While the media’s attention is focussed on the Gillard government’s rapidly worsening financial position — with the budget shortfall for 2012-13 now forecast at $12 billion — it is possible that Australians will be called upon to vote on up to three highly contentious referenda proposals at the time of the September election. In February,…
The rapturous headlines which followed Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s announcement of a new “strategic partnership” with China can only help a government whose standing at home has plummeted to historically low levels. The announcement, made while the Ms Gillard was in Beijing, prompted one commentator to say that the “new bilateral architecture” marked the most…
Despite the adverse sentiments of backbench members of the parliamentary Labor Party, most of the media and a clear majority in successive the opinion polls, Julia Gillard was re-elected unopposed in a leadership spill before Parliament rose for the winter recess. Simon Crean. The events which unfolded on March 21 began with high drama. After…
The program for next month’s World Congress of Families (WCF) in Sydney shows that the congress will bring together many of the best thinkers and writers on the natural family, along with leading practitioners and family organisations from Australia and the rest of the world. The program is available on the congress’s website at www.wcfsydney2013.org.au/program.…
