Issue 2015 November 07
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LIFE ISSUES Altruistic surrogacy leads to baby trafficking
Poor women in India are being paid to produce children for wealthy Westerners. In some cases, they are impregnated with two human embryos, with the second baby destined for the black market. Family Court Chief Justice Diana Bryant, left, and Federal Circuit Court Chief Judge John Pascoe. Commissioning couples from the United States and the Europe have been using Indian surrogacy agencies…
LETTERS
B.A. memoir a live topic Sir, In response to the recent material on Gerard Henderson’s memoir of B.A. Santamaria, I’d like to add a few facts about my own experience. Soon after I became a research fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, Gerard approached me. I refused even to have a brief conversation with him about the prospect of leaving the IPA…
CANBERRA OBSERVED Labor on the offensive against all argument
South Australian Labor Senator Penny Wong, who was Australia’s first openly lesbian member of Cabinet in the previous Labor governments, is leading the political campaign for same-sex marriage but is at the same time attempting to set the ground rules for the debate on her own terms. Barnaby Joyce Senator Wong is hoping to change the laws on marriage to allow people of…
BOOK REVIEW Progress in the dock
THE ROMANTIC ATTACK ON MODERN SCIENCE IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA: And Other Essays by Roger Sworder Angelico Press (Sophia Perennis). Paperback: 172 pages ISBN: 978-1621381471 Price: AUD$28.99 Reviewed by Brian Coman From a perusal of the title of this new book by Roger Sworder, we may well ask why such a seemingly arcane subject would be of any relevance to…
BOOK REVIEW ASIO in the early years
MORE CLOAK THAN DAGGER: One Woman’s Career in Secret Intelligence by Molly J. Sasson (Connor Court, Ballarat) Paperback: 336 pages ISBN: 9781925138726 Price: AUD$29.95 Reviewed by Hal G.P. Colebatch After wartime service in the RAF, Molly Sasson worked for British intelligence and then, as the Cold War was getting under way, was recruited for the newly formed ASIO (the Australian…
Bishops being prosecuted for supporting man+woman marriage Here is what you can do
Australia has just taken a decisive step towards become an authoritarian state. Hobart’s Archbishop Julian Porteous and the entire Catholic Bishops Conference are being prosecuted for distributing a booklet supporting man+woman marriage, as defined in the Federal Marriage Act. They are accused of breaching Section 17 of the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act, which prohibits “any conduct which offends, humiliates, intimidates, insults or ridicules another…
