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OBITUARY Farewell to the indomitable John Barich

SPECIAL FEATUREApril 16, 2020

by Peter Westmore John Barich, for many years WA President of the Australian Family Association and the National Civic Council, died peacefully on March 4, surrounded by his family, after a short illness. John was actively involved in public life right up until his death. His funeral attracted a who’s who of Perth society, as well as many ordinary people from Western Australia, and people from interstate. John was intensely proud of his family’s history in Italy and Croatia, and spent a great deal of time re-establishing links with his extended family. His family’s story is similar to those of…

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ON CAMPUS Young Liberals politics heats up after death of Wilson Gavin

POLITICSApril 16, 2020

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…

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Cardinal Pell’s appeal heard in the High Court

JUSTICE LAW & CRIME, NATIONAL AFFAIRSApril 16, 2020

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 contradicted, at numerous points, by others present at the cathedral at the time of the alleged offences. Technically, his appeal is against the decision of a majority in the Victorian Court of Appeal, which last August upheld Cardinal Pell’s earlier conviction by a County Court…

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Where’s the evidence for man-made global warming?

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTApril 16, 2020

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 January temperatures reached below minus 40 degrees. And don’t forget Brazil and Dubai, which have both suffered floods since the start of this year. The term “climate change” has become very nebulous since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) redefined it to…

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