Australia, if it wanted to, could build a substantial car manufacturing industry, boost car exports and cut our soaring import bill. The closure of the Mitsubishi car manufacturing operation in South Australia has been threatened for years, but the decision to wind down the local manufacturing operation is a shock for Australia, and represents a…
After last year’s equine influenza outbreak, Australians are entitled to ask whether our quarantine system in relation to import of plants and other animals (including aquarium fish) has experienced similar failures. Further evidence of the inadequacies of Australia’s quarantine regime which led to the outbreak of horse flu last August has been given to the…
Australia’s media have failed to report that East Timor is faring noticeably better under its new government. For a country which has been plagued by instability since 2006, when a collapse of law and order under the Fretilin-controlled government led to near civil war, East Timor is now showing clear signs of emerging from its…
A Christian voice in public life GOD AND CAESAR: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics, & Societyby Cardinal George Pell(Victoria: Connor Court)Paperback: 193 pagesRec. price: $29.95 One of the most persistent aims of 20th-century secularism, taken from the French Enlightenment, was first to marginalise then eliminate religion from political life in the Western world. It is…