Much of popular culture offers children and adults a continual education in instant gratification and escapism. Therefore it is necessary to seek out culture, such as good reading, which balances this. Parents especially need to offer their children culture that helps them to engage optimistically with life, build strength of character and form deep, lasting…
Brainwashing is something that happens to other people. Or are all of us affected by it to some degree? A test could be our attitude to abortion. Murder is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being, so abortion is murder: the murder of pre-born babies. This is the principal cause of death in Australia,…
A leading Chinese health official, Dr Huang Jiefu, who, by his own admission, has been involved in using organs from executed prisoners, could lose his honorary professorship at the University of Sydney. Professor Maria Fiatarone Singh, of the university’s medical school, has written to the university’s vice-chancellor, requesting that the university revoke the honorary professorship…
THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ by Denis Avey, with Rob Broomby Foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert (London: Hodder and Stoughton) Paperback: 304 pages ISBN: 9781444714197 RRP: AUD$22.95 Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel Interest in the Holocaust has not abated, as evidenced by the large number of films, documentaries and memoirs of survivors. However, Denis Avey’s memoir of World War II is almost unique. It is written by a British prisoner-of-war (POW), who on two separate occasions smuggled himself into Auschwitz, by swapping places with a Jewish inmate. Denis Avey, with the assistance of BBC reporter and author…
