As a result of increasing public concern over the impact on children of sexually-explicit material in the media, magazines and the internet, last year the British Home Office’s Violent Crimes Unit commissioned an inquiry into the sexualisation of children, conducted by one of Britain’s leading child psychologists, Dr Linda Papadopoulos. The introduction to her alarming…
Australians face a choice between a former health minister and a former health bureaucrat in deciding which leader is better equipped to advance the nation’s health system over the coming decade. The first debate of the 2010 election campaign, staged recently at the National Press Club after another off-the-cuff decision by Kevin Rudd, did little…
Trade relations between the United States and China have deteriorated seriously as a result of China’s refusal to revalue its currency, the Renminbi (also known as the yuan), facilitating the flood of Chinese manufactured goods onto world markets, and China’s massive trade surplus with the rest of the world, including the US. The massive trade…
America’s bloodiest conflict THE AMERICAN CIVIL WARby John Keegan(London: Hutchinson)Hardback: 416 pagesISBN: 9780091794835Rec. price: AUD$69.95 Reviewed by Michael Daniel Perhaps no other military conflict, apart from the two world wars, has inspired so many works of literature, film and television as the American Civil War. Lasting almost four years from 1861 to 1865, the conflict resulted…
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