Selective anti-violence Sir, Australia needs a more balanced path for its social policies. On the one hand, for instance, there is much emphasis on combating violence that adheres to a required political agenda. Yet, the violence associated with abortion and coercion of it are simply ignored. On the other side, in some schools that participate in the Safe Schools Coalition, categories of bullying…

The 2016 election, whether it is held in July or later in the year, is likely to be another election milestone that bypasses many of the key issues that affect the nation’s future. Scott Morrison, left, with the current PM and across from the past PM. It has been a long time since federal politicians in Australia seriously leveled…

  IN PRAISE OF PREJUDICE: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas by Theodore Dalrymple (Encounter Books, Jackson, Tennessee) Hardcover: 129 pages ISBN: 9781594032028 Price: AUD$40.00   Reviewed by Peter Madison   Where have we got the notion that prejudice is an evil? Day in and day out we hear the word uttered as an accusation, especially in political discourse, and all…

  THE SEA DEVILS: Operation Struggle and the Last Great Raid of World War Two by Mark Felton (Icon Books, London) Paperback: 290 pages ISBN: 9781848319943 Price: AUD$27.99   Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel   As a boy I was enthralled by the story of a group of commandoes who sneaked into Singapore Harbour in September of 1943, and successfully sank a number of…

  THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF UNIVERSAL ETHICS: The Noahide Laws by Shimon Dovid Cowen (The Institute for Judaism and Civilization Inc, Melbourne/NY) Hardcover: 388 pages ISBN: 9780826608437 Price: AUD$21.95   Reviewed by John Young   The author, Rabbi Dr Shimon Cowen, is founder and director of the Institute for Judaism and Civilization in Melbourne. His late father, Sir Zelman Cowen OBM, was…