The power of incumbency has rarely been better demonstrated than in Peter Costello’s ninth and quite conceivably last federal budget. The massive handouts in the form of higher family tax benefits together with changes to the tax scales were unashamedly aimed “front and centre” (in Mr Costello’s own words) at families, but also clearly at…
At the end of next year, full deregulation of the retail liquor industry will be implemented across Australia under national competition policy. Most retail liquor stores in Australia are small family-run concerns, according to a recent report by the business management firm, Ernst and Young, and most are located in the eastern states. The challenge…
The largest-ever international gathering of pro-family leaders, activists and thinkers, including representatives from Australia, took place in Mexico at the end of March, to address the challenges which face the intact family in the contemporary world. The World Congress of Families III was convened by the Howard Center, the pro-family think-tank led by Dr Allan…
In a blunt and uncompromising statement, Pope John Paul II has condemned the removal of feeding tubes from patients in a persistent vegetative state, calling it “genuine euthanasia by omission”. The issues of removing feeding tubes has sparked several court battles in Australia, the United States and elsewhere. In a highly publicised case in Tampa,…