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NCC Strategic Report (October 2008) The Global Power Shift: Defending Australia's independence (155 KB PDF - 14 pages)

[ DATE: 6 March 2010]

COVER STORY / EDITORIAL:
Moment of truth for Bushfire Royal Commission
- Peter Westmore

CANBERRA OBSERVED:
Crisis of confidence in Rudd Government
- national correspondent

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:
Federal, state governments veto northern development
- Patrick J. Byrne

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ECONOMIC AFFAIRS:
Australian manufacturing: does it have a future?
by Craig Milne

NATIONAL SECURITY:
Terrorist trial a landmark in Australian justice
by John Miller

INSULATION SCAM:
Wheel turns full circle for Peter Garrett
by Peter Westmore

CLIMATEGATE:
No recent global warming, admits Professor Jones
by Peter Westmore

ENERGY:
Nuclear energy ... next generation power source
by Peter Westmore

GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS:
Greek crisis tips Europe towards double-dip recession
by Peter Westmore

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:
US arms sales affirm Taiwan's strategic role
by Ian H. McDougall

FAMILY POLICY:
Voters demand equality in childcare maternity payments
by Patrick J. Byrne

SURROGACY:
Next stolen generation - who needs a mother, anyway?
by David van Gend

FAMILY AND SOCIETY:
What fatherlessness costs society
by Bill Muehlenberg

SEX EDUCATION:
Abstinence-only programs teach young to make wiser choices
by Babette Francis

LETTERS:
Marcus L'Estrange; Leon Ashby; P.C. Wilson; Frank Brown.
AS THE WORLD TURNS:
Giant mosque planned to overlook UK's Sandhurst military academy; "Controversial images" withdrawn by the Met; Beware of ice cream made in China; Plummeting birthrates threaten global prosperity; Al Gore lying low.

BOOK REVIEW:
Empires of the Silk Road, by Christopher I. Beckwith
(reviewed by Jeffry Babb)

BOOK REVIEW:
Intellectuals and Society, by Thomas Sowell
(reviewed by Joseph Poprzeczny)

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Contents - 20 February 2010
COVER STORY: Lord Monckton interviewed on global warming and the ETS - Damian Wyld
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd grows cooler on global warming - national correspondent
EDITORIAL: Obama: from euphoria to nightmare in 12 months … - Peter Westmore
CHINA: Three economic events that will change the world - Ian H. McDougall
FOREIGN DEBT: The unacknowledged elephant in the room - Patrick J. Byrne
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Rudd and Henry politicise Intergenerational Report - Peter Westmore
OPINION: Can Abbott rescue Liberals from 'Ruddbullism'? - John Stone
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: In the global power shift, whither Australia? - Patrick J. Byrne
MEDICAL ETHICS: Euthanasia laws - coming to a state near you - Paul Russell
MEDICAL SCIENCE: Abortion laws: seeing what we kill - Bill Muehlenberg
UNITED KINGDOM: Britain's lords vote for liberty - Babette Francis
CIVIC VALUES: Consumerism's destructive impact on faith and family - Daniel Graham
TECHNOLOGY: Computers, TV and a shrinking attention span - Christopher J. Ward
Global conning (letter) - Frank Bellet
Fundamental cause of population shortfall (letter) - Brian A. Peachey
Julia Gillard vs. Tony Abbott (letter) - Margaret Menzel
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Christian teacher forced out over Muslim pupil misbehaviour; Adult-child cultural reversal; Decline of the stiff upper lip
BOOK REVIEW: THE THIRD CHOICE: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom, by Mark Durie - Mervyn Bendle (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: DIVERSITY: The Invention of a Concept, by Peter Wood - Bill James (reviewer)
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Contents - 6 February 2010
COVER STORY: Global-warming sceptic Lord Monckton visits Australia - Peter Westmore
EDITORIAL: Is Rudd Government planning a new tax grab? - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Can the Abbott-Joyce duo defeat Kevin Rudd? - national correspondent
ENERGY: A climate policy that is good for Australia - Patrick J. Byrne
FAMILY LAW: Will Rudd Govt roll back shared parenting? - Sue Price
VICTORIA: Lesbian couple are named parents on birth certificate - Bill Muehlenberg
NEW SOUTH WALES: NSW Govt rejects adoption by same-sex couples - Peter Westmore
UNITED STATES: Gaping holes remain in passenger airline security - Joseph Poprzeczny
NATIONAL SECURITY: Global terrorist threat escalates - John Miller
EUROPE: Free speech on trial: Geert Wilders - Bill Muehlenberg
CHINA: Corrupt big business and the Communist Party - Ian H. McDougall
POLITICAL PROFILE: Not-so-secret agenda of Obama's 'science czar' - Damian Wyld
FAMILY VALUES: Human rights and education - William L. Saunders, Jr
UNITED NATIONS: UN skirmishes over meaning of gender - Babette Francis
Tony Abbott defended (letter) - Andrea Hoy
Condoms for Haiti? (letter) - Denise M. Cameron
Charles and Babette Francis (letter) - Michael J. Ryan
News Weekly name change? (letter) - J.A. Kirkpatrick
CINEMA: Cameron's latest blockbuster Avatar (rated M) - John Whitehall (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: LOSING MY RELIGION: Unbelief in Australia, by Tom Frame - Bill James (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE WOLF: How One German Raider Terrorised Australia and the Southern Oceans in the First World War, by Richard Guilliatt and Peter Hohnen - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 26 December 2009
EDITORIAL: A reflection on Christmas - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: The new Opposition team - national correspondent
ENVIRONMENT: Copenhagen summit ignores 'Climategate' scandal - Peter Westmore
FINANCIAL CRISIS: Can the world expect a sustainable recovery? - Colin Teese
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The challenge of China - Peter Westmore
HUMAN RIGHTS: Commonwealth's double standards over Sri Lanka, Fiji - Dr John Whitehall
CULTURE: The sexualisation of girlhood - Melinda Tankard Reist
IDEOLOGIES: Radical environmentalism: the new socialism - Bill Muehlenberg
CIVILISATION: What now after the cultural revolution? - Patrick J. Byrne
MEDIA: Why America's newspapers are dying - Jeffry Babb
IDEAS: Why haven't more people heard of G.K. Chesterton? - Dale Ahlquist
OPINION: Paid maternity leave and the war against women - Colin H. Jory
A new name for News Weekly? (letter) - Don Ford
Why the democracies should support Taiwan (letter) - Dong Li
BOOK REVIEW: FREEDOM TO BELIEVE: Challenging Islam's Apostasy Law, by Patrick Sookhdeo - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: BLOODY VICTORY: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the making of the Twentieth Century, by William Philpott - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 12 December 2009
EDITORIAL: The challenges facing Tony Abbott - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Abbott's victory took media by surprise - our national correspondent
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Senate committee recommends against same-sex marriage - Peter Westmore
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Euthanasia bill defeated in SA - Damian Wyld
ENVIRONMENT: UK's climate research centre discredited - Peter Westmore
ECONOMICS: Birdsville Amendment stops fuel predatory pricing - Patrick J. Byrne
ENERGY: Time for a new Coalition emissions policy - Patrick J. Byrne
THE MANHATTAN DECLARATION: U.S. Christian leaders draw a line in the sand - Bill Muehlenberg
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Women's health risk ignored by Rudd Government - Babette Francis
UNITED STATES: Health care reforms unleash passionate debate - Jeffry Babb
RUSSIA: Medvedev's desperate drive to modernise Russia - Joseph Poprzeczny
EDUCATION: Whatever happened to adult authority? - Frank Furedi
SCHOOLS: Are independent schools enemies of social cohesion? - Kevin Donnelly
Westmore has not read my report: Fr Frank Brennan - Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO
Morally handicapped politicians - Peter Davidson
Market economics misunderstood - John Ballantyne
Surafend massacre - Chris Rule
AS THE WORLD TURNS
CINEMA: Dickens' Christmas tale brought to life A Christmas Carol (rated PG) - Leticia Velasquez (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: FIRES OF FAITH: Catholic England under Mary Tudor, by Eamon Duffy - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE REVOLT OF THE PENDULUM: Essays 2005-2008, by Clive James - Bill James (reviewer)
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Contents - 28 November 2009
EDITORIAL: ETS: Rudd's one-way ticket to hell - Peter Westmore
POLITICS: Whither the Liberal Party? - Damian Wyld
COVER STORY: Brian Mullins (1925-2009): a true Australian hero - Gavan Duffy
CANBERRA OBSERVED: National sorrow over plight of forgotten Australians - national correspondent
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Are we about to create another Stolen Generation? - Tim Cannon
FINANCIAL CRISIS: Splitting the megabanks for financial stability - Patrick J. Byrne
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Afghanistan: Obama's no-win rhetoric - Peter Westmore
WAR ON TERROR: Grim lessons of the Fort Hood massacre - John Miller
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Rudd's 'Indonesia solution' has been in place since 2007 - Peter Westmore
HEALTH CARE: Labor unleashes class war on doctors - Jeffry Babb
NEW ZEALAND: John Key sells New Zealand short - Amy Brooke
COLD WAR: The year the Berlin Wall fell - John Ballantyne
UNITED STATES: Obamacare: the ego has landed - Babette Francis
ABORTION: An abortion-provider changes her mind - Bill Muehlenberg
Statesmanship needed (letter) - Landon Burch
American health cover (letter) - Bill Muehlenberg
Some orphanage carers were admirable (letter) - Greg O'Regan
BOOK REVIEW: THE VOCATION OF BUSINESS: Social Justice in the Marketplace, by John C. Médaille - Garrick Small (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE THIRTY-SIX: A story of a boy's miraculous survival in wartime Poland, by Siegmund Siegreich - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 14 November 2009
COVER STORY: Why Australians should oppose a human rights charter - Cardinal Dr George Pell
CANBERRA OBSERVED: The Rudd Government's asylum-seeker dilemma - national correspondent
EDITORIAL: Emissions trading scheme in trouble - Peter Westmore
CLIMATE CHANGE: Rudd's ETS will hit country towns hardest - Joseph Poprzeczny
ECONOMICS: Rising interest rates create speculative bubble - Colin Teese
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Will SA be the first state to legalise euthanasia? - Damian Wyld
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Australia's crude Fiji sanctions policy backfires - Peter Westmore
BRAZIL: Lula's infatuation with tyrants and mass-murderers - Dr Augusto Zimmermann
OVERSEAS AID: Exporting death in our overseas 'aid' - Babette Francis
ASIA: Taiwan's modified UN bid prospects rated as 'good' - Ian H. McDougall
EDUCATION: A destructive doctrine called 'diversity' - Paul Gottfried
SCIENCE: Can computer games harm children's brains? - Tim Cannon
OPINION: Why I lost faith in the Left - Kevin Donnelly
Australian aid to China (letter) - Patrick J. Gethin
Rags-to-riches story (letter) - Neville Sayers
Kokoda and Japan (letter) - Neville Lewis
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Western nations must prepare for cyber attacks; The tyranny of unelected 'experts'; School reform that works.
BOOK REVIEW: OUT FROM UNDER: The Impact of Homosexual Parenting, by Dawn Stefanowicz - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE ART OF WAR: Great Commanders of the Ancient, Medieval and Modern World, Andrew Roberts - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 31 October 2009
COVER STORY / EDITORIAL: Australia's asylum-seeker policy unravels - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: The toughest job in Australian politics - national correspondent
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: How the human rights consultation was hijacked - Peter Westmore
TAX INQUIRY: Treasury push to get more mothers into paid work - Patrick J. Byrne
CLIMATE CHANGE: Temperature readings in rural Australia show no increase in 100 years - Dr A.L. McClintock
ENERGY: New gas resources explode "peak oil" alarmism - Peter Westmore
NATIONAL SECURITY: How much longer can Australia's luck hold? - John Miller
CHINA: How the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wields absolute power in China - Professor Dong Li
ECONOMICS: The taming of unbridled free market capitalism - Colin Teese
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Women not warned about abortion breast-cancer risk - Babette Francis
VICTORIA: Protesting on behalf of the unborn - Peter Kavanagh MLC
OBITUARY: Last surviving leader of 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising dies: Marek Edelman (1919-2009) - Joseph Poprzeczny
CINEMA: "Deeply troubling" rags-to-riches story: Mao's Last Dancer (rated PG) - Ian H. McDougall (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: BEERSHEBA: A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War, by Paul Daley - Bill James (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN EUROPE: Immigration, Islam and the West, by Christopher Caldwell - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
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Contents - 17 October 2009
EDITORIAL: Mao's long shadow over China - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Mr Turnbull in a dilemma of his own making - national correspondent
VICTORIA: Partial backdown over Equal Opportunity Act - Peter Westmore
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Political lobby groups funded by your taxes - Damian Wyld
FOREIGN INVESTMENT: New foreign investment rules still fall short - Patrick J. Byrne
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Immigration and Australia's economic future - Colin Teese
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Why Ireland voted for the Lisbon Treaty - Peter Westmore
ENERGY: Nuclear power policy shift for Germany - Peter Westmore
WORLD WAR II: Odilo Globocnik, forgotten co-author of the Holocaust - Joseph Poprzeczny
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Abortion's dangers to health of future babies - Babette Francis
OVERSEAS AID: Salesian missions to Philippines floods, Samoan tsunami - Peter Westmore
UNITED STATES: Message to America: learn to like taxes - Jeffry Babb
OPINION: The Left's flawed concept of society - Bill Muehlenberg
AS THE WORLD TURNS: China spells end of US dollar hegemony; Morality Hollywood-style; Australia's Frank Brennan SJ on same-sex marriage
CINEMA: Forgotten story of Victoria's early life - The Young Victoria (rated PG) - Len Phillips (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE MARCH OF PATRIOTS: The Struggle for Modern Australia, by Paul Kelly - Peter Westmore (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE LOST SPY: An American in Stalin's Secret Service, by Andrew Meier - Michael E. Daniel (reiewer)
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Contents - 3 October 2009
COVER STORY: Government push for sell-off of Telstra's infrastructure - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Union warning on China free trade agreement - national correspondent
EDITORIAL: Re-opening the case of the Balibo Five - Peter Westmore
WAR ON TERROR: The deadly peril still very much in our midst - John Miller
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Misguided move for women in combat roles - Peter Westmore
ECONOMY: Development bank now urgently needed - Patrick J. Byrne
TASMANIA: Can the Apple Isle become Australia's food bowl - David Leaman
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Policy-makers still refusing to face reality - Colin Teese
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Rudd Government ignores abortion link to maternal deaths - Babette Francis
POPULATION: Solving the world food problem - Brian Coman
The man who fed the developing world - Patrick J. Byrne
OPINION: No apology after latest outburst from PM Rudd - Bill Muehlenberg
Deplorable standards (letter) - Dr Frank Mobbs
Melting pot (letter) - Kevin Forrest
Safer nuclear energy option (letter) - Tom King
Obama changes tune on troops (letter) - M. Gordon
CINEMA: Award-winning film about slain journalists - Balibo (rated M) - Peter Westmore (reviewer)
CINEMA: Deliver us from this left-liberal 'moralising' - The Soloist (rated M) - Len Phillips (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE PLAN: Twelve Months to Renew Britain, by Douglas Carswell and Daniel Hannan - Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: INSIDE THE STALIN ARCHIVES: Discovering the New Russia, by Jonathan Brent - Bill James (reviewer)
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Contents - 19 September 2009
COVER STORY: 'Level playing-field' crushes Australian farmers - Patrick J. Byrne
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Back to basics in the marriage debate - Tim Cannon
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Assessing Rudd's stimulus package - national correspondent
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Rio Tinto, China and Australia's national interest - Colin Teese
EDITORIAL: California wildfires caused by lack of hazard reduction - Peter Westmore
WATER: Water policy threatens Australia's food security - Patrick J. Byrne
ILLICIT DRUGS: Kings Cross safe injecting rooms fail to reduce drug overdose deaths - Tim Cannon
QUEENSLAND: Bligh Government amends abortion laws - Anthony Goodwin
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Ireland follows Iceland in financial meltdown - Peter Westmore
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Japan's new PM rejects 'market fundamentalism' - Peter Westmore
CULTURE AND CIVILISATION: The debasement of higher education - Reid Buckley
EDUCATION: Seeking a better deal for rural and regional students - Caroline Geoghegan
OPINION: 1945 Allied repatriations a crime against humanity - Patrick J. Gethin
NCC Fighting Fund appeal (letter) - Tom King
Senator Ted Kennedy (letter) - Denise M. Cameron
Abortions are never justified (letter) - Damian Wyld
World War II (letter) - Brian Harris
CINEMA: Revealing insight into Rebiya Kadeer - The 10 Conditions of Love - Ian H. McDougall (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: C.S. LEWIS IN A TIME OF WAR, by Justin Phillips - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
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Contents - 5 September 2009
COVER STORY: Huge turn-out for Canberra marriage summit - Anthony Barich
CANBERRA OBSERVED: The Christian vote and Kevin Rudd - national correspondent
EDITORIAL: Bushfire Royal Commission ignores fuel-reduction burning - Peter Westmore
SCHOOLS: 'Historic leap forward' to shake up WA schools - Joseph Poprzeczny
ENERGY I: ETS will deter oil and gas exploration - Peter Westmore
ENERGY II: Renewable energy: what about the ethanol industry? - Peter Westmore
FINANCIAL CRISIS: World economy is still 'anaemic' - Patrick J. Byrne
ASIA: Vulnerable Taiwan facing new trade challenges - Ian H. McDougall
QUEENSLAND: GP protests - we are doctors, not baby-killers - special report
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Family the key to social inclusion and cohesion - James Bogle
OPINION: Patient ruling creates moral, ethical impasse - David Freilich
EDUCATION: ALP's 'education revolution' copies UK's failed policies - Kevin Donnelly
OPINION: Integration, the missing ingredient of immigration - Senator Cory Bernardi
OBITUARY: Australia loses great champion of the unborn - Charles Hugh Francis AM QC RFD (1924-2009)
CO2 and turf (letter) - Hon. Peter J. Nixon AO
Ian Plimer on Christianity (letter) - Peter J. Talbot
Treasury's role in OzCar affair (letter) - John R. Barich
Governmental child abuse (letter) - Dr David van Gend
AS THE WORLD TURNS: UK Health gives child molester Viagra; Vic. Council paid $620,000 to a 'white witch'; Women in combat
BOOK REVIEW: CRUEL AND USUAL PUNISHMENT: The terrifying global implications of Islamic Law, by Nonie Darwish - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: FAIR WORK: The New Workplace Laws and the Work Choices Legacy, eds. Anthony Forsyth and Andrew Stewart - Peter Westmore (reviewer)
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Contents - 22 August 2009
COVER STORY: Terrorism comes to Sydney - John Miller
EDITORIAL: Is the financial crisis receding? - Peter Westmore
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Heavy-handed China shows its true colours - Ian H. McDougall
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd Government bid to take over hospitals - national correspondent
QUEENSLAND: Anna Bligh's Labor Government on the skids - Ron Munn
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Regional consultation needed on new Murray-Darling plan - Patrick J. Byrne
RURAL AFFAIRS: Dairy and irrigation industries hit hard - Patrick J. Byrne
ENVIRONMENT: Analysis of alarmism: ocean acidification - Dr Tim Ball
CLIMATE: Climate change devastation: apocalypse now - Peter Westmore
HUMAN RIGHTS: Grievance industry shows exponential growth - Charles Francis AM QC
OPINION: How Australian authors fare in the free market
GOVERNMENT: Public service independence undermined by politicians - Colin Teese
OPINION: Forced repatriations from Austria in 1945 - Mark Braham
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Teenagers rescued from suicide training camps; Demographic time-bomb transforming Europe; Shocking decline of British schools; Bismarck on politics
CINEMA: Portrait of the starship captain as a young hoon - Star Trek - Len Phillips (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: BATTLELINES, by Tony Abbott - John Ballantyne (reviewer)
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Contents - 8 August 2009
COVER STORY: Economic bounce masks deep structural crisis - Patrick J. Byrne
ENERGY: What can Australia do when the fuel runs out? - Joseph Poprzeczny
EDITORIAL: Overseas lesson in energy conservation - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Turnbull's judgement under a cloud - national correspondent
SCHOOLS: The choice so few parents can afford to make - John Ballantyne
MARRIAGE: The personal and social costs of cohabitation - Tim Cannon
OPINION: Keeping marriage between a man and a woman - Paul Russell
CHINA: Cracks appear in China's detested one-child policy - Ian H. McDougall
POLITICAL IDEAS: Distributist responses to the global economic crisis - special report
WAR ON TERROR: What will we learn from the Jakarta bombings? - John Miller
EUROPE: Obama told: don't abandon central and eastern Europe - Joseph Poprzeczny
OBITUARY: Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski dies at 81
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Protest at News Weekly article on East Timor - Ary Laufer
Tony Abbott on divorce (letter) - Jay Nauss
Time for a people's bank? (letter) - Selwyn Johnston
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Genderless child-rearing experiment / Hostility towards masculinity / Dear baby-boomers ... / Shopkeepers honoured
BOOK REVIEW: ISLAM: Human Rights and Public Policy, ed. David Claydon - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: POMPEII: The Life of a Roman Town, by Mary Beard - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 25 July 2009
EDITORIAL: The Middle Kingdom sends us a message ... - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: What Australia can learn from China's behaviour - national correspondent
FOREIGN INVESTMENT: China businesses 'left and right arms of the state' - Ian H. McDougall
OPINION: Michael Jackson and popular culture - Peter Westmore
HOMELESSNESS: Families forced to brave the streets - Tim Cannon
BANKING: Six economists renew call for a 'people's bank' - Patrick J. Byrne
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Rebuilding a functioning financial system - Colin Teese
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Aboriginal disadvantage: more than question of money - Peter Westmore
FISHING INDUSTRY: Coral Sea marine protected areas: our gift to Asian fishermen - Walter Starck
ENVIRONMENT: Rudd admits failure of global climate talks - Peter Westmore
EDUCATION: The war against home-schooling our children - Bill Muehlenberg
VICTORIA: Religious freedom under threat - Charles Francis QC
CHINA: China unrest a symptom of a diseased system - Ian H. McDougall
RUSSIA: Moscow unrepentant about Stalin era - Joseph Poprzeczny
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Just some French youths
BOOK REVIEW: D-DAY: The Battle for Normandy, by Antony Beevor - Bill James (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE DARWIN MYTH: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin, by Benjamin Wiker - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
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Contents - 11 July 2009
EDITORIAL: Boat people: Labor's policy backfires - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Malcolm Turnbull's reckless gamble
COVER STORY: Behind the turmoil in Iran - Peter Westmore
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Economic crisis parallels the Great Depression - Patrick J. Byrne
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Limit foreign ownership of key industries: NCC
INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Promised benefits from free trade fail to materialise - Colin Teese
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Rudd's emission trading scheme hits roadblock - Peter Westmore
SRI LANKA: Defeated, friendless Tamils face annihilation - Dr John Whitehall
WAR ON TERROR: Terrorist shooting in Little Rock - John Miller
MEN'S HEALTH: Male suicide - the silent epidemic - Babette Francis
ENVIRONMENTALISM: Green doctrine spells death to humanity - Bill Muehlenberg
CIVILISATION: The battle we are still fighting - Dale Ahlquist
Tasmania's sources of renewable energy (letter) - Harry Roberts
Justin Madden, a man for all seasons? (letter) - Denise M. Cameron
Euthanasia I (letter) - Jay Nauss
Euthanasia II (letter) - Brian Harris
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Europe's political realignment / Marginalisation of fatherhood
BOOKS: STEALTH JIHAD: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs, by Robert Spencer - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOKS: WHY DON'T STUDENTS LIKE SCHOOL? By Daniel T. Willingham - Jason R. Edwards (reviewer)
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A Proposal for a Development Bank PROPOSAL OUTLINE (PDF) 1. How the Commonwealth Development Bank helped build Australia 2. How Germany’s development bank (the Kreditanstalt fur Weideraufbau (KfW)) works 3. About the KfW today (PDF) 4. New Zealand: setting up a People’s Bank 5.25% of all bank branches closed 1993-2000 (PDF) What the papers are saying: * Canberra Times, Nov 6: People's bank will help close the gaps (Emeritus Prof Ted Kolsen) * AFR, Nov 6: People's bank: need overtaken by greed (Prof Rod Jensen) * AFR, Nov 6: Yes to a national development bank (Prof Hugh Stretton, Adelaide University) * The Age, Nov 1: Why not a people's bank, Mr Beazley? (Kenneth Davidson) * AFR, Nov 1: Let's at least examine bank proposal (Will Bailey) * Sydney Morning Herald EDITORIAL, Oct 30: Banks for People * Herald-Sun, Oct 21: People's bank "has potential"(Gerard McManus)

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News Weekly publishes special editions covering important issues and topics. A Manifesto for Australia is the most recent special edition magazine, focusing on Globalisation, the new economy and free market. Read articles from this compelling edition online.
Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 13 October 2001:Not too many publications go out on a limb to suggest policies, but News Weekly is an exception. Published in January, its Manifesto for Australia outlines a broad range of problems caused by "uncontrolled deregulation" during the past 20 years, including "widespread job destruction" and downsized essential public services. Then it spells out policies to solve these problems, which include a new Commonwealth-style bank and a homemakers' allowance to help families with children. - Daniel Fallon
Contents - 13 Jan 2001
A MANIFESTO FOR AUSTRALIA - January 13, 2001
A CALL TO ARMS - January 13, 2001 - Peter Westmore
Part A: Globalism - the theory and the reality - January 13, 2001
Corporate capitalism: the product of government intervention - January 13, 2001
Part B: A history of economic rationalism in Australia - January 13, 2001
Part C: How Globalism undermines the family - January 13, 2001
Part D: The cultural revolution and the new economy - January 13, 2001
Part E: A policy agenda for Australia's future prosperity - January 13, 2001
Some remarks on the new economic disorder - January 13, 2001 - Max Teichmann