NOT FOR GREENS by Ian Plimer (Ballarat, Vic: Connor Court) Paperback: 290 pages ISBN: 9781925138191 Price: AUD$29.95 Reviewed by Peter Westmore Ian Plimer is one of …
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Parental care vs. daycare Sir, Both sides of politics are badly mistaken in believing that mothers with young children should be in the paid workforce, while their children are raised by paid strang…
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RICH IN YEARS: Finding Peace and Purpose in a Long Life by Johann Christoph Arnold (Elsmore, NSW: The Plough Publishing) Paperback: 182 pages ISBN: 9780874868005 Price: $17.95 &nb…
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Anthropogenic global warming? Sir David Archibald’s articles on the likelihood of global cooling (News Weekly, April 12, 2014) demonstrate that the objective scientific world needs to move qui…
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Bureaucracy’s “little Hitlers” Sir, The conclusion of Dr Hal G.P. Colebatch’s article (“Kansas Jewish student refused entry to Britain”, News Weekly, April 12) su…
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Student activists end occupation of Taiwan’s legislature Sir, In reference to Jeffry Babb’s article, “China trade pact roils Taiwanese students” (News Weekly, April 12, 2014)…
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THE MAKING OF AUSTRALIA: A Concise History by Robert Murray (Sydney: Rosenberg Publishing) Paperback: 320 pages ISBN: 9781925078152 RRP: $29.95 (To obtain a copy, pl…
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Questions about Qantas Sir, Canberra Observed (News Weekly, March 15) concludes by asking why the Australian government should prop up Qantas. But there is an important question which was not broac…
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Deceiving the public Sir, Trevor Dawes’ accusation (Letters, News Weekly, February 15) that MPs and commentators in the media “refuse to acknowledge the truth”, and deceive the pub…
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Marriage ‘equality’ threat to ministers of religion Sir, I was very pleased to read that the federal Attorney-General George Brandis has instructed the Australian Law Reform Commission (…
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THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby (London: Penguin UK, 2nd edition, 2013) Paperback: 840 pages ISBN: 978…
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Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong Sir, I wish to congratulate Bill James on his excellent review (News Weekly, February 1, 2014) of Rana Mitter’s book, China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945, wh…
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Can Barnaby Joyce alleviate farmers’ plight? Sir, For 60 years Australian farmers were taxed to subsidise urban secondary industries. However, we see no quid pro quo. The costs of farm inputs…
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THE REVENGE OF GEOGRAPHY: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan (New York: Random House) Hardcover: 432 pages ISBN: 9781400069835…
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Sir, Australia has little left to hold its farming communities together. The takeover of its grain handling by a foreign company will put one more nail in the struggling agricultural industry. Grain…
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Sir I read Warren Reed’s Trafalgar Day address (News Weekly, November 23, 2013) with interest. It is a necessary corrective to those who have alleged that early Australia was nothing but a pen…
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Sir, The recent bushfires in New South Wales have prompted belated regrets there about the failure of the state fire authorities to conduct sufficient fuel-reduction burn-offs beforehand to prevent t…
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Farmers need a reconstruction bank Sir, The proposed sale of two Northern Territory beef export properties to Indonesian interests, with the approval of new Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce, is an…
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PRIVATE HOUSEHOLDS AND MONEY SUPPLY by Wolfgang Fischer (Cologne: Josef Eul Verlag GmbH) Paperback: 184 pages ISBN: 9783844102659 RRP: AUD$141.70 Reviewed by Kenneth K. Mwenda  …
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MERCHANTS OF DESPAIR: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism by Robert Zubrin (New York: Encounter Books) Hardcover: 328 pages ISBN: 97815…
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ISAAC AND ISAIAH: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press) Hardcover: 352 pages ISBN: 9780300192094 RRP: AUD$69.95 …
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Not necessarily hypocrisy Sir, I refer to Dr Andrew T. Kania’s article, “Must we be slaves of time and place?” (News Weekly, September 14, 2013). If Thomas Jefferson fathered chil…
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