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[ DATE: 21 August 2010]

CANBERRA OBSERVED:
Australia's future in the balance

- national correspondent

EDITORIAL:
Our neglected area of policy: the Pacific

- Peter Westmore

FEDERAL ELECTION 2010:
Vote Green: a good way to wreck your investments

- Patrick J. Byrne

FEDERAL ELECTION 2010:
Green policies 'anti-Christian': Cardinal George Pell

- Peter Westmore

FAMILY POLICIES:
Let families decide how they structure their work/life balance

- Tim Cannon

LABOR PARTY:
Emily's Laundry? Emily's List whitewashes website

- Babette Francis

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POLITICAL IDEAS:
The chilling creed of the radical libertarians
by John Ballantyne

BUSHFIRES ROYAL COMMISSION:
Lack of political willpower haunts Victoria
by Peter Westmore

VICTORIA:
Babies born alive, but left to die?
by Tim Cannon

NEW ZEALAND:
Kiwis wary of China’s murky takeover bids
by Bernard Moran

UNITED STATES:
One unelected judge nullifies will of majority
by Bill Muehlenberg

FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
US election a referendum on Obama’s presidency
by Peter Westmore

ASIA:
Burma fast becoming China’s new Tibet
by Ian H. McDougall

EUROPE:
British PM supports Turkey’s bid to enter EU
by Joseph Poprzeczny

AS THE WORLD TURNS:
Sharia law’s relentless advance / The mosque at Ground Zero / Britain to slash defence spending / Fay Weldon has second thoughts about feminism.

BOOK REVIEW:
Hawke: The Prime Minister, by Blanche d’Alpuget
(reviewed Peter Westmore)

BOOK REVIEW:
George Orwell: A Life in Letters, by George Orwell
(reviewed by Bill James)



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Previous News Weekly
NW 7 August 2010
Contents - 7 August 2010
EDITORIAL: Implications of the Labor-Green preference swap - Peter Westmore
POLITICAL PARTIES: Greens declare war on non-govt schools - Bill Muehlenberg
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Christians launch the Canberra Declaration - Jerome Appleby
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Julia Gillard's dwindling policy options - national correspondent
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: A future fund to secure Australia's prosperity - Patrick J. Byrne
PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: The PPL assault on the family: a solution
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Timorese leaders reject Gillard's asylum scheme - Peter Westmore
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Wikileaks points to Pakistan, Iran support for Taliban - Peter Westmore
TAIWAN: Could China trade pact reduce cross-strait tension? - Jeffry Babb
ESPIONAGE: The unreported history of intelligence wars - John Miller
CULTURE AND CIVILISATION: The heritage of Western civilisation - Cardinal George Pell AC
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Saying yes to heterosexual marriage - Bill Muehlenberg
OPINION: What Julia Gillard really thinks about men - Babette Francis
SCHOOLS: Gillard's dumbed-down, PC approach to geography - Kevin Donnelly
Labor using dodgy tactics (letter) - Alan Barron
Accessories to murder (letter) - John Young
What usury really means (letter) - Peter D. Howard
The DLP and Stalinism in the ALP (letter) - Peter Kavanagh
AS THE WORLD TURNS: The gathering storm. - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
BOOK REVIEW: THE MANCHURIAN PRESIDENT: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists - Mervyn F. Bendle (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE NEW VICHY SYNDROME: Why European Intellectuals Surrender To Barbarism, by Theodore Dalrymple - Bill James (reviewer)
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NW 24 July 2010
Contents - 24 July 2010
EDITORIAL: Gillard's new tax will stymie mining, energy industries - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Will Gillard be any better than Rudd? - national correspondent
SAME-SEX ADOPTION: 'Inclusive' PC politics forgets the kids - Tim Cannon
POLITICAL PARTIES: The anti-family agenda of the Greens - Jerome Appleby
COLD WAR: Communist 'bombshell' rocks the Labor Party - John Ballantyne
ASYLUM-SEEKERS: Why Gillard's 'East Timor solution' cannot work - Peter Westmore
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: US, EU economics stuck in a 'long depression' - Patrick J. Byrne
ESPIONAGE: Russian secret intelligence still very much in business - John Miller
UNITED STATES: Left abandons Barack Obama - Jeffry Babb
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Abortion-breast cancer link studiously ignored - Babette Francis
SCHOOLS I: Mathematics education at crisis point - Bob Mears
SCHOOLS II: Bid to promote Islam in Australian curriculum - Kevin Donnelly
OPINION: Rediscovering our sense of Australian nationhood - Lucy Sullivan
OPINION: Broadband access could be an election issue - Francis Young
What's in store for Australia? (letter) - (Mrs) Tricia Gibson
Islam and usury (letter) - John H. Cooney
Descent into barbarism? (letter) - Richard Congram
A dear girl called Julia (letter) - Frank Bellet
AS THE WORLD TURNS: The Left's PC censorship of the arts. - Gerald Warner
BOOK REVIEW: DANGEROUS DREAMERS: The Australian Anti-Democratic Left and Czechoslovak Agents, by Peter Hruby - Hal Colebatch (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: UNDERSTANDING SHARIA FINANCE: The Muslim Challenge to Western Economics, by Patrick Sookhdeo - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
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NW 10 July 2010
Contents - 10 July 2010
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Julia Gillard's long-term agenda - John Ballantyne
CANBERRA OBSERVED: No easy policy options for new PM Julia Gillard - national correspondent
EDITORIAL: Shuffling the deck-chairs leaves key issues unresolved - Peter Westmore
PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: Feminist-backed push to disadvantage parentcare - Tempe Harvey
HOUSING: Rampant divorce pricing young couples out of homes - Peter Kavanagh MLC
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Have we reached the end of the beginning? - Colin Teese
LEGAL AFFAIRS: Move to centralise control of the legal profession - Jerome Appleby
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: The fright of the intellectuals ... - Mervyn F. Bendle
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Beijing's softly, softly approach to Taiwan, Hong Kong - Peter Westmore
CHINA: China labour activism heralds profound change - Ian H. McDougall
EUROPEAN UNION: EU President admits people misled by euro project - Professor David Flint AM
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Suppressing the truth about maternal deaths - Babette Francis
CULTURE AND CIVILISATION: Meet the new family, digitally deluged - Albert Mohler
PARENTHOOD: No man will ever replace a real mum - Catherine Sheehan
Vietnam veterans (letter) - Robert Bom
Tony Abbott and his faith (letter) - Peter D. Howard
New states deserve support (letter) - Don Ford
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Who jails and tortures the most journalists on earth?; US Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan
BOOK REVIEW: A RAT IS A PIG IS A DOG IS A BOY: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement, by Wesley J. Smith - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: WAR IN THE PACIFIC, 1941-1945, by Richard Overy - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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NW 26 June 2010
Contents - 26 June 2010
EDITORIAL: Taxpayer-funded political advertising scandal - Peter Westmore
PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: Labour and Coalition reject equality for stay-home mums - Tim Cannon
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd living on borrowed time - national correspondent
DEFENCE: Govt spending cuts put Army Reserve at risk - Ken Aldred
ISLAM: Australia set to accommodate Islamic sharia finance - Bill Muehlenberg
MIDDLE EAST: Israeli nuclear-missile submarines stationed off Iran - Joseph Poprzeczny
UNITED STATES: Will debt bring down the American empire? - Jeffry Babb
ENVIRONMENT: Tuvalu sinking? Much ado about nothing - Peter Westmore
ENERGY: Fuel import bill could negate mining boom benefits - Patrick J. Byrne
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Thirty-year experiment with non-intervention - Colin Teese
HUMAN RIGHTS: Why are feminists silent on Beijing's abuse of women? - Peter Westmore
WOMEN'S HEALTH: US doctors tiptoe around female genital mutilation - Babette Francis
WORLD WAR II: When the screen is mightier than the sword - Joseph Poprzeczny
SCHOOLS: History wars erupt again with new curriculum - Kevin Donnelly
Sinister 'sex files' project (letter) - Jerome Appleby
Rudd vs. Abbott (letter) - Frank Bellet
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Retiring baby-boomers threaten us with bankruptcy; Ban PCs until children reach nine?; Obama too friendly with tyrants; Taliban hang 7-year-old boy punish his family
BOOK REVIEW: BLIND SPOT: When Journalists Don't Get Religion - John Barich (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: JUNGLE SOLDIER: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman, by Brian Moynahan - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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NW 12 June 2010
Contents - 12 June 2010
COVER STORY: Financing of terrorism in Australia - Mervyn F. Bendle
EDITORIAL: BP scandal spreads beyond Gulf of Mexico - Peter Westmore
OPINION: Super-profits tax creates climate of uncertainty - Jason Kuchel
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Beijing thwarts sanctions against North Korea - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd Government planned showdown with miners - national correspondent
FOREIGN TRADE: China slowdown spells trouble for Australia - Joseph Poprzeczny
PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: Rudd and Abbott overlook stay-at-home mothers - Babette Francis
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: The chilling reality of late-term abortion - Tim Cannon
ILLICIT DRUGS: Labor and Greens defeat DLP bid to ban bongs - David Perrin
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Regulators crack down on speculation - Jeffry Babb
MIDDLE EAST: Why Turkey dispatched flotilla to Gaza - Joseph Poprzeczny
OPINION: Time to reclaim Australian history - Paul Fitzgerald AM
ENVIRONMENT: Al Gore's actions speak louder than words - Peter Westmore
GREAT BRITAIN: Who will rescue Britain from its present madness? - Hal G.P. Colebatch
Economic illiteracy (letter) - Neil C. Fearis
Statistically insignificant (letter) - Lance Eccles
ALP branch-stacking (letter) - John Kavanagh
The truth and Kevin Rudd (letter) - Brian A. Peachey
AS THE WORLD TURNS: In praise of pessimism
BOOK REVIEW: THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, and Power, by Melanie Phillips - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: WHAT'S WRONG WITH ANZAC? The Militarisation of Australian History, by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds - Bill James (reviewer)
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NW 29 May 2010
Contents - 29 May 2010
COVER STORY: A program for Australia's future - Patrick J. Byrne
OPINION: Is Rudd's resources super profits tax constitutional? - Professor David Flint AM
EDITORIAL: Stop Rudd's super profits tax! - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Labor's 'destroy Abbott' strategy may backfire - national correspondent
FEDERAL BUDGET: No budget relief for single-breadwinner families
OPINION: The Henry tax review's better proposals - Dr Lucy Sullivan
EARLY CHILDHOOD: Kinder kids quizzed on their sexuality
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: European debt crisis reveals globalisation's shortcomings - Colin Teese
INDIA: India's 'Red Corridor' and the Naxalite threat - Joseph Poprzeczny
ISLAM: Feminists silent about women in burqas - Babette Francis
GENDER AND IDENTITY: Radical ideologues deny innate gender differences - Bill Muehlenberg
UNITED STATES: The politics of religion in America - Jeffry Babb
Tony Abbott alienating Australian families (letter) - Suryan Chandrasegaran
New York bomber 'disenchanted' (letter) - Frank Bellet
Canberra power-grab (letter) - Stephen Milgate
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Absolutely terrified; Globalisation of higher education; Muslim woman becomes UK Conservative party chairman; British bobbies are being replaced
BOOK REVIEW: A GOD WHO HATES, by Wafa Sultan - Mark Durie (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: O'MALLEY MHR, by Larry Noye - Dallas Clarnette (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 15 May 2010
Contents - 15 May 2010
COVER STORY: Henry Tax Review’s vicious attack on miners, families - Peter Westmore
FAMILIES: How Henry tax proposals will undermine families - Damian Wyld
EDITORIAL: Rudd to bankroll human rights activists - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Verdict on the Kevin Rudd experiment - national correspondent
FEDERALISM: Hawke, Howard and Abbott seek to curb states' powers - Joseph Poprzeczny
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Fault-lines widen in world's financial system - Patrick J. Byrne
UNITED STATES: Is President Obama a real-life Manchurian candidate? - Hal G.P. Colebatch
KOREAN PENINSULA: Torpedo attack suspected in mystery sinking - John Miller
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: China and the West: war without guns - Ian Adie
UNITED KINGDOM: Christianity criminalised in Britain - Bill Muehlenberg
EDUCATION: Maths Online: the new resource for students, parents and home-schoolers - Peter Westmore
SOCIETY: How biotechnology affects the family - Dr Wanda Franz
GENDER AND IDENTITY: Children with gender identity disorder - Babette Francis
OPINION: America: the most generous nation on earth - Jeffry Babb
Let's create new Australian states (letter) - Jaruj Kazok
Labor and Liberals on childcare (letter) - Alan Barron
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Canadian province may scrap human rights tribunal; Lithuanian president told to support Baltic gay march; UK Lib Dems' secret support base - Muslims; Stalin's Ukrainian famine; Why the left can't stand Sarah Palin
BOOK REVIEW: KEYNES: The Return of the Master, by Robert Skidelsky - Colin Teese (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE WORLD BENEATH: A Novel, by Cate Kennedy - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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NW 1 May 2010
Contents - 1 May 2010
WATER: Government's misspent billions will destroy our farms - Patrick J. Byrne
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd gambles all on hospital reform - national correspondent
VICTORIA: "Big brother" laws could curb religious freedom - John Ballantyne
QUARANTINE: WTO apple ruling threatens Australian industries - Peter Westmore
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Privatisation has failed to deliver cheaper electricity - Colin Teese
EDITORIAL: Can terrorists really acquire nuclear weapons? - Peter Westmore
POLAND: Aircraft crash annihilates Polish leadership - Joseph Poprzeczny
CLIMATE SCIENCE: Earth is never in equilibrium - Richard S. Lindzen
ENVIRONMENT: 'Ship on the Reef': a critical review of this season's rerun - Walter Starck
SCHOOLS: Dumbed-down Australian history curriculum - Kevin Donnelly
GENDER AND IDENTITY: Help for homosexuals who want change - Babette Francis
CULTURE: Is the porn tide finally turning? - Bill Muehlenberg
TRADE UNIONISM: Why America doesn't have a labour party - Jeffry Babb
Perspective needed on Tony Abbott (letter) - Carolyn Mongan
Gratitude for public health system (letter) - Patrick Kavanagh
AS THE WORLD TURNS: China's shameful massacre of unborn girls; Soft power and no plan for Iran; Countering terror; Scientific establishment forfeits public trust
BOOK REVIEW: WILLIAM CHARLES WENTWORTH: Australia's Greatest Native Son, by Andrew Tink - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: NOTHING TO ENVY: Love, Life and Death in North Korea, by Barbara Demick - Bill James (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 17 April 2010
Contents - 17 April 2010
EDITORIAL: Broad approach needed to boat-people saga - Peter Westmore
DEFENCE: Unmanned aircraft needed to patrol our seas - Joseph Poprzeczny
CANBERRA OBSERVED: What is Tony Abbott on about? - national correspondent
PAID PARENTAL LEAVE I: Rudd and Abbott schemes will punish stay-home mums - Colin Jory
PAID PARENTAL LEAVE II: Maternity leave and the mother wars - Bill Muehlenberg
COVER STORY / POPULATION: The philosophical roots of 'Demographic Winter' - Don Feder
BUSHFIRES: Victoria changes tack on fuel-reduction burns - Peter Westmore
CLIMATE CHANGE: Criticism of 'Climategate' inquiries accelerates - Peter Westmore
UNITED NATIONS: UN body seeks 'universal human right' to abortion - Babette Francis
CHINA: Stern Hu convicted in kangaroo court - Peter Westmore
OPINION: All in the mind: Asian strategy and Australian big talk - Warren Reed
TRADE UNIONISM: The most dangerous man in Detroit? - Jeffry Babb
PORNOGRAPHY: Call for restrictions on 'soft porn' magazines - a special correspondent
AS THE WORLD TURNS: India launches world's largest school voucher program; Child 'spies' to snoop on teachers; Mothers and fathers disappear from UK birth certificates; Will America break up?
CINEMA: Portrait of Nelson Mandela - Invictus (rated PG) - John Whitehall (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW : THE RETREAT: Hitler's First Defeat, by Michael Jones - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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NW 3 April 2010
Contents - 3 April 2010
COVER STORY: How toxic culture exploits our children - Linda Papadopoulos
EDITORIAL: Stern Hu trial: implications for Australia - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: PM Rudd kicks off a very long campaign on health - national correspondent
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: $16 billion education fiasco traps Julia Gillard - Peter Westmore
PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: Voters want equality for all mothers: Galaxy poll - Patrick J. Byrne
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Rann hangs on after big anti-Labor swing - Damian Wyld
BORDER CONTROL: Rudd's time bomb on a boat: asylum-seekers - Jeffry Babb
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Behind the US-China trade dispute - Peter Westmore
LEGAL AFFAIRS: Human rights legislation through the back door - James Allan
EAST TIMOR: East Timor - the quiet revolution - Michael Lynch, SDB
SCHOOLS: New national English curriculum scores only C+ - Kevin Donnelly
SCHOOL FUNDING: Governments should support parental choice - Kevin Donnelly
UNITED STATES: Is Obamacare destined to be a disaster? - Bill Muehlenberg
UNITED NATIONS: UN feminist gab-fest gets up steam - Denise Mountenay
Firemen hose down political correctness (letter) - Name Supplied
Gigantic scam (letter) - P.C.Wilson
Atheistic arrogance misplaced (letter) - Peter Kavanagh
Too tough on Tony Abbott? (letter) - Frank Pulsford
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Turkey's 100,000 Armenians; Al-Qaeda nuclear threat to Britain; Can Christian organisations survive in a 'tolerant' age?
CINEMA: Hollywood perplexed by family values - The Blind Side, rated PG - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: ISLAM AT THE GATES: How Christendom Defeated the Ottoman Turks, by Diane Moczar - Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, by John Keegan - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 20 March 2010
Contents - 20 March 2010
EDITORIAL: Rudd's hospital scheme: spin before substance - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd lays groundwork for health referendum - national correspondent
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Tony Abbott's faux pas alienates allies - Peter Westmore
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Can SA's Liberals topple Labor's Mike Rann? - Damian Wyld
FOREIGN TRADE: Australian shareholders suspicious of China's motives - Ian H. McDougall
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Gathering crisis engulfs the European Union - Colin Teese
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Australian force in East Timor reduced - Peter Westmore
OPINION: Labor unconcerned about Australia's debt explosion - Barnaby Joyce
DIVORCE LAW: Family Law's unending war on fatherhood - Bill Muehlenberg
MEDICAL RESEARCH: Cannabis causes psychotic disorders in young users - Peter Westmore
UNITED NATIONS: Aid for Haiti delayed by condom shipments - Babette Francis
OPINION: Eight arguments for school voucher funding - Malcolm Smith
CIVILISATION: The politicisation of modern education - Dr Larry P. Arnn
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Couple nurture virtual child as real daughter starves to death; Staring into the chasm; French intellectual victim of hoax
CINEMA: Suspense-filled American war thriller - The Hurt Locker, rated MA15+ (for war violence and language) - Bill James (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: GOING ROGUE: An American Life, by Sarah Palin - Len Phillips (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: WEDNESDAY WARRIORS: Doing it for the Jumper, by James Gilchrist - John Morrissey (reviewer)
News Weekly Books

NW 6 March 2010
Contents - 6 March 2010
COVER STORY / EDITORIAL: Moment of truth for Bushfire Royal Commission - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Crisis of confidence in Rudd Government - national correspondent
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Federal, state governments veto northern development - Patrick J. Byrne
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Australian manufacturing: does it have a future? - Craig Milne
NATIONAL SECURITY: Terrorist trial a landmark in Australian justice - John Miller
INSULATION SCAM: Wheel turns full circle for Peter Garrett - Peter Westmore
CLIMATEGATE: No recent global warming, admits Professor Jones - Peter Westmore
ENERGY: Nuclear energy ... next generation power source - Peter Westmore
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Greek crisis tips Europe towards double-dip recession - Peter Westmore
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: US arms sales affirm Taiwan's strategic role - Ian H. McDougall
FAMILY POLICY: Voters demand equality in childcare maternity payments - Patrick J. Byrne
SURROGACY: Next stolen generation - who needs a mother, anyway? - David van Gend
FAMILY AND SOCIETY: What fatherlessness costs society - Bill Muehlenberg
SEX EDUCATION: Abstinence-only programs teach young to make wiser choices - Babette Francis
Failing schools (letter) - Marcus L'Estrange
Climate-scare game is up (letter) - Leon Ashby
News Weekly's prescience (letter) - P.C. Wilson
Latest quarantine fiasco (letter) - Frank Brown
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Giant mosque to overlook UK Sandhurst military academy/Controversial images withdrawn by the Met/Beware of ice cream made in China/Plummeting birthrates threaten global prosperity/Al Gore lying low
BOOK REVIEW: EMPIRES OF THE SILK ROAD: A History of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Present, by Christopher I. Beckwith - Jeffry Babb (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIETY, by Thomas Sowell - Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer)
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NW 20 February 2010
Contents - 20 February 2010
COVER STORY: Lord Monckton interviewed on global warming and the ETS - Damian Wyld
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd grows cooler on global warming - national correspondent
EDITORIAL: Obama: from euphoria to nightmare in 12 months … - Peter Westmore
CHINA: Three economic events that will change the world - Ian H. McDougall
FOREIGN DEBT: The unacknowledged elephant in the room - Patrick J. Byrne
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Rudd and Henry politicise Intergenerational Report - Peter Westmore
OPINION: Can Abbott rescue Liberals from 'Ruddbullism'? - John Stone
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: In the global power shift, whither Australia? - Patrick J. Byrne
MEDICAL ETHICS: Euthanasia laws - coming to a state near you - Paul Russell
MEDICAL SCIENCE: Abortion laws: seeing what we kill - Bill Muehlenberg
UNITED KINGDOM: Britain's lords vote for liberty - Babette Francis
CIVIC VALUES: Consumerism's destructive impact on faith and family - Daniel Graham
TECHNOLOGY: Computers, TV and a shrinking attention span - Christopher J. Ward
Global conning (letter) - Frank Bellet
Fundamental cause of population shortfall (letter) - Brian A. Peachey
Julia Gillard vs. Tony Abbott (letter) - Margaret Menzel
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Christian teacher forced out over Muslim pupil misbehaviour; Adult-child cultural reversal; Decline of the stiff upper lip
BOOK REVIEW: THE THIRD CHOICE: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom, by Mark Durie - Mervyn Bendle (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: DIVERSITY: The Invention of a Concept, by Peter Wood - Bill James (reviewer)
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NW 6 February 2010
Contents - 6 February 2010
COVER STORY: Global-warming sceptic Lord Monckton visits Australia - Peter Westmore
EDITORIAL: Is Rudd Government planning a new tax grab? - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Can the Abbott-Joyce duo defeat Kevin Rudd? - national correspondent
ENERGY: A climate policy that is good for Australia - Patrick J. Byrne
FAMILY LAW: Will Rudd Govt roll back shared parenting? - Sue Price
VICTORIA: Lesbian couple are named parents on birth certificate - Bill Muehlenberg
NEW SOUTH WALES: NSW Govt rejects adoption by same-sex couples - Peter Westmore
UNITED STATES: Gaping holes remain in passenger airline security - Joseph Poprzeczny
NATIONAL SECURITY: Global terrorist threat escalates - John Miller
EUROPE: Free speech on trial: Geert Wilders - Bill Muehlenberg
CHINA: Corrupt big business and the Communist Party - Ian H. McDougall
POLITICAL PROFILE: Not-so-secret agenda of Obama's 'science czar' - Damian Wyld
FAMILY VALUES: Human rights and education - William L. Saunders, Jr
UNITED NATIONS: UN skirmishes over meaning of gender - Babette Francis
Tony Abbott defended (letter) - Andrea Hoy
Condoms for Haiti? (letter) - Denise M. Cameron
Charles and Babette Francis (letter) - Michael J. Ryan
News Weekly name change? (letter) - J.A. Kirkpatrick
CINEMA: Cameron's latest blockbuster Avatar (rated M) - John Whitehall (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: LOSING MY RELIGION: Unbelief in Australia, by Tom Frame - Bill James (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE WOLF: How One German Raider Terrorised Australia and the Southern Oceans in the First World War, by Richard Guilliatt and Peter Hohnen - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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NW 26 December 2009
Contents - 26 December 2009
EDITORIAL: A reflection on Christmas - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: The new Opposition team - national correspondent
ENVIRONMENT: Copenhagen summit ignores 'Climategate' scandal - Peter Westmore
FINANCIAL CRISIS: Can the world expect a sustainable recovery? - Colin Teese
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The challenge of China - Peter Westmore
HUMAN RIGHTS: Commonwealth's double standards over Sri Lanka, Fiji - Dr John Whitehall
CULTURE: The sexualisation of girlhood - Melinda Tankard Reist
IDEOLOGIES: Radical environmentalism: the new socialism - Bill Muehlenberg
CIVILISATION: What now after the cultural revolution? - Patrick J. Byrne
MEDIA: Why America's newspapers are dying - Jeffry Babb
IDEAS: Why haven't more people heard of G.K. Chesterton? - Dale Ahlquist
OPINION: Paid maternity leave and the war against women - Colin H. Jory
A new name for News Weekly? (letter) - Don Ford
Why the democracies should support Taiwan (letter) - Dong Li
BOOK REVIEW: FREEDOM TO BELIEVE: Challenging Islam's Apostasy Law, by Patrick Sookhdeo - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: BLOODY VICTORY: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the making of the Twentieth Century, by William Philpott - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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NW 12 December 2009
Contents - 12 December 2009
EDITORIAL: The challenges facing Tony Abbott - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Abbott's victory took media by surprise - our national correspondent
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Senate committee recommends against same-sex marriage - Peter Westmore
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Euthanasia bill defeated in SA - Damian Wyld
ENVIRONMENT: UK's climate research centre discredited - Peter Westmore
ECONOMICS: Birdsville Amendment stops fuel predatory pricing - Patrick J. Byrne
ENERGY: Time for a new Coalition emissions policy - Patrick J. Byrne
THE MANHATTAN DECLARATION: U.S. Christian leaders draw a line in the sand - Bill Muehlenberg
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Women's health risk ignored by Rudd Government - Babette Francis
UNITED STATES: Health care reforms unleash passionate debate - Jeffry Babb
RUSSIA: Medvedev's desperate drive to modernise Russia - Joseph Poprzeczny
EDUCATION: Whatever happened to adult authority? - Frank Furedi
SCHOOLS: Are independent schools enemies of social cohesion? - Kevin Donnelly
Westmore has not read my report: Fr Frank Brennan - Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO
Morally handicapped politicians - Peter Davidson
Market economics misunderstood - John Ballantyne
Surafend massacre - Chris Rule
AS THE WORLD TURNS
CINEMA: Dickens' Christmas tale brought to life A Christmas Carol (rated PG) - Leticia Velasquez (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: FIRES OF FAITH: Catholic England under Mary Tudor, by Eamon Duffy - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE REVOLT OF THE PENDULUM: Essays 2005-2008, by Clive James - Bill James (reviewer)
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NW 28 November 2009
Contents - 28 November 2009
EDITORIAL: ETS: Rudd's one-way ticket to hell - Peter Westmore
POLITICS: Whither the Liberal Party? - Damian Wyld
COVER STORY: Brian Mullins (1925-2009): a true Australian hero - Gavan Duffy
CANBERRA OBSERVED: National sorrow over plight of forgotten Australians - national correspondent
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Are we about to create another Stolen Generation? - Tim Cannon
FINANCIAL CRISIS: Splitting the megabanks for financial stability - Patrick J. Byrne
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Afghanistan: Obama's no-win rhetoric - Peter Westmore
WAR ON TERROR: Grim lessons of the Fort Hood massacre - John Miller
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Rudd's 'Indonesia solution' has been in place since 2007 - Peter Westmore
HEALTH CARE: Labor unleashes class war on doctors - Jeffry Babb
NEW ZEALAND: John Key sells New Zealand short - Amy Brooke
COLD WAR: The year the Berlin Wall fell - John Ballantyne
UNITED STATES: Obamacare: the ego has landed - Babette Francis
ABORTION: An abortion-provider changes her mind - Bill Muehlenberg
Statesmanship needed (letter) - Landon Burch
American health cover (letter) - Bill Muehlenberg
Some orphanage carers were admirable (letter) - Greg O'Regan
BOOK REVIEW: THE VOCATION OF BUSINESS: Social Justice in the Marketplace, by John C. Médaille - Garrick Small (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE THIRTY-SIX: A story of a boy's miraculous survival in wartime Poland, by Siegmund Siegreich - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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NW 14 November 2009
Contents - 14 November 2009
COVER STORY: Why Australians should oppose a human rights charter - Cardinal Dr George Pell
CANBERRA OBSERVED: The Rudd Government's asylum-seeker dilemma - national correspondent
EDITORIAL: Emissions trading scheme in trouble - Peter Westmore
CLIMATE CHANGE: Rudd's ETS will hit country towns hardest - Joseph Poprzeczny
ECONOMICS: Rising interest rates create speculative bubble - Colin Teese
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Will SA be the first state to legalise euthanasia? - Damian Wyld
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Australia's crude Fiji sanctions policy backfires - Peter Westmore
BRAZIL: Lula's infatuation with tyrants and mass-murderers - Dr Augusto Zimmermann
OVERSEAS AID: Exporting death in our overseas 'aid' - Babette Francis
ASIA: Taiwan's modified UN bid prospects rated as 'good' - Ian H. McDougall
EDUCATION: A destructive doctrine called 'diversity' - Paul Gottfried
SCIENCE: Can computer games harm children's brains? - Tim Cannon
OPINION: Why I lost faith in the Left - Kevin Donnelly
Australian aid to China (letter) - Patrick J. Gethin
Rags-to-riches story (letter) - Neville Sayers
Kokoda and Japan (letter) - Neville Lewis
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Western nations must prepare for cyber attacks; The tyranny of unelected 'experts'; School reform that works.
BOOK REVIEW: OUT FROM UNDER: The Impact of Homosexual Parenting, by Dawn Stefanowicz - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOK REVIEW: THE ART OF WAR: Great Commanders of the Ancient, Medieval and Modern World, Andrew Roberts - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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A Proposal for a Development Bank
PROPOSAL OUTLINE (PDF)
1. How the Commonwealth Development Bank helped build Australia
2. How Germany’s development bank (the Kreditanstalt fur Weideraufbau (KfW)) works
3. About the KfW today (PDF)
4. New Zealand: setting up a People’s Bank
5.25% of all bank branches closed 1993-2000 (PDF)
What the papers are saying:
* Canberra Times, Nov 6: People's bank will help close the gaps (Emeritus Prof Ted Kolsen)
* AFR, Nov 6: People's bank: need overtaken by greed (Prof Rod Jensen)
* AFR, Nov 6: Yes to a national development bank (Prof Hugh Stretton, Adelaide University)
* The Age, Nov 1: Why not a people's bank, Mr Beazley? (Kenneth Davidson)
* AFR, Nov 1: Let's at least examine bank proposal (Will Bailey)
* Sydney Morning Herald EDITORIAL, Oct 30: Banks for People
* Herald-Sun, Oct 21: People's bank "has potential"(Gerard McManus)


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News Weekly publishes special editions covering important issues and topics. A Manifesto for Australia is the most recent special edition magazine, focusing on Globalisation, the new economy and free market. Read articles from this compelling edition online.
Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 13 October 2001:Not too many publications go out on a limb to suggest policies, but News Weekly is an exception. Published in January, its Manifesto for Australia outlines a broad range of problems caused by "uncontrolled deregulation" during the past 20 years, including "widespread job destruction" and downsized essential public services. Then it spells out policies to solve these problems, which include a new Commonwealth-style bank and a homemakers' allowance to help families with children. - Daniel Fallon
Contents - 13 Jan 2001
A MANIFESTO FOR AUSTRALIA - January 13, 2001
A CALL TO ARMS - January 13, 2001 - Peter Westmore
Part A: Globalism - the theory and the reality - January 13, 2001
Corporate capitalism: the product of government intervention - January 13, 2001
Part B: A history of economic rationalism in Australia - January 13, 2001
Part C: How Globalism undermines the family - January 13, 2001
Part D: The cultural revolution and the new economy - January 13, 2001
Part E: A policy agenda for Australia's future prosperity - January 13, 2001
Some remarks on the new economic disorder - January 13, 2001 - Max Teichmann
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