If we can save one baby why can't we save more?
Unborn foetuses with heartbeats and senses deserve a fair go.
Unborn foetuses with heartbeats and senses deserve a fair go.
Queensland is the only state that sends school-aged children to adult prisons.
It's free. It's good for the planet and it's good for you.
A potential loser from the decision to split the Defence portfolio could well be the Australian Defence Force.
The PM's announcement of a Royal Commission into the abuse of children in Northern Territory jails gives an insight into his instincts on human rights.
It is time to dispense with a relic lingering at the core of our economy: the male breadwinner.
It is apparent that the Australian dream will increasingly be out of reach for people in the lowest 40 per cent of incomes.
These are grim times for many Republicans. Their nominee espouses many ideas contrary to long-held principles, and his immediate reversion after the convention to JFK conspiracy-mongering convinces some conservatives that he is just plain nuts.
Brexit was the supporting act for a possible American leap in the dark that would place Trump's portrait in U.S. embassies around the world.
A few years down the line when the recommendations are handed down, will anyone still be watching?
Of all the Westminster democracies, none is so familiar with direct involvement of voters on public matters as is Australia.
Australians who visit and support orphanages in Cambodia are inadvertently fuelling an industry that is separating children from their families and putting kids at risk of abuse and exploitation.
As a lawyer in the Northern Territory, I saw children lose their teenage years to a broken youth justice system.
In 1991, as a callow youth, I sat in the Alice Springs police station giving a statement after a man had detained me in my own home, punched me repeatedly and held a knife to me threatening to kill me unless I drove him home.
The overwhelming news in the lead up to the 2016 Olympics has been about the rampant dysfunction of the host city, Rio de Janeiro, and for good reason. The stories are gruesome and sensationalistic, filled with the kinds of pulpy details that make a mental imprint deeply difficult to dismiss.
You'd have to be living under a rock to have missed the memo: Too much meat is bad for your health , responsible for immense animal cruelty on factory farms, to blame for speeding up climate change, at fault for squeezing out rare species and more
Can a Liberal-National Coalition bring itself to nominate a former Labor prime minister?
In a global, media-linked world where stories cross borders and can incite violence, we need globally-minded journalism.
Twitter could suffer from extreme politicization of everything.
This is perhaps one of the worst decisions to affect Defence in the past 20 years, because the structure is now askew.
Beware people who've been around politics a long time and who know how it all works. They can undo the best-laid plans of party head office.
The home is the most common location in Australia for injuries to occur.
The profile of what we consider a terrorist attack is increasingly hard to define.
"Just hold your nose." That was the advice I heard a Republican activist give another member of the party who was hesitant to support Donald Trump.
As one of an increasing number of young Catholic men who have decided to become a Catholic priest, I am in a privileged position to debunk some of the myths surrounding celibacy and to quell any fears that celibacy is a grave evil.
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