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The ethics of brain boosting
Jonathan Wood - The idea of a simple, cheap and widely available device that could boost brain function sounds too good to be true. electric brain...
The ethics of childhood organ transplants: How would you decide who becomes a recipient?
Yesterday in this space, I wrote about the story of 3-year-old Amelia Rivera, who is facing a life-altering decision about whether she is eligible...
A Happy Meal ban is nothing to smile about
The proposal to ban meals with toys in San Francisco is based on some dubious assumptions about obesity and health. A Happy Meal is not a healthy...
Labor to defy churches: ethics classes likely to start next year
Students in NSW will be offered ethics classes as an alternative to scripture classes by next year, under a proposal the government is expected to...
The one thing harried modern parents want is everybody else to get off their backs
Let kids run wild, or bury them in cotton wool: it doesn't seem to matter what we do, it's wrong. Free range is a clever name for a how-to-bring-up-...
Parental fear breeds cotton-wool kids: study
Modern parents are becoming increasingly protective of their kids, but where will it end? Photo: Stephen Baccon Even though there is no evidence that...
Serial killers and sharp objects
I tend to try to minimise the possibility of my children encountering either of the above. Serial killers and sharp objects are not on my parental to...
Babies don't suffer when mothers return to work, study reveals
Siobhan Freegard of Mumsnet said the findings would be embraced by every working mother in the country. Photograph: Observer A ground-breaking study...
Rights and wrongs: a tale of two killings
In 1994 in Norway a little girl was killed by two boys. The similarity with the James Bulger murder in Britain is clear. So why was there no outcry?...
Church has lost moral authority
There is only one conceivable reaction to the fast-spreading crisis in the Catholic Church: horror. After decades of obfuscation, the church has to...
Sex, sleaze and a traumatised boy sacrificed for ratings
At age 15, you can't vote, you can't die for your country, and you can't even take a legal drink. But it seems you're fair game if your parents lost...
Too many losers in the merit race
There is probably no more powerful motivator of human action than a lofty and sincerely felt philosophy of universal justice, combined with a...
Guidelines prompt artists to take cover
After her exhibition was closed and her house raided by police, the Archibald Prize-winning artist Cherry Hood made a pivotal decision. She would no...
Children are best left with their families
The horrific situation for Haitian children in the aftermath of the earthquake raises the difficult question of what can be done to make sure they...
Civics should be a class act
Imagine this. In a public school classroom of 10-year-olds, the teacher at the front asks her students, "What are your values? What does it mean...
Spoiling Christmas
With average weekly earnings at approximately $1200, we're intending to spend almost one per cent of our gross wages on toys for the kids this...
Game on: Aussies have their say on R18+ video games
Should Australian adults have the right to buy computer games featuring high-level violence, sexual content or illegal drug use? The Federal...
Internet censorship plan gets the green light
The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found...
Exterminate bunnies? Kill whales? Big questions for ethical children
Just how ethical is it, in the mind of the average primary school student, to hunt elephants for their tusks? What about exterminating rabbits,...
Give sport a chance: why we mustn't underestimate the power of physical activity to teach and inspire
There has been no shortage of people talking about the Independent Sport Report and its impact on major sports. What seems to have been missed by...
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