East Timor’s Prime Minister, José Ramos Horta, is drawing ever closer to communist China and Cuba. Next month’s Presidential election in East Timor will define the future of this small nation: whether the overwhelmingly Christian country of a million people continues to be ruled by a Marxist clique who want to establish a one-party state,…
Substantial additional evidence has come to light confirming that China is continuing to execute political prisoners in order to sell their organs to patients seeking transplants. Peter Westmore reports. David Kilgour and David Matas, the two Canadian human rights lawyers who in 2006 released a landmark report which investigated allegations of organ-harvesting of Falun Gong…
Alarmism on global warming is not only unnecessary, but is potentially dangerous. With a mounting sense of alarm, climate scientists, politicians and media commentators are warning that greenhouse gases, particularly rising levels of CO2, are causing global warming which, if not reversed, will plunge the world into environmental and economic disaster within a hundred years.…
Bushfires are bound to recur and wreak even more devastation unless we undertake pre-emptive fuel-reduction burn-offs, writes Peter Westmore. The tragic loss of four lives and the destruction of 500 houses in the January 2003 bushfires in and around Canberra were the subject of a Coroner’s inquest concluded last December. Most media reports focused on the actions of the ACT Government and Emergency Services Bureau and Bushfire Service in handling the fire emergency. But Chapter Four of the coronial inquiry examined the state of the forests around the ACT at the time of the bushfires, and made recommendations for the…