In your Theobogan’s home state of Western Australia, our Labor Government seeks to copy Victoria, and introduce, Sandgroper side, something called assisted dying. At first, I dismissed it all as just another hare-brained Labor scheme for the Hairdresser/Fashion Collective: you know, compulsory state-sponsored rainbow colouring of coifs and caftans and that. But then I learned the guts of the matter. The…

Restricting single-sex sports to children of one sex under 12 years of age is illegal under federal law, while in rugby union, girls and women can be expelled from the game, like Israel Folau, for protesting on their social media against biological males who identify as female playing in their competition.   The Israel Folau case is just the tip of the iceberg…

HOW FEAR WORKS: Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century by Frank Furedi Bloomsbury Continuum, Sydney Hardcover: 320 pages Price: AUD$39.99 Reviewed by Margaret Somerville I currently teach bioethics to medical students and in the past have also taught law students. A theme of the first class I give them is that as members of the professions they are entering…

ANGELS, INCENSE AND REVOLUTION: Catholic Schooldays of the 1960s by Wanda Skowronska (Foreword by Jim Franklin) Connor Court, Redland Bay Paperback: 224 pages Price: AUD$29.95 Reviewed by Michael Gilchrist As the old saying goes, “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it”. However, those in control of Catholic religious education forgot that wise maxim in the years after the Second Vatican…

THE LITTLE GREY BOOK ON SEX AND TRANSGENDER by Patrick J. Byrne Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne Paperback: 95 pages Price: AUD$19.99 Reviewed by Terri M. Kelleher This second book on transgender by Patrick J. Byrne is an excellent introduction to his more detailed treatment of the subject in his first book, Transgender: One Shade of Grey. It is a handbook of…