Gore’s Democrats ‘must rediscover family’ US opinion polls show that the public has more confidence in the Democrats to handle the economy and the budget. There is somewhat more trust in the Republicans to handle taxes and crime, but less markedly so than before the Clinton administration. The public turns to the Republicans on few…
Marcal Amaral Lopes has been a Salesian brother for 18 years. He is Headmaster of Don Bosco Technical High School at Fatumaca, 150 km from the capital, Dili. He recently visited Australia and provided this overview of the current situation in his homeland. It is just over a year since 80 per cent of the…
Putting the Catholics back in their place “Catholic dogs jump like frogs, etc.” was one of those unbelievably witty chants that State School boys used to trot out, when especially bored. Little did we know that a few streets away, other bored boys, from the Catholic School, might be heard intoning the same, except that…
S11 is the name of the radical group threatening to upset peaceful protests against the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Melbourne in September. Actually a coalition of many small anti-capitalist, radical environmentalist and leftist groups, S11 (so named for the day that the Forum opens, September 11) is threatening to put thousands of people onto…