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STOLEN GENERATIONS PLASTIC POLLUTION
AND THE WAY AHEAD Volume 440 Edited by Justin Healey
Volume 437 Edited by Justin Healey print ISBN: 978 1 925339 80 2
print ISBN: 978 1 925339 74 1 ebook ISBN: 978 1 925339 81 9
ebook ISBN: 978 1 925339 75 8 Plastic products and packaging are integral to
It has been over twenty years since the release modern daily life. Plastic is durable, cheap, light
of the landmark Bringing Them Home report and and can be flexible or rigid, with multiple uses
more than a decade since the National Apology – however plastic is also making the planet a
was delivered by then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd victim of its own success. Plastic pollution has
to Stolen Generations survivors – Aboriginal and become an epidemic, afflicting land, waterways,
Torres Strait Islander Australians who have suffered as the result of past coastlines and oceans. More than 8 million tonnes of plastic go into the
government policies and practices of forced child removal and assimilation. world’s oceans each year, killing marine life as it breaks down into billions
Acknowledging the wrongs of the past was a significant milestone in the of microplastic pieces, without decomposing. Consumption of plastic
history of our nation, but there is still much work to be done to heal the has increased exponentially, but while plastic and packaging recycling in
enduring trauma experienced by survivors, families and communities. After Australia is well established, currently only 14% of plastic is recovered for
two decades, the majority of the Bringing Them Home recommendations recycling or energy recovery. How can we reduce the amount of plastic
have not been implemented, adding to ongoing distress. In the meantime, waste, increase recycling and minimise impacts on the environment? What
this inaction fails to address the escalating national crisis involving are governments, industry, retailers and consumers doing to eliminate the
continuing removal of indigenous children from their families. What is use of plastic packaging including bags, bottles and containers to reduce
the nation’s plan for healing this pain; are we any closer to needs-based landfill waste and ocean pollution? This book offers confronting facts on
funding and a financial redress scheme, dealing with intergenerational plastic use, but also features strategies aimed at tackling plastic pollution.
trauma and establishing an appropriate policy response? What is the way Now is the time to save our planet from the growing perils of plastic.
ahead for the ‘unfinished business’ in the long journey towards healing?
GLOBAL POVERTY AND
GAMBLING ISSUES WEALTH INEQUALITY
Volume 438 Edited by Justin Healey Volume 441 Edited by Justin Healey
print ISBN: 978 1 925339 76 5 print ISBN: 978 1 925339 82 6
ebook ISBN: 978 1 925339 77 2 ebook ISBN: 978 1 925339 83 3
Almost 7 million Australians are estimated to Despite marked progress in poverty reduction over
be regular gamblers, spending money on one or recent decades, the number of people living in
more gambling activities each month. Australian poverty remains unacceptably high. More than 790
gambling losses were at an all-time high at $24 million people live in extreme poverty, surviving on
billion in the past year alone. What are the actual less than $1.90 a day. Why is there still so much
odds, myths and facts behind the chances of poverty in the world; how is it measured; and what is being done by way
winning on poker machines, racing, live sports betting, lotteries, and at of trade, debt relief and aid to achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable
casinos and online? What are the warning signs and harms of problem Development Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere? By contrast,
gambling, and what help is available to people affected by it? What many around the world have never had it so good. Global income and
restrictions has the government placed on gambling marketing, much wealth inequality is on the rise: 82% of the wealth generated last year
of which is aimed at children and young people across television and went to the richest 1% of the global population, while the poorest half of
radio broadcasts and online? This book reveals the various major forms the world’s people saw no increase in their wealth. Just eight men own
of gambling activity and expenditure in Australia; it explores the issues the same wealth as half the world. What are the causes of this staggering
involved in dealing with problem gambling; and investigates gambling inequality, and how can we achieve the UN’s Goal 10: Reduce inequality
advertising and its impacts on young people. Why are Australians the within and among countries? Using data and analysis from the latest key
world’s biggest gamblers? Are we really winning against the odds? reports, this book provides an overview of the extremes between wealth
and poverty. Can the world afford to let the gap widen any further?
PORNOGRAPHY AND ITS HARMS
Volume 439 Edited by Justin Healey REPRODUCTIVE ETHICS
print ISBN: 978 1 925339 78 9 Volume 442 Edited by Justin Healey
ebook ISBN: 978 1 925339 79 6 print ISBN: 978 1 925339 84 0
Nearly half of Australian children aged 9-16 years ebook ISBN: 978 1 925339 85 7
experience regular exposure to sexual images Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is a group
via the media, online and hand-held devices. of procedures used to assist people in achieving
Pornography does not exist in a digital vacuum, a pregnancy. Recent advancements in the use
but rather within a broader social context which and availability of ART treatments such as in vitro
reinforces sexual attitudes, beliefs and stereotypes fertilisation (IVF), gamete intrafallopian transfer
about gender, sexism, sexual objectification, unsafe sexual health practices (GIFT), gamete donation and surrogacy have
and violence-supportive attitudes. What are the impacts of porn? How do raised numerous ethical considerations. This book explores reproductive
young people navigate the risks and realities of intended and accidental concerns and opposing opinions on a range of issues including: the use
exposure to explicit content? This resource sensitively handles topics of IVF by older women; success rate claims of commercial clinics; access
including ‘sexting’, image-based abuse, age verification, parental controls by IVF offspring to the identities of their donors; the fate of excess frozen
and communication with teens about pornography. The book explores embryos; public funding of IVF; payment for egg donation; ‘social egg
interventions and initiatives aimed at educators, parents and young people freezing’ by younger career women delaying motherhood; the dilemmas of
to address the harms of pornography through promotion of online safety preimplantation genetic screening; sex selection; the collection of gametes
practices, critical thinking and discussion. How do we deal with the harms and embryos from deceased loved ones; mitochondrial donation and ‘three-
of early access to pornography and promote appropriate digital and sexual parent IVF’; and commercial surrogacy arrangements. Are existing guidelines
literacies for young people and their developing sexuality? “Sex sells” – and laws in Australia in step with the many ways we can now reproduce
but if it’s so freely available and left to its own devices – at what price? ourselves? Or are we going too far in dictating the terms of human fertility?
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