The World Bank and other international organisations are pressing Australia and New Zealand to accept Pacific Island guest workers, reports Joseph Poprzeczny. Two Australian economists, however, argue that the costs of such a policy would far outweigh any benefits. Although attempts are being made to cajole Australia into adopting the post-war German policy of accepting…
Former U.S. Vice-President, Al Gore, recently visited Australia as part of a barnstorming visit to launch his documentary-style movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Not surprisingly, Gore’s message of imminent environmental catastrophe received a warm response from a largely credulous media which have been vigorously promoting the idea that every climatic extreme – from floods, cyclones and…
The Australian Government has a duty to remind Beijing that killing people for their organs is a crime against humanity. On August 21, Melbourne’s Thomas More Centre hosted Canadian former MP and government minister, David Kilgour, co-author of a report exposing Chinese organ-harvesting; Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice-President of the European Parliament; and Madame Dongfan Zhang, a…
BlueScope Steel CEO Kirby Adams tells Canberra to drop ideology and stand up for Australian manufacturing. The chief executive of Australia’s largest manufacturer of steel products, BlueScope Steel, has called for a reversal of Australia’s pursuit of free market ideology to save Australian manufacturing industry. Kirby Adams Kirby Adams, American by birth but Australian by…
Civilisations, like humans, are born, mature, decay and eventually die. Warning signs are clearly evident that Western civilisation today is in an advanced state of decay. Is this decay terminal or reversible? Bill Muehlenberg takes Christians to task for their complacency in the face of such danger, and asks whether it may not be too…
Chinese authorities kill political prisoners and harvest their healthy body parts for use in organ transplants, two Canadian jurists have confirmed. When will Australia protest? There can be few more appalling things than that a government would intentionally set out to murder its own citizens. In the 20th century, it was in states such as…
