Not everyone is happy that the planet is now home, for the first time, to seven billion human beings. But what is there not to celebrate, asks Steven Mosher, president of the US-based Population Research Institute? During his recent speaking tour of Australia, he demonstrated that, by nearly every measure of well-being, from infant mortality…
The pro-Kremlin blog Russia Today, generally hostile to the West and the United States, in one of its innumerable hagiographies of Vladimir Putin, pointed out that he had very generously allowed American forces to fly over Russian air-space to supply the troops in Afghanistan, only to be repaid by American and NATO ingratitude. I…
The horrific trade of sex-trafficking is the subject of a recent award-winning documentary, Nefarious: Merchant of Souls, produced by Exodus Cry, an international anti-trafficking organisation committed to abolishing modern-day slavery through prayer, awareness, and assisting victims. The 96-minute documentary reveals the nightmare of sex-trafficking: a woman being dragged to the “breaking grounds”, where she…
Abolishing Sundays It fell to capitalism (which Karl Marx had praised as the destroyer of tradition and established, old things) to destroy the Christian Sabbath in Britain. You can’t observe it now even if you want to. It’s a human right, apparently, for everything to be open — and therefore it is no longer a human right to have the day off and spend it with your family. This is typical of “Human Rights” — they conflict with each other, hurt as many people as they help, and invariably have side-effects less loveable than their stated purpose. It was simply…
Many Australians would be surprised to know how many high-profile international charities and aid agencies divert a proportion of their money to promote or fund abortion. Charities do wonderfully good work, both at home and abroad, demonstrating some of the better aspects of human nature. Perversely, though, this work is being undermined by an…
Sometimes I think we as a nation forget important fundamentals. Natural resources and people on the land and in our north contribute a major portion of the inherent wealth of our country. This was recognised as a key factor which helped Australia avoid the previous global economic crisis. We have another global economic crisis approaching, led by both Europe’s and the USA’s big-spending governments and resultant debts and economic downturns. We hence need to maintain the success of our resource industry. The positive news is that Australia has been able to withstand the global economic crisis of 2008/2009 due to…
