National Observer - Australia and World Affairs articles from March 2007

National Observer - Australia and World Affairs archives from March 2007

EDITORIAL COMMENT.(Editorial)
March 22, 2007... OUR NEW GOVERNMENT: PROGNOSIS, WARNING Australia moves into a new period with the election of the Rudd Labor Government. Some things will change for the worse. On the industrial relations front we are likely to see a return to the bad old...

In this issue.
March 22, 2007... We lead off with John Stone's important piece, "Australia's New Government Should Understand the Following". This article, after an introductory section in which the author predicts the ways in which a Rudd Labor Government will set things...

Australia's new government should understand the following.(Essay)
March 22, 2007... As this article is being filed, (1) the federal election campaign is in full swing. Before it is published we shall know whether, over the next three years, we shall be governed by the Coalition parties, again, or by a Labor government led by...

The untold story behind New Zealand's ANZUS breakdown.(The Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty)
March 22, 2007... Twenty years after the Nuclear-Free Zone Disarmament and Arms Control Bill passed into law on 4 June 1987, the event has assumed a heroic mythology. New Zealand dared to stand up to the United States and forge its own independent foreign...

Liberating intelligence from suffocating bureaucracy.
March 22, 2007... DEFINING THE THREAT Australia's newly-elected Labor Government faces a major dilemma with national security. Ever since the United States opted for a Homeland Security Department in the aftermath of the horrors of September 11, 2001, the...

The importance of the "rule of law" in the development of the Australia-China business relationship.
March 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION This essay briefly analyses the current state of the business relationship between Australia and the People's Republic of China and assesses its future prospects. In particular, I will argue that, although commentators...

Democracy vs. security.(Reprint)(Essay)
March 22, 2007... Which is more critical to the United States in the Islamic world--that a government be democratic, or that it be a friend and ally in the war against al-Qaida and Islamic extremism? In the Bush era, the answer has seemed unequivocal. We are for...

THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture By Andrew Keen (New York City: Currency, 2007) Hardback: 228 pages Fifty years ago, the United States' best-selling non-fiction authors included Vance...

CONSERVATISM IN AMERICA: Making Sense of the American Right.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... CONSERVATISM IN AMERICA: Making Sense of the American Right By Paul Edward Gottfried (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.) The trouble with reviewing a tome by Paul Edward Gottfried is that almost the only person possessing the...