Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, a symbol of resistance to the communist regime in Vietnam, died in exile in Rome last month. He joins a long line of Vietnamese Christians who have suffered for their faith over the past 300 years. Up until 1975, when the Communists overran South Vietnam, an estimated 130,000 Vietnamese…
Battle for the hearts and minds RADICAL STUDENTS: The Old Left at Sydney Universityby Alan Barcan Melbourne University PressRec. price: $49.95 Radical Students is a very important book. It documents the emergence of the student left at Australia’s oldest campus, Sydney University, from the 1920s onward, and shows the influence which the Communist Party and…
As the drought extends its tentacles across the eastern half of Australia, putting the livelihood of embattled grain and livestock producers and their families at risk, once again Governments are offering emergency aid to get farmers through. The extent of the crisis is seen in the recent statement by the Bureau of Meteorology that severe…
Last week, US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, upped the ante on Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein, indicating that President Bush, as Commander-in-Chief of America’s armed forces, could, if necessary, commence war on the Iraqi dictator, without Congressional approval, in light of his attempts to obtain chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. While Washington’s rhetoric against Saddam…