They said that if same-sex “marriage” were legalised, it would not be forced upon churches and ministers of religion. Well, now it is happening in the United States of America, the home of the free. Jeremy Tedesco Recently, a U.S. federal judge ruled that the state of Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. Idaho…
West Africa’s Ebola outbreak has up to a 70 per cent of mortality rate, and 1.4 million people may be infected by January, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Since 1976 there have been over 20 Ebola outbreaks. The current is the most extensive, affecting 50 countries. Ebola is spread…
How can the Commonwealth government evaluate gains to agriculture from a China free trade agreement (FTA), if it doesn’t know whether the key market for Australian farmers is the domestic one or the one for exports? Australian agriculture has benefited little from the Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement concluded in April this year. It did not improve, or only marginally improved, market access for dairy, sugar, grains, pork and rice.[1] Now there are rumblings in Canberra that negotiations may have to give more ground to Beijing on agriculture than Australian farmers will accept in the planned Australia-China free trade agreement.[2] James…
A startling revelation in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, HMS Pinafore, farcically unfolds when the motherly dockside vendor, Little Buttercup, confesses to a long-held secret. Damian Adams Many years previously, when she “practised baby-farming”, she had cared for two babies, one “of low condition”, the other “a regular patrician”, and had switched the identities…
