ABC television’s recent docu-drama, Infamous Victory: Ben Chifley’s Battle for Coal (screened on November 6, 2008), failed to do justice to the events surrounding the great coal strike of 1949. Peter Westmore reports. A Film Australia production, Infamous Victory: Ben Chifley’s Battle for Coal, was recently screened on ABC1 (November 6, 2008). Tony Barry as Prime…
How did Obama win the US presidency despite having had such a left-wing voting record in the Senate? The decisive victory by Barack Obama, the Democratic Party’s candidate, in the US presidential election has been received with rapturous enthusiasm by African-Americans and critics of retiring US President George W. Bush. The 47-year-old Obama defeated John…
Satellite images showing that the Arctic ice-caps are expanding have made no impact on devotees of global warming, writes Peter Westmore. Comparison of Arctic ice capsNovember 2007 and November 2008.(Satellite images from University of Illinois web site). Every day, the media publish new reports of alarming warming of the polar ice-caps, the latest being that…
Beijing has predictably protested at a European freedom prize awarded to a Chinese human rights activist. Peter Westmore reports. The European Parliament has awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to the noted Chinese human rights activist, Hu Jia. Hu was one of those sentenced to imprisonment in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic…
