The Australian Family Association (AFA) and the South Australian Attorney-General, Michael Atkinson, have called on the Classification Review Board to review the R-rating given to a French porn film, Anatomy of Hell. The grounds of the appeal is that the film was wrongly classified, and breached the Act and the guidelines, which bar any film…
The discovery of citrus canker on a Queensland citrus farm highlights the risk which Australia is taking through the reduction of quarantine standards. As a result of the discovery, a property at Emerald, in central Queensland, has been quarantined, and Queensland citrus fruits banned immediately, causing large financial losses to Queensland citrus-growers. The cause of…
At the time of writing, legislation to the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) was before the Senate, which is expected to vote on it before the Senate rises for the winter recess. Substantial new criticism of the terms of the agreement have come from Professor Linda Weiss from Sydney University’s Economics Department and Dr Elizabeth…
Information collected from the 2001 Census shows that just 0.5 per cent of couples are gay. The results were recently compiled in a Parliamentary Library Research Paper, prepared by Gerard Newman from the Statistics Section of the Parliamentary Library. In the 2001 Census, people were asked questions on family relationships and marital status. Question 5…