Australia’s VC winners VICTORIA CROSS: Australia’s Finest and the Battles They Foughtby Anthony StauntonMelbourne: Hardie Grant BooksSoftcover RRP: $34.95 The Victoria Cross is the highest military award for bravery for any serviceman in the Commonwealth and, since its institution in 1856, has been awarded to just 1,352 individuals. The VC is not restricted to officers,…
The Australian Government refuses to acknowledge that the promised European Union and United States’ cuts to export subsidies will still leave intact the EU and US’s massive trade-distorting domestic subsidies, writes Peter Westmore. The European Union has been blamed for the possible imminent collapse of WTO trade negotiations. The recent meeting of Asia Pacific leaders…
The latest arrests of Muslim extremists confirm that Australia is a terrorist target. Last week’s raids by state and federal police, ASIO and officers of the NSW Crime Commission on an Islamist terrorist network, appear to have averted, for the time being, a terrorist attack in Australia. The Victorian Police Chief Commissioner, Christine Nixon, who…
Under new laws, workers will have to become industrial relations experts overnight, writes Peter Westmore. With public fanfare, Prime Minister John Howard last month unveiled the Federal Government’s new industrial law which, he said, will provide a simpler, fairer national industrial relations system across Australia. This week, that legislation is to be introduced in Federal…