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Keywords: Sexual Ethics

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    When adults fail children

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 20 May 2010
    1 Comment

    A scene where Connor carries Mia, who pretends to sleep, to her bedroom and removes her jeans, finds a fine line between tender and predatory. His behaviour is somewhere sex-ward of fatherly. The feeling is mutual, but then again, she is only 15.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Choosing the sex of your child

    • Kevin McGovern
    • 08 April 2010
    3 Comments

    The media has reported that Australia's ban on couples using IVF to choose the sex of their children might soon be lifted. Some of the supporters of sex selection for non-medical reasons are fertility doctors for whom there is a considerable financial incentive.

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  • EUREKA STREET TV

    Doco asks what next for child migrants

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 20 November 2009
    2 Comments

    ABC1's The Long Journey Home is based on a book written by the best known alumnus of Fairbridge Farm, David Hill. After the heightened emotions surrounding Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Forgotten Australians, there is talk of forgiveness and compensation.

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  • EUREKA STREET TV

    Winton's numinous Breath

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 17 July 2009
    2 Comments

    A few weeks ago Tim Winton's Breath was awarded this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award. This video trailer is a poetic combination of strong images, haunting music, quotes, and eloquent interview with the author.

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  • RELIGION

    My friend Justice Kirby

    • Frank Brennan
    • 03 February 2009
    9 Comments

    Prior to convening his own farewell ceremony yesterday, Kirby published his last dissenting judgment, stating Aborigines should have their day in court over the Intervention. Though respecting tradition, Kirby has long thrived on conflict and change.

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  • RELIGION

    Educating leaders for the contemporary Australian Church

    • Frank Brennan
    • 06 October 2008

    'Lee and Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The ethics of 'kidsploitation'

    • Moira Rayner
    • 10 July 2008
    18 Comments

    Ethics is a process, not a position taken in the 'freedom of expression' debate. The issue surrounding Bill Henson's photographs and the Art Monthly magazine cover of a nude six-year-old girl is not porn or paedophilia, but the lack of ethical integrity in exploiting children for adult purposes.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The Viennese moment

    • Michael McGirr
    • 04 July 2006

    Michael McGirr looks into Peter Singer’s Pushing Time Away.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Allan James Thomas, Morag Fraser, Gordon Lewis and Siobhan Jackson
    • 31 May 2006

    Reviews of the films The Station Agent, The Passion of the Christ, The Fog of War and Irreversible.

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  • RELIGION

    Condoms discussion returns to traditional moral norms

    • Bill Uren
    • 18 May 2006
    6 Comments

    Benedict XVI will need all his theological sophistication as he negotiates the different moral arguments offered for the use of condoms in AIDS.  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Steve Gome, Bernard Doherty, Aaron Martin
    • 11 May 2006

    Reviews of the books: Geography; Stem Cells: Science, Medicine, Law and Ethics and John F. Kennedy: An unfinished life.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Paternal instinct

    • Leslie Cannold
    • 25 April 2006

    Who’s the real father? Men’s rights, women’s quandaries and the truth about misattributed biological paternity.

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