Juvenile prisoners the most violent

THE state's most violent prison is a young offenders facility where one in every two prisoners has been assaulted in the past three years.

FAMILY FUN Adapted from Parlour Games for Modern Families by Myfanwy Jones and Spiri Tsintziras, Scribe, $35.

TWO MOTHERS, Myfanwy Jones and Spiri Tsintziras, were sitting in a park watching their children play when they began reminiscing about the games of their childhood.

Stop backing just one code and barrack for Australian sport

JUST what is going on in this great country and its preoccupation with sport? Negativity and cynicism seem to be controlling the agenda. Football, AFL, rugby league or union - whatever our football passion - it's time to get positive here and stop treating opportunity with suspicion ... especially when "your" code is not controlling the debate. It is interesting to note how "the whingeing Poms" have embraced the opportunity to stage the World Cup. In London, Tottenham Hotspurs chairman Daniel Levy has written to his shareholders urging them to write to Haringey Council to increase the chances of getting planning permission for a new 58,000-seat stadium, which he believes could be used as a host ground if England's 2018 World Cup bid is successful. What a shame the owners and controllers of our sporting stadiums don't take a leaf out of Mr Levy's book and see the opportunity here. Forget which code you support, this World Cup bid is for all Australians to get behind. Stop thinking that the glass is always half empty or we will become a sporting joke.