Contents - 01 Mar 2008 COVER STORY: The Australian economy a 'house of cards' - Patrick J. Byrne EDITORIAL: Timor troubles: the way ahead - Peter Westmore CANBERRA OBSERVED: What remains to be done after saying sorry? NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Brian Burke and Kevin Rudd cross paths again - Joseph Poprzeczny ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Economic policy-making in conflict - Colin Teese STRAWS IN THE WIND: Hysteria in the House / US election campaign / "Say sorry" segment / The economy - Max Teichmann ISLAM: Uproar over Archbishop of Canterbury's Islam gaffe - Dr Christopher J. Ward AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: Why Australia's Christian heritage matters - Charles Francis QC HUMAN RIGHTS: The 2008 Olympics and China's Communist regime - Peter Westmore TAIWAN: Chen: Almost over, but not out - Jeffry Babb INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Australia and Japan set to draw closer together - Sharif Shuja AS THE WORLD TURNS: Global warming? It's the coldest winter in decades / Capitalism's enemies within Reality gap between words and action (letter) - M. Gordon Wentworth's vision for Australian railways (letter) - Kevin O'Neill Thuggery at Brisbane pro-life rally (letter) - John McMahon The struggling Rudds (letter) - Frank Bellet BOOKS: IT'S YOUR TIME YOU'RE WASTING: A teacher's tales of classroom hell, by Frank Chalk - James Gilchrist (reviewer) BOOKS: CAPTAIN BLIGH'S OTHER MUTINY, by Stephen Dando-Collins - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer) News Weekly Books

Sir,

Lauren Mellor and her gang of merry clowns and radical activists violently invaded a peaceful gathering of pro-life women rallying in Brisbane on Saturday, February 9. The pro-life Respect for Women rally was in support of the defence of innocent unborn babies and their mothers.

(Mellor afterwards told the Australian Associated Press that her pro-abortion activists "decided to ambush the event" to put voice to the majority of Australians who supposedly support abortion rights (AAP, February 9, 2008).)

In flagrant disregard for the views and values of others in this democracy of ours, she and her mob stormed and rampaged onto the stage in Queen's Park.

In overwhelming numbers they overpowered a concerned number of pro-life women who are prepared to stand by other women facing pressure to terminate the life of their innocent unborn child.

John McMahon,
Kolonga, Qld
 
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