National Observer - Australia and World Affairs articles from June 2002

National Observer - Australia and World Affairs archives from June 2002

Editorial comment.(Editorial)
June 22, 2002... When does dissent become treachery? Over two centuries the struggle to maintain Australia's independence and sovereignty has involved much effort and many sacrifices from generation to generation. In particular, in two World Wars and in...

The debates we have to have.
June 22, 2002... The 11 September terrorist attack on America is rightly said to have "changed the world". But Australians' world had already begun to change a fortnight earlier. When, on 27 August 2001, the Prime Minister ordered the Tampa to leave Australian...

Failure: the terrorist attacks against the United States on 11 September 2001.
June 22, 2002... The terrorist attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001 represent a first-order intelligence failure. Despite the United States' expenditure of $300 billion on defence, $30 billion on intelligence services and approximately $12 billion...

Why sovereignty matters: the erosion of democracy.
June 22, 2002... Only temporarily overshadowed by the November 2001 Federal election is a controversy quietly raging in Australian political and legal circles that has brought into sharp focus the place of national sovereignty in an age of expanding global...

Multiculturalism and Middle East terrorism.
June 22, 2002... In the aftermath of the 11 September terrorist attacks on the U.S. World Trade Centre and the Pentagon by terrorists of Middle Eastern origin, Western societies with significant Muslim or Arab communities have experienced incidents of communal...

Christians and foxes: further notes on Britain's culture war.
June 22, 2002... To attack the culture is to attack the country, but it is to attack it from within. It comes from the sort of culture that has already contrived to get inside another culture, the sort unpleasantly suggested by bacteria-culture. Anyone who...

A modern China journal, June 2001.
June 22, 2002... Once visitors went to the border crossing between Macao and the People's Republic of China to say that they had seen the "real" China. Now it is the other way around. Macao remains a novelty for mainland Chinese, who need special passes to...

An impeccable chief justice, a dubious attorney-general. (Legal Notes).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Chief Justice of the High Court, Mr. Murray Gleeson, was appointed on the basis of his outstanding legal abilities and the general respect in which he is held. Since his appointment his behaviour has continued to be exemplary and a model...

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... THE TRAGEDY OF GREAT POWER POLITICS by John J. Mearsheimer New York City, 2001: W. W. Norton & Co., pp. 448 and index. This important book provides a basis for the realistic and accurate appreciation of the behaviour of major powers, which...

Hughes. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... HUGHES By Andrew Riemer Sydney, 2001: Duffy and Snellgrove, pp. 180. Andrew Riemer, formerly of Sydney University's English Department, is best known today as a distinguished memoirist and Sydney Morning Herald book reviewer. In this...

Way Out There In The Blue: Reagan, Star Wars And The End Of The Cold War. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... WAY OUT THERE IN THE BLUE: REAGAN, STAR WARS AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR by Frances FitzGerald New York City, 2001: Touchstone, pp. 592. Recent media reports that the Bush Administration is planning to construct an anti-missile base in...

Gallipoli. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... GALLIPOLI By Les Carlyon Sydney, 2001: Pan Macmillan Australia, pp. 581 and index. It should be said at once that this is a very readable and worthwhile book. It is carefully researched, and it deals with one of the most important episodes...