Australia is today at the crossroads: current social and economic policies are creating deep divisions in Australian society, are destructive of family life, country communities and industry, and are creating a widely-held sense of insecurity about the future of this country. The present situation is a consequence of the two dominant cultural and economic paradigms…
Alan Greenspan, the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, was not a candidate in either the US Presidential or Congressional elections, but he stands to be the big winner from the stalemate which has emerged on Washington’s Capitol Hill. At the time of writing, the outcome of the Presidential battle was undecided, with postal votes still being counted, and disputed outcomes in possibly two states, New Mexico and Florida. Whatever the final outcome, the incoming President will enter the White House under the cloud of illegitimacy, of a type which has not been seen for generations. If Vice-President Al Gore…
The UN Climate Change Conference held in The Hague, Netherlands, from November 13-24, has the potential to do incalculable damage to Australia and its industries – based on the unproven assertion that the world is heating up as a result of global warming. There has been so much said about global warming over recent years…
The Prime Minister’s legislation to overturn the Federal Court ruling permitting single women and lesbians to have access to Medicare-funded IVF fertility treatment, is now before a Senate Committee, which is due to report back by December 4. The legislation is far less than the Prime Minister proposed in the wake of the court judgment,…