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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Brexit: Quintessentially British party politics

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

The UK votes on December 12. The issue is Brexit: “to leave or not to leave … that is the question”; with sincere apologies to Shakespeare. The slumbering elephant in the room is immigration, but that is unmentionable, especially on the politically correct BBC. Can Boris Johnson snatch a convincing electoral victory and deliver a real Brexit, or will Corbyn’s Labour and the remainders stonewall and defy the will of the people? What is so apparent in the Brexit issue is that since the decisive victory of the leave campaign in the 2016 referendum, Parliament, the chattering elites at the…

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ASIAN AFFAIRS Taiwan and Hong Kong: Pawns in a bigger game

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Chinese President Xi Jinping is unlikely to unleash the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on dissenters in Hong Kong, sources in Taiwan say, because Xi wishes to retain the “One country, two systems” policy. Under this policy, Xi hopes to lure Taiwan to reunify with the Chinese mainland. The problem is, very few people trust Xi or believe he is sincere. If the PLA subdues the dissidents in Hong Kong, the “one country, two systems” policy would be a dead letter. People in Taiwan would not give any credence to Xi’s promise of “peaceful reunification” between mainland China and Taiwan. Taiwan…

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MILITARY HISTORY Timor-Leste a free nation 20 years after INTERFET

DEFENCE & SECURITY

In Canberra on October 15, 2019, the Australian War Memorial (AWM) held a two-hour symposium to consider Australia’s contribution to the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET). This force was an initiative of the Australian government to bring together a peace-keeping force that, with the authorisation of the United Nations Security Council, entered East Timor on September 20, 1999, to bring under control the violence that had been unleashed by pro-Indonesian East Timorese militias, after the East Timorese had overwhelmingly voted for independence in the UN- supervised referendum held on August 30, 1999. Australia, which commanded the force, contributed 5,500…

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CLIMATE SCIENCE V XR Is a tipping point close or is the emergency contrived?

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The emergence of the Extinction Rebellion phenomenon over recent months has seen community disruption in many Western cities, heralded by a generally fawning and uncritical media. The tolerance of Western democracies has made it possible for a few determined protestors to close thoroughfares and, with their extraordinary claims of a global climate and ecological emergency, get broad media coverage. In their doomsday predictions, the activists confuse real environmental issues with issues that are largely imagined, or an exaggerated extrapolation from recent trends. For example, air pollution is a major contributor to ill health and death, but it will not be…

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Greta Thunberg: she’s not doing it all on her own

COVER STORY, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The use of children for political purposes is not new. In the last century, it was used by demagogues such as Chairman Mao to launch his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1964, in which an estimated million Chinese people were killed, and earlier by Adolf Hitler, who used the Hitler Youth to terrorise his enemies, and then to provide the pawns for his wars, which culminated in Germany’s defeat in World War II. Greta Thunberg: Passionate but wrong. The ploy is now being used again, with young people – mobilised through social media but organised by the radical environmental…

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RURAL AFFAIRS Queensland Labor punishes farmers to placate UNESCO

Draconian Queensland laws dictate farming practices along Great Barrier Reef Laws not based on science but a reaction to UNESCO pressure Farmers incur increased costs, complexity and control from bureaucrats Queensland’s ALP Government is continuing its war against farming and private property rights with the latest of its Orwellian laws, which restricts where and how farming activity can occur adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef. Is it the Palasczszuk Government’s intention to drive people off the land? The government rammed The Environment Protection (Great Barrier Reef Protection Measures) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019 through the unicameral Parliament on…

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