In 2006, Islamic fanatics planned to set off a series of coordinated and deadly explosions aboard seven aircraft flying between London and North America, sending terrified passengers and crew plummeting to their deaths. Their plot, however, was successfully foiled, just before it was due to be carried out. Now, eight suspected accomplices have appeared before…
Australia’s shrinking automotive industry is in dire trouble. However, if the right strategic changes were made, Australia could have an important, scale-efficient, high-quality automotive industry two or three times its current size, argues Craig Milne. Craig Milne Despite record sales of new vehicles, Australian automotive manufacturing is in trouble. Evidence is provided by the spectacular rise in imports, from a quota and tariff-restricted 20 per cent market share 25 years ago to more than 80 per cent today. The declining share of Australian production in the domestic market has placed the continuation of local manufacturing in doubt. Apart from obvious…
Across a whole range of economic policies — from taxation to free-trade agreements — both Labor and Coalition governments have consistently failed to stand up for Australia’s national interest, writes Sydney lawyer Robin Speed. It was Machiavelli who wrote in the 16th century that “… it has always been no less dangerous to discover new…
Australia for the past 25 years has single-mindedly pursued free trade policies, even to the extent of unilaterally cutting its tariffs and thereby undermining its bargaining power with its trading partners. Former senior trade negotiator Colin Teese says that the Rudd Labor Government’s proposed re-evaluation of Australia’s free trade agreements is long overdue. Trade seems to be back in the news. Kevin Rudd’s Labor government has announced its intention to re-examine what are called – misleadingly – the free trade agreements (FTAs) so far concluded by Australia. These agreements are not, strictly speaking, free trade agreements. They are bilateral agreements…
Careful review of science refutes global-warming myths UNSTOPPABLE GLOBAL WARMINGEvery 1,500 Yearsby S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery(Lanham, Maryland, US: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, updated and expanded edition)Paperback: 295 pagesRec. price: AUD$29.95 With their new book, Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years, S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery skewer all the misinformation that has been used for so long in an attempt to convince society that mankind is the root cause of all global climate-change. The book is truly amazing! It meticulously supports, with hundreds of detailed, published references, the clear facts and conclusions that the Earth’s climate…
Too many Australian academics and commentators tend to downplay or deride Christianity’s vital contribution to our nation. Charles Francis QC, however, takes the opposite view and reminds us why we ought to remember our Christian heritage – today more than ever. I want to discuss a much-neglected area of Australian history – our Christian heritage.…
