Australia


Marriage is no place for me-too-ism

Tim Cannon | 24 November 2010 |
tags: Australia, same-sex marriage
Let's go back to the beginning. Why does anyone deserve the protection offered by legally-recognised marriage?


Liberation—or deprivation?

David van Gend | 16 November 2010 |
tags: Australia, parenting, same-sex marriage
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

Susan Smithies | 07 September 2010 |
tags: Australia, same-sex adoption
An Australian parliamentary debate on same-sex adoption shows gay rights to the fore.


Can you hear us now?

Melinda Tankard Reist | 31 August 2010 |
tags: Australia, pornography, sexualisation of children
Australian women raise a collective shout against the pornification of culture and the harm it is doing.


Australia’s Greenslide

Michael Cook | 25 August 2010 |
tags: Australia, Greens
Same-sex marriage is back on the agenda now that social radicals have the balance of power.


Women on the work-life tightrope

Misty de Vries | 05 May 2010 |
tags: Australia, women, work-life balance
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

Angela Shanahan | 19 November 2009 |
tags: Australia, Obamacare
An Australian journalist explains why her country’s health insurance system leaves Obamacare in the dust.


Getting Real

Pauline Cooper-Ioelu | 20 October 2009 |
tags: Australia, sexualisation of children
Australian academics and activists collaborate in a new book to challenge the sexualisation of girls.


Girls, unprotected

Melinda Tankard Reist | 08 May 2008 |
tags: Aboriginal Australia, Australia, contraception
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

Michael Cook | 24 February 2008 |
tags: Aboriginal Australia, Australia
The thing Australians should really feel sorry about is trashing the Aboriginal family.


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?


Remembering a poet of commitment

Michael Cook | 15 October 2006 |
tags: Australia, commitment, poetry
Thirty years after James McAuley's death, his verse has lost none of its brilliance.


Lawful but not just

Joseph Azize | 01 February 2006 |
tags: Aboriginal Australia, Australia, euthanasia
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

Greg Morgan | 26 November 2004 |
tags: Aboriginal Australia, Australia
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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