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The Sexualisation of Children

The Australia Institute has recently released a report entitled, Corporate Paedophilia [pdf], that examines the early sexualisation of children and particularly young girls. The report, authored by Emma Rush, makes the point that some corporations are actively promoting this through the marketing of products such as padded bras and G-strings targeted at girls as young […]

Trust and Ethno-Linguistic Heterogenity

Via Andrew Norton’s blog, I’ve come across a very interesting paper [PDF] by Andrew Leigh at the Australian National University (Andrew is also a blogger). The paper details Andrew’s research into which social and economic determinants most affect trust in Australian society. The abstract reads: Using a large Australian social survey, combined with precise data […]

We will force them to be free

In comments on the post below, Baybers links to this article in Britain’s Telegraph written by a Janet Daley. Using the recent niqab debate as a launching pad, Daley moves into a discussion about whether the state has the right to force people to be free and whether constituents have an obligation to accept all […]