This is the fight of your life…
There’s a dark, vicious, potentially violent world lurking just beyond your mobile phone, tablet or desktop computer. But you have to be sick to discover it, says a special correspondent. 6 Feb 2017
There’s a dark, vicious, potentially violent world lurking just beyond your mobile phone, tablet or desktop computer. But you have to be sick to discover it, says a special correspondent. 6 Feb 2017
A packed auditorium for Prof Elizabeth Loftus’s address evidenced how vexed has become the question of the accuracy or otherwise of ‘recalled’ childhood memories. Diana Simmons reports. 25 Jan 2017
If Australians previously believed Americans to be ultra-demonstrative flag wavers, beware the new Trump holiday – Patriot’s Day – which could involve even greater schmaltz and alarming jingoism. 24 Jan 2017
In October 2016, what was then the largest drug haul for 2016 was achieved when approximately one tonne of crystal MDMA was saved from entering the community. At the end of December 2016, 500 kilograms of cocaine was halted in NSW and 600 kilograms was intercepted in Tahiti. Most recently a boat was intercepted off the coast of Tasmania carrying 186 kilograms of cocaine (“Arrests follow seizure of cocaine”, Canberra Times, 19 Jan, p14). No matter the size of drug seizures, the amount of drugs on the streets continually increases. One would think if seizures were having a positive impactContinue reading
Letter to Senator Xenophon: The article in the Age 161230 describes how whistleblower Brian Hood has had to sell his home because he could not gain further employment after becoming a whistleblower about behaviour at the Reserve Bank. He is one of many. It is utterly disgraceful that individuals who are so courageous as to risk everything, including jeopardising their future careers, are so poorly looked after. The article states that in Britain, the head of the Serious Fraud Office, David Green, says that financially rewarding whistleblowers ‘seems slightly distasteful’. (Presumably he has never had to contemplate anything to distasteful,Continue reading
In his letter ‘Matters of life or death’, Greg Cornwell (Canberra Times, 9 Jan 2017) poses a confusing question: “Do people who oppose the death penalty also oppose euthanasia?” Clearly, the death penalty is a punitive act by the State following a court decision, while euthanasia is a humane option for terminally ill people with no quality of life, to be granted legal endorsement for their right to die with dignity, at a time and place of their choosing, often with medical assistance. There is no evidence or reason to bind these two life-ending acts into a given endorsement orContinue reading