Arthur Calwell (ALP, Melbourne) would have been 120 years old on August 28, 2016. Today he is all but forgotten; even those who lived through his era often have only a vague recollection of him. Immigrant numbers, not political numbers, were Arthur Calwell’s ruling passion. Why should we remember the life and achievements of this man?…
In January 1991, one year after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, I fled China and arrived in Australia as an overseas student, to embrace freedom in Australia. The freedom I sought included academic freedom. Falun Gong has encountered the ire of the Chinese Communist Party. Within the rigorous academic environment of RMIT University, I completed a…
A House of Representatives committee has recommended that environmental groups that receive tax-deductible donations should have to spend at least 25 per cent of their money on direct environmental remediation, and tax concessions should not be available to those involved in direct political or criminal activity. Greenpeace: Innocent and responsible. The recommendations are contained in…
As Australia heads into an eight-week election campaign, the trigger for the early election – the defeat of the Government’s Australian Building and Construction Commission Bill – seems to have disappeared into the distant past. No one is focusing on what started the race. Because the quota for the Senate in a double dissolution is…
