herald Sun, for example, a staff…
At the moment the state of Victoria has relatively strong laws against drug possession and use, but various groups are attempting to change this. In…
Peter Singer is considered by many to be Australia’s leading ethicist. He is well known as an animal rights crusader. However, he holds some very…
Shield, 1996. Today drug use/abuse is not confined to the fringes of society. It is becoming mainstream, glamourised in films, music and magazines. As a…
According to the FBI, the pornography industry in America grosses $10 billion a year. Moreover, there are more outlets for hardcore pornography in America than…
By E. Michael Jones. Ignatius Press, 1993. In 1988 Paul Johnson wrote Intellectuals. In it he looked at the moral lives of a number of…
Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. In 1956 the Harvard sociologist Pitirim Sorokin wrote: “This sex revolution is as important as the most dramatic political or economic…
What’s wrong with condom vending machines in schools? Let me count the ways. 1) The call for condom vending machines in high schools reveals a…
Pere Marquette Press, 1993. Several years ago when my then 5-year-old was attending first grade at a local state school, he came home with a…
By Thomas Schmidt. IVP, 1995. The debate about homosexuality revolves around a number of crucial and controversial subjects: human sexuality and emotions, politics, religion, the…
A federal Private Member’s Bill to be introduced soon by the Australian Democrats prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sexuality is said to urge that…
Little, Brown & Co., 1994. The sexual revolution, which promised liberation and freedom, ended in bondage and despair. The fruit of the sexual revolution has…
The proposal to allow limited surrogacy in Victoria should be resisted, for the sake of the children involved, the “parents”, and the common good of…
Some 800 sexologists were asked at a recent world congress whether they would rely on a condom for protection if they had available the partner…
The Australian Education Union has just proposed that AIDS and sex education classes become compulsory from the earliest years of primary school. It wants homosexuality…
The Victorian Government is debating whether to include homosexual activity in changes to its discrimination laws. There are several reasons why it should not. The…