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Peter Hitchens is an English journalist and author. He writes for The Mail on Sunday and is a former foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington. He has contributed to The Spectator, The American Conservative, The Guardian and First Things. He is also author of the book, The War We Never Fought: The British Establishment’s Surrender to Drugs, where he goes…
2020 will be remembered as the year in which human rights of Victorians were destroyed, and living in the state became like living in China: a police state without human rights. To access the full article, please subscribe OR login.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is an agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. Its constitution states its main objective is “the attainment by all people of the highest possible levels of health”. It has a budget of around $3 billion, and employs thousands of people at its headquarters in Geneva and around the world. To access…
Christopher Fry’s diatribe against pain in the creation (quoted in News Weekly, October 31, 2020, p24) is altogether too simple minded. Without pain, higher animal life (beyond the reflex) would be impossible. To access the full article, please subscribe OR login.
This is the fourth instalment in News Weekly’s six-part series on the Murray-Darling Basin and the various solutions that have been introduced over the past 100 years or so to maintain and share its waters. Read Part 3 here. In a previous instalment, we showed how it is really impossible not to conclude that the Water Act 2007 is a…
Following the arctic blasts which blanketed much of the United States and Europe under snow last month, climate alarmists were hard at work blaming the events across the northern hemisphere on “climate change”, conveniently ignoring the obvious contradiction that carbon-dioxide induced global warming leading to warmer, not colder, winters. To access the full article, please subscribe OR login.
Robert Spalding retired from the United States Air Force as a brigadier general after 25 years of service. He is a former China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, as well as senior defence official and Defence attaché to China. He earned his doctorate in economics and mathematics…
A Nationals bill to lift the ban on nuclear power stations may have strong Coalition backbench support, but there are many technical and political obstacles. Bridget McKenzie, Matt Canavan and three other Nationals plan legislation for a $1 billion arm to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation for investment in nuclear power, high-energy, low-emissions (HELE) coal-fired power generation and carbon-capture and…
The Little Things is a 1990s-style serial killer thriller, set in the ’90s and originally written then too. Writer-director John Lee Hancock started writing critically acclaimed screenplays for Clint Eastwood before directing such varied flicks as The Alamo, The Blind Side and Saving Mr Banks. To access the full article, please subscribe OR login.
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In a recent feature article in The Australian entitled “Christianity is China’s cross to bear”, Greg Sheridan asked whether Christianity can do for China what capitalism failed to do — namely, soften the harsh Marxist/Leninist/Nationalist atmosphere of Chinese society? Peter Jennings of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute followed up with “China picks up the pace of militarisation”. To access the…
G.K. Chesterton enjoyed being a journalist because he liked polemics and debate. Søren Kierkegaard also liked polemics and debate, but he deplored journalism. Kierkegaard was born in Denmark in 1813 and died in 1855, 19 years before Chesterton’s birth. Chesterton was probably unaware of him. It was not until 1939 that Kierkegaard’s books were translated from Danish into English. By…
It is common to hear educators, politicians and other people in Australia using the terms “integration”, “assimilation”, “multiculturalism” or “melting pot” when discussing how migrants or refugees should be best settled into their new country. To access the full article, please subscribe OR login.
It has long been clear that multiculturalism, which has been forced on Western nations by an ethologically, ethnologically and sociologically ignorant social and economic elite (who themselves operate at a protective international level above the specifics of national and racial cultural differences and loyalties), is a failure. To access the full article, please subscribe OR login.
A bold manufacturing plan has been laid out by the federal Nationals that shakes up the complacency of the “market knows best” bureaucrats that have held sway over industry policy for the past several decades. But the policy plan’s insistence on linking manufacturing support to modern coal-fired power stations has already raised the ire both…
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Most parents know instinctively that their babies can be easygoing and extroverted, or anxious and introverted. However, shyness is unique to mankind, because in the animal world we are alone in being gifted – and burdened – with self-consciousness. To…
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Federal Government may presume the covid19 saga will help ease the Coalition across the line at the next federal election, however, he has no policies that would really make a lasting difference to Australian families in…
Two days after Joe Biden became U.S. President, the White House announced that the Biden Administration would codify Roe v Wade, which would maintain the legality of abortion even in the event that the Supreme Court overturns the 1973 ruling.…
On March 17, 2016, the Coalition joined forces with the Greens to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act and abolish senate group voting tickets (GVTs). GVTs allowed voters to simply put a 1 above the line and let their party of…
“Zoe’s Law”, the title of a number of bills that have been introduced into the NSW Parliament since 2013, was named for the unborn baby daughter of Brodie Donegan who was killed on Christmas Day 2009, when a speeding driver…
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Scanning my bookshelves for what next to read, I came across, in the classical section, an inherited translation of Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny, and Cicero’s treatises On Friendship and On Old Age, as yet unread (by me).…
by Luke McCormack If we keep on down the path of massively subsidised daycare, as in Labor’s proposal to boost childcare by $6 billion, we will arrive at a point, similar to Sweden, when no parent can afford (unless they’re…
A bold manufacturing plan has been laid out by the federal Nationals that shakes up the complacency of the “market knows best” bureaucrats that have held sway over industry policy for the past several decades. But the policy plan’s insistence on linking manufacturing support to modern coal-fired power stations has already raised the ire both…
To many, including this writer, the outcome of the election in the United States came as a surprise. Campaigning, Trump looked the stronger and more assured of the two candidates. To access the full article, please subscribe OR login.
Indicative of the need to build Australia’s industrial base, the Therapeutic Drug Administration (TDA) says the nation is short 432 pharmaceutical drugs, with 42 critically short. The TDA began monitoring shortages when the covid-19 pandemic struck. Now many Australians are reportedly taking stop-gap measures for chronic health conditions. Listen to the article: Australia used…
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Federal Government may presume the covid19 saga will help ease the Coalition across the line at the next federal election, however, he has no policies that would really make a lasting difference to Australian families in 2021 and beyond – definitely none relating to split income tax. Covid19 has taught us…
Ampol’s recent announcements (The Australian, October 8 and 19, 2020) that it is considering closing the Lytton oil refinery in Brisbane and the BP Australia statement (October 30, 2020) of the closure of its Kwinana refinery in Western Australia pose a strategic test and conundrum for the Federal Government. The vexed issue is this: will…
by Luke McCormack If we keep on down the path of massively subsidised daycare, as in Labor’s proposal to boost childcare by $6 billion, we will arrive at a point, similar to Sweden, when no parent can afford (unless they’re rich) to be the carer of their own preschool toddler. Yes, if you want to…
by Patrick J. Byrne The federal Budget has recognised the need to expand manufacturing, but Australia will not achieve a developed-world level of self-sufficiency to reduce its reliance on imports until the Government creates a development bank to diversify funding for new industries. The Morrison Government has announced it will offer $1.5 billion to boost manufacturing, with the focus on space, defence, food and beverages, medical products, recycling, resource technologies and clean energy projects. While this is a move in the right direction, the nation is starting from a very low base. The World Bank says Australia has the Western…
The eye-watering numbers from this year’s Budget are difficult to comprehend, with all the conventional Coalition rules about fiscal responsibility and prudent economic management seemingly thrown overboard. Such are the unusual times, that criticisms of Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s massive $213 billion deficit have been largely confined to commentary that it is more like a “Labor Budget”. Labor itself says it should have gone even further with even more money spent on things like unemployed people aged over 35, more on women, more on social housing and the like. But the Treasurer says the spending is “affordable” because of record low…
by Brian Coman In Part One of this essay, Brian Coman described distributism as an application of the principle of subsidiarity aimed at enabling human flourishing. That is, it takes seriously the judgement that the family is the first and closest human community and thus must be supported where faltering and left alone where it is doing its job well. Attachments and rights and responsibilities radiate outwards from the family in concentric circles of interdependency to local communities and eventually to national governments and the global community. Brian here brings the distributist position home with some personal investigations. On a…
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