Sir, I am a Sinhalese but opposed to what our Sri Lankan Government is doing to my country in the name of religion and language. We, the Sinhalese Community around the world, who want peace to return to our country, cannot thank News Weekly‘s special correspondent enough for highlighting the problem in Sri Lanka to…
Australian families are entirely justified in instinctively disliking the Howard Government’s deregulationist economic policies, which have resulted in a massive redistribution of income away from households and towards company profits. Colin Teese reports. John Howard is behind in the polls. And, yes, it’s happened before, and he has pulled up. But this time it is beginning…
Australians are dangerously complacent about the threat of terrorist attacks, warns John Miller. In my two previous articles, I have endeavoured to demonstrate that the moral high ground, afforded the US in the wake of the 9/11 attack on New York’s World Trade Center, has been dissipated by the war against terror and, in particular,…
Josiah Wedgwood’s design for an anti-slaverybrooch. Pictured is an enslaved African man,chained hands held up in supplication, pleading:“Am I not a man and a brother?” This year marks the bicentenary of the abolition of the African slave trade in the British empire. John Ballantyne looks at the life of William Wilberforce (1759–1833), the famous English parliamentarian…
