Three recent Labor Government activities and announcements have shown that the interests of the family are really pretty low on the priority list. Sure, plenty…
Two recent well-publicised events have highlighted the importance of family, of parenting, and the vital role of fathers. The first was the surprise announcement of…
Recent headlines have made the suggestion that marriage is on the way out, with alternative relationship arrangements becoming the norm. While such announcements often have…
The recent surrogate birth to Federal Labor MP Stephen Conroy and partner has reignited a long-standing debate about the ethics of surrogacy. As with all…
Welcome to the future. If you want to know where Australia is heading, just look at countries that are a few steps ahead. Consider Holland…
I have had a long standing concern for our children, and how certain activist groups are targeting them. And I have long held that the…
Helen Pringle in her article, “The case of the violinist and the fetus,” resurrects an old argument in order to shed new light on the…
Spence Publishing, 2004 The thesis of this book is simple: women can have it all, but not necessarily at the same time. That is, a…
Encounter Books, 2003. We are currently witnessing a grand social experiment, the results of which are not fully in as yet. But the data that…
Spence Publishing, 1998. There have been a number of good books to appear lately offering a critique of feminism. Perhaps one of the best is…
Spence Publishing, 2002. America, like Australia, is struggling with the related issues of women in the workforce, childcare, maternity leave, and family breakdown. The usual…
Very early this year the Federal Government announced a proposal to spend $39 million on job training skills for stay-at-home parents – mostly middle-aged mothers…
Should we institute a scheme of paid maternity leave? I am going to argue neither for the affirmative, nor for the negative. Instead, I will…
The Christian Institute, 2002. The demands of the homosexual lobby never seem to diminish, and their determined war of attrition is paying off handsomely. One…
Very early this year the Federal Government announced a proposal to spend $39 million on job training skills for stay-at home parents – mostly middle-aged…
The battle over motherhood continues unabated, with a recent controversy re-igniting a long standing debate. In the one corner are those who feel that government…
In a few days around 40,000 delegates will arrive in China to attend the World Conference on Women to be held in Beijing. The conference,…
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…
It cannot be denied that Martina Navratilova is a great tennis player. But can she be as successful at motherhood? The tennis star and up-front…
Ignatius Press, 1991. The family has faced assorted threats throughout history. The French and Russian revolutions come to mind as two especially hostile forces to…