Social Issues 

 

Abortion	Alcohol
Animals - treatment	Antibiotic resistance
Australian issues	Capital punishment
Child labour	Computer games and violence
Drug abuse	Drugs in sport
Eating disorders	Ethical issues
Euthanasia	Genetics and genetically modified food
Gambling	Graffiti
Gun laws	Human rights
Poverty	Racism and prejudice
Smoking	Stem cells
Surrogacy	Welfare and Overseas Aid
Youth Suicide

Abortion

ACT Right to Life Association	The hand that rocks the cradle
The RU-486 files	The hand as an emblem of human identity ...
Abortion Clinics Online Choice links	American Life League
WEL Australia issues: Abortion	Women at risk - facts about abortion mortality
Abortion - ethics	Abortion - Public Agenda Online
Abortion - a woman's right to choose?? Q & A	Facts you should know about abortion
NARAL - Reproductive freedom & choice (USA)	National Abortion Federation (US)
National Right to Life (US)	Queensland Right to Life
Children by Choice Association (Aust)	Abortion - facts, issues and reports
Issues - Christian views	Medical termination of pregnancy Act - South Australia

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Alcohol

Binge drinking	National Alcohol Strategy 2001 - 2004
Alcohol and other drug use/abuse	CNN.com - binge drinking
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome	Alcohol : problems and solutions
Alcohol impaired driving FAQ	Hot issues - drinking and driving
Web of addictions	Youth Substance Abuse Service
What's your poison?	Aboriginal Drug & Alcohol Council (SA)
Alcohol & other Drugs Council of Australia	Drinking and driving theme page
Uni of Qld Drink Driving Prevention Program	Just one night - drinking and driving

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Animals - treatment

Animal Aid UK - Campaigns against cruelty	Circus arguments
RSPCA Home Page	World Society for the Protection of Animals

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Capital punishment

US Catholic Bishops' Statement on Capital Punishment	US Death Penalty Information Center
Karla Faye Home Page	Capital Punishment essay - Kenneth Cauthen
Amnesty International and the death penalty	Catholics against capital punishment
Punishment and the death penalty	Is the death penalty necessary?
Looking at the death penalty	Death Penalty Information Centre
Focus on the death penalty - international context	Innocence and the death penalty in the USA
Catholics against capital punishment	Capital punishment - Trinity College W. Aust.
Capital punishment, death penalty - an essay	Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Capital punishment - life or death?	Punishment and the death penalty
Does God support the death penalty?	Is capital punishment sanctioned by Divine authority?
Catholic teaching on capital punishment	Capital punishment - for and against
Facts and figures on the death penalty	Cornell death penalty project
Capital punishment statistics	Capital punishment
The death penalty	The death penalty

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Child labour

Guides - child labour	United Nations Special Session on Children
Child labour issues - causes & interventions	A school for Iqbal
The RUGMARK Program	Stop child labour
Free the children

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Computer games and violence

Video Game Violence Minimally Affects Kids	Video & computer game report card
Video games and children 1 (ERIC)	KidSource - video games & children
Gaming violence	Raising children to resist violence
Psychiatric effects of media violence

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Drug abuse

Australian Drug Foundation	Australian Drug Information Network
The social cost of drug abuse in Australia	NCRPDA research activities
Lindesmith Center Library and Publications	The Lindesmith Center, Drug Policy Research Institute
National Drugs Campaign	HEMP South Australia Inc.
DETE Drug Strategy website	National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction
Drugs - the facts, the risks, the reality	NSW Office of Drug Policy - Heroin links
US Alcohol & Drug Information - Heroin	Drug Summit & Heroin trials - NSW Parliament
ADCA Policy Positions	Cannabis in context : legislation, laws & international treaties

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Drugs in sport

South African Institute for Drug-free Sport	World Anti-doping Agency
Welcome to Play Clean!	Australian Drug Information Network
Australian Drug Foundation	Drug Strategy website
Who will win the drugs race?	Champions don't cheat
Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport	Lausanne Declaration on Doping in Sport
Steroids : play safe, play fair	United States Anti-Doping Agency
International Doping Tests & Management	Commonwealth Games Factsheets
All doped up and going for the gold	Drugs in Sport - useful sites
Healthcare Information - Drugs in sport	Sports drug testing
NSW Office of Drugs Policy - Drugs in sport	Anabolic steroids - mechanism & effects
Olympic Studies Centre - Doping & sport	Drugs in sport International Summit
Drugs - the crisis in swimming	Silent epidemic of abuse-performance enhancing drugs
Australian Sports Drug Agency	Topics in sport - drugs
Drug testing: the facts	Drug use in sport
Steering for steroids - drugs in cycling	Sports Medicine SA - drugs in sport

Eating disorders
The something fishy website on eating disorders 

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Euthanasia

Rights of the Terminally Ill Act - Northern Territory	International anti-Euthanasia Task Force
Voluntary Euthanasia Society of Victoria	Living in Australia - Resources
Palliative Care Council of South Australia	Voluntary Euthanasia - (world organisation page)
Search the Medical Journal of Australia	Deliverance - voluntary euthanasia in the NT
Euthanasia - Lateline episode	Theology Library - Euthanasia
Scottish Voluntary Euthanasia Society	Right to Die - Public Agenda Online
Euthanasia - New England Journal of Medicine	Queensland Right to Life
Australia reverses Euthanasia law	Euthanasia survey conducted by Monash University
Euthanasia - what we believe	South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society (SAVES)

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Gambling 

Compulsive gambling - Mayo Clinic

Gamblers Anonymous

Graffiti

Neighbourhood Watch Anti-Graffiti Project	Anti-graffiti web page (US)
Graffiti verite

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Gun laws

Gun Control Australia	Sporting Shooters Assoc. of Australia
Queensland Parliamentary Counsel

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Racism and prejudice

Multiculturalism & Immigration	Guides - Racism
Universal Black Pages	Recovering Racists Network - links
International Day for the elimination of Racsim	United Nations - Racism and you
Northern Territory Anti-discrimination Commission	Anti-Racism Committee
Race, racism and the law	Racism - no way
Centre for Immigration and Multicultural studies	Dept of Immigration, Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs
Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission	NSW Anti Discrimination Board
Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland	Racial respect
SA Equal Opportunity Commission	Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission

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Smoking

Australian Drug Foundation - Tobacco

Quit information sheets

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Stem cells

Stem cell research	Australia edges forward on stem cells
Australians make stem cell break through (CNN)	Case for embryonic stem-cell research
Do No Harm - The Coalition of Americans  for Research Ethics	Embryo ban hits research
Human stem cell research	New Scientist Cloning
Re-implanted stem cells tackle Parkinson's	Scientists clone embryos
So much potential	Stem cell main page
Stem Cells : A Primer, September 2002	Stem cell research - Public Record
Stem Cell Research	Stem Cell (Student site)
Stem cells	The dilemma of embryonic stem cell research
The ethical debate of stem cell research (ABC)	The Life Sciences Network - Adult stem cells
The stem cell debate - Ethical questions	The stem cell debate
Time.com - stem cells	Under the microscope - stem cell research

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Surrogacy

Australia's first surrogacy dispute	Baby Evelyn surrogacy case
Surrogacy Contracts Act 1993 - Tasmania	IVF, surrogacy and the Law
Surrogacy - Law Report transcript

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Youth Suicide

Youth Suicide Prevention Kit (Vic)	Aust Institute for suicide research & prevention
Kids Help line Suicide Info Sheet	Youth Suicide in Australia - a background
Teen Challenge - Suicidal? Don't!	Suicide Awareness (SA\VE)

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