The number of divorces has quadrupled in Australia over the past twenty years. Last year Australia had the highest divorce rate since no-fault divorce laws…
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…
The Lyons Forum is a group of Federal Parliamentarians from the Liberal and National parties who support family values. It was subjected to a 30…
“It is children’s right to be children, to enjoy the pleasures of a childhood. . . . In the end, a childhood is the most…
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…
Basic Books, 1995. Thirty years ago American Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a report called “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action”. In it…
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…
The latest ABS catalogue on marriage and divorce says that 4 out of 10 marriages will eventually end in divorce. Over the years the divorce…
We live in a culture that no longer believes in the importance of marriage. Indeed, we have moved from being a culture of marriage to…
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…
As one who has grown up in, and been a part of, the counter-culture of the 60’s and 70’s, I want to examine the way…
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…
Tasmanian Independent Senator Brian Harradine has revealed that more than 107,000 families will lose up to $741 per year under a Government budget decision. Family…
The West Australian Labor Opposition has called for the establishment of a children’s rights body. Various elements have been proposed, including a children’s advocate, 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…