This week I wrote an article for Australian News websites on the latest stupidity to come from Government reports and committees. A 200 page NHMRC document advised that children at daycare not blow out birthday candles on a cake as it was an infection risk. This...
There have been a number of news stories concerning children over the last two weeks. They are all separate yet underneath is a theme which ties them all together. A 20-month-old girl died after sustaining critical injuries whilst she was under the care of the state....
You would think that simple remedies, which could help a large number of people, would be more newsworthy than “miracle” breakthroughs which are at best years away and realistically, in 89% of instances, rubbish. Sadly you would be wrong. Hardly a week goes by without...
There are interesting double standards that we apply to different fields of human endeavor. In sports the use of performance enhancing drugs is forbidden. Whilst that does not necessarily stop athletes using them at least it is not condoned. Efforts are made to try...
With the Olympics starting this week it is interesting to see how our attitudes to physical activity varies. In last weekends paper was a full-page ad from the State Government. The headline was” When our kids play sport, our whole community wins”. The ad was in the...
