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Peter is the former national president of the National Civic Council and on the News Weekly editorial team.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Why Rudd’s emissions trading scheme should be defeated

National AffairsJune 13, 2009

As unemployment soars, the handicaps that an ETS would impose on the Australian economy are the last thing we need, writes Peter Westmore. Kevin Rudd’s promised emission trading scheme – with the Orwellian-sounding title of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) – is facing more or less inevitable defeat in the Senate. The name of the scheme is a misnomer, as it is designed to deal with Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions, not emissions of carbon, which are an entirely separate problem not dealt with by the legislation. The Prime Minister put forward the scheme before the 2007 elections, and is…

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EDITORIAL: Recession: end of the beginning … or beginning of the end?

UncategorizedJune 13, 2009

Do the much-vaunted “green shoots of recovery” point to a sustainable economic recovery? It is now almost two years since the American real estate market was shaken to its foundations by the sub-prime mortgage collapse, and less than a year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, one of the largest merchant bankers in the United…

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SRI LANKA: Mass carnage of Tamils in war without witnesses

Foreign AffairsJune 13, 2009

While the war in Sri Lanka has ended, the underlying causes of the civil war have not been addressed, writes Peter Westmore. A civil war of merciless atrocity, in which tens of thousands of Tamils have been killed recently by the Sri Lankan army, came to an end last month when army troops finally occupied the territory controlled by the Tamil Tigers in north-east Sri Lanka. While the war has ended, the underlying causes of the civil war have not been addressed, and, arguably, have been exacerbated. Most of the rest of the people are Sinhalese. They are Buddhist, and have…

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS: US auto industry meltdown highlights financial collapse

Foreign AffairsMay 30, 2009

The crisis in the US car industry has been many years in the making, writes Peter Westmore. The bankruptcy of Chrysler and the looming collapse of General Motors, two of the “Big Three” motor vehicle manufacturers in the United States, show the depth of the financial crisis engulfing the US economy. Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost in this industry alone. The third manufacturer, Ford, is expected to reach the same point in about a year’s time. The effect on American industry and employment over coming years will be horrendous, and its consequences will reach across the globe,…

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