Labor is out of touch with the aspirations of hundreds of thousands of Australian workers, argues the Hon. Kevin Andrews MP. One of the historic complaints of the labour movement has been the detrimental impact of the division of capital and labour on workers. It is at the core of the Marxist, socialist critique that…
The day World War II came to Australia AN AWKWARD TRUTH:The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942by Peter Grose(Sydney: Allen & Unwin)Paperback: 272 pagesRec. price: AUD$32.95 Historian Peter Grose’s previous work, A Very Rude Awakening, chronicled the Japanese midget submarine attack on Sydney harbour on the night of May 31/June 1, 1942. Here, in his latest…
China’s leaders are worried. Their legitimacy depends on making the nation’s 1.3 billion people prosperous. Ian H. McDougall reports. China’s Communist leaders are concerned that social stability is threatened as economic growth sags in the world’s third-largest economy. As economies around the world contract, exports alone cannot pull China out of its slump. All things…
Len Phillips reviews the new German film, The Baader Meinhof Complex (rated MA 15+, with English subtitles). Let us begin with a quiz. The Baader-Meinhof Gang was a terrorist group that, during the 1960s and 1970s, blew up buildings across West Germany causing many deaths. They assassinated politicians, judges and, famously, the head of the German Employers Federation. They poisoned political life, and this in a country that was divided into its free democratic half on one side of the Iron Curtain and a totalitarian Communist state on the other. Now a film about these people has just been released…