Further development of the rich Greater Sunrise gas field in the Timor Sea, between Australia and East Timor, is at risk due to a disagreement between Australian and East Timorese negotiators, over the Timor Gap Treaty, which distributes access and royalties to the seabed off Australia’s north-west coast. Delicate negotiations have been fouled by Labor…
Under the Australian political system, unlike the US and most other countries which have fixed terms of office, the final decision on when elections are called rests with the Prime Minister, subject to the limitations imposed by the Electoral Act and the Constitution. With the Federal Election now just months away, increasing media speculation surrounds…
The American transfer of power to the Iraqi Interim Government (successor to the Governing Council) marks just the first phase in the re-establishment of an independent Iraq. The fact that the hand-over was advanced two days, to prevent the event being accompanied by a wave of terrorist bombings is an indicator of the degree to…
The Australian Family Association (AFA) and the South Australian Attorney-General, Michael Atkinson, have called on the Classification Review Board to review the R-rating given to a French porn film, Anatomy of Hell. The grounds of the appeal is that the film was wrongly classified, and breached the Act and the guidelines, which bar any film…