But it should be kept in mind that among our own conservatives, there is a home -
grown hostility towards the UN which emerged in the late 1990s in the Australian campaign against the UN's human rights system.2 The criticisms by the Howard Government of the UN human rights system and the calls for it to be reformed were driven by
anger and embarrassment at international condemnation of Australia's treatment of asylum seekers and inability to solve the
problems of Indigenous disadvantage.
Science now understands how the human brain
grows and develops during childhood, and how inter-related brain systems for emotion, motivation, communication, authority, and social relationship operate to determine children's social, behavioral, and emotional expressions; and we now know how to resolve many of the traditional
problems of childhood, including excessive
anger and defiance, impulsivity, depression and withdrawal, and poor self - motivation at home and school.