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The state is separating children from families

Patrick J. ByrneOct 20, 20186 min read

        Gender identity laws and court rulings are being used to separate children from parents   More legislation is planned   If you can change your sex, can you change your age or race?       When Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently tweeted, “we don’t need ‘gender whisperers’ in schools”, he should have been congratulated, not attacked, for alerting…

LETTERS

Editorial TeamOct 20, 201810 min read

Private schools still being short-changed The Federal Government’s very sensible restoration of $4.6 billion of funding to Catholic and other non-government school students over the next 10 years, previously removed under then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Gonski 2.0 proposals, has attracted all the usual inaccurate and misleading comments, but a lack of relevant statistics. It should again be noted that the Commonwealth does…

COVER STORY Internal strife at Fortress ABC

Editorial TeamOct 20, 20185 min read

It was highly revealing that The Sydney Morning Herald reported on the forced resignation of the ABC chairman under the heading “Politics”, given that the ABC is an organisation whose charter requires it to be independent, accurate and impartial. Divisions on the boards of corporations occur frequently, and it is not surprising that the ABC board should reflect the divisions in society,…

BOOK REVIEW Essays towards reconstruction

Editorial TeamOct 20, 201811 min read

MAKING AUSTRALIA RIGHT: Where to from Here? edited by James Allan Connor Court, Redland Bay Paperback: 212 pages Price: AUD$29.95 Reviewed by Chris Rule James Allan states in his introduction that the overall theme of this book is “where to from here for the right side of politics” and that he gave each contributor “a very laissez-faire and minimal set…