Anyone looking at the statistics presented in the 2010 Annual Surveillance Report on HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Sexually Transmissible Infections from the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research at the University of New South Wales (recently renamed the Kirby Institute) could be forgiven for thinking that in the course of the last decade…
From the very beginning, the global warming and climate change discourse has been confounded by an inaccurate use of terminology. The effect, initially, was the demonisation of the wrong countries as major contributors to the problem, if such it be; and in the longer term a revised terminology has disguised the meaning of the political…
Three years ago my sister and I, both in our late sixties at the time, spent three days in Amsterdam as the first stop in an extended train excursion to cities of interest across northern Europe – Berlin, St Petersburg, Warsaw, Prague, etc. – and back to Amsterdam. We chose all our hotels to be…
Sir, A recent ABC television Q&A program was on the subject of same-sex marriage. Those on the panel in favour spoke largely of equal rights, and those against, of society not being ready for it. This prompted a young woman in the audience to ask if there is any material reason for rejecting same-sex marriage.…