September 28, 2013

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BOOK REVIEW How secularism usurps Christianity

Music Cinema & Books, UncategorizedSeptember 28, 2013

WORSHIPPING THE STATE: How Liberalism Became Our State Religion by Benjamin Wiker (Washington, DC: Regnery) Hardcover: 256 pages ISBN: 9781621570295 RRP: AUD$55.90 Reviewed by Bill Muehlenberg Of the major competing ideologies and worldviews locked in fierce combat with Christianity to see which will gain supremacy, the one that has been in constant conflict is secular humanism. I have looked at this ideology and its war on Christianity before, of course. More background on this can be found on my website (for example, “Secular religion”, CultureWatch, May 22, 2007). I now more specifically want to examine how secular statism…

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RURAL AFFAIRS: Should we restrict foreign ownership of farmland?

Rural AffairsSeptember 28, 2013

Restrictions on the foreign buy-up of farmland are needed, at least until an accurate register of foreign ownerships is established. However, the issue is complicated by the fact that many farmers would be happy to sell to anyone wanting to buy their farms, because of the parlous state of many rural industries. One indicator of farm stress is farm debt, which has risen from 100 per cent of farm income in 1981 to about 650 per cent in 2011 (see News Weekly, August 17, 2013). The issue of foreign ownership was highlighted recently when an Indonesian government agency proposed buying…

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CANBERRA OBSERVED: Abbott’s Cabinet team attacked by Labor, Greens

Human Rights & Freedoms, Life Marriage & Family, UncategorizedSeptember 28, 2013

Most attention on the make-up of the first Abbott ministry dwelt on the “surprise” lack of women in the Cabinet, suggesting that the new government’s honeymoon period will be both extremely short-lived and that it will not be getting any breaks from the media during its first term. Anything that does not sit well with the left-wing commentariat, be it backsliding on climate change, euthanasia or “marriage equality”, will be attacked at every turn. Various commentators rejoiced over the fall and subsequent withdrawal of outspoken Liberal Sophie Mirabella from what would have been a certain Cabinet post as she faced…

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EDITORIAL: Tony Abbott gets down to business

UncategorizedSeptember 28, 2013

In his victory speech on election night, Tony Abbott said, “From today I declare that Australia is under new management and that Australia is once more open for business … A few days later, at the first meeting of Coalition MPs and senators, he said, “Our task is to give … better government that the…

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