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…
A leaflet campaign across a number of east coast electorates defending marriage and children’s rights, organised by supporters of the Australian Family Association (AFA), attracted a strong media interest during the federal election. The AFA has had a long-standing public policy supporting marriage, which is defined in Australian law as the union of one man…
Mobilising superannuation funds for infrastructure development, in order to insulate Australia from the ongoing global financial crisis, should be a high priority for the next federal government. Of the $1,300 billion Australians have now invested in superannuation, only $40-65 billion (3 to 5 per cent) is invested in infrastructure. Further, most of this is invested…
In order to resist the militant anti-religious ideologies of our age, we can derive valuable lessons from both the French Revolution of 1789 and the Cultural Revolution which swept the Western world during the 1960s, argues Patrick J. Byrne. B.A. “Bob” Santamaria (1915-1998) proposed in his seminal 1973 paper, Philosophies in Collision, that Western societies…
