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FOREIGN AFFAIRS Why Hungary and Poland rile the EU

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Following the fall of the Soviet empire in 1989, the newly liberated countries of eastern Europe turned towards the West, and sought to build their futures as free and independent nations on the basis of political, economic and military cooperation with the West, including the United States. Viktor Orban Arising from these events, a long process of negotiations led to the enlargement of the European Union to include a number of east European nations, including the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Slovenia. Each country was required to agree to a range of conditions, including economic, legal…

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RELIGION AND POLITICS Christians resolve to raise their voices in the public square

The Church and State Summit 2019 held in Brisbane on February 22–23 was billed as an event designed to “arm” Christians to influence culture. Well, the event more than lived up to its hype and more than delivered on its intent. It was the second such event, and more and bigger are promised. The Summit is the creation of Dave Pellowe, perhaps best known for bringing those troublesome Canadian activists Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux to Australia in 2018, only to be hit with a $67,000 bill from the Victoria Police for providing “security” for events that were disrupted by…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY The end of ‘Liberalism’

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILY

On the Saturday morning of the National Civic Council’s 2019 Annual National Conference, Professor Allan C. Carlson delivered the keynote address. The Annual Conference was held in Melbourne over the weekend of February 1–3, 2019. Professor Carlson’s address on that same evening will appear in the next edition of News Weekly. In that address he examines the pivotal moment for the future of the family as a consequence of the breakdown of the ‘Liberal’ concept of the family, as he explains it in the paper published here. NB: The word “Liberalism” as used here with a capital letter has…

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BOOK REVIEW The escalation of horror and atrocity

HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY, MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKS

A HIGHER FORM OF KILLING: Six Weeks in World War I that Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare by Diana Preston Bloomsbury Press, Sydney Hardcover: 288 pages Price: AUD$38.40 Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel Mention the horrors of World War I, and most people identify trench warfare, and the sheer number of casualties. Author Diana Preston, an Oxford-educated historian whose previous works include Wilful Murder: the Sinking of the Lusitania (reviewed by this reviewer in News Weekly, October 19, 2002), analyses Germany’s adoption of aerial bombing, the sinking of the Lusitania, and first use of poison gas. All of these…

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CULTURE AND POLITICS China exhibits its latest assault on human dignity

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, HUMAN RIGHTS & FREEDOMS

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair;hover through the fog and filthy air.” Macbeth, Scene 1, Act 1 China has undergone wrenching changes since paramount leader Deng Xiaoping declared that “to get rich is glorious”. Deng, who succeeded Mao Zedong after the Chairman died in 1976, put China on the road to prosperity. Mao was genuinely surprised when the Great Leap Forward, intended to make China an economic superpower in a decade, mutated into the worst famine in the history of China. It is estimated that at least 45 million people starved to death between 1958 and 1962, Frank…

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IRELAND TODAY Celtic Tiger changed out of all recognition

“Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, It’s with O’Leary in the grave. Was it for this the wild greese spread The grey wing upon every tide?” William Butler Yeats, 1913 When the late afternoon light bathes the farmland of County Kerry with a warm autumn glow, one can truly understand why Ireland is known as…