Since I am writing here about religion, let me first and briefly put my own cards on the table: I am a Christian. That is, I believe in the basics of Christianity — what a 17th-century English theologian Richard Baxter and, later, C.S. Lewis called “mere Christianity” — the things which the great Christian denominations…
The basic dilemma of contemporary feminism is that its undeniable success in shaping social values has, in Joan Price’s words, “cut women off from those aspects of life that are distinctly female desires, such as being a wife and raising children”.[1] Indeed, the feminist agenda of disregard for traditional marriage and child-rearing appears to have…
AUSTRALIA’S SECRET WAR: How Unions Sabotaged Our Troops in World War II by Hal G.P. Colebatch (Sydney: Quadrant Books) Hardcover: 340 pages ISBN: 9780980677874 RRP: AUD$44.95 Reviewed by Patrick Morgan The Japanese threat to Australia in the 1940s was the most profound crisis our nation has faced. During that period a great scandal occurred, a scandal up till now hidden from view. Many trade unions, particularly the maritime ones controlling our ports and shipping, sabotaged the war effort for their own ends. At crucial junctures when men and war materiel were needed for the Middle East and New…
Founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International, Dr Philip Nitschke, can’t seem to let a euthanasia debate go by without seizing the headlines. As the South Australian parliament winds down for the year, and with only two possible days for debate of Independent MP Dr Bob Such’s Ending Life with Dignity Bill, Nitschke says that he intends to open a clinic in Adelaide. On Thursday, November 28, SA’s parliament goes into recess and will be prorogued ahead of the March 2014 state election. Melbourne’s Herald Sun reported on November 12: “A euthanasia clinic set up in Adelaide will…
