The recent visit to Australia of Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish statistics professor and author of the bestseller, The Skeptical Environmentalist, has predictably been met with fierce criticism. Labor’s Shadow Minister for the Environment, Kelvin Thompson, was given time on the ABC to criticise the visit. “I believe that [Lomborg’s visit] is because neither the Institute…
The Pope’s decision to appoint Sydney Catholic Archbishop, Dr George Pell, as a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, reflects the importance which John Paul II gives to Dr Pell’s work in the church the Australia. The appointment was one of 31 new Cardinals in the world’s largest Christian church. Both the Prime Minister, John Howard, and the Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer – neither of whom are Catholic – welcomed the appointment. Mr Howard said he had “a very high personal regard for George Pell”, and added, “I think he’s a great intellectual, he’s a person of great determination and strength.…
The United States, Britain and, by extension, Australia have been widely condemned in the media for exaggerating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein to justify war in Iraq, as the course of events in post-Saddam Iraq has worsened. Since May, there have been continued guerilla attacks on coalition forces in Iraq and assassination attempts on…
A timely new warning about the danger to Australia’s independence from its accession to international treaties was furnished by the recent decision by the UN Human Rights Committee that a Sydney man, Edward Young, had been discriminated against because the Federal Department of Veterans’ Affairs had refused him a war service pension, after the death…
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