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REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Suppressing the truth about maternal deaths

Scientists have been told by United Nations staff and abortion advocates that they should “harmonise” their findings on maternal death numbers so that the press cannot report numbers that conflict with the ones abortion advocates use to lobby policy-makers and major donors. This instruction was reportedly given at a prestigious symposium on maternal and child health research, hosted by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the British medical journal Lancet at the end of May. This was reported by Susan Yoshihara, PhD and Catherine Glenn Foster, researchers for the New York-based Catholic Family &…

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KOREAN PENINSULA: Torpedo attack suspected in mystery sinking

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A 1,200-tonne South Korean frigate, the Cheonan, split in two and sank on March 26, following an explosion of unknown origin under its stern. The vessel was on patrol in international waters but close to the border with North Korea, and sank off the west coast island of Baekryongdo. About 60 of the crew were…

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SCHOOLS: Dumbed-down Australian history curriculum

HEALTH & EDUCATION

On release, the proposed Australian history curriculum, similar to the English document, was warmly received by commentators and the media, especially The Australian newspaper. Many argue it represents a welcome return to history as a discrete subject, the end to the culture wars in areas like black armband history and that it imparts a rigorous and impartial knowledge of significant historical events, ideas and people. The ex-communist and historian, Stuart Macintyre, strongly defends his new creation as balanced and impartial and argues that critics have failed to analyse the history curriculum in any detailed way. Federal Liberal Opposition education spokesman…

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EDITORIAL: Broad approach needed to boat-people saga

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The 100th boatload of asylum-seekers has arrived off north-western Australia since the election of the Rudd Government in December 2007. Many Australians are now increasingly concerned that the Government, by taking a softer line on border protection, has encouraged thousands of people to embark on the hazardous journey across the Indian Ocean to get to…

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Australian force in East Timor reduced

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Despite the significant Chinese Government presence in East Timor, the Australian Government has cut the Australian military presence in East Timor from 650 to about 400, with a corresponding decrease in the size of the International Stabilisation Force, established in the wake of the civil war which erupted in 2006. In 2006, units of East Timor’s defence force went on strike and were sacked, while other units, loyal to the Fretilin Government led by self-styled communist Mari Alkatiri, turned their weapons on the police force, leading to the murder of a number of unarmed police in the centre of Dili.…

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GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Gathering crisis engulfs the European Union

ECONOMICS

The global financial crisis threatens to disturb the stability of the European Union. Some are hinting at the possibility of the EU coming apart. Its currency unit, the Euro, could be under threat. These are genuine possibilities, but they aren’t the real issue. European integration has been a central pillar of European security since the experiment got under way nearly 60 years ago; indeed, it has been an integral part of Western security. From the very beginning the aims of integration were strategic and political. Two disastrous wars in 25 years convinced Europeans – initially in the west and south…

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