For a man who was Prime Minister for just three years, four decades ago, the obsequious media coverage surrounding the death of Gough Whitlam has been extraordinary. After 22 years in opposition, Whitlam led Labor to a narrow win in the 1972 federal election, defeating William McMahon, one of the most incompetent prime ministers since…
In response to the barbarous conduct of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and its online recruitment of Islamists in the West, a large group of Muslim clerics have issued a joint statement which repudiates the religious basis on which IS operates. The 126 Islamic scholars and community leaders come from the Sunni branch…
One of the world’s leading human rights groups, Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF), has reported that it has been subject to “repeated and sophisticated” cyber-attacks on its web site. The group has traced the attacks back to Russia and China, which have been the subject of repeated criticism over human rights violations. HRWF chairman Willy…
Every day, press, radio and television news carry reports of violence in Syria, Iraq, Gaza, Egypt, Libya and other countries of the Middle East, creating the impression that the Middle East is a seething hotbed of violence and terrorism. While this is true of some countries, it is emphatically untrue of Israel and Jordan, two…
