Somebody Think of the Children
Monthly archive December, 2008

Clive Hamilton: Straw men, five year old polls & cherry picked libertarians

Guest post by Geordie Guy Were I to commission you with the sum of $145 million to single-handedly cook and eat all of the elephants in existence before Christmas, with what would you season them? I am unaware of any demography that actually eats them, but I imagine they are red meat. Would you apply...

Children’s welfare groups clobber Rudd’s filter plan

Holly Doel-Mackaway, a child rights adviser with Save the Children, shocked many of us last week at the UNSW filtering forum when she spoke out against mandatory ISP filtering. I guess too many of us are used to hearing the “even if it doesn’t work, it’s still good” argument from Childwise, that we sometimes forget...