STOP PRESS: Update August 31, 2020 An exposure draft Bill is now available and alarmingly it provides that covid19 may pose a material risk of substantial injury or prejudice to health of human beings (and therefore allow a state of emergency to continue) “even when the rate of community transmission of covid19 in Victoria is…
COUP AND COUNTER-COUP IN INDONESIA Because an operation is botched doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. No one can deny that plotters associated with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) killed six senior Indonesian generals and dumped their bodies in the notorious Crocodile Hole on the night of September 30/October 1, 1965. The seventh, General Suharto, escaped…
by Lucy Sullivan Although on its first publication in 1846, some condemned Wuthering Heights for the violence and brutality of the lives and passions it depicted, in the mid-20th century it was the most acclaimed of the Brontë sisters’ novels, and the “love affair” of Catherine and Heathcliff, also, as the most powerful of representations…
by Anne Lastman Many years ago, during my psychology studies, I read a study that has stayed with me all the ensuing years. The study was about emotional deprivation. It was carried out by a psychoanalyst called René Spitz (1944) and involved 40 new babies. These babies were divided into two groups. One group was…
