After a long string of court victories, the American campaign to redefine marriage has lost a major case in the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. The decision will have far-reaching consequences.  Judge Jeffrey Sutton At recent referenda in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, clear majorities of voters supported natural marriage. However, activist judges in lower courts…

Gough Whitlam ‘narrow-minded and short-sighted’ Sir,  I read with interest the editorial column written by Mr Peter Westmore on Gough Whitlam (“Gough Whitlam’s tainted legacy”, News Weekly, November 8, 2014). Gough Whitlam While I agree that it is right to speak respectfully of the recently dead, and I share the opinion that Whitlam had an enormous impact on Australia, I must say that…

  TAKEN INTO CUSTODY: The War Against Fathers, Marriage and the Family by Stephen Baskerville (Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House Publishing) Hardcover: 368 pages ISBN: 9781581825947 Price: AUD$49.90   Reviewed by Bill Muehlenberg   Most Western family law courts and systems are greatly skewed against fathers. There is an inbuilt bias against dads, and many are turned into criminals for having done nothing wrong. …

  THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPLETE WORLD WAR II: 1939-1945: All the Coverage from the Battlefields and the Home Front  Edited by Richard Overy (New York: Black Dog & Leventhal) Hardcover: 480 pages (+ CD-ROM) ISBN: 9781579129446 Price: AUD$53.95   Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel   Seventy-five years after the start of World War II one often wonders how the war was reported…