In the minds of many, there are no more scarier words than these: “Hi, we’re from the government and we’re here to help you”. Patronising…
It did not quite make the front pages of most papers. In fact, it only made it to page 10 of today’s Herald Sun. But…
Theodore Dalrymple is an important thinker and writer who has just released an important new book. The book is about the growing problem of drug…
Ivan R. Dee, 2003. Subtitled Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age, this book features a number of incisive essays on the perils and pitfalls…
There are a number of important reasons why marijuana use should not be decriminalised or legalised. Legalisation of marijuana will greatly increase the number of…
These are not good days for our children. Most adults can simply compare their own childhoods with those of today’s young people to see that…
The case of the Ringwood mother who was found guilty of assault has again opened up the debate about spanking in particular and corporal punishment…
“It is children’s right to be children, to enjoy the pleasures of a childhood. . . . In the end, a childhood is the most…
The murder of two year-old James Bulger by two pre-teenage boys horrified England and the world. It seemed an anomaly. It was not. Shortly after…
The murderers of little James Bulger had a least two strikes going against them even before they embarked upon their lives of petty crime in…