What peace process? The Israeli-Palestinian conflict drags on – to the general horror and exasperation of the whole world. Arabs and Jews began fighting from the early 1920s onwards – and the object of their disputation then, as now, was land. The Balfour Declaration of 1917, generally interpreted by Jews as promising the establishment of…
The approval of the abortion pill RU486 by the US Food and Drug Administration fulfils President Clinton’s 1993 promise to make the drug readily available. Senator Meg Lees and some medical practitioners have called for the drug to be imported to Australia, which requires the direct approval of the Commonwealth Health Minister. Other doctors oppose…
Wheel of misfortune Philip Ruddock’s reputation as a small ‘l’ liberal did not save him from a media savaging when he ventured into a heavily policed area of Australian sociology. The whole episode once again said a lot about the political correctness that characterises and stifles certain areas of debate in Australia today. The outrage…
Drug abuse: there is a solution Sir, I must agree with the thesis promoted by David Perrin (News Weekly, October 7). As a general practitioner with a large drug abuse practice – 27 years experience and 4,500 individual cases – I have seen the situation deteriorate. The whole philosophy of drugs in Australia must change.…
