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by Patrick J. Byrne The covid19 crisis and BLM protests have exposed deep economic and cultural fault lines in America, with troubling consequences for Australia. “With a growing number of Americans falling into unemployment and economic insecurity, while major corporations take bailouts and slash labour costs, something had to give,” Nouriel Roubini recently observed. Roubini…
The extent and boldness of the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to infiltrate and influence Australia’s political system is becoming more and more evident with a recent ASIO raid on a New South Wales MLC. According to reports, ASIO believes Chinese Communist Party agents were attempting to infiltrate the NSW Parliament through the office of a…
by Peter Westmore Following months of unrest in Hong Kong over the refusal of the Beijing-nominated Government to protect human rights and the rule of law, the communist-controlled National People’s Congress in Beijing has adopted a security law which will be enforced in Hong Kong. This is contrary to the Sino-British Treaty signed in 1984.…
by Patrick J. Byrne The Federal Government is yet to produce a coherent plan to deal with huge challenges: threats from Beijing’s aggressive nationalism, major global supply chain disruptions and more company failures. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has brought trade unions to the workplace reform table. In some ways, it demonstrates the powerlessness of unions.…
Following what the Melbourne Age and Channel Nine described as a “year-long investigation”, the Sixty Minutes program on June 14 aired sensational allegations that a Victorian ALP factional leader and Cabinet Minister, Adem Somyurek, had been engaged in widespread branch stacking. Somyurek is a member of Victoria’s Upper House, and has been responsible for recruiting…
by Peter Westmore The appalling death of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police, captured on smartphone camera then circulated on television and social media throughout the world, triggered a tidal wave of protests throughout the United States, which then extended to other parts of the world, including Britain, France, Belgium and Australia. Charges of murder and…
by Patrick J. Byrne PART TWO OF TWO PARTS (Read the first part here) (Photo above is of NSW hospital staff during the Spanish Influenza epidemic in 1918-19) HOW TIGHT SHOULD RESTRICTIONS BE? Figure 1 (below), from the Federal Government’s Impact of Covid19 modelling, points to three infection scenarios: (a) where there are no restrictions;…
by Peter Westmore The sudden emergence of a new coronavirus (covid19) from Wuhan, China, at the start of this year marked the commencement of the first pandemic most of us have seen in our lifetimes, and showed how fragile are the systems that have provided rising standards of living throughout the world for the past…
by Dr John Whitehall In August 2019, a submission was made to Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt requesting an independent…
by Jeffry Babb Dr Joe Santamaria was an Australian of migrant background. For millennia people had eked out a precarious…
In May a new outreach centre for women on the streets opened in East Perth. AFA WA president Warwick D’Silva…
by Anne Lastman In the News Weekly of April 18, 2020, Terri Kelleher asked, “Do we really need to ask…
by Staff Writer My own homeschooling journey began a quarter of a century ago. I was a young mum, with…
by Staff Writer Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement of a stimulus package of $750 for eligible Australians has been met…
Covid19 has shown us that we are running low on ‘social capital’ by Staff Writer Among memes, elbow bumping and…
by Terri M. Kelleher Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull is a mum of four and women’s rights activist from Britain. Going by the…
by Patrick J. Byrne The Federal Government is yet to produce a coherent plan to deal with huge challenges: threats from Beijing’s aggressive nationalism, major global supply chain disruptions and more company failures. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has brought trade unions to the workplace reform table. In some ways, it demonstrates the powerlessness of unions.…
Following what the Melbourne Age and Channel Nine described as a “year-long investigation”, the Sixty Minutes program on June 14 aired sensational allegations that a Victorian ALP factional leader and Cabinet Minister, Adem Somyurek, had been engaged in widespread branch stacking. Somyurek is a member of Victoria’s Upper House, and has been responsible for recruiting……
by Peter Westmore The sudden emergence of a new coronavirus (covid19) from Wuhan, China, at the start of this year marked the commencement of the first pandemic most of us have seen in our lifetimes, and showed how fragile are the systems that have provided rising standards of living throughout the world for the past……
by Peter Westmore A careful examination of the “findings” of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which accused Cardinal George Pell of covering up sexual abuse when he was a priest in Ballarat, and when an Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, shows that the Royal Commission wilfully ignored the overwhelming weight of…
by Marcus L’Estrange April’s Australian Bureau of Statistics “Labour Force” unemployment figures of 6.2 per cent must be taken with a massive grain of salt. They are merely a political definition of unemployment, not an actuarial one. How the ABS can claim an unemployment number of 823,000 for April when you have 1.6 million on…
by Patrick Morgan The pile-on against Cardinal Pell, which began when he was appointed Archbishop of Melbourne in 1996, has now dragged its weary way through a quarter of a century. It first manifested itself as an internal insurrection when some local liberal Catholics began to object to his alleged personal style as bullying and……
by Peter Westmore The appalling death of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police, captured on smartphone camera then circulated on television and social media throughout the world, triggered a tidal wave of protests throughout the United States, which then extended to other parts of the world, including Britain, France, Belgium and Australia. Charges of murder and……
by Peter Westmore The action by the Chinese Communist Party to ram through a resolution at the rubber-stamp National People’s Congress, authorising the Standing Committee of the CCP to propose a law to “prevent, stop and punish” acts of secession, subversion and terrorism in Hong Kong, as well as a law criminalising any action that…
by Jeffry Babb For years, epidemiologists have been warning that the world was overdue for an outbreak of disease that would rival Spanish Flu, which killed millions after World War I. The intermingling of animals and humans has inevitably introduced novel diseases into the human population. China’s so-called “wet markets”, where wild animals are sold…
by George Christensen MP Alarm bells rang throughout Canberra and Australian industry in late April, when Communist China’s Ambassador to Australia, Jingye Cheng, raised the spectre of a Chinese boycott of Australian exports. More alarm bells sounded when de facto trade embargoes were launched by China against our barley and beef exports. Sadly, some of…
by Kevin Andrews MP It can be surprising how fast events that greatly change perceptions can occur. Take the attitude to China. For years, many in the West had assumed that the Middle Kingdom would liberalise politically as international trade increased. As the Economist wrote: “Western leaders believed that giving China a stake in institutions…
by Jeffry Babb The United Nations (UN) is not intended to be about realpolitik, but about international cooperation. Many Australians have always had a soft spot for the UN. We are reminded of Labor leader Herbert Vere “Doc” Evatt (1894-1965) and his role in the formation of the UN, so that small and medium powers…
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by Craig Milne PODCAST In the third of the series of interviews on Australian manufacturing, Craig Milne from the Australian Productivity Council talks with Chris McCormack about why Australia lost its manufacturing mojo, how this has affected individual and collective wealth and what needs to be done to rekindle a viable Australian manufacturing industry. Listen…
by Chris McCormack Technology Investment Roadmap prioritises emissions reduction First goal is to reduce hydrogen production costs to $2 a kilogram Priority should be to lower power costs, not speculate on technology With low-cost, reliable energy the key to Australian manufacturing reversing the economic damage inflicted by the forced covid19 shutdown, will the Federal Government’s……
by Colin Teese The experiment of globalisation, and the policies that sustain it, are pretty much stressed out. This marks the second failure of globalisation. The first, in the late 19th century, also failed. Yet, despite its earlier failure, globalisation did make a comeback. In the year 2000, U.S. think tank the Centre for Economic…
by Chris McCormack Melbourne clothing maker diversifies to produce essential PPE Government procurements total 15 per cent of GDP “Buy Australian First” procurement policy would reinvigorate local manufacturing Amid the economic Armageddon due to the covid19 lockdown, a ray of hope has emerged for one Australian manufacturer. Fella Hamilton, named after its female founder in…
by Colin Teese For those Australians hoping for forward-looking, enlightened government economic programs to take us beyond covid19, the signs are not promising. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and it would seem most of his cabinet, are looking backwards for inspiration as they struggle to develop policies for how economic Australia might look a year or…
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 Patrick J. Byrne After the covid19 crisis vividly exposed the vulnerability of Australia’s global supply chains, (re)building essential medical supplies and other strategic industries will take far more government involvement than just cutting the company tax rate. In an exercise eerily predictive of the current crisis, the Department of Defence last year assembled 17…
By Patrick J. Byrne A government-backed development bank would provide an ideal instrument to help financially engineer an economic recovery after the unprecedented shutdown of non-essential activities during the covid19 pandemic. The Federal Government is yet to prioritise a national development bank for Australia, despite contributing $US738 million towards China’s Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank and…
by Geoff Crittenden Australia had a long, proud history of manufacturing throughout the 20th century. With the Federation of Australia in 1901, customs barriers were eliminated between the states so they could more easily trade with another. This prompted the first wave of manufacturing expansion, particularly in Victoria and New South Wales. By 1913, manufacturing…
by Chris McCormack Ninety per cent of our pharmaceuticals are imported Plastics manufacturer closed after power bills rose by $1.2 million a year Affordable energy key to domestic manufacturing One thing covid19 has highlighted is Australia’s overreliance on imported products as essential medical equipment and other product lines of supply dry up. Manufacturing in Australia……
by Colin Teese Readers of these pages, whether or not they follow national or international events, will know about the price of petrol. Because every time they fill up their car, it touches their hip pocket nerve. If the price of petrol rises, buyers have less to spend on other things or to boost their…
by Patrick J. Byrne As the first responsibility of government is to protect citizens from harm, the Prime Minister’s $130 billion wages package – to help feed families and keep people in their homes and jobs – is an important move in the right direction. However, the covid19 crisis has highlighted Australia’s vulnerability to fragile…
by Dr John Whitehall In August 2019, a submission was made to Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt requesting an independent parliamentary inquiry into the management of childhood gender dysphoria. The submission emphasised the surge in the number of young people presenting to “gender clinics” in major hospitals in Australia, (particularly Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital), the……
by Jeffry Babb Dr Joe Santamaria was an Australian of migrant background. For millennia people had eked out a precarious existence on the margins of the Mediterranean Sea, sustained by fishing, the olive tree, the grape vine and the goat. In the late 19th century, people began to emigrate. Many on the margins were islanders,……
In May a new outreach centre for women on the streets opened in East Perth. AFA WA president Warwick D’Silva spoke to one of the organisers, Johanna Banks, about what the Lifehouse is and how it will help women living on the streets. WHAT IS THE LIFEHOUSE? The Lifehouse is a drop-in centre for homeless……
by Anne Lastman In the News Weekly of April 18, 2020, Terri Kelleher asked, “Do we really need to ask what is a woman?” I’d like to respond to that question. Woman in her design is the secret of God. How prophetic has been the clarion call to women to rise up and give honour……
by Staff Writer My own homeschooling journey began a quarter of a century ago. I was a young mum, with a gifted first born, a preschooler, a toddler and a newborn. I endured judgement and ridicule, especially from interaction with various nurses as I delivered and established the feeding of baby number four. However, the……
The extent and boldness of the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to infiltrate and influence Australia’s political system is becoming more and more evident with a recent ASIO raid on a New South Wales MLC. According to reports, ASIO believes Chinese Communist Party agents were attempting to infiltrate the NSW Parliament through the office of a……
by Patrick J. Byrne The Federal Government is yet to produce a coherent plan to deal with huge challenges: threats from Beijing’s aggressive nationalism, major global supply chain disruptions and more company failures. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has brought trade unions to the workplace reform table. In some ways, it demonstrates the powerlessness of unions.…
Following what the Melbourne Age and Channel Nine described as a “year-long investigation”, the Sixty Minutes program on June 14 aired sensational allegations that a Victorian ALP factional leader and Cabinet Minister, Adem Somyurek, had been engaged in widespread branch stacking. Somyurek is a member of Victoria’s Upper House, and has been responsible for recruiting……
by Peter Westmore The sudden emergence of a new coronavirus (covid19) from Wuhan, China, at the start of this year marked the commencement of the first pandemic most of us have seen in our lifetimes, and showed how fragile are the systems that have provided rising standards of living throughout the world for the past……
by Peter Westmore A careful examination of the “findings” of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which accused Cardinal George Pell of covering up sexual abuse when he was a priest in Ballarat, and when an Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, shows that the Royal Commission wilfully ignored the overwhelming weight of……
by Marcus L’Estrange April’s Australian Bureau of Statistics “Labour Force” unemployment figures of 6.2 per cent must be taken with a massive grain of salt. They are merely a political definition of unemployment, not an actuarial one. How the ABS can claim an unemployment number of 823,000 for April when you have 1.6 million on……
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