There has been a great deal of sociological sympathy for the cultural loss inherent in migration; but little attention, I think, has been given to the impact of concerted immigration on the host culture and its members. Their defensive and preservative responses have tended to be treated as moral failures, and denied the sympathy given…
Sir, Professor David Flint AM (“A successful conservative party ready to rebuild”, News Weekly, November 22, 2008) was absolutely right to oppose the introduction of a bill of rights which will, in Australia, stand in opposition to the democratic endorsement of our country’s laws as achieved under the Westminster system. It was the intrusion of…
Historically and anthropologically, all human societies have separated girls and boys during their adolescent years, writes Dr Lucy Sullivan. Catherine Sheehan’s review (News Weekly, August 30, 2008) of Maggie Hamilton’s book, What’s Happening to Our Girls, paints a horrifying picture of the sexual bullying to which teenage girls today are subjected by their male peers,…
Lucy Sullivan, from the Centre for Independent Studies, looks at possible reasons for the huge increase in prescription drugs being used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has assumed the character of an epidemic – an epidemic of a psychopathology – among primary school children in the course of the…