Shannon Buckley

After practising law for the last four years, most recently as a junior barrister, Shannon Buckley has decided to complete the graduate diploma in secondary education this year to become an English and religion teacher in a Catholic school. Shannon enjoys writing, reading, playing tennis, and walking her dog around the water most nights. She is passionate about making young people think about some of the philosophies, both good and bad, that pervade modern society and underpin legislation and societal change. She is also getting married at the end of 2011, so is enjoying planning her wedding, but is hopefully not a ‘bridezilla’ yet…

A New American Dream?

Shannon Buckley | 18 May 2012

The United States is arguably still the world’s greatest super power. Yet, just who makes up that superpower is changing. White people, excluding Latinos, are expected to see their influence and numbers diminish from a 70% share of the population today to a bare majority by 2050.

Parents no longer destined for depression

Shannon Buckley | 13 May 2012

Two new studies presented at the Population Association of America’s annual meeting have found that parents are happier than their childless counterparts, making previous research to the contrary questionable. Could the immeasurable love you feel for your children outweigh the sleepless nights, endless washing and nights in after all?

New Zealand's new birth control plan for female beneficiaries labelled "intrusive"

Shannon Buckley | 8 May 2012

The New Zealand government hopes to reduce beneficiaries by offering those on benefits and their children free long acting contraception such as long term contraceptive injections, implants and intra-uterine devices. Many consider this is tantamount to the government getting involved in women’s reproductive rights and worry that women will be bullied into short term sterilisation. It certainly sends a strong message that New Zealand doesn’t want people on benefits having children.

More Educated Women opting to have Families

Shannon Buckley | 5 May 2012

For the first time a recent study has found that a greater number of highly educated women in their late 30’s and 40’s in the United States are deciding to have children, something that Newswise describes as ‘a dramatic turnaround from recent history’ in an interesting article based on a new study by Ohio University (reported here in the Journal of Population Economics). In fact, fertility increased at almost all ages since the late 1990s or 2000 across all groups of women studied.

China set to fall behind in the economic race

Shannon Buckley | 25 Apr 2012

Many are predicting that China’s economy is set to take over the world. According to the IMF China will overtake America as the world’s largest economy in 2017. However, before we start looking to China as the next world superpower, the country’s dire demographic outlook needs to be taken account of. It will almost certainly hold the country back. Yet, despite this, unnatural government restrictions on childbirth persist.

God not dead among young people

Shannon Buckley | 13 Apr 2012

The Press reported recently that perhaps God is not so dead among young people in New Zealand after all. Victoria University's religious studies professor Paul Morris considers there to be evidence of a growing religious revival among young people in the country. This comes after a United States study listed New Zealand as one of the nine countries in the world where religion will all but die last year.

Dementia to triple worldwide by 2050

Shannon Buckley | 12 Apr 2012

It makes sense that with an aging baby boomer population the effects of aging will also increase over the coming decades. So it doesn’t come as too much of a surprise that the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) expects cases of people living with dementia to triple worldwide by 2050. The WHO report has has brought renewed support for euthanasia from some.

Abortion pill safety concerns ignored and Australian woman dies

Shannon Buckley | 27 Mar 2012

Australia has had its first death of a woman using the abortion pill to terminate her pregnancy at home. The Australian confirms that the woman died of sepsis “some days after” having the medical abortion at one of Marie Stopes International Australia’s (MSIA) 14 Australian clinics back in 2010.

Batman is still fighting crime... in Brazil

Shannon Buckley | 19 Mar 2012

Brazil has come up with a novel way to fight crime – employ Batman. The city of Taubate have hired former soldier, Andre Luiz Pinheiro, to patrol the streets of the city dressed as Batman. Rather than fighting real life crime though, Batman will play a more indirect role in the fight between good and evil through a social and educational crime prevention project which visits schools and targets children from the city.

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