Search Results for: united nations

You are here:

Home
Results for "united nations"

BOOK REVIEW: DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN SWITZERLAND, by Gregory A. Fossedal

Where the people rule DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN SWITZERLANDby Gregory A. Fossedal (New Jersey: Transaction Publishers)Paperback: 304 pagesISBN: 9781412805056Rec. price: AUD$59.90(subject to availability) Reviewed by Joseph Poprzeczny Try to imagine a country where the outcome of every election is a hung parliament. Try imagining one where the people, not the politicians, bring on referendums to amend the constitution and can overturn bills passed by parliament. Try imagining a country where the Cabinet consists of only seven members, and is chosen by a hung parliament, and where the head-of-state is one of those seven, each of whom serves in that position for just…

To access the full article, please subscribe OR login.

View project

CHINA II: Do China’s upheavals herald liberalisation?

Uncategorized

Our media tend to be preoccupied with China’s skyrocketing economic growth and the demand by China’s steel-mills for Australian coal and iron ore. However, these things should not distract our attention from other even more momentous developments taking place across China. There are signs of possible dramatic political upheavals surfacing over coming years. Whether…

View project

ASIA: Burma fast becoming China’s new Tibet

Uncategorized

Beijing aims to lock Burma into a relationship of economic and political dependency in much the same way as it has colonised Tibet, observers linked to the Burmese democratic opposition say. Burma – renamed Myanmar by the ruling military junta – will remain nominally independent, but the strings will be pulled by China’s communist rulers.…

View project

TAIWAN: Could China trade pact reduce cross-strait tension?

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Trade is Taiwan’s lifeblood, and the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou is banking on a new trade agreement with mainland China giving the economy a shot in the arm. The self-governing island sees no alternative but to do a deal with Beijing to allow its exports greater access to the giant China market. Taiwan, with some 23 million people crammed into an area half the size of Tasmania, is a world centre of the information technology industry. Taiwan’s investors have poured in excess of $100 billion into investments on the Chinese mainland, helping to kick-start China’s export-led growth story. The…

To access the full article, please subscribe OR login.

View project

The anti-family agenda of the Greens

Uncategorized

Are the Greens just a mainstream bunch of people concerned about the environment, as many people believe them to be, or does the party stand for something altogether more radical? With the Greens’ vote surging, and the possibility of their securing in the federal election not just more seats in the Senate, but possibly, for…

View project

Communist ‘bombshell’ rocks the Labor Party

Uncategorized

Newly published evidence that a number of senior left-wing Labor identities were also secret members of the Communist Party has come like a “bombshell revelation”, according to former New South Wales premier Bob Carr. On April 26, 1973, government minister Dr Jim Cairns (centre) shared a platform in the Sydney Town Hall with representatives of…

View project