The world’s leading industrial nations, the G7, endorsed the climate-change agenda of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at a recent meeting in Germany. G7 leaders meeting in Germany The G7 meeting, hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, also included leaders from the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the UK. Representatives from…
When Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey was recently asked about the crisis of home ownership for first-home buyers, he responded by denying that homes were unaffordable in Sydney, where average prices are around $1 million. He said: “Look, if housing were unaffordable, no one would be buying it.” In a separate comment at the same press…
The Prime Minister’s attempt to toughen Australia’s anti-terrorism laws to revoke the citizenship of people either engaging in or advocating terrorism reflects the government’s concern about the radicalisation of some young Muslims who are being recruited by Islamic State to fight in Syria and Iraq. Leaks from Cabinet conveyed deep divisions in Cabinet on the…
Following evidence given to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Ballarat, the media and some witnesses have targeted Cardinal George Pell, blaming him for both the sexual abuse cover-up and the Church’s poor response to abuse allegations that were made during the 1970s and 1980s. Cardinal Pell sits at the…
