by Staff Writer The University of Queensland Student Union voted to disaffiliate the University of Queensland’s Liberal-National Club (UQLNC) on February 13 for numerous breaches of union regulations and bringing the union into disrepute. UQLNC will be familiar to many, being the flagship project of the late Wilson Gavin, the 21-year-old Brisbane student who recently…
by Peter Westmore As News Weekly went to press, the High Court of Australia was hearing Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against his conviction on five charges of sexual abuse of two choirboys at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, in the 1990s. Cardinal Pell was convicted on the uncorroborated testimony of a single complainant whose testimony was…
by John McLean Climate change has become a hot topic lately, in more ways than one. It has been blamed for the sustained drought in eastern Australia, but apparently not for very cold temperatures in northern India, where the poor are dying because they can’t afford to heat their homes, and in western Canada where…
by Dr Paul Monk Part Two of two parts (read Part One here) DR PAUL MONK IS AN AUTHOR AND FORMER HEAD OF THE CHINA DESK AT THE DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION. HIS BOOKS INCLUDE ‘THUNDER FROM THE SILENT ZONE: RETHINKING CHINA’ AND ‘THE WEST IN A NUTSHELL: FOUNDATIONS, FRAGILITIES, FUTURES’. HE DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE…
