A startling revelation in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, HMS Pinafore, farcically unfolds when the motherly dockside vendor, Little Buttercup, confesses to a long-held secret. Damian Adams Many years previously, when she “practised baby-farming”, she had cared for two babies, one “of low condition”, the other “a regular patrician”, and had switched the identities of the two. The lower-class baby was eventually…

Media silence about Victoria’s shame Sir, As the date for the Victorian state election draws near, almost nothing is being heard from the media about the most important issue of all: the murder of preborn babies. This is the principal cause of death in Australia, ahead of cancer and heart disease. In Victoria abortion on demand is legal: the deliberate killing of any…

  THE BOMBING WAR: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy (Penguin UK) Paperback: 880 pages ISBN: 9780141003214 Price: AUD$24.95   Reviewed by Bill James   “As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are ‘only doing their duty’, as the saying goes….…