Women who have sex as young teens are more likely to divorce, a University of Iowa study of nearly 3,800 women has found. Further, an overwhelming majority of those who had sex while under the age of 18 — over 90 per cent — felt they had been coerced into it. Published in the…
The announcement by Defence Minister Stephen Smith of an inquiry into whether the Australia’s defence forces are geographically positioned to meet current and future strategic policy challenges, raises important issues for the future of the country. The fact is that each of the three services — army, navy and air force — are mainly…
The blanket ban imposed by the Gillard Government on exports of live cattle to Indonesia will do nothing to address the problem of animal cruelty in Indonesian abattoirs, and removes one of the forms of leverage which Australia had to end brutal practices shown on the ABC television’s Four Corners program (May 30, 2011). …
Recent elections in Western Europe have seen the defeat of governments which had run up massive deficits, threatening national insolvency. The recent Portuguese election followed a course previously seen in Ireland, Iceland and arguably Britain, where the Labour Government was defeated last year. In Portugal, the minority Socialist Government of José Sócrates was forced to…
