Alcove If there is still room in his fond memoryFor the one he broke up withAfter they had spent five years togetherThere is a special alcoveFor the oneWho comforted him afterwardsFor five weeks. Argument with an Atheist “Show me one miracle –an effect with no evident cause,”he said,standing on the Earth,under the Milky Way. Hal G.P. Colebatch

Super fund trustees Should union superannuation funds exercise flexibility in the mix of union-based executives as trustees, if it will benefit the members? The Royal Commissioner into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry may want to recommend such flexibility. Energy Super chairman Scott Wilson told the royal commission on August 10, 2018, of how a merger between Energy Super and Equip…

SEX, DRUGS AND THE ELECTORAL ROLL, by Fiona Patten Reviewed by Tobias Eistedfodd (with reporting by Sebastian gunlighter from Rottnest Island) When this book arrived on my editor’s desk in its brown-paper packaging, I thought: “How appropriate”. Then I thought: “We must do justice to all, even to those who disagree with this journal’s positions on everything that matters; let’s…

DEMOGRAPHIC SUICIDE IN THE WEST AND HALF THE WORLD: Either More Births or Catastrophe? by Alejandro Macarrón Larumbe CreateSpace Paperback: 310 pages Price: AUD$36.99 Reviewed by Lucy Sullivan Spanish engineer Alejandro Macarrón Larumbe begins his book, Demographic Suicide in the West and Half the World, with a big threat, one that obviates the current obsession with global warming. If birth…

PROSTITUTION NARRATIVES: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade by Caroline Norma and Melinda Tankard Reist (eds) Spinifex Press, North Geelong Paperback: 200 pages Price: AUD$29.95 Reviewed by Gabrielle Walsh Prostitution Narratives offers sincere, personal stories of women who are survivors of prostitution. The individual testimonies are based on the lived experiences of women who have worked as prostitutes and…

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Patrick J. Byrne’s new book, Transgender: One Shade of Grey. In this excerpt, the author outlines the thesis and aims of the rest of the book. Patrick J. Byrne is national president of the National Civic Council. In 2016, this author commissioned polling to determine what Australians understood about the transgender…