In the early 1990s, I had the opportunity to travel to Russia, which was only the third time I had been overseas and the first time I had been outside…
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When fresh out of university, I got a job as a geologist, and one day it was my turn to be ‘on duty’ in my organisation. This meant answering questions…
Bioethics Professor Margaret Somerville is from the School of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame Australia, and she has written a piece in the Guardian bemoaning the concept, let…
Often in the so-called debate over same sex marriage, you will see the less sophisticated ‘no’ campaigners whine about how there are males and females, as if that is all…
Caroline Overington wrote a piece for the Australian in which she asked people to give Nicole Kidman a break after the latter’s Emmy Award win for her performance in Big…
Earlier this year, France changed its organ donation system from an opt-in system, (like Australia’s) to an opt-out system. The aim of this is to increase the proportion of the…
A suggestion by the Governor of the Reserve Bank, Philip Lowe, that workers should demand higher wages, was something that was unheard of in the days of trickle-down economics. In…
I was bullied at high school by three older boys, whose surnames were Hardman, Smith and Childs. It was fairly mild and never, that I can recall, went beyond verbal…
