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

Feb282015

ENERGY SA Labor prepares to consider nuclear power

Energy & EnvironmentFebruary 28, 2015

In a groundbreaking step, South Australian Labor Premier Jay Weatherill has announced that his state government will establish a royal commission into the nuclear fuel cycle. SA Premier Jay Weatherill Since the 1970s, there has been a bipartisan policy across Australia against involvement in the nuclear industry, which generates much of the electric power used in many other countries of the world. Australia’s attitude towards nuclear power owes much to extreme environmentalists’ fear campaigns that nuclear energy would end up in nuclear weapons or in ecological disasters such as the 1986 Chernobyl reactor meltdown. The nuclear industry has an extraordinarily…

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EDITORIAL A way forward for Tony Abbott…

UncategorizedFebruary 28, 2015

Following the move for a “spill” of leadership positions in the Liberal Party — a move the Prime Minister described as a “near death experience” — a succession of three events have rekindled leadership speculation in the Liberal Party. These are Tony Abbott’s removal of Philip Ruddock as Chief Government Whip, shocking opinion polls coupled…

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Feb282015

FOREIGN AFFAIRS Greece and EU edge towards debt crunch

Foreign AffairsFebruary 28, 2015

After days of discussion between the left-wing Syriza government in Greece and the European Union regarding Greece’s debt crisis, neither side wants to bring the issues to a head, while both sides remain committed to their original positions. Greek PM Alexis Tripras Syriza demanded an end of the EU austerity plan, while the EU insisted that Greece will have to commit to repaying its debts, in exchange for a multi-billion dollar bailout. Syriza, an acronym of Greek letters for Coalition of the Radical Left, has risen from next to nothing to government over the past decade. In 2007, it won…

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Feb282015

NATIONAL AFFAIRS Human Rights Commission’s partisanship exposed

National AffairsFebruary 28, 2015

The release of the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)’s report on children in immigration detention is a deeply flawed attempt to use the plight of children in immigration detention to attack the Commonwealth government’s policy of off-shore processing of illegal boat arrivals. AHRC president Gillian Triggs While conditions in immigration detention are in some respects unsatisfactory, the conditions in which these children lived before setting out for Australia were far worse, and successive Australian governments have tried to ensure that adequate levels of food, clothing, nutrition, education and safety are available to these children. The AHRC has ignored this reality.…

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