Australia
Marriage is no place for me-too-ism
Tim Cannon
| 24 November 2010 |
Let's go back to the beginning. Why does anyone deserve the protection offered by legally-recognised marriage?
Liberation—or deprivation?
The legalisation of same-sex marriage means that children will grow up without mothers or without fathers. This is progress?
More about adults, less about kids
An Australian parliamentary debate on same-sex adoption shows gay rights to the fore.
Can you hear us now?
Australian women raise a collective shout against the pornification of culture and the harm it is doing.
Australia’s Greenslide
Same-sex marriage is back on the agenda now that social radicals have the balance of power.
Women on the work-life tightrope
Even in laid-back Australia women are losing the struggle to balance a place in the workforce with their place in the home.
At least in Oz, universal cover is good sense, not socialism
An Australian journalist explains why her country’s health insurance system leaves Obamacare in the dust.
Getting Real
Australian academics and activists collaborate in a new book to challenge the sexualisation of girls.
Girls, unprotected
The insertion of long-acting contraceptives into the bodies of young girls does not protect them from sexual abuse. It sets them up for greater exploitation.
Sincerely sorry
The thing Australians should really feel sorry about is trashing the Aboriginal family.
Australia’s Outback shame
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?
Remembering a poet of commitment
Thirty years after James McAuley's death, his verse has lost none of its brilliance.
Lawful but not just
A few years ago Australian Aboriginal communities were asked what they thought of euthanasia. Their response was thoughtful, deep and negative.
POSTCARDS: A bush holiday
CENTRAL AUSTRALIA: 850km northwest of the town of Alice Springs, 12 bumpy, hot and dusty hours away, is an Aboriginal community called Balgo. About 450 of the Kutajanka people live there. Most do not work and rely on government benefits, though some have jobs at a local mine.
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