Having reluctantly decided to support the Howard Government’s amendment to the Marriage Act in the House of Representatives, left-wing Labor members plan to send it to a Senate Inquiry, where they apparently hope it will languish until the Federal Election is called, thereby forcing its abandonment. Left-wing members protested strongly when a front bench recommendation…
Following a series of gangland killings of police informers, a former Federal Court Judge, Sir Edward Woodward, made the alarming comment that corruption in Victoria was at the worst level ever. His comments cannot be ignored: not only because they were made to the Criminal Bar Association, but because he was a former Royal Commissioner into the notorious Ships’ Painters and Dockers Union. Whatever the accuracy of his observation, there can be no doubt that in several states of Australia, there has been an alarming increase in police corruption which damages the hard-earned reputation of the Australian police forces. What…
The legalisation of homosexual marriage in parts of North America and Western Europe raises fundamental questions about the future of marriage throughout the Western world. Gay activists are pushing for the definition of marriage to be changed in a way which would fundamentally alter the nature of an institution which is essential to the stability…
The Federal Budget, delivered as this comment goes to press, is already being widely described as “a family Budget” with, among other things, a substantial maternity payment to all new mothers, and a large increase in Federal outlays on child care, to assist mothers with young children return to the workforce. (I am not referring here to pre-school educational programs, day care provided in the family home, or occasional care.) There have been consistent efforts by the radical feminist lobby to assert that the provision of child care is necessary to help women to achieve workplace equality. Yet despite the…