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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: US arms sales affirm Taiwan’s strategic role

With Washington’s recently announced arms sales to Taiwan, China is learning that the United States will not let Beijing dictate terms where America’s vital interests are at stake. Although there is much talk about China’s vastly expanded military spending, it will be 50 years before China can match the United States where it matters – in high-tech offensive warfare – on land, in the air or at sea. The $US6 billion arms package announced in late January did stir Beijing, which announced cancellation of some military exchanges and punitive sanctions against some US firms with links to the Pentagon. The…

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CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd grows cooler on global warming

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As recently as late last year it was “the great moral issue of our time”, but in 2010 the issue of global warming appears to be fading in both urgency and importance for the Rudd Government, with serious consequences in an election year. Since the fiasco of the Copenhagen summit, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has…

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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: In the global power shift, whither Australia?

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For two centuries, the world’s dominant powers, first the United Kingdom, then the United States and its Western alliance, gave the world democracy, human rights and a market economic system. However, as world economic power began to shift from the West to the East, James F. Hoge Jnr, editor of the distinguished Foreign Affairs journal…

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OPINION: Can Abbott rescue Liberals from ‘Ruddbullism’?

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By putting forward a conservative alternative to the progressive elite consensus, the Liberals can win this year’s election, insists John Stone. In the early 1950s British politics descended into “Butskellism”, the philosophy broadly common to Rab Butler and his Conservative Central Office, on the one hand, and Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell on the other.…

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FAMILY VALUES: Human rights and education

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This article is from a presentation by William L. Saunders, Jr, director of the Centre for Human Life and Bioethics, Family Research Council, at the fifth World Congress of Families, held in Amsterdam in August 2009. I would like to focus upon a matter many ordinary people consider to be of primary importance in ordinary life, that is, the education of children. I would like to do so through the lens of universal human rights. The distinguished professor, Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard University’s School of Law, wrote in her 2001 book, A World Made New: “Early in 1947, with…

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COVER STORY: Global-warming sceptic Lord Monckton visits Australia

COVER STORY, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

As News Weekly goes to press, one of Britain’s leading critics of global warming and of the recent Copenhagen Summit on climate change, Lord Christopher Monckton, is conducting a speaking tour of most capital cities around Australia with Australia’s Professor Ian Plimer, author of the widely-reviewed critique of human-induced global warming, Heaven and Earth. The visit is highly relevant to the Rudd Government’s forthcoming re-submission of its emissions trading scheme legislation in the Senate. The Senate twice rejected the legislation in 2009, giving the government a trigger for a double-dissolution. Christopher Monckton worked for a leading British conservative think-tank, the…

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