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…
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 the lemmings are jumping off cliffs in Norway to escape the heat. Meanwhile, environmentalists have had polar bears declared an endangered species. However captivating such stories are, the latest scientific evidence indicates that the Arctic ice-cap today is significantly larger than it was on exactly…
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…
The governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Mr Glenn Stevens, should resign to make way for someone who will deal with the causes, not just the symptoms, of the present crisis. The worst of the economic crisis is behind us, Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens suggested in his recent address to the Trans-Tasman Business…
