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[ DATE: 30 August 2008]
CLIMATE CHANGE: It's official: the world is cooling, not warming
To cut CO2 emissions to combat a non-existent threat will end up hurting the world's poor, writes Peter Westmore.
EDITORIAL: Olympic Games backfire on Beijing
World coverage of the Beijing Olympics has exposed some uncomfortable truths about China.
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CANBERRA OBSERVED: Tougher times ahead as commodity boom falters
Kevin Rudd will have to ditch his current superficial policies of keeping watch on fuel, grocery prices and bank margins, and start making the hard decisions in Australia's national interest.
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Should we rescue imprudent banks?
Those running financial institutions are seldom chastened by the experience of over-lending and the collapse that inevitably follows, writes Colin Teese.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: How Labor's Carpenter may cling to power
Whether Colin Barnett's Liberals can win even minority government status in WA remains in doubt, writes Joseph Poprzeczny.
WATER: Radical plan to overcome water shortage
Could north-western Australia supply water to Perth and Adelaide?
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Remembering Menzies' "forgotten people"
Robert Menzies, in constructing the Liberal Party, wanted it to be free of the behind-the-scenes big business interests that had controlled the finances and policies of the old United Australia Party, writes Jeffry Babb.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Resurgent Russia's conflict with Georgia
Russia may be warning Ukraine against joining NATO, writes Peter Coates.
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Recipe for social conflict / Putin's gamble / Once more unto the swill buckets, dear friends (Max Teichmann).
SPECIAL FEATURE: B.A. Santamaria, strategist and prophet
His Eminence Cardinal George Pell AC speaks at the launch of a collection of B.A. ("Bob") Santamaria's papers, edited by Patrick Morgan.
MARRIAGE: On breaking the marriage covenant
US Senator John Edwards has admitted to having an extramarital affair while his wife was dying of cancer. However, what is even more indefensible, writes Bill Muehlenberg, is that many people are prepared to justify his behaviour.
HISTORY: Hitler proposed a "final solution" for Christianity
Atheist Richard Dawkins fails to prove that Hitler was a Christian, writes Bill James.
OBITUARY: Bob O'Connell (1922-2008), a generous man of integrity
Fr Peter Joseph pays tribute to the late Bob O'Connell, a former NSW president of the National Civic Council.
LETTERS: Economic production needed, not speculation (Dr Garrick Small).
BOOKS: WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR GIRLS?, by Maggie Hamilton - Catherine Sheehan (reviewer)

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Contents - 16 August 2008
COVER STORY: Solzhenitsyn, towering 20th-century prophet - John Ballantyne
EDITORIAL: Australia's faltering economy: a way out - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Does Peter Costello have what it takes?
BANKING: Bendigo Bank praised by Reserve Bank governor - Ken Aldred
INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Why the Doha trade round collapsed - Colin Teese
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Plum postings for Australia's new aristocracy - Warren Reid
RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM: Animal rights fanatics threatening our exports - John Morrissey
INTERNET: ISP-level porn filtering moves a step closer - Peter Westmore
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Musical chairs - Max Teichmann
EDUCATION: An education system worth fighting for - Kevin Donnelly
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Opportunities for minor parties in WA election - Gerard Goiran
UNITED KINGDOM: London transport bomb plot trial collapses - John Miller
SPECIAL FEATURE: 1968 Prague Spring remembered - Jan Lidicky
CINEMA: The Dark Knight - Heath Ledger's 'creepy and mesmerising' finale - Siobhan Reeves (reviewer)
BOOKS: A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO MUSIC HISTORY, by R.J. Stove - Mark Freer (reviewer)
BOOKS: THE GREAT ARAB CONQUESTS: How the spread of Islam changed the world we live in, by Hugh Kennedy - Jeffry Babb (reviewer)
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Contents - 2 August 2008
COVER STORY : WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Christianity challenges the secular age - Peter Westmore
EDITORIAL: A tale of two countries ... - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: How Rudd could avoid climate change backlash
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Future threats from China - Peter Coates
FOREIGN INVESTMENT: Sovereign Wealth Funds threaten Australia's independence - Patrick J. Byrne
NATIONAL SECURITY: Let our security services do their job - John Miller
EDUCATION: Reclaiming the school syllabus - John Kelly
SCHOOLS: Will more computers help under-performing schools? - Kevin Donnelly
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Under threat - the roles of motherhood and fatherhood - Mary-Louise Fowler
MEDIA: Ten's Big Brother finally bites the dust - Bill Muehlenberg
STRAWS IN THE WIND: A new political and moral map for Australia? - Max Teichmann
VICTORIA: Women's Hospital counsel defends abortion - Babette Francis
OPINION: Carbon emissions hysteria is economic suicide - Jeffry Babb
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Bastille Day reconsidered / Sharia law in Europe
Answer to water crisis (letter) - John A.H. Brown
Global-warming scepticism challenged (letter) - Tim Wallace
Advances in solar power technology (letter) - John Urquhart
American health care (letter) - John Gates
BOOKS: FORGOTTEN ANZACS: The campaign in Greece, 1941, by Peter Ewer - Bill James (reviewer)
BOOKS: HOMER'S THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY: A Biography, by Alberto Manguel - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 19 July 2008
COVER STORY / MERCHANTS OF SLEAZE: Sexualised marketing targets young girls - Catherine Sheehan
EDITORIAL: Throwing cold water on global warming - Peter Westmore
FOREIGN INVESTMENT: Australia's sovereignty at stake - Patrick J. Byrne
CANBERRA OBSERVED: The economic costs of the Garnaut Report
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: WA Liberals sliding towards defeat - Joseph Poprzeczny
REGIONAL COMMUNITIES: Could an Asian regional grouping work? - Colin Teese
MARRIAGE: Muslim push for polygamy in Australia - Bill Muehlenberg
EUTHANASIA: I'm not sick - can I commit suicide too? - Tim Cannon
UNITED STATES: Health care - America's shame - Jeffry Babb
EDUCATION: What is the advantage of rote-learning? - Warren Reed
SCHOOLS: Political correctness rules in the classroom - Kevin Donnelly
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Faith restored / Buyers' remorse / French resistance / New world disorder / Back to my favourite bête noire / America - Max Teichmann
Natasha Stott Despoja a trail-blazer? (letter) - Denise M. Cameron
Partial-birth abortion (letter) - Charles Francis, AM, QC
BOOKS: THE CHINA FANTASY: Why capitalism will not bring democracy to China, by James Mann - Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer)
DVD: APOCALYPSE? NO! Why global warming is not a crisis, by Christopher Monckton - Peter Finlayson (reviewer)
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Contents - 5 July 2008
COVER STORY: The real China the West prefers to ignore - Joseph Poprzeczny
EDITORIAL: Lessons of the equine influenza (EI) inquiry - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Two big unknowns for the Rudd Government
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Emissions-trading a "bureaucratic indulgence" - Patrick J. Byrne
EQUINE INFLUENZA: AQIS responsible for EI outbreak, says report - Peter Westmore
INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Rudd's scheme for an EU-style Asian community - Colin Teese
GLOBAL TERRORISM: Australians supplying arms to Colombian guerrillas - John Miller
POLITICAL IDEAS: Champion of the humane economy - Wilhelm Röpke - Allan Carlson
OPINION: Why the Howard Government fell - Jonathan Lightoller
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Abortion damage to women ignored by inquiry - Charles Francis QC
EUTHANASIA: Doctor-assisted suicide halted... for now - Tim Cannon
EDUCATION: Environmental jihadists terrorising our children - Bill Muehlenberg
SCHOOLS: Teaching grammar: the blind leading the blind - Kevin Donnelly
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Masculinity under attack / Denying global warming deemed a crime against humanity / Ireland defies European Union
Small business and farmers should make more noise (letter) - Chris Hilder
Renewable energy? (letter) - Lyndon Burns
BOOKS: THE REVOLUTION: A Manifesto, by Ron Paul - Jeffry Babb (reviewer)
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Contents - 21 June 2008
EDITORIAL: 'Peak oil': Apocalypse now? - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Whither the Nationals?
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: What happens after cheap credit, oil and food? - Patrick J. Byrne
SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS: Rudd grants special rights to same-sex couples - Damian Wyld
FAMILY POLICY: Home truths about working families - Bill Muehlenberg
EUTHANASIA: Assisted suicide: safeguards or naivety? - Tim Cannon
NATIONAL SECURITY: Soviet bloc espionage: setting the record straight - Warren Reed and Dr Christopher J. Ward
DEFENCE: Should Australia have nuclear defence capability? - Peter Coates
CHINA: Beijing muzzles protests over Sichuan earthquake - Peter Westmore
UNITED STATES: Is Obama equipped to lead the free world? - Joseph Poprzeczny
CULTURE: How political correctness threatens Australian culture - Senator Cory Bernardi
ART: The downward spiral of modern art - Kevin Donnelly
Barack Obama's oratory (letter) - Frank Bellet
Why cutting Australian emissions won't work (letter) - Suryan Chandrasegaran
Baby imports? (letter) - Peter Townsend
Short-term stupidity (letter) - Gavin Lawrie
CINEMA: New Narnian epic Prince Caspian surpasses expectations - John Ballantyne
BOOKS: INKLINGS OF HEAVEN: C.S. Lewis And Eschatology, by Sean Connolly - Bill James (reviewer)
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Contents - 7 June 2008
EDITORIAL: Will money solve the problems of indigenous Australians? - Peter Westmore
COVER STORY: UK green light for creation of human-animal hybrids - Tim Cannon
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd Labor Government wobbles for the first time
OVERSEAS TRADE: US farm bill buries talk of free trade in agriculture - Patrick J. Byrne
TRADE PRACTICES ACT: Will Liberals back Labor or small business? - Patrick J. Byrne
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Has financial deregulation finally been discredited? - Colin Teese
VICTORIA: Vic. court hands gambling decision back to council - Luke McCormack
CENSORSHIP: Student union bans pro-life activities
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Post-abortive women: from silence to lawsuits - Luke McCormack
CULTURE: Our topsy-turvy world: on kangaroo culls and child porn - Bill Muehlenberg
CHILDHOOD: Are violent video games harmless entertainment? - Kevin Donnelly
HUMAN RIGHTS: The Olympics and China's organ-harvesting shame - David Kilgour
OPINION: Democracy in disconnect: joining the dots - Warren Reed
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Urban environments to human scale / War on the family / How we lost the Cold War
Chickens coming home to roost (letter) - Alix Turner
Obligation to tackle global warming (letter) - Brian E. Lloyd, AM
Farmers and carbon tax (letter) - Dave Boland
Railway opportunities beckon (letter) - Kevin O'Neill
BOOKS: STRONG FATHERS, STRONG DAUGHTERS, by Meg Meeker MD - Catherine Sheehan (reviewer)
BOOKS: GOD'S CRUCIBLE: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 570-1215, by David Levering Lewis - Jeffry Babb (reviewer)
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Contents - 24 May 2008
COVER STORY: Rudd Budget targets 'middle-class' welfare
EDITORIAL: 'Whom the gods wish to destroy...' - Peter Westmore
LABOUR MARKET: Post-school education and training: a national crisis - Catherine Sheehan
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Oil imports threaten to blow out foreign debt - Patrick J. Byrne
ENERGY: Germany's rapid development of renewable energy - Patrick J. Byrne
SCHOOLS: Dubious deal offered to pupils' parents / Faith schools' autonomy defended - Kevin Donnelly
CIVIL LIBERTIES: Political correctness suppresses free speech - Bill Muehlenberg
ABORTION: Why abortion should remain a crime - David Perrin
PUBLIC AFFAIRS: The indispensable role of government - Dr Christopher J. Ward
DEFENCE: Lest we forget our duty of care to servicemen - Warren Reed
OLYMPIC GAMES: Clean-up or purges? Beijing prepares for the Games - Jeffry Babb
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: Is the United Nations beyond repair? - John Bolton
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Westerners acquiescing to creeping sharia / Oil fuelling world's conflicts
OPINION: Why we should encourage creation of new Australian states - Don Ford
Plight of young home-buyers (letter) - Bob Day AO
In defence of global warming (letter) - Tim Wallace
Wrong way to tackle inflation (letter) - Chris Hilder
US presidential elections (letter) - Frank Bellet
Life, not euthanasia (letter) - Brian Harris
BOOKS: RELIGION OF PEACE? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't, by Robert Spencer - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOKS: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane - Peter Westmore (reviewer)
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Contents - 10 May 2008
COVER STORY: Labor abandons small business - Patrick J. Byrne
EDITORIAL: Overhaul Australia's quarantine system! - Peter Westmore
HOUSING: How to make the Australian dream come true - Jeff Babb
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Daunting challenges for Swan's first Budget
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Australia reels under sub-prime fall-out - Colin Teese
AGRICULTURE: Behind the world's food shortage - Patrick J. Byrne
NATIONAL SECURITY: Is it ever too early to foil a terrorist plot? - John Miller
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Dial an anti-climax / Carrying a torch for China / Economic gobbledegook / Adolescent roulette... and culture shock / Zimbabwe - Max Teichmann
CHINA: Beijing spying apparatus gears up for Olympics - Peter Coates
HIGHER EDUCATION: The high cost of free love - Bill Muehlenberg
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Women in danger from sex predators, coerced abortions - Babette Francis
POPULATION: Russian life expectancy worse than Bangladesh's
MEDIA: ABC program's Castro whitewash - Bill James
Point overlooked (letter) - Colin Teese
Competition policy review (letter) - Chris Hilder
China's jackboot diplomacy (letter) - M. Gordon
No voice for unborn at Rudd summit (letter) - Denise M. Cameron
Our next Governor-General (letter) - Frances Costa
It's time to help boys (letter) - Alan Barron
BOOKS: RISING '44: The Battle for Warsaw, by Norman Davies. - Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer)
BOOKS: SILENT MOVIES: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture, by Peter Kobel - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 26 April 2008
COVER STORY: Too terrible to contemplate - John Miller
EDITORIAL: Torch relay highlights Beijing's human rights record - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Could Costello unite demoralised Liberals?
MANUFACTURING: Car-making could be our flagship industry - Craig Milne
NEW ZEALAND: NZ Kiwibank now has 600,000 customers - Peter Westmore
WATER: Federal water policy will add to world food shortage - Patrick J. Byrne
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Reaping the whirlwind of financial deregulation - Colin Teese
PROFILE: Other side of Australia's next Governor-General - Peter Westmore
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Life is a cabaret / Nepal / Bitter fruits / Russia and China / Swan song? / The skaters' waltz / Rice / Ingrid Betancourt - Max Teichmann
ASIA: Middle power status for Australia: mind over rhetoric - Warren Reed
AFRICA: World stands by as Mugabe inflicts terror in Zimbabwe - Peter Westmore
FAMILY LAW: Paternity fraud punishes the blameless - Charles Francis QC
SCHOOLS: What must be done to lift standards? - Kevin Donnelly
INTERNET FILTERING: Porn industry opposes Conroy's ISP-filter plan
OPINION: Economic policy should serve national interest - Robin Speed
BOOKS: LIBERAL FASCISM: The secret history of the American left, from Mussolini to the politics of meaning - Jeffry Babb (reviewer)
BOOKS: EMBRYO: A Defense of Human Life by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
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Contents - 12 April 2008
COVER STORY: Red Star over Canberra - Joseph Poprzeczny
EDITORIAL: Behind the bid for UN Security Council seat - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd's ideas summit looms
BIOFUELS: Ethanol doesn't have to compete with food - Patrick J. Byrne
QUARANTINE: AQIS blamed for equine influenza outbreak - Peter Westmore
FINANCE: Right and wrong way to tackle financial crisis - Colin Teese
STRAWS IN THE WIND: The American elections / Rudd's honesty / Conservative blues / NATO's fastidious peace-keeping - Max Teichmann
TAIWAN: KMT victory paves way for improved China ties - Jeffry Babb
EUROPE: The Dutch disease - how low can you go? - Bill Muehlenberg
BIOETHICS: Man - a vanishing species? - Babette Francis
OPINION: Twilight of the British Raj - Mark Braham
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Beijing's one-child policy a demographic powder-keg / A nation of dunces? / Fragility of the affluent society
High cost of foregoing trade deal (letter) - John R. Barich
Finlandisation? (letter) - Paul Jeffery
News Weekly's stand on global-warming (letter) - P.C. Wilson
Earth Hour a silly idea (letter) - Alan Barron
BOOKS: THE LITERACY WARS: teaching children to read and write in Australia by Ilana Snyder - Bill James (reviewer)
BOOKS: ORIGINS: An Atlas of Human Migration edited by Russell King - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 29 March 2008
COVER STORY: The truth about Australia's birth rate - Catherine Sheehan
EDITORIAL: NSW electricity to be privatised? - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Opposition needs new policies, not stunts
WATER: Time to build new reservoirs - Patrick J. Byrne
QUARANTINE: EI inquiry flags major changes to horse quarantine - Peter Westmore
INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Rudd Government to re-examine FTAs - Colin Teese
ENVIRONMENT: Conference rejects climate change alarmism - Peter Westmore
HIGH SCHOOLS: School: ladder of opportunity or game of snakes and ladders? - Mark Lopez
HUMAN RIGHTS: Behind Beijing's crackdown in Tibet - Peter Westmore
UNITED STATES: California court attacks parental rights
DRUGS: Australia's complicity in global drugs menace - David Perrin
UNITED NATIONS: Feminist frolics at the UN - Babette Francis
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Muslim attacks forcing Jews out of Paris suburbs / School vouchers flourishing in Sweden / Coal tipped to be world's top energy source
MEDIA: ABC's take on Islamic school controversy - John Miller
CINEMA: BELLA: A gentle film with a big heart - David Perrin (reviewer)
BOOKS: DARWIN DAY IN AMERICA: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by John G. West - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOKS: ISLAND OF THE LOST by Joan Druett - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 15 March 2008
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Will the economy spoil Rudd's party?
THE ECONOMY: Higher interest rates the wrong way to cut inflation - Patrick J. Byrne
EDITORIAL: Horse flu: Canberra makes the victims pay - Peter Westmore
PREDATORY PRICING: Defending small business and farmers - Frank Zumbo
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Ten concerns about Rudd's first 100 days - Bill Muehlenberg
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Warmer oceans? / Revenge of the nerds / The left assault on the student mind - Max Teichmann
ENVIRONMENT: Climate change: fallacies in the Garnaut report - Peter Westmore
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Time for moratorium on abortion? - Babette Francis
CHINA: Beijing's human rights record: why we must act - David Matas
ASIA: Sri Lanka at the brink - Dr John Whitehall
RUSSIA: From Putin to Medvedev: a new Russia? - John Miller
EASTERN EUROPE: Communist old guard still not defeated -  Joseph Poprzeczny
Fuel price deception (letter) - Frank Bellet
The real 'stolen generation' (letter) - L.B. Loveday
BOOKS: UNSTOPPABLE GLOBAL WARMING Every 1,500 Years, by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery - Dr Jay Lehr (reviewer)
BOOKS: THEIR DARKEST HOUR: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII, by Laurence Rees - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 1 March 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)
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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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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