After our recent gathering of experts in Canberra for the 2020 Summit, I did not recall seeing any reports about one very pressing social problem…
On Wednesday the Rudd Government will offer a formal apology to the so-called Stolen Generation. The Prime Minister said this official “sorry” will come from…
When Chamberlain visited Hitler, he was full of good intentions, even though he was being pretty naive. He came back from his meeting proclaiming “Peace…
Why am I not surprised? The Victorian government has just announced that it will grant IVF access to homosexual couples. Minutes ago it declared that…
Abortion is never far from the headlines. And in a sense, that is a good thing. The taking of innocent human life should never become…
The problem of sperm donation is not the highest of national priorities at the moment. Political parties usually do not have it featuring in their…
As has already happened in Western Europe and Canada, and some American states, the US as a nation is now on the verge of passing “hate-crime”…
As I mentioned last week, the Victorian Court of Appeal has upheld an appeal by two Christian pastors who had been taken through the wringer…
The clone and kill bill to be debated in the House of Reps next week is a strange bit of legislation. While it has some…
Touchy, touchy. That is the immediate reaction one gets to the latest comments by Family Court Chief Justice Alistair Nicholson. Speaking in Brisbane on Wednesday, Justice Nicholson…
Pro-death advocates continue to peddle misinformation and maliciousness about their cause. Two recent episodes illustrate this point. Both are covered in an article by John…
A lot of thought has gone into human mortality, and how we can prolong life. Less thought has gone into the question of why nations…
A reader of this site posted a comment in which he (rightly, I believe) questioned whether I am correct to align myself with more-or-less the…
The issues of cloning in general and stem cell research in particular have swamped the media during the past several years. As in earlier debates…
Allen & Unwin, 2005. One would not be too cynical in suggesting that God Under Howard by Marion Maddox is quite similar to Dan Brown’s…
I just returned from the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in Melbourne, where the two Christian pastors have been found guilty of vilifying Muslims. The…
There are many problems with vilification legislation, especially when applied to religion. I have documented ten such problems in my paper, The Problem with Vilification…
In the culture wars, fair fights are hard to come by. Sometimes the odds are so stacked against you, that you hardly feel like wading…
Perhaps the most disconcerting item on the gay agenda is the desire to equate same-sex relationships with normal marriage and family life. In this the…
A raft of new legislation is being passed throughout the Western world. These laws are called by various names, such as vilification or tolerance or…