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Poverty lines tangled: An influential report claiming that one in eight Australians lives in poverty is wrong
Kayoko TsumoriJanuary 17, 2002The Age

Our paper, Poor Arguments: A Response to the Smith Family Report on Poverty in Australia...

For richer or poorer, we’re still a lucky country: Don’t exaggerate the extent of poverty in Australia
Peter SaundersJanuary 16, 2002The Australian

The Australian economy experienced remarkable growth during most of the 1990s.  Yet social researchers are...

A generation drowns in boos: Repairing society’s attitude to rearing children would be revolutionary
Frank DevineDecember 13, 2001The Australian

Peter Saunders, Professor of sociology at the University of Sussex, said something dreadful at a...

The great drink-driving scandal: Police road blitzes are wasteful and an affront to our liberties
Peter SaundersDecember 13, 2001The Age

Over the last Labour Day weekend in NSW, 106,396 people were apprehended by the police...

Children pay the price of gender feminism war
Barry MaleyDecember 12, 2001The Sydney Morning Herald

For some radical feminists, males are patriarchal oppressors and the family is their torture chamber....

The damage done by the decline of marriage
Barry MaleyDecember 8, 2001The Age

In the past generation, Australian family life and marriage have undergone a revolution that has...

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