by Peter Westmore Following the appalling decision to allow over 2,000 people to disembark from the Ruby Princess cruise ship in Sydney, leading to over 700 confirmed cases of covid19 around Australia, the NSW Government established a Special Commission of Inquiry, headed by prominent Sydney barrister Bret Walker SC, into the outbreak. Since then, many…
by Peter Westmore Findings by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that Cardinal George Pell covered up allegations of child abuse in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s are totally unsupported by the evidence, and constitute an abuse of power by the Commission. They could more accurately be described as accusations. Nevertheless,…
by Peter Westmore When Virgin Australia’s board put the company into administration in April, it had the unenviable distinction of being the largest corporate victim of the covid19 pandemic in Australia. The immediate impact will be felt by Virgin’s 10,000 employees, including subsidiary Tigerair, and many could lose their jobs. But the employment impact will…
by Peter Westmore The scandalous action of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to put the interests of China ahead of its obligation to protect the world’s people from the epidemic that originated in Wuhan, China, has not yet been properly documented. Yet an analysis of the factual information now available shows a failure of monumental…
