National Observer - Australia and World Affairs articles from June 2006

National Observer - Australia and World Affairs archives from June 2006

New editor for National Observer.(Brief article)
June 22, 2006... Dr. Ian Spry QC announced, before Christmas last year, his retirement as editor of National Observer, after having edited some thirty issues of the journal. "I have found this extremely rewarding, and the circulation and influence of the...

Iran's nuclear deception: Taqiyya and Kitman (Part I).
June 22, 2006... "Chemical bombs and biological weapons are poor man's atomic bombs and can easily be produced.... Although the use of such weapons is inhuman, the war taught us that international laws are only drops of ink on paper."--Iran's parliamentary...

A view from an A.S.I.O. director-general's desk.(Australian Security Intelligence Organisation)
June 22, 2006... October last year saw the publication of the memoirs of a former Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (A.S.I.O.), Justice Sir (Albert) Edward Woodward, who prefers to be known as Judge Edward Woodward. (1)...

Mr. Mark Latham and the labor party.(The Latham Diaries)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Although only published last September, The Latham Diaries, by former Labor leader Mark Latham, has sunk almost entirely from public mention. Yet the book remains one of the most significant works published in Australia this year, and a "must...

The truth about Mao.(Mao: The Unknown Story)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... To much fanfare and international recognition, Jung Chang, author of the all-time best selling non-fiction work Wild Swans, has co-authored with her British husband Jon Halliday a definitive history of Mao Zedong. The book has already been...

China's energy needs and Central Asia.
June 22, 2006... China is a fast emerging global power and has registered rapid economic growth. It remains the sole long-term challenger to U.S. hegemony. It has now displaced the United States as the dominant market for many commodities; its steel production...

Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy In The Post-Soviet World.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... VIRTUAL POLITICS: FAKING DEMOCRACY IN THE POST-SOVIET WORLD By Andrew Wilson Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2005, pp. 332 and index. Adviser to President: "Mr. President, I have good news for you, and bad news. The good...

Editorial comment.(Editorial)
June 22, 2006... RIP AUSTRALIAN MULTICULTURALISM? The renaming of the Commonwealth Government department, formerly known as the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, but now as the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, reflects the...

In this issue.
June 22, 2006... The current issue of National Observer features a revealing article by Mervyn Bendle on the continuity of thought (one hesitates to say "philosophy") between those who in the 1960s loved to go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, and those in the...

Terrorism and the new left in the 'Sixties.
June 22, 2006... This article explores the convergence of militant Islamist ideology with the radical ideology of the New Left that emerged in the 'Sixties. In particular, it seeks to explain the contemporary support for terrorism expressed by many elements...

"Global warming scare-mongering.(Column)
June 22, 2006... Readers may recall my previously reviewing a highly readable science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, State of Fear, about "global warming" scare-mongering. (1) The book focused both on the massive scientific and political fraud involved and...

Double lives: three Australian fellow-travellers in the Cold War.(Brian Fitzpatrick, Manning Clark, Clement Byrne Christesen)
June 22, 2006... This article examines the role of three pro-Soviet fellow-travellers during the Cold War: journalist, historian and civil libertarian activist Brian Fitzpatrick; the controversial historian Professor Manning Clark; and Clement B. Christesen,...

Lunging leftward.(neoconservatism in Australia)
June 22, 2006... A feature article in Intercollegiate Review (Fall 2006), which presents itself as an appeal from the Old Neoconservatives to the younger ones, makes a point that is worth revisiting. Like the author of this essay, Daniel Mahoney, I too have...

And who isolated US?
June 22, 2006... "I'm concerned about protectionism, isolationism." Those were the first words President Bush spoke as he sat down Wednesday, 31 January, at an editorial board meeting at the Wall Street Journal. (1) Reading his remarks calls forth only...

Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's wittiest, most outspoken justice.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... SCALIA DISSENTS: Writings of the Supreme Court's wittiest, most outspoken justice edited by Kevin A. Ring (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004). Hardcover: 256 pages Reviewed by Philip Ayres Antonin Scalia was...

Head of State: The Governor-General, the Monarchy, the Republic and the Dismissal.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... HEAD OF STATE: The Governor-General, the Monarchy, the Republic and the Dismissal. by David Smith (Sydney: Macleay Press, 2005). Reviewed by Philip Ayres Hardback: 358 pages Sir David Smith was Official Secretary to five...