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The article offers the author's insights on the suburban development in Australia. The author relates the development in one home display centre for The Ponds located in Ridgeline Drive in western Sydney, He states that questions and concerns regarding the issue of property development can be brought up at the social committee.

The article focuses on Julian Assange, who is the candidate for the Victorian Senate ticket of the WikiLeaks Party. Assange says that they were concerned that the battle between the major political parties in the Australian election would affect the issues they hold such as protection of journalists and freedom on the internet. It mentions that Assange is preparing for a full campaign to be waged from the rooms of the Ecuadorian embassy with the television (TV) studio as part of their effort.

The article reports that the debate on stem cell technology shows that there are reasons to be wary of biotechnology from the humanistic and social perspective. The difference between the established church's point of view regarding embryonic stem cell research is compared to that of scientists. The author discusses the danger in making the production of human life an industrialized process, and cites as an example live organ transplants, with a growing black market of organ donations for cash. According to the author, there has been a shift in the technology from life-giving to death-dealing.

This article talks of a medical model designed to explain and seek treatment for a lack of compassion as of September 2003. Self-possession has been turned to wilful inwardness, patriotism to xenophobia, resoluteness to callousness. These tendencies exist in any social form — they must be ceaselessly talked back to, argued with. Donald Home has been thinking about this in the course of his past half-dozen or so books. His latest, "10 Steps to a More Tolerant Australia," represents a commitment to it that is a more direct and urgent summation of a humane vision of social life.

Reports on the planned closure of the Melbourne, Victoria-based Black Cat cafe in February 2001. Background on the history of the cafe; Cafe's importance in the local social scene.

Looking like a remake of "Logan's Run," the centre of Melbourne, Victoria is filled with under 1930s. In other words, it's Comedy Festival time again, an occasion which has become an inadvertent celebration of youth. But in one venue, something else is happening. Comedian Reg Gorman, 70, is putting on a show called Hanging on to Vaudeville. Gorman was once known as "the atomic comic". Most of his working life was spent in television (TV) but it was in music hall that he got his training. In sketches like "Guzzler's Gin" — in which a 1950s TV presenter gets progressively drunker — Gorman gets laughs throwing his body into increasingly violent contortions.

The general rule of cities is that the institutions of law and obedience persist, while the places of pleasure are swept away. The stone churches of Melbourne, Victoria, remain, while the coffee emporia and picture palaces have been gathered up by the winds of change. The cafe and lounge had the black vinyl look of a failed recording studio. In other words, it was perhaps the only health centre that had decor befitting the sort of grim self-slavery that is the modern work-out. Best of all, you could submit to grim self-slavery at 4a.m. because Underworld's other claim to fame was that it was open 24/7, and had been since before that phrase was used by anyone.

Presents information on the disparity in news treatment of pandemic occurrences. Effect of news treatment on human crisis; Information on epidemics that plague the world; Reason for the increase in pandemic occurrences.