With one quarter of the International Year of the Family already passed, an assessment of how it has thus far progressed seems in order. In…
California, for those who know anything about that famous American state, is regarded by many as a land of fruits and nuts. All things weird…
As the Federal election nears, both major parties are claiming to be the champion of the “battlers”. Of more importance is whether either party will…
Catholic Women’s League of Victoria and Wagga Wagga,1993. Book reviewers occasionally face the dilemma of having to review a publication that is in all respects…
The Rockford Institute, 1988. “We are busily unmaking one of the proudest social achievements in the nineteenth century, which was to take married women out…
Forgive me for being recalcitrant, but the Prime Minister’s Launch of the International Year of the Family on 6 December was at best, a complete…
Macmillan, 1993. In 1978 when Alexander Solzhenitsyn delivered his now famous Harvard University commencement address, he both challenged and enraged his student audience. While denouncing…
The United Nations has declared 1994 to be the International Year of the Family. The UN has said that the main purpose of the Year…
A new proposal to pay parents of young children $50 a week to stay at home is worth exploring. Queensland Labor backbencher, Mr Gary Johns,…
Are all forms of living arrangements just the same? Do all family structures offer similar environments for a child’s development? Yes, according to the media.…
Centre for Independent Studies, 1992. It seems that the amount of pro-family rhetoric heard rises in proportion to the nearness of the March 13 federal…
Oxford University Press, 1992. In this volume 26 authors examine the social and economic consequences of divorce in a number of Western nations and in…
I am beginning to suspect a conspiracy. A conspiracy of silence, of cover-ups, of misleading information. A conspiracy of what? – ASIO nefariousness? American imperialism?…
Several weeks ago U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle caused a minor uproar concerning comments he made about television character Murphy Brown’s out-of-wedlock birth. The liberal-left…
Albatross Books, 1992. In America nearly 60 per cent of all adults have never read a book. Bachelor’s degrees in English literature have declined by…
The death of one of the 20th century’s most influential free market thinkers, F.A. von Hayek, provides an interesting example of how the philosophical/ideological differences…
The Australian Medical Association has recently come out in favour of a Victorian proposal to require people to report child sexual abuse. The proposal, made…
Harvest House Press, 1990. “In our time,” wrote George Orwell, “political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuation…
The Australian Institute for Public Policy, 1990. In 1987 George Roche, President of Hillsdale College in Michigan, wrote a valuable book called A World Without…
Loyola University Press, 1990. Choice In Schooling by American academic David Kirkpatrick is a detailed overview of the history of the idea of tuition vouchers.…