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HISTORY: Dr Jim Cairns, the Kremlin and the World Peace Council

A more comprehensive, footnoted version of the following article may be found at:“Australia’s Dr Jim Cairns and the Soviet KGB” by John BallantyneNational Observer (Council for the National Interest, Melbourne), Number 64, Autumn 2005.http://www.nationalobserver.net/2005_autumn_109.htm Former Whitlam Labor Government minister, Dr Jim Cairns, who died recently aged 89, was a leading figure in a Soviet front organisation, run and financed by Moscow. A prominent anti-war activist and leader of Australian Labor Party’s left who rose to become Deputy PM in the 1970s, Dr Cairns was for many years a member of the Soviet-run World Peace Council (WPC). The WPC was originally…

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FAMILY: Preserving marriage in Australia

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILY

Will amendments to the Marriage Act be needed to head off judicial attempts to dilute the meaning of marriage? Richard Egan examines the issue. The fundamental definition in Australian law of marriage as “the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life” is under attack from a number of directions. Earlier this year, the Australian Democrats moved an amendment to the Marriage Act to change this definition to allow marriage between two men or between two women. Only the Australian Greens supported them and the proposal was soundly defeated. There…

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LETTERS: Taiwan and the UN (letter)

POETRY LETTERS & HUMOUR

Sir, I refer to your report entitled “Taiwan and United Nations membership”. (NW, September 20) It is regrettable that Taiwan failed in its 11th bid to join the UN on September when General Assembly rejected a proposal presented by 15 of Taiwan’s allies to put the issue on the UN agenda. Since the Chinese communists took control of the Chinese mainland and established the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have been governed as separate countries, with neither having any control or jurisdiction over the other. Taiwan sets its own policies, conducts its…

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CANCUN: Why the WTO’s free trade agenda collapsed

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A week or so back, in the Mexican seaside town of Cancun, the World Trade Organisation’s Ministerial meeting failed to reach agreement on a framework for a new round of trade negotiations. The aim of the Ministerial Meeting was to bind the negotiating countries to a set of agreed guidelines for the continuation of the…

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COMMENT: Feminist arithmetic

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For anyone who has a smattering of mathematics, the constant equation by feminist writers and in the general media of “feminists” and “women” is particularly irritating because polls and surveys have repeatedly shown that the majority of women do not identify themselves as “feminists”. In my view, assuming “women” are identical with “feminists” is not…

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STRAWS IN THE WIND: Dictators and dark continents / Get Blair

STRAWS IN THE WIND

Dictators and dark continents Reuters had a news item reprinted in the Herald Sun (August 1), concerning the approaching death of Uganda’s former dictator Idi Amin. He had enjoyed a pleasant exile – spanning 25 years – in Saudi Arabia. Reuters then proceeded to give a list of post-independence African dictator/sadists, although there were some others whom we have good reason to remember, who weren’t featured. Amin, in his day, was courted by most of the big countries interested in Africa, and his virtuoso performance was not lost upon subsequent African leaders, especially aspiring dictators. On one day at least,…

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