Readers celebrate the life of the western suburbs social worker who helped change lives through his advocacy and indefatigable hands-on help.
There are people in life whom you’re privileged to rub shoulders with but may not fully realise it at the time. : I have devoted over five decades to reading, teaching, and writing about Roman writers of the first centuries BC and AD, such as Virgil, Ovid and Seneca. And so I would like to thank your writer, Barney Zwartz, for quoting a sociologist Rodney Stark, who thinks that the Roman Empire’s only legacy after the fall of the republic, other than Christianity, was concrete.
I may possibly choose to take illicit drugs and have no impact on anyone or anything other than myself. This is not true of AFL players – they are extremely well paid, and are participants in a powerful sport industry that is wedded to gambling revenue. The failure of sports to provide effective policies to rid themselves of players who seem incapable of resisting illicit drug use has necessitated a stricter global testing and policing regime.
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