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

AGRICULTURE: High stakes in federal quarantine inquiry

Rural AffairsSeptember 13, 2008

One of Australian farmers’ few remaining advantages over cheap foreign imports is their reputation as producers of clean and green food and fibre, writes Peter Westmore. Following a six-month study, the independent Quarantine and Biosecurity Inquiry, headed by a former head of the Prime Minister’s Department, Roger Beale, is shortly due to report to the Minister for Agriculture, Tony Burke. The inquiry is the first full-scale review of Australia’s quarantine system since 1996, and follows an inquiry into the 2007 horse flu outbreak, which paralysed the racing industry in much of Australia for months, and is estimated to have cost…

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COVER STORY / EDITORIAL: How America’s choice will affect Australia

Cover Story, Foreign AffairsSeptember 13, 2008

Australia’s current situation requires a strong America willing to stand up to emerging powers such as China and Russia, as well as to Islamic extremism. With the conclusion of the Democratic and Republican party conventions, the choice facing American voters is now clear: between a war hero who has served as a long-time Republican senator, John McCain, and an extraordinarily articulate young Democrat senator from Illinois, Barack Obama. Both represent a break with the past: McCain has long been at loggerheads with the Republican party machine, while Obama is also a party outsider, a black Democrat with only four years…

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EDITORIAL: Olympic Games backfire on Beijing

UncategorizedAugust 30, 2008

World coverage of the Beijing Olympics has exposed some uncomfortable truths about China. When China won the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the regime saw the event as a milestone in China’s emergence as a global political and economic force, challenging the United States as the world’s single superpower. To secure…

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CLIMATE CHANGE: It’s official: the world is cooling, not warming

UncategorizedAugust 30, 2008

To cut CO2 emissions to combat a non-existent threat will end up hurting the world’s poor, writes Peter Westmore. Midsummer polar ice increase 2007-2008,http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/ Recent scientific evidence shows that the world’s climate is cooling, not warming, as a result of reduced radiation from the sun, the engine which drives the earth’s climate. The slight warming of…

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