The political execution of the former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has been followed by hagiographic accounts of the rise and rise of Julia Gillard, whom the Canberra press gallery have apparently anointed as the messiah who will lead Australia into the promised land, as they did for Kevin Rudd until a few months ago. Whether…
All over the Western world, governments are bending over backwards to accommodate sharia finance. This is an interest-free banking and finance system which Muslims want to have run as a parallel economic stream in Western nations. The United Kingdom leads the world in this practice, and now Australia and other nations are seeking to get…
John Hewson’s recent article in the Australian Financial Review was headlined: “Fiscal policy is too important to be left to politicians”. Dr Hewson is dead wrong. Actually, the opposite is true. Fiscal policy – the framing of a national budget – is too important to be left to economists. ln a democracy, that’s the job of politicians. The same is also true of monetary policy, i.e., the management of so-called “official” interest rates, with the intention of controlling inflation. Current orthodoxy says otherwise: it decrees that monetary policy should be set by central banks. In fact, our country follows that…
An important new study, Hollywood’s War with Poland, 1939-1945, by American history professor Mieczyslaw Biskupski (University Press of Kentucky), focuses on wartime Poland, a country that was viciously dismembered by history’s most brutal genocidal killers and enslavers, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Biskupski explains how Hollywood, where fortunes were made from trivia and soft pornography,…
My interest in the Australian Aboriginal people started in 1963 when I spent time in the centre and north of Australia. During that period I painted the portraits of two Aborigines in an Aboriginal reserve near Alice Springs and was taken on an extensive flight for 10 days with Eddie Connellan – the founder of…
Children will suffer discrimination based on the workforce status of their parents if the Rudd Labor Government’s draft paid parental leave (PPL) bill is enacted. PPL would give families on two full-time incomes an average of $2,000 more per pregnancy than single-income families who get the baby bonus. I, along with a number of like-minded pro-family activists, gave evidence on the subject recently to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee on the “exposure draft of the Paid Parental Leave [PPL] Scheme Bill 2010”. In our evidence we urged amendments to the bill to eliminate discrimination against single-breadwinner families where a…