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National Observer - Australia and World Affairs archives from September 2008
Our culture-killers.(Editorial comment)(Editorial)
September 22, 2008... The latest evidence from Queensland supports the view that many of the nation's children are being denied adequate knowledge of their centuries-old culture. Culture begins with language. Corrupt language, by malign neglect of grammar, proceeds...
In this issue.(Editorial comment)
September 22, 2008... The current issue of National Observer is headed by a powerful, scholarly article on the limited nature of Australia's form of democracy, which is not, strictly speaking, democracy at all, but something more accurately described here as a...
Australia--a democracy or just another ballotocracy?(Report)
September 22, 2008... Try to imagine Australia if its 1890s colonial founding fathers had incorporated into the federal constitution the following clause: (1)
No Bill passed by both Houses of the Federal Parliament shall be assented to by the Governor-General...
Dr H.V. Evatt--part II: the question of loyalty.(Herbert Vere Evatt)(Report)
September 22, 2008... This article (1) focuses on a question that haunted Evatt's political career during the Cold War--his loyalty to the Labor Party and, above all, his loyalty to Australia and its national security interests. Despite his tactical and...
"Reshaping Australia": 2020 and all that.(Australia 2020 Summit)(Essay)
September 22, 2008... When the full glory of the Australia 2020 Summit burst upon me, my first thought was of that old Groucho Marx saying that he wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have him as a member.
In company with about a million other...
Suharto's legacy.
September 22, 2008... The recently deceased President Suharto of Indonesia is routinely referred to by Australian journalists as a brutal dictator--they can't find a good word to say about him. Yet no-one did more to improve Indonesia as a nation, and to provide...
CSIRO's political partisanship.(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation editorial on abortion)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Last year, the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) journal Sexual Health (2007, 4) published an editorial by Jo Wainer entitled "Abortion and the full humanity of women: nearly there". It strongly...