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CANBERRA OBSERVED: Peter Costello calls it a day
Peter Costello's contribution to Australia was significant. To what degree will be debated by both sides of politics for some time.
EDITORIAL: New South Wales puts Australian firms first - Peter Westmore
Anytime that anyone dares to support a buy-Australia policy, a group of economic purists can be depended upon to condemn it.
VICTORIA: The threats to Victoria's electricity and water - Patrick J. Byrne
Not only the green lobby, but also privatisation and so-called competition policies have put at risk power, water and other state services. Patrick J. Byrne reports.
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GENERAL MOTORS: Restructured GM won't thrive without new mindset
How did GM, until recently the world largest motor vehicle manufacturer, go bust? Jeffry Babb reports.
UNITED STATES I: Obama's celebrity-style media spectacle
Abroad, Obama delivers high-profile speeches. But at home his administration is presiding over an economic disaster. Daniel Greenfield reports.
UNITED STATES II: Cairo speech impressed Western media, not Islamic world
Is President Obama going the right way about creating common ground between America and Islam? Peter Westmore reports.
IRAN: US conciliatory approach to Tehran backfires
Iran's disputed election outcome represents a major foreign policy setback for the Obama Administration. Joseph Poprzeczny reports.
ASIA/PACIFIC REGION: East Timor consolidates stable democratic government
East Timor is, surprisingly, emerging as one of the success stories of the 21st century, writes Peter Westmore.
UNITED STATES: Husband and wife spied for communist Cuba
The FBI have arrested a husband and wife and charged them with spying for Cuba. Joseph Poprzeczny reports.
SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY: How science can diminish humanity
Recent advances in neuroscience should not be used as a pretext to deny the existence of the human soul, warns Bill Muehlenberg.
EUTHANASIA: The perils of euthanasia "with safeguards"
"Death with dignity" advocates are fond of reassuring sceptics that euthanasia provisions will include adequate "safeguards". But just how reliable are these promised safeguards in practice, asks Paul Russell.
MEN AND IDEAS: Bob Santamaria's role in Australia's culture wars
A law professor pays tribute to B.A. Santamaria's numerous contributions to public life.
OPINION: The Japanese threat facing Australia in 1942.
Too many Australians fail to appreciate how close the country came to invasion by the Japanese in World War II, writes James Bowen.
LETTERS: Failure of stimulus packages (Peter D. Howard); Russia's population crisis (John Maguire); IPCC's political agenda (Alan Barron).
MEDIA: ABC Chaser's war on common decency
Only after a huge public outcry did ABC management finally suspend a TV comedy show which made fun of terminally ill children. Angus Chapple reports.
CINEMA: Hollywood morality for an audience of fools
Len Phillips reviews State of Play (rated M).
BOOKS: SHAKESPEARE'S SHATTERED YOUTH, by Lucy Sullivan - J.A. Kirkpatrick (reviewer)
BOOKS: CROSSING HITLER, by Benjamin C. Hett - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)


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NW 13 June 2009
Contents - 13 June 2009
COVER STORY: Beijing mocks Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Hon. David Kilgour
EDITORIAL: Recession: end of the beginning ... or beginning of the end? - Peter Westmore
EUTHANASIA: Dr Death's travelling road show - Tim Cannon
POPULATION: Billionaire club seeks to curb world's population - Bill Muehlenberg
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Is Barnaby Joyce a leader in the making?
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Why Rudd's emissions trading scheme should be defeated - Peter Westmore
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Fundamental change is needed, but probably won't happen - Patrick J. Byrne
GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR: FBI foils new terrorist attack on New York - John Miller
SRI LANKA: Mass carnage of Tamils in war without witnesses - Peter Westmore
INDIA: India's Congress alliance's strengthened mandate - Babette Francis
CHINA: Growth slump worries Beijing leadership - Ian H. McDougall
ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: Japan set to expand its naval capabilities - Joseph Poprzeczny
OBITUARY: Jerzy Zubrzycki MBE CBE AO - A champion of human freedom and dignity
OPINION: Employee share ownership under threat - Hon. Kevin Andrews
AS THE WORLD TURNS: The word is out/ Sharia law vs. prairie law
Housing affordability and land prices (letter) - Marc Florio
Religious zeal (letter) - P.C. Wilson
Fuddled logic (letter) - Leon Ashby
Contrarianism? (letter) - Frank Pulsford
CINEMA: 'The Baader Meinhof Complex' - film whitewashes notorious terrorist gang
BOOKS: I AM MELBA: A Biography, by Ann Blainey - Jeffrey Babb (reviewer)
BOOKS: AN AWKWARD TRUTH: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942, by Peter Grose - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 30 May 2009
Contents - 30 May 2009
CLIMATE CHANGE: Solar inactivity points to further global cooling - Peter Westmore
EDITORIAL: Australia's biggest financial scam? - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Next generation to pay for Swan Budget
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Fund infrastructure with a development bank - Patrick J. Byrne
DEFENCE WHITE PAPER: Glaring flaw at heart of government defence thinking - Antony O'Brien
ASIA: Will China "liberate" the South China Sea? - Ian H. McDougall
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: US auto industry meltdown highlights financial collapse - Peter Westmore
UNITED KINGDOM: Unrestrained greed caused banking crisis - Peter Westmore
HUMAN RIGHTS: A bill of rights will diminish our freedoms - Charles Francis QC
ILLICIT DRUGS: Cannabis use linked to suicide, schizophrenia - John Barich
EDUCATION: The Frankfurt School and the war on the West - Bill Muehlenberg
OPINION: The forgotten factor: land prices - John Young
AS THE WORLD TURNS: American capitalism gone with a whimper / Eurabia has a capital: Rotterdam / In the casbah of Rotterdam
Bill of rights vs. common law (letter) - Lucy Sullivan
Beware of 'Plimer contrarianism' (letter) - Dr Brian E. Lloyd, AM
CINEMA: Cold War metaphor encoded in vampire movie - Len Phillips
BOOKS: THE HORNET'S STING: The Amazing Untold Story of WWII Spy Thomas Sneum, by Mark Ryan - Warren Reed (reviewer)
BOOKS: HEROES: From Alexander the Great to Mae West, by Paul Johnson - Bill James (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 16 May 2009
Contents - 16 May 2009
COVER STORY: Impending collapse of Australian agriculture - Patrick J. Byrne
EDITORIAL: Implications of the budget black hole - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd backs down on climate change
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: IMF's global outlook: expect the worst - Peter Westmore
MANAGED INVESTMENT SCHEMES: Behind the collapse of Timbercorp - Peter Westmore
INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Re-inventing the wheel of international trade - Colin Teese
CHINA: China sees US as dying Roman empire - Joseph Poprzeczny
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Taiwan's WHO entry breakthrough - Ian H. McDougall
UNITED NATIONS: UN anti-racism conference blames Israel - Babette Francis
ARTIFICIAL REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY: Does family matter? Ask the kids… - Tim Cannon
POPULATION: One-child policy for Australia, says green group - Bill Muehlenberg
ABORTION LAWS: Further threats from pro-abortion fanatics - David Perrin
RUSSIA: Russia faces catastrophic population decline - Joseph Poprzeczny
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Ageing population adds to financial crisis / Turn back the clock / Obama axes school voucher program
CINEMA: Shielding one's eyes from the truth - 'Good' - Len Phillips (reviewer)
BOOKS: HEAVEN AND EARTH - Global Warming: the Missing Science, by Ian Plimer - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer)
BOOKS: WORLD WAR II: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: Stalin, the Nazis and the West, by Laurence Rees - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
BOOKS: WAR AND MEDICINE, by Thuyavan with John Whitehall - Peter Westmore (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 2 May 2009
Contents - 2 May 2009
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Labor's 'people overboard' fiasco
EDITORIAL: Human rights consultation hijacked? - Peter Westmore
TRADE: Government pushes China free trade agreement - Peter Westmore
FIJI: Australia and NZ silent as China bankrolls military junta - Peter Westmore
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: From Baghdad to Beijing: Labor's dodgy dealings - Joseph Poprzeczny
TRADE UNIONS: WA unions host Cuban ambassador... Why? - Peter Westmore
ILLICIT DRUGS: Australia's $10 billion industry - organised crime - David Perrin
GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR: A desperate fight to the death - John Miller
THAILAND: Land of smiles descends into turmoil - Ian H. McDougall
PRE-SCHOOL: Conscripting our toddlers for political activism - Bill Muehlenberg
ISLAM: Where human rights are really needed - Babette Francis
OPINION: Legislative assault on freedom of conscience - Paul Russell
POLITICAL IDEAS: Crisis of credibility that has shaken the world - Professor Dermot Quinn
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Productive investment vs. financial speculation / Free speech curtailed for the sake of pluralism
Human rights hearings (letter) - John Morrissey
Australia to import food? (letter) - Arnold Jago
Telstra (letter) - Peter Townsend
ETS to cost billions (letter) - Alan Barron
CINEMA: Katyn - Sombre depiction of unpunished WW2 crime - Joseph Poprzeczny
BOOKS: REFUGEES AND REBELS: Indonesian Exiles in Wartime Australia, by Jan Lingard - Warren Reed (reviewer)
BOOKS: GIRLS LIKE YOU: Four Young Girls, Six Brothers and a Cultural Timebomb, by Paul Sheehan - John Morrissey (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 18 April 2009
Contents - 18 April 2009
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Ex-Treasury chief slams Government and Opposition
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: China's Rio bid: Australia's independence at stake - Patrick J. Byrne
EDITORIAL: G20 summit: end of the "Washington Consensus"? - Peter Westmore
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Can US dollar remain world's reserve currency? - Colin Teese
OPINION: Time to put outlaw bikie-gangs out of business - John Ballantyne
UNITED STATES: Republican Party in dire need of a leader - Joseph Poprzeczny
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Finding the resolve to wage a titanic struggle - John Miller
FAMILY POLICY: Promoting family-centred child-care - Dr Allan Carlson
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Swedish social laboratory's disastrous legacy - Bill Muehlenberg
HUMAN CLONING: SA parliamentarians misled by false science - Dr David van Gend
PORNOGRAPHY: American feminist warns of long-term damage from porn - Naomi Wolf
SCHOOLS: Teachers powerless to deal with unruly students - Dr Kevin Donnelly
OBITUARY: Laurie Short: an Australian hero (1915-2009) - Peter Westmore
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Regulation no longer a dirty word / Great orator Obama? / Jimmy Carter II?
Tribute to Laurie Short (letter) - Alan A. Hoysted
Liberal predicament (letter) - Greg Byrne
CINEMA: The emptiness of a loveless life - Elegy - Len Phillips (reviewer)
BOOKS: SAMUEL JOHNSON: A Biography, by Peter Martin - Bill James (reviewer)
BOOKS: SOLAR CYCLE 24, by David Archibald - Peter Westmore (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 4 April 2009
Contents - 4 April 2009
EDITORIAL: A way out of the economic tsunami? - Peter Westmore
FREEDOM OF SPEECH: The new persecution that calls itself 'tolerance' - Cardinal George Pell AC
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Senator Steve Fielding's political challenge
COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT: Rudd Government's radical agenda by stealth - Jerome Appleby
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: The Liberal Party faces moment of truth - Joseph Poprzeczny
QUEENSLAND STATE ELECTION I: Labor's Anna Bligh returns to power - Ken Francis
QUEENSLAND STATE ELECTION II: Leading abortion campaigner defeated
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Can free trade theory survive the global slump? - Colin Teese
ENVIRONMENT: Global cooling is here: Don Easterbrook - Peter Westmore
BIOETHICS: Plant liberation: Europe's next cause célèbre? - Bill Muehlenberg
UNITED NATIONS: Voices for the unborn heard at UN session - Babette Francis
OPINION: Granting scientists power to take innocent life - Barnaby Joyce
F.D. Roosevelt and Obama's strategies (letter) - Peter J. Talbot
Agriculture the best-performing sector (letter) - Hon. Robert Brokenshire MLC
Increasing populations (letter) - John Noble
CINEMA: Easy Virtue - Dark side of 'deliciously funny comedy' - Len Phillips (reviewer)
BOOKS: SMACK EXPRESS: How Organised Crime Got Hooked on Drugs, by Clive Small and Tom Gilling - Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer)
BOOKS: JOURNEY TO ETERNITY: Victim of Apartheid: a novel, by Eric Carman - Peter Westmore (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 21 March 2009
Contents - 21 March 2009
COVER STORY: NCC denounces Labor's decision to fund abortions
EDITORIAL: Meeting the global demographic challenge - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd Government faces horror budget
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: After meltdown, who will provide for retirees? - Colin Teese
LEGAL AFFAIRS: Unelected judges are today's new aristocracy - James Allan
POPULATION: Melbourne scientist praises China's one-child policy - Bill Muehlenberg
BUSHFIRES: Greens adopt tobacco lobby tactics - Patrick J. Byrne
NORTHERN QUEENSLAND: No vision for Australia's vast water supplies - Patrick J. Byrne
AUSTRALIA AND ASIA: Lucky Country or mugged by reality? - Warren Reed
GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR: Lahore terrorist attack affects us all - John Miller
UNITED STATES: More scandals surround Obama nominations - Babette Francis
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Behind East Timor's 10 per cent growth rate - Peter Westmore
SRI LANKA: Sectarian, anti-Christian bill re-appears - Dr John Whitehall
CINEMA AND CULTURE: Re-writing history, Hollywood-style - Len Phillips
AS THE WORLD TURNS: US government schools teach pro-Islamic propaganda - Marc Sheppard
BOOKS: FATHER OF THE HOUSE: The memoirs of Kim E. Beazley - John Elsegood (reviewer)
BOOKS: THE TRIUMPH OF THE AIRHEADS and the Retreat from Commonsense by Shelley Gare - Bill James (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 7 March 2009
Contents - 7 March 2009
EDITORIAL: Behind Malcolm Turnbull's pitch for green votes - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: The Costello question that refuses to go away
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: China's spending spree: our sovereignty at risk - Patrick J. Byrne
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Targeted spending needed to promote Australian jobs - Colin Teese
NEW ZEALAND: Kiwibank goes from strength to strength - Peter Westmore
QUEENSLAND: Premier Bligh calls snap election - Ron Munn
PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY: Shooting the messenger undermines democracy - Warren Reed
HEALTH: Labor's campaign against doctors' private practices - Ian H. McDougall
UNITED STATES: The nightmarish cabinet of President Obama - Babette Francis
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: UN whitewash of China human rights abuses - Peter Westmore
GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM: What to do with Guantánamo detainees? - Joseph Poprzeczny
SPECIAL FEATURE: The agnostic who took on Darwin and Dawkins - David Palmer (reviewer)
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Sexual suicide of Western society - Bill Muehlenberg
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Social websites harm children's brains - top neuroscientist / Conspiracy theory? / 'Right to die' can become a 'duty to die'
Euthanasia and dementia sufferers (letter) - Hal G.P. Colebatch
Wilson Tuckey I (letter) - Kevin Martin
Wilson Tuckey II (letter) - Kevin O'Neill
CINEMA: Stylised miniature of feminist mythology - Revolutionary Road - Len Phillips (reviewer)
BOOKS: ATTILA THE HUN: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire, by Christopher Kelly - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 21 February 2009
Contents - 21 February 2009
EDITORIAL: Bushfires: when will we ever learn? - Peter Westmore
NATIONAL SECURITY: Secret Saudi funding of Australian institutions - Mervyn F. Bendle
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Can Rudd save Australia from the global slump? - Patrick J. Byrne
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Coalition differences over Rudd stimulus
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Obstacles on the road to economic recovery - Colin Teese
ENERGY: How Australia can become fuel self-sufficient - Dr Walter Starck
UNITED STATES: Supreme Court contributed to global financial crisis - Joseph Poprzeczny
CHINA: Chinese unrest in face of massive job losses - Jeffry Babb
TERRORISM: The two faces of Eve - nature, nurture or Islam? - John Miller
EDUCATION: Non-government schools give parents better value - Kevin Donnelly
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Parenting not something to outsource / Diversity fanatics threaten charities
Bushfires blamed on global warming (letter) - Alan Barron
Anti-rural campaign (letter) - Rowan Shann
Deregulation of wheat (letter) - Hon. Wilson Tuckey MP
Valuable contributions (letter) - Peter Kavanagh
OBITUARY: Fred Schwarz, Cold Warrior, friend of Ronald Reagan - Bill Muehlenberg
CULTURE: The other side of the ledger - Babette Francis
CINEMA: The Wrestler grapples with life's big problems - Bill James
LABOUR AND JUSTICE: The worker in Catholic social teaching, by Gavan Duffy - Joseph Poprzeczny
BOOKS: BYE-BYE DOLLY GRAY, by Antony O'Brien - John Morrissey (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 7 February 2009
Contents - 7 February 2009
EDITORIAL: Where will President Obama take America? - Peter Westmore
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Can Australia avoid an economic depression? - Patrick J. Byrne
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Australia should brace itself for worse to come
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: Blatant political bias in human rights body - Damian Wyld
JUDICIARY: High Court nominee's gay rights, abortion activism - Jerome Appleby
GLOBAL TERRORISM: The great lie of 'home-grown' terrorism - John Miller
QUARANTINE: Shake-up for Australia's quarantine system - Peter Westmore
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Being smart about using soft power - Jeffry Babb
MEDIA: What to make of the Obama cult - Bill Muehlenberg
OPINION: Is there any point to suffering? - Paul Russell
CIVILISATION: Created equal: how Christianity shaped the West - Dinesh D'Souza
AS THE WORLD TURNS: How modern law makes us powerless / Dutch anti-Islam MP to face trial / UK Christian care home accused of 'institutionalised homophobia'
OPINION: Legislative change could help first home-buyers - Brian Peachey
Should democracy always have the last word? (letter) - Matthew Buckley
Deserted by the Liberals? (letter) - Kevin O'Neill
A future for News Weekly (letter) - Nicholas Partridge
FORUM: Free markets and libertarianism - Hal G.P. Colebatch and John Ballantyne
CINEMA: Slumdog Millionaire - Indian orphan tale a box-office hit - Anthony Barich (reviewer)
BOOKS: ENOUGH: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, by John C. Bogle - Peter Westmore (reviewer)
BOOKS: THE WHITE WAR: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919, by Mark Thompson, - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 6 December 2008
Contents - 20 December 2008
EDITORIAL: A Christmas reflection - Who was Jesus Christ? - Peter Westmore
HUMAN RIGHTS: Looming threat to our religious freedom - Damian Wyld
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Turnbull heading a frayed and fractured Opposition
NATIONAL SECURITY: Will Australia heed the lessons of Mumbai? - John Miller
OPINION: Is David Hicks's cheer squad paying attention? - Babette Francis
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Unlocking the riddle of the global financial crisis - Colin Teese
BANKING: Bendigo Bank preferred over 'Four Pillars' - Ken Aldred
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Australia challenged by US strategic decline - Patrick J. Byrne
ASIA: China exports recession to Taiwan - Jeffry Babb
POLITICS: Key principles of democratic statesmanship - Hon. Tony Abbott MP
OBITUARY: Max Teichmann (1924-2008) - Writer, academic and raconteur fondly remembered - John Ballantyne
BOOKS: HARD JACKA: The Story of a Gallipoli Legend, by Michael Lawriwsky - Bill James (reviewer)
BOOKS: EKATERINBURG: The Last Days of the Romanovs, by Helen Rappaport - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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NW 6 December 2008
Contents - 6 December 2008
COVER STORY: Opposition tensions to resurface in 2009?
EDITORIAL: Left-liberals to dominate Obama Administration - Peter Westmore
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Disentangling the new world disorder - Colin Teese
SUPERMARKETS: GroceryWatch is a white elephant - Frank Zumbo
POLITICAL IDEAS: The realisable goal of property for all - Dr Allan Carlson
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Giving to the have-mores / How long can Labor last? / Degraded educational standards / Future prospects - Max Teichmann
BANKING: The Medici — manipulators of money and soft power - Jeffry Babb
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Abortion increases risk of pre-term births - Babette Francis
EUGENICS: The menace of eugenics, yesterday and today - Bill Muehlenberg
MARRIAGE: US battle to preserve traditional marriage - John Elsegood
CINEMA: Depraved film the symptom of a sick culture - the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading - Dr John Whitehall (reviewer)
Australian Christian Lobby responds (letter) - Jim Wallace AM
Chechen terrorists (letter) - Patrick J. Gethin
BOOKS: GLOBAL JIHAD: The Future in the Face of Militant Islam, by Patrick Sookhdeo - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOKS: WARSAW 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe, by Adam Zamoyski - Joseph Poprzeczny (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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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
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