Issue 2016 September 10
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LETTERS
Kirby’s ‘alien’ claim Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby tells us (ABC online, August 23) that a plebiscite on same-sex marriage is “alien” to our constitution. How unusual for a former judge to scorn a people’s vote. It is well known that those promoting same-sex marriage fear a plebiscite or referendum on the subject. They consider it unwinnable. The public and media comment…
BOOK REVIEW The West’s left turn into today
1966: The Year the Decade Exploded by Jon Savage Faber & Faber, London Hardcover: 620 pages Price: AUD$49.99 Reviewed by Jeffry Babb Exactly 50 years on, what can we say about 1966? The so-called “Swinging Sixties” were a time of almost unimaginable prosperity, spread uniformly across the Western world. Economists would argue that we are far more…
