To many Australians, Hong Kong is a distant reality, with little or no significance other than as a tourist destination. The recent visit to Australia by Democratic Party leader, Martin Lee, highlighted the fact that the struggle currently underway between the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, and its China-installed chief executive, Tung Chee Hwa, has…
In an interesting coincidence, the Federal Government resumed its efforts to secure a free trade agreement with Washington at almost exactly the same time that Australia recorded its largest ever quarterly trade deficit: $6.9 billion for the June quarter, compared to the previous record of $5.3 billion last December. The Keating Government’s largest quarterly debt…
Three months after winning the war to overthrow the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, the US President, George W. Bush, is facing increasing difficulty in winning the peace. The aim of the Bush Administration in Iraq was not simply to defeat Saddam: it was to replace a violent and dangerous dictator, who had defied the international…
Over a year ago, the Federal Budget announced a crackdown on disability benefits, as the Federal Government attempted to cut the massive growth in disability pensioners, the number of whom blew out from 312,000 in 1990 to 575,000 in 1999. After attracting momentary headlines, little if anything seems to have been done to address the…
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