Gallipoli may have been the campaign that served as Australia’s initiation to modern warfare, but it was on the Western Front of northern France that the Australian Imperial Force suffered its geatest losses in World War I. Australian troops sheltering from the rain shortly after their arrival in France. …
The announcement that the Olympics will accept transgender athletes is set to raise a host of issues, particularly in contact sports, including the Australian Football League (AFL). But first the Olympics. Since 2004 male-to-female transgender athletes have been allowed in the Olympics after surgery and two years of hormone therapy. But they will be allowed in the Rio Olympics without surgery, as long as their testosterone levels have been below male levels for a year. The advantage male-to-female transgender men have over women in sport is a hotly debated issue, particularly in contact sports. In 2014,…
NO OFFENCE INTENDED: Why 18C Is Wrong by Joshua Forrester, Lorraine Finlay and Augusto Zimmermann Connor Court, Redland Bay, 2016 Paperback: 270 pagesPrice: AUD$29.95 Reviewed by Christopher Brohier, barrister-at-law No Offence Intended is a strong and scholarly critique of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Commonwealth). Section 18C makes unlawful any act which is likely to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or group of people and which is done because of the race, colour or ethnic origin of the person or group. It is one of the “hate speech” pieces of legislation which stifle…
For Sister Pauline Fitz-Walter All speaking needs this meaning, God is love: To breathe this sentence into breaths of life Through all conjunctions – to the heart of strife, Perfects believing, or attracts the Dove. The words are twigs of olive, topping the grove, Angelic fingers that prevent the knife; Or blood, the secret where the bride’s a wife; They’re water burning red in grace above. God is, but hangs upon our utterance, We burgeon or we wither as we speak, Creation trembles on our moving lips: Is love – and there we predicate the dance; Is love – and…
