East Timor’s pro-democracy parties have gained at the expense of the Marxist Fretilin party in recent parliamentary elections. Elections to the East Timorese Parliament have seen a dramatic decline in support for the Marxist Fretilin party, and a corresponding growth in support for the pro-democracy opposition parties, paving the way for a new start for…
The Chinese Government’s horrific practice of killing Falun Gong practitioners for their organs was the subject of a human rights forum, sponsored by the Epoch Times newspaper and hosted by The Thomas More Centre, North Melbourne, on June 20. In his address to the forum, Peter Westmore suggested that the Australian Government is publicly playing…
The latest WTO trade talks have collapsed, but the Australian Government is behaving as if nothing has changed. The collapse of the latest round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks aimed at liberalising world trade, particularly in agriculture, will have serious consequences for Australia. Over the past 10 to 15 years, the Australian Government has…
The Government should consider other options before it burdens our economy with emissions taxes. The Howard Government is keen to show it is serious about the problem of human-induced climate change, although the debate is still raging. To this end, the Prime Minister has announced that he is moving to establish a national carbon-emissions trading…