In mid-2002 a pro-homosexual booklet was distributed to every secondary school in Victoria. The 72-page booklet, Alsorts, cost some $80,000 to produce and distribute. The book is jointly published by the Alternative Lifestyle Organisation (ALSO Foundation) and Deakin University. The book is partly financed by the Victorian Department of Human Services-School Focused Youth Service. Thus…
As News Weekly goes to press, a major sugar summit is underway in Brisbane, organised by the Australian Cane Farmers Association. Bill Micola, sales manager of Cameco Cane Harvesters describes how with the threat of deregulation, investment in the sugar industry has collapsed. Over the past year, three reports written by free market ideologues have recommended…
Covenants without the Sword are but Words and Breaths …– Hobbes 1. False Dawn The collapse of Western Communism, symbolised by the knocking down of the Berlin Wall, ushered in what was proclaimed to be a New World Order. It was something for which we had all hoped – and had believed everyone else had…
Every significant change in the High Court is seen in the recent replacement of Justice Mary Gaudron by Justice Dyson Heydon, of the New South Wales Court of Appeal. Justice Gaudron was a political appointment – she was chosen not on merit (for she was by far the weakest member of the Court), but (a)…