In a recent address to the Heritage Foundation in Washington, one of Taiwan’s top trade negotiators, Dr Ing-wen Tsai, has predicted that the simultaneous entry of Taiwan and China to the WTO may assist develop their large and growing economies, and provide a forum for discussion of outstanding political issues. Dr Tsai, who has been…
It is not without irony that after months of attacks, the media began portraying Dr Peter Hollingworth as a more unpopular Governor-General than even the ‘despised’ Sir John Kerr, the man who sacked Gough Whitlam in November, 1975. There has clearly been a good deal of revenge in the campaign against Hollingworth – payback for…
The decision by the Federal Cabinet to implement nationally consistent federal legislation against human cloning, destructive embryo experimentation and other unacceptable practices, will be strongly supported by all who have been concerned by the apparent determination of some members of the scientific community to press on with destructive human embryo experimentation. In three states (Victoria,…
Meetings of the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) are usually little more than occasions for leaders of second-rank countries to strut the world stage, delivering high-sounding rhetoric on issues they have little capacity to influence. The CHOGM meeting at Coolum, in Queensland, which commences as this issue of News Weekly goes to press, will be…