Peter Dutton has replaced Senator Linda Reynolds as Defence Minister as part of the recent Cabinet reshuffle. The reshuffle was forced on Prime Minister Scott Morrison by health issues facing senior ministers, the mishandling of sexual-assault allegations around Federal Parliament, and a sense that the Government had lost direction. Linda Reynolds had a long history with the Australian Army Reserve, rising to the…

Policies like paid parental leave and universal childcare reinforce the commitment to work over family, thereby contributing to the decline in fertility in high-income countries, despite women saying they want more children. A likely part of the solution to the fertility gap, the difference between how many children women say they want and how many they actually have, is to introduce cash payments…

  Edited by Dr Kevin Donnelly Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne Paperback: 182 pages Price: AUD$29.99 Reviewed by Peter Kelleher They are sawing away at the ladder A very famous book (The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, for those born yesterday) reassured nervous readers, in an uncanny anticipation of snowflake culture, with this advice on the back cover, “Don’t Panic”. Perhaps the book under consideration…