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Unfortunately, I was one of those who appeared on the segment, and was interviewed, along with a SAHM and parenting educator, Michael Grose. Basically, it was a presentation about whether SAHMs needed to use childcare or not.

Before I kick into the discussion, I have to say I was overly unimpressed with being portrayed as the person who things SAHM’s don’t need childcare. They got Michael saying all the good stuff about how all mums need a break. I said that, too, only way better. But they needed a two sided argument and obviously couldn’t get anyone else to say it (I had numbers I could have given them!), so I was the idiot.

Autism and schizophrenia may be two sides of the same coin, suggests a review of genetic data associated with the conditions. The finding could help design complementary treatments for the two disorders.

Though autism was originally described as a form of schizophrenia a century ago, evidence for a link has remained equivocal. One theory puts the conditions at opposite ends of a developmental spectrum.

Australia's media watchdog has found three Victorian commercial television news networks broadcast inaccurate stories about violence involving Sudanese refugees two years ago.

In the shadow of the Nutt debacle some of Britain's most distinguished social scientists and statisticians gathered last week at the British Academy to discuss the impact of social research. The government's chief social scientist among them, they addressed a pivotal question: how do you get ministers to pay attention to evidence that warns they are doing the wrong thing?

The term "liberation psychology" was popularized by Ignacio Martin-Baró (1942-1989), the psychologist, priest, and activist who was assassinated in El Salvador by government troops. Martin-Baró focused on the oppression of his fellow Salvadorans, Central Americans, and Latin Americans. It is increasingly apparent that U.S. citizens need Martin-Baró's insights along with their own special kind of liberation psychology.

Why, in the United States, when the majority of people oppose the taxpayer bailout of the financial industry and the military occupation in Iraq, are the streets not regularly occupied with large numbers of protesters? Given 47 million people in the U.S. without health insurance and many millions more who are underinsured or a job layoff away from losing their coverage, and given the current sellout by their elected officials to the insurance industry, why are there not millions, rather than thousands in Washington, DC protesting this betrayal?

Too many war veterans avoid seeking help for their post traumatic stress disorder. A Department of Veterans’ Affairs trial conducted by the Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health in Victoria has identified the top five reasons why. They are:

* Difficulty accepting that they have a mental health problem;
* Uncertainty about what help is available;
* Concerns about stigma;
* Mistrust of health professionals; and
* A belief that ‘I should be able to handle this alone’.

t remains one of the least understood quirks of deregulation, but reform makes jobs more secure, which, in turn, reduces the incentive to work for yourself. Both sides of politics like to see deregulated Australia as entrepreneurial Australia. The reverse happens to be the case. The proportion of workers who are self-employed has been falling since the early 90s and the figure is now at its lowest level since 1975.