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Peter is the former national president of the National Civic Council and on the News Weekly editorial team.

Dec192015

COVER STORY The first Christmas: a birth that set fire to men’s hearts

Cover Story, ReligionDecember 19, 2015

For Christians, Christmas is more than a festive season, or the occasion for an exchange of gifts. It remains the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, the moment when God humbled himself to be born as man, to share our humanity so that we might share his divinity. This mystery is one which has occupied many of the greatest minds of all time: yet is accessible to little children who can understand the story of Jesus’ birth in a stable surrounded by farm animals, because there was no room for the Holy Family in the inn. What we know…

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Dec52015

NATIONAL AFFAIRS Turnbull government is not serious about defence

National AffairsDecember 5, 2015

When Malcolm Turnbull replaced Tony Abbott as Prime Minister in September, one of his first moves was to replace Kevin Andrews, the no-nonsense Minister for Defence who had taken a firm line in Chinese military adventurism in the South China Sea and put defence procurement back on an even keel, with Marise Payne, a Turnbull loyalist without senior ministerial experience. Julie Bishop, left, and Marise Payne. It has taken less than three months for the defence portfolio to start to unravel. First came the revelation that a Chinese company, Landbridge, had been sold a 99-year lease on the Port of…

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EDITORIAL How to respond to Islamic State’s latest outrages

UncategorizedDecember 5, 2015

Islamic State’s synchronised terrorist attacks which killed over 120 people and brought Paris to a standstill last month – coming just a few weeks after the bombing of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt, and followed by threats to bomb Brussels, capital of Belgium – have raised deep concerns about personal safety around the world.…

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EDITORIAL IPCC and the media: Last Tango in Paris

UncategorizedNovember 21, 2015

As the world’s media, environmentalists and politicians prepare to converge on Paris for the forthcoming meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), every discredited trick in the arsenal of the climate alarmists is being deployed to scare politicians into implementing the IPCC’s extreme agenda to combat climate change. Over recent weeks, a…

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