Bill James offers some guidelines on how to detect political bias on the ABC. The federal Labor nomination of former ABC presenter Maxine McKew has ignited a fresh outbreak of the debate over bias at the national broadcaster. Defenders of the ABC are citing Pru Goward’s involvement in the Coalition as proof that the ABC…
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has praised Sweden for pioneering the most successful illicit drug policy in all Europe, reports David Perrin. Sweden’s illicit drug use is lower than any other European country. The UN has praised the Swedish policy of wanting a drug-free society and has endorsed its program of increasingly…
East Timor’s presidential elections will be held on Easter Monday, April 9. Eight candidates have nominated for President of East Timor, in elections which will help shape the future of the troubled country which has veered towards China and Cuba. The eight candidates represent the main political forces in East Timor. The current President, Xanana Gusmao, will not re-nominate for the election, which will be held on Easter Monday, April 9. If no candidate wins 50 per cent of the vote, a second round will be held a month later. The election will be closely watched, as it will show…
The West’s paralysis of will AMERICA ALONE:The end of the world as we know itby Mark Steyn(Washington DC: Regnery)Hardcover: 256 pagesRec. price. AUD$49.95. In this New York Times bestseller, Canadian author and controversialist Mark Steyn compares the medium and long-term population trends of Islamic societies with those of the nations we know as the Western…
Truth seldom reaches the front pages of the mainstream media where it is desperately needed, says Ian W. Adie. When the global-warming bandwagon rolls over even stolid John Howard — is it time for rollback? He was certainly wrong to say he was wrong. Witness, among others, even Yuri A. Izrael, vice-president of the United Nations-sponsored climate-change…
The outcome of the trial of East Timor’s Interior Minister is far from a foregone conclusion, writes Peter Westmore. Rogerio Lobato, formerly Interior Minister of East Timor, has been tried in Dili on charges relating to the supply of guns and ammunition to a death squad in 2006. The death squad was established by East Timor’s former Prime Minister, Mari Alkatiri, with the intention of killing political opponents of the ruling Marxist Fretilin party. Lobato’s actions precipitated a wave of violence which led to tens of thousands of Dil residents being driven from their homes. Although it has not been widely…
