National Observer - Australia and World Affairs articles from June 2003

National Observer - Australia and World Affairs archives from June 2003

Have "anti-discrimination" and "anti-racism" laws gone too far? (Editorial Comment).(Column)
June 22, 2003... Laws against discrimination raise fundamental questions in regard to the freedom of individuals. Every law that protects a person by preventing private actions that disfavour him also detracts from the freedom of other persons to make decisions...

The heavy burden of Israel upon the West. (Editorial Comment).(Column)
June 22, 2003... During the past two years there has been a marked increase in hostility towards the West by Moslem countries and by a range of Moslem organisations, extending to terrorist groups. Most dramatically this hostility led to the World Trade Centre...

The media and Archbishop Pell: promoting the victim culture. (Editorial Comment).(Catholic Archbishop George Pell)(Editorial)
June 22, 2003... Archbishop George Pell, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, has been the object of persistent attacks in a number of left-liberal newspapers (such as The Age in Melbourne) for his conservative stance on many religious and social issues....

Can Australian industry support defence in a regional crisis?
June 22, 2003... By their very nature, defence planning and, in this context, the capabilities of manufacturing industry are not elements of national infrastructure that can--or should--be designed to meet some passing event like a regional security crisis....

Richard Helms and the C.I.A. choices amongst conflicting duties.(United States Central Intelligence Agency)
June 22, 2003... Richard McGarrack Helms, who died on 22 October 2002, was perhaps the most controversial, and certainly one of the most important directors of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was the director of the C.I.A. from 1966 to 1973, during one of...

Brazil turns left: executive power in Latin America's largest country.
June 22, 2003... Preoccupation with Bali's and Moscow's bloodbaths recently exacerbated Australian news media outlets' longstanding illiterate provincialism to so grave an extent that Brazil's dramatic presidential election of 27 October 2002 went largely...

Australia and the European Union.
June 22, 2003... The European Union remains Australia's largest economic partner when one takes into account trade in goods, services, investment and transfers. Traditionally it has enjoyed a substantial trade surplus with Australia. But one country's trade...

Concerns about child care: part one.
June 22, 2003... Modern life is full of pressures which did not exist several decades ago. Today the battle to pay off the family home and meet other financial needs is becoming increasingly more difficult. A single wage is often not sufficient. As a result...

Revisiting Solzhenitsyn.
June 22, 2003... This article is based upon a book entitled A World Split Apart, which was originally an address given at Harvard University in 1978. Within a few years most of many books, lectures and pamphlets by Solzhenitsyn have ended up hidden in libraries...

Immigration law and the courts. (Legal Notes).(Australia)
June 22, 2003... For much of the last century Australian immigration law rested on two key controls: an officer of the Immigration Department had a discretion to decide who was allowed to enter Australia; and the Minister had a discretion to deport a person who...

George Pell.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Tess Livingstone Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, pp. 484, with index, $22. Fair-minded, conscientious (though never smug) and sharply intelligent, Tess Livingstone is an anomaly amid modern Australian journalism. That Miss...

Churchill.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Ray Jenkins London: Pan Macmillan, 2002, pages 957 and index, $25. This new and comprehensive biography of Winston Churchill has been well received by leading reviewers in England and the United States, and certainly its length makes it...

The West and the Rest.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By Roger Scruton Delaware, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002, pages 171 and index, $19.95. Roger Scruton is a well-known political philospher whose many books have contained perceptive analyses of cultural and social questions. The...