PRIVATE HOUSEHOLDS AND MONEY SUPPLY by Wolfgang Fischer (Cologne: Josef Eul Verlag GmbH) Paperback: 184 pages ISBN: 9783844102659 RRP: AUD$141.70 Reviewed by Kenneth K. Mwenda Sounding an alarm to private households against over-dependency on money supply from the national economy, this book, Private Households and Money Supply, contends that such over-dependency often deprives…
The first serious decision that the new Abbott Government will have to make, and the first real test of its fundamental philosophy and mettle, will be over the proposed sale of Australia’s largest agribusiness, GrainCorp, to a foreign entity. There is a bitter internal debate going on within Coalition ranks over the decision, with tensions…
The Abbott government, since being sworn in on September 18, has undertaken a major foreign policy offensive designed to re-position Australia in the world. The first item on the agenda, of both symbolic and practical importance, was to rebuild relations with Indonesia, damaged by the Labor government’s destruction of the live cattle trade and continuing…
Australia’s same-sex marriage lobby is using state and territory bills in an attempt to manoeuvre the federal Coalition government towards granting a so-called “conscience vote” on changing Australia’s Marriage Act. This year alone there have been three such bills — in South Australia, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. These moves are really about putting pressure on the Commonwealth government to pass a federal bill for same-sex marriage. State and territory same-sex marriage bills are open to constitutional challenge. In South Australia a same-sex marriage bill was defeated earlier this year in the state’s lower house, with Liberal MPs who opposed the bill arguing that it was unconstitutional. Leading Australian constitutional lawyer David Jackson QC was asked to provide a legal opinion for the NSW Legislative Council inquiry…
