Recently added articles from National Observer - Australia and World Affairs:

Little children are sacred.(EDITORIAL COMMENT)

Dec 22, 2007; Ayres, Philip ... Immediate action was required following the shocking revelations in the "Little Children are Sacred" report on Aboriginal child abuse. The Northern Territory Government was unwilling or unable to address the problem in a decisive way so the Federal Government was compelled to act. ...

Kevin Rudd's touching ways.(EDITORIAL COMMENT)(Interview)

Dec 22, 2007; Ayres, Philip ... Do we really want to elect as our prime minister a man who, as shadow foreign minister, visited a lap-dancing joint while in New York on an official trip funded by the Australian taxpayer? A man who then proceeded to behave in such a way as to shock the sleazy establishment into throwing ...

Mr Howard's populism.(John Howard)

Dec 22, 2007; Ayres, Philip ... Populism in a political leader can express itself in a variety of ways. In descending order of commendability and disinterestedness, one could include: 1) the desire to monitor the general will via opinion polls, referenda, talk-back radio, the comments of taxi drivers, &c, and ...

Mr Costello's repeated budget failure.(ARTICLES)

Dec 22, 2007; Stone, John ... As this article is being written, our politicians are gearing up for a federal election, which could even be held in late August or 1 September, before publication. Most commentators, however, seem to think an October-November date most likely--a view reinforced by the current doleful ...

Dr H.V. Evatt--part one: a question of sanity.(Herbert Vere Evatt )

Dec 22, 2007; Campbell, Andrew ... Nemo Repente Fuit Turpissimus. In his memoirs, Bill Hayden, Treasurer in the Whitlam Government and Foreign Minister in the Hawke Government, noted of Dr H.V. Evatt (1894-1965), High Court judge (1930-40), Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs in the Curtin and ...

The national interest: can we any longer define it?

Dec 22, 2007; Reed, Warren ... The national interest has always been a difficult concept to pin down. Once, we were given a helping hand by the profile of national issues like defence and immigration that were largely bipartisan. Moreover, the concept was illustrated in other ways, such as when an Australian ...

An unwanted birthday party.(demonstration on mayor Freddy Thielemans' 63rd birthday)

Dec 22, 2007; Gottfried, Paul ... A demonstration against the "Islamicisation of Europe", scheduled to take place in Brussels on September 11, 2007 and put together by the umbrella organisation Pax Europa, has been prohibited by the socialist mayor Freddy Thielemans. The intended demonstration, which was supposed to march ...

Europe's Turkish Conundrum.

Dec 22, 2007; Poprzeczny, Joseph ... Is the 71-million-strong, nominally secular, Turkish state suited to become a fully-fledged member of the European Union (EU)? That is a question which increasing numbers of European politicians and voters are asking themselves and will continue to ask over coming years, with many already ...

North Korea's nuclear game under scrutiny.

Dec 22, 2007; Shuja, Sharif ... North Korea is a rogue state which abandoned a 1994 agreement with the US Clinton Administration to dismantle its nuclear programme, expelled inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in December 2002, and withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). It ...

The wrongs of a WA human rights act: a rights-based critique.(LEGAL NOTES)(Government of Western Australia)(Report)

Dec 22, 2007; Zimmermann, Augusto ... The Government of Western Australia is preparing to enact a human rights act. The government suggests a particular model similar to those existing in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria. For such a purpose it has decided to appoint a Consultation ...

While Europe slept.(How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within)(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Muehlenberg, Bill ... How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within by Bruce Bawer (New York: Doubleday, 2006) Hardcover: 256 pages It is no surprise that so many home burglaries take place at night. Because the home-owners are asleep, the defence and ...