In an address to the Defence Watch Seminar in Canberra on February 17, the Secretary of the Defence Department, Dr Allan Hawke, declared that despite the outstanding efforts by Australian service personnel in Timor, “there is widespread dissatisfaction with Defence’s performance in Canberra – from Ministers, central agencies within the public service, industry, and even…
Victoria’s Labor Government has been mugged by reality. Strikes and blackouts have dogged its short reign while previously offensive Kennett creations such as the Casino and the Grand Prix seemed to have been quietly embraced. Max Teichmann explains. Victoria’s new Labor Government has hastened to fulfil the direst forebodings of its critics as to its…
On October 13, 1999, Western Australian Democrat and erstwhile homosexual rights activist, Senator Brian Greig, gave the second reading speech on his Anti-Genocide Bill 1999. The bill seeks to amend the Genocide Convention Act 1949 by expanding the definition of genocide and by providing specific penalties for genocide offences. The 1949 Act operated solely to…
Professor Lance Endersbee explains why our debt hole is getting deeper and deeper. The Constitution imposes a great burden of costs on the Australian community. The repeated duplication of activities from state to state, and between the states and the national government, leads to excess costs throughout the nation amounting to tens of billions of…