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Children are being given drugs that are dangerous even for elite athletes

HEALTH & EDUCATION, LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYNovember 16, 2019

There is concern about the effects of the use of testosterone and other cross-sex hormones on the health of elite athletes; and yet this is what is being fed to children and young people to transition gender.” So writes Dr Dianna Kenny PhD, Professor of psychology and a consulting psychologist, in a recent paper on her blog. She writes: “There are more safety barriers in place for children and young people undergoing a tonsillectomy compared with a double mastectomy of healthy breasts.” In an interview with Bernard Lane of The Australian, paediatrician Julia Mason commented on the U.S. Academy of…

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS Thoroughbreds are literally racing for their lives

NATIONAL AFFAIRSNovember 16, 2019

Horse racing does not usually make it into the pages of News Weekly, though no doubt the “sport” has its followers among the journal’s readership. But what is happening in the sport now reaches deep into matters that touch both economics and social attitudes. The industry is said to be a big part of the economy and a significant employer of what has become highly specialised labour. This writer starts with a confession. He has been a follower of horse racing. Not, it should be noted, as a bettor, but as a lover of the spectacle, and the horses. I…

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POLITICAL COMMENTARY Tony Abbott continues faithful to the broad Liberal church

POLITICSNovember 16, 2019

Astonishingly, after what the Liberal Party has done to him – his humiliating defenestration in 2015 followed by his non-selection for even the most junior ministry by two subsequent Liberal prime ministers – Tony Abbott is still cheering them on. Abbott, writing in The Australian on October 19 (“Two Halves of Solidarity”), attempts to make the case that the Liberal Party needs both its liberal and conservative wings to be working in harmony in order to prosper electorally, and that this can easily be achieved. Like his political mentor, the ultimate pragmatist with conservative trappings, J.W. Howard, Abbott seems now,…

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MILITARY HISTORY Timor-Leste a free nation 20 years after INTERFET

DEFENCE & SECURITYNovember 16, 2019

In Canberra on October 15, 2019, the Australian War Memorial (AWM) held a two-hour symposium to consider Australia’s contribution to the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET). This force was an initiative of the Australian government to bring together a peace-keeping force that, with the authorisation of the United Nations Security Council, entered East Timor on September 20, 1999, to bring under control the violence that had been unleashed by pro-Indonesian East Timorese militias, after the East Timorese had overwhelmingly voted for independence in the UN- supervised referendum held on August 30, 1999. Australia, which commanded the force, contributed 5,500…

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