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The Children of Húrin

Tim Golden | 30 June 2007 |
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Resurrected from piles of manuscripts, another J.R.R. Tolkien epic about the dark early years of Middle Earth has finally been published.

Australia’s Outback shame

Michael Cook | 30 June 2007 |
tags: Aboriginal Australia, Australia, pornography
Sexual abuse is so rampant amongst Aborigines in remote communities that the Army has been sent in to clean up the mess. Whose fault is it?

Cut to the chaste

Dawn Eden | 29 June 2007 |
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A former rock music journalist has created a stir with her renunciation of sex-in-the-city and a manifesto on chastity.


Europe has forgotten its families

Carolyn Moynihan | 23 June 2007 |
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The debate in Brussels over a new European treaty is a sideshow to the real issue confronting Europe: the state of the family.

Indiana Jones and the prophets of doom

Joe Woodard | 22 June 2007 |
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Fifty years ago two very different historians published books with the same theme -- the emergence of a religion of science.

Among the dead cities

Richard Umbers | 22 June 2007 |
tags: atom bomb, total warfare
As the war on terror grinds on, there are ethical lessons to be learned from the fire-bombing of German and Japanese cities during World War II in which hundreds of thousands of civilians perished. 

Patenting life

Margaret Somerville | 21 June 2007 |
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An American biologist's race to create artificial life raises knotty ethical questions.


Questioning media transparency

Jad Melki | 21 June 2007 |
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Many major news organisations are loath to admit their own mistakes, even though they criticise others for lacking openness. 

Is therapeutic cloning obsolete?

Michael Cook | 16 June 2007 |
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After years of urging the public and governments to support the destruction of embryos, scientists may have led them up a blind alley.

Why a “pro-life” tag no longer dooms politicians

Christopher Blunt and Fred Steeper | 15 June 2007 |
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Once upon a time being called "pro-life" was the kiss of death for American politicians. Not any more. A MercatorNet exclusive. 

Over-worked, time-poor: who’s at fault?

Paul Shepanski | 15 June 2007 |
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The economy is booming but Australians are far from happy about what is happening to their family and community life.

Can’t you give her a needle?

Frank Brennan | 15 June 2007 |
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A palliative care physician remembers an unexpected request from the husband of a dying patient.

Edith Stein’s intellectual pilgrimage

Francis Phillips | 13 June 2007 |
tags: feminism, heroes, philosophy
A distinguished philosopher unravels the thought of one of the 20th century's great women.


Good cops, Italian style

Luisa Cotta Ramosino | 12 June 2007 |
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Everyday characters, empathy, humour, are hallmarks of the Italian screenwriter's craft. Can it withstand the liberal onslaught?

Family at war

Jennifer Roback Morse | 11 June 2007 |
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The decline of the family in welfare states is no accident but the result of an ideological cocktail, argues a British author.

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