National Observer - Australia and World Affairs articles from March 2003

National Observer - Australia and World Affairs archives from March 2003

The serious matter of bracket creep.(Editorial Comment)(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... The phenomenon of bracket-creep (whereby due to inflation incomes move into increasingly high tax brackets, and are hence subject to higher rates of tax) has been known for many years. But it has not received the attention it merits. It has...

The aggressive homosexual lobby: alternative lifestyle or perversion?(Editorial Comment)(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... It is now generally accepted that homosexual acts should not be criminally punishable if between adults. There are various arguments for and against this relaxation of the law. On the one hand it is argued that private acts between adults...

John Howard--leadership and character; Peter Costello, "The Hollow Man".
March 22, 2003... I Good leadership is based on character. Political leadership is a special type of leadership. The leader is defined by his sense of politics as a vocation, a calling, and his sense that politics has a higher purpose defined by the triad:...

From pink to blue: the mainstreaming of homosexuality.
March 22, 2003... Four recent events--one of them occurring in Britain, one in Canada, one in the United States, and one in Australia--have forced upon even the least percipient newspaper-reader's attention the gigantic strides which the English-speaking world's...

Australian culture wars: losing the argument.
March 22, 2003... We have been watching, with varying degrees of interest, what are being called The History Wars, after a book of the same name, produced by one of the combatants, Stuart Macintyre. Another book--edited by Robert Manne--attacks Keith...

Alexandre Kojeve: Moscow's Mandarin Marxist mole in France.
March 22, 2003... Who was Alexandre Vladimirovitch Kojevnikov? To understand Kojevnikov, who changed his nationality from Russian to French and his name from Alexander Kojevnikov to Alexandre Kojeve, one must imagine an agent of influence for the Russian...

John Gilbert Winant at Geneva: the testimony of Sir Walter Crocker.
March 22, 2003... (Sir Walter Crocker, who died at the age of one hundred in November 2002, was born on a small farm in rural South Australia. He became a graduate of Adelaide, Oxford and Stanford Universities. He served in the British Colonial Service and then...

Female barristers and their feminist supporters.(Legal Notes)
March 22, 2003... Recent differences between Mr. Daryl Williams (the then Attorney-General) and Senator Helen Coonan (the Assistant Treasurer) raise questions whether Senator Coonan can be regarded as balanced in regard to women barristers and feminist issues....

The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Peter Brimelow New York City: HarperCollins, 2003, pp. 320 That which millions of Americans imagine themselves, in vain, to be, Peter Brimelow actually is: a rugged individualist. British-born but now resident in the United States, Mr....

Our Posthuman Future.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Francis Fukuyama London: Profile Books, 2002, pp. 256, $49.95 Fukuyama claims that if biotechnology continues as uncontrolled as it is now, we could well become citizens in a society like that in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. To...